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• Teenager Is in Custody After 5 Are Found Dead in Home Shooting. The teenager, a 15-year-old boy, was scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday after two adults and three juveniles were found dead at a home near Seattle.
• Nearly 30 People Still Missing in North Carolina After Helene. The number is down from an estimate last week that there were 92 missing people after the storm hit western North Carolina in September.
• Christine Boisson, French Actress, Dies at 68. She got her start in an erotic film as a teenager and went on to star in dozens of other movies. She died in Paris from lung disease, her daughter said.
• Harris’s Early Career: Prosecutor by Day, Boldface Name by Night. As Kamala Harris toiled as a junior prosecutor in Alameda County, Calif., she developed important connections among San Francisco’s financial and social elite.
• Jayland Walker’s Family Settles With Akron for $4.8 Million Over Police Shooting. The family had filed a lawsuit against the Ohio city and its police department after Mr. Walker was fatally shot by eight police officers in 2022.
• Thelma Mothershed Wair, Little Rock Nine Student, Dies at 83. In 1957, Mrs. Mothershed Wair and eight other Black students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School. They faced racist mobs and were escorted by federal troops.
• Dock Tragedy Strikes a Georgia Community Fighting to Protect Its Culture. The deaths of seven people on Sapelo Island have brought to the fore longstanding frustrations among its Gullah Geechee community.
• What We Know About the Gangway Collapse That Killed 7 in Georgia. Disaster struck at the end of an annual cultural celebration on Sapelo Island. Twenty people went into the water, including seven people over the age of 70 who died.
• Harris’s Faith, In and Outside Black Church. Her biography embodies the multifaith, pluralistic and increasingly secular America she is bidding to lead.
• The Menendez Brothers’ Case Is Under Review. Here’s What to Know. Prosecutors are revisiting the brothers’ convictions in the killings of their parents. It could lead to their release from prison.
• Texas House Postpones Testimony of Inmate Facing Execution in Shaken Baby Case. Robert Roberson, whose execution was postponed last week, had been subpoenaed to appear before a committee of the State House. A juror from his trial says she now believes he is innocent.
• Read the Task Force’s Report. The House task force on the attempted assassinations of former President Donald J. Trump released its first preliminary report.
• The House Race Where Democrats Desperately Want the ‘Democrat’ to Lose. A write-in campaign appears to be Democrats’ only hope in a Georgia congressional district after a lawyer with extreme right-wing views won the party’s primary.
• Dock Collapse Kills Several in Georgia. Bystanders and rescue teams searched for victims after the gangway at a ferry dock in Sapelo Island collapsed into the water.
• Multiple Deaths After Helicopter Crashes Into Houston Radio Tower. The authorities said a child was among several who died onboard. It was not immediately clear if any of the three other people in the helicopter survived.
• Helicopter Crashes Into Houston Radio Tower. Police officers urged onlookers to clear the site of the accident as smoke and fire filled the air.
• John Kinsel Sr., Navajo Code Talker in World War II, Dies at 107. He was among the last surviving members of a group that transmitted a code, crafted from the Navajo language, that U.S. forces used to confuse the Japanese.
• A Crack, a Shift and Screams: The Scene at a Georgia Dock Collapse That Killed 7. Investigators have begun looking for reasons behind the failure at a ferry dock on Sapelo Island, the site of a festival celebrating the heritage of descendants of enslaved people.
• 2 Who Went Missing After Crash Near Mount Rainier Are Dead, Navy Says. Two crew members were onboard a Navy aircraft when it crashed during a routine training flight on Oct. 15 in Washington State, officials said.
• Hundreds Rescued From New Mexico Floods. At least two were killed and hundreds were rescued as torrential rains poured an “historic” amount on eastern New Mexico.
• Trump Becomes the Star Of Harris’s Closing Pitch. Vice President Kamala Harris has made a notable shift in strategy to paint Donald Trump as unfit and dangerous as Democrats grow anxious about the closeness of the race just two weeks out.
• 2 Dead and Many Rescued In Flooding in New Mexico. Roswell, N.M., received nearly a third of its annual rainfall total in just a few hours on Sunday. Rescue efforts were ongoing with more storms in the forecast.
• Bids for Votes Are Drowning 7 Swing States. This year’s campaign offers a vivid reminder of how much the playing field in presidential elections has shrunk, giving voters in a handful of states a disproportionate influence in the decision.
• 7 Killed at Gullah Geechee Festival in Georgia as Gangway to Ferry Dock Collapses. Overall, 20 people were forced into the water on Saturday by the accident on Sapelo Island, the site of a festival celebrating the heritage of descendants of enslaved people.
• Rare Copy of U.S. Constitution Sells for More Than $11 Million. The document, which was sold to an anonymous bidder at an auction in North Carolina, was among the first copies of the Constitution ever printed, experts said.
• Return of Drop Boxes for Ballots Kicks Up Bitter Debate in Wisconsin. Drop boxes, which had been used for years in Wisconsin until they were mostly banned after Republicans mounted legal challenges, are back. They have become the subject of bitter debate.
• Promised Visas, Parkland Shooting Survivors Are in Legal Limbo. A humanitarian program offers immigrant crime victims who cooperate with the police a chance to stay in the United States. But most spend years in legal limbo.
• Montana Camper Was the Victim of a Brutal Homicide, Not a Bear, Sheriff Says. Dustin Kjersem, 35, was found dead in his tent with “chop wounds” on Saturday, the authorities said. No arrests have been made.
• California Man Is Charged With Drugging and Sexually Assaulting 9 Women. The man, Michael DiGiorgio, is also charged with murdering one of the women, who died after being drugged, prosecutors said.
• Fire in Oakland Hills Prompts Evacuations Under Gusty Conditions. Firefighters in Northern California on Friday responded to a blaze that burned two homes and 15 acres.
• After Delay in Execution, What’s Next for Inmate in the Shaken Baby Case? With his execution on hold, Robert Roberson is set to testify at a Texas House hearing about his conviction, which was based in part on a questionable diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.
• Charges Against Deaf Black Man Punched by Phoenix Police Are Dropped. The man, Tyron Scott McAlpin, who also has cerebral palsy, was repeatedly punched and shocked with a Taser by the police during an arrest in August. The arrest is under investigation.
• A Candidate for the U.S. Senate Says He Was Shot in War. Was He? Tim Sheehy, a Republican running for U.S. Senate in Montana, says he has a bullet in his arm from Afghanistan. But new questions have been raised about his account.
• North Carolinians Consider Who Will Help Them Rebuild as Early Voting Begins. On the first day of early voting, residents of western North Carolina weighed which candidates would most help their yearslong recovery.
• Vance and the Fight for Pennsylvania’s Catholics. The Republican vice-presidential nominee is the only Catholic on either national ticket. His politics resonate with many white conservative Catholics.
• In an Election Year, the Focus Turns to the Midwest, Whatever That Is. From the geographic boundaries to the values and friendliness, people have debated what defines the region essentially since it was labeled the Midwest. It has taken on a renewed urgency this election year.
• Young Democrat Takes On One of Trump’s Fake Electors in Georgia Senate Race. Ashwin Ramaswami, a Democrat, was still in law school when he decided to run against State Senator Shawn Still, who was indicted with Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case.
• On the Front Line, Fighting Homelessness in Los Angeles. The city relies on an army of case managers to help homeless people stay in motels and on the path toward finding an apartment.
• Former Olympic Snowboarder Wanted by F.B.I. on Murder and Drug Charges. Ryan Wedding, 43, was indicted with 15 others on charges of trafficking drugs into Canada and the U.S., the authorities said. He is believed to be living in Mexico.
• Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Transgender Woman’s Killing. The man, Daqua Lameek Ritter, was the first person in the country to be convicted of a federal hate crime based on gender identity.
• Texas Attorney General Sues Doctor Over Treatment for Transgender Minors. Ken Paxton, the attorney general, said it was the first enforcement action under a state ban on treatment.
• Father and Son Indicted on Murder Charges for Georgia School Shooting. A grand jury handed up charges against a 14-year-old who is accused of killing four people at his high school. His father is accused of giving him access to the murder weapon.
• Texas Supreme Court Halts Execution in Shaken Baby Case. Robert Roberson had been set to be executed on Thursday night for the death of his 2-year-old child. But after a bipartisan intervention by Texas lawmakers, the Supreme Court issued a stay.
• Archdiocese of Los Angeles Agrees to Pay $880 Million to Settle Sex Abuse Claims. The settlement is the highest single payout by an archdiocese, experts said, and brings Los Angeles’s cumulative payout in sex abuse lawsuits to more than $1.5 billion.
• 3 People Killed and 4 Injured in Mississippi Bridge Collapse. A bridge over the Strong River in Simpson County that was being demolished collapsed in a “work site accident,” the authorities said.
• Biden Memorializes Ethel Kennedy in Eulogy. President Biden on Wednesday delivered a eulogy for Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and mother of the former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• Supreme Court Paves Way To Curb Plant Emissions. It was a provisional victory for the Biden administration, whose climate initiatives have been stymied. A challenge to the rule at issue is still moving through a lower court.
• Georgia Prosecutor Seeks to Reinstate Quashed Charges in Trump Elections Case. The appeal filed on Tuesday disputes a judge’s ruling that six of the charges brought against Donald J. Trump and his allies in Georgia were not specific enough.
• Massacre Haunts Sheriff’s Race In One Small County in Maine. The race has become a referendum on what the Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office did, and failed to do, before a shooting that killed 18 people in Lewiston last fall.
• Judge Extends Sentence for Former County Official Convicted in Las Vegas Journalist’s Murder. Robert Telles was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 20 years for the murder of Jeff German. On Wednesday, a judge added eight years to that minimum.
• Read the Nebraska Supreme Court Ruling on Voting Rights for Felons. The decision affirmed a law passed by the Legislature this year clearing the way for people to cast ballots immediately after finishing prison and parole terms.
• Substitute Teacher Reenacted George Floyd Murder at Minnesota High School. Students said the teacher, who claimed to be a police officer, also said “police brutality isn’t real.”
• Columbia Bars Pro-Israel Professor From Campus, Citing Harassment. The university said Shai Davidai had repeatedly harassed and intimidated employees. He said the university had not done enough to crack down on pro-Palestinian protests.
• Jimmy Carter Casts His Ballot for Harris in Georgia. The 39th president, who entered hospice care in February 2023, submitted an absentee ballot, according to a grandson. His family said he had been eager to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.
• 2 Missing After Navy Fighter Jet Crashes Near Mount Rainier. The two crew members who were onboard the aircraft remain missing, Navy officials said, after it crashed during a routine training flight.
• Nebraska Supreme Court Upholds Law Giving Felons the Right to Vote. Legislators voted to restore voting rights to more people convicted of felonies, but a dispute over that law’s constitutionality created pre-election confusion.
• Hurricanes Spur Pet Adoptions Nationwide. Should You Get a ‘Storm Dog’? Amid major disasters, shelter animals are often sent to other states. And people are more likely to foster and adopt. Here’s what to know.
• A Gnarly Free-for-All That Is, Finally, for All. Traditionally, only men were invited to the scariest and most lucrative event in mountain biking. This year, women shared equally in the adrenaline and the prizes.
• Democrats See Their Opening In Pennsylvania’s Small Towns. Lancaster County, famous for its Amish communities, regularly votes Republican. But the demographics are shifting here and throughout the state.
• Two Giant Pandas Arrive at National Zoo in Washington. The 3-year-old giant pandas arrived from China in a revival of so-called panda diplomacy after the zoo had gone nearly a year without the animals.
• 2 Men Charged in Killing of 7 People in Baltimore Gang Case. Prosecutors said Cornell Moore and Keith Russell were involved in a murder-for-hire enterprise with a gang operating in Baltimore City and elsewhere in Maryland.
• For Military Kicked Out, Discharges Get Upgrade. More than 800 service members administratively separated from the military under the now-repealed policy will receive discharge upgrades.
• That Plastic Skeleton Can’t Be Your Plus 1, Police Tell Car Pool Lane Users. A California Highway Patrol officer in the San Jose area recently cited a driver who used a Halloween-themed ruse to drive in a high-occupancy-vehicle lane.
• Survivors of Maine Mass Shooting Take Step Toward Suing the Army. A group of survivors and relatives of victims said the military failed to respond to warning signs from the gunman, an Army Reserve grenade instructor, ahead of the shooting.
• N. Carolina Storm Toll: Nearly 100 Still Missing. Search and rescue teams are still looking for the missing, officials said, with 95 deaths already attributed to the storm’s wrath in the state.
• Supreme Court Leans Toward Truck Driver Who Was Fired Over Failed Drug Test. The driver, Douglas Horn, sued the maker of a product said to be free of THC under a federal racketeering law, saying he had suffered a business injury.
• Abortion Could Decide Races for State Justices. In Michigan, Ohio, Arizona and elsewhere, progressive court candidates are hoping that the abortion issue that helped conservatives remake the federal judiciary will work for them this time.
• Robinson Sues CNN Over Its Report of Lewd Comments on a Porn Site. Mr. Robinson’s campaign for governor of North Carolina has been in crisis since the report, which the lawsuit calls “recklessly false.”

Elections

• Would Harris’s Expanded Child Tax Credit Be Worth the Cost? Some Republicans, including JD Vance, are also on board.
• Liz Cheney Campaigns for Harris. Appearing side by side at a campaign event in Michigan, the Republican former congresswoman expressed her support for Vice President Kamala Harris.
• While Trump Is Serving Fries, Rival Crowds Dish Out Vitriol . In Pennsylvania, a critical swing state, supporters of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, some in weird costumes, gathered along a roadside and screamed at one another.
• Can Trump really defund public schools that recognize transgender students?
• Harris Sets Record for Biggest Fund-Raising Quarter Ever. Donald Trump is raising less money than he did during his run in 2020, building a far smaller campaign than Kamala Harris.
• Harris May Be Catching Up on a Key Polling Question: Which Candidate Helps You? Many voters believe Donald Trump’s policies have helped them, Times/Siena polls show. Kamala Harris has made up some lost ground on that question, though there are warning signs in the swing states.
• In Michigan, Trade Policies and the Water Crisis Loom Large for Voters. After years of challenges, voters in this crucial swing state say they feel let down by their leaders.
• Inside Wisconsin’s Fight Over Ballot Drop Boxes. Ballot drop boxes, used for years in Wisconsin until they were mostly banned after Republicans’ legal challenges, are back. Julie Bosman, the Chicago bureau chief for The New York Times, describes how the boxes have become the subject of bitter de...
• Bitter, Sour and Salty on Menu As Trump’s Fans and Foes Meet. There were grudge matches and sycophancy in equal measure at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner. “Isn’t it just exciting, what’s going on,” Donald Trump said.
• Trump Jabs Harris for Not Attending Al Smith Charity Dinner. The annual Catholic charity event is known for inviting presidential candidates to lightheartedly roast each other.
• An All-American Campaign Stop, With a South African Mogul. The billionaire is spending a fortune to support former President Donald J. Trump. But at a town hall event in Pennsylvania, he looked an awful lot like a politician himself.
• Harris Slams Trump for Calling Jan. 6 a ‘Day of Love’ Speaking at a campaign rally in La Crosse, Wis., Vice President Kamala Harris said former President Donald J. Trump was “gaslighting” Americans with his effort to rewrite the history of Jan. 6, 2021.
• Will the Polls in 2024 Be More Accurate Than in 2016 and 2020? Can you trust the polls this year? Kaleigh Rogers, a polling reporter at The New York Times, describes how pollsters have tried to fix past mistakes.
• Super PAC Places $700 Million Bet On Harris’s Bid. Future Forward has ascended to the top of the Democratic political universe, but it has also drawn suspicion and second-guessing.
• Can Harris Really Build 3 Million New Housing Units?
• Judge Rejects Multiple Election Rules in Georgia, Calling Them ‘Illegal’ The measures had been promoted by the State Election Board. The judge called them “illegal, unconstitutional and void.”
• At an Opera House in Atlanta, a Weary Trump Whips Up Fury. At a rally in a state he lost in 2020, the former president considered the possibility of another defeat.
• Billionaires Fill Coffers Of Groups For Trump. Three people — Elon Musk, Miriam Adelson and Dick Uihlein — put a combined $220 million into groups supporting Donald J. Trump in July, August and September.
• Hand-Count Of Ballots Is Blocked In Georgia. The ruling was confined to the current election, halting the measure from going into effect for 2024 while the judge further weighs its merits in the future.

