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• How Helene Has Upended North Carolina’s Election Plans. With 13 counties devastated by flooding, the state is trying to make sure that residents can still vote. Candidates have been forced to abandon door-knocking and phone banks.
• Vandals Deface Harvard Statue and U. of Michigan Leaders’ Homes. It was not clear who was responsible for the broken windows, fake blood and pro-Palestinian slogans.
• Vote by Mail Often Subject To Pitfalls In Counting. Voting by mail is increasingly popular, but mail ballots are rejected far more often than in-person ones. In Pennsylvania and elsewhere, parties are battling over which ones to count — or not.
• Ex-Houston Police Officer Gets 60 Years in Prison in Drug Raid Killings. A jury had found Gerald Goines guilty of felony murder in the deaths of two people who were fatally shot during a botched drug raid in 2019.
• School Absences Rise as Special Education Fails Students, Suit Says. A class-action lawsuit argues that the New York City school system falls short in helping students with emotional disabilities, leaving them to miss too many school days.
• A U.N. Official’s Payments: Zero Interest Loans, a Mercedes and a Tennis Sponsorship. The official secretly took $3 million in gifts from a businessman to whom he steered the organization’s funds, a court ruled. The U.N. got a song about the ocean.
• Justices Appear Receptive To Limits on ‘Ghost Guns’ At issue was how the Biden administration had interpreted a federal statute to regulate kits that could be assembled into homemade guns, skirting background checks.
• Death Row Inmate in Oklahoma Has an Unusual Ally: The State’s Attorney General. Both sides told the Supreme Court that long-suppressed evidence about the state’s star witness undermined the case against the inmate, Richard Glossip.
• Protest That the University of Maryland Sought to Prevent Goes On. The school, citing safety, had said no to an event planned on the anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, but a judge’s ruling last week allowed it to go ahead.
• The Price of a Mega Millions Ticket Will More Than Double to $5. Mega Millions officials said players’ odds would be increased and jackpot sizes would be bigger after the price increase next April.
• Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestinian Students at Columbia Hold Side-by-Side Protests. During tense but somber vigils on the university library steps, students and their supporters expressed outrage and sorrow.
• Pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian students hold side-by-side demonstrations at Columbia. During tense but somber vigils on the university library steps, students and their supporters expressed outrage and sorrow.
• Back on the Bench, the Supreme Court Is Diligent and Dour. The justices considered a routine case on unemployment benefits in characteristic style, peppering the lawyers with questions and dropping hints about their views.
• Georgia Supreme Court Restores State’s 6-Week Abortion Ban. The ban will resume while the court considers an appeal to a decision that had briefly allowed greater access to abortions in the state.
• Floridians, Still Feeling Storm Fatigue, To Flee Again. Officials urged residents in the expected path of the hurricane, now a Category 5, to heed evacuation orders as the state mobilized resources to respond to the storm.
• Campuses Are Calmer, but They Are Not Normal, Students and Faculty Say. A year of war in Gaza has left college students and faculty feeling shaken and angry, with the world and with each other.
• For Some Children, Hurricane Helene’s Ruin ‘Could Take Years to Get Over’ School closures and traumatic experiences could affect children long after schools reopen. Experts worry that similar scenarios are happening with much more frequency because of climate change.
• At North Carolina Churches After Helene, a Time to Grieve and a Time to Hope. Worshipers gathered on Sunday, many for the first time since the storm decimated their communities, “to cry and pray and process.”
• Antisemitic Incidents Reach New High in the U.S., Report Finds. The Anti-Defamation League has found that cases of antisemitism have surged in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas against Israel last year.
• Disinformation Is Hampering Helene Recovery. In North Carolina and other states, a barrage of conspiracy theories and false claims over efforts to bring relief after Hurricane Helene is alarming and disheartening officials and workers.
• In Helene’s Deadly Wake, Grieving for a Lost Mother. More than a week after workers fled flooding outside their factory, much remains unclear, including how many died.
• A Year After Feinstein’s Death, Her Life’s Belongings Are for Sale. Senator Dianne Feinstein collected fine jewelry, paintings and a trove of political mementos. Because of her trust, many of those items are available for public inspection — and purchase.
• For Now, Term Is Shaping Up As a Mild One. Aside from major disputes on issues like transgender rights and guns, the docket is fairly routine. That could change fast if the presidential race is contested.
• How Oct. 7 Changed Jews In America. In a year of trauma, many Jews have found support in the deep wells of history, community and faith.
• Helene Recovery Efforts Pose Daunting Challenge. The worst fallout from the hurricane is in western North Carolina, but at least five other states are grappling with their own intractable problems.
• North Carolina’s Cell Service Outages Hamper Relief Efforts. Service has been restored in some areas after Hurricane Helene, but many people are still unable to communicate by phone, which has hampered relief efforts, worried loved ones and complicated daily life.
• Slices of the Appalachian Trail Left Impassable in Many States. Downed trees and flooding have left the trail impassable in many of the 14 states on its route.
• Pro-Palestinian Group Is Relentless in Its Criticism of Israel, and It Isn’t Backing Down. Within Our Lifetime, a group formed by New York students, has galvanized pro-Palestinian activists who are calling for the end of Israel — and facing accusations of antisemitism.
• After Helene’s Deluge, Asheville’s Water Crisis Has No End in Sight. City officials have refused to provide estimates of when the devastated water system in Asheville, N.C., will be back in operation.
• Instructor at Troubled Skydiving Spot Gets 2 Years After Faking Credentials. The facility near Lodi, Calif., where he trained people in tandem jumping, has come under scrutiny amid more than two dozen deaths since 1985.
• Trump-Backed Bible Fits Oklahoma Schools’ Call. The bid details for new Bibles the state is buying seem to point to a version promoted by former President Donald J. Trump.
• What to Know About the Verdict in the Tyre Nichols Case. Three former Memphis police officers were found guilty on Thursday of federal witness tampering charges in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man. They were acquitted of the more serious charge of violating his civil rights by ...
• Still Searching, and Holding Out Hope, for Missing Loved Ones. The storm’s death toll has climbed past 225, but many people remain unaccounted for and searching for them is complicated. Their families are desperate for answers.
• In Chicago, Resignations Empty Out School Board. Mayor Brandon Johnson has been at odds with the head of Chicago Public Schools over his plan to fill a $1 billion gap in the district’s budget.
• Cameras, and Scrutiny, Follow Voting Activists. In Arizona and other states, the activists are accusing Latino advocacy groups of registering undocumented immigrants. Canvassers are growing concerned about safety.
• New Los Angeles Police Chief Is a Conventional Choice. Mayor Karen Bass named Jim McDonnell as the new Los Angeles Police Department chief, one of the nation’s highest-profile law enforcement jobs.
• Nibi the Beaver’s Future Reached the Courts. Then the Massachusetts Governor Stepped In. Nibi the beaver was saved by a wildlife rescue. But then she was ordered released into the wild. Her fate was on the line.
• Gang Attack in Haiti Leaves at Least 70 Dead. The assault took place in a key agricultural region, which has seen a surge in gang violence.
• Supreme Court to Decide Whether Mexico Can Sue Gun Makers in the U.S. The justices will consider whether a 2005 law that gives gun makers broad immunity applies in the case, which accuses them of complicity in supplying cartels with weapons.
• In This Vote, The Issues Are Weighty And . . . Fishy. Ten years in, Fat Bear Week has drawn millions of viewers to a live webcam in Alaska to follow along and vote for the chonkiest brown bear at Katmai National Park.
• What Does College Football Have to Do With College? The question isn’t new. But seismic changes to college sports, embraced by Coach Deion Sanders and his University of Colorado Buffaloes, have made it more relevant than ever.
• Unexpected Problem In the Rise of Marijuana. The drug, legal in much of the country, is widely seen as nonaddictive and safe. For some users, these assumptions are dangerously wrong.
• 3 Idaho Big-Game Guides Led Illegal Mountain Lion Hunts, U.S. Says. The three face federal charges for leading hunts as part of an unlicensed outfitting business separate from their employer, federal prosecutors said.
• Verdict Is Mixed In Memphis Case. The former officers were found guilty of witness tampering but not of the charge that would have held them responsible for causing his death.
• A Storied Luxury Liner May Soon Find New Life on the Florida Seafloor. The S.S. United States, one of the fastest ships to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean, may be sunk off the coast and turned into a habitat to marine life as the world’s largest artificial reef.
• Assistance Slow to Reach Hard-Hit Latino Communities. Language and other barriers are hobbling the flow of assistance to hard-hit communities where affordable housing drew growing numbers of Hispanic migrants.
• Churches Near Dallas Abound. So Do Their Pastors’ Scandals. In this part of Texas, a pastor with a clean reputation is not to be taken for granted.
• Storm Shows Need for Emergency Plans Inland. Most of the deaths from Hurricane Helene occurred far from Florida, where the storm first made landfall. Experts say alerts and evacuation orders need to target inland residents too.
• Lahaina Inferno Emerged From Smoldering Remnants of Quelled Fire, Report Says. Federal investigators have concluded that hidden embers remained from a morning fire in the Hawaii town of Lahaina. They reignited later into a fire that destroyed much of the town.
• Walz Spoke of Gun Violence Affecting His Son. Here’s an Account of the Shooting. At Tuesday’s debate, Gov. Tim Walz said that his son, Gus Walz, witnessed a shooting at a community center. A volleyball coach said Gus helped other young players to safety.
• FEMA Aid Is Arriving. But Some Residents Are Helping Their Own. Six days after Hurricane Helene, North Carolina was getting help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and others. But officials still faced obstacles reaching some areas.
• Man Who Set Fire to Cabin in the Grand Canyon Gets 20 Months in Prison. The 21-year-old was arrested in May, shortly after he set fire to his former girlfriend’s residence in the park, the authorities said.
• Read the Special Counsel’s Newly Unsealed Evidence Against Trump. A sprawling legal brief by the special counsel, Jack Smith, lays out his case for why former President Donald J. Trump is not immune from prosecution on federal charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election. It adds new details of how Mr. Trum...
• With Wi-Fi and Phones Down, the Town Square Becomes a Hub for Information. Modern technology has been slow to return to mountain towns after Helene. Whiteboards and gatherings are helping residents find missing people and much-needed supplies.
• Left Stranded In Mountains After Helene. With no way for cars to get into Bat Cave, N.C., food and water have been dropped off by helicopters or carried over the river on foot or by a raft.
• Vance and Walz Are Close On the Issue of Child Care. Both vice-presidential candidates say the government should spend more on child care, a rare point of agreement. But there are still major differences in how they talk about families and gender roles.
• Three Deaths Put a Chill on Clubbing in Brooklyn. As rumors spin on social media, revelers in one of New York City’s most popular neighborhoods for nightlife are on higher alert.
• Biden Surveys the Wreckage From Helene and Deploys 1,000 Troops to Help. Officials are still uncovering the extent of the devastation in western North Carolina, which President Biden took in from the air. The storm killed at least 183 people in six states.
• At a Wisconsin watch party, the debate leaves students ambivalent. Some students at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside seemed underwhelmed. One noted, ‘This is long, huh?’
• At a Wisconsin Watch Party, the Debate Leaves Some Students Uninspired. Some students at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside seemed underwhelmed. One noted, ‘This is long, huh?’
• At a Georgia watch party, few students see the debate as a tiebreaker.
• Video Footage Shows Fatal Shooting of Kentucky Judge. A preliminary hearing in the case against a former sheriff yielded details about his interactions with the slain judge before he was killed.
• Ex-Frat Leaders Sentenced in Hazing Death of Penn State Student. Brendan Young, 28, and Daniel Casey, 27, will spend two to four months in prison for their roles in the 2017 death of Timothy Piazza, a 19-year-old from New Jersey.

Elections

• Toplines: October 2024 Times/Siena Poll of Registered Voters Nationwide. Results of a nationwide New York Times/Siena College poll conducted among 3,385 registered voters from Sept. 29 to Oct. 6, 2024.
• Cross-Tabs: October 2024 Times/Siena Poll of the Likely Electorate in Texas. Results of a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted among 617 likely voters in Texas from Sept. 29 to Oct. 4, 2024.
• Toplines: October 2024 Times/Siena Poll of Registered Voters in Texas. Results of a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted among 617 likely voters in Texas from Sept. 29 to Oct. 4, 2024.
• Toplines: October 2024 Times/Siena Poll of Registered Voters in Florida. Results of a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted among 622 registered voters in Florida from Sept. 29 to Oct. 6, 2024.
• Cross-Tabs: October 2024 Times/Siena Poll of the National Likely Electorate. Results of a nationwide New York Times/Siena College poll conducted among 3,385 likely voters from Sept. 29 to Oct. 6, 2024.
• Cross-Tabs: October 2024 Times/Siena Poll of the Likely Electorate in Florida. Results of a New York Times/Siena College poll conducted among 622 likely voters in Florida from Sept. 29 to Oct. 6, 2024.
• Feeling the Spirit at Butler, a ‘Hallowed Place’ Donald Trump returned to the site where he was shot in the ear. For some of his supporters, it was a religious event as much as a campaign rally.
• The Fight for Rural America. One in five Americans identifies as rural, and since the 1960s, their votes have become increasingly Republican. Astead W. Herndon, a politics reporter and the host of the New York Times podcast “The Run-Up,” examines how Republicans expanded thei...
• Where Trump and Harris Stand on the Economy. Here’s where Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump stand on economic issues like inflation, taxes and more. Maggie Astor, who covers politics for The New York Times, looks at the candidates’ views, proposals and records.
• In Defiant Trip Back to Butler, Risks Abound. At a time of increased security risks, the former president has urged thousands of supporters to return with him to the place a gunman tried to take his life.
• Undecided Voters Tell Us About Their Biggest Worries. Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris are starkly different presidential candidates. So why are so many voters — roughly 1 in 6 — still unsure of their choice?
• Liz Cheney Endorses Kamala Harris. The former congresswoman and Republican exile campaigned with the vice president in the battleground state of Wisconsin.
• The V.P. Debate Might Boost Vance and Walz, but It Probably Won’t Shift the Polls. Voters may view JD Vance and Tim Walz more positively after Tuesday’s debate. But it’s unlikely to have much impact on their choices for president.
• Vance and Walz Spar Over Key Policy Issues. Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota and Senator JD Vance of Ohio debated immigration, abortion and foreign policy — and then clashed over Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss. Jazmine Ulloa, a national politics reporter for The New York Times, highlights some...
• Best, Worst and Most Unlikely Lines of the Vice-Presidential Debate. JD Vance gave a shout-out to his wife. Tim Walz sang the praises of Minnesota. Offstage, Donald Trump got distracted.
• Vance Says Trump Delivered ‘Stability’ Senator JD Vance defended Donald J. Trump’s time in office during the vice-presidential debate.
• Walz Calls Himself a ‘Knucklehead’ for Past Misstatements. Gov. Tim Walz said he “misspoke” about where he was during the Tiananmen Square massacre in June of 1989.
• Gov. Walz Criticizes Trump’s Record on Roe v. Wade. Gov. Tim Walz attacked former President Donald J. Trump’s record on abortion — and then turned to the stories of women living with the consequences of abortion bans.
• Tracking Attacks in the Vance-Walz Debate. See how the vice presidential candidates used their speaking time to discuss the issues or criticize their opponent.