Politics

• Which Republican might join a Harris cabinet? We asked around.
• Bruce Springsteen Will Perform for Harris in Battleground States. The rocker will appear at a rally on Thursday in Atlanta alongside the vice president, and again at an event next week in Philadelphia with Barack Obama.
• Russia Could Stoke Unrest After U.S. Election, Officials Say. Foreign powers including Russia and Iran could move quickly right after the vote to undermine the democratic process, intelligence agencies warn.
• The Harris Team Tries to Tether Trump to Project 2025. A television ad conveys a key part of Kamala Harris’s closing argument: that her rival is a right-wing authoritarian who will make life less affordable and threaten access to abortion.
• House Democratic candidates say voting rights bills would be their first priority.
• Passed Up for the Ticket, Josh Shapiro Tries to Deliver Pennsylvania for Harris. Pennsylvania’s governor may not be on the verge of the vice presidency, but he says he has everything — including his “heart and soul” — riding on a Kamala Harris victory.
• Republicans Claiming 2020 Fraud Set Table to Challenge 2024 Vote. The efforts could help lay the groundwork for what could become another push to undermine the results if former President Donald J. Trump loses again.
• Harris Will Campaign in Texas to Call Attention to Abortion Rights. The vice president will head to Houston on Friday, hoping to use the issue to peel moderate voters away from Donald J. Trump, who is almost certain to win the state.
• Harris will campaign in Texas to call attention to abortion rights.
• The Princess and the Justice. Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis bonded with Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. over Catholicism and ending abortion. She introduced him to her sumptuous world when he visited her Bavarian palace.
• Here’s the latest in the presidential race.
• The Many Links Between Project 2025 and Trump’s World. Former president Donald J. Trump has attempted to distance himself from Project 2025, the conservative policy initiative. But well over half of its contributors have worked for him, and many of its policies overlap with his.
• Yellen Rebukes Chinese Lending Practices in Call for Debt Relief. In an interview, the Treasury secretary also highlighted progress at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund ahead of annual meetings this week.
• Which Republican Might Join a Harris Cabinet? We Asked Around. In a text message, Mitt Romney sounded down on the idea. John Bolton said his chances were “substantially less than zero.” Liz Cheney remained silent on the matter.
• For Vance, an Idyllic Appalachian Startup Became a Hard Lesson. During JD Vance’s brief career as a venture capitalist, few startups attracted his support more than AppHarvest, a now bankrupt plan to build greenhouses across Appalachia.
• Trump Courts Christian Voters, Days After Vulgar Remarks at a Rally. In a nearly hourlong speech before a crowd that included evangelical leaders, he claimed that only he could protect Christian voters. He did not mention abortion once.
• Elon Musk Donates Legal Maximum to Trump Campaign. Mr. Musk, a megadonor, had flummoxed some Trump advisers by previously declining to write a “super max” check directly to the former president’s campaign.
• Elon Musk, a Trump megadonor, gives the legal maximum to the campaign after holding out.
• With Election Day 2 Weeks Away, 17 Million Voters Have Already Cast a Ballot. Democrats have dominated early voting in the past. In some key states, Republicans have begun to make gains.
• In Trump Ad, ‘Not a Thing That Comes to Mind’ Ties Harris to Biden’s Liabilities. Kamala Harris’s hesitancy to put daylight between her and President Biden gave Donald Trump’s campaign a big opening.
• Japanese American leaders criticize Trump for Jan. 6 comparison.
• Harris Wants Moderate Republicans to Back Her. Are They Out There? It’s an unusual effort that reflects just how close the race is.
• Republican Official in Arizona Pleads Guilty in Election Certification Case. Peggy Judd, a county supervisor in Cochise County, a hotbed of election conspiracy theories, had tried to delay certifying the 2022 election results.
• Trump Says He Has Seen No Evidence of Cheating in the Election, but Nonetheless Sows Doubts. The former president, asked at a news conference in storm-damaged North Carolina if he had seen anything to suggest the election would be unfair, said, “I have not seen that.”
• Liz Cheney and Harris Make a Play for G.O.P. Women in ‘Blue Wall’ Suburbs. As the pair campaigned together in suburban areas of battleground states, the Republican former congresswoman served as Ms. Harris’s ambassador to conservative women.
• As Harris Courts Sun Belt, Housing Costs Stand in Her Way. Shuttered factories and trade deals helped turn working-class Midwesterners against Democrats. Will the high cost of housing do the same in the Sun Belt?
• Here’s the latest on the presidential race.
• Events That Led to Close Call on Trump’s Life Were Preventable, Committee Finds. A House task force report included detailed accounts from law enforcement at the Butler, Pa., rally, including an officer who confronted the gunman.
• A Writer Sees Leniency in the Supreme Court’s Approach to Public Corruption. A Georgetown law professor argues that five rulings by the justices in recent years have allowed behavior that is “sketchy as hell” and meant to make the judiciary look good by contrast.
• BATTLE IS FIERCE FOR SLIVER OF PIE: UNDECIDED VOTES. Both campaigns are digging through troves of data to find these crucial Americans. They both think many are younger, Black or Latino. The Harris team is also eyeing white, college-educated women.
• Where Harris and Trump Stand on Abortion. In the first presidential election since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump bring sharply different records on abortion. Maggie Astor, a political reporter for The New York T...
• Biden to Propose That Insurers Cover Over-the-Counter Birth Control. The new rules under the Affordable Care Act would include emergency contraception, a newly approved nonprescription birth control pill, spermicides and condoms.
• The 9/11 Defendants Were Captured Two Decades Ago. Why Hasn’t a Trial Started? A new court, a death penalty case and even the weather have contributed to the go-slow process at Guantánamo Bay.
• Harris Says Trump’s Behavior ‘Demeans’ the Presidency After Vulgar Remarks. In an interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton on MSNBC, the vice president reacted to her opponent’s behavior at rallies, saying Americans “deserve so much better.”
• Trump, Slinging Fries and Smearing Harris, Takes Turn Behind a McDonald’s Counter. At a campaign photo op, the candidate worked the drive-through window, slammed his opponent and acknowledged a weakness. “I love salt,” he said.
• Trump Cooks and Serves Fries at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. During his trip to the battleground state, former President Donald J. Trump repeated his unsubstantiated claim that Vice President Kamala Harris lied about working at a McDonald’s in her college days.
• A Swing District in Red Nebraska Hosts a Hotly Contested House Race. Tony Vargas, a Democrat vying to become the state’s first Latino representative, lost to Don Bacon, the Republican incumbent, in 2022. But the presidential election could help him in his rematch.
• Musk’s $1 Million Offer Raises New Legal Questions. Some election lawyers said the giveaway may run into laws that prohibit paying people to register to vote.
• Confronted With Facts on Fox News, Trump Claims Ignorance. In an interview that aired Sunday, Donald Trump defended his recent falsehoods about immigrants and the Capitol riot by claiming, implausibly, that he did not know or had “not heard” the truth.
• Harris and McDonald’s: A College Job That Became a Trump Line of Attack. Donald Trump has claimed without evidence that Ms. Harris never worked at the fast-food chain. Her campaign and a friend say she did.
• A Lifetime of Scandals Heads Toward a Moment of Judgment. No major party presidential candidate, much less president, in American history has been accused of wrongdoing so many times.
• Travels With Trump: Four Meandering Remarks on the Trail Last Week. The former president says that his style is to “weave” from one subject to the next. Others see something more worrisome in his ramblings.
• At Harris’s Alma Mater, Hopefulness and Anxiety. The H.B.C.U. celebrated its centennial homecoming this weekend, with many partygoers holding their breath for the school’s famous alumna, Vice President Kamala Harris, in the election’s homestretch.
• Musk the Contractor vs. Musk the U.S. Adviser. Mr. Musk, who holds billions in federal contracts, wants to be in charge of the regulators that oversee him if Donald Trump wins.
• She’s Still Running for President, No Matter Who Asks Her to Stop. People in Stein’s life have implored her to abandon her bid for president, lest she throw the election to Donald Trump. She’s on the ballot in almost every critical state.
• At a Rally in Pennsylvania, Trump Descends to Even Lower Levels of Vulgarity. The G.O.P. nominee repeated crude insults, and his supporters relished each moment. But the display could alienate swing voters.
• Harris and Usher Make Abortion Rights the Focus at Atlanta Rally. Vice President Kamala Harris, campaigning in the state with the most restrictive abortion law of any battleground, criticized former President Donald J. Trump’s record on abortion.
• Harris, joined by Usher, makes abortion rights the focus in Atlanta.
• Early In-Person Voting Begins in Nevada, as Obama Fires Up Democrats. Former President Barack Obama held a campaign rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in Las Vegas on Saturday, as early in-person voting got underway in a critical battleground state.
• Early in-person voting begins in Nevada, with Obama set to rally Democrats.
• Leaked Papers Suggest Israel Is Preparing To Strike Iran. American officials are trying to determine the source of the leak, which describes military drills and weapons placement, and how damaging it might be.
• Vulnerable Senate Democrat Promotes Trump Ties in New Ad. The spot, which says that Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania had “sided with Trump” on trade and tariffs, was quickly denounced by the Trump campaign.
• Harris Sticks Up for Detroit Against Trump After His Negative Remarks. After former President Donald J. Trump disparaged the city, Vice President Kamala Harris said her campaign was seeking the kind of “grit” and “excellence” the city’s residents possessed.
• Harris to Court Moderates With a Onetime Right-Wing Provocateur. Charlie Sykes, the anti-Trump conservative commentator joining the vice president in Wisconsin on Monday, in the past amplified false claims of voter fraud and referred to Michelle Obama as “Mooch.”
• Harris and Liz Cheney Will Team Up for a Pitch to Blue-Wall Suburbs. The vice president and her top Republican surrogate will appear together for “moderated conversations” in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Detroit and Milwaukee.
• U.S. Intelligence ‘Fusion Cells’ Assisted in Israel’s Search for Hamas Leaders. American commandos and intelligence officers began helping Israel soon after the Oct. 7 attacks last year.
• Trump Banks On Migration As Main Issue. Voters rank the economy and high cost of living as their top issue. Donald J. Trump believes immigration “beats out the economy,” and he’s made it his closing message.
• To Win, Harris Needs to Do What Clinton Couldn’t in Pro-Trump Areas. In white, working-class places, Kamala Harris’s goal is simply to lose by less. Thirty interviews in Beaver County, Pa., offered signs that with some swing voters, she is holding the line.
• The Yearslong Evolution Of a Harris Impression. As Ms. Harris rose to center stage, the actor playing her on “S.N.L.” modified her approach, turning the vice president into a no-nonsense boss, surrounded by dopey men.
• Some Voters Are Backing Trump, but Not Senate Hopefuls Trying to Be Like Him. In the battleground state of Arizona and other important pockets of the country, polling suggests that voters backing the former president are eschewing Republican Senate candidates.
• Obama makes another pitch for Harris in battleground Arizona.
• Trump Tries to Rewrite History of Jan. 6 in Campaign’s Final Stretch. Donald J. Trump amplified a conspiracy theory that the federal government had staged the Capitol attack and compared jailed rioters to people of Japanese descent in internment camps.
• These Americans Say They’ll Move Abroad if Their Candidate Loses. We spoke with Americans who are packing up and moving out.
• In Michigan, Harris and Trump Fight for Blue-Collar and Arab Voters. Campaigning in the battleground on the same day, Kamala Harris cast herself as a friend to union workers while Donald Trump sought to capitalize on anger over the war in Gaza.
• Biden Renews Peace Push After Hamas Chief’s Death. Assassinating Yahya Sinwar was Israel’s Osama bin Laden moment. But getting a cease-fire deal done in the last three months of the Biden presidency is a much bigger reach.
• A Sherrod Brown Ad Seizes on an Unwise Remark About Women and Abortion. Bernie Moreno, his Republican rival, said women older than 50 are “crazy” for caring about abortion rights. A series of Ohio women who fit that description have much to say in response.
• Why Harris Remains Unlikely to Break From Biden on Israel and Gaza. Her advisers say the empathy she has expressed for Palestinians as vice president should not be confused with any willingness to break from U.S. foreign policy toward Israel as a presidential candidate.
• North Carolina Officials Report Record Turnout for First Day of Early Voting. The more than 353,000 ballots cast signaled enthusiasm in the battleground state, but the significance of the high turnout was unclear.
• North Carolina officials report record turnout on the first day of early voting.
• Oregon G.O.P. Sells Anti-Crime Message. Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer, a Republican in a tough re-election race in Oregon, is using a law-and-order pitch to appeal to a broad swath of voters and blunt concerns about the G.O.P. agenda.
• Baseless Blaming of Immigrants, No Matter the Problem. The Trump campaign has consistently pointed to unauthorized immigration as the cause of a series of problems it says plagues the country. That is rarely actually the case.
• Judge Releases Redacted Trove Of Evidence in Election Case. The former president’s legal team had objected to any release of material, saying it would amount to election interference.
• Report Faults Operation of Trump Hotel. Democrats on the House Oversight Committee said the former president overcharged the Secret Service and accepted money from officials and people who were seeking pardons and appointments.
• Judge Orders DeSantis Administration to Stop Threats Over Abortion-Rights Ad. The organization behind a campaign for an abortion-rights ballot measure sued the Florida governor’s administration over its threats of criminal prosecution against TV stations.
• Obamas Set to Hit the Trail Alongside Harris Next Week. Barack and Michelle Obama will make their first campaign appearances alongside Kamala Harris at rallies in Georgia and Michigan.
• The Way Black Voters Have Fared In the Economy Takes Center Stage. Donald J. Trump has been talking up his economic record for Black voters. The legacy of the last eight years is complicated.
• Best, Worst and Most Awkward Lines at the Al Smith Dinner. Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris both delivered remarks, Ms. Harris via taped video and Mr. Trump in person in a ballroom in Manhattan.
• Nevada’s Senate Rivals Spar in a Debate Heavy on Policy and Light on Fireworks. Senator Jacky Rosen and her Republican challenger, Sam Brown, met for their only debate, focusing on the cost of living, abortion and other issues.
• Indian Official Charged In U.S. Assassination Plot. The United States and Canada have worked together to investigate what they say is the Indian government’s campaign against Sikh separatists.
• What Keeps Latino Voting-Rights Activists Up at Night? Disinformation. Activists say the nefarious material is more widespread, sophisticated and complex than ever.
• In Rambling Interview, Trump Blames Zelensky, Not Putin, for Ukraine War. The war began when Russia invaded Ukraine, but Donald J. Trump said on a podcast that the Ukrainian president “should never have let that war start.”
• Harris Mocks Trump Boast Of Being ‘Father of I.V.F.’ Campaigning in Wisconsin, the vice president sought to amplify her rival’s recent comments that he was “the father of I.V.F.” and that Jan. 6, 2021, was “a day of love.”
• Sam Brown, Republican Candidate for Senate in Nevada, Struggles for Traction. Mr. Brown, who has never held elected office, has found himself outpaced by Senator Jacky Rosen, the low-key and well-financed Democratic incumbent. A debate Thursday night presents a key test.
• Students Secure Settlement Against Walden University. A $28.5 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit against the university helped create a fresh precedent for prosecuting predatory advertising in for-profit education.
• N.R.A. Again Gives Fewer Top Grades to Congressional Candidates on Gun Rights. The group’s latest ratings show a decline in top marks for the seventh straight election cycle, suggesting its influence is waning.
• Trump’s Rambling Speeches Focus His Critics and Concern His Allies. Some advisers and allies of former President Donald J. Trump are concerned about his scattershot style on the campaign trail as he continues to veer off script.
• Harris Says Hamas Leader’s Killing Offers Chance to End Gaza War. “It is time for the day after to begin without Hamas in power,” the vice president said after the Israeli military confirmed that Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the militant group, had been killed.
• Trump Family Relative Woos Arab Americans. Massad Boulos, Tiffany Trump’s father in-law, has been working behind the scenes to persuade a critical group of voters in Michigan.
• Democrats Lose Fear of Calling Trump a Fascist. Since Gen. Mark Milley was quoted as saying Donald Trump is “fascist to the core,” a term avoided by top members of the Democratic Party is suddenly everywhere.
• Using Tax Cuts and Near-Assassination to Show Trump as a Fighter for Workers. A pro-Trump super PAC shows Donald Trump’s “Fight! Fight!” response in Butler, Pa., to portray him as a champion for blue-collar Americans.
• U.S. Balances Aiding Allies While Preserving Its Arsenal. Pentagon officials discuss whether the flow of assistance could be hurting the military’s ability to respond to a new conflict.
• G.O.P. Wary Over Extent Of Tax Cuts Trump Plans. Former President Donald J. Trump’s costly tax agenda undermines the changes he signed into law in 2017. Some Republicans are wary.
• Panel Calls for Overhaul of Secret Service Leadership. The findings of a review of the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump in July are stark but familiar, underscoring the challenge of overhauling the agency.
• How Accurate, or Off-Target, Could the Polls Be This Year? Pre-election polls will never perfectly match election results. But an examination of three decades of polling helps put recent misses into context.
• Trump’s Tariffs Would Ignite Inflation And Hurt Business, Yellen Warns. The Treasury secretary criticized former President Donald J. Trump’s economic proposals in a speech.
• Student Debt Hits a Mark In Relief Plan. An effort to revive and maximize use of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program has resulted in student loan forgiveness for over one million people.
• Door Knocking For Harris Gets High-Tech Help. As technology like doorbell cameras makes it easier to avoid unsolicited visitors, the Harris campaign is leaning on data-capturing apps to supplement the traditional work of canvassing.
• U.S. Stealth Bombers Attack Houthi Weapons Caches in Yemen. Air Force B-2 bombers struck five underground weapons facilities in what may be a signal from the Biden administration to Iran.
• Harris Steers Views Through Interruptions. Pressed and often interrupted by Bret Baier, the vice president opened up a little more distance from President Biden and defended her position on immigration and border security.
• Harris Makes a Broad Overture to Republican Voters, Citing the Constitution. Appearing in a competitive suburban area of southeastern Pennsylvania, the vice president tried to strike a unifying tone even as she warned that Donald Trump posed a threat to the country.
• Into the Gender Gap. Harris and Trump are trying to address the gender gap. Their approaches could not be more different.
• Asked if He Thinks Trump Lost in 2020, Vance Finally Gives an Answer: No. Senator JD Vance, former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate, had spent weeks dodging questions about Mr. Trump’s false claims he won the 2020 election.
• Ethel Kennedy Is Eulogized by 3 Presidents, Celebrities and Grandchildren. The memorial service in Washington drew major names from the Democratic Party and celebrities, including Sting and Stevie Wonder.
• In a Harris Ad, a Black Man Speaks to Black Men on Her Behalf. A commercial running in Philadelphia confronts the idea that some Black men might be hesitant to vote for Kamala Harris because she is a woman. “Women know how to make things happen,” a supporter says.
• With Justices Sympathetic, Liberal City Fights E.P.A. The justices heard arguments on Wednesday in a long-simmering dispute between San Francisco and the E.P.A. over regulation of water pollution.
• Trump Faces Tough Questions From Hispanic Voters, but Largely Defends or Dodges. In a town hall that Univision broadcast on Wednesday night, Donald J. Trump did not directly answer many frank questions on climate change, immigration, abortion rights and other topics.
• Campaign Follows Trail To Depths Of a Canyon. The Democratic congressman, who is running for Senate in Arizona, hiked thousands of feet down to meet the Havasupai, a Native tribe, on their land, part of an extensive outreach effort in a competitive race.
• Where Are Trump and Harris Campaigning? Here’s where the candidates are spending their time in the final weeks of the 2024 presidential race.
• Biden Announces $425 Million in Aid to Ukraine. President Biden spoke by telephone to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine about the security package, which includes munitions, armored vehicles and other weapons.
• Why an Interview on Fox News Made Sense for Kamala Harris. The vice president will take questions from Bret Baier in a session to be broadcast at 6 p.m. She joins a long line of Democratic candidates and elected officials who have ventured into hostile television territory.
• Abortion-Rights Group Accuses DeSantis Administration of Stifling Free Speech. The group behind an ad in favor of enshrining abortion rights in Florida’s Constitution says the state is violating the First Amendment by threatening TV stations that ran the ad.
• Trump Shuns a Platform Popular With Young Men, Possibly to His Detriment. The former president, whose personal account was banned after the Capitol riot, has refused to spend campaign money on Snapchat ads, effectively ceding the space to Kamala Harris.
• Election Deniers Seek Swing Seats. G.O.P. candidates in critical House districts have sought to moderate or gloss over their past questioning of the 2020 election results, as well as hard-right positions on social issues.
• Trump Raises Eyebrows by Proclaiming Himself the ‘Father of I.V.F.’ His campaign said the comment, which he said at an event focused on women’s issues, was “made in jest.” He has supported access to I.V.F. recently but didn’t promote it before this year.
• 2 Prosecutors Exit in Trump Documents Case. The departures amount to a tacit acknowledgment that any trial in that case will not happen for many months, if not years.
• Under Trump Administration, U.S. Prisons Offered Gender-Affirming Care. The Trump administration’s approach is notable in light of a campaign ad that slams Vice President Kamala Harris for supporting taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for prisoners and migrants.
• Top Black business leaders aim to motivate Black men to vote for Harris.
• Harris Will Air Ad Hitting Trump on Abortion During His Fox News Event. The ad features a woman from Kentucky telling a harrowing story of being sexually assaulted and impregnated by her stepfather at the age of 12.
• Liz Cheney endorses Democrat Wild in competitive Pennsylvania House race.
• Michelle Obama to Host a Rally to Encourage Voter Turnout in Georgia. The former first lady, one of the Democratic Party’s most popular but most elusive figures, will appeal to younger, nonwhite voters.
• It’s Not Just Taylor Swift. Music Activism Gets Back on the Road. Bands were sidelined by the Covid-19 pandemic during the 2020 campaign. This year, with increasing sophistication, they are encouraging political activism.
• Who’s Winning, or Repelling, Nevada Latinos’ Crucial Swing Votes. For some, Donald J. Trump’s incessant attacks on immigrants are too much. Still, many appear prepared to look past his escalations and back a candidate they believe will help their livelihoods.
• A Crowd of Republicans Will Join Harris at a Pennsylvania Stop. The visit will take place near the Revolutionary War site where George Washington crossed the Delaware.
• Fast, Feisty and Plenty of Cancún: Takeaways From the Senate Debate in Texas. Senator Ted Cruz and his Democratic challenger, Representative Colin Allred, packed a lot of attacks, mostly about policy, into a quick and combative hourlong debate.
• Elon Musk Is Going All In to Elect Donald Trump. Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, has involved himself in the U.S. election in a manner unparalleled in modern history. Theodore Schleifer, who covers campaign finance and billionaires for The New York Times, explains how Musk, who owns the...
• In Pennsylvania, Walz Says Immigrants Aren’t the Outsiders: Trump and Vance Are. The Democratic vice-presidential nominee unveiled his ticket’s plan targeted at rural voters — including those protesting his visit.
• War of Words Against Foes Gets Darker. Never before has a presidential nominee openly suggested turning the military on Americans simply because they oppose his candidacy. With voting underway, Donald Trump has turned to dark vows of retribution.
• At Town Hall on Women’s Issues, Trump Renews ‘Enemy Within’ Talk. Donald Trump fielded questions from an audience of all women in Georgia for a Fox News event to be broadcast on Wednesday morning.
• Biden Takes On Campaign Duty in Pennsylvania, Celebrating Unions. As Jill Biden and JD Vance also made stops around Philadelphia, the president’s visit highlighted the intense struggle to persuade voters in what may be the most critical swing state.
• Five Takeaways From Kamala Harris’s Interview With Charlamagne Tha God. During a free-flowing interview that was by turns friendly and pointed, the vice president went beyond her previous remarks in casting Donald Trump as an authoritarian.
• The View of the Election from One Philly Barbershop. A round-table event offers a glimpse of the challenges Harris faces and the effort to overcome them.
• Trump Says It Would Be ‘Good Thing’ if He’d Kept in Touch With Putin. The former president, who once pushed to prosecute a former secretary of state for talking with foreign officials, said that it would be “a good thing” for himself to have secretly kept in touch with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia — if he d...
• Lufthansa Fined $4 Million for Stopping Jewish Passengers From Boarding Plane. The Transportation Department handed out a record fine after the airline prevented 128 travelers from making a connecting flight in 2022.
• S.B.A. Says It’s Run Out Of Disaster Loan Funds. Federal officials urged people to keep applying for the loans, which they said they would continue to process while awaiting more funding from Congress, which is not set to reconvene until Nov. 12.
• Georgia Officials Report Record Turnout on First Day of Early Voting. Democrats and Republicans alike have crusaded for residents to get to the polls early as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris aggressively seek the state’s 16 electoral votes.
• Trump Signals Skepticism of Google Breakup, Citing Competition With China. The former president also said he would do “something” to make Google “more fair” if he regained the presidency.
• Ignoring Critics, Trump Brags About Economic Plans. In a combative interview, the former president hinted at even higher tariffs as an economic magic bullet.
• Trump Says It Would Be a ‘Smart Thing’ if He Had Talked to Putin. Donald J. Trump declined to comment on whether he’d talked with the Russian president since leaving office. But he added, “If I have a relationship with people, that’s a good thing.”
• Ted Cruz and Colin Allred Face Off in Texas Senate Debate. The candidates engaged in a fiery but substantive matchup on Tuesday night, as polls showed Mr. Cruz with a slight lead.
• Two Giant Envoys Revive Panda Diplomacy in the U.S. A motorcade through the capital revived “panda diplomacy” between Washington and Beijing for the first time in nearly a year.

World

• Understanding the BRICS Summit. The group, which seeks to rebalance the global order away from the West, will meet on Tuesday. Here’s a primer.
• Yes, Ambassadors Can Get Away With Murder. Diplomatic immunity is one of the oldest and most respected rules of international law.

Africa

• How a TV Hit Sparked Debate About Having Too Many Babies. The Sani family in northern Nigeria has six children, more than the parents can afford but fewer than their own parents had. Birthrates, and the decisions couples make about family size, are changing across Africa.
• Two Opposition Figures Are Shot in Mozambique. Leading supporters of the top opposition presidential candidate, Venâncio Mondlane, were fatally shot in their car following an election marred by allegations of fraud.
• The Impeachment of Kenya’s Deputy President Could Foreshadow Further Turmoil. It’s the first impeachment under the country’s new Constitution, but some are now calling for a similar move against President William Ruto.
• Hunt for Cheap Gasoline Led to Tanker Tragedy. More than 160 people died when an overturned fuel tanker in northern Nigeria exploded. Witnesses and relatives of victims said poverty had driven most to try to collect the spilled gas.
• Fuel Tanker Explosion Kills Over 160 People in Nigeria. The deadly blast happened as crowds gathered around an overturned vehicle to collect spilled fuel.
• Over 140 Die in Nigeria As Fuel Tanker Overturns . Residents of a nearby town went to scoop up gasoline that had spilled from an overturned tanker, but then it exploded, setting off an inferno. Several similar disasters have taken place in recent years.

Americas

• Cuba Struggles to Restore Lights as a Hurricane Hits. The repeated failure of the power grid and a hurricane that has swamped the island’s eastern end has many Cubans fed up, posing a challenge to the Communist government.
• Cuba’s Power Grid Fails A 2nd Time in 24 Hours. Fidel Castro once called Cuba’s power plants “prehistoric.” But the country still relies on them, contributing to the longest blackout since the collapse of its former patron, the Soviet Union.
• Fire and No Water: Drought in 2nd Year Plagues South America. Record dry conditions in South America have led to wildfires, power cuts and water rationing. The world’s largest river system, the Amazon, which sustains some 30 million people across eight countries, is drying up.
• After More Than 2 Years, Guatemalan Journalist Leaves Prison. The case against José Rubén Zamora became a sign of crumbling democracy in Guatemala and a symbol of threats against press freedom across Latin America.
• Outage Plunges All of Cuba Into Darkness After Power Plant Failure Near Havana. The Cuban government had just announced emergency measures to reduce electricity use — then the power went out across the entire nation.
• In Peru, Ancient Signs of a Female Ruler. Archaeologists have unearthed a richly decorated throne room and a “Hall of the Braided Serpents” from the Moche culture, with clues that a woman may have ruled there more than 1,300 years ago.
• Mexico’s Ex-Security Chief Receives 38 Years in Prison for Cartel Bribery. The stiff penalty was the potentially final step in the stunning downfall of the former official, Genaro García Luna, who has gone from the heights of power to imprisonment.
• Presidente do Supremo Tribunal do Brasil: Estamos Salvando a Democracia. O presidente do Supremo Tribunal Federal do Brasil, Luís Roberto Barroso, defendeu a Corte em meio ao crescente debate sobre seu papel agressivo na política.
• Brazil’s Chief Justice: We Are Saving Democracy. The chief justice of Brazil’s Supreme Court, Luís Roberto Barroso, defended the court in the face of growing debate over its aggressive role in politics.
• Is Musk’s Brazilian Nemesis Saving Democracy, Hurting It, or Both? Brazil’s top court expanded its power to protect democracy. But some are wondering whether the court now represents the threat.
• O Supremo está salvando ou ameaçando a democracia? A mais alta corte brasileira expandiu seu poder para proteger a democracia. Mas há aqueles que se perguntam se o Tribunal agora representa a ameaça.
• Trudeau Aides Defend Handling of Foreign Meddling as Tensions Escalate. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s top aides spoke at a public hearing a day after Canada accused Indian diplomats of orchestrating killings and extortions in the country.