Politics

• What Omarosa, John Kerry and Michael Cohen Have in Common. And why it matters in 2024.
• With Kennedy on the Ballot, Vance Talks Public Health in Michigan. Senator JD Vance of Ohio spoke of the occurrence of “weird childhood diseases” that may be caused by “weird stuff” in the food and water supply.
• Romney Won’t Endorse Harris, Saying He Wants to Keep His Voice in the Party. Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, the 2012 Republican nominee for president, says the party may need to be rebuilt.
• 13 Things We Learned From Harris’s Interview With Howard Stern. In a lengthy sit-down, the veteran radio host extracted an array of new details about Kamala Harris’s life.
• Poll Finds Support for Florida’s Abortion Ballot Measure Is Falling Short. Earlier surveys have shown higher support, but the state’s Republican governor is working hard to defeat the initiative.
• Inside a Harris Ad in Which Ex-Trump Aides Blast Him as Unfit for Office. An attack ad from Kamala Harris’s campaign uses denunciations of Donald Trump by his own former top security lieutenants to portray him as too risky to restore to power.
• Trump and G.O.P. Are Betting Big On Trans Issues. Republicans have spent tens of millions of dollars on the ads, part of an attempt to help them win over suburban female voters.
• U.S. Budget Deficit Rises to Highest Level in 3 Years: $1.8 Trillion. New estimates from the Congressional Budget Office show continuing fiscal strain, despite steady economic growth.
• On ‘The View,’ Harris Hits at Trump’s ‘Callousness’ in His Storm Response. In a wide-ranging interview, the vice president also she could not think of a way she would act differently from President Biden, and laid out a plan to help Americans take care of aging loved ones.
• Top Musk Lieutenant Joins Trump Super PAC for Final Push. Steve Davis is often called upon by Mr. Musk to help in all-hands-on-deck situations, such as after Mr. Musk’s purchase of Twitter.
• Pro-Palestinian ‘Uncommitted’ Group Comes Out Firmly Against Trump. The organization that emerged from protests against the Biden administration’s Middle East policies now says a second Trump term would be far worse.
• Biden Warns Floridians to ‘Evacuate Now’ as He Postpones Foreign Trip Over Hurricane Milton. President Biden had been scheduled to leave for Germany and Angola on Thursday.
• Iran Crisis Ignites New Debate About Trump’s Nuclear Deal Exit. President Donald J. Trump labeled it “the worst deal in history.” But critics of the withdrawal say it prompted Iran to accelerate its nuclear program.
• Trump Secretly in Touch With Putin After Office, Book by Woodward Says. A new book by the journalist Bob Woodward also reports that Donald J. Trump, while still in office, secretly sent Vladimir Putin what were then rare Covid-19 test machines for the Russian leader’s personal use.
• Here’s the latest on the presidential race.
• Poll Finds Harris Rising as She Challenges Trump on Change. A national Times/Siena poll found Kamala Harris with a slim lead over Donald J. Trump. Voters were more likely to see her, not Mr. Trump, as a break from the status quo.
• Trump Sees Antisemitism in Only One Direction: On the Left. At an event marking the anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Donald Trump claimed that antisemitism existed within the Democratic Party but not the Republican Party.
• 7 Takeaways From Harris’s Interview on ‘60 Minutes’ Pressed repeatedly, Kamala Harris stayed focused on the points she wanted to make. She also spoke about owning a Glock, and Tim Walz revealed she had told him to be a “little more careful” speaking.
• That Gun Harris Told Oprah Winfrey About? It’s a Glock. “And I’ve had it for quite some time,” Vice President Kamala Harris said on “60 Minutes.”
• Trump Says He’s Visited Gaza, but No Record of Such a Trip Exists. An aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity, pointed to the former president’s trip to Israel. But Gaza is not in Israel.
• Russia, China and Iran Intend to Stoke False Election Claims, Officials Warn. Intelligence officials said that foreign adversaries were planning to take advantage of another close U.S. election to undermine trust in the country’s democratic process.
• Trump’s Ugly Closing Argument. He delivers a mix of disinformation, false claims about cheating in elections and personal attacks.
• Lofty Goals Unmet, Biden Faces Limits of U.S. Clout in a Powder-Keg Region. In the immediate aftermath of the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, the president stepped in to support Israel, counsel moderation and seek a lasting peace.
• Inside a Trump Ad Attacking Harris on Energy and the Environment. An ad in Michigan and Pennsylvania revives the vice president’s past positions on climate change and the environment.
• Washington Worries the Israelis Will Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Sites. But Can They? For 22 years, Israeli forces have planned for this moment. But it seems unlikely that they will strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in the next round of retaliation, or that they would be successful without American help.
• Biden’s Appeal Turned Down in Abortion Case. The administration said a state abortion law conflicted with a federal law requiring emergency care. The court similarly sidestepped a case from Idaho in June.
• Harris Honors Oct. 7 Dead as Victims of ‘Pure Evil’ and Vows to Defend Israel. Condemning the Hamas-led attacks a year ago and calling again for the release of hostages in Gaza, Vice President Kamala Harris also spoke of “the immense suffering of innocent Palestinians.”
• Viktor Bout Is Trying to Sell Weapons to the Houthis, Western Officials Say. The Russian arms dealer, who was freed in a prisoner exchange with the United States, is negotiating with the militant group in Yemen.
• Tim Sheehy was recorded saying young people were ‘indoctrinated’ to support liberal causes.
• Harris Often Sidesteps Her History-Making Potential. Walz Doesn’t. Vice President Kamala Harris rarely points out the fact that she would be the first female president or the first Black or Indian woman to hold the job. Her running mate embraces it.
• Musk’s Super PAC Offers $47 to Those Who Help It Find Trump Voters. Musk’s group wants registered voters to sign a petition that it can use to target potential supporters of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. It’s offering a cash reward for referrals.
• Georgia election officials see no significant disruptions in voting after Hurricane Helene. A top official nevertheless suggested that people in storm-affected areas consider returning absentee ballots in person.
• Republican Senate candidate, lightheaded, is escorted off debate stage. Curtis Bashaw, 64, appeared rejuvenated when he returned, and the New Jersey Senate debate continued uninterrupted for two hours.
• In Michigan, Some Arab Voters Spurning Harris. A year after the Oct. 7 attacks, Kamala Harris faces deepening Democratic fractures in a crucial state. Interviews suggest that her support from Muslim and Arab Americans is drying up.
• Porn Industry Jumps Into the Presidential Campaign, Targeting Project 2025. In seven swing states, the industry’s websites will feature ads decrying the conservative policy blueprint’s proposed ban on pornography.
• Trump’s increasingly angry and rambling speeches reignite the question of age in the election.
• Here’s the latest on the 2024 race.
• Trump’s Plans Could Increase U.S. Debt While Raising Costs for Most Americans. A new analysis finds that Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump’s plans would both add to the deficit, but Mr. Trump’s proposals could create a fiscal hole twice as big.
• A Year After Oct. 7 Massacre, Jewish Anxiety Peaks in Pennsylvania. Jewish voters in Pittsburgh feel squeezed by intolerance on the left and the right, and torn by presidential candidates seeking their support in a vital battleground state.
• ‘Ghost Guns’ Case Before Supreme Court Has Major Implications for Industry in Flux. The number of untraceable homemade guns recovered at crime scenes has fallen since the enactment of rules restricting the sale of the weapons, according to law enforcement statistics.
• The ‘Crypto Punks’ Behind Trump’s Murky New Business Venture. The serial entrepreneurs behind Donald J. Trump’s new cryptocurrency project have left a trail of lawsuits, unpaid debt and tax liens.
• Harris Hits Back at G.O.P. Criticism of Childless Women on ‘Call Her Daddy’ Podcast. “All of us understand that this is not the 1950s anymore,” Vice President Kamala Harris told the host of the podcast “Call Her Daddy,” which is popular with millennial and Gen Z women.
• Tim Walz Makes First Sunday Show Appearance Since Joining Ticket. Mr. Walz, who has kept a relatively low profile since becoming Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, appeared on Fox News Sunday.
• Harris, Emphasizing ‘Freedom’ on Gun Issue, Reframes Conversation. The vice president is talking about firearms in a new way for a Democrat — by co-opting the language of Republicans.
• Harris Will Appear in a Whirlwind of Interviews, Most of Them Friendly. After mostly avoiding interviews as her campaign began, the vice president will hold several this week, including with Howard Stern, Stephen Colbert and the hosts of “The View.”
• How Trump’s Speeches Raise Questions About Age. With President Biden out of the 2024 election, former President Donald J. Trump at 78 is now the oldest major party nominee in U.S. history. Peter Baker, senior White House correspondent at The New York Times, explains the change he found in the f...
• Trump Reignites Question of Age With Ramblings. With the passage of time, the 78-year-old former president’s speeches have grown darker, harsher, longer, angrier, less focused, more profane and increasingly fixated on the past, according to a review of his public appearances over the years.
• Melinda French Gates Is Nonpartisan No More. After her divorce from Bill Gates, Ms. French Gates came into her own billions of dollars, with which she could do whatever she chose. She used to insist on appearing nonpartisan, but no more.
• Trump’s Return to Scene of Attack Was a Do-Over in More Ways Than One. The former president returned to the stage where a gunman tried to kill him in July and tried to recapture some of the momentum he had before President Biden dropped out.
• Elon Musk Leaps to Trump’s Side in Rally Appearance. Mr. Musk, the world’s richest man and the leader of Tesla and X, delivered a dark warning during an animated appearance at former President Donald J. Trump’s rally.
• Harris Meets With Arab and Muslim Leaders in Michigan. The meeting, which took place backstage, came as Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign ramped up efforts to appeal directly to Arab and Muslim voters in the final weeks before the election.
• Kamala Harris Visits North Carolina to Check on Hurricane Response. The vice president visited Charlotte, N.C., for an update on relief efforts after Hurricane Helene ravaged wide swaths of the Southeast.
• What we know about the first attempted assassination of Trump in Butler, Pa.
• Widow of Man Killed in July Attack on Trump Returns for Rally. Helen Comperatore, whose husband, Corey Comperatore, was killed when a gunman tried to assassinate former President Donald J. Trump, returned to honor her husband’s memory.
• Security Is Tighter for Trump Rally at Site of July Assassination Attempt. The Secret Service has deployed large forces to protect former President Donald J. Trump as he prepares to hold a rally in Butler, Pa., where a gunman attacked him in July.
• Hundreds of Storm-Ravaged Roads, and No Timeline for Fixing Them. Repairing the roads in the region near the North Carolina-Tennessee border could take months. Some residents worry about the impact on the local economy.
• Checking Off Final Days of Presidency, But the Most Important May Lie Ahead. Even as President Biden recedes from view, some of the most consequential days of his term may be ahead of him.
• Campaigns Seek Any Edge To Sway a Tossup Election. With tight contests in all seven battleground states, the candidates are pressing for a few thousand votes that could sway the outcome of the entire election.
• Supporters Who Watched as Trump Was Shot Prepare to Welcome Him Back. Donald J. Trump is returning to Butler, Pa., to hold another rally at the site where he was nearly assassinated in July in an attack that killed a man and wounded two others.
• Women Campaigning for Harris Take Abortion Stories Door to Door. The Harris campaign is trying to transform women in battleground states into an organizing force who can drive their friends and family to the polls.
• For G.O.P. Freshman, Don’t Mind Evidence; He Has His Theories. Representative Eli Crane, a first-term Arizona Republican, has emerged as the chief right-wing voice pushing conspiracy theories about the Trump assassination attempts.
• Civil Rights Inquiries For Campus Protests Hang Over Schools. Dozens of discrimination complaints brought by conservative and pro-Jewish groups after the Oct. 7 attacks last year have spawned lengthy federal inquiries that some worry could chill free speech on campus.
• Behind Trump’s Views on Ukraine: Putin’s Gambit and a Political Grudge. The roots of Donald Trump’s animus toward Ukraine — an issue with profound consequences should he be elected again — can be found in a yearlong series of events spanning 2016 and 2017.
• Biden Urges Congress to Replenish Disaster Relief Funds Quickly. The president said a Small Business Administration program needed to help business owners recover from Hurricane Helene was set to run out of money in weeks, before Congress reconvenes.
• In Her Book, Mysterious Mrs. Trump Sounds Familiar. Shining a little more light on her mysterious life, her memoir details her support for abortion rights, her doubts about the 2020 election and her explanation for that “I really don’t care” jacket.
• In North Carolina Town Hall, Trump Makes a Series of Promises to Appeal to Veterans. Donald J. Trump answered preselected questions from a pro-military crowd who echoed his false claims and approved of his vow to conduct massive deportations of undocumented immigrants.
• Aides Say Trump Resisted Sending Federal Funds After California Wildfires. He changed his mind after being shown data that his supporters in the state had been affected, the former officials said. One called his approach “red states vs. blue states.”
• Harris, in Michigan, Tries to Head Off Trump’s Attacks Over Gas Cars. Kamala Harris, who has faced a flurry of Trump ads in Michigan misleadingly arguing that she wants to ban gas cars altogether, promised, “I will never tell you what kind of car you have to drive.”
• Trump’s False Claims About the Federal Response to Hurricane Helene. The former president falsely accused the Biden administration of spending disaster funding on migrants, neglecting areas that had voted for Republicans and ignoring a call from a Republican governor.
• It’s Not World War III. But Foreign Conflicts May Get Uglier Before Election Day. Rarely do foreign crises and a presidential election collide like they have in the past few days.
• Reporter Asks Biden if He Would Reconsider Dropping Out of the Race. President Biden, who reluctantly surrendered his bid for a second term, has wanted to be president for most of his adult life.
• Trump Campaign Distributes Raised Funds to Victims in Butler, Pa. The recipients included the families of those killed and wounded, and a Trump supporter who lost income when his rental cranes were stuck at the site.
• Biden Cautions Israel on Striking Iranian Oil Fields. President Biden said Israel should consider alternative ways of retaliating against Iran, a day after he said the United States was “in discussion” about the possibility of Israel striking Iran’s oil fields.
• Biden’s Plan To Forgive Student Debt Halted Again. The ruling was the latest instance of legal whiplash for the over 27 million borrowers who could qualify, and yet another blow to the president’s pledge to provide mass student debt relief.
• Trump Falsely Promotes Endorsement From Banker Who Hasn’t Endorsed Him. As the campaign reaches its final month, the Republican nominee is intensifying his pattern of making false and outlandish statements.
• Biden Voices Concern That the Election May Not Be ‘Peaceful’ President Biden said he was confident next month’s election would be free and fair, but that he was concerned about what former President Donald J. Trump and his supporters would do if he lost his bid for another term.
• Election Workers Facing Pressure in Vital County. Republicans this year attempted to block certification of local elections in Washoe, a critical swing county — a worrying sign for what could be ahead, the Democratic secretary of state said.
• Trump Signals Programs That Allow Lawful Entry Into U.S. Would Change. The former president and his allies, who often decry undocumented immigrants, are targeting programs that allow millions of people to enter the country lawfully.
• Death Penalty, Nuclear Waste and More: Supreme Court Rounds Out Coming Term. Three cases all stem from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, which often finds itself to the right of the Supreme Court.
• Harris Ad to Showcase Support of Liz Cheney and Other Republicans. Vice President Kamala Harris has been seeking to give Republicans who dislike the former president a permission structure to support her instead.
• U.S. Presence in Mideast Spurs Debate at Pentagon . Military officials discuss whether sending more force to the Middle East is helping to prevent a much wider war, or emboldening Israel.
• Biden Says the Election Will Be Fair. But He’s Not Sure It Will Be Peaceful. President Biden’s remarks underscore the concerns in the government about the possibility of violence during or after the election.
• Program Letting Migrants Stay In U.S. to Lapse. The decision comes as political pressure mounts to cut down on programs that allow migrants to stay in the United States temporarily, even without a visa or green card.
• Deferring Debate Over Disaster Funds Has Its Own Political Perils. Congressional leaders deferred a debate over sending federal money to respond to Hurricane Helene until after the election, delaying a potentially messy political fight.
• Inside a Republican Ad Accusing Jon Tester of Flip-Flopping on Immigration. A Republican group is using misleading language about the Montana senator’s support for a bipartisan immigration bill in 2013 to accuse him of selling out to the Washington establishment.
• Bearing Witness To A Community Left In Ruin. After years of documenting the effects of climate change in his home state of North Carolina, a photographer found himself in the path of a hurricane.
• Hamas Leader Is Holding Out for a Multifront War, U.S. Officials Say. Yahya Sinwar is increasingly fatalistic, has blocked a cease-fire deal and, so far, been frustrated that Hezbollah and Iran have not come to his aid, officials said.
• Justices Let Biden’s Limits on Mercury and Methane Move Forward. Republican-led states and industry groups argued that the Environmental Protection Agency had moved too fast and imposed onerous regulations.
• Black Men’s Frustration Is Opening for Trump. Most Black men in the key battleground will back Vice President Kamala Harris — but the Trump campaign has made an effort to capitalize on a sense of dissatisfaction some voters have expressed.
• Obama, Democrats’ Elder Statesman, Will Stump for Harris in Final Election Push. Mr. Obama, the first Black president, had cast Vice President Kamala Harris as the inheritor of his political movement in a speech at the Democratic convention.
• Harris Distant From a Father Much Like Her. Donald J. Harris rarely speaks to his famous daughter, who lives nearby. But he helped shape who she became.
• Trump Rally in Michigan Dominated by More False Statements. Appearing for roughly 85 minutes onstage, the Republican nominee repeated false claims about the 2020 election and introduced a mischaracterization about disaster-relief money.
• Determined Cheney, at Harris’s Side, Says It’s ‘Our Duty’ to Reject Trump. The former congresswoman and Republican exile stumped for Kamala Harris in Ripon, Wis., the birthplace of the G.O.P., calling on conservatives to shun Donald Trump’s “depraved cruelty.”
• Walz, Appealing to Muslim Voters, Says War in Gaza ‘Must End Now’ Gov. Tim Walz addressed a virtual event hosted by a group focused on building Muslim American political power.
• At the Debate, JD Vance Put a Lifetime of Spin to Use. Mr. Vance sanded down Donald Trump’s edges the way he often sharpens attacks for rally crowds — picking the facts that can deliver the most impact and discarding the rest.
• Did Biden Let Slip Israeli Strategy? The president’s casual disclosures underscored the power of his words — and how quickly they travel.
• Trump Saw 2020 Election Results as an Obstacle, Not an Outcome. A court filing offers insight into his thinking and makes it hard to see him accepting another loss.
• Bruce Springsteen Endorses Kamala Harris for President. The rock star has long aligned himself with Democrats and been critical of former President Donald J. Trump.
• Biden Student Loan Plan Gets Judge’s Go-Ahead. The ruling by a judge in Georgia could be just a temporary reprieve for the plan, which still faces legal challenges in another state.
• Firefighters Union Declines to Endorse a Presidential Candidate. The International Association of Fire Fighters was one of the first unions to endorse Joe Biden in 2020. In 2024, its board voted not to endorse at all.
• New Jan. 6 Filing Adds Wider List Of Conspirators. Donald Trump is the only defendant in the special counsel’s case that charges him with a plot to remain in power after his 2020 loss. But a newly unsealed brief provides fresh details about many other figures.
• Former County Clerk Gets 9 Years in Prison for Tampering With Voting Machines. Tina Peters, the former clerk of Mesa County, Colo., had tried to prove that the machines had been used to rig the 2020 election against former President Donald J. Trump.
• Senators Urge Justice Dept. to Prosecute Boeing Leaders for Safety Issues. In a letter, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal criticized the Justice Department after continued episodes with the company’s planes.
• Southern States Try to Minimize Voting Disruptions After Hurricane Helene. Florida’s governor plans to sign an executive order giving election officials in 13 counties greater flexibility in administering early and absentee voting.
• After Helene, Even Restoring Internet Service Is Political. Former President Donald J. Trump praised Elon Musk for bringing service to hard-hit areas. The Biden administration noted that the government was already on the case.
• Inside a Trump Ad Saying Harris Will Raise Taxes and He Will Cut Them. A blunt argument hitting voters in the wallet, and a deceptive truncation of a quotation from The Times, pack a wallop.
• Lesson From Paris for U.S. Vote: When Cyberattacks Fail, Hackers’ Plan B Is to Lie. When France fended off cyberattacks during the Olympics, hackers circulated false claims about their attacks, a tactic the United States could face during the election.
• After Fears Of Recession, New Crises. War in the Middle East, a strike by port workers and a devastating hurricane injected uncertainty into the U.S. economy.
• Secret Service Stretched Thin as Agents Burn Out. Punishing hours, dilapidated facilities and an ill-conceived retiree program left the agency without the personnel it needed in a year of threats and violence.
• Trump Says He’d Revoke Protections For Haitians. He again disparaged Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, and said he would end their legal status in the country and send them back. His first attempt to do that failed.
• Melania Trump, Whose Husband Helped End Roe, Signals Support for Abortion Rights. As Donald Trump tries to muddy his anti-abortion position, his wife released a video calling “individual freedom” an “essential right that all women possess,” asking, “What does ‘my body, my choice’ really mean?”
• A super PAC for House Democrats raised a record $69 million last month.
• Biden Traces Helene’s Ruinous Path in Florida and Georgia, Leaving a Trail of Vows. President Biden promised that the government would not abandon the survivors of one of the deadliest storms in American history.
• Liz Cheney to Campaign With Harris at the Birthplace of the G.O.P. Ms. Cheney, the most prominent Republican to endorse the Democratic nominee, will appear alongside her in Ripon, Wis., where meetings in 1854 helped lead to the party’s formation.
• Fact-Checking JD Vance and Tim Walz. How factual have Senator JD Vance and Gov. Tim Walz been during the campaign? Linda Qiu, a New York Times reporter who looks at some statements made by politicians and public figures, checks some of their claims.
• Whiskey Industry Braces for a Trade War if Trump Wins. Business owners and foreign governments are preparing for high tariffs and trade disruptions, depending on the outcome of the election.
• New Details and Argument Against Immunity in Brief by Special Counsel. The special counsel provided new details that help flesh out how Donald Trump sought to remain in power, while setting out his argument for the case to survive the Supreme Court’s immunity decision.
• A Moment of Rising Crises Can Cut Both Ways for the Harris Campaign. Scenes of striking workers, hurricane devastation in the Southeast and missiles over Israel represent a rare moment of turbulence for Kamala Harris.
• Harris Visits Georgia After Hurricane Helene, Promising Federal Help. The vice president said federal money would play a major role in storm recovery efforts as she met with local officials in Augusta, Ga., and helped hand out food and snacks.
• Trump’s Insults to Harris’s Intelligence? Jokes, Lara Trump Claims. During rallies and on social media, former President Donald J. Trump has repeatedly disparaged Vice President Kamala Harris.
• How a Judge Will Weigh Immunity in Trump’s Jan. 6 Case. How does the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling apply to former President Donald J. Trump’s election-interference case? Here’s how Judge Tanya S. Chutkan will decide.
• Judge Unseals New Evidence In Jan. 6 Case. Judge Tanya Chutkan made public portions of a filing by prosecutors setting out their argument for why the case should go forward despite the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity.
• FEMA Reports Shortfall in Funds, Warning It Won’t Make it Through Hurricane Season. The homeland security secretary said FEMA, which is dealing with the destruction from Hurricane Helene, would need more money to respond to another major storm.
• Like Trump, Vance Wavers on What to Do With Obamacare. JD Vance seemed to back away from a proposal to separate healthy and sick people in insurance markets, which could cause major disruption for people with pre-existing conditions.
• As a Harris Ally, Walz Is Folksy, Factually Sloppy and Far Less Visible. The Minnesota governor has brought his charm to the campaign trail, but his debate was uneven and he has so far been scarcely seen on national television. His team says that may be changing.
• A Daunting Process for Hunter Biden as He Awaits Sentencing. The president’s son now confronts a daunting and uncertain process that could result in serious time behind bars when he is sentenced in his tax and gun cases in mid-December.
• Israel-Iran Escalation Puts Harris on the Spot. Missiles over Tel Aviv fed Donald Trump’s narrative of a world in chaos and vaporized any hopes of an end to the war. In the near term, that poses political problems for Democrats.
• JD Vance’s Old Yale Law Classmates Raise Money for Springfield’s Haitian Residents. Some donors said they were seeking to repair damage the Trump-Vance campaign, and Mr. Vance himself, had caused by spreading bogus rumors that migrants were harming pets.
• It All Seemed So Conventional. And Then Came Jan. 6. JD Vance may well be thinking about 2028 and beyond. He will need a lot more than a fairly mild 90-minute debate to fully soften his image.
• Inside a Pro-Harris Ad Telling Hispanic Voters She’s Friendlier Than Trump. An ad from two Democratic groups skates over Kamala Harris’s tough recent stance on border security and instead focuses on her more immigration-friendly plans.
• Attitudes About Nasrallah Appear More Positive in Middle East Since His Death. Sentiment about the Hezbollah leader shifted after the Israeli strike that killed him, partly reflecting anger toward Israel, according to an analysis.
• Vance Smooths Edges to Remake Trump’s Record. From the opening handshake, the Republican vice-presidential nominee sought to reinvent and repackage the record and views of the former president.
• In Swing States, Debate Leaves Students Cold. At three colleges, there were snacks, big screens and homework assignments. But energy and enthusiasm were sparse — and by the end, even more so.
• Who Won the Debate? A Crisp Vance Fends Off Walz. The vice-presidential candidates largely avoided personal attacks, with JD Vance showing a knack for revising history while Tim Walz appeared to battle nerves.
• Vance Skirts Debate Question, But His Answer Reveals a Lot. JD Vance sailed fairly smoothly through some 90 minutes of Tuesday’s debate with Tim Walz. Then the subject turned to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
• Wider Mideast Conflict Arrives, as Biden Has Repeatedly Warned. The main questions now are how much the conflict will escalate and whether the United States will get more directly involved in the defense of Israel.
• Civility and Then a Clash Over Jan. 6: Seven Takeaways From the Debate. Senator JD Vance of Ohio and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota sparred over immigration, abortion and foreign policy — and then on Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss.
• Walz Tells of Women Living Under Abortion Bans, Putting Vance on the Defensive. By recounting stories of women who have suffered dire health consequences since Roe’s overturning, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota embraced a Democratic strategy as he argued for abortion rights.
• Walz Says His Son Witnessed a Shooting at a Community Center. The story by Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota drew sympathy from his Republican opponent, Senator JD Vance of Ohio.
• Walz Says His Teenage Son Witnessed Shooting. Gov. Tim Walz, mentioning his family’s exposure to gun violence, made the case for stricter gun control laws.
• “This epidemic of violence, the gross majority — close to 90 percent in some of the statistics I’ve seen — of the gun violence in this country is committed with illegally obtained firearms.”
• “I never supported a national ban. I did when I was running for Senate talk about a minimum national standard.”
• “We have to remember that for years in this country, Democrats protested the results of elections. Hillary Clinton in 2016 said that Donald Trump had the election stolen by Vladimir Putin because the Russians bought like $500,000 worth of Facebook ads.”
• “Look, Tim, first of all, it’s really rich for Democratic leaders to say that Donald Trump is a unique threat to democracy when he peacefully gave over power on January the 20th as we have done for 250 years in this country.”
• The reason child care is “so expensive right now is because you’ve got way too few people providing this very essential service.”
• CBS tried to find a middle ground on fact-checking. Vance jumped into the gap.
• CBS Sought the Middle Ground on Fact-Checking. Vance Jumped Into the Gap. During Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate, JD Vance clashed with a moderator over whether the ground rules allowed her to clarify his comments about immigrants in his home state.
• Donald Trump “introduced pricing transparency. Think about health care. You go into a hospital, you try to buy something and nobody knows what it actually costs. That price transparency will actually give American consumers a little bit more choice and will also drive down costs.”
• “We need to figure out how to solve the inflation crisis caused by Kamala Harris’s policies.”
• Walz Says He ‘Misspoke’ About Being in Hong Kong During Tiananmen Square Protests. At the vice-presidential debate, Gov. Tim Walz tried to dismiss a previous misstatement as insignificant and said he could be “a knucklehead at times.”
• “There’s a Federal Reserve study that we’re happy to share after the debate — we’ll put it up on social media, actually — that really drills down on the connection between increased levels of migration, especially illegal immigration, and higher housing prices.”
• “This issue of housing — and I think those of you listening on this — the problem we’ve had is that we’ve got a lot of folks that see housing as another commodity.”
• “If we open up American energy, you will get immediate pricing relief for American citizens not, by the way, just in housing but in a whole host of economic goods too.”
• “Donald Trump could have destroyed the program. Instead, he worked in a bipartisan way to ensure that Americans have access to affordable care.”
• “The one thing that Joe Biden did is he continued some of the Trump tariffs that protected American manufacturing jobs.”
• “25 million illegal aliens competing with Americans for scarce homes is one of the most significant drivers of home prices in the country.”
• “Project 2025 is going to have a registry of pregnancies.”
• “All I said on this is I got there this summer and misspoke on this. So I will just — that’s what I’ve said. So I was in Hong Kong and China, during the democracy protests, went in. And from that, I learned a lot of what needed to be in governance.”
• “Donald Trump was the guy who created the largest trade deficit in American history with China.”
• Exchange Between Vance and Walz Shows Gulf on Climate Change Views. As Hurricane Helene made climate change an early focus of the vice-presidential debate, the running mates quickly demonstrated the stark differences between the parties on the issue.
• “The statute you signed into law, it says that a doctor who presides over an abortion where the baby survives — the doctor is under no obligation to provide life-saving care to a baby who survives a botched late-term abortion.”
• “If you look at what was so different about Donald Trump’s tax cuts, even from previous Republican tax cut plans, is that a lot of those resources went to giving more take-home pay to middle-class and working-class Americans.”
• “Those same experts for 40 years said that if we shipped our manufacturing base off to China, we’d get cheaper goods. They lied about that.”
• “What [Harris has] actually done instead is drive the cost of food higher by 25 percent, drive the cost of housing higher by about 60 percent.”
• “So there’s an application called the CBP One app, where you can go on as an illegal migrant, apply for asylum or apply for parole, and be granted legal status at the wave of a Kamala Harris open border wand.”
• “Donald Trump hasn’t paid any federal tax in the last 15 years.”
• “If you really want to make the environment cleaner, you’ve got to invest in more energy production. We haven’t built a nuclear facility — I think one in the past 40 years. Natural gas — we have to invest more in it. Kamala Harris has done the opposite.”
• “Iran, which launched this attack, has received over $100 billion in unfrozen assets thanks to the Kamala Harris administration. What did they use that money for? They used it to buy weapons that they are now launching against our allies and God forbid, potentially launching against the United States as well.”
• “You’ve got housing totally unaffordable because we brought in millions of illegal immigrants to compete with Americans for scarce homes.”
• “This idea that carbon emissions drives all of climate change — let’s just say that’s true, just for the sake of argument.”
• “Right now in this country, Margaret, we have 320,000 children that the Department of Homeland Security has effectively lost. Some of them have been sex trafficked.”
• “We are the cleanest economy in the entire world.”
• In Georgia, A Report On Prisons Cites Faults. At one facility, the body of an inmate, possibly strangled in his cell, was so decomposed that the coroner concluded he had been dead for two days without being discovered.
• The Veep Debate, or When the Opening Act Becomes the Headliner. Tonight’s showdown could be the last between representatives of both tickets before the election.