Asia Pacific

• Putin, Fighting Pariah Status, Welcomes Xi and Other Leaders to Russia. The Russian leader wants to cast himself as a global statesman, even as the U.S. and its Western allies try to isolate him.
• Son of Singapore’s First Prime Minister Says He Is Granted Asylum in Britain. Lee Hsien Yang accused his brother, a former prime minister, of persecuting him politically, inflaming the feud in Singapore’s first family.
• India and China Reach Border Deal That Could Ease Hostilities. Four years ago, several soldiers from both sides were killed in a bloody melee. Any thaw between the countries could have global implications.
• Why the Philippines’ Vice President Talked About Beheading Her Boss. The alliance between Sara Duterte and President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., which brought two notorious dynasties together, has unraveled in spectacular fashion.
• China Turns Up the Heat on Taiwan With Live-Fire Drills. The drills were the latest show of force by China, which claims Taiwan as its territory and has protested Western support for the island.
• Four Years in Jail Without Trial: The Price of Dissent in Modi’s India. A Muslim protest leader has become a symbol of a wide-ranging clampdown on opponents of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.
• Vietnam Revives Structure Of ‘Four Pillar’ Leadership. The move restores a “four pillar” government structure that divides top-level duties to avoid the rise of a single strongman.
• Judicial Overhaul Squeaks Through After High Political Drama in Pakistan. Supporters of the constitutional amendments said they would curb judicial activism. Critics said judicial independence had been damaged.
• Indonesia’s Transformative Leader Departs With a Tarnished Legacy. Joko Widodo rose from a slum to the presidency. But with his tenure ending, he is being accused of undermining democracy by trying to install a political dynasty.
• An Everyman Image Fades Into Fury. It was a major blow to the Everyman image cultivated by President Joko Widodo, who stepped down on Sunday.
• The Terms China Places On U.S. Zoos for Pandas. Normally confidential contracts show that U.S. zoos are accepting increasingly strict terms governing panda cams and public statements.
• Suspect Held In 2 Attacks On Leaders In Japan. An assailant tried to breach security at the office of the new prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, the police in Tokyo said.
• American Man Kidnapped, Taken Away on Boat in Philippines, Police Say. Four armed men shot and abducted a 26-year-old from Vermont in western Mindanao, the police said. He had been living in the area since May.
• Conundrum for India in Murder Scheme Inquiries. In both cases of plans targeting Sikh separatists, suspicions of New Delhi’s involvement have arisen. That has put India in a tight diplomatic position.
• Fan Bingbing, Once China’s Top Actress, Returns to Film Years After Tax Scandal. Fan was a megastar until 2018, when she was fined tens of millions of dollars over unpaid taxes and her career tanked. “Green Night” is her first film since the scandal.
• In India, Some Doctors Go on Hunger Strike to Protest Killing of Colleague. Six were subsisting only on water and were admitted into the hospital after a multiday fast to demand justice for the brutal rape and killing of a medical resident.
• He Didn’t See Daylight for Five Years. Here are some basics from the Times investigation into Bangladesh’s secret military prison, the “House of Mirrors.”
• Brink of Madness in Bangladesh’s Secret Prison. In the House of Mirrors, political captives were pushed to the brink of insanity and death. Some are telling their stories now that the woman who put them there, Sheikh Hasina, is gone.
• Ex-Police Chief of Seoul Cleared of Criminal Negligence Over Crowd Crush. Kim Kwang-ho, the former head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, was the most senior official to face criminal charges over the 2022 disaster that killed 159 people.
• North Korea Is Said to Be Sending Russia Not Just Arms but Troops, Too. Helping Russia in the war is an opportunity for North Korea to test its new weapons, and Ukrainian officials say the North’s troops are also gaining direct battle experience.
• In East Asia, Flights to Test Big Typhoons Are a Rarity. While observational flights have improved forecasts for many storms in the Americas, such flights have been far fewer for storms that have hit Asia.
• With Jets and Ships, China Hones Its Ability to Choke Taiwan. China’s large-scale military exercises are encircling Taiwan and testing the island’s defenses. They also raise the risk of conflict, accidental or otherwise.

Canada

• With Unusually Forceful Words, Canada Charges India With a Criminal Conspiracy. Canada expelled six Indian diplomats after the police said they had evidence that India used intimidation and even murder to silence its critics in Canada.
• Trudeau Goes on Attack Over Foreign Interference Claims. Facing a revolt in his own party, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attacked both the Conservative opposition and India’s government, which he said had made “a horrific mistake” in the killing of a Sikh activist.

Europe

• Vatican and China Extend Contentious Agreement on Naming Catholic Bishops. Critics argue the pact legitimizes China’s control over church affairs, while defenders say it helps support Catholics faithful to the Vatican in the Communist country.
• The Coup Attempt That Set Turkey on a Path to Authoritarianism. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Fethullah Gulen, the powerful preacher who died this week, began as allies. But their falling out brought bloodshed and an Erdogan crackdown.
• A Radical Approach to Flooding in England: Give Land Back to the Sea. When a huge tract of land on the Somerset coast was deliberately flooded, the project was slammed as “ridiculous” by a local lawmaker. But the results have been transformative.
• ‘Monotonous and Filthy’: Paul Whelan’s Life in a Russian Prison. The former U.S. Marine describes the moment of his arrest and the long years waiting for his release.
• Moldovans, Very Narrowly, Choose to Look Toward Europe, Not Russia. A referendum that constitutionally enshrines a national objective to join the E.U. passed by a thin margin. The incumbent pro-E.U. president won the most votes in a concurrent election, but faces a runoff.
• ‘You Are Not My King’: Charles III Heckled in Australia’s Parliament. King Charles, visiting the former British colony where he retains the ceremonial title of head of state, was shouted at by an Indigenous Australian senator.
• Fethullah Gulen, Turkish Cleric and Erdogan Rival, Dies at 83. Mr. Gulen, who lived in the United States, was accused of plotting a coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey in 2016.
• Putin Brings Together Economies He Hopes Will Eclipse the West. The Russian leader hopes to use the meeting of the so-called BRICS group, which includes China and India, as a counterweight to the West.
• U.S. Defense Chief, in Ukraine, Announces $400 Million Arms Package. The trip by the U.S. defense secretary comes as Russian forces steadily gain territory in eastern Ukraine.
• East and West Pull at Moldova In Big Election. Voters were almost evenly split over whether to declare European Union membership a “strategic objective.” Russia has worked hard to sway the outcome.
• Oxford Opens Up an Old-School Selection Process. The role of chancellor at the University of Oxford has been around for 800 years. This year, a particularly broad range of people have applied.
• Ukrainian Soldier Says He Deserted to Help His Comrades. Serhii Hnezdilov, a Ukrainian soldier, said he wanted to draw attention to the need to discharge worn-out soldiers and replace them with fresh conscripts.
• How a Scourge of Oligarchs Fell in Love With One. Natalia Morari once reported on corrupt business in Moldova. Now she has upset many by having a son with a tycoon accused of corruption, and running against the pro-West president in elections.
• Italian Judges Strike Down Request to Hold Migrants in Albania. The ruling was a major blow to the conservative government’s plan to have asylum claims heard in Albania instead of Italy.
• France Struggles to Dry Out From Flash Flooding. Heavy rainfall and swollen rivers unleashed torrents of brackish water that cut off roads, swept away cars and swamped buildings.
• Hiring a German Coach Sends England Into a Moral Maze. An outcry over the hiring of a German to lead England’s national team was predictable. But don’t dismiss every objection out of hand.
• Biden Urges Unwavering Support for Ukraine and Cease-Fire in Gaza. The president, in a trip to Berlin that lasted barely a day, also joined Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany in expressing new optimism about the prospect for peace in the Middle East.
• ‘It Feels Personal’: A Town’s Rape Trial Hits Painfully Close to Home. The town of Mazan, where Gisèle Pelicot was drugged and raped by her husband and strangers, has been shaken by the revelations. “It feels a bit like it’s in our family,” one resident said.
• They Came for the Music. They Left With Draft Officers for Ukraine’s Army. Men who attended the Kyiv concert of a popular rock band had their papers checked on the way out. Some were detained. Tickets to subsequent shows suddenly became available.
• U.K. Foreign Secretary Visits China in Bid to Reset Relations. David Lammy is set to meet China’s foreign minister in Beijing on Friday, in a trip the British government said would acknowledge “areas of contention as well as areas for cooperation.”
• In Visit to Germany, Biden Paying Tribute To Restored Alliance. The president’s hastily rescheduled trip to Berlin will last less than a day. The German government has trimmed back its celebrations accordingly.
• Meloni Builds Her Bridge To Link Right With Center. New policies on surrogate births and the treatment of asylum seekers, while largely symbolic, are designed to shore up her right-wing flank in Italy, analysts say.
• The U.K. Will Debate Legalizing Assisted Dying. Here’s What to Know. A bill introduced in the House of Commons could legalize assisted dying for the terminally ill, under strict conditions. A similar proposal was rejected in 2015.
• Zelensky Sells ‘Victory Plan’ To Leaders In Brussels. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine made an urgent plea in Brussels, though it’s unclear to what extent the officials gathered there will go along with it.
• Moscow Roils a Country on the Edge of Europe and Russia. Russia is behind a disinformation campaign in Moldova ahead of a presidential election and a referendum making E.U. membership a “strategic objective,” Moldovan officials and global media companies say.
• Police Strike At Crime Gang Tapping a Taste For Top Wines. A criminal network was accused of selling bottles of fake French wine for as much as 15,000 euros. It’s the latest in a growing criminal trend: wine fraud.
• Italy Criminalizes Surrogacy From Abroad, a Blow to Gay and Infertile Couples. The new law was pushed by the party of Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s conservative prime minister.
• England Entrusts a National Treasure to a German. The appointment of Thomas Tuchel to coach the England men’s national soccer team has provoked, well, some strong feelings.
• Zelensky Tries to Sell ‘Victory Plan’ at Home. The proposal would rely heavily on increased Western assistance. So far, it has drawn a lukewarm response from Ukraine’s allies.
• British Sports Scandal: Did a Chestnut Champ Cheat? Known as conkers in Britain, chestnuts are played in an annual championship there. This year, there are accusations of cheating. And it’s all very serious.

Middle East

• After a Deadly Strike Near Beirut, Ringtones Sound From Under Rubble. As search teams combed the ruins of residential buildings across from Rafik Hariri University Hospital just south of Lebanon’s capital, locals listened for signs of their loved ones in the wreckage.
• The F.B.I. Is Investigating a Leak of Classified Documents That Appear to Show Israel’s Plans for Retaliatory Attacks on Iran. The documents began circulating on Friday on the Telegram app, and U.S. officials are looking for the original source of the leak.
• The F.B.I. is investigating a leak of classified documents that appear to show Israel’s plans for retaliatory attacks on Iran.
• Israeli Military Strikes Near Hospital Bordering Beirut. Officials said the attack damaged Rafik Hariri University Hospital, the largest public health facility in Lebanon.
• Blinken arrives in Israel in the latest U.S. push for a cease-fire in Gaza.
• Hamas’s Guerrilla Tactics in North Gaza Make It Hard to Defeat. Israel has decimated Hamas’s military wing, along with much of Gaza. But the group’s small-scale, hit-and-run approach poses a threat in the enclave’s north.
• What Life Looks Like for Israelis Living Near Lebanon’s Border. Homes in northern Israel along the Lebanon border have been under the constant threat of Hezbollah’s rocket attacks since October of last year. We look at life on the ground for the few Israelis who stayed behind.
• ‘We Are Still Afraid’: Life Inside Northern Israel. Homes in northern Israel along the Lebanon border have been under the constant threat of Hezbollah’s rocket attacks since October of last year. We look at life on the ground for the few Israelis who stayed behind.
• Settler activists, encouraged by Israel’s far right, meet at the Gaza border for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
• What Is the U.N. Resolution That Tried and Failed to Keep the Peace in Lebanon? U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 was intended to create a buffer zone between Israel and Hezbollah. Here’s a look at why it didn’t and what lies ahead in efforts to end the conflict in Lebanon.
• U.S. Diplomat Visits Lebanon, Pushing For Return to U.N. Peace Plan of 2006. Israel and Hezbollah say they will keep up attacks in an escalating conflict that has devastated Gaza, is causing misery in Lebanon and could draw Iran deeper into the fighting.
• Deaths of 3 Lebanese Soldiers Draw Apology From Israel. The deaths showed the complexity of Israel’s fight with Hezbollah: Lebanon’s army is not a party to the conflict, but it is taking place in its territory.
• What Is Al-Qard al-Hasan, the Hezbollah-Linked Finance Group Targeted by Israel? The de facto bank is the largest microcredit organization in a country where the traditional banking sector is in shambles.
• Israel Dismantles Iranian Spy Network and Arrests Seven People, Authorities Say. The suspects, all Israeli citizens, conducted intelligence missions for two years under the direction of two Iranian agents, the authorities said.
• A Biden envoy says reviving a U.N. resolution is the only path to Israel-Hezbollah peace. Amos Hochstein’s visit to Beirut is part of a renewed
• Sinwar Is Dead, but a Palestinian State Seems More Distant Than Ever. A two-state solution remains the goal of the United States and the West, but many in the region say the devastation in Gaza and the lack of effective Palestinian leadership make it a remote prospect.
• U.S. Missile Defense System Arrives in Israel. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system was in place, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said on Monday. The deployment comes as Israel prepares for retaliatory attacks against Iran.
• Blinken to Visit Israel in Latest Push for Gaza Cease-Fire. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is expected to depart on Monday in a renewed effort to bring calm to the region. The State Department did not say which other countries he might stop in.
• Here are the latest developments.
• Israel Strikes Hezbollah-Affiliated Financial Institution in Lebanon. Branches of Al-Qard al-Hasan, which functions as Hezbollah’s de facto banking arm but also operates as an alternative bank for Lebanese, were targeted around Beirut and across the country’s south and east.
• The U.S. is investigating an intelligence leak on Israel’s plans to strike Iran.
• Protesters in Israel Demand a Cease-Fire and Hostage Deal. Thousands joined families of hostages held in Gaza during a protest in Tel Aviv to call on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to reach a cease-fire deal and to push for the release of hostages.
• Dozens of Palestinians are dead or missing after an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza, officials say.
• Dozens of Palestinians Are Dead or Missing After an Israeli Airstrike in Northern Gaza, Officials Say. The Israeli military renewed an offensive there earlier this month, saying it was trying to eliminate a regrouped Hamas presence in the area.
• Palestinian’s Dreams of Escape End in Flames Seen Worldwide. A video of Shaaban al-Dalou burning to death after an Israeli strike at a hospital has stoked criticism from Israel’s allies and highlighted the plight of people trapped in Gaza.
• A Mideast Shift Is Underway. The War in Gaza Means Israel Is Not a Player. Before Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks, Saudi Arabia was open to forging stronger ties with the Israelis. Now, a year into the war in Gaza, it is warming up to its traditional enemy, Iran.
• Amid Hopes of Peace Talks, Fighting Rages in Gaza and Lebanon. Peace talks were nowhere in sight and, despite Yahya Sinwar’s death, the violence seemed only to increase, as Israel struck northern Gaza and Hezbollah fired dozens of projectiles.
• Families of Israeli Hostages Call on Netanyahu to Return Their Loved Ones. In a televised statement, family members of people held in Gaza said the death of Hamas’s leader, Yahya Sinwar, was the moment for a cease-fire and hostage deal.
• Iraq Suspends License of Saudi-Owned Television Channel, MBC Media Group. The action came after the channel aired a report describing a number of leaders of Iranian backed armed groups as terrorists.
• U.S. Defense Secretary Urges Israel to Scale Back Attacks in Beirut Area. Lloyd J. Austin lamented that civilian casualties during Israel’s war in Lebanon were “far too high.”
• After a few days of relative calm, Israel steps up attacks in Lebanon, killing at least two. The aerial attack targeted an SUV traveling south on a busy highway between Jounieh and Beirut
• Israel’s offensive in northern Gaza imperils area hospitals, health officials say.
• This Young Lawmaker in Lebanon Confronts Fears of a Spreading War. Amid the growing Israel-Hezbollah conflict, Firas Hamdan regularly visits his hometown, Hasbaya, near the border with Israel. As part of a new generation of Lebanese politicians, he is addressing rising fears as Israeli strikes hit the surrounding...
• Even After Death of Hamas’s Leader, Mideast Peace May Still Be Elusive. Just about all of the actors in the region are looking for an “offramp” to the conflict, many analysts say. But Hezbollah and Hamas are talking tough, and Israel is not backing down.
• Drone Hits Building Near Netanyahu’s Home in Coastal Israel. The Israeli prime minister and his wife were not home at the time of the strike, his office said. The episode highlighted the challenge drones pose to Israel’s air defenses.
• A drone hits a building near Netanyahu’s home in coastal Israel.
• Despite Israeli Bombs and Killings, Hezbollah Keeps Fighting. Extensive Israeli attacks have blown up Hezbollah munitions and killed many fighters and leaders, but the Lebanese militia is far from incapacitated, analysts say.
• What Will Happen to Yahya Sinwar’s Body? Uncertainty surrounds the fate of the Hamas leader’s corpse as experts say Israel will likely try to avoid having his resting place become a shrine.
• Hamas Says Its Demands Are Unchanged as Biden Pushes for a Cease-Fire. A top deputy to the killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar vowed that his “banner will not fall” and that the group would hold to its cease-fire conditions.
• Sinwar’s Final Moments: On the Run, Hurt, Alone, but Still Defiant. Israeli forces had been steadily closing in on Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader, for weeks before he was cornered and killed in a ruined house in the Gaza Strip.
• Mentos, an expired passport and a map were some of the items Israel said it found near the slain Hamas leader.
• West Bank violence spills into Palestinians’ crucial olive harvest.
• Why Israel Targeted Yahya Sinwar. What does the killing of Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack, mean for Israel and Gaza? Ronen Bergman, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine who is based in Tel Aviv, explains.
• Lebanon Issues Rare Criticism of Iran Over ‘Blatant Interference’ Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, summoned Tehran’s envoy over reported comments by a senior Iranian official on a U.N. resolution deemed a precondition for a cease-fire.
• Drone Captures Moment of Defiance, Which Israel Says Was Sinwar’s Last. In a war often seen from far away, the footage from an Israeli drone appears to capture a moment both pivotal and personal.
• Israel Destroys Nearly All of a Lebanese Village, Photos and Videos Show. About two dozen buildings were demolished in the village, which The Times identified as Mhaibib, just over a mile from Israel’s northern border.
• The U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon says it will remain, rejecting Israel’s demand to withdraw.
• U.N. Peacekeeping Force in Southern Lebanon Will Remain, U.N. Official Says. Israel has demanded that the force, known as UNIFIL, pull out. But all the countries contributing troops and the U.N. Security Council decided unanimously that UNIFIL should stay.
• Israelis and Palestinians React to Assassination of Hamas Leader. While some Israelis expressed hope that the war might end soon, many Palestinians were doubtful that the death of Yahya Sinwar would lead to a cease-fire.
• The Killing of Sinwar Highlights Israel’s Long Search for Deterrence. Israel’s killing of the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is the latest expression of Israel’s belief that regional acceptance will be achieved only through strength.
• Sinwar killed by gunshot to head, Israeli autopsy finds. The director of Israel’s national forensic institute, Dr. Chen Kugel, oversaw the autopsy and described its findings in an interview with The New York Times on Friday.
• For the Israeli who once saved Sinwar’s life, there is no joy in his death.
• In Gaza, Yahya Sinwar’s death brings relief and glimmers of hope.
• ‘The Daily’ podcast covers Sinwar’s killing.
• A Death Will Shake but Won’t Topple a Militant Group. Analysts call the killing of several Hamas leaders, including Yahya Sinwar, a deep blow to the Palestinian militant group, but expect it to keep fighting.
• 2 Linked to Oct. 7 Cyberattacks Indicted. The Justice Department has accused two Sudanese brothers of cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure as well as preventing possibly lifesaving alerts from reaching Israelis as the Hamas attack unfolded.
• The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor sought warrants for 3 Hamas leaders. All 3 are now dead.
• Hamas Leader Who Planned Oct. 7 Is Dead. Although Yahya Sinwar was a major target of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, the soldiers who killed the militant chief had not expected to run across him, Israeli officials said.
• Israeli Military Drone Footage Claims to Show Sinwar Shortly Before He Was Killed. The video shows a room that matches photographs obtained by The Times that show the corpse of a man closely resembling the Hamas leader.
• Sinwar had been a priority target for Israel since his release from prison in 2011.
• The killing of Sinwar is another blow to Iran.
• The U.S. military did not aid the Israeli operation that killed Sinwar, the Pentagon said.
• Biden Talks to Netanyahu About Sinwar’s Death and Getting to a Cease-Fire. After arriving in Berlin for previously scheduled meetings, the president said he was sending the secretary of state to Israel in the coming days.
• Yahya Sinwar, Hamas Leader, Was Killed, Israel Confirms. Yahya Sinwar had been the No. 1 target for Israel since the beginning of the war in Gaza.
• Sinwar Evaded Israeli Intelligence for Years. Trainee Officers Found Him. A unit from the Israeli military encountered Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, while on an operation in southern Gaza, Israeli defense officials said.
• How Israel Found and Killed Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza. A unit of Israeli trainee soldiers came upon Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, while on an operation in southern Gaza, defense officials said.
• In Gaza’s North, Painstakingly Rationing Scraps as Hunger Looms. Families say they are rationing what little food they can find while living under the constant threat of Israeli bombardment.
• Militant’s Death Could Unlock Stalled Gaza Truce Negotiations. The killing of Hamas’s leader may allow Israel to claim victory and agree to a cease-fire, and new Hamas leadership could be more open to compromise. But neither side is likely to immediately change course.
• For the families of hostages, a moment of satisfaction and fear.
• Here Is the Remaining Leadership of Hamas. Top figures in the Palestinian militant group have long been targeted by Israel.
• Here’s a look at the remaining leadership of Hamas, which has long been targeted by Israel.
• Gazans react to reports that the leader of Hamas was killed. Palestinians in the enclave were divided over whether the death of Yahya Sinwar, if confirmed, would bring the war in Gaza closer to an end.
• Gazans Are So Malnourished That They Could Face Famine, Report Warns. A hunger emergency has affected nearly all of Gaza, but the situation is worst for people in the north, where Israeli forces intensified operations this month, the report said.
• Egypt Appoints New Spy Chief, Replacing General Key to Cease-Fire Talks. Gen. Abbas Kamel, a longtime confidant of Egypt’s president, oversaw the country’s most important international relationships and helped maintain the president’s authoritarian grip.
• An Israeli airstrike on a school used a shelter in Gaza kills at least 24 people.
• Israel is assessing whether a slain militant is the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. Israel will conduct DNA tests on the body of a militant shot and killed on Wednesday in southern Gaza, officials said. The body bears physical similarities with Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas.
• U.N. Security Council Urges Israel to Increase Flow of Aid Into Gaza. Some of the sharpest criticism about a lack of sufficient assistance in the enclave came from Israel’s allies, including the United States.
• Israeli Strike Hits Lebanese Municipal Building. The strike, in the south of Lebanon, killed at least 16 people, Lebanese officials said. Israel, which also struck near Beirut, said it was targeting Hezbollah militants.
• Israeli Airstrikes Target Suburban Beirut and Southern Lebanon. The attacks came after the United States expressed concerns about the bombardment of the Lebanese capital.
• Israel permits a small amount of aid into northern Gaza after the U.S. issues a warning.
• Israel Allows Some Aid Into Northern Gaza After U.S. Warning. There was no official response from the Israeli government, a day after the United States threatened consequences if it didn’t let more relief into Gaza within 30 days.
• Israel strikes dozens of targets in Lebanon.
• Britain sanctions West Bank settlers and organizations amid rising violence.
• In Just a Week, a Million People in Lebanon Have Been Displaced. Schools, clubs and parks have become places of refuge as the displaced seek safety amid Israeli bombings.
• Israel’s high court orders the state to explain its system for medical evacuations from Gaza. Three Israeli human rights groups in early June, following the closure of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt
• U.S. Tells Israel To Increase Flow of Relief To Gaza. The demand from Israel’s closest ally came amid reports that the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip has grown still worse in recent weeks.
• The U.N. calls for an investigation into a deadly Israeli airstrike in northern Lebanon.
• U.S. Warns Israel to Increase Aid to Gaza or Face Consequences. The warning was conveyed in a letter sent Sunday to two top Israeli officials that included the possibility of a cutoff of U.S. military aid, officials said.
• Some Gazans Face Choice: Either Safety Or Family. Amna Soliman says she can’t leave her mother, who is in a wheelchair, so she stays, despite heavy fighting and repeated warnings to leave.

New York

• U.S. Charges Iranian Revolutionary Guards Official in Assassination Plot. The failed plot to kill Masih Alinejad, a human-rights activist, has already led to murder-for-hire charges against members of an Eastern European criminal organization with ties to Iran.
• Why New York’s Orthodox Jewish Voters Could Tip the Battle for the House. In three key swing districts in New York’s Hudson Valley, candidates are pressing for the support of ultra-Orthodox Jews, who tend to vote as a bloc.
• Trump Took a Turn at the Fryer. McDonald’s Workers Have Thoughts. After Donald J. Trump served fast food during a campaign stop at a McDonald’s, several workers said the candidate showed a willingness to learn but should stick to his day job.
• Central Park 5 Sue Trump Over Comments in Debate. Donald J. Trump’s remarks during the presidential debate are part of a “continuing pattern” of false statements designed to “make the men suffer,” the lawsuit charged.
• ‘Sleep No More’ Megafans Face End of an Addictive Show. The immersive theater experience in Chelsea has been running since 2011. Now it is scheduled to shut in late November.
• Liberty Finally Give New York City a Basketball Championship. New York got its first basketball championship in 48 years, as the New York Liberty beat the Minnesota Lynx in front of exuberant fans in Brooklyn.
• Trial to Begin in Subway Choking Death. Daniel Penny, who put the man, Jordan Neely, in a chokehold last year, told investigators that Mr. Neely posed a deadly threat. The killing polarized New York.
• A Must-Watch Night for New York Sports Fans: Here’s What to Know. The Mets and the Liberty will each look to secure a crucial championship win, while the Jets will bring together two stars in an effort to reverse a losing streak.
• A Rise in Youth Arrests Prompts an Appeal for Solutions. A 37 percent rise in the number of young people accused in serious crimes mirrors a broader increase. But it has alarmed the police, who say young offenders could grow up to break the law again.
• ‘Her Needles Pulled a Single String of Yarn From a Bag on the Floor’ A knitter’s practiced hands draw attention, a solo on a windy day and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
• When It’s Recess, a TV Teacher Unwinds. On his weeks off from shooting the ABC sitcom, the actor unwinds by whipping up “the biggest salad ever” and seeking out a Sunday-night show.
• A Mayor’s Office Distracted by Investigations Stirs Hope for Stalled Street Projects. Mayor Eric Adams has stalled plans to build bus and bicycle lanes. With his leadership under threat, the projects’ supporters see an opening.
• New York State Museum Lapses Into Decrepitude After Decades of Neglect. Decades of mismanagement and financial neglect have turned the New York State Museum, a trove of national treasures, into a dreary place.
• Prosecutors Urge Judge Not to Dismiss Bribery Charge Against Eric Adams. Mayor Eric Adams has asked a judge to drop one of five counts against him and to discipline prosecutors, whom he has accused of improperly leaking information to the news media.
• New York Man Who Brought Knife to Jan. 6 Riot Pleads Guilty to a Felony. Christopher D. Finney was charged after federal investigators found images of him during a search of a “militia” group chat, prosecutors said.
• 2 Months After Hush-Money Conviction, Trump Tried to Silence Daniels Again. Donald J. Trump was convicted in May of covering up a hush-money deal with Stormy Daniels. Just two months later, his lawyer offered another deal for her silence.
• Judge Changes Mind 27 Years After Verdict, Freeing Brooklyn Man. Judge Frederic Block said his ideas about punishment had evolved since he sentenced Walter Johnson to five life terms in 1997. At age 90, he decided to take action.
• Trump Predicts Adams Will Beat Charges and ‘Win’ Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, and Donald J. Trump, the Republican former president, are strange bedfellows as both face legal challenges.
• A New Venue Celebrates the Sound of the Bronx. The Bronx Music Hall is the first new independent music venue in the borough in more than 50 years.
• A ‘Bizarre Kumbaya’ For a Baseball Rivalry That Has Been Bitter. Bitter rivals are suddenly paying each other compliments, at least until there’s a Subway Series, if that happens. “It’s weird,” said the longtime Yankees announcer.
• Left Out of Trump’s New York Myth: Reliance on Tax Breaks. In the new biopic “The Apprentice,” much is made of Trump’s tutelage under the venal fixer Roy Cohn. But the film shrewdly locates the secret of his success: tax abatements.
• Shelters in City Called Plagued By Self-Interest. An extensive review by New York City’s Department of Investigation identified hundreds of issues, including financial mismanagement, nepotism and conflicts of interest.
• Jan. 6 Rioter Who Sprayed Wasp Killer Pleads Guilty. Peter Moloney, who owned funeral homes on Long Island, struck a photojournalist and another man and pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers.
• Port Authority Launches a Plan to Transform Newark Airport ‘From Worst to Best’ The plan, announced Thursday by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, includes replacing the rickety AirTrain network and the airport’s dilapidated Terminal B.
• Owners of Weekend Homes Could Turn New York’s Swing Districts Blue. A group is pushing thousands of New Yorkers to vote from weekend homes in swing districts. Its pitch: “Your second home could determine the next speaker.”
• Ulysses S. Grant Finally Gets That Promotion. The Civil War general was elevated to general of the armies of the United States, a title his admirers had long sought.
• Fifth Avenue Is Targeted For Redesign. New York City officials and business leaders plan to expand sidewalks, add seating areas and trees and remove two car lanes to make the renowned avenue more pedestrian friendly.
• Scaring Halloween Trick-or-Treaters Is Free. But This Pumpkin? $13.50. Americans spend billions on Halloween annually. But with every modestly priced pumpkin come behind-the-scenes costs that add up for the farms producing them, like seeds, fertilizer, irrigation and labor.
• Police Officer and Teacher Accused of Running Brothels. A Suffolk County police officer and a high school teacher are among four people accused of operating brothels, prosecutors said.
• New York City Marathon To Crack Down on Cyclists. Last year, race officials say, a cyclist hit a pedestrian on the early-morning ride. This year, those attempting to ride the route will be removed.
• As Problems Multiply, The Legal Defense Fund For Adams Hits Empty. Mayor Eric Adams has spent nearly all of the $1.8 million in donations to his legal defense fund, and the pace of contributions has nearly stopped.
• Prison for Man Whose Fentanyl Killed Child. Felix Herrera Garcia stepped over the boy’s body before fleeing the Bronx day care center, prosecutors said. The same kitchen utensils used for snacks were used to package drugs, they said.
• An Advocate for Domestic Workers Wins the Just Brooklyn Prize. Christine Yvette Lewis is a coordinator for Domestic Workers United, a coalition that campaigns for labor rights for household employees.
• Casting Shadows on a Garden. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden and its supporters are fighting a proposal to build a 14-story apartment building that would cast shadows on the garden.
• Adams Chooses Ex-Prosecutor to Replace City Hall Official Who Resigned. Chauncey Parker will replace Philip B. Banks III, who last week resigned from his role as the deputy mayor for public safety.
• Donations To Adams Plummet After Charges. Donations to the New York City mayor’s re-election campaign ceased after a five-count federal corruption indictment against him was unsealed last month.

New York Today

• At the Algonquin, a Reading Pays Homage to the Famous Round Table. At the hotel where literary celebrities gathered decades ago, tarot cards featuring Broadway stars will be unveiled.

Business

• Abercrombie Sees Arrest Of a C.E.O. Mr. Jeffries and two others were arrested in connection with a federal sex-trafficking and interstate prostitution investigation.
• Jamie Dimon Privately Supports Kamala Harris. He Just Won’t Say So. JPMorgan’s chief executive has told associates of his support for the vice president, and his dislike of Donald Trump. But fearful of blowback, he won’t say it publicly.
• Trump Media’s Soaring Share Price Masks Internal Strife. Employees have complained to the board about hiring and management practices at the parent company of Truth Social, which serves as the main online megaphone for former President Donald Trump.
• ‘No Smoking’ Signs on Planes Can Now Stay On Forever. The Federal Aviation Administration did away with a rule that had required an off switch for the sign even though smoking on U.S. flights ended years ago.
• The Quest to Save the ‘King’ of Japanese Rice From Rising Temperatures. Scientists in Japan are mining DNA to try to make the country’s famous Koshihikari rice resistant to heat, after a broiling summer ravaged the crop.
• In a Malaysian Pop-Up City, Echoes of China’s Housing Crash. Forest City was an audacious $100 billion project by a top Chinese developer. Today, the project is a fraction of what had been planned and the developer is broke.
• Disney Says It Will Hire a New C.E.O. in ‘Early 2026’ In a board shake-up, James Gorman, a director in charge of planning for a successor to the chief executive, Robert A. Iger, will become chairman on Jan. 2, 2025.
• Why Chinese Are Rushing Into a ‘Casino’ Stock Market. Steps to bolster the economy have set off a stock buying frenzy. Our columnist spoke to Chinese investors about why they are jumping in knowing the risks.
• Watch Parties, Clinics and Guinness: How the N.F.L. Builds a Fan Base in Ireland. The league is trying to ensure that sponsors, media partners and enthusiasm are in place before committing to playing a game in the country.
• Hundreds of Frozen Waffle Products Are Recalled Over Listeria Risk. Some products were sold under the brands of major retailers like Kroger, Price Chopper and Walmart. No illnesses so far have been linked to the waffles.
• Boeing Union Plans Vote That Could End Its Strike. The deal reached by the machinists union, which represents more than 33,000 workers, would cumulatively raise wages by nearly 40 percent over four years, according to details shared by the union.
• How Halloween Retail Became Its Own Monster. Americans once made their own costumes and candy. Now, the holiday has rapidly commercialized, transforming into an economic juggernaut.
• Powerful Firms Driving Out Local Pharmacies. The biggest pharmacy benefit managers are profiting by systematically underpaying independent drugstores, creating “pharmacy deserts” across the country.
• Veterans Dept. Investigating Acadia Healthcare for Insurance Fraud. Several federal agencies are investigating whether the large chain of psychiatric hospitals held patients without medical justification.
• CVS Replaces Its C.E.O. Amid Struggle to Grow. Shares of the health care conglomerate dropped after the sudden departure of Karen Lynch and a downbeat update on the state of the company’s finances.
• Self-Driving Investigated By Agency. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it was looking into what Elon Musk’s electric car company called the full self-driving system.
• Money Market Funds Retain Their Appeal. Even with further Fed rate cuts likely, money market funds are a good alternative for stashing cash, and investors are still flocking to them, our columnist says.
• ‘Health Halo’ The term refers to the perception that a food product is generally good for us based on a single claim, casting subliminal power over our diets and dollars.
• Slow Growth Of Economy In China Is Lingering . New data shows the challenges facing Chinese policymakers trying to stimulate an economy marked by falling prices, weak consumer spending and a housing market crash.
• Jumping Into the Deep End, With 12 Minutes to Sink or Swim. The show which premiered in the U.S. in 2009, has broadcast the stress of the Great Recession, the allure of Silicon Valley, the upheaval of the Covid pandemic and now, whatever this economy is.
• Spending Stays Hot, Signaling Strong Growth. A new report showing a rise in retail sales in September indicates that consumer spending, a key engine of economic growth, remains robust.
• Charged Up Over Electric Cars. Mary Barra, G.M.’s chief executive, said that the company had fixed battery-manufacturing problems and that its electric vehicles would soon be profitable.
• Slow Growth Prompts Bank To Cut Rates In Eurozone. Policymakers who set interest rates for the 20 countries that use the euro have lowered rates in back-to-back meetings for the first time since 2011.
• Virtual Workers Take the Money For a New Life. Researchers found that when remote workers were paid to move to Tulsa, Okla., everyone came out ahead.
• Despite Economy and Election, Holiday Sales Look Healthy. Despite shoppers’ election-year concerns and worries about the economy, retail executives predict sales to increase as much as 3.5 percent over last year’s holiday season.

DealBook

• HSBC Overhauls Bank, Seeking to Balance China and the West. The restructuring of Europe’s largest lender comes as it looks to cut costs and navigate a diplomatic minefield across its sprawling operations.
• The Era of Outsized Market Rallies Could Be Over. The S&P 500’s huge gains over the past two years won’t be duplicated some analysts say, as a series of economic challenges piles up.
• Elon Musk’s $1 Million Giveaways Test the Bounds of Election Law. Legal experts question the billionaire’s plan to hand out huge payments in battleground states as part of a get-out-the-vote drive.
• Executives Have Found Defending Democracy Comes With Some Risks. Even seemingly anodyne sentiments supporting fair elections have become politically charged.
• What’s at Stake in a Strained Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership. The alliance between the technology giant and the company behind OpenAI has been hugely consequential — but a disruption could shake up the A.I. race.
• Is the Trump Trade Back? Market observers see signs that investors increasingly believe Donald Trump will win the election, but there may be alternate explanations for a shift in sentiment.
• Shares of Louis Vuitton Owner Drop on Anxiety About Chinese Shoppers. Weak sales in China at LVMH, the owner of Dior, Tiffany and more, sent a shudder through the luxury sector.
• Trump and Harris Push Economic Plans to Woo Holdouts. The candidates provided more detail on how they would bolster the economy, with ideas ranging from tariffs to more assistance for Black entrepreneurs.

Economy

• I.M.F. Says Inflation Fight Is Largely Over but Warns of New Threats. The International Monetary Fund said protectionism and new trade wars could weigh on growth.
• Official Says Labor Strength Shouldn’t End Fed Rate Cuts. Mary C. Daly, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, said that the central bank shouldn’t act “out of fear.”

Energy & Environment

• Arkansas May Have Vast Lithium Reserves, Researchers Say. Federal and state researchers said there might be five million to 19 million tons of lithium, more than enough to meet the world’s demand for the battery ingredient.
• Tech Firms Are Turning To Reactors. Large technology companies are investing billions of dollars in nuclear energy as an emissions-free source of electricity for artificial intelligence and other businesses.

Media

• The Election Has Taken Over TikTok. Here’s What It Looks Like. Tens of thousands of videos are posted to TikTok each week about the presidential election, including dances set to songs made from speech snippets, comedic impersonations, pranks and even news commentary.
• Olivia Nuzzi and New York Magazine Part Ways. Ms. Nuzzi, a political writer for the magazine, had been on leave since she disclosed a personal relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last month.
• How Trump’s Stop at McDonald’s Was Covered. Former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign event at a McDonalds in Pennsylvania was described by right-leaning outlets as a brilliant move. Left-leaning publications called it weird.
• ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Producers Sue Elon Musk Over ‘Robotaxi’ Imagery. Alcon Entertainment, the Hollywood company behind “Blade Runner 2049,” said it had denied a request to use images from the movie but that Mr. Musk did so anyway.
• Meet the Florida Billionaire Who Wants to Be a Newspaper Baron. David Hoffmann has already bought 5 percent of one of America’s largest newspaper companies. Now, he wants to control the whole thing.
• Trump Says He Will Strip TV Licenses. Is It Possible? Presidents are not all-powerful, but, if elected, Donald Trump would have some influence with the federal regulators who oversee major television networks.
• Netflix Adds 5 Million to Subscriber Headcount. The additions helped lift revenue to $9.8 billion during the period, a 15 percent increase from the same period last year.
• Amazon Enters News With Live Election Coverage From Brian Williams. The tech giant has been increasing live programming on its streaming service, but this will be its first test with news.
• Newest Universal Park Aims to Stake a Claim As Its Own Destination. Initial ticket packages for the new area of Universal Orlando Resort, the first new Florida theme park in a generation, will cost as much as $521.
• Harris Came for a Fox News Interview but Got a Debate With Baier Instead. The vice president’s sit-down with Bret Baier was her most contentious meeting with a journalist since becoming the Democratic nominee.
• TMZ Deletes Photograph Said to Show Singer’s Body. After a torrent of criticism, TMZ removed the image of a body without explanation.
• How Both Sides Covered Musical Trump Town Hall. When former President Donald J. Trump played D.J. at a campaign event on Monday, both liberal and conservative media outlets described it as “surreal.”
• Post C.E.O. To Prioritize Deal-Making. Will Lewis has said he has a mandate from the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, to grow the business, including through acquisitions.

Your Money

• Costs Rising For Insuring Family Car. Have several children, a driveway full of cars and a few moving violations? Good luck to you. There are some ways to lessen the financial pain.
• Homeowners Tap Into Rising Home Equity. Balances on home equity lines of credit have risen along with home equity loans. Popular reasons for borrowing include home renovations and repairs and debt consolidation.

Technology

• Microsoft and OpenAI ‘Bromance’ Begins to Fray. The “best bromance in tech” has had a reality check as OpenAI has tried to change its deal with Microsoft and the software maker has tried to hedge its bet on the start-up.
• Election Deniers Trust This Man When He Says Trump Will Win. Seth Keshel has become a darling among election deniers by factoring widespread voter fraud — the existence of which has been widely debunked — into his election predictions.

Personal Tech

• Is the Sleep-Tracking Ring on Your Finger Worth the Splurge? The $350 Oura Ring 4 looks sleek and cool, and it may be useful for data-hungry health enthusiasts. But it failed this sleep-deprived parent.

Sports

• 2 Triathletes Dead at World Championships, Organizers Say. One athlete was from Mexico, and the other was from Britain. The circumstances around their deaths at an event were not immediately clear.
• Smartphone In Bathroom Brings Ouster Of Chess Star. Kirill Shevchenko, a grandmaster who represents Romania, has been accused of getting assistance from a computer in the middle of games.
• Foam Fingers? Try Cross-Stitch In Liberty Green. As their favorite team in the W.N.B.A. experiences a surge in popularity, fans are expressing their love creatively.

Baseball

• After 43 Years, Yankees and Dodgers Resume Their World Series Rivalry. Even as the sport and the country have changed, the rivalry has produced some of baseball’s most memorable moments.

Obituaries

• Ward Christensen, Early Visionary of Social Media, Dies at 78. Housebound during a 1978 blizzard, he and a friend began devising the first computer bulletin board, a forerunner of online services like Reddit, TikTok and Facebook.
• Bruce Ames, 95, Dies; Biochemist Discovered Test for Toxic Chemicals. The Ames Test offered a fast and inexpensive way to identify carcinogens, leading to the banning of chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects.
• Andrew V. Schally, 97, Dies; Scientist Shared Nobel Glory With Rival. His two-decade quest to find elusive brain hormones became a race against Roger Guillemin, a onetime colleague and an eventual fellow prizewinner.
• Sally Butler, Nun Who Blew the Whistle on Sex Abuse, Dies at 93. In the 1960s, she worked with priests to serve residents of housing projects in Brooklyn. Decades later, she learned that those priests had been abusing young boys.
• Michael Valentine, 74, Who Helped Drivers Stay Under the Radar, Dies. An engineer who loved to drive fast, he helped build an industry-altering device that made its debut after the national speed limit of 55 m.p.h. became law.
• Sammy Basso, 28, a Bit of a Prankster And an Advocate for Progeria Research. One of about 150 people known to have a rare condition that causes rapid aging, he sought to raise awareness and participated in the search for a cure.
• Bob Yerkes, 92, Bruised but Durable Hollywood Stuntman. A body double to the stars, he performed sometimes bone-breaking feats in movies like “Return of the Jedi” and “Back to the Future.” And he was still at it in his 80s.
• Arie Kopelman, Driving Force in Expanding Chanel Inc., Dies at 86. Arriving at the luxury house two years after Karl Lagerfeld, he helped guide a boom in both products and revenues as president of the company’s American arm, Chanel Inc.
• Mitzi Gaynor, Bubbly Leading Lady of Movie Musicals, Dies at 93. She was best known for starring in the 1958 screen version of “South Pacific.” But her Hollywood career was brief, and she soon shifted her focus to Las Vegas and TV.
• Thomas J. Donohue, a Formidable Lobbyist for Business, Dies at 86. Under his 24-year leadership, the lobbying group developed enormous clout in Washington, but he broke with the Trump administration over immigration, tariffs and the 2020 election.
• Paul Lowe, 60, Award-Winning Photojournalist. He was fatally stabbed outside Los Angeles, and his 19-year-old son was arrested. Mr. Lowe had earned acclaim for documenting the siege of Sarajevo and other conflicts.