World

• Taiwan Closes Schools and Workplaces as Typhoon Krathon Nears. The storm has already injured 46 people and forced thousands of evacuations, the authorities said, warning that torrential rain could cause landslides and flooding.

Africa

• In Rwanda, Deadly Virus Threatens Workers in a Fragile Health Care System. The Health Ministry has reported that 80 percent of the infected are health care professionals.
• Outrage in South Africa Over Farmers Accused of Feeding Slain Women to Pigs. The grisly allegations have set off debate over some of the country’s most explosive issues, including race, gender-based violence and farm ownership.
• At Least 60 Dead After Boat Capsizes in Nigeria. The boat was carrying about 300 people on the Niger River. Rescuers continued to search for survivors.
• Told to Swim To the Coast Of Djibouti, Dozens Die. Many others are missing after Yemeni operators instructed hundreds of African migrants on two boats near the Djibouti coast to get off and swim, the International Organization for Migration said.

Americas

• Brazil Unblocks X After Musk Backs Down. Brazil’s Supreme Court said Tuesday that Elon Musk’s social network could return in the country after a monthlong ban because the company had complied with the court’s orders.
• Inside a Field Hospital in a North Carolina Mountain Town. After Hurricane Helene hit, a group of doctors and nurses quickly built a field hospital in Burnsville, N.C., to tend to patients and provide them with medical care.
• A Cartel Double-Cross Turns a Mexican State Into a War Zone. An explosive deception has ripped apart one of Mexico’s most powerful criminal groups, the Sinaloa cartel, and ignited a war between the rival factions.
• Gunfire, and a Frantic Call: ‘Send for Help’ When a gang assaulted a town in central Haiti last week, one woman called a local community leader begging for assistance. The massacre left at least 78 civilians dead.
• In Mexico, Gruesome Murder of Mayor Represents Challenge for New President. The gruesome killing represents yet another challenge for the country’s new president, who faces increasing pressure to show progress in the fight against violent cartels.
• A Changing Climate Is Scorching the World’s Biggest River. As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine and people flowing along the watery superhighway.
• A North Carolina Mountain Town’s Residents Return To Devastation. Elizabeth Barker, a first-time homeowner, returns to her house in Swannanoa after Hurricane Helene devastated the town.
• Mexican Military Fatally Shoots Six Migrants. The country’s defense ministry said the military officers who opened fire might have mistaken the migrants for cartel members.
• Hurricane Helene’s Trail of Destruction in Asheville, N.C. Brandon Davis returned to his business in Asheville, N.C. for the first time since Hurricane Helene devastated the area several days ago.

Asia Pacific

• India’s Political Carnival Is Back in Season, With Mixed Results for Modi. Two closely watched elections, in Haryana and the turbulent Jammu and Kashmir, kept the surprises coming after this summer’s shocking national outcome.
• Japan Says It Manipulated a Photo of (Slightly) Unkempt Cabinet Ministers. The episode provided political fodder for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s critics and highlighted the country’s generally high standard of dress.
• So, Are You Pregnant Yet? China’s In-Your-Face Push for More Babies. The government is again trying to insert itself into women’s childbearing decisions, knocking on doors and making calls with questions some find downright invasive.
• Ex-Philippine President, Under Investigation for War on Drugs, Returns to Politics. Rodrigo Duterte, who retired in 2022 after a six-year term as president, filed papers to run for mayor of Davao, his family’s political stronghold.
• Climbers Are Rescued After Three Nights at 20,000 Feet. The two women, one American and one British, became stranded on a Himalayan mountain when their food and equipment fell into a ravine, Indian officials said.
• China Calls for Tighter Security After Workers Are Killed in Pakistan. Two Chinese nationals were killed and another was injured after a convoy was attacked in Karachi on Sunday. A separatist group claimed responsibility.
• Convoy Carrying Chinese Workers Is Attacked in Pakistan. Emergency workers tended to the injured after the attack near an airport in Karachi. At least two Chinese nationals were killed.
• Fighting Myanmar’s Patriarchy, One All-Male Panel at a Time. Ying Lao has called out the pro-democracy movement for its frequent “manels,” arguing that the exclusion of women from such discussions is hurting the cause.
• Pakistan Bans Group in Growing Effort to Quell Dissent. Analysts say the military is expanding its efforts to squash opposition.
• Typhoon Krathon Makes Landfall in Taiwan. The deadly storm battered the island with strong winds and heavy rain as it roared ashore near the major southern port city of Kaohsiung.
• Former Singapore Minister Gets Prison. The sentence for S. Iswaran, a former transportation minister who pleaded guilty last week, was longer than what prosecutors had sought.
• Typhoon’s Devastating Punch Triggers Landslides in Taiwan. Two people have been killed and more than 10,000 evacuated, the authorities said. The drenching rain brought damage and widespread power outages from the storm, downgraded to a depression.
• Missing Out on Coldplay’s India Tickets, Some Fans Vented — Even to Police. When 13 million people tried to buy tickets for the band’s Mumbai shows, the ticketing site crashed. Many who came up short cried foul, both online and to the authorities.

Australia

• A Rest, a Reset and a Thanks for the Banter. After more than 350 editions, we are putting this newsletter on pause, with the editor who opened the Australia bureau departing and his successor set to arrive.

Canada

• Toronto Woman Is Accused of Murdering 3 in Serial Killings. The woman’s victims, found in a span of three days in Canada last week, included two men whom the police said she had attacked at random.
• Ever-Shrinking Condos Are the Choice of Investors in Toronto and Vancouver. A new report shows that small condo units are preferred by investors and that a lack of investor buyers may now be delaying new buildings.
• The ‘Noble’ Moose Is an Island’s Mascot, And a Menace to Drivers. Introduced to the island 120 years ago, moose are involved in hundreds of collisions each year. But the huge animal is an accepted part of life here. “I suspect that they got squatters’ rights.”

Europe

• Russian Spies Seeking to ‘Generate Mayhem’ in Europe, MI5 Chief Says. The head of Britain’s domestic security service said Russia’s military intelligence service was pursuing “dangerous actions conducted with increasing recklessness.”
• France’s Government Survives a No-Confidence Vote. The outcome was not a surprise, but signals a treacherous road ahead for the country’s divided legislature.
• After Key Town Falls in Ukraine’s East, Russian Forces Push Into Another. Russian troops have now entered Toretsk, a strategic hilltop city, and are pressing with assaults elsewhere in the Donetsk region.
• Behind the War of Words Between Macron and Netanyahu. The French leader said countries should stop supplying weapons to Israel, arguing that providing arms while demanding a cease-fire is inconsistent. That drew the Israeli leader’s fury.
• Missile Hits Near Ukrainian Air Base as Russia Expands Air Attacks. The strike is part of a broader campaign of air assaults by Moscow aimed at degrading Ukraine’s military infrastructure and wearing down its air defenses.
• In London, a Pro-Palestinian Protest Disrupts the Launch of an American Mural. The U.S. ambassador Jane Hartley was en route to the dedication of a climate-themed mural in London by Shepard Fairey, who created the iconic Obama ‘Hope’ poster. But then a protest began.
• Reaching Beyond Europe, Pope Names 21 Cardinals. The appointments cement Francis’ imprint on the group that will choose his successor, and reflect his vision of a more truly global Roman Catholic Church.
• British Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff Resigns, and Shake-Up Follows. Ms. Gray said intense media scrutiny of her role meant she “risked becoming a distraction” to the new Labour government.
• Explosive Russian Cargo Can’t Find European Port. The MV Ruby has meandered around Europe’s northwestern coastline under a cloud of suspicion over its thousands of tons of Russian fertilizer.
• In Ukraine, Small, Fluffy Dogs Offer Wartime Comfort. Dog ownership has surged over the past two years as people seek companionship. In Kyiv, Yorkies, poodles and bichons frisés now rule the streets.
• Ukraine’s Donbas Strategy: Retreat and Maximize Russian Losses. The idea is to use rope-a-dope tactics, letting Russian forces pound away until they have exhausted themselves. It’s far from clear if the Ukrainian strategy will succeed.
• Nuclear Plans Divide Villages On Polish Coast. A plan to place American-made reactors on a picturesque coastline has broad support in Poland — and in Washington — but the geopolitical calculations have run into local opposition.
• Court in France Allows Videos of Men Accused Of Drugged Rape Acts. Gisèle Pelicot fought for the graphic videos made by her husband to be shown publicly in court, insisting they were essential evidence in a rape case against him and 50 other men.
• Severe Rainstorm Floods Parts of Southern Bosnia. Heavy rainfall left multiple towns and villages flooded across southern Bosnia.
• The New Champions League: Good or Bad? Different, at Least. This year more than ever is showing that the competition means different things to different clubs. And that’s a good thing.
• All of E.U. to Recognize Gender Identity Changes. A man who changed his name and gender identity in Britain successfully challenged to have them legally recognized by Romania. “I’m representing everyone who is affected.”
• At Least 16 Die as Floods Overwhelm South Bosnia. A severe overnight rainstorm in the Balkans left several towns and villages flooded. Record summer temperatures had caused a drought that hampered the absorption of floodwaters.
• Some of FIFA’s Rules on Player Transfers Are Illegal, Court Says. A decision could force soccer’s governing body to rewrite the regulations that govern the sport’s multibillion-dollar transfer market.
• ‘Mom, I Want to Live’: A Young Girl Battles War and Cancer. Sonya Liakh was diagnosed with eye cancer at age 2. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupted her treatment, her family faced a desperate struggle.
• What to Know About the 2024 Nobel Prizes. The annual prizes are being announced this week, beginning Monday.
• The War’s Toll on Sick Ukrainian Children. Sonya, a young Ukrainian girl, was being treated for eye cancer. Then Russia invaded Ukraine. Lynsey Addario, a photographer on assignment for The New York Times who has covered every major war and humanitarian crisis of her generation, tells Sony...
• Middle-Class Roots in Starmer’s Cabinet Fail to Impress Many Britons. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s top team contains more lawmakers from poor backgrounds, and fewer from elite schools, than any in recent memory. Voters haven’t noticed.
• Britain Gives Mauritius Control of Chagos Islands. After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian Ocean.
• Oil Tanker Flag Switcheroos Help Russia Skirt Sanctions. A shadowy network of ships has registered in Gabon, highlighting how Vladimir V. Putin is building an economy beyond the reach of Western sanctions.
• Survivor of Clerical Sex Abuse Shares His Story in Front of Pope at St. Peter’s. As a child, Laurence Gien was abused by a priest in South Africa. Decades later, he became the first survivor to recount his pain at the Basilica in front of Pope Francis and dozens of cardinals and bishops.
• Ukraine Retreats From Defensive Bastion That Long Defied Russian Attacks. Vuhledar had been under assault for almost three years. Russian forces entered it after a furious battle, and Ukraine ordered troops to retreat.
• Two Blasts In Denmark Cause Alarm For Israelis. The arrests were made after two explosions, possibly from hand grenades, were reported near the embassy early on Wednesday morning, the police said.
• Russians Can Serve the State in Battle or in Childbirth. President Vladimir Putin is throwing ever more resources at two interlocked priorities: recruiting more soldiers and encouraging bigger families.
• Tories’ Mood Bounces Back Quickly From Drubbing in July Election. At its annual convention in Birmingham, the party is energized by a leadership contest and seems largely undisturbed by broader questions over its electability.
• As Catholics Meet, Prospect of Female Deacons Is Left Off Table. The ordination of female deacons is no longer on the agenda during a global assembly at the Vatican, but will be discussed separately.