Dance

• Marvin Preston IV, 80, Who Found a Way to Save A Famed Dance Company. An expert at rescuing distressed companies, he took over the struggling organization in 2000, leading it through a painful restructuring and a lengthy legal battle.

Media

• Ralph Jennings, 86, Dies; Built Up Fordham’s Public Radio Station. He transformed WFUV from “a sandbox” into a professional operation, increasing its listenership nearly tenfold.
• Nicholas Daniloff, 89, Reporter Accused of Being a Soviet Spy, Dies. A veteran foreign correspondent during the Cold War, he was held on trumped-up espionage charges. He credited President Ronald Reagan with fighting for his release.

Middle East

• Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s Cunning and Cold-Blooded Leader, Is Dead. Mr. Sinwar climbed the ranks of the Palestinian militant group to plot the deadliest attack on Israel in its history.

Music

• Libby Titus, 77, Dies; Singer and Songwriter With a Popular Ballad. Her “Love Has No Pride” was widely recorded, and she had high-profile relationships with Levon Helm and Donald Fagen. But she was uneasy with life in the spotlight.
• Adam Abeshouse, Prolific Producer of Classical Music, Dies at 63. A trained violinist, he found his calling in the studio control room. He also started a foundation to help fund recordings that lack major-label support.
• Leif Segerstam, Unorthodox Conductor and Composer, Dies at 80. He mystified his Finnish countrymen with an unstoppable flow of compositions. He was also, one journalist said, “an alarming person to interview.”

Politics

• Richard V. Secord, 92, Middleman in Iran-Contra Scandal, Is Dead. A war hero and a former Air Force general, he denied wrongdoing for his role in the Reagan-era shipment of arms to Iran to support Nicaraguan rebels.
• Megan Marshack, Who Witnessed Rockefeller’s Death, Dies at 70. She was at the center of rumors about the former vice president’s last moments, but she remained silent about their association until she wrote her own obituary.

Television

• Toni Vaz, Stuntwoman and Founder of N.A.A.C.P. Image Awards, Dies at 101. She created a program to honor Black artistic success in the 1960s. But she spent decades trying to get its organizers to recognize her role.

Briefing

• America’s Flooding Problem. We explain how the country is responding in three different ways to disasters.
• Tuesday Briefing. Two weeks to the U.S. election.
• Harris Is Searching for Precious Swing Voters. Also, the first sickle cell gene therapy patient left the hospital. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.
• Tuesday Briefing: Two Weeks Until Election Day. Plus, Aleksei Navalny’s memoir.
• Is Donald Trump an Isolationist? We explore the stakes of another Trump presidency in terms of foreign policy.
• Monday Briefing. Israel escalates its attacks in Lebanon.
• Monday Briefing: Israel Escalates War Against Hezbollah. Plus, the French town shaken by a rape trial.
• How Elections Affect Our Shopping. We explore why consumers tend to get skittish about major purchases ahead of a general election.
• Novelty Acts. We’re so accustomed to researching, planning and curating every millisecond of our lives that we rarely stop to consider the mental cost.
• Biden Renewed Efforts to Reach a Cease-Fire in Gaza. Also, a power outage plunged all of Cuba into darkness. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
• The Death of Hamas’s Leader. Yahya Sinwar is dead. Could this be a turning point?
• The New York Times News Quiz, Oct. 18, 2024. Did you follow the news this week? Take our quiz to see how well you stack up with other Times readers.
• Friday Briefing. The leader of Hamas is dead.
• The Leader of Hamas Is Dead. Also, Biden traveled to Germany as the U.S. wrestles with military aid. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
• Friday Briefing: The Leader of Hamas is Dead. Plus, an interview with Hugh Grant.
• The Power of Government Policies. The U.S. has the capacity to address its biggest problems. Whether it does is a different matter.
• Thursday Briefing. A heated interview with Fox News.
• Trump Faced Tough Questions From Hispanic Voters. Also, the Supreme Court suggested that U.S. water regulations are too vague. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
• Thursday Briefing: Trump Threatens ‘the Enemy From Within’ Plus, the women of the world’s gnarliest mountain-bike competition.
• A Top University Bet on D.E.I. What Went Wrong? We cover the impact of college diversity programs.
• Wednesday Briefing. A warning from the U.S. to Israel.
• Harris Is Trying to Retain Black Voters’ Support. Also, the U.S. gave Israel an ultimatum on Gaza aid. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
• Wednesday Briefing: U.S. Warns it May Cut Israel’s Military Aid. Plus, an investigation into China’s panda breeding program.

Podcasts

• Early Voting Grows Among Republicans, and a Lithium Trove in Arkansas. Plus, the booming Halloween economy.
• A Final Hunt for Undecided Voters, and Israel Escalates Its War in Lebanon. Plus, New York Liberty are W.N.B.A. champions.
• This Is the Case of Henry Dee. Listening in on one case before a parole board.
• ‘The Interview’: Mia Khalifa. Mia Khalifa became infamous online for an adult film she made in her early 20s. She found she couldn’t go back to being anonymous, so she joined OnlyFans and became an influencer on TikTok, X and Instagram, using her story as a cautionary tale.
• How a Blouse, a Bandage or a Handshake Might Sway a Voter. Our critics decode the political subtexts that matter in 2024 — and beyond.
• The Death of Yahya Sinwar, and Execution Halted in Shaken Baby Case. Plus, closing time for Kmart.
• Sophie’s Final Album. The visionary producer died in 2021. Her collaborators finished what she left behind.
• Powerful A.I. By 2026? + Uber’s C.E.O. on the Robotaxi Future + Casey’s TikTok Test. “Check your calendar, Kevin, that is in 14 months.”
• Harris’s Contentious Fox Interview, and Italy Expands Surrogacy Ban. Plus, One Direction’s Liam Payne dies at 31.
• The Trump Plan to Flip Georgia Back. Why the Trump team is confident 2024 will not be a repeat of 2020.
• Amelia Dimoldenberg Never Waits to Text, Even on the Red Carpet. The host of the viral video series “Chicken Shop Date” explains why she always texts someone she’s interested in right away.
• Early Votes Pour In, and a U.S. Warning to Israel Over Gaza. Plus, the new hot item on wedding registries.
• Amelia Dimoldenberg Can Teach You How to Flirt. The YouTube host who has perfected the art of charming celebrities on her popular show, “Chicken Shop Date,” thinks dating should be way more fun.
• Amelia Dimoldenberg Never Waits to Text, Even on the Oscars Red Carpet. Amelia Dimoldeberg, the host of the viral video series “Chicken Shop Date,” sits down with Anna Martin, the host of The New York Times’s podcast “Modern Love,” to explain why she always texts someone she’s interested in right away.

The Daily

• As Marijuana’s Popularity Grows, So Do Its Harms. More Americans are consuming more potent forms of the drug more often. And some of the heaviest users are experiencing unexpected health effects.
• What Happens in Vegas Could Decide the Election. Exploring the impact of the housing crisis in Nevada, a swing state the Democrats have counted on for nearly two decades.
• The Sunday Read: ‘An Acerbic Young Writer Takes Aim at the Identity Era’ Tony Tulathimutte is a master comedian whose original and highly disturbing new book skewers liberal pieties.
• Israel Kills The Leader of Hamas. Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. What does that mean for cease-fire talks?
• 19 Days to Go: Early Voting, Dance Parties and Third Parties. This week on the campaign trail, Donald Trump displayed bizarre town hall behavior, Kamala Harris pursued a strategy aimed at Black men, and the first wave of early voting offered a look at the energy of the electorate. Michael Barbaro sits down w...
• The Race That Could Tip Control of the Senate. Montana’s three-term Democratic senator, Jon Tester, is facing a tough race with increasingly high stakes.

Science

• Brazilian Fossil Hints at Older Origin for All Dinosaurs. The discovery may push back the emergence of the reptiles that once ruled the Earth, and clarify how dinosaurs like the Triceratops and Stegosaurus emerged.
• Reinventing Concrete, the Ancient Roman Way. By learning the secrets of 2,000-year-old cement, researchers are trying to devise greener, more durable modern options.
• Look Up Toward Orion’s Belt For a Fiery Meteor Shower. This event is linked to Halley’s comet, and occurs as another comet, Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, remains visible. But a nearly full moon could interfere with some views.
• How Early Humans Evolved to Eat Starch. Two new studies found that ancient human ancestors carried a surprising diversity of genes for amylase, an enzyme that breaks down starch.
• These Tiny Worms Account for at Least 4 Nobel Prizes. A staple in laboratories worldwide, C. elegans is “an experimental dream,” said one scientist.
• Sperm Can’t Unlock an Egg Without This Ancient Molecular Key. Using Google’s AlphaFold, researchers identified the bundle of three sperm proteins that seem to make sexual reproduction possible.
• Parachutes Made of Mucus Change How Some Scientists See the Ocean. With a new kind of microscope, researchers got a different view of how marine snow falls to the seafloor.
• Columbia Pulls 5 More Research Articles By Its Cancer Chief Over Dubious Data. Dr. Sam Yoon and a collaborator duplicated images across their research studies over many years. The collaborator has left Columbia.
• Bumblebee Queens Prefer to Live in a Toxic Home. In an elaborate experiment, scientists discovered that the insects chose to hibernate in soil full of pesticides and other poisons.
• A Distant Planet May Host a Moon That’s Spewing a Volcanic Cloud. Astronomers have yet to confirm the existence of exomoons, but a molecular signal around a far away star offers some of the best evidence yet.

Climate

• Russia’s Warming Arctic Is a Climate Threat. War Has Shut Scientists Out of It. Climate science has been stymied as Russia continues its war in Ukraine. The stalled work threatens to leave the West without a clear picture of how fast the Earth is heating up.
• On the Agenda in Colombia: Protecting Nature. Delegates from around the world are meeting in Colombia in what is expected to be the biggest U.N. biodiversity conference in history.
• Scientists Are Mapping Landslide Risk in Alaska. Some Homeowners Don’t Want to Know. Deadly landslides are increasing around the world. But in parts of Alaska, maps of the hazards remain controversial.
• How can I reduce scary Halloween waste? We’ve got tips to make the holiday more sustainable, and maybe more fun, too.
• E.P.A. Ruling May Be Sign Of Pivot on Supreme Court. The Supreme Court’s decision to not temporarily block an E.P.A. rule this week signals ‘rising influence’ of Justice Barrett, one analyst said.
• Much of the Emerald Isle Is an Ecological Desert. He’s Trying to Change That. Eoghan Daltun rewilded his land in West Cork and wants more of Ireland to do the same.
• How Times Readers Made the Switch to Heat Pumps. Hundreds of Times readers wrote to us and shared their experiences of installing heat pumps, including the good, the bad and the daunting.
• Steep Jump Found in Global Carbon Emissions From Forest Fires. Carbon emissions from forest fires increased more than 60 percent globally over the past two decades, according to a new study.
• Staple Crops Endangered As Water Runs Short. Food production is concentrated in too few countries, many of which face water shortages, the researchers said.
• Dolphin Study Detected Plastics in Their Breath. Researchers studying bottlenose dolphins found polyester and other plastics in every animal they tested.
• Seeing New Beauty in a Beloved Maple’s Demise. A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form.
• Power-Hungry World Makes Climate Goals Harder to Reach. A surge in power use worldwide could make it harder for nations to slash emissions and keep global warming in check.
• Climate-Resistant Community Passed Two Hurricane Tests. On the west coast of Florida, a town built to weather hurricanes hosted more than 2,000 people during Hurricane Milton. Could communities like this help shape Florida’s future?
• The Flood-Protection Rule That Trump Rolled Back. A Trump-era rollback of flood-protection rules has left critical infrastructure projects at higher risk, experts say.

The Upshot

• Abortions Have Increased, Even for Women in States With Near-Total Bans. A new analysis shows how many women in states with bans are seeking procedures or pills from out-of-state providers.
• Two Theories for Why the Polls Failed in 2020, and What It Means for 2024. To make polling better, you have to figure out what went wrong in the first place.
• State of the Race: A Slight Shift Toward Trump but Still No Clear Favorite. The polls are not precise enough for a 0.2-point edge to convey meaningful information.
• Why Does This Building by the Subway Need 193 Parking Spots? (Yes, Exactly 193.). New York and cities across the country reconsider decades-old parking rules.
• Harris Has Championed Family Policies. Now Trump Likes Them, Too. It’s unclear whether the longtime Democratic goals are a priority for Donald Trump. Yet the fact that he’s talking about them at all is part of a recent shift on the right.
• Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, October 19, 2024. Can you sort 8 historical events?
• The Evidence for a Big Youth Gender Gap and a Right Turn for Young Men. Young men are much more Republican than young women, the best data suggests, and may wind up backing Donald Trump.

Opinion

• What Another Year of Hoping for the Mets Gave to Me. The Mets have always had some good players. This time, they have a good organization.
• Exploring the Failures in the Mideast. Readers respond to a guest essay by Peter Beinart. Also: Donald Trump’s lewd comments at a rally; lessons from baseball; Queen Esther’s legacy.
• Attention Prosecutors: Elon Musk Is Breaking Federal Voting Law. You can’t pay people to register to vote.
• The Lies Piling Up in Philadelphia Mailboxes. I took a look at some of the mail showing up in largely Black neighborhoods in southwest Philadelphia.
• Trump’s Behavior at the Al Smith Dinner. Readers respond to a Maureen Dowd column and a Campaign Notebook. Also: The need to vote; the education crisis; dead trees; Juan Soto’s magic.
• The Deeply Personal Price Women Must Pay for Abortion Bans. Exceptions to save a mother’s life don’t matter when doctors fear performing the procedure.
• Why Trump’s Chances Are Better Than They Look. For many undecided voters, the inflation issue isn’t going away.
• Abortion as an Issue in the Election. Readers respond to a column by David French. Also: Veterans as poll workers; an immigrant’s story; political messages.
• American Business Can’t Risk Another Trump Term. Donald Trump is not running as a champion of business. He is running as a tribune of populist grievance.
• The Marijuana Landscape. Readers respond to a front-page article about the growing use of marijuana after legalization.
• These Jobs Have Been an Economic Boon but a Political Bust. Warehouses in Lehigh Valley, Pa. have been an economic boon for blue collar workers. But they have been a political bust.
• In a Swing County, Hidden Signs of Harris Support. A country road is crowded with Trump signs. But Harris supporters exist, quietly.
• There Is Overwhelming Proof That Texas Should Not Kill Robert Roberson. A murder conviction for shaken-baby syndrome may be groundless, and an execution should be stopped.
• After Sinwar: What Is the Future of Gaza? Responses to the killing of the Hamas leader. Also: Guarding against authoritarianism; medical dramas; expressing sympathy to mourners; October light.
• For Trump, the ‘Enemies Within’ Are the Pelosis. He continues to fantasize about using the military to go after them.
• Has Eric Trump Ever Held a ‘Real’ Job? The week in bad public behavior and political nonsense.
• Forget Swing States. It’s These 21 Microcommunities That Could Decide the Election. A look at the political microcommunities that could decide the 2024 presidential election.
• Trump Picked the Wrong Moment to Complain About a Language Barrier. But his description of the problems he sees with Haitian immigrants helps explain his monochrome vision of American life.
• The Exploitation of Liam Payne. The band he helped build will surely be remembered for the way its devoted audience became the architects of contemporary fandom.
• Advice on a Speech That Harris Could Give. Responses to a column by Bret Stephens. Also: Donald Trump and the “enemy from within”; medicine for Gaza; A.I. and human voices; a new birth certificate.
• States Are Finally Giving Released Prisoners a Fundamental Right. But there are still too many millions who lack the right to vote.
• This Is What It Takes to Get an Abortion in America. In text messages, videos, voice memos and pictures, we hear from the people at the frontlines of abortion access about how their worlds have changed.
• On Fox News, Harris Proves She’s Tough. It was a strong contrast to her interview-dodging opponent.
• Trump’s Rallies Are a World Unto Themselves. But what is it about them that people remember?
• Trump Preaches to His Women’s Choir. Remaining persuadable voters are unlikely to be swayed by this late-breaking swerve toward the center.
• Killing and Suffering of Children in Gaza. Readers respond to a guest essay on what health workers found in Gaza. Also: A plea for Haiti; Donald Trump vs. the experts; many ways to be a man.
• Overseas Americans Could Swing the Election. They could make a difference in close states, which is why Trump just proposed giving them a tax cut.
• These 9 Women Were Solidly With Trump. Here’s What Has Changed. The participants discuss how Kamala Harris’s entry into the race changed — or didn’t change — their thinking about the election.
• Even Charlamagne Can’t Push Harris Off Message. It may not be great radio, but Harris made a solid case for why she’d be better for Black America.
• Is Biden Really Ready to Stand Up for Gaza’s Children? His weakness has made America complicit in humanitarian tragedy.
• Why Trump’s Weird Dance Party Is Deeply Alarming. There have been too many recent times he has wandered away from his thoughts.

Op-Ed

• Two Weeks to Go, but Only One Way to Stay Calm. The presidential race is close. For now, we have to live with that.
• You’re Being Lied To About Voter Fraud. Here’s the Truth. Widespread cheating at the polls is a myth. So what are election deniers really after?
• What’s Wrong With Donald Trump? I think there’s an answer. But it’s not age — or, at least, it’s not just age.
• What Daniel Penny’s Trial May Really Tell Us. Madness in public life leads to a clash of two liberal principles: the sovereignty of individuals and the collective right to public order.
• A Second Trump Administration Would Be a Carnival of Corruption and Greed. If we know anything about what life would be like if Trump wins again, we know this bottomless grifting would continue.
• Sorry, Trump. The Issue of Abortion Is Not Going Away. It resists all attempts at moderation and compromise.
• How to Bring People Back to New York City. The essential ingredient of urban living — the quality of life — has tanked in the city.
• Trump on the Civil War, in His Own Words. It’s hard to compromise with those who consider any criticism a threat.
• The Mets Gave My Son With Autism a Gift. Now Is a Good Time to Say Thank You. This team had a lot going for it, in all the ways that matter.
• People Keep Making These Six Mistakes About Inflation. Thanks to human nature, we misunderstand the pain, and sometimes the purpose, of rising prices.
• Why the Oil and Gas Industry Is So Afraid of Kamala Harris. The Democratic candidate’s agenda takes climate change seriously.
• The Enduring Symbolism of McDonald’s. McDonald’s tells a story about what both candidates think is possible for working people.
• Sorry, Trump: ‘There Is No American Race or Blood That Outsiders Can Pollute’ Identity-first arguments are flawed. The former president forced me to make one.
• Bad News: We’ve Lost Control of Our Social Media Feeds. Good News: Courts Are Noticing. A case involving TikTok may have opened the door to holding platforms liable for the damage they cause.
• Trump’s Bro Whispering Could Cost Democrats Too Many Young Men. Trump’s play for Generation Z men could peel enough away from the Democratic Party to transform the country’s electoral math for years to come.
• Kamala Harris Has an Unexpected Ally. If Trump wins, we’re going to be saddled with an isolationist and nativist conservative movement for generations to come.
• How Kamala Harris Should Put America First — for Real. As president, she can create a foreign policy fit for the 21st century.
• Who’s Afraid of William Shakespeare? We will always need the works of the Bard, especially in moments of conflict and unrest.
• I Don’t Want to Live in a Monoculture. Few things can change your perspective for the better more than being attacked from both sides of America’s culture war.
• College Officials Must Condemn On-Campus Support for Hamas Violence. Would school administrators be silent if there was a Ku Klux Klan gathering on their campus celebrating white supremacist violence?
• This Hollywood Horror Film Hit Close to Home. I’ve seen the ways that show business can warp a young woman’s self-perception. I’ve even fallen prey to some of them.
• There Is No Leadership Without Risk. Those in positions of leadership fear they will say the wrong thing, or say what they believe to be the right thing in the wrong way.
• One Thing About Trump I Am Not Worried About. This time around, it would be much harder for Trump to try to steal the election.
• There Is No Safe Way to Turn Teenagers Into Megastars. How many more boy band tragedies do we need to see before we connect the dots?
• Trump’s Charity Toward None. The Catholic Church’s latest scandal: fawning over Donald.
• Are We Ready for a Religious Revival? The world seems primed for religious arguments in the same way it was primed for new atheists 20 years ago.
• Sinwar’s Death Alone Won’t Secure the Peace. Even with Sinwar gone, I’m doubtful Hamas will fold or that Israel will easily embrace Biden’s ideas for a peace deal.
• The Oliver Sacks I Knew and Loved Once Saw Himself as a Failure. I was Oliver’s partner for the last six years of his life. What I learned from reading a forthcoming volume of his letters surprised even me.
• When Opportunity Leaves, the Government Has Two Choices. Like people, places can fall on hard times. Do they also deserve help?
• Sinwar’s Death Is a Tricky Opportunity. A ceasefire is unlikely, but Israelis and Palestinians have new reasons for hope.
• The Hidden Politics of Disorder. The crime researcher Charles Fain Lehman discusses why people feel unsafe, even as violent crime rates have dropped.
• These Voters Aren’t Exactly Undecided. They’re Cringing. Many people I spoke to seemed reluctant to admit — even, perhaps, to themselves — that they were really going to vote for that person.
• This Is No Ordinary Election. This is no ordinary election, and we cannot act like it is.
• A Pollster Helps Us Manage Our Election Anxiety. It’s been a tumultuous campaign. Kristen Soltis Anderson helps us find stability in the polls.
• The Breakthrough Drug to Conquer Addiction: Ozempic? Early data suggests GLP-1 drugs, renowned for their ability to assist in weight loss, may have a powerful effect on treating addiction.
• Trump’s Radical Tariff Proposal Could Wreck Our Economy. There’s no upside to the former president’s pet economic plan.
• Yahya Sinwar’s Death Can End This War. Another opening for the U.S. to push for a cease-fire.
• Why Isn’t Harris Running Away With This? After huge shifts in the electorate, it’s baffling that the two parties are still almost exactly evenly matched.
• A Way to Build Peace From Sinwar’s Death. Will Israel take steps toward a Palestinian state?
• Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Myth of Black Fragility. The debate over his recent interview entirely misses the point
• When God Gives You Mark Robinson, Make Lemonade. Josh Stein’s campaign in North Carolina is a master class in devastating campaign ads.
• Let’s Take the Republican Policy Challenge. The former president’s actual plans are no better than his tweets.
• My Patients Are Children. Dobbs Forced Me to Leave Them Behind. The cruel realities of the Supreme Court’s decision through the eyes of one doctor.
• In a Pennsylvania Swing County, I Learned The Truth About American Politics In 2024. The people in Riegelsville, Pa., expressed two shockingly different visions of what a president should be.
• It’s Always Virus Season Now. The concept of flu season is too narrow.
• Economic Storms Are Approaching. America Isn’t Ready. The combination of an aging work force, artificial intelligence and shifts in globalization will challenge America in ways not seen in decades.
• In Lebanon, We Took Pride in Our Resilience. Not Anymore. The Lebanese have held strong through many tragedies. But they are now at the end of their rope.
• For Some Black Men, the Patriarchy’s Pull Is Strong. Despite his flaws, the former president’s ideas and style appeal to some Black men.
• Hurricane Helene Eroded Our Shared Reality. Climate misinformation isn’t new. But it’s getting worse.
• Antichrists, Chain Saws and Natalism: A Very ‘M.O.O.’ Halloween Episode. The hosts share their favorite scary movies, books and television series.
• Sex, Power, Money and ‘Mr. McMahon’ How decades of sexual assault allegations were swept under the rug in professional wrestling
• After Affirmative Action, Is Campus Diversity Suspicious? There are perfectly legal explanations for why schools’ demographics might not change after the fall of affirmative action.
• What to Know in Case of an Election Crisis. We have just a short time to understand the challenges across state legislatures, Congress, executive branches and elected judges.
• Trump Has Turned It Up to 11. The former president is so dependent on racial and ethnic antagonism that without it, he would be a marginal figure.
• We Need a ‘Managed Retreat’ in Florida. The Sunshine State is losing its security and safety, but it’s avoidable.
• Grab Your Calculators. We’re Going to Jail. Our criminal justice system is nickel-and-diming people at every turn, burying them in punishing debt.
• The Progressive Politicians Who Failed San Francisco. Aaron Peskin, a little-known progressive politician, bears responsibility for some of San Francisco’s biggest problems.
• How America Can Stop a Mideast Missile War That Everyone Will Lose. A real strategy for coercive U.S. diplomacy to change Iran’s behavior.
• Harris Needs a Closing Argument. Here’s One. Trump turned us into a nation of haters. He’ll do it again if he wins next month.
• Let’s Take a Scroll Through the Home Page of 1851. The first edition of The New York Times reveals a world very foreign from ours.

Arts

• Decades of Duck Stamps. At the Bruce Museum, an exhibition of duck stamp art tells a 90-year-old story about how paintings can contribute to land preservation.
• Blending Reality With Fiction in Video Game Horror. Although it’s an expensive, arduous process, developers are experimenting with live-action footage to intensify terror.
• The Holocaust’s Grandchildren Are Speaking Now. Three generations on, filmmakers, writers and artists are making new meaning from ancestral trauma.
• Sketch Pad. Artists, collectors and art lovers gathered at the Javits Center last month for the Armory Show, where the surprises abounded.
• A Ravishing Color Palette for a Silent Adventure. The visual influences of Neva, by the studio that made Gris, include the film “Princess Mononoke.”
• At Comic Con, Emergency Tailors Keep Cosplayers in Character. Armed with glue guns, Popsicle sticks, safety pins and more, a hub of costume repairers stands at the ready to make sure all goes according to fantasy.
• 5 Things to Do This Weekend. A selection of entertainment highlights this weekend, including Sean Baker’s latest film, “Anora.”
• Draw Sports Fans to an Art Museum? That’s the Goal. Through design objects and artwork by former athletes, “Get in the Game” at SFMOMA examines the central, and often provocative, role that sports occupy in American culture.
• Gaming’s Uneven Progress Toward Diverse Female Figures. A vocal group that says women in video games are being defeminized wants to return to 1990s babes like Lara Croft.
• What’s in Our Queue? ‘Industry’ and More. I’m a national reporter, covering California. Here are five things I’ve recently enjoyed.
• Exuberant Video Game Menus Designed With da Vinci in Mind. The menus within role-playing games by Atlus, including the new Metaphor: ReFantazio, unfurl in a sensory feast of color, movement, sound and typography.

Art & Design

• Chase Hall Wrestles With ‘Hybridity’ The artist, who is frank about the issues raised by his mixed race, has a solo show opening in Los Angeles.
• Present at MoMA’s Founding. In a new publication, “Inventing the Modern,” and a companion exhibition, 14 women who shaped the institution come into definition themselves.
• A Window Into Prehistoric Life. Celebrating its 150th anniversary, the San Diego Natural History Museum has opened more of its vast paleontology exhibit to visitors.
• An Artist’s Work Gets a Place. A new permanent exhibition in a house in Pittsburgh displays the creativity and artistry of Mark Dion.
• Art From Seasons of Change. Many exhibitions around the country will showcase artists’ responses to political and social movements, and to their own histories.
• A 50-Mile Art Road Trip Celebrates the Culture in Agriculture. In Wisconsin, the Farm/Art DTour brings artists and farmers together and each get a fresh perspective.
• The Ultrarich Descend on Paris as Art Basel Comes to Town. The inaugural edition at the restored Grand Palais featured works at price levels never seen before at Paris’s fall art fair.
• An Art Adviser to the Elite Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud. Lisa Schiff acknowledges stealing millions from major collectors who trusted her to buy them fashionable art.
• Expressions Of Devotion. The glowing works from Siena, now at the Met, are revelatory for their emotional intensity and 24-karat beauty.
• The 18th Century, Revisited With an Edge. Copycat classicism is here. Literary re-enactments by the photographer Stan Douglas — and a wave of other remixers — are creating new types of art around Black history.
• Cleaned and Buffed, A Dollhouse Returns. After a two-year absence, New York’s most glamorous dollhouse returns to the Museum of the City of New York next month.
• Tracing an Architect’s Fall From Favor. His Brutalist buildings, praised during the Kennedy era, are now being demolished. A new exhibition in Manhattan looks at the limits of genius.
• The Hiding Place of Anne Frank. For the first time, the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam will replicate the cramped rooms where Frank and her family spent two years hiding to evade Nazi capture.

Dance

• When Critic vs. Choreographer Ignited a Cultural Firestorm. Thirty years ago, Bill T. Jones presented “Still/Here,” and the critic Arlene Croce responded with an explosive essay. Now the work is returning to the Brooklyn Academy.
• Subtle Movements Rooted in Dreams And Mysteries. DD Dorvillier’s solo at the Chocolate Factory evokes a dream state as it digs into the same river of dance twice.
• Amid a Shimmering Garden of Bodies. American Ballet Theater opened its fall season at Lincoln Center with premieres by Gemma Bond and Kyle Abraham in his most accomplished ballet yet.
• Dancers In Dallas Protest 9 Firings. Former artists of Dallas Black Dance Theater say they were dismissed in retaliation for forming a union. The company denies the accusation.

Music

• In the Art Biennale’s Shadow, Venice Celebrates Music, Too. It may not be as big or run as long as its visual arts sibling, but the Music Biennale includes a wealth of commissions and premieres.
• Powerful Challenge For the Musicians Who Also Sing. Artists who take up contemporary music sometimes have to sing and play at the same time. The results can be extraordinarily powerful.
• A New Roy Hargrove LP Reminds Us What the Trumpeter Left Behind. “Grande-Terre,” recorded in Guadeloupe in 1997, shows off the high-wire, from-the-gut jazz Hargrove played most nights of his life.
• Paul Di’Anno, Early Iron Maiden Frontman, Dies at 66. The English singer played with the band in its early years. He later worked with other bands and pursued a solo career.
• The Lawsuits Against Sean Combs. The music mogul, who faces federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges, has been accused in civil court of raping and drugging people. He has denied the allegations.
• Can a Synthetic Voice Be Taught to Sing Opera? “The Other Side of Silence,” a new work in development, is experimenting with giving operatic voice to a text-to-speech synthesizer.
• Chappell Roan’s Rocket-Ship Year. The pop star’s ascent has tested the boundaries of contemporary pop, and may create a template for a next generation.
• Sean Combs’s Legal Woes Are Growing. So Are His Streaming Numbers. The embattled music mogul is facing federal sex trafficking charges and a slew of lawsuits. Curious listeners and fans are keeping his catalog in rotation.
• Daniel Nigro Fronted an Emo Band. Now He Makes Pop Smashes. The songwriter and producer has helped craft huge albums with Chappell Roan and Olivia Rodrigo. What’s the key to his success? “Dan always believed in me,” Roan said.
• Fans Mourn Liam Payne at Vigil in London. His death has been particularly profound in Britain, where Payne, a member of the boy band One Direction, first achieved fame. “We don’t know loss like this,” one fan said.
• The Choir Stands Out in a Multimedia Show. The Crossing is one of many elements in “Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness,” which links pieces by Gabriela Ortiz in a five-movement meditation.
• Cher, A Tribe Called Quest and Dave Matthews Band Join the Rock Hall. Gratitude flowed at the 39th induction ceremony in Cleveland, where Mary J. Blige, Peter Frampton, Ozzy Osbourne and the bands Foreigner and Kool & the Gang were honored.
• FKA twigs’s Electro-Pop Enticement, and 8 More New Songs. Hear tracks by Haley Heynderickx, Cymande, Bonzie and others.
• 150 Years On, Charles Ives Still Gets Us. This pioneering composer is not the easiest to love. But while he explores the poison of American nationalism, his music also offers an antidote.
• A Singer’s Hotel Death, A 911 Call and Details About What Is Known. A preliminary toxicology report said that Payne, the former One Direction singer, had drugs in his system when he fell from a third-floor hotel balcony.
• Prosecutors Resist Combs’s Bail Plan: He Can’t ‘Pay His Way Out’ of Jail. In a new filing, the government said the music mogul, who has proposed a sizable bail package as part of his bid to be released, should remain incarcerated.
• Musicians and Fans Grapple With Sudden Loss. After hearing the news of Payne’s fatal fall from a hotel balcony, his groupmates, fans and collaborators shared their shock and grief.
• Exquisite Fragility Within His Music. Andre’s family history is one of precarity and mutability. His works, vulnerable and intricate, aren’t so different.
• A Balladeer for America’s Shady Characters. His movie songs are filled with memorable melodies; his own albums with unsavory characters. One of the most astute cultural observers is the subject of a new book.
• Liam Payne of One Direction Dies in Buenos Aires. The police cordoned off the hotel where the 31-year-old singer of the British band died as fans gathered to mourn him.
• Former Singer In Boy Band Dies After Fall In Argentina. Payne, who was one of the group’s standout singers, fell from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, emergency services officials said.
• Flamenco Fills Stage At the Met. Osvaldo Golijov and David Henry Hwang’s opera, inspired by the life of Federico García Lorca, arrived at the Met with a dizzying blend of styles.
• The Bonds Of a Band Of Brothers. The guitarist and drummer formed the core of the powerhouse band. After Eddie died of cancer in 2020, Alex stayed quiet, but he’s breaking his silence in a new book.
• ‘We Are Not A Monolith’ An Afromodernism festival at the New York Philharmonic shines a light on Black artists, who are vastly underrepresented in classical music.
• Ka Made Rap on His Own Terms. Hear How in 7 Songs. Remembering the hip-hop artist (and New York City firefighter), who died over the weekend at 52.

Television

• Late Night Mocks Trump for His McDonald’s Photo Op. The ex-president’s stint at the drive-through window was “blue-collar drag,” said Stephen Colbert. “But with more makeup.”
• Mark Proksch, of ‘What We Do in the Shadows,’ Gets Into the Swing of It. As an “energy vampire,” the comic actor has been the most relatable menace in the FX comedy, which begins its final season.
• This Week on TV. The comedian’s standup special airs on HBO. Various networks show horror films.
• ‘Saturday Night Live’ Welcomes Back Alec Baldwin. The longtime friend of “S.N.L.” made his first appearance on the show since an involuntary manslaughter case against him was dismissed. Michael Keaton was the host.
• Lynda Carter Never Played Wonder Woman: ‘I Was Always Just Diana’ The actress and singer talks about mom jokes, Muppets, making music and marching for women’s rights.
• The Best of Late Night This Week. With the general election just weeks away, the hosts discussed former President Trump’s health and his bizarre town hall in Pennsylvania, as well as Vice President Harris’s appearance on Fox News.
• That’s Bizarre and True, Too, Right? The HBO series uses familiar comedic actors in cheeky re-enactments of real Florida events, most of them subjects of past viral news reports.
• A Big Bunch of Spinoffs Is the Strategy at CBS. This week the network rolled out an “NCIS” spinoff, a “Young Sheldon” spinoff, a “Good Wife” spinoff and … “Matlock”?
• Looking For Laughs By Recalling Dark Days. The Peacock horror comedy finds timeliness in a dark chapter of American history. “Satan was always an existential threat,” the actor said.
• Late Night Recaps Harris’s Time on Fox News and Trump’s on Univision. “Yes, both Kamala and Trump went into ‘the lion’s den’ this week — although they only got Trump there by telling him it was the name of a strip club,” Desi Lydic said on “The Daily Show.”
• Sex, Horses and the Stately Homes of Britain. Jilly Cooper, 87, has written raunchy novels for decades. Adapting her 1988 book “Rivals” for the streaming age meant tweaking some details.
• Jimmy Kimmel Slams Trump’s Women-Centered Town Hall. “This was the first time Groper Cleveland has been around this many women since they started padlocking the doors at Miss Teen USA,” Kimmel said on Wednesday.
• Ananda Lewis, Former MTV V.J., Says She Has Stage 4 Breast Cancer. Lewis, the host of the 1990s MTV show “Hot Zone,” tried to fight her illness without undergoing a double mastectomy. She says she is responding well after resuming treatment.
• No Love Letter, Yet Somehow a Sympathetic Portrayal. Beyond its story of Donald Trump’s early years in business, “The Apprentice” traces his origins as a media celebrity.
• Jimmy Kimmel Bashes Trump’s Bizarre Town Hall. Kimmel joked on Tuesday that Trump “just said ‘To hell with it’ and started asking his tech guys to play songs off his iPad.”
• Marking the Spot Where Desi Arnaz of ‘I Love Lucy’ Played the Conga. A new historical marker in Miami Beach pays tribute to his younger years, before Hollywood, when as a Cuban émigré he performed at a nightclub.

Theater

• This Theater Was a Haven for Bold Art. Then the Archdiocese Intervened. The Connelly Theater has suspended operations after its church landlord began more carefully scrutinizing show scripts and its general manager resigned.
• A Reluctant Satirist Takes On the Bomb. Armando Iannucci, the mastermind behind “Veep,” has adapted “Dr. Strangelove” for the theater and insists that laughing at nuclear disaster couldn’t be more timely.
• Norma Desmond, Supersized. A fascinating Broadway revival of the bombastic 1994 musical blows it up even further.
• Street Gangs, Saluted In Song. He collaborated with Eisa Davis to make a concept album inspired by the 1979 movie. One big change: the main gang is made up of women.
• Sadie Sink Plans to Star In New Play. Kimberly Belflower’s “John Proctor Is the Villain” will be directed by Danya Taymor, who won a Tony this year for “The Outsiders.”
• Sincerity Isn’t Easy For a Star. A country music star embodies the clichés of celebrity in an Off Broadway revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s 2016 comedy.
• In Putin’s Russia, A Very Slow Burn. The writer Erika Sheffer takes a big swing in a Manhattan Theater Club production examining “the point at which a society finds itself on the brink.”
• A Panned and Parodied Movie Is Now a French Play. Inspired by Paul Verhoeven’s infamous 1995 film, “Showgirl” considers what it means to be an actress who gets naked.

Books

• The ‘King of Weird Fiction’ Writes His Strangest Novel Yet. Jeff VanderMeer, known for his blockbuster Southern Reach series, talks about his eerie new installment, “Absolution,” keeping mysteries alive and what people get wrong about alligators.
• 2 Unexpected Books for Spooky Season. A haunted author; haunted dolls.
• A Fan Discovers a New Story by the Author of ‘Dracula’ The work by Bram Stoker, previously unknown to scholars, will be read and included in a book launched during Dublin’s annual Bram Stoker Festival.
• TikTok’s Owner Already Publishes Digital Books. Now It Is Moving Into Print. ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant that owns TikTok, will focus its publisher, 8th Note Press, on popular genres such as romance, romantasy and young adult fiction.

Book Review

• Bethany Joy Lenz Wanted Community. She Ended Up in a Cult. The “One Tree Hill” actor has written a memoir of the decade she spent beholden to the Big House Family — and her escape.
• Jeff VanderMeer Returns to the Uncanny World of Area X. The author’s Southern Reach trilogy, which began with “Annihilation” in 2014, now has a fourth installment, a prequel.
• 6 Books to Help You Understand the Reproductive Rights Debate. Journalists and scholars explore the issue at every level, from the movement that took down Roe to the human stories of women who had abortions, and those who were denied.
• John le Carré, With a Son’s Help, Comes Back In From the Cold War. Nick Harkaway’s novel “Karla’s Choice” revisits the British spy George Smiley a few years after the construction of the Berlin Wall.
• Can You Find These 14 Hidden Book Titles in This Puzzle? Look closely to uncover the recent memoirs lurking in this passage of text.
• The Gadfly Journalist Who Punched Far Above His Weight. With a weekly newsletter and plenty of charm, the left-wing writer Claud Cockburn became a crucial polemical voice of the 20th century.
• 5 Books to Help You Understand the Economy Before Voting. The brightest minds explore the issue at every level, from the levers that control inflation to the best way to achieve work-life balance.
• An Exile Revisits the Squalor and Grandeur of 1960s Italy. Recounting the time his family spent in a former Italian brothel, André Aciman’s new memoir, “Roman Year,” picks up where 1994’s “Out of Egypt” left off.
• In His Memoir, Aleksei Navalny Speaks From the Grave. The Russian opposition leader, who died in an Arctic penal colony earlier this year, tells the story of his struggle to wrest his country back from President Vladimir Putin.
• Hollywood Can Be Hell for a Writer. 2 New Books Fan the Flames. Dorothy Parker worked on the script for “A Star Is Born,” but the tragic ending was all hers, while Bruce Eric Kaplan manages to find the mordant laughs in today’s industry foibles.
• How White Greed Destroyed a Bank for the Newly Freed. A book by the historian Justene Hill Edwards charts the rise and fall of the Freedman’s Bank, founded at the end of the Civil War for the formerly enslaved.
• A More Freewheeling Book Lives Inside Al Pacino’s Memoir. From Shakespeare to Strindberg to “Scarface”: The actor remembers all of it and talks about some of it in “Sonny Boy.”
• A Schizophrenia Diagnosis Sets Off a Reckoning With Mental Illness. In “No One Gets to Fall Apart,” the TV writer Sarah LaBrie follows the breadcrumbs of her mother’s disorder back to her childhood, and beyond.
• J. G. Ballard, Secret Agent in Suburbia. A graphic tribute to the British novelist who documented the blight and brutality of the sleepy London outskirts from the 1970s into the 2000s.
• Before the Attic, an Ominous Dreamscape. “When We Flew Away” envisions what Anne might have been like before the cataclysm that shut her away and made her into “the voice of the Holocaust.”
• Seeing Green. Evan Rail’s “The Absinthe Forger” takes the reader on a picaresque tour through the world of vintage alcohol collectors in pursuit of a fraudster.
• 7 New Books We Recommend This Week. Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
• Hidden Agendas. Our critic on new books by Stephanie Wrobel, Lawrence Robbins and Hildur Knútsdóttir.
• Colin Kaepernick. Business memoirs are at hand as he navigates a new role as the founder of a startup to “democratize storytelling.” Meanwhile he has co-written “We Are Free, You & Me,” an illustrated book for kids.
• Among Humans, Tribalism Is a Default Mode. Two new books by psychologists explore the roots of group identity, arguing that it is natural and potentially useful — even in polarized times.
• The Scientists Who Hoarded Seeds Even as They Were Starving. In “The Forbidden Garden,” Simon Parkin examines the mad, heroic decision during the siege of Leningrad to guard biodiversity at the cost of human life.

Books Update

• She Shared Her Notes with John Steinbeck. It was Her Novel’s Undoing. Sanora Babb’s interviews about the Dust Bowl informed “The Grapes of Wrath.” The book’s success led to the cancellation of her own book contract. “Riding Like the Wind” tells her life story.

Movies

• Watch Dancers Haunt Naomi Scott in ‘Smile 2’ Parker Finn, the film’s writer and director, narrates a scene in which a pop star is chased through her apartment by evil dancers.
• ‘Smile 2’ | Anatomy of a Scene. Parker Finn narrates a sequence from “Smile 2,” starring Naomi Scott.
• In ‘Smile 2’ and ‘Trap,’ Pop Stardom Looks Pretty Terrifying. At a time when the business of being Taylor Swift or Beyoncé is booming, these films examine toxic fandom and what can seem like mass hysteria.
• Five International Movies to Stream Now. In this month’s picks, a shy vampire in Canada comes of age, two men in India spar over a parking spot and a Chilean secretary dreams of life as a killer.
• 9 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week. Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
• Tegan and Sara and Their Catfishing Horror Story. “Fanatical,” an eye-popping film directed by Erin Lee Carr, details the bizarre 16-year ordeal that the duo and their fans endured.
• The Line. The dark side of college fraternity life comes to light in this harrowing, well-acted campus drama.
• Men Can Be Menacing, Some More Than Most. Anna Kendrick’s ably directed drama about a real-life serial killer focuses on his victims instead.
• Union. As this documentary by Brett Story and Stephen Maing chronicles, the efforts to unionize a warehouse in New York were successful — but also a grind.
• Heads of State Dither as the World Burns. Cate Blanchett stars as a lusty, preening stateswomen in a geopolitical satire from the experimental filmmaker Guy Maddin.
• Nocturnes. In the forests of northeast India, an ecologist tracking moths creates a tiny oasis of light in the darkness.
• High Tide. Written and directed by Marco Calvani, this film follows a gay Brazilian man working under the table one summer in Provincetown, Mass.
• Goodrich. An art gallery owner (Michael Keaton) gets a shock when his second wife (Laura Benanti) goes to rehab and he has to take care of their twins.
• Examining Family Ties, Saved and Severed. For his first film, the artist Titus Kaphar delivers an unsentimental and autobiographical gem.
• Allswell in New York. This overstuffed movie fails to wrap up its myriad professional and domestic dramas, despite a few moments of promise.
• Brothers. Moke (Josh Brolin) is a reformed thief who gets roped into one last job with his twin brother, Jady (Peter Dinklage).
• Mikey Madison Just Wanted to Break Out of Her Shell. Look at Her Now. The soft-spoken actress is winning raves (and Oscar talk) for her turn as a feisty sex worker in the Palme d’Or-winning “Anora.”
• The Many Versions of Hugh Grant. The seemingly droll, breezy star is actually sentimental about his family and utterly serious about his work, including his villainous turn in “Heretic.”
• That Happy Face Hides a Monster. In this sequel, the pop sensation Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) is preparing to begin her comeback tour a year after a brutal car accident.
• Her Glass Slipper Is a Stiletto. Mikey Madison gives a career-making performance in a Palme d’Or-winning film about the romance between a sex worker and a rich scion.