Middle East

• Volunteers Aid Those Displaced by Israeli Attacks in Lebanon. Amid Israel’s offensive and Hezbollah’s decision to continue fighting, many have found themselves caught in the middle. In the southern coastal city of Sidon, young volunteers of diverse religious backgrounds have come together to help those affected by the conflict.
• Israeli strikes in Syria targeted a Hezbollah official involved in weapons smuggling, officials say. Missiles fired in the attack hit a residential building in a highly fortified neighborhood in the Syrian capital of Damascus that houses embassies, according to Syria’s Defense Ministry.
• Israel’s Defense Minister Postpones Trip to Washington, U.S. Says. Yoav Gallant and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III were expected to discuss Israel’s response to the Iranian missile assault on Israel last week.
• Biden Excoriated Netanyahu on Israel’s Conduct in the War, Woodward Book Says. The book, “War,” lays bare just how frustrated the president has become with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the war in Gaza began.
• What We Know About the Israeli Forces Fighting in Lebanon. The Israeli military has sent troops from four divisions across the border into Lebanon, but has not publicly disclosed how many.
• Netanyahu Suggests Israel Killed Likely Replacements for Hezbollah’s Leader. Hashem Safieddine had been expected to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, his cousin. It was not immediately clear who “the replacement of the replacement” was.
• Netanyahu suggests Israel killed potential replacements for Hezbollah’s leaders. Hashem Safieddine had been expected to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, his cousin. It was not immediately clear who “the replacement of the replacement” was.
• Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike on central Gaza hit a home and tents, killing 12.
• The C.I.A. director says the risk of further escalation between Israel and Iran remains.
• Israel strikes an area south of Beirut, as Hezbollah launches another rocket barrage.
• What Is Hamas Capable of After a Year of War? The Palestinian militant group fired rockets at Israel on the anniversary of its Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.
• For Many Israelis, Oct. 7 Never Ended. The Hamas-led attacks that day shattered Israelis’ faith in the state, and the year of war that followed has deepened society’s divisions. Yet many find hope in the people’s resilience.
• Here are the latest developments.
• Gaza in Ruins After a Year of War. Much of Gaza has been destroyed by Israel’s relentless military campaign.
• Jewish students find solace and a place to mourn with campus Hillel groups. Commemorative events marking the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel drew Jewish students at campuses around the country.
• Dueling Oct. 7 memorials reflect deep fissures among Israelis.
• New York Times reporters share stories of the war that they cannot forget.
• Solemn Day of Vigils, Holding Hope for End To ‘This Horrible War’ Israelis gathered on Monday to mourn those killed or abducted on the deadliest day in the country’s history.
• One Year After Oct. 7, Israel Finds Itself Enmeshed in Four-Front War. Gaza, Lebanon, Iran and Yemen: Israeli forces exchanged fire with militants backed by Tehran on Monday.
• A doctor fled Gaza but can’t leave it behind.
• Israel rejects U.N. court’s jurisdiction to issue a warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest.
• In Gaza’s shadow, West Bank Palestinians fear even more destruction. Israeli mi
• One Year on, Israel’s Hostage Families Vow to Keep Fighting as War Escalates. Family members of hostages held in Gaza are escalating their tactics to push for a cease-fire deal.
• Why Israel’s Hostage Families Are Turning on Their Government. Family members of hostages held in Gaza are escalating their tactics to push for a cease-fire deal. They say the government is dragging out the war in Gaza for political reasons, and putting their family members’ lives at risk.
• As desperation grows in Gaza, food aid remains out of reach.
• U.S. imposes new sanctions to cut off Hamas funds. The Treasury Department is targ
• Israel strikes southern Gaza after Hamas fires rockets.
• Mourners gather in Nir Oz, a symbol of Israel’s security failures.
• Emirates bans pagers and walkie-talkies on flights after attacks. The move comes after communication devices used by Hezbollah members exploded last month, killing dozens of people.
• Tunisia’s President Cruises to a Victory That Critics Say He Engineered. President Kais Saied’s apparent landslide re-election is the latest sign that authoritarianism has returned to the birthplace of the Arab Spring.
• New York Marks the Oct. 7 Anniversary With Vigils and Protests. New York is home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel, nearly 1 million in the city, and also has about 6,825 residents who identify as Palestinian,
• New York marks the Oct. 7 anniversary with vigils and protests.
• Key Events During a Year of Middle East War. Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the 12 months of conflagration that has followed.
• In a square in Tel Aviv, hostage families and supporters seek some comfort.
• A simple video of a child’s grave speaks volumes about Gazans’ loss.
• World leaders mark the anniversary with solemn words.
• Israel’s global standing has deteriorated since Oct. 7, analysts say.
• Biden condemns the ‘unspeakable brutality’ of last October’s attack.
• Hostages’ Families Endure Surreal Wait on Anniversary of Oct. 7 Attacks. More than 60 living hostages, and the bodies of about 35 others who are believed to be dead, are still in Gaza, according to the Israeli authorities.
• Arab countries are still trying to maintain a balancing act.
• Palestinians in Gaza Reflect on One Year of Israel’s War With Hamas. The war has killed tens of thousands and devastated entire cities, leaving many in Gaza without a home and fueling a humanitarian catastrophe.
• A visit to a hostages’ cell revealed a glimpse of their trauma.
• Remembering the Nova Festival Victims, With the Sounds of War as a Backdrop. After hearing the dance track that was playing a year ago when the Hamas-led assault began, the hundreds who had gathered stood for a minute of silence, broken by a bereaved mother’s cries.
• Israelis Mourn Nova Music Festival Victims. Families of the victims organized the dawn memorial ceremony at the Re’im forest one year after the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
• Sorrow ‘Beyond Bearing’ On a Bloody Anniversary. Peace in the Middle East seems more elusive than ever, with Oct. 7 setting off a battle over not just land but the narrative itself.
• Nowhere to Go: How Gaza Became a Mass Death Trap. Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been prevented from fleeing the narrow strip of land even as bombs have rained down, famine has loomed and disease has spread.
• She and Her Husband Were Taken by Hamas. She Was Freed. He’s Still in Gaza. A year after their home in Israel was torched and her family was taken by attackers on Oct. 7, a wife and mother clings to the hope that her husband might still come home alive.
• The fighting in Gaza has become a war of attrition, with no end in sight.
• A Year-Old War Threatens to Endure, and Spread. As war in the Middle East spreads, the original conflict between Israel and Hamas has persisted. This is why.
• Our Photographers in Israel and Gaza on the Images They Can’t Forget. Seven New York Times photojournalists describe moments that have defined a year of war.
• Here is what to know on the anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks.
• Israel Steps Up Its Assaults in Lebanon and Gaza. Israel appeared to label much of northern Gaza as an evacuation zone and in Lebanon, Israeli airstrikes targeted Hezbollah strongholds, as the region also braced for Israel to hit back at Iran.
• Israeli troops have set up near U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon, satellite images show.
• Police officer is killed in a shooting attack in southern Israel, the emergency service says.
• On Social Media, Gazans Share Advice for Those Under Fire in Lebanon. A woman known as Chef Hala, who has had to evacuate three times since Israel invaded Gaza, is among those offering practical tips and messages of solidarity.
• A new Israeli map labels nearly all of northern Gaza ‘new evacuation zones.’
• Fear and Uncertainty Overshadow Oct. 7 Memorial Preparations. Amid the chaos and the war that followed the Hamas-led assault, Israel has not yet held a national day of mourning for the 1,200 people who were killed.
• Hezbollah Leader’s Killing Upended Cease-Fire Plan. Diplomats thought both Israel and Hezbollah supported a call for a temporary cease-fire. Then Israel killed Hezbollah’s leader.
• In Towns Attacked on Oct. 7, a Ghostly Existence. Along Israel’s border with Gaza, reminders of the trauma of the Hamas-led assault are inescapable as the few who have returned try to start anew.
• Israel Was Prepared for Fight With Hezbollah, but Ending Conflict Will Be Harder. Lessons learned from a 2006 invasion of Lebanon have guided Israel in its current one. Security experts say a political deal is needed to restore calm.
• Autocratic Leader of Tunisia Is Poised to Romp to an Election Victory. President Kais Saied, who has jailed opponents and consolidated power, is almost certain to win Sunday’s election in the North African country, the birthplace of the Arab Spring movement.
• Israel Steps Up Attacks in Lebanon, Targeting Hezbollah Leadership. With the region on edge about a possible Israeli retaliatory strike on Iran, U.S. Central Command hit targets in Yemen, and Israel ordered evacuations in Gaza.
• Iranian news media asks: Where is top Quds Forces commander General Esmail Ghaani?
• Macron Calls for Halting Weapons to Israel for Gaza Conflict. The French leader’s comments drew the condemnation of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and reflected the growing international concern over Israel’s expanding conflicts in the region.
• Glimpses of border towns and villages offer a window into Israel’s invasion.
• Israel issues evacuation order for central Gaza, the first in the enclave in weeks.
• Iran Has Many Sensitive Sites Israel Could Hit in Retaliation. Iran has a number of sensitive sites, including oil infrastructure, military installations and nuclear facilities.
• In Lebanon, It’s War. It’s Just Not Theirs. In a crisis-racked country where sectarian tensions simmer, many worry that the conflict between Israel and the Shiite militia Hezbollah will end in more destruction for all.
• Israeli Attack Killed Father, Says Family From U.S. Kamel Ahmad Jawad, a U.S. citizen, was remembered by friends and relatives as someone who chose to stay behind to help others who couldn’t flee.
• Israel Bombards Lebanon in Search of Nasrallah’s Successor. Israel is drastically widening its fight against the Lebanese militant group that is backed by Iran, whose supreme leader said that “any strike on the Zionist regime is a service to humanity.”
• U.S. Conducts Strikes Against Houthis in Yemen. The Houthis have been attacking ships in the Red Sea in solidarity with Hamas, and the U.S. attacks were aimed at securing international waterways.
• In Rare Visit to White House Press Briefing, Biden Cautions Israel. The president suggested that Israel should consider alternative ways to retaliate against Iran.
• Israel’s latest strike in Lebanon makes clear that it is taking its fight against Hezbollah to a new scale.
• Iran’s Foreign Minister Reaches Out to Arab Leaders in Lebanon, Qatar. Iran’s top diplomat appeared eager to convey Iran’s readiness to support a joint cease-fire in Lebanon and in Gaza — even as Iran’s supreme leader at home expressed readiness to fight Israel.
• ‘My dreams are about bombs’: Beirut grapples with yet another in a long series of crises.
• Group in Syria Reports Attack At Warehouse Tied to Russia. A weapons facility near a Russian air base in a coastal Syrian city was destroyed on Thursday, according to a monitoring group.
• The Impact of Game Theory on Israel, Iran and the Risks of Escalation. Each side must predict how the other will react to avoid mutual destruction.
• Here Are the Hezbollah Leaders Israel Has Targeted. Israeli strikes have aimed to kill the leaders of the Lebanese militia, most recently Hashem Safieddine. It was not immediately clear whether he had been killed in an overnight strike near Beirut.
• An Israeli strike targeting a West Bank Hamas leader killed civilians, including a family of 4, residents say. Other civilians were also
• Iran’s Supreme Leader Speaks at Prayers. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who led Friday prayers for the first time in years, called for pan-Muslim unity against Israel and the United States at a memorial service for Hassan Nasrallah.
• Israel Expands Evacuation Warnings in Southern Lebanon After Renewed Strikes. Israeli soldiers were also waging a ground invasion in southern Lebanon targeting what military officials said were Hezbollah sites in the rugged border area.
• Israel expands evacuation warnings in southern Lebanon after airstrikes pummel Beirut.
• Israeli Strike Hits Southern Beirut. Israeli officials said the attack was targeting a meeting in a bunker that included Hashem Safieddine, the presumed successor of Hezbollah’s recently assassinated leader.
• Despite Iran’s bluster, anxiety is spreading among its people over possible war with Israel.
• Yazidi Woman Taken Captive by ISIS Has Been Rescued in Gaza, Israel Says. She was returned to her family in Iraq after a complex operation involving the United States, Jordan and others, the Israeli military said.
• Israel Bombs Beirut Site, Targeting Presumed Successor of Slain Hezbollah Leader. The airstrikes were aimed at a meeting of senior Hezbollah leaders in an underground bunker early Friday, and targeted a cousin of Hassan Nasrallah.
• Who Is Hashem Safieddine, the Latest Hezbollah Official Targeted by Israel? A cousin and possible successor to Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader assassinated by Israel, Safieddine joined the group soon after it was formed and rose quickly up its ranks.
• Israeli planes target Nasrallah’s likely successor with huge strikes near Beirut. Explosions rocked the Lebanese capital around midnight on Thursday as Israel conducted an airstrike, which officials said targeted a meeting of senior Hezbollah leaders in a bunker.
• Israeli Airstrike Kills at Least 18 People in the West Bank. The high toll and Israel’s use of a warplane were unusual for the Israeli military’s operations in the West Bank, which have escalated during the war in Gaza.
• Israeli strikes killed 99 over 24 hours in Gaza, health officials say, one of the highest tolls in months.
• Oil Prices Jump After Biden Says ‘Discussing’ Israeli Strike on Iranian Facilities. The president was asked about a potential strike on the oil infrastructure of Iran, which accounts for about 2 percent of the world’s supply.
• People in central Beirut survey damage from an airstrike.
• Countries Evacuate Citizens From Lebanon Amid Israeli Airstrikes. Some governments chartered planes and secured seats on commercial flights for their citizens, warning people to leave Lebanon while Beirut’s international airport remains open.
• Israel has sent troops from five army divisions to support the Lebanon invasion, officials say.
• Israel warns residents to flee as it keeps up ground attacks in Lebanon.
• Foreign Governments Are Evacuating Their Citizens From Lebanon. Several countries have chartered flights, while others issued warnings and offered assistance.
• Israeli Military Wins Back Stature Lost on Oct. 7. A year after perhaps the worst military and intelligence debacle in the country’s history, its armed forces have regained the momentum. Some ask: to what end?
• ‘There’s No Safety’: Decision to Leave Ends in Tragedy for Lebanese Family. Zahraa Badreddine fled Nabatieh in southern Lebanon as Israeli airstrikes intensified, hoping to find safety in a predominantly Christian area closer to the coast. But last Sunday, an airstrike near Sidon killed her two children.
• Israeli Strikes on Gaza Schools and an Orphanage Kill Scores of Palestinians, Officials Say. The Palestinian Authority’s official news agency said the Israeli military operation had included an incursion by ground troops and airstrikes.
• Israeli Troops, Clashing With Hezbollah, Find It Can Still Fight Back. The cross-border fighting appeared to be the first direct ground confrontation between the two sides since Israel invaded Lebanon this week.
• The Jewish New Year Is Far More Bitter Than Sweet in Israel. On Rosh Hashana, many Israelis longed for a return to normalcy after a year of escalating wars for the country.
• What to Know About the Israel-Hezbollah War. An Israeli ground operation targeting Hezbollah forces in Lebanon recalls previous wars and raises fears of worse to come.
• Once-Bustling Beirut Suburb Is Now Wrecked and Desolate. Airstrikes targeting members of Hezbollah have brought the Dahiya neighborhoods south of Beirut to a standstill, its residents fleeing and businesses shuttering.
• Israel May Be Prepared to Risk an All-Out War With Iran. Israel seems ready to respond in a much more forceful and public way with Iran after Tehran launched its second massive missile attack on Israel this year, analysts and officials say.
• What missiles did Iran use to target Israel? And why it matters.
• Biden Says He Won’t Support Israeli Attack on Iranian Nuclear Sites. President Biden told reporters that leaders of the Group of 7 countries agreed that Israel had a right to respond to Iran’s missile attack, but that it should do so proportionally.
• Biden Won’t Back Strike On Iranian Nuclear Sites. His comments reflected a renewed effort by his administration to seek restraint from Israel to try to avoid a growing war in the Middle East.
• Strikes on Israel Appear to Be Largely a Message to Iran’s Mideast Allies. Iran’s second missile barrage against Israel is unlikely to deter its foe, experts say, but may help retain the support of the “Axis of Resistance” it has built up over years.
• In a Tel Aviv suburb struck by Iran, roof tiles and shattered glass litter the streets.
• Photos show how Iran’s missiles, though mostly intercepted, still caused damage. A school was hit in southern Israel, windows were blown out of a building in Tel Aviv and a Palestinian man was killed in the West Bank.
• Israel Confirms First Military Deaths in Lebanon Invasion. The military identified the soldier as Capt. Eitan Itzhak Oster, 22, from central Israel, but did not specify where he was killed.
• Back from Gaza, he says he helped stop a gunman in Tel Aviv.
• Israel Declares U.N. Chief António Guterres Persona Non Grata. Foreign Minister Israel Katz said the U.N. secretary general had not condemned Iran’s missile attack on Israel in strong enough terms. For his part, Mr. Guterres said he condemned the attack.
• Before the invasion, raids destroyed Hezbollah tunnels and other targets, the Israeli military says.
• Allies Say They Came to Israel’s Aid During Iran’s Missile Attack. Israel has said that Iran fired more than 180 missiles in the barrage on Tuesday, but that most were intercepted.
• As Israel Invades Lebanon, an Embattled Christian Village Is Uprooted. Hundreds of residents of tiny Ain Ebel in southern Lebanon heeded the Israeli military’s warning to flee. Many sought shelter in a nearby monastery.
• Here’s Where U.S. Forces Are Deployed in the Middle East. The Pentagon is preparing to send more troops and aircraft to the region. This is an overview of the U.S. military presence there.
• In Congress, Republicans urge Israel to strike back hard at Iran. Republican leaders called for more U.S. military support for Israel and retaliation against Iran, as Democratic leaders promised to watch and wait as the situation rapidly deteriorated in the Middle East.
• Laborer From Gaza Is First Reported Fatality of Iran’s Missile Attack. Sameh al-Asali, who was sheltering in the city of Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was killed when a large missile fragment slammed into him.
• Israel Is Attacked As Iran Launches Waves of Missles. The 180 missiles fired at Israel on Tuesday evening sharply escalated the conflict between the two countries and threatened to engulf the Middle East in all-out war.
• Iran appears to have used its most advanced missiles in the attack on Israel.