Food

• Time and Tide Sets Sail Near Madison Square Park. Soso’s offers New York-style tavern fare, Masa Madre bakes Latin American treats and more restaurant news.
• I Can’t Pass Up Paneer. The firm, fresh Indian cheese is put to delicious use in this streamlined, kid-favorite mattar paneer.
• Respect, at Last, for the Hard-Shell Taco. The version that once thrived at the midcentury fast food stands of Los Angeles is now a regional treasure.
• The 17 Best Bagels in New York City Right Now. The age-old debate continues.
• An Easy, Five-Star Salad to Convert the Lentil-Skeptical. Paired with roasted sweet potatoes, tossed in a brown butter vinaigrette and showered with tangy goat cheese, the humble lentil becomes “absolutely superb.”
• The 25 Best Restaurants in Atlanta Right Now. There’s no shortage of Southern virtuosity in the 404, but don’t miss the outstanding Indian, Italian and Thai cooking — or the amazing wings from an unexpected spot.
• Help Yourself to Pancakes. Put a platter of sour cream pancakes with cardamom apples on the table and watch everyone happily dig in.
• What to Make When You Have Lots of Apples But Absolutely No Energy. Enter: Genevieve Ko’s apple crisp.
• It’s Time for Tagine. Nargisse Benkabbou’s hearty and fragrant beef tagine with green beans, olives and preserved lemons, that is.
• Hate Noisy Restaurants? Stick This in Your Ear. Apple earbuds and others can help you hear dining companions. Here’s how to use them.
• It’s Soft Pretzel and Cider Doughnut Season. Let’s make some peak fall memories.
• It’s Fall. Do You Know Where Your Squash Is? Put that kabocha, spaghetti, butternut and honey nut to good use in hearty salads, cozy pastas and a very photogenic galette.
• The Great Pumpkin Dumplings. No fussy rolling or dough cutting required: Just scrape the soft batter into boiling, salted water with a spoon for perfect, pillowy free-form dumplings.
• Melissa Explains It All (About Pantry Dinners). Keeping a well-stocked pantry is one thing; leveling up those convenient dinners is another. Here’s how to do it.
• This Crispy Delight Comes Cloaked in Fire. Smaller, lighter and sharper than Buffalo wings, this interpretation of a classic has faded away over time. But you can make it at home.

Wine, Beer & Cocktails

• Chianti Classico Riservas to Find Right Now. These longer-aged wines were once notable for being too oaky and powerful. Now, producers are letting the gorgeous purity of the sangiovese grape shine through.

Style

• New York’s Old Guard Meets a Sexy Newcomer. The literary establishment welcomes Feeld, a very sex-positive dating app, at a party on the Upper East Side.
• New York Was a Shopping Town. Is It Again? Small, medium and large: There seem to be signs of life for brick-and-mortar operations of every size in the city … once again.
• Jeff Bezos and Jessica Chastain Toast a Daring ‘Sunset Boulevard’ on Broadway. A stripped-back revival of the classic musical, starring the singer Nicole Scherzinger, opened at the St. James Theater on Sunday night.
• Old School Glamour at the Met Gala of the West Coast. The Academy Museum Gala delivered what red carpets are made for.
• On X, the Definition of ‘Blocking’ Is About to Change. A change in how the site works will allow people to see posts by users who have them blocked. The company claims it is for “transparency,” but some people are worried about abuse.
• The Captain Jack Sparrow of Baking. A breakout contestant on “The Great British Baking Show” is drawing style comparisons to characters from “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “The Princess Bride” and more.
• Why Are Hospital Gowns So Ugly? Curious why medical patient attire is so unflattering, a reader asks our fashion critic if it’s intentional.
• French Cuffs and French Fries at Donald Trump’s McDonald’s Gig. No hairnet in sight as the former president doled out meals at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania.
• Seeking ‘Warmth and Personality’ in the World of High-Priced Pens. For collectors and enthusiasts at the London Pen Show, the finest writing instruments can cost thousands of dollars. As one dealer put it, “This is art of the highest quality.”
• The Biggest Expansion Yet for a Designer of Tiny Bags. A just-opened New York store is the first of three that the French brand Jacquemus plans to open by next spring.
• Are Those Jeans? Look Again. Sales are thriving in the uncanny valley of printed denim.
• The Essential Italian Returns to America. The designer Giorgio Armani made a splashy comeback to celebrate his new store and residences in Manhattan.
• Jahleel Weaver’s Rolex Wallet Chain. The lead stylist for Rihanna and Dua Lipa wears a watch not for its practicality, but for what it represents in his career.
• Shoppers Become Readers and Vice Versa. Each month, 15.4 million copies of Costco Connection are mailed out to members. Another 300,000 are distributed via Costco warehouses. It is now the nation’s third largest magazine.
• Grieving Liam Payne on TikTok. In reaction videos, some users captured themselves learning about the young singer’s death in real time. At a time when the cameras are always rolling, it’s not so unusual.
• It Is ‘All About the Fish’ on Park Ave. Avid and influential anglers turned out to honor Bob Rich Jr. at the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust’s annual gala in Manhattan.
• Before the First Kiss, Plenty of Drives Home. Jocelyn DeGroot-Lutzner grew up four blocks from Ephream Seyoum in West Philadelphia. But the two didn’t meet until she applied for a job at his family’s Eritrean restaurant.
• Shopping for a Good Loafer? Start here.
• At Some Election-Week Weddings, No Politics Allowed. Fall weddings are increasingly common. But what happens when your nuptials also take place close to a contentious election?
• Learning to Measure Time in Love and Loss. In this essay from 2013, a writer tries to appreciate the limits of his own life.
• Finding a Few Good Waves, and ‘Everything I Wanted’ Laura Baroni and Paul Keating, both avid surfers, met in Costa Rica and felt immediately connected, if not through their native languages.
• In the Cuddliest of Offices, a New Arrival Stood Out. Taylor Burt was working at BarkBox, surrounded by adorable dogs, when she found herself distracted by someone she thought was even cuter: Mayank Shah.
• Serving Burberry In Heavy Cream. The British brand hosted a starry cocktail party to celebrate a makeover of its flagship store.
• Going From Royal Gowns to Uniqlo. Clare Waight Keller, who designed Meghan Markle’s wedding dress, finds a different kind of luxury at a mass market brand.
• The Clothing Store Luring Women to Scranton. The British brand Boden offers sample-sale prices at an outlet on Biden Street in the industrial Pennsylvania city.
• The Hot New Thing in Vintage From a Familiar Source. Kathleen Sorbara founded the beloved vintage boutique Chickee’s, and she’s got a fresh idea for her devoted customer base.
• Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Queer Kid in Appalachia’ Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
• The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Returns. It Shouldn’t. Despite the wings, the supermodels and Cher, there’s no going back.
• An Online Nightmare 10 Years in the Making. A new Netflix documentary tells a sinister tale of a decade-long online romance scam, and the devastation that followed.
• Too Quick to Forgive? A reader is eager to patch things over with her best friend and her boyfriend after they had a tryst behind her back. But should she be?
• Her Interviews Are Cringe-Worthy. Kjersti Flaa’s awkward interviews with Blake Lively and Anne Hathaway from years ago blew up online. She may release more because “the times are a little different.”
• The Beauty, the Splendor, the Wonder of Hair. The diversity of hairstyles at fashion weeks has grown to rival the range of clothes worn on and off the runway.
• Space: Fashion’s Final Frontier. Prada and Axiom Space unveiled their NASA spacesuits, in the most far-out collaboration yet.
• Eric Adams Mets-Yankees Hat Strikes Out. There’s no crying in baseball, but this cap is tragic.
• A Little Diwali Party Becomes a Big Deal. Hasan Minhaj, Mira Nair and Nora Fatehi joined business and entertainment leaders of South Asian descent at the Pierre hotel in their most elegant attire.

Weddings

• Through the Turnstile and Down the Aisle. Forget the picture-perfect setting; some couples are embracing the gritty, chaotic appeal of the subway system for their wedding ceremonies and receptions.
• Despite the Distance, Setting Her Sights on a Valentine. Lindsay Bennie heeded Victoria Williams’s call for a Valentine’s date, but they were hundreds of miles apart. Once they finally met, “our connection was instantaneous,” Ms. Bennie said.
• From Classmates to Housemates to Partners for Life. Jolyn Chen and Louis Lin went from middle school classmates to badminton partners to colleagues and, now, spouses.
• Elegant Gowns Galore, With a Focus on Romance. The fall 2025 bridal collections brought structural silhouettes, lots of texture and more designers and collaborations than usual.

Magazine

• How Cheerleading Became So Acrobatic, Dangerous and Popular. For decades, the sport has been shaped in large part by one company — and one man.
• A Dinky Little Computer Program Is My Secret Weapon for Creativity. Remember Microsoft Paint? It’s more perfect than ever.
• Mia Khalifa’s Messy World of Money, Sex and Activism. For the OnlyFans star and influencer, navigating the internet is a full-time job.
• Is It OK to Name Our Dog for a God? The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on canine naming conventions.
• How Tech Billionaires Became the G.O.P.’s New Donor Class. Elon Musk and a group of Silicon Valley allies have built a shadow campaign to put Donald Trump back in office.
• The Wizard of Winnipeg. In a directorial career defined by alluring strangeness, Guy Maddin’s new comedy is radical for being almost … normal.
• Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. Is broth a drink-drink? And if so, can it therefore be consumed from a drink vessel?
• Can I Patronize a Place Run by a Trump Supporter? The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what it means to be a customer of someone who espouses a radically different political perspective.
• No Stranger. Hollywood’s polished leaders and legible story arcs never quite imagined the places real-life American politics would go.
• What to Know About the University of Michigan’s D.E.I. Experiment. A Times investigation found that the school built one of the most ambitious diversity programs in the country — only to see increased discord and division on campus.
• Comfort Zone: This squash stew, rich with sharp tamarind and creamy coconut, is meant to restore. This squash stew, rich with sharp tamarind and creamy coconut, is meant to restore.
• The Michigan Experiment. A decade and a quarter of a billion dollars later, students and faculty are more frustrated than ever.

T Magazine

• Why Severed Hands Are Haunting Contemporary Art. Painters and sculptors are exploring agency and femininity by depicting floating appendages.
• A Pioneer in Metal Furniture Gets a New Exhibition. Plus: a seaside hotel in France, a book celebrating Atelier Vime and more recommendations from T Magazine.
• Lorna Simpson Is America’s Great Archivist. Throughout her genre-bending career, the artist has always made marginalization a source of power.
• Jonathan Anderson Only Wants to Be the World’s Best Fashion Designer. The creative director of Loewe and founder of JW Anderson mines culture with the eye of a curator and a restlessness all his own.
• Theaster Gates Is Redefining What It Means to Be an Artist. With a practice that includes painting, ceramics and real estate, he has truly earned the title “multidisciplinary.”
• How Florence Welch Turned Rage Into Power. Nearly two decades into her career, the singer still sounds like no one else out there.
• The Greats. T celebrates four talents across music, art and fashion who, through patience and perseverance, have transformed the culture.
• Mary Janes. Mary Janes, whether chunky or sleek, are fashion’s favorite flat.

Travel

• Riding the Rails, Literally, on a Pedal-Powered Bike. Rail-biking uses specially designed vehicles that are pedaled along disused railway lines. It’s easy and fun and uses existing tracks for recreation. One writer gave it a try in the Catskills.
• A Cheapskate in Manhattan. Pop-up art, cheap theater tickets, Chinese food and a well-situated, if noisy, hotel: How to see Manhattan (and a bit of Brooklyn) on a budget.
• Tourists’ Boundless Love for the Stunning Beauty of Big Sur May Be Killing It. Some 90 percent of the economy in this coastal California region relies on visitors. But overtourism, the high cost of living and most worrisome, the effects of global warming, create a future of uncertainty.
• 36 Hours in Hanoi, Vietnam. Get swept up in the boundless energy of the 1,000-year-old Vietnamese capital.
• 6 Vacations That Could Help You Live Longer and Healthier. All-inclusive retreats around the world aim to cultivate wellness and longevity though high-tech tests, “biohacking” treatments, meditation, breath work and more.
• In Sedona, a Psychic and a Skeptic Walk Into a Vortex. On a trip to the Arizona town a writer tries to understand her mystically inclined mother’s beliefs with the help of crystals, meditation and visits to the area’s supposed celestial portals.
• Ship-Free Saturdays? Juneau Votes Against Limiting Large Cruise Ships. Some residents in the Alaskan capital, frustrated with cruise crowds, sought to limit ship traffic on Saturdays, despite the likely negative impact on local businesses.
• Afraid of Flying? Here’s How to Make It Feel Less Scary. Fear of flying affects more than 25 million Americans. If you are among them, these tools and expert tips could help make your next plane ride easier.

Real Estate

• How Developers Are Catering to Would-Be Homeowners With Rental Amenities. Families are choosing to rent for the foreseeable future — some out of necessity, others for amenities.
• How to Sell a Haunted House (or Not). Even the most skeptical real estate agents say they think twice about the existence of ghosts, especially after unusual encounters.
• $900,000 Homes in California. A 1922 bungalow in West Hollywood, a four-bedroom house from 1898 outside Monterey, and a two-story midcentury house in the Bay Area.
• I Can’t Buy a House. I Can’t Shop. I’m Too Worried About the Election. Election anxiety is causing many consumers to avoid big-ticket purchases like houses, weddings and cars. “Every four years this happens,” one former car dealer said.
• Can a Co-op Resident Regain Use Of a Terrace During Facade Repairs? Local Law 11 inspections and repairs are required every five years. But how much intrusion should building residents expect, and how much is too much?
• Buying a Cottage and Finding a ‘Time Capsule’ A couple renovated a house in Darien, Conn., and retained much of what the previous owners had left behind.
• $2 Million Homes in Munich. A country house with a pool southwest of the city, a two-bedroom condo with a balcony, and a modern two-bedroom duplex not yet completed.
• In Montauk, N.Y., an $18 Million Listing for a Secluded Stone House. The two-story home sits on a bluff overlooking the Atlantic. It was once owned by the interior designer Tony Ingrao.
• Heading North to Find a Hudson Valley Home for $500,000. But Which One? Wishing to be closer to their children and grandchildren, a couple left Philadelphia to check out townhouse communities in Dutchess County. Here’s what they found.
• Midsize Cities Draw Telecommuters. Midsize metropolitan areas saw the largest increases in the share of remote workers over the past decade, according to a study.
• Homes for Sale in New York and New Jersey. This week’s properties are a four-bedroom contemporary house in Pound Ridge, N.Y., and a three-bedroom cabin in Medford Lakes, N.J.
• Homes for Sale in Manhattan and Queens. This week’s properties are in the Sutton Place neighborhood, Lincoln Square and Jackson Heights.
• A Supertall on Fifth Avenue, Eager to Be a Good Neighbor. The building, to be known as 520 Fifth Avenue, is adorned with setbacks and arches, nods to classic New York City architecture.
• $3 Million Homes in Colorado, Virginia and Washington, D.C. A Craftsman-style house from 1906 in Denver, a turn-of-the-century townhouse in Washington, D.C., and a Queen Anne Revival-style house in Fredericksburg, Va.
• Making Room for ‘Cosmopolitan Plants’ Among Native Species. The landscape designer Donald Pell believes using a wider palette with nonnatives from around the world can add joy to gardens.

Health

• New Stroke Recommendations Call Out Risks Unique to Women. In a first, the guidelines link poor pregnancy outcomes to stroke and call on doctors to exercise greater vigilance.
• Life Without Sickle Cell Beckons Boy Who Completed Gene Therapy. After 44 days, Kendric Cromer, 12, left the hospital. While his family feels fortunate that he was the first to receive a treatment, their difficult experiences hint at what others will be up against.
• States Revive Lawsuit to Sharply Curb Access to Abortion Pill. The Supreme Court ruled in June that the original plaintiffs, anti-abortion doctors and groups, did not have standing to sue. Now three states are trying to continue the legal fight.
• xxxxA Psychiatric Rescue Mission, Under a Freeway [[[not any final]]]. The crisis of homelessness is pushing American psychiatry to places it has not gone before — like sidewalk injections of antipsychotics.

Well

• What Is ‘Pink Cocaine’? The drug cocktail can contain ketamine, Ecstasy and meth — but rarely cocaine itself.
• Mental Illness Raises the Risk of Severe Covid. The Question Is: Why? People with psychiatric conditions are more likely to be hospitalized or die of the virus. Scientists have ideas about why that might be the case.
• Do Hair Growth Supplements Work? Online, videos abound of people saying the supplements make hair thicker, healthier and shinier. Do they really?
• How to Set Boundaries (When It Doesn’t Come Naturally). We have some useful tips from experts. But no worries if you’re not ready!
• Program Diversifies Food Choices. The program, which provides free groceries to millions of women and children nationwide, now covers naan, soy milk, teff and more.
• More Research Links IUDs to Breast Cancer Risk. A new study adds to the evidence on hormonal contraceptives and breast cancer. But experts stressed the overall risk remains low.

Eat

• Are Organic Foods Really More Nutritious? Here’s how they stack up against their conventional counterparts.
• 5 Nutritious Grains Experts Want You to Try. These lesser-known options are nutritional powerhouses — and delicious, too.

Live

• Dry, Itchy Skin That Becomes Debilitating. Experts explain what causes eczema and how to deal with it.
• 6 Books About Nonmonogamy, Recommended by Therapists. These titles can offer insight, whether you’re polycurious or already exploring.

Move

• Rest Days Are Good. Active Recovery Days Can Be Better. Low-impact, easy workouts can offer relief for sore muscles.
• Getting Older? It Might Be Time to Hire a Trainer. Personal training isn’t just for the young — or the wealthy. Here’s how to make it work for you.

Times Insider

• The Politics Editor. That the election cycle has been turbulent may be the understatement of the century. And David Halbfinger is overseeing coverage of every twist and turn through Election Day and its aftermath.
• A Requiem for a Fictitious Congressman. Godfrey G. Gloom, who was frequently featured in The Times’s pages, met a colorful end in 1936.
• One Reporter, 100 Behind-the-Scenes Stories. Over the past four years, I’ve written more than 100 articles that explain our journalism. What I learned might surprise you.
• Hard News and Honky-Tonks: Covering the South. As a reporter responsible for region news in the South, Emily Cochrane covers hurricanes, trials, country music and more.

Corrections

• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024.
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Tuesday, October 22, 2024
• Corrections: Oct. 21, 2024. No corrections appeared in print on Monday, Oct. 21, 2024.
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Monday, October 21, 2024.
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Sunday, October 20, 2024.
• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024.
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Saturday, October 19, 2024
• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024.
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Friday, October 18, 2024
• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024.
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Thursday, October 17, 2024
• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024.
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Wednesday, October 16, 2024
• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024.

Crosswords & Games

• The Connections Companion No. 500. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024.
• Spelling Bee Forum. Feeling stuck on today’s puzzle? We can help.
• End of the Line, Maybe. Barbara Lin finds a creative way to get to the bottom of things.
• Wordle Review No. 1,221. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024.
• The Connections Companion No. 499. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024.
• In the Future. Stick to your instincts as you solve Neil Padrick Wilson’s crossword puzzle.
• The Connections Companion No. 498. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Monday, Oct. 21, 2024.
• Wordle Review No. 1,220. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Mon., Oct. 21, 2024.
• Triple Features. Jerry Miccolis’s blockbuster Sunday puzzle is actually a sequel.
• The Connections Companion No. 497. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024.
• Wordle Review No. 1,219. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024.
• Impressively Respectful Types. August Miller makes an imposing Saturday debut.
• The Connections Companion No. 496. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024
• Wordle Review No. 1,218. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024.
• That Explains It. Jesse Cohn introduces six lively entries to the New York Times Crossword.
• Wordle Review No. 1,217. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, Oct. 18, 2024.
• The Connections Companion No. 495. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, Oct. 18, 2024.
• The Battle Between Editor and Writer. August Lee-Kovach’s puzzle is very punny.
• The Connections Companion No. 494. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024.
• Wordle Review No. 1,216. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024.
• Airer of Hearings. Hanh Huynh’s puzzle is a lesson in patience.

The Learning Network

• Weekly Student News Quiz: Peace Prize, Europa Clipper, W.N.B.A. Title. Have you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.
• How Would You Describe Your Style? Check out 47 outfits from students across the United States. Then tell us about your look and what it says about you.
• People Pleasing. Do you tend to prioritize others’ needs ahead of your own? When have you been able to stand up for yourself, even if it was hard?
• Word of the Day: holistic. This word has appeared in 176 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• Should We Be More Concerned About the Growing Use of Marijuana? Cannabis is now legal in much of the United States. As its use increases, so do its harms. Is that a problem?
• Word of the Day: exodus. This word has appeared in 281 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• What Do You Splurge On? Whether it’s a pair of sneakers, new makeup, a concert or something else, when you have some extra cash, how do you spend it?
• 100 Raccoons. The Times reported on a woman who called 911 when a horde of raccoons showed up in her yard. Make up a story that explains how and why they got there.
• Word of the Day: arpeggio. This word has appeared in four articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• Once Upon a Time. What do you think this image is communicating?
• Should Parents Be Up Front About Ugliness in the World or Try to Hide It? When it comes to natural disasters, wars and other tragedies, do you want your parents to be honest with you or to reassure you that everything is going to be OK?
• Word of the Day: emblematic. This word has appeared in 274 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• Do You Have a Hard Time Letting People Down? “Put yourself first” is often good advice when it comes to taking care of your mental health. Are you able to follow it?
• Word of the Day: disseminate. This word has appeared in 50 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• Underappreciated Sports. What athletic endeavors do you think deserve more respect?