New York

• A City Hall Official Is Charged With Witness Tampering in Mayoral Inquiry. Mohamed Bahi, who resigned Monday from the mayor’s office of community affairs, was accused of instructing witnesses to lie to federal authorities.
• Will Trump Get Jail Time? We Looked at Similar Cases to Find Out. Donald J. Trump faces sentencing on Nov. 26. The election three weeks earlier may determine not only if he returns to the presidency, but if he ends up behind bars.
• Top Deputy Mayor to Eric Adams Resigns, Intensifying Wave of Departures. Sheena Wright, the first deputy mayor of New York City, became the seventh senior leader to leave City Hall in the past few weeks, as federal investigations into the Adams administration widen.
• New York Has 7 Million Trees. Here Are 120 Great Ones. The Parks Department is releasing a list of “great trees” for the first time since 1985. The commissioner loves a willow in Brooklyn.
• An Artists’ Squat Fought New York City for Decades. Did It Just Win? ABC No Rio was a vital, dangerous and confrontational art space on the Lower East Side. Decades after it opened, it has made a deal with the city for a new building of its own.
• Why a Measure to Protect Abortion Rights in New York May Be in Trouble. The statewide ballot measure, known as the Equal Rights Amendment, has become a target for Republican opponents who have cast it as an attack on family values.
• In New York on Oct. 7, Honoring the Dead and Calling for an End to War. In the city, which is home both to the largest Jewish population outside Israel and to thousands of Palestinians, some gathered in protest and others in solemn remembrance.
• City Hall’s Ranks Get Thinner As 2nd Banks Brother Resigns. Mr. Banks, the deputy mayor for public safety and a close friend of Mayor Eric Adams, resigned. He is among the officials whose phones were seized by investigators.
• New Yorkers Are Getting the Message on Storing E-Batteries. Fewer of the fires are starting indoors, which suggests that New Yorkers are heeding warnings and storing the batteries outside.
• 4 Charged in Manhattan Assault on Former Gov. David Paterson. Two adults and two boys, ages 12 and 13, were charged in the attack on the former New York governor and his stepson, the police said.
• Bribery Inquiry Mars the Rise Of New York’s Banks Brothers. David Banks and Philip Banks III eclipsed their younger brother by rising to help run New York City. Then federal prosecutors seized the phones of all three men.
• ‘I Was on an Uptown 1 Coming Home From My Job at a SoHo Restaurant’ A briny snack on the subway, love in the air in Park Slope and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
• Former New York Governor Is Injured in Manhattan Street Squabble. Mr. Paterson and his stepson suffered minor injuries in a street attack on Friday. The former governor was not believed to have been targeted in the assault, the police said.
• A Gardener Rises Early to Eye the Weather. Eve Brooks, the gardener at Herbert Von King Park, spends her day tending to her pet turtle, listening to Sam Cooke and getting down in the dirt at the park.
• Big Business Saw an Ally in Adams, and Overlooked His Issues. New York’s business community threw its support behind Mr. Adams, and continued backing him even as his legal problems began to threaten the governance of the city.
• 2 Men Sentenced to Prison for Attacking Officers at Jan. 6 Riot. One of the men, from New Jersey, referred to lawmakers as “traitors” and encouraged other rioters to drag them out of the building by their hair, prosecutors said.
• Yoga to the People Founder Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion. Gregory Gumucio, the founder and co-owner of Yoga to the People, which provided yogis with cheap classes in an atmosphere of bohemian glamour, faces up to five years in prison.
• 69% in City Say Adams Should Resign, Poll Finds. Just 26 percent of New York City residents approve of the mayor and a majority want him to step down, according to a poll taken after his indictment on corruption charges.
• A Death in Childbirth Raises New Questions About a Hospital. Bevorlin Garcia Barrios, 24, is the third woman to die during childbirth at Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn since 2020.
• Despite What Eric Adams Says, He’s Nothing Like David Dinkins. Facing a raft of corruption charges, New York’s second Black mayor is flattering himself by invoking the fate of its first.
• Pizza Order Foils Lawsuit Against Uber. A New Jersey couple sued Uber after a crash left them severely injured. An appeals court ruled that they had agreed to settle disputes out of court when they used the Uber Eats app.
• Some Evidence in Adams Case Involves Classified Material, U.S. Says. In a letter to the judge handling the Eric Adams corruption case, federal prosecutors said there was evidence that could damage national security if exposed in open court.
• 14 Years and 2 Trials Get ‘Justice’ for Murdered Transgender Woman. Rasheen Everett strangled Amanda Gonzalez-Andujar in her Queens apartment in 2010. His first conviction was thrown out because of a judge’s error.
• Photos Show New York Congressman in Blackface at 2006 Party. Representative Mike Lawler, a Republican locked in a tight race for re-election, dressed as the pop star for Halloween as a college student in 2006.
• Illegal Arrest Claimed Ahead of Subway Chokehold Trial. Daniel Penny’s subway-car struggle with Jordan Neely, who was homeless, ended in Mr. Neely’s death. Mr. Penny’s lawyers are asking a judge to exclude video of his discussing the encounter.
• A Midcentury Midtown Landmark. A clothing retailer moving into a modernist building on Fifth Avenue is seeking to make changes, including relocating an art installation. A preservationist has raised concerns.
• At a Brooklyn Hospital, Another Childbirth Death. After the death of a 24-year-old woman, Woodhull Hospital could face questions, for the third time since 2020, about the safety of its labor and delivery floor.
• New Safety Measures For E-Bikes Indicate They May Be Working. Though the fires are occurring about as frequently as they were last year, fewer are happening inside buildings. And there are signs that new safety measures are having an effect.
• Schools Chief In New York Moves Up Departure. The chancellor, who previously announced that he would step down at the end of December, will instead leave the job on Oct. 16. Melissa Aviles-Ramos, a top deputy, will succeed him.
• Treasurer for Little-Known Brooklyn Candidate Is Charged in Fraud Scheme. Erlene King sent thousands of dollars to associates and told them to distribute the funds to others who would then donate to the campaign she worked for, federal prosecutors said.
• Her Pension Checks Vanished. The Doorman Stole Them, Prosecutors Say. A doorman at a building near Columbia University was charged with taking nearly $500,000 from a 91-year-old former resident while she lived in a nursing home.
• Penn Station Looks to Extend Boundaries. After studying other ways to double capacity at the busy transit hub, the railroads that use it say they have concluded that it needs to be expanded.
• Among Black Voters, Adams Sees Defenders And Disappointment. Some Black New Yorkers are sticking by the mayor’s side after he was charged with bribery. Many expressed disappointment in him.
• Is R.T.O. Finally a Reality? There are some signs of resurging office attendance since Labor Day, and some companies are demanding that workers show up five days a week.
• More Charges Deemed Likely In Adams Case. Eric Adams, the New York City mayor, appeared before Judge Dale E. Ho as he fights off federal charges that he accepted luxury travel in exchange for favors.
• He Called 311 on the Police. They Called Back Making Dolphin Sounds. Officer Brendan Sullivan was hit with a fine for harassing a Brooklyn resident who had complained about illegally parked police cruisers.

Business

• Qantas Apologizes for Showing R-Rated Film With Nudity to Entire Flight. The scenes played on every screen, according to comments from social media users. The airlines has since said the movie “was clearly not suitable.”
• TikTok Faces Barrage of Lawsuits Around Teens and Mental Health. More than a dozen states sued TikTok on Tuesday for creating an app designed to be addictive to children and teenagers.
• China to Penalize European Brandy Imports, Striking Back at Car Tariffs. Beijing’s action came days after European nations moved toward tariffs on electric vehicles from China, and it included a threat to also hit pork and car imports.
• As Hurricanes Strike, Insurance Costs Soar for Commercial Real Estate. Struggling landlords and developers are seeking leeway on coverage from their lenders — mostly in vain.
• China’s Policy Reversal Sparks ‘Mind Boggling’ Stock Rally. The government has fired up investors by encouraging banks to lend more to buyers of stocks and real estate, but officials refrained on Tuesday from promising more stimulus.
• Victims of a $7 Billion Fraud May Soon Be Paid. For Some, It’s Too Late. Not having much insight into what may happen next in the case of a fraud orchestrated by Robert Allen Stanford, many of the victims sold the rights to any future payout.
• Fears of a Global Oil Shock if the Mideast Crisis Intensifies. The threat of an escalating conflict between Israel and Iran has created an “extraordinarily precarious” global situation, sowing alarm about the potential economic fallout.
• Growing Cannabis and Opium Poppies May Be Key to U.S. Supply Chains. After supply chain disruptions that made critical medicines scarce, a federal effort is underway to ensure domestic stocks of pharmaceutical ingredients.
• China Haven For Bargains Is Also Fuel for Deflation. The push by Pinduoduo to lower prices has helped it become one of China’s fastest-growing e-commerce apps, and epitomizes a broader force plaguing the economy.
• Cement Is a Big Polluter. A Plant in Norway Hopes to Clean It Up. Heidelberg Materials is betting it can profit from an expensive process that will reduce the carbon dioxide emitted from one of the world’s most polluting industries.
• In Salt Lake City, Sports Drive a New Vision for Downtown. A proposal to remake the area would please the owner of the city’s N.B.A. and N.H.L. teams. But others, including classical musicians, aren’t so thrilled.
• As 23andMe Struggles, Concerns Surface About Its Genetic Data. A plummet in the company’s valuation and a recent board resignation have raised questions about the future of genetic data collected from millions of customers.
• For These Actors, A Media Empire Is No Joking Matter. Started during the pandemic, this venture is the first step in a media empire being built by the actors Sean Hayes, Will Arnett and Jason Bateman.
• How Walmart’s Donna Morris Manages the Largest Work Force in America. With 1.6 million U.S. employees under her watch, the company’s chief people officer faced a unique challenge just weeks into her new job: a pandemic.
• Can Hudson Square Reinvent Itself as New York City’s Next Hot Neighborhood? Once known as a gritty, industrial area on Manhattan’s West Side, Hudson Square is now trying to lure new tenants and businesses, and create its own identity.
• The labor market shows unexpected strength.
• Jobs Report and Easing Inflation Add Economic Momentum for Harris. Recent reports have shown inflation slowing and the economy growing at a robust clip. The Fed has also cut interest rates, bringing mortgage rates down.
• China Buys Nearly All of Iran’s Oil Exports, but Has Options if Israel Attacks. China has strategic reserves and alternatives like electric cars, should oil imports ever be interrupted.
• The Jobs Report Is Good News for the Fed. The data reversed recent signs of a labor market slowdown, probably taking away the argument for a big rate cut at the Federal Reserve’s next meeting.
• Britain Backs Plan to Store Carbon Dioxide Under the Sea. Two proposals in Northern England, led by the energy giants BP and Eni, aim to establish an industry in burying emissions from industrial plants.
• Europe Raises E.V. Tariffs On China, a Key Trade Ally. European Union officials say the duties are meant to protect the region’s automakers from what they say are unfair trade practices in China.
• ‘Degrowth’ The term has recently begun taking root in popular culture and policy.
• For Companies in China, Pulling Out of Xinjiang Poses ‘Messy Dilemma’ Beijing’s investigation of the parent of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, which stopped buying goods from Xinjiang, has put global firms in a difficult position.
• The Climate Fix: Solutions for a Warming World. In a new weekly feature of our Climate Forward newsletter, we’re covering the vast amount of investment, ingenuity and scientific expertise that are going toward stopping climate change.
• European Union Likely to Clear Boost in Tariffs On China E.V.s. The European Union is expected to support wielding tariffs on electric vehicles made in China, seeking to prevent unfair competition.
• So This Is Goodbye. How do you move on to something else after years on the job?
• Victim’s Unsealed Testimony Reveals New Details in Epstein Case’s Class-Action Complaint. The woman testified in a now-settled lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase on behalf of hundreds of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims.
• Tesla Sales Increase, a Sign Electric Car Demand Is Rebounding. The automaker reported a gain of 6.4 percent for the latest quarter, its first such increase this year.
• Why the Conflict Between Iran and Israel Has Raised Oil Prices Only Modestly. The fighting is increasing fears about oil supplies, but those worries are offset by greater global production and slowing demand in China.

DealBook

• How Google Was Forced to Open Up. A federal judge ordered the tech giant to let rival app stores onto its Android smartphone platform, adding to its growing list of legal headaches .
• Two Tech Moguls Split on Trump. Elon Musk appeared onstage at a rally for the former president this weekend, but Silicon Valley was abuzz about Ben Horowitz’s U-turn on backing the Republican candidate.
• How Wider Mideast War Could Imperil Economy. The biggest risk is a sustained increase in oil prices.
• Jobs and Oil Prices Are Keeping Markets on Edge. Friday’s jobs report could bolster the view that the American economy is holding steady, but an oil price shock could undercut that sense of calm.
• The Cost of a New War in the Middle East. An escalation of fighting between Israel and Iran could cause oil prices to spike and send a chill through the global economy.

Economy

• Are Today’s Tax Credits the Best Way to Get Americans to Buy E.V.s? The Inflation Reduction Act was a compromise between competing priorities. Evaluating the law on the effectiveness of the $7,500 tax credit for E.V.s is tricky.
• Days after longshoremen halted work, their union and their bosses have a tentative deal on wages. Days after tens of thousands of longshoremen along the East and Gulf Coasts walked out, their union and their bosses reached a tentative agreement on wages.
• U.S. Ports Rush to Restart After Walkout. The Georgia city is a picturesque tourist destination. It’s also the No. 2 ocean cargo hub on the East Coast, and the dock strike’s quick end was a relief.
• After 4 Years of Tumult, Strong Jobs Numbers Indicate Robust Economy. After months of wobbling, a fresh jobs report showed that hiring and wage growth are strong, aligning with other robust economic data.
• How climate change complicates the jobs report.
• Manufacturing is growing and shrinking at the same time.
• Can the economy continue its balancing act?
• Robust Legacy Of Pandemic: Entrepreneurs. A record surge in new businesses has helped drive job growth, and could have longer-term benefits.
• Port Union Agrees to Suspend Strike. The International Longshoremen’s Association received a new wage offer and will halt its walkout at East and Gulf Coast ports, which began Tuesday.
• Behind Push For Pay Rise At the Ports. Harold J. Daggett is seeking big raises for longshoremen on the East and Gulf Coasts who have fallen behind workers on the West Coast.
• How Much Can a President Boost Manufacturing? The policy focus on the industry has changed from job quantity to job quality. And while federal incentives matter, local factors are more important.
• Death Tolls From Storms Keep Rising For Years. Research on hundreds of tropical storms finds that mortality keeps rising for more than a decade afterward, for reasons you might not expect.

Media

• CBS Rebukes Anchor Over Tense Interview With Ta-Nehisi Coates. Executives said the interview, conducted by the morning show anchor Tony Dokoupil, had fallen short of network editorial standards.
• Little Box Office Mirth for ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ as Sequel Falls Far Short of Original. The bleak musical drama is on track to open to around $40 million, significantly less than what the 2019 version made on its first weekend.
• 43.1 Million Watched Walz Debate Vance. The figure is significantly lower than the vice-presidential debate in 2020.
• Here’s how the CBS moderators will (or won’t) fact-check the V.P. candidates.
• Meet the Moderators: Margaret Brennan and Norah O’Donnell of CBS News. A pair of veteran news anchors will steer the vice-presidential matchup on Tuesday between JD Vance and Tim Walz.
• Writer Linked To R.F.K. Jr. Says Her Ex Harassed Her. Her former fiancé, the Politico reporter Ryan Lizza, has vehemently denied the allegation, which she filed in a court complaint and to the F.B.I.

Your Money

• Experian Wants You to Carry Its Debit Card Around. Be Wary. There’s not a lot of love for the credit bureaus, so why would you want one of them in your wallet? Experian’s pitch: A slightly better credit score. Maybe.
• Employers Enticed to Help Staff Save for College. With college costs high, at least eight states now offer tax credits or deductions for employers that contribute to workers’ 529 accounts.

Technology

• How Does It Feel to Win a Nobel Prize? Ask the ‘Godfather of A.I.’ The computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton spoke with The Times shortly after learning he had won the Nobel Prize for Physics.
• Google Must Open Android to Other App Stores and Billing Options, Judge Rules. The internet giant was ordered by a federal judge to make a series of changes to address its anticompetitive conduct.
• The Tech Lobbying Group Helping to Broaden the First Amendment’s Reach. NetChoice, backed by tech giants including Meta and Google, has successfully argued in court that Big Tech hosts protected speech.
• Meta Unveils A.I. Tool Set To Make Videos With Sound. The tech giant is among the many companies building technology that could remake Hollywood — or help spread disinformation.
• OpenAI Boosts Liquidity With $4 Billion Credit Line. The San Francisco company is gathering the billions its executives believe they will need to continue building new A.I. technology.
• Telegram Founder’s Private Life Is Adding to His Legal Troubles. The mother of three children with Pavel Durov has poked holes in the Russian tech titan’s carefully managed image through a criminal complaint and her account of their opulent lifestyle.
• OpenAI Deal Puts Value Of Company At $157 Billion. The A.I. start-up’s valuation has risen by more than $70 billion in nine months.
• Shutting Out Social Apps? Some app makers worry that a subtle change to the iPhone’s contact-sharing permissions could make it hard for them to get the fast growth they need to compete.
• $275 Million Uninvested. What to Do? CRV, based in Silicon Valley, plans to return to investors $275 million because the market for mature start-ups has soured.

Personal Tech

• Apple’s A.I. Is Landing Soon on iPhones. Here’s What to Use, and What to Ignore. The initial version of Apple Intelligence focuses on helping you with words and photos. Prepare to be impressed and unnerved.

Obituaries

• Lore Segal, a Mordant Memoirist of Émigré Life, Is Dead at 96. Transported to safe haven in England as a Jewish child in 1938, she explored themes of displacement with penetrating wit in autobiographical fiction like “Other People’s Houses.”
• Robert Coover, Inventive Novelist in Iconoclastic Era, Dies at 92. Once called “probably the funniest and most malicious” of the postmodernists, his books reflected a career-long interest in reimagining folk stories, fairy tales and political myths.
• Christopher Ciccone, 63, an Artist Who Wrote a Tell-All About His Sister Madonna. An artist, designer, choreographer and dancer, he was best known for writing a grudge-settling memoir about his formerly close bond with the pop star.
• James Magee, Creator of a Mysterious Desert Monument, Dies at 79. For 40 years, he built a group of stone and steel buildings in the West Texas desert to house his own monumental work. Only a few have been lucky enough to see it.
• David Burnham, 91, Whose Times Exposé Led to ‘Serpico,’ Dies. Tipped off by the detective Frank Serpico, he wrote an explosive series on police corruption in New York City, sparking an investigation by the Knapp commission.
• Richard Mayhew, 100, Whose Memory Imbued His Landscapes, Dies. He drew from his Black and Native American heritage, as well as his own memory, to find an emotional resonance behind the beauty of nature.
• Joe D. Bryan, 84, Dies; His Murder Conviction Raised Troubling Issues. After serving 33 years in prison, he was released in the wake of a cascade of questions about the soundness of the forensic testimony against him.
• Joel Fleishman, 90, ‘Great Connector’ Whose Efforts Shaped Philanthropy. Officially, he was an authority on nonprofit foundations. Unofficially, he was an unparalleled networker among the nation’s rich and powerful.
• Jay J. Armes, 92, Dies; A Flashy Private Eye With Hooks for Hands. With steel hooks for hands and a flamboyant personality, Mr. Armes captured the attention, and scrutiny, of reporters across the nation.
• Eugene Gold, Brooklyn D.A. Who Led the ‘Son of Sam’ Case, Dies at 100. He prosecuted high-profile cases in the 1970s and championed Soviet Jews, but, after retiring, he ran afoul of the law himself, charged with a sex offense.

Asia Pacific

• Masamitsu Yoshioka, 106, Pearl Harbor Bombardier. He was 23 years old when he took part in the attack that triggered America’s declaration of war against Japan. He rarely spoke publicly about it.

Baseball

• Luis Tiant, 83, Who Baffled Hitters With an Elastic Windup, Dies. Cuban-born and charismatic, with a personal tale caught up in politics, he was a dominant hurler with a quirky windup who helped lead the Red Sox to a pennant in 1975.
• Ozzie Virgil Sr., 92, Dies; First Major League Player From Dominican Republic. An outstanding fielder though never an All-Star, he broke that barrier with the Giants in 1956 and later became the Tigers’ first Black player.

Cultura

• Frank Fritz, de los ‘Cazadores de tesoros’, muere a los 60 años. Fritz fue parte del dúo detrás del exitoso programa de telerrealidad en History Channel que buscaba piezas coleccionables de gran valor en áticos, sótanos y ventas de garaje.

Europe

• Peter Jay, 87, British Ambassador to U.S. Who Inspired Notorious Ephron Villain. His appointment sparked criticism and charges of nepotism. He later achieved unwanted attention as a character in the novel “Heartburn.”

Golf

• Susie Maxwell Berning, 83, Golfer Who Won the U.S. Women’s Open Three Times. She often took time away from the tour for her family. But she tallied 11 championships, including three in the U.S. Women’s Open.

Music

• Cissy Houston Dies at 91; Gospel Star Who Led a Singing Dynasty. Hailing from a musical family, she won Grammys, sang backup to Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin and helped shepherd Whitney Houston to superstardom.
• Marvin Schlachter, Record Executive Who Championed Disco, Dies at 90. In the 1960s, he helped get wide exposure for Black artists like Dionne Warwick. A decade later, he brought dance music from the clubs to radio success.

Pro Football

• Greg Landry, 77, a Lion Who Was a Dual Threat. Known for his legs as well as for his arm, he was the last Detroit Lions quarterback to make the Pro Bowl for more than 40 years.

Briefing

• Millions Are Fleeing Florida’s Gulf Coast Ahead of Milton. Also, the Supreme Court appeared open to limits on “ghost guns.” Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
• Wednesday Briefing: An Israeli Airstrike in Syria. Plus, revisiting Oppenheimer’s Communist ties.
• Federal Debt and the Election. National debt may soon exceed G.D.P. We explore the causes — and possible solutions.
• Tuesday Briefing. Israelis and Palestinians commemorate a year of loss.
• One Year After Oct. 7, Peace Seems More Elusive Than Ever. Also, Hurricane Milton heads toward Florida as a Category 5 storm. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.
• Tuesday Briefing: Israelis and Palestinians Mourn a Year of Loss. Plus, Chappell Roan navigates the demands of fame.
• One Year Later. We’re covering the anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack — and how it has reshaped the Middle East.
• Monday Briefing. Reflecting on a year of war in the Middle East.
• Monday Briefing: Reflecting on a Year of War. Plus, Paris Fashion Week’s closing fantasia.
• The Robotic Future of Pro Sports. We explore a looming change in sports officiating.
• Fear Factors. Sometimes the scariest movies are the ones that depict the ordinary horrors of life.
• The Economy Looks Strong After the Latest Jobs Report. Also, Trump is returning to the site where he was shot. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
• The New York Times News Quiz, Oct. 4, 2024. Did you follow the news this week? Take our quiz to see how well you stack up with other Times readers.
• Friday Briefing: Israel Targets Hezbollah’s Remaining Leaders. Plus, a billion-dollar plan to protect trees.
• Biden Promised Federal Support for Survivors of Helene. Also, Liz Cheney is campaigning tonight with Kamala Harris. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
• Friday Briefing: Israel Expands Evacuation Orders in Lebanon. Plus, paying countries to protect trees.
• How Trump Could Punish His Enemies. We look at why legal experts are concerned.
• Thursday Briefing: Strikes Leave 6 Dead in Beirut. Plus, new evidence in the Trump election case.
• New Evidence Was Unsealed in the Federal Election Case Against Trump. Also, Biden ordered 1,000 troops to help areas destroyed by Helene. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
• Thursday Briefing: Israeli Troops Clashed with Hezbollah. Plus, what we learned from fashion month.
• A Vice-Presidential Debate. We explain the why the debate offered a snapshot of another era.
• Wednesday Briefing: Iran Fires 180 Missiles at Israel. Plus: In a lawsuit, words matter.

Podcasts

• Poll Finds Harris Rising, and Florida Braces for Hurricane Milton. Plus, have we reached peak human life span?
• Israel Commemorates Oct. 7 Anniversary Amid Strikes on Gaza and Lebanon. Plus, misinformation is hampering the Helene aid effort.
• A Year Later. Chen Almog-Goldstein was kidnapped along with her three youngest children on October 7, 2023. She tells the story of life as a hostage in Gaza.
• Oil Prices Rise on Biden’s Offhand Remarks, and U.S. Ports Reopen. Plus, the top trends from fashion month.
• Is Katy Perry’s ‘143’ Really That Bad? Our critic says it’s complicated.
• Can California Regulate A.I.? + Silicon Valley’s Super Babies + System Update! “In the United States, we have 50 laboratories of democracy and they’re called states.”
• Biden Deploys Troops in Helene Aid Effort, and Trump’s Jan. 6 Case. Plus, making fall foliage pop for the colorblind.
• JD Vance, Tim Walz and the Fight for Rural America. Both vice-presidential candidates have roots in parts of the country where voters feel overlooked, and Democrats have struggled.
• Israel Vows Retaliation Against Iran, and Takeaways From the Debate. Plus, Mexico’s first female president.
• Sally Rooney’s ‘Intermezzo,’ Reviewed. Why our critic couldn’t put this book down.
• Were We the ‘Fat Couple’? When Courtenay was alone with her boyfriend, her body shame disappeared. But when they left the house, it felt different.

Op-Ed

• Transcript: Ezra Klein on the V.P. Debate. The Oct. 2, 2024, episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”

The Daily

• How NAFTA Broke American Politics. Since its passage in 1993, the trade agreement has played an outsize role in presidential elections.
• The Year Since Oct. 7. Two men in Israel and Gaza talk about how their lives have changed.
• The Sunday Read: ‘The Blind Side’ Made Him Famous. But He Has a Different Story to Tell. The football player Michael Oher believes his early life was misrepresented by the Oscar-winning movie and the book it was based on.
• Four Weeks to Go. With Kamala Harris and Donald Trump locked in the tightest of races, who will come out on top? Watch or listen to our political round table on the 2024 election.
• A Near Exact Tie in the Polls. After an eventful week for the presidential race, the candidates are even in the polls. The Times journalists Nate Cohn, Michael Barbaro, Maggie Haberman and Shane Goldmacher discuss the state of the race, with the Nov. 5 election nearly a month a...
• Four Weeks To Go: “The Daily” Politics Roundtable. With Kamala Harris and Donald Trump locked in the tightest of races, who will come out on top? Listen to our political round table on the 2024 election.
• Iran Retaliates. A volley of missiles fired at Israel sharply escalated the conflict between the two countries and threatened to engulf the Middle East in all-out war.
• The Walz-Vance Debate: Civility and Then a Clash. The vice-presidential candidates sparred over immigration, abortion and the Jan. 6 riot.

Science

• Nobel Physics Prize Awarded for Pioneering A.I. Research by 2 Scientists. With work on machine learning that uses artificial neural networks, John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “showed a completely new way for us to use computers,” the committee said.
• Revisiting Oppenheimer’s Communist Ties. As Harvard and a top biographer square off, proponents of a middle path see a tangled life in which the superstar of science was, and was not, a true Communist at the same time.
• How to See the ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Comet Flaring in Our Night Skies. Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is nearing Earth and getting brighter.
• When Two Sea Aliens Become One. Primitive animals called comb jellies can fuse their bodies and nervous systems together.
• Spacecraft to Test First Line of Planetary Defense. The Hera spacecraft, which took flight late Monday morning, is part of a broader effort to bolster humanity’s planetary defense readiness.
• Some Scientists May Never Win a Nobel, but They Still Deserve Big Prizes. The Nobel Foundation offers prizes in only three scientific disciplines, but other awards have been created to honor scientists in different fields.
• Ex-OceanGate Employee’s Remarks Hint at Titan Disaster Lawsuits to Come. A former Coast Guard specialist’s testimony capped two weeks of hearings into the implosion of a submersible that killed five during an attempt to explore the Titanic.
• Scientists Found a Surprising Way to Make Fungus Happy. The discovery that sound improves the growth rate of beneficial fungus suggests that dirges in the dirt may help restore forests.
• Researchers Identify Victim of 1845 Voyage. A new study offers clues to a 179-year-old mystery that killed more than 100 explorers on the Franklin expedition in the Canadian Arctic.
• The World’s Oldest Termite Mound Is 34,000 Years and Counting. Scientists recently found the planet’s longest continuously occupied termite colony in an arid region of South Africa. It dates to the time of the Neanderthals.
• DNA Reveals the Origin Stories of America’s Captive Tigers. Scientists have wondered if the many captive tigers in the United States could one day help restore the species in the wild.
• The Food of Space Travel Could Be Based on Rocks. Scientists are studying whether future astronauts on deep-space journeys could transform compounds in asteroids into food.
• To Build a Nuclear Bomb, Iran Would Need Much More Than Weeks. Nuclear experts see Tehran as facing up to a year of hard work to master the knotty basics of building a deliverable atom bomb.
• After a Decade, Scientists Unveil Fly Brain in Stunning Detail. Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.
• ‘Ring of Fire’ Solar Eclipse Will Be Visible in Parts of South America. Not everyone will be able to see the phenomenon, known as an annular eclipse, on Wednesday, though a partial solar eclipse may be visible in parts of Antarctica and Hawaii.
• You Can Stand Under My Umbrella, if You’re an Egg-Laying Locust. Male locusts have long been observed shielding mates from other males. Researchers say this behavior may also protect the females from desert temperatures.

Climate

• When a Television Meteorologist Breaks Down on Air and Admits Fear. John Morales, who has forecast weather for decades, went viral after choking up on air while discussing Hurricane Milton.
• Our Planet’s Twin Crises. In her last newsletter for the Times, a Climate Forward reporter reflects on the intertwined problems of climate change and biodiversity loss.
• Record Hot Water Is Fueling Hurricane Milton. Milton grew into a Category 5 hurricane in less than a day as it crossed warm oceans across the Gulf of Mexico.
• Does My Home Have Lead Pipes? And What Can I Do About Them? New rules will require utilities to replace lead pipes nationwide. That will take time, but you can protect yourself by taking these steps.
• Utilities Must Replace Lead Pipes, E.P.A. Says. The “historic” rule aims to eliminate a major source of lead poisoning and comes a decade after a drinking-water crisis in Flint, Mich.
• See the Ocean Heat Fueling Hurricane Milton, in One Chart. The waters of the Atlantic Ocean have been abnormally warm, providing copious amounts of energy that can intensify storms.
• With Hurricane Season Still Churning, FEMA Is Facing a Severe Staffing Shortage. Fewer than 10 percent of the agency’s disaster workers are available to respond to Hurricane Milton and other calamities.
• How Can I Get ‘Forever Chemicals’ Out of My Life? They’re almost everywhere. And they’re bad. But there are some things you can do to avoid them.
• Hit by Disaster? How to Get What You Deserve From Insurers or FEMA. Experts offered plenty of advice about ways to make the disaster-recovery process work. Here’s what to do and what to avoid.
• Monitoring Of Climate Disrupted By Helene. The National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, N.C., sweep together data from around the world to help track Earth’s warming.
• North Carolina Lawmakers Left Homes Exposed to Storm’s Wrath. Under pressure to control housing costs, Republican lawmakers rejected standards meant to protect against disasters, experts say.
• Brazil’s ‘Elegant’ Idea to Save Tropical Forests Needs Investors to Sign On. Brazil is proposing a fund that would pay countries to protect tropical forests that are crucial to curbing climate change. It would generate returns, too.
• Tiny Prairies Blooming With Sustainability in the Heartland. Farmers in the heartland are restoring swaths of the prairie with government help. The aim is to reduce nutrient runoff from cropland, and help birds and bees.
• In a Shift, Democrats Embrace Oil and Gas. Tim Walz said climate change is real, but boasted about high U.S. levels of oil and gas production. JD Vance called climate change “weird science.”
• After Helene, Legal Aid Groups Gear Up for Fights Over Who Should Pay. As storms intensify, so do the legal clashes with insurers, aid agencies and others over compensation, rebuilding and even scams.

The Upshot

• A Florida Poll That Should Change the Way You Look at the Election. A big Trump lead in the state paradoxically adds to evidence of a smaller Electoral College edge for him. And a choice by pollsters may be causing them to miss state shifts.
• State of the Race: A Big Week in News, but a Quiet One in Polling. The polls are still so close that neither candidate has a significant advantage.
• How One Polling Decision Is Leading to Two Distinct Stories of the Election. A methodological choice has created divergent paths of polling results. Is this election more like 2020 or 2022?
• The Problem With the Hurricane Category Rating. After Helene, it may be time to rethink how to communicate the risks posed by storms, especially extreme rain.
• Home Is Where Americans Have Been Spending More Time. A recent study shows Americans are spending notably more time at home, a trend that started long before the pandemic.
• Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, October 5, 2024. Can you sort 8 historical events?
• Every Election Has Big Swings, Even in a Polarized Country. This One Will Too. In just the last few years, any number of issues might have led people to reconsider their loyalties.
• 10-Minute Challenge: A Finished, Unfinished Portrait by Alice Neel. We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
• Trump Did Not ‘Save’ Obamacare. He Just Failed to Kill It. By trying to repeal and replace the law while president, he wound up making it popular.

Opinion

• Harris Spends an Hour in the Warm Embrace of Howard Stern. The shock jock has become a required stop for Democratic politicians.
• Harris Should Offer to Debate Trump Again — on Fox. There’s only one venue where Harris would have another opportunity to speak to 67 million people at once.
• Asheville, Tampa and Lessons From Hurricane Helene. Readers reflect on the devastation, the recovery and climate havens. Also: An ex-hostage’s plea; the women who accuse Donald Trump; a Trump rally.
• ‘This Issue Is Not Going Away’: Why These Undecided Voters Are Wary of Trump. The participants discuss the vice-presidential debate and if and how it influenced their vote for president.
• France Has Made Itself Irrelevant on the World Stage. If you don’t play the game, you don’t make the rules.
• The Casualties in North Carolina Include the Truth. An overflow of Trump-inspired misinformation on the disaster of Helene has impeded the recovery.
• Oct. 7: For Jews in America, a Time of Reflection. Readers respond to a column by Bret Stephens. Also: Republicans’ plans to challenge the election; Vanderbilt’s leader, on flawed college rankings.
• Is Trump Trying to Blow It? He seems to have given up trying to broaden his share of the vote.
• There Is No Climate Haven. We All Live in Florida Now. Hurricane Helene has reminded us. Climate change has stacked the deck against all of us.
• Do Careerism and College Mix? Readers respond to a guest essay by a recent college graduate. Also: New York City’s new outdoor dining program; how immigrants built America.
• Adoptions by Foreign Parents. Readers discuss a guest essay by a Chinese adoptee.
• Without Aid, This Famine May Become One of History’s Worst.
• Affection Does Not Excuse Blackface. Representative Mike Lawler, take note.
• This Is What Electoral Fraud Looks Like. Amazing how our legal system is able to distinguish between real and fake evidence, isn’t it?
• Engaging With a Conservative on Campus. Responses to a conservative professor’s guest essay. Also: JD Vance at the debate; caring for child caregivers; smaller restaurant portions.
• The Fed Might Have Gotten the Soft Landing of Its Dreams. The U.S. economy continues to be in a very good place.
• From Eric Adams to ‘Antonio Scalywag,’ Who Caused the Most Political Nonsense This Week? Antonio Scalywag, Who Caused the Most Political Nonsense This Week?
• No, Immigration Isn’t Raising Your Rent. This is not the world according to JD Vance.
• Trump, Vance and the Jan. 6 Case. Readers respond to the special counsel Jack Smith’s filing. Also: The pain of IUD insertions; food and the environment; A.I. and the patient.
• The American People Are Now Trump’s Jury. We have no other choice.
• Who Prepared for Hurricane Helene? And who didn’t?
• Who’s Too Old to Be President Now? Take a Guess. If voters felt 81 was too old for Joe Biden, it’s hard to believe they can overlook 78 in Donald Trump.
• A Veep Star Vibe-Checks the Debate. “This is not a date, it’s a debate!”
• Maybe Voters Want a Break From the Endless Combat. A glimpse at a different approach in North Carolina.
• JD Vance’s Audition to Lead the G.O.P. Is Working. He is a perfect solution to Trump’s self-inflicted political frailties.
• Pete Rose Never Changed, but Baseball Did. It has begun to acknowledge what Rose knew: That sports are deeply intertwined with gambling.
• Vance vs. Walz: The Reviews Are In. Readers offer assessments of the candidates’ performances while praising the debate’s civility. Also: A college president’s resignation; storm relocation.
• ‘If Germany Can Do It, Why Can’t We?’ Germany’s unilateral decision to close its borders has angered its neighbors in Europe.
• Walz Failed to Expose Vance’s Debate Masquerade. Harris’s running mate missed multiple opportunities to demonstrate how Trump and his running mate are unfit for office.
• It Will Take a Lot More for America to Trust Vance on Family Policy. I don’t care how many women he claims to know.
• Vance’s Dominant Debate Performance Shows Why He’s Trump’s Running Mate. He’s making a case for Trump’s record far more effectively than Trump has ever been capable of doing.