Lesson Plans

• Let’s Discuss: The Gender Gap Among Gen Z Voters. Why do more young women favor Kamala Harris while more young men favor Donald Trump? Read this pair of articles and post your comments and questions for Claire Cain Miller by Oct. 31.
• Learning With: ‘Test Your Focus: Can You Spend 10 Minutes With One Painting?’ Are you easily distracted? If so, you’re in luck! This lesson will help you practice your ability to pay attention.

En español

• Un apagón y una tormenta. Cuba, entre una crisis eléctrica y un huracán. También: las encuestas más recientes de las elecciones en EE. UU. y más.
• Cuatro de los comentarios más dispersos de Trump esta semana. El expresidente dice que le gusta tejer una trama al saltar de un tema a otro. Pero hay quienes ven algo más preocupante en sus divagaciones.
• ¿Protector de la democracia o una amenaza? El dilema del Supremo Tribunal de Brasil, la muerte del líder de Hamás, la condena de García Luna y más.
• TMZ recibe críticas por publicar una supuesta imagen de Liam Payne. Tras un torrente de críticas, TMZ retiró la foto de un cadáver sin dar explicaciones.
• Trump dice que habría sido ‘algo inteligente’ haber hablado con Putin. Donald Trump se negó a comentar si había hablado con el presidente ruso desde que dejó el cargo. Pero añadió: ‘Si tengo una relación con la gente, es algo bueno’.
• ¿El caldo de huesos es tan bueno para la salud como dicen? En TikTok lo llaman “oro líquido”. Preguntamos a expertos si hay algún fundamento científico detrás de las afirmaciones sobre sus efectos en la salud.
• Por qué controlar el azúcar en la sangre es crucial para tu salud. ¿Con qué frecuencia debes medirte la glucosa? ¿Cómo afectan los alimentos, el sueño y el ejercicio al azúcar en la sangre? Esto es lo que debes saber.

América Latina

• La crisis de Cuba se agrava por un huracán y apagones nacionales. Cuba, un país con un gobierno comunista que desde hace tiempo está acostumbrado a la escasez de todo tipo y a las fallas del servicio eléctrico, está sumido en una crisis tan grave que podría desencadenar descontento social.
• Sudamérica enfrenta un alarmante futuro de sequías históricas. La sequía en Sudamérica, ya en su segundo año, está deshidratando el Amazonas y ha provocado incendios forestales, cortes de electricidad y racionamiento de agua en varios países del continente.
• La tormenta tropical Nadine llega a Belice. Se espera que la tormenta provoque fuertes lluvias en México, Belice y Guatemala este fin de semana.
• ‘Una situación que no se había dado nunca’: Cuba sufre un gran apagón que afecta a todo el país. Durante semanas, el país ha carecido de combustible para hacer funcionar la red eléctrica, lo que ha dejado a grandes zonas de la isla sin electricidad durante periodos de 15 a 20 horas.
• ¿Hubo una reina en Perú? Eso sugieren nuevos descubrimientos arqueológicos. Los arqueólogos han desenterrado una sala del trono ricamente decorada y una “Sala de las Serpientes Trenzadas” de la cultura moche, con indicios de que una mujer pudo gobernar allí hace más de 1300 años.
• Genaro García Luna, exsecretario de Seguridad Pública de México, es condenado a 38 años por recibir sobornos de un cártel. La severa sentencia es posiblemente el paso final en la impactante caída del exfuncionario, quien ha pasado de lo más alto del poder a la prisión.
• ¿El Supremo Tribunal de Brasil salva a la democracia o la amenaza? El máximo tribunal de Brasil amplió su poder para proteger la democracia. Pero algunos se preguntan si el tribunal representa ahora la amenaza.
• El presidente del Supremo Tribunal de Brasil dice que están salvando la democracia. Luis Roberto Barroso, presidente del máximo tribunal del país, explica la postura del tribunal ante Bolsonaro, Elon Musk y la extrema derecha.

Ciencia y Tecnología

• Cómo observar la lluvia de meteoros de las Oriónidas. Este acontecimiento, relacionado con el cometa Halley, coincide con el paso del cometa Tsuchinshan-ATLAS en el hemisferio norte. Pero una Luna casi llena podría interferir en algunas vistas.
• Un planeta lejano podría tener una luna con actividad volcánica. Los astrónomos aún no han confirmado la existencia de exolunas, pero una señal molecular alrededor de una estrella lejana ofrece algunas de las mejores evidencias hasta el momento.
• Se encuentran tumbas ocultas bajo el antiguo edificio del Tesoro de Petra en Jordania. Una reciente excavación ha desenterrado 12 esqueletos humanos y una cámara de ofrendas funerarias cerca del edificio del Tesoro de Petra, declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco.

Cultura

• Los problemas legales de Combs aumentan. También sus cifras de ‘streaming’ Los numerosos cargos federales y demandas en contra del magnate de la música parecen no desalentar a los fans y oyentes curiosos que buscan su catálogo en las plataformas de emisión en continuo.
• El caso de los hermanos Menendez se está revisando. Esto es lo que sabemos hasta ahora. Lyle y Erik Menendez han vuelto a captar la atención de los medios de comunicación gracias a nuevas pruebas, a un ejército de defensores en las redes sociales y a una serie de televisión y un documental recientes que analizan sus juicios.
• En ‘Sweet Bobby’, una identidad falsa es más dañina de lo que crees. Un nuevo documental de Netflix cuenta la siniestra historia de una estafa romántica en línea que duró una década, y la devastación que le siguió.
• Hugh Grant se adentra en su faceta de villano en ‘Heretic’ A sus 64 años, Grant está disfrutando al interpretar papeles de personajes pícaros, bribones, gánsteres, embaucadores y villanos como en ‘Heretic’, su nueva película.
• Lo que sabemos sobre la muerte de Liam Payne. Un trabajador del hotel llamó al 911 preocupado por Payne, el excantante de One Direction, poco antes de que este cayera desde el balcón de un tercer piso. Se está a la espera de los resultados de los informes toxicológicos.
• El mundo del pop reacciona a la muerte de Liam Payne. Horas después de conocerse la noticia de que Payne había caído desde el balcón de un hotel en Buenos Aires, sus fans y colaboradores compartieron su conmoción y su dolor.
• Una violinista de 21 años destaca en un campo repleto de prodigios. María Dueñas tiene algo que decir, y la habilidad para decirlo con brillantez. Este mes debuta como solista en el Carnegie Hall.
• Liam Payne, exintegrante de One Direction, muere a los 31 años en Argentina. Payne, cantante y compositor de la exitosa boy band británica, murió tras caer desde el tercer piso de un hotel en Buenos Aires, según funcionarios de los servicios de emergencia.
• Sean Combs enfrenta 6 nuevas demandas por violación y agresión sexual. Tony Buzbee, un abogado que busca más denunciantes a través de Instagram y una línea directa, presentó demandas en Nueva York con acusaciones de violación y agresión sexual. Combs negó las acusaciones.

Deportes

• Inglaterra le confía su selección de fútbol, considerada un tesoro nacional, a un alemán. Tuchel ha entrenado a varios de los clubes más importantes del mundo, como el Borussia Dortmund, el París Saint-Germain, el Bayern de Múnich y el Chelsea.

Estados Unidos

• Harris quiere que los republicanos moderados la apoyen. ¿Existen? Es un esfuerzo inusual que refleja lo reñida que está la contienda.
• Elon Musk y el conflicto de intereses de su participación en un potencial gobierno de Trump. El empresario ha apoyado ha apoyado con su fortuna e influencia al candidato republicano. A cambio, Trump se ha comprometido a dar al hombre más rico del mundo el poder de regular a los reguladores que tienen influencia sobre sus empresas.
• Trump servía papas a la francesa en McDonald’s y afuera la tensión crecía. Un estacionamiento en Pensilvania se convirtió en un microcosmos de las elecciones de este año cuando partidarios de ambos candidatos se encontraron.
• Elecciones en EE. UU.: un ligero giro hacia Trump, pero aún no hay un favorito claro. Las encuestas no son lo suficientemente precisas como para que una ventaja de 0,2 puntos transmita información significativa.
• Harris y Trump van por los votantes indecisos. Ambas campañas rebuscan entre los datos para encontrar a estos estadounidenses cruciales. Y creen que muchos son electores jóvenes, negros o latinos.
• Una filtración de inteligencia de EE. UU. sugiere que Israel se prepara para atacar Irán. Funcionarios estadounidenses están tratando de determinar la fuente de la filtración, que describe ejercicios militares y emplazamiento de armas, y lo perjudicial que esta podría ser.
• Trump intenta reescribir la historia del 6 de enero en la recta final de la campaña. Donald Trump amplificó una teoría conspirativa según la cual el gobierno federal había organizado el ataque al Capitolio y comparó a los alborotadores encarcelados con las personas de ascendencia japonesa en campos de internamiento.
• Harris y los demócratas pierden la renuencia a llamar fascista a Trump. Desde que el general Mark Milley fue citado diciendo que Donald Trump es “fascista hasta la médula”, este término, que los altos miembros del Partido Demócrata solían evitar, está de repente en todas partes.
• No solo es Taylor Swift: el activismo musical vuelve a los escenarios. Las bandas quedaron marginadas por la pandemia de COVID-19 durante la campaña de 2020. Este año, cada vez con más sofisticación, fomentan el activismo político.
• Los discursos incoherentes de Trump motivan a sus críticos y preocupan a sus aliados. Algunos asesores y aliados del expresidente temen que sus divagaciones y arranques le estén ayudando a su contrincante.
• La arquidiócesis de Los Ángeles acuerda pagar 880 millones de dólares a víctimas de abuso sexual. Es la indemnización más grande que ha pagado una arquidiócesis, dijeron los expertos, y eleva a más de 1500 millones de dólares el pago acumulado de Los Ángeles en demandas por abusos sexuales.
• Kamala Harris llegó a una entrevista en Fox News. Tuvo un debate. La entrevista de la vicepresidenta con Bret Baier fue su encuentro más conflictivo con un periodista desde que obtuvo la candidatura presidencial demócrata.
• Trump enfrenta duras preguntas de los votantes hispanos con defensas y evasivas. En una asamblea transmitida por Univision el miércoles, Donald Trump no respondió directamente a muchas preguntas francas sobre el cambio climático, la inmigración, el derecho al aborto y otros temas.
• JD Vance por fin dice que no cree que Trump perdió las elecciones en 2020. El senador por Ohio y compañero de fórmula de Donald Trump llevaba semanas esquivando preguntas sobre las falsas afirmaciones del expresidente de que ganó las elecciones de 2020.
• Trump quiere a los votantes jóvenes, pero no difunde sus mensajes en Snapchat. El expresidente se niega a gastar dinero de la campaña en anuncios de esta plataforma, a pesar de su popularidad entre los milénials y la Generación Z.
• Trump aumenta las amenazas a sus adversarios. Nunca un candidato presidencial había sugerido utilizar el ejército contra los estadounidenses simplemente porque se oponen a su candidatura.
• Cinco conclusiones de la entrevista de Kamala Harris con Charlamagne Tha God. Algunos de los asesores de Harris piensan que es demasiado cautelosa al hacer comentarios públicos. Pero el martes, al hablar de Trump en la radio, la vicepresidenta no se contuvo.
• Lufthansa es multada con 4 millones de dólares por impedir el abordaje de pasajeros judíos. El Departamento de Transporte de EE. UU. impuso una multa récord después de que la aerolínea impidiera a 128 viajeros realizar un vuelo de conexión en 2022.
• Los meteorólogos enfrentan amenazas de muerte en medio de la desinformación sobre los huracanes. Los expertos en meteorología dicen que la espiral de falsedades, especialmente las afirmaciones de que el gobierno está creando o controlando las tormentas, se han salido de control.
• Trump escucha música durante 30 minutos en un extraño mitin. Tras varios incidentes de salud entre los asistentes al evento, Donald Trump interrumpió la sesión de preguntas y pareció decidir que sería mejor reproducir su lista musical de campaña.
• La campaña de Trump toma medidas extraordinarias para ahorrar dinero. El comité oficial de campaña de Donald Trump ha encontrado maneras para que cuentas aliadas paguen sus gastos.

Estilos de Vida

• ¿Los suplementos para el crecimiento del cabello sí funcionan? En internet abundan los videos de gente que dice que los suplementos hacen que el pelo sea más grueso, sano y brillante. ¿Será cierto?
• Dale un descanso a la avena y prueba estos cereales. Estas cinco opciones menos conocidas son potencias nutricionales y, además, deliciosas.
• Soy una estríper y mi exnovio me veía como si fuera uno de mis clientes. Mi trabajo ha significado independencia, curación y libertad. ¿Por qué mi pareja no pudo verlo así también?
• Cómo dejar de ser esa persona que quiere complacer a todos. Buscar complacer a la gente puede ocurrir por distintas razones. Aquí te las explicamos.
• Kjersti Flaa, la entrevistadora que está dispuesta a mostrar el lado incómodo de las celebridades. Kjersti Flaa, una periodista noruega radicada en Los Ángeles, afirma que se sentiría bien si sus entrevistas inician discusiones sobre cómo tratar a la gente con respeto.
• El desfile de Victoria’s Secret debió quedarse en el pasado. A pesar de las alas, las supermodelos y Cher, las cosas ya no son iguales.

Mundo

• Cómo se publicaron los diarios de prisión de Alexéi Navalny. En sus memorias póstumas, recopiladas con la ayuda de su viuda, Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny se enfrenta al hecho de que Vladimir Putin podría conseguir silenciarlo. El libro mantendrá “vivo su legado”, dijo Navalnaya.
• Soñaba con escapar de Gaza. El mundo lo vio morir. Shaaban al Dalou, de 19 años, fue identificado como el joven que agitaba los brazos indefenso, envuelto en llamas, en un video que se ha convertido en un símbolo de los horrores de la guerra para los gazatíes.
• Putin recibe a posibles aliados para hacer un contrapeso a Occidente. El dirigente ruso espera utilizar la reunión del llamado grupo BRICS, que incluye a China, Brasil e India, para hacer hacer un posible bloque opuesto.
• Así fue la vida de un prisionero político de EE. UU. en una cárcel rusa. Paul Whelan, el exmarine que fue liberado en agosto, describe el momento de su detención y los largos años de espera hasta su liberación.
• La tensión aumenta en Mozambique tras el asesinato de 2 activistas políticos. Los principales partidarios del candidato presidencial más importante de la oposición, Venâncio Mondlane, fueron atacados en su vehículo tras unas elecciones empañadas por acusaciones de fraude.
• Medio Oriente empieza un cambio. Israel no está incluido. Antes de los atentados de Hamás del 7 de octubre, Arabia Saudita estaba dispuesta a estrechar lazos con Israel. Ahora, un año después de la guerra en Gaza, se está acercando a su enemigo tradicional, Irán.
• Canadá cambia sus políticas de migración. El país ha tenido durante mucho tiempo una de las políticas de migración más abiertas del mundo. Ahora, ante la creciente reacción popular, está cambiando las reglas.
• En este pueblo, un juicio por violación se siente dolorosamente cercano. En Mazan, donde Gisèle Pelicot fue drogada por su marido y violada por él junto a desconocidos, el caso ha conmocionado a sus habitantes. “Se siente un poco como si fuera en nuestra familia”, dijo una residente.
• Un atleta mexicano y otro británico mueren en el Campeonato Mundial de Triatlón en España. Ambos atletas participaban en una prueba de distancia Sprint. Las circunstancias en torno a sus muertes no resultaron claras inmediatamente.
• La muerte de Sinwar podría conmocionar pero no acabar con Hamás, según los expertos. Aunque la muerte de Yahya Sinwar podría provocar un vacío de liderazgo y caos en las filas de Hamás, pocos analistas esperan que la organización colapse.
• La maniobra de Giorgia Meloni: centrista en el extranjero, de derecha en Italia. La primera ministra italiana se ha distanciado de su pasado de extrema derecha en cuestiones internacionales clave, pero mantiene medidas conservadoras para los simpatizantes en su país.
• Cómo Israel encontró y mató a Yahya Sinwar, líder de Hamás, en Gaza. Una unidad de soldados israelíes en prácticas se topó con el líder de Hamás mientras realizaba una operación en el sur de Gaza, dijeron funcionarios de Defensa.
• ¿La muerte de Sinwar significará el fin del combate en Gaza? Israel puede usar el asesinato del líder de Hamás para acordar un alto al fuego y la nueva dirección de Hamás podría estar abierta a negociar. Pero un cambio de rumbo inmediato es poco probable.
• Yahya Sinwar, líder de Hamás, ha muerto. Después de pasar 20 años en una prisión israelí, ascendió al poder en las filas del grupo militante palestino y ayudó a orquestar el ataque más mortífero en la historia de Israel.
• China hace un recuento de pandas salvajes, pero nadie lo cree. La metodología del censo de pandas se considera defectuosa y China mantiene los datos en secreto.
• Zelenski presenta su ‘plan de victoria’ para poner fin a la guerra con Rusia. La propuesta del presidente de Ucrania, que dependería en gran medida de una mayor ayuda de Occidente, ha suscitado una respuesta tibia de los aliados de su país.
• Una estrella del K-pop testifica ante el parlamento de Corea del Sur sobre el acoso laboral. Había altas expectativas sobre la comparecencia de Hanni, integrante de NewJeans, uno de los mayores grupos de K-pop, pues las voces disidentes son inusuales en esa industria.
• Justin Trudeau pone en la mira el alcance de las agencias de inteligencia indias en el extranjero. El primer ministro de Canadá acusa al gobierno indio de estar implicado en el asesinato de un nacionalista sij, escalando la crisis diplomática entre ambos países.
• Los sobrevivientes del incendio del hospital de Gaza dicen vivir una ‘pesadilla recurrente’ Decenas de familias refugiadas frente al Hospital de los Mártires de al-Aqsa dicen que han sobrevivido a una serie de ataques israelíes contra el complejo y que se sienten atrapadas sin tener adónde ir.

Negocios

• ¿Qué hay en el menú? Estos restaurantes no lo revelan. Los dueños de estos locales afirman que no comparten muchos detalles en internet porque intentan revivir un espíritu romántico y aventurero que se perdió hace tiempo.
• Amazon, Google y Microsoft, hambrientos de energía, recurren a la nuclear. La demanda de energía se ha acelerado debido a las grandes inversiones que las empresas tecnológicas han realizado en inteligencia artificial, la cual requiere mucha más potencia que otros negocios tecnológicos más convencionales.

Op-Ed

• A esta película de terror de Hollywood la conozco bien. He visto cómo el mundo del espectáculo puede deformar la percepción que una joven tiene de sí misma. Incluso he sido presa de algunas de ellas.

Opinión

• Trump, Harris y el simbolismo perdurable de McDonald’s. La imagen pública del típico empleado de McDonald’s se ha entrelazado con el esquivo votante que ambos partidos esperan atraer en los últimos días de la contienda electoral.
• Cuando Trump despotrica, esto es lo que oigo. Para mí, las declaraciones de Trump contra los migrantes tienen un efecto acumulativo que desfigura a Estados Unidos en vez de exaltarlo.
• No hay una forma segura de convertir a los adolescentes en megaestrellas. Para la industria del entretenimiento, la vida de los artistas no vale más que sus ganancias. Así parece haber pasado con Liam Payne.
• ¿Por qué rayos Kamala Harris no va ganando? Los partidos políticos han cambiado sus prioridades, lo que ha ocasionado que no puedan llegar a otros votantes ni construir coaliciones mayoritarias duraderas.
• Estados Unidos va hacia una tormenta económica. El envejecimiento de la población, el auge de la inteligencia artificial y los cambios en la globalización están a punto de remodelar la economía estadounidense de una forma que no se había visto en décadas.
• En caso de crisis electoral, esto es lo que debes saber. Disponemos de poco tiempo para comprender los retos a los que se enfrentan las legislaturas estatales, el Congreso, los poderes ejecutivos y los jueces electos antes de las elecciones en EE.UU.
• La decisión que tomé hace 30 años y de la que me arrepiento. Abrí mi cuenta de correo electrónico sin la menor idea de que mi vida estaba a punto de resquebrajarse en los hemisferios del antes y el después.
• Los acusados en el juicio por violación en Francia nos están diciendo algo espeluznante. Las últimas semanas han sido un brutal recordatorio de que la ignorancia o la pretensión de no saber puede ser una cómoda herramienta de los poderosos.

Tiempo y clima

• En Colombia, la protección internacional de la biodiversidad está en el foco. Delegados de todo el mundo se reúnen en Cali en la que se espera que sea la mayor conferencia de la ONU sobre biodiversidad de la historia.
• La tormenta tropical Oscar se vuelca sobre una Cuba en crisis eléctrica. Se esperan precipitaciones de hasta 300 milímetros en el oriente de Cuba durante los próximos días. Los apagones han afectado a todo el país.
• Los meteorólogos ofrecen un vistazo a los pronósticos para este invierno. Se acerca el invierno. ¿Pero traerá nieve? La NOAA anunció el jueves su previsión invernal anual.
• Estos científicos analizaron el aliento de los delfines y encontraron plástico. Los investigadores que estudian los delfines mulares encontraron poliéster y otros plásticos en todos los animales que analizaron.

Weather

• Tracking Tropical Storm Trami. See the likely path and wind arrival times for Trami.
• Monitoreo de la tormenta tropical Kristy, en vivo. Consulta la trayectoria probable y las horas de llegada de los vientos de Kristy.
• Tracking Tropical Storm Kristy. See the likely path and wind arrival times for Kristy.
• Monitoreo del huracán Oscar, en vivo. Consulta la trayectoria probable y las horas de llegada de los vientos de Oscar.
• Tracking Tropical Storm Oscar. See the likely path and wind arrival times for Oscar.
• Here’s the latest on the storm.
• Tropical Storm Nadine Weakens After Making Landfall in Belize. Now a tropical depression, Nadine was bringing heavy rain to Mexico, Belize and Guatemala this weekend.
• Weather Experts Offer a Peek at This Winter’s Forecast. Winter is coming. But will it bring snow? NOAA announced its annual winter outlook on Thursday.

Headway

• How Fugetsu-Do Survived the Evolution of Little Tokyo. Fugetsu-Do, a mochi store in the Little Tokyo neighborhood of Los Angeles, has existed for 121 years, with a lasting impact on its community.
• Teens, Do You Feel Represented in This Election? As the 2024 election heats up, Headway is asking teenagers to weigh in on whether today’s candidates are addressing their concerns.
• What Teenagers Told Us About Their Faith in U.S. Politics. Most teens who responded to the Headway Election Challenge thought a vote could make a difference, but they don’t trust the overall system to address issues that matter to them.