Op-Ed

• What Trump and Vance Want From Hurricane Helene. Trump has successfully trained millions of Americans to think of the truth as an obstacle to winning power.
• This Year’s October Surprise May Be That There Isn’t One. The polls are very, very stable in spite of events.
• How Biden’s Middle East Policy Fell Apart. The journalist Franklin Foer traced the Biden administration’s diplomacy in the Middle East since Oct. 7 and emerged with an “anatomy of a failure.”
• I Was a Teacher in Gaza. This Is What Haunts Me Now. Since Oct. 7, 80 percent of the schools in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. Mosab Abu Toha reflects on what has been lost.
• Is New York Ready to Forgive Andrew Cuomo? History has presented Mr. Cuomo with an opportunity. But it’s one that New York voters may not swallow.
• Biden’s Moral Failure in Israel. The American president promised equality. He didn’t deliver.
• Black Men Are Waiting for a Democratic Party That Delivers for Them. Democrats have spent too much time drawing symbolic distinctions with Republicans without illuminating substantive differences.
• We Can Do Better Than ‘Positive Masculinity’ It doesn’t challenge stereotypes; it reinforces them.
• All the Good News Vindicates Bidenomics. But not quite in the way you may think.
• Kamala Harris Should Think Twice About Touting This Economy. The labor market isn’t as healthy as the September jobs report suggests. And Americans know it.
• I Live in Israel. I Never Hear About What My Country Is Doing to Gaza. Mairav Zonszein argues there will be a cost to her country’s “indifference” toward Palestinians.
• How Could the Election Be This Close? No one said it was going to be easy for Kamala Harris.
• This Supreme Court Is Its Own Worst Enemy. If it loses its institutional credibility, it will be powerless when it matters most.
• Anthony Fauci: A Mosquito in My Backyard Made Me the Sickest I’ve Ever Been. What it’s like to get the neglected disease.
• On Israeli Apathy. The lawlessness and state violence directed at Palestinians for so long has at last started to seep into Jewish Israeli society.
• What I’m Thinking About on the First Anniversary of the War. One year after being attacked, Israel has not won the battle on the ground or the battle for a good story to tell about itself and this war.
• My Heart Remains Captive in Gaza. My name is Yaffa Adar. I’m 86 years old. I was a hostage of Hamas.
• I Was a Best-Selling Novelist. Then I Went Back to School. A writer reconsiders the value of literature and goes back to school to study behavioral change — and maybe change himself.
• An Artist Rethinks Climate Change in Words and Pictures. We need to act as a single unified force to find ways to strike a lasting balance with our natural world.
• Kamala Harris Is Turning a Trump Tactic on Its Head. Trump wants to position himself as the nation’s protector. But Harris is offering real-world, practical protection on the issues that matter.
• JD Vance and the Prophets of Trumpism. For this group of Christians, “Trump is good. He’s been baptized by their theology.”
• One Big Decision Awaits the Supreme Court. Will the court resume or refrain from injecting itself into the country’s culture wars?
• The Sexiest Year of My Life Involved Zero Sex. When I removed the option of romance, my sensual relationship to all the other aspects of my life deepened.
• Gaza’s Schools Have Become Shelters. Schools across Gaza have turned into refugee centers, and Israeli attacks on them have killed hundreds.
• Trump Did Nothing to Stop the Mob. “Stop the Steal” is about not trusting voters.
• ‘Nobody Wants This’ Pits Jewish Women Against ‘Shiksas.’ Nobody Wins. Except maybe Jewish men.
• I’m a Doctor. ChatGPT’s Bedside Manner Is Better Than Mine. My job is no longer safe.
• We Need A President On the Job. The sidelining of the White House in global crisis spots is a big red flag.
• Biden Sought Peace, but Facilitated War. Netanyahu repeatedly rolled the American president, leading us all to the precipice of a much larger war.
• What the World Must Know About Iran. Now is the time to bolster regional cooperation and make a broad effort to confront Iran.
• JD Smirks His Way Into the Future. The misogynist ticket takes a shot at Kamala for dancing — and being a woman.
• To Understand Trump vs. Harris, You Must Know These American Myths. It’s as if we are living in two different countries, each with a different understanding of who counts as American.
• The Dollar Is Too Strong for America’s Own Good. Weakening the dollar is a good idea. How to do it is another question.
• ‘Megalopolis’ and the Vexations of Decadence. A story that’s grist for big debates without necessarily being a good movie.
• Democrats Have a Corruption Problem. They Can’t Keep Ignoring It. For the sake of their electoral fortunes and the country, Democrats must show voters a plan to curb corruption — including within their own ranks.
• The Miracle Cure of Mass Deportation. For the former president, removing millions of undocumented immigrants is the solution to most of the nation’s most pressing challenges.
• The Economy Is at a Hinge Moment. The economist Jason Furman discusses the economic fights that the next presidential administration will face.
• Unpacking the Role JD Vance Played on That Debate Stage. Neither candidate engaged with the core criticisms facing their parties.
• The Supreme Court Should Stop the Glossip Execution. When prosecutors admit they were wrong in a death penalty case, courts should listen.
• Kamala Harris Is Doing Something Brilliant Up There on the Tightrope. She’s strong. But she’s warm. That makes all the difference.
• Brazil’s Largest Mafia Is Entering Politics. The Government Must Act. For many Brazilians, the First Capital Command’s push into politics across the nation has been a shock.
• The Year American Jews Woke Up. American Jews need to recover their instinct for danger.
• Why Trump Lies About Disaster Relief. His usual trash-talking is losing its mojo.
• Recipe for a Striving America. The question is not whether to do industrial policy but how.
• She Is Outrageous, Demeaning, Dangerous. She Shouldn’t Be Punished. Amy Wax’s statements are indefensible. But so is the University of Pennsylvania’s response.
• JD Vance Is Smoother — but No Better — Than Donald Trump. Do not use normal appraisals for an abnormal election.
• Why Israel Is Worried About Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions. Despite the supreme leader’s stated religious objections to nuclear weapons, Tehran has been steadily making progress on its nuclear weapons capabilities over the course of the past year.
• The Real Loser of the V.P. Debate. It’s our politics.
• Donald Trump, You Lucky Dog. It’s unnerving how many fortunate things have happened to this guy.
• The Legacy of Betty Ford’s Breast Cancer. As with many stories of celebrity illness, Ms. Ford’s was inspirational but complicated.
• Trump Lost the Trade War to China. America Needs a New Strategy. America’s goal shouldn’t be merely to block Chinese goods, but to outcompete them. That will require cooperation.
• How We Unintentionally Created the Affordable Housing Crisis. Well-meaning regulations and reforms intended to prevent another financial crisis has pushed millions of affordable homes out of the reach of everyday buyers and into the coffers of investors.
• Putin Keeps Threatening to Use Nuclear Weapons. Would He? Last week the president of Russia appeared to lower the threshold for his country’s use of nuclear weapons. It wasn’t subtle, and it wasn’t meant to be.
• A ‘Veep’ Star Vibe-Checks the Vance-Walz Showdown. “This is not a date, it’s a debate!”
• The V.P. Debate Came Down to One Moment. JD Vance’s response to a question about challenging this year’s election results was telling.
• Sleeping Through Hurricane Helene. Extreme climate was supposed to shock us into action. What happened?
• The Misogyny of Gen Z Men Has Been Overstated. The majority of them support equality, even if they don’t call themselves feminists.
• Why Trump Wants to Make America the ‘Crypto Capital of the Planet’ The former president’s views of virtual coins have shifted markedly in recognition of the emergence of this sector as a major player in campaign finance.
• Kidman Knows What She’s Doing. She’s everywhere, and she’s giving a lot of work to female talent. Is that such a bad thing?
• Vance ‘Made Trumpism Sound Polite, Calm and Coherent’ Our columnists and contributors rate Tim Walz’s and JD Vance’s debate performances.
• Disease Experts Can Learn From Storm Warnings. Public health experts too often fail to sound the alarm.
• Storms Like Helene Will Transform the American South. The exodus of the young means high-risk towns could enter a population death spiral.
• This Is Why MAGA Loves JD Vance. Trump’s running mate is no Mike Pence.
• We Absolutely Need to Escalate in Iran. Iran now presents an intolerable threat to Israel, America and the liberal-international order.
• Thomas Friedman: ‘This Is Code Red Time in the Middle East’ The columnist weighs in on Iran’s retaliatory strike against Israel and what comes next.

Arts

• Art or Trash? It Can Be a Fine Line. Two beer cans were displayed in a Dutch museum. Then they were accidentally thrown out.
• The Role of New York’s Lauded Looted Art Unit Is Challenged in Court. The fight is over an Egon Schiele drawing held by the Art Institute of Chicago that the Manhattan district attorney’s office seized as Nazi loot. But it has wider implications.
• Review: Philharmonic Returns to Classics, at Its Own Expense. Led by Manfred Honeck, the orchestra all too quickly revisited Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and, with Vikingur Olafsson, Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1.
• Extreme Weather Gives Video Games a Powerful Adversary. Designers are increasingly able to render weather conditions as not just evocative visual effects but phenomena that physically affect the player.
• A Devastating Blow to a Creative Dream. The hurricane damaged an estimated 80 percent of the buildings in the River Arts District of Asheville, N.C., and upended the lives of artists who had recast the city as a cultural force.
• 5 Things to Do This Weekend. A selection of entertainment highlights this weekend, including the sequel “Joker: Folie à Deux.”
• New York Lands a Brainy Trove. The voluminous papers of the celebrated neurologist include letters, notebooks, drafts and other traces of a man who couldn’t stop writing.
• We Want to Know Your Questions About Theater, Film, Music and Culture. Your culture and entertainment questions answered by New York Times journalists and experts.
• Prosecutor Is Reviewing Menendez Brothers Case. Interest in the Menendez brothers has intensified after the release of a new Netflix drama about the case. A separate documentary is forthcoming.
• From One Nonagenarian Artist to Another, a Tip of the Hat. Alex Katz admired a Mark di Suvero sculpture and gave it to the Brooklyn Museum. It now has pride of place in the museum’s 200th anniversary celebration.
• What’s in Our Queue? Museo Anahuacalli and More. I’m an international correspondent based in Mexico City. Here are five things I’ve recently heard, seen or watched.
• Out for a Stroll, Taking to the Air. Dayton Contemporary Dance Company brought a mixed bill to the Joyce Theater, including a Paul Taylor classic and a dance by the great Rennie Harris.
• When Artists Found Beauty in London’s Toxic Fog. Monet and Turner found something sublime in the polluted 19th-century city — and maybe something darker, too.

Art & Design

• Studio Museum in Harlem to Open New Building in Fall 2025. The 82,000-square-foot structure on 125th Street will open with a show featuring the artist Tom Lloyd.
• Welcome to Mike Kelley’s World: Beautiful, Ugly, Funny and Dumb. The American artist died in 2012, but a new exhibition in London shows how his deadpan-weirdo works continue to resonate today.
• Shaker Cradles for Adults? They Rocked Frances McDormand’s Mind. A soulful exhibition curated by the actress and her friend Suzanne Bocanegra, an artist, explores caregiving and community.
• What Is the Sound of a Teardrop? You Can Hear It at MoMA. Otobong Nkanga’s installations can seem simultaneously futuristic and primordial, apocalyptic and utopian. Her latest opens at the museum this week.
• The Blackboard Connection. In the artist’s first major U.S. museum survey, she bonds with Cy Twombly through works on paper, films and photographs.
• What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in October. This week in Newly Reviewed, Martha Schwendener covers Dennis Kardon’s wonderfully strange paintings, Klara Liden’s green vistas and Sheryl Sutton’s mesmerizing movements.
• The Stories Behind the Beauty. A new American wing draws on feminist and racially and ethnically diverse thinking to spotlight 400 exceptional works in its collection.
• What James Ensor Knew About the Masks We Wear. Seventy-five years after the artist’s death, the grotesque masquerades he painted aren’t so far from the manipulated faces of the present day.
• Giving the Face of the Met a New Look. The artist for the fifth Facade Commission created Cubist sculptures that look forward and backward. The question is what more the Met can do going forward.
• London’s Once-Tidy Green Spaces Are Going Wild, On Purpose. In response to concerns over climate change and plummeting biodiversity, a shift is afoot in the city’s parks. Manicured is out; rugged is in.
• Where the Usual Markers of Solid Space Aren’t So Clear. Paint, plastic and flashbulbs: What the visionary artist achieves with those materials is astounding in its effect.

Dance

• Flamenco Is the Lifeblood of ‘Ainadamar’ at the Met. Osvaldo Golijov’s opera about Federico García Lorca makes its Met debut in a dance-heavy production, directed by the choreographer Deborah Colker.
• A Striking Ballet Gets a New Life. So Does a Budding Ballerina. Olivia Bell, 20, a radiant member of New York City Ballet, reprises the role she knocked out of the park as a student: “I want to do it right.”

Music

• Cissy Houston Saw Music’s Peaks and Life’s Valleys. The singer, who died this week, was the mother of Whitney Houston and a contender for the greatest voice of the country, our critic says.
• Is It Too Late Now to Say Sorry? 8 Songs for the High Holy Days. Apology, forgiveness, moving on: These are some of humanity’s richest themes, and they have rich songs to match.
• The $550 Million Question: How Does David Geffen Hall Sound? The New York Philharmonic’s home underwent an extensive renovation that was finished two years ago. But that was only the beginning of the quest for the perfect sound.
• The Quick-Witted, Self-Lacerating James Blunt Would Like a Word. Twenty years after his hit “You’re Beautiful” turned him into an overnight star, the British singer and songwriter takes his music — and his haters — to task.
• Chappell Roan Seeks the Line Between IRL and URL. The rising pop singer has been transparently navigating the demands of fame — onstage and online — as she’s grown from cult queer-pop hero to zeitgeist-shaping star.
• The Cases Against Sean Combs. A discussion of the accusations the music mogul faces, the court of public opinion and how the entertainment press covers morally complicated figures.
• GloRilla, Hip-Hop’s Master Motivator, Rounds Out Her Message. Self-empowerment rhymes catapulted her onto rap’s A-list. On “Glorious,” her debut LP, she’s hoping that showing more sides of her personality will help her stay there.
• 10 Unforgettable Kris Kristofferson Covers. Many of his songs are better known by other singers’ interpretations, like Janis Joplin’s “Me and Bobby McGee,” Johnny Cash’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down” and more.
• Lauren Mayberry’s Lush Pop Ecstasy, and 13 More New Songs. Hear tracks by Bartees Strange, the Smile, Ela Minus and others.
• Bringing Opera Back From The Brink. Under the leadership of Tomer Zvulun, Atlanta Opera powered through the pandemic, has tripled its budget and is producing ambitious work.
• Country Music Star Brooks Is Accused of Rape and Assault in Lawsuit. A woman who worked as a hair and makeup stylist for the country superstar says he subjected her to repeated advances. Mr. Brooks said it is “behavior I am incapable of.”
• Lawyers for a Sean Combs Accuser Ask to Withdraw From Her Case. A dispute between Adria English, who has accused Mr. Combs of sexual misconduct, and her lawyers is the latest twist in the civil litigation the music mogul is facing.
• Cassettes Are Back. Now Find a Tape Deck. Musicians and fans have developed a new taste for an old format, but manufacturers largely stopped making players. Listeners are finding creative (and vintage) solutions.
• Songs of a Love That Follows A Crooked Path. On her second album, the internet-native Irish songwriter makes a complicated relationship sound “squonky.”
• 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Betty Carter. Her intricate phrasing and live improvisational skills made her a cornerstone for artists of all sorts. Listen to songs chosen by 10 musicians and writers who consider her a north star.

Television

• ‘La Máquina’ Is a Starry Mexican Boxing Drama. The Spanish-language Hulu drama, starring Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal, skews more loopy and mysterious than gritty.
• Ali Wong Dishes on Life After Divorce. Her Real Subject Is Fame. Her gossipy portrait of singlehood as a celebrity is a sunny contrast to the darker view of her Netflix stablemate Hannah Gadsby.
• The Real Housewives Weren’t There, but Their Fans Were. At a Bravo-themed brunch, we met some devoted watchers of “Vanderpump Rules,” “Below Deck” and other staples of reality television.
• Seth Meyers: Trump Rallies Are Like an Escape Room. “Generally speaking, if you’re at an event and the host of that event keeps insisting no one is going to leave, it is time to start worrying,” Meyers said on Monday.
• 4 Takeaways From ‘The Menendez Brothers,’ on Netflix. The documentary, based on extensive new interviews with Lyle and Erik Menendez, adds fresh nuance and details about their parents’ murders and the aftermath.
• This Week on TV. Bravo airs its reality show about “yachties,” and ABC is back with its Emmy-winning sitcom.
• ‘Saturday Night Live’ Revisits the Vice-Presidential Debate. The comic Nate Bargatze hosted an episode that opened with another political sketch featuring the guest stars Dana Carvey, Jim Gaffigan, Maya Rudolph and Andy Samberg.
• Ella Purnell Is a TV Star Who Hasn’t Lost Touch With Her Barista Roots. “Sometimes, before I go to bed,” the “Sweetpea” actress and executive producer said, “I think about how good my coffee’s going to be in the morning.”
• Superhero Satire Succumbs to Its Scorn. A new HBO comedy takes a jaundiced look at the making of a second-rate superhero film.
• The Best of Late Night This Week. This week, the hosts focused mostly on the vice-presidential debate but took a moment to discuss recent inflammatory comments by former President Trump.
• These Two Friends Sign Up for a Rematch. For their first screen roles together since 2012, the longtime friends undertook a Spanish-language series about a boxer who must fight for his life.
• Late Night Heaps Scorn on Trump’s Latest Defense. Jimmy Kimmel said Donald Trump was “partially right” in denying interference in the 2020 election: “He tried to rig the election and failed to rig the election.’
• ‘Good Times’ Couldn’t Assuage an Outspoken John Amos. The actor, whose death was announced this week, made it known he didn’t like the direction the hit show was going. His character was then killed off.
• While Looking for Their Child, They Found Goofy Neighbors. A small-town European murder mystery but more stylish than most — and less miserable.
• ‘The Rings of Power’ Season 2 Finale Recap: Highs and Lows. The second season ended in a whirlwind of fire and steel, darkness and light, capping an eight-episode run with many ups and downs.
• Politicians: Prepare to Be Parodied. Since the 1970s, the late-night institution has offered up definitive impersonations of American presidents and other politicians. Here are its most memorable political sketches.
• Late Night Sums Up a Strangely Chill V.P. Debate. Jimmy Fallon said viewers “were expecting a horror movie, but instead, they got a Hallmark movie.”
• Campaign’s Supporting Players Performed Against Type in CBS Showdown. In what could be the last prime-time showdown of the 2024 campaign, the supporting players performed against type.
• Late Night Goes Live After a ‘Dull’ Vice-Presidential Debate. Stephen Colbert was unenthused by Tuesday’s discourse between Tim Walz and JD Vance.

Theater

• Review: An Ambitious Work, as Flimsy as a House of Cards. Robert Lepage’s latest play, “Faith, Money, War and Love,” runs for five hours, and aims to depict Germany since the end of World War II.
• ‘The Big Gay Jamboree’ Review: A Golden-Age Fantasia on Steroids. The goofball spirit that made Marla Mindelle’s “Titaníque” a hit is missing from her equally campy new show drenched in pop-culture references.
• Looking for a Partner in Time Travel. Adapted from the offbeat 2012 movie, this new musical about loneliness and the longing for do-overs is promising but still needs to find its shape.
• At Home in a Mansion Haunted by Gentrification. A new play from James Ijames, who won a Pulitzer for his “Fat Ham,” has intriguing ideas about identity and community that never fully take shape.
• ‘Dorian Gray’ to Transfer To Broadway From London. The “Succession” actress will play all 26 characters in a stage production of the Oscar Wilde novel.
• Paradoxes Explode As Masks Drop Off. David Henry Hwang’s 2007 play, now in a fine Broadway revival, is a pointed critique of identity, masquerading as a mockumentary.

Books

• Removing Books From Libraries Often Takes Debate. But There’s a Quieter Way. Weeding, or culling old, damaged or outdated books, is standard practice in libraries. But in some cases it is being used to remove books because of the viewpoint they express.
• How Book Bans Happen Under the Radar. Thousands of books have been publicly challenged and removed from libraries in the past couple of years. Elizabeth Harris, who covers books and the publishing industry for The New York Times, explains how books are being pulled from libraries in a...
• 2 Books About Old Flames. Stephen McCauley’s novel about ex-spouses reuniting, in a sense; Jim Shepard’s noir about a fateful hit-and-run.
• She Was Diagnosed With Brain Cancer, Then Wrote a Rom-Com About It. Sophie Kinsella, the author of “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” packs love, laughter and a harrowing real-life health ordeal into a 133-page novella.
• Love ‘Heartstopper’? You’ll Love These Books, Too. Earnest love stories by Rainbow Rowell, TJ Klune and Talia Hibbert will tug at your heartstrings while grappling with real, often dark, issues.
• R.L. Stine’s Favorite Halloween Books Will Give Your Kids Goosebumps. As spooky season approaches, the master of children’s horror recommends creepy-crawly classics and modern thrills for young readers.

Book Review

• An Exquisite Queer Odyssey by a Literary Master. In Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel, “Our Evenings,” a Burmese English actor grapples with race and ambition, sexuality and love in a bigoted world.
• Exposing the Violence of Empire in the Novels It Left Behind. For her new book, “Salvage,” the Trinidadian-born writer Dionne Brand rereads classic English novels, teasing out evidence of the ravages of colonialism.
• What Does Utopia Look Like for Black Americans? Aaron Robertson’s grandparents had a farm in Promise Land, Tenn. In a new book, he explores the history and meaning of such utopian communities for African Americans.
• A Patchwork Satire of Ivory Coast, Pre- and Post-Independence. “Comrade Papa” is told from the perspective of two European arrivals to the West African country, nearly a century apart.
• Lisa Marie Presley Makes Her Voice Heard, Once and For All. In a new memoir, “From Here to the Great Unknown,” Elvis Presley’s daughter and granddaughter take turns exploring a messy legacy.
• Do You Know These Books That Were Adapted Into Broadway Flops? Popular literature has often been the source of a big-budget musical, but not every show is a hit. Can you identify these five short-lived productions?
• Scoops, Dupes and Kooks: A History of The New York Post. A new book chronicles the last 50 years of a notorious American tabloid.
• How Oct. 7 Upended One Man’s Diary. In “Diary of a Crisis,” Saul Friedländer takes the violence and upheaval in Israel day by day.
• Reckoning With Israel’s Past Is Hard. The Present Is Harder. An Oct. 7 survival memoir and a chronicle of theft in 1948 grapple with the history of a war-torn region.
• What’s a ‘Slaveroad’? A Bridge Across Oceans and Generations. John Edgar Wideman’s new book connects reflections on his own life to imaginative studies of historical figures.
• Freeports, Free Zones and Other Places With Perks — for the Rich. In “The Hidden Globe,” the journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian examines the rise of spaces where wealthy countries and companies bend rules and regulations to their advantage.
• From Melania Trump: Modeling, Motherhood and a Brazen Whitewash of a Presidency. Slim and full of obfuscations, her memoir touches on business ventures and raising her son, but barely grapples with the mysteries of her marriage.
• Jean Hanff Korelitz on ‘The Sequel’ The writer discusses her follow-up to her best-selling 2021 novel “The Plot.”
• A Return to the Scene. Our crime columnist on books by Kate Atkinson, Nicholas Meyer, Marcie R. Rendon and Nilanjana Roy.
• How John Lewis Became a Moral Force in America. In his new biography, David Greenberg tells the full story of the civil rights hero who became a long-serving U.S. representative.
• We Come in Peace. Works by Ada Limón and Peter Sís, Randy Cecil, Lucy Ruth Cummins and more depict the poetry, wonder and droll humor inspired by the great beyond.
• Once More Into the Breach. In a comprehensive biography, the historian Dan Jones tries to reconcile the hero of legend with the complicated young monarch of reality.
• 8 New Books We Recommend This Week. Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
• 3 Poets Who See Society Freaking Out, and Respond in Kind. New collections from Alexandra Teague, Daniel Borzutzky and August Kleinzahler tap into a strain of cultural anxiety.
• Kate McKinnon. In “The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science,” the former “S.N.L.” star “wanted to create a mad scientist whose highest goal was to respect and protect nature.”

Books Update

• Read Your Way Around Hawaii. To read Hawaii is to understand that much of it will never be accessible to the masses. The writer Megan Kamalei Kakimoto recommends books that illuminate the islands’ rich history and storytelling spirit.

Movies

• Waiting Hours for 3 Minutes in the Criterion Closet (Well, Van). A mobile version of movie fans’ favorite stockroom drew hundreds of New York Film Festival visitors eager to experience what celebrities do in popular videos.
• ‘The Menendez Brothers’ Review: Reframing a Case. To the extent this documentary about Lyle and Erik Menendez has appeal, it is of the tabloid variety.
• At the New York Film Festival, the Most Innovative Work Is Nonfiction. In epic takes like “My Undesirable Friends” and playful biopics like “Pavements,” the vital art of the documentary is on full display.
• With ‘Megalopolis,’ the Flop Era Returns to Cinemas. Plenty of movies bomb, but Francis Ford Coppola’s latest is part of a different class of box office failures.
• 5 New Horror Movies to Stream for Halloween. Out this week, a period possession movie starring Sarah Paulson, a chef-driven supernatural thriller starring Ariana DeBose and more.
• Five Action Movies to Stream Now. This month’s picks include cool fighter pilots, a feminist queen and urban turf wars.
• An Actress Who Can Do It All. At 30, the Irish actress has already spent two decades in front of the camera, collecting many awards. Her two latest projects are also generating Oscars buzz.
• 5 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.
• Farm to Table to Screen: A Close Look at How America Feeds Itself. “Food and Country” argues that our food production systems don’t work and offers potential solutions.
• Too Scared to Watch Horror Movies? These 5 Tips May Help. How to get into the season, even if you’re squeamish.
• ‘Rust’ to Premiere in Europe, Three Years After Fatal Shooting. After the Alec Baldwin movie turned into the scene of a tragedy with the death of its cinematographer, the film will debut next month at a festival that celebrates cinematography.
• Unrelenting Grimness, With Stars and Songs. Todd Phillips’s “Joker” sequel stars Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga who sing and dance like crazy kids, but the movie is seriously un-fun.
• Blink. In this travel documentary, two parents take their children on a spectacular world tour before a rare genetic condition may cause blindness.
• Daaaaaalí! The French absurdist director Quentin Dupieux did not make a biopic of Salvador Dalí — he adopted the Surrealist painter’s approach to deliver a particularly loopy tale.
• White Bird. A boy starts a new school and gets a history lesson from his grandmother, played by Helen Mirren.
• A Journey From Rock Bottom to Recovery. Saoirse Ronan gives another stunning performance in a story about an alcoholic in search of healing.
• Body-Swapping Laughs Are Lost in the Crowd. A limp body-swapping comedy doesn’t really know what makes its subgenre so funny.
• Desolate Voices From Ukraine’s Battlefields. In leaked phone calls home, Russian soldiers grapple with the war they’re waging. This new documentary sets the calls’ swagger and anguish against images of the invasion’s devastation.

Food

• Acru, From the Atomix Team, Serves a Tasting Menu With an Australian Twang. Grand Army sets up shop in Threes Brewing, Ánimo! brings all-day Mexican breakfast to Midtown and more restaurant news.
• Our Book Is Here! The cover star: Melissa Clark’s five-star skillet chicken with tomatoes, pancetta and mozzarella (a.k.a. pizza chicken).
• Let’s Do a Donabe. Kay Chun’s chicken and vegetable donabe is soothing and mellow, ready to be perked up with citrusy ponzu and yuzu kosho.
• The 25 Best Restaurants in Nashville Right Now. With barbecue, haute Southern cooking, innovative Chinese cuisine and even a revelatory fried fish shop, the food scene in Music City as vibrant as it’s ever been.
• Can a Vegetarian Dine Well in New York? We Put Some Top Menus to the Test. Even the city’s best restaurants deal with meat-averse customers in a variety of ways, from discouraging them to welcoming them.
• Mississippi Roast Two Ways. Go with the internet-famous version, or make our from-scratch recipe. Both are objectively fantastic.
• My Go-To Weeknight Dinners. Grocery-store ice cream makes the list.
• 3 Warming Dishes for Crisp Fall Days. Carolina Gelen, a cookbook author and video personality, shares cozy vegetable recipes from her childhood in Romania.
• Orange Beef Will Cure What Ails You. It’s takeout-style Chinese American cooking brought into your home kitchen, where you can get as creative as you’d like.
• Sometimes the Best Restaurant Is Inside the Grocery Store. New York City is teeming with independent groceries that have nailed the hot bar, the deli counter and the takeaway item.
• Sweet Potato and Tofu, Fall’s Hot Couple. Eat them roasted on a sheet pan with chili powder and topped with quick-pickled red onion, or tossed with a tangy mix of chile crisp, tamari and honey.
• The Cheesy Focaccia of Your Dreams Is Real. And it’s something you can make at home.
• Can a Neon Blue Gummy Worm Cocktail Save the Movies? Over-the-top specialty concessions at theaters aren’t new, but they are newly everywhere.
• A Flexible Fall Meal Plan for Non-Planners. These recipes with overlapping ingredients will get your week into a good groove.
• Whole Foods Tried to Change This Cake Recipe. Customers Lost It. The grocery chain’s Berry Chantilly cake has a cult following and an extremely vocal fan base.
• A Piccata With a Smart, Meatless Twist. That buttery, briny combination of lemon, butter and capers is awesome on cauliflower.

Wine, Beer & Cocktails

• The Espresso Martini Has Nothing on These 2 Drinks. Make (or buy) cold brew, and put it to use in a nonalcoholic coffee tonic or a rich caffé amaro.
• Where to Drink Wine in Montreal. It’s hard to go wrong in this city, but at these nine casual restaurants and bars, you’ll find exceptional lists of natural wines.

Style

• Protein, Pickles and Purists: There Are Many Ways to Drink Diet Coke. Opinions abound on how to customize the popular soda. Purists, meanwhile, will see you at McDonald’s.
• Peter Hujar’s Only Book Is Back in Print. His Friends Say It’s About Time. John Waters, Fran Lebowitz and other friends of the photographer, who died in 1987, remember an artist impatient for the recognition he’s only recently begun to receive.
• A Taste for Vibes, and Sometimes Wine. Some Gen Z-ers and young millennials say the culture and aesthetics of wine meld with their lifestyles, whether they’re drinking or not.
• Reading With My Father. A conversation through books.
• Maggie Smith’s Face Has Something to Teach Us. Age is the ultimate luxury.
• A Haunted House, Psychedelic Cats and Shrimp: Inside Nutter Butter’s Fever Dream. The cookie sandwich brand’s videos — funny, disturbing, fever-dreamlike — rack up tens of millions of views. The secret is lots of lore without much sense, the campaign’s strategists explain.
• How Big Should a Handbag Be? A reader wonders if it’s better to carry a small bag or a large one. Our critic explains the relationship between purse size and power.
• How Hedi Slimane Changed Fashion. He has just left his fourth job at a big brand. Maybe it’s time he start one of his own. Would you buy that?
• Paris Hilton Is Becoming a Fixture at Walmart. A new line of handbags expands the offerings of her brand at the big-box chain. Plus, rare Birkenstocks and a pink suit you may have seen.
• Good News if You Want to Look ‘Demure’ Many brands in their spring 2025 collections offered ladylike alternatives to the flashy and revealing clothing that has proliferated in recent years.
• Her 8-Year-Old Drove Herself to Target and Became an Internet Star. Tangie Wilson was sleeping when her daughter Zoe sneaked out of the house and drove to the store. The tale of how it all unfolded is as relatable as it is incredible.
• The Savannah Bananas Needed a Bigger Stage. Everyone’s favorite dancing baseball team is taking its act almost exclusively to M.L.B. and football stadiums in 2025, with even more extreme changes on the horizon.
• How Does Your Facial Hair Make You Feel? We want to hear about how women’s experiences of having visible facial hair impact their day-to-day.
• How to Stage a Viral Fashion Show. The French house Coperni closed Paris Fashion Week with a show at Disneyland Paris, capped off with a surprise runway appearance by Kylie Jenner.
• Two Voices in the Dark Discover Their Path Together. Having barely met, we fell deep through late-night phone calls. Did that mean we were meant for each other?
• A Welcome Break on a Difficult Day. Mary Kathryn Burke was ready for a drink after her mother was admitted to the hospital. Jonathan King messaged her at the right time.
• They Met For the First Time Twice. Rieanna Stewart remembered Devin Miller from a brief encounter three years earlier. And then: “We both left time and space,” Ms. Stewart said.
• Risking Friendship on the Dance Floor. Emil Weinstein and Dr. Alix Masters took things to the next level with Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz playing in the background.
• TV ‘Bachelor’ Gets a Proposal, Then Offers One Too. Tessa Tookes and Joey Kirchner were both feeling down on love. Then they were cast on “Bachelor in Paradise Canada,” and had a change of heart (with the help of producers).
• A Golf Tournament That’s Anything but Snooty. The Brooklyn Open golf tournament attracts players whose backgrounds are as varied as their swings.
• What I Saw at Paris Fashion Week. Tulle, camouflage, denim and all those buckles: Paris Fashion Week had a little of everything.
• Can’t Find Love? Try a PowerPoint Presentation. Using PowerPoint presentations, business cards and billboards, some daters are taking their own approach to finding love.
• What Starts Conversation at a Brooklyn Girl Dinner? Inside an intimate gathering with New York’s creative crust to celebrate a colorful shoe.
• Tiny Love Stories: Our Call and Response. Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
• Beyoncé Released a Song and Levi’s Saw Its Moment. The denim brand was looking for ways to sell more apparel to women, and the megastar gave them a natural spokeswoman thanks to a song on “Cowboy Carter.”
• Celine Shakes Up The Fashion World. Celine shocked the industry by announcing that Hedi Slimane, its top designer, is leaving. Hours later, it surprised many again by naming his replacement.
• Still Helicoptering. A reader worries that her 29-year-old son is stringing along his girlfriend of nearly three years: She wants marriage and children, but he’s not sure she’s “the one.”
• What Can Body Language Reveal on ‘Love Is Blind’? As Season 7 begins, an expert says figuring out a participant’s motivation is both an art and a science.
• The Best Trend of Fashion Month. And the Worst. Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Miu Miu bring Paris Fashion Week to a close with some important takeaways.
• The Politics of Some Boring Suits. A night of few fireworks between the candidates was also a night of little sartorial flair. And that was the goal.

Magazine

• Why France’s Most Controversial Novelist Is Also Its Most Celebrated. Reviled as much as he is lauded, Michel Houellebecq holds up a mirror to a world we would rather not see.
• Grappling With the Talmud in the Midst of Crisis. What the words of ancient rabbis could and couldn’t teach me.
• How Everyone Got Lost in Netflix’s Endless Library. Ten years after Silicon Valley remade TV, it’s become clear how the streaming revolution distorted our collective viewing habits — and sense of the culture.
• A Master Storyteller, at the End of Her Story. At 96, Lore Segal is approaching death with the same startling powers of perception she brought to her fiction.
• Al Pacino Is Still Going Big. A conversation with the legendary actor about, well, everything.
• How Gender Became the Election’s Crucial Fault Line. Harris could be the first female president. But it’s Trump and Vance who are playing the gender card.
• I’m a Queer Man Who Had a Fling With Another Guy. Should His Girlfriend Be Told? The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on who has the right and responsibility to reveal an affair.
• Trump V. the Rule of the Law. In a survey of 50 members of the D.C. legal establishment, many warn that Trump could follow through on his threats to prosecute his political adversaries.
• Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. Is it OK if your spouse is the one doing the driving?
• Is It OK to Leave the U.S. if the Wrong Candidate Becomes President? The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on modes of resistance to American electoral politics.
• If Trump Wins, Could He Really Use the Justice Department to Jail His Rivals? How might a politically motivated prosecution actually unfold? These steps show exactly how Trump could make his threats real — all while staying within the constitutional limits on presidential power.
• Higher Power. They control Republican politics in the state. Now they’re poised to take their theocratic agenda nationwide.
• No Small Potatoes: The humble spud has rarely been as sweet as in these sensible-yet decadent scones. The humble spud has rarely been as sweet as in these sensible-yet-decadent delights.

T Magazine

• GET DRESSED. After seasons of pared-down styles, designers are once again ready to go bold with wild prints and big-night-out gowns.
• Shopping for a Hard-to-Please Loved One? Ask T for Help. Send us a question about a picky person on your holiday gift list and we’ll respond to the most intriguing ones with suggestions.
• Daddy issues. The best compliment a man — gay or straight, old or … not so old — can receive is to enter the pantheon of daddies.
• Just How Much Control Can an Artist Have Over Their Work? Cady Noland, who became the darling of the art world, has tested the limits.
• What We Learned From Seeing Over 200 Fashion Shows in One Month. Our editors discuss the season’s standout trends, from animal-shaped bags to one-legged pants.
• How Tory Burch Gets Ready. Plus: a new hotel on the Athens Riviera, salvaged jewelry and more recommendations from T Magazine.
• This Artist Once Spent a Year in a Cage. Now He’s Trying to Enjoy Himself. With his extreme performance art, Tehching Hsieh gave the word endurance new meaning. In retirement, he’s working on cementing his legacy.
• New Mexico Is Where the Outlaw Artists Live. Over the past century, the state has provided refuge for renegades like Agnes Martin and Judy Chicago. It still does, even with a new wave of arrivals closing in.

Travel

• 5 Irresistible Fall Train Trips. Why navigate crowded roads to get your fill of autumn colors when you can ride the rails and enjoy gorgeous scenery you can’t see from the highway?
• To Really See Peru, Hop on (and Off) the Bus. Most travelers fly between cities like Lima, Cuzco and Arequipa, but if you want to explore beaches, deserts and mountains at your own pace, try a hop-on, hop-off bus.
• What Travelers Need to Know About Hard-Hit North Carolina. Airbnb and Vrbo have activated emergency cancellation policies in the western part of the state and other areas of the Southeast affected by the deadly hurricane.
• 36 Hours in Edinburgh. Fall is the ideal time to explore the ruggedly beautiful Scottish capital, which turns 900 this year.
• Where Literary Ghosts Linger: A Book Critic Goes to Dublin. The Irish city, once home to the likes of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, is known for its bookstores, libraries and pubs, where writers found inspiration over pints of Guinness.
• Visiting a Disney Park? Here’s How to Spend Less Time in Line. Long waits can take a bite out of the magic at places like Walt Disney World and Disneyland. There are ways to speed things up, but be prepared to pay more.

Real Estate

• An Artist Who Loved the City Finds ‘Paradise’ Upstate. Take a tour of the place where Jules Feiffer said he found his “fire.”
• The Living Room Should Be for Living. Designers show us how to turn what used to be the most formal area of a home into an inviting, multipurpose space.
• $1.35 Million Homes in California. A 1958 midcentury-modern house in Palm Springs, a 1947 ranch-style house in Los Angeles, and a 1926 Craftsman-style house in Berkeley.
• Rent Was $325 a Month and the Piano Fit. A couple briefly considered moving to one of the newer market-rate buildings in New York City and paying more for a splashier place. Then they got real.
• Add ‘I’m Getting a Little Older’ to the Challenges of Apartment Hunting. Finding a rental is one thing, but moving into it is no picnic either. These days, a “senior move manager” can help streamline the process.
• Can My Building Replace Our Keys With QR Codes and Facial Scans? New York’s tenant data privacy law specifically addresses landlords’ use of ‘smart’ entry and intercom systems. Here’s what it says.
• Get Your Mind Into the Gutter. Autumn is for addressing one of the most neglected parts of your home.
• $650,000 Homes in Nova Scotia. Three takes on a water lifestyle in Canada’s eastern province: A shingled home by the bay, a chic cabin and a contemporary bungalow.
• A Compact Weekend House Filled With Comfort. A couple bought a second home with friends, and then decided that being neighbors would be much more fun.
• Could a Lawyer Find (Relative) Peace and Quiet in Brooklyn for Less Than $800,000? After arriving from California, a Manhattan-based lawyer found the Upper West Side too loud and crowded. Would her budget be enough for some outdoor space in Brooklyn?
• Homes for Sale in Manhattan and the Bronx. This week’s properties are in Greenwich Village, Gramercy Park and Kingsbridge.
• Where Apartments Play Hard to Get. High renewal rates and high occupancy are among the factors increasing competition among renters.
• Homes for Sale in New York and Connecticut. This week’s properties are a six-bedroom in Yonkers and a four-bedroom in Darien.
• Why Owning (and Buying) a Florida Condo Has ‘Turned Into a Nightmare’ In the wake of a tragic 2021 building collapse, lawmakers are requiring condos to fund restoration projects. The bills are crippling homeowners.
• $399,000 Homes in Minnesota, Massachusetts and Maryland. A sunny one-bedroom condo in Minneapolis, a ranch-style house in Williamstown, Mass., and a 19th-century townhouse in Baltimore.
• A 400-Acre Movie Ranch Outside Los Angeles Is Listed for $35 Million. Sable Ranch, about 30 miles north of Hollywood, includes an Old West movie set. It has been used for productions like “American Horror Story” and “Oppenheimer.”

Real Estate

• The House That Malin+Goetz Built (And Built Again). Follow the journey of Matthew Malin and Andrew Goetz as they recreate their dream house destroyed by fire.

Health

• On Drug Prices, Harris Pushes for Deeper Cuts While Trump Offers Few Specifics. Both have campaigned for lower prescription costs. Kamala Harris has promised to expand President Biden’s policies. Donald Trump is a wild card.
• 3% of American High Schoolers Identify as Transgender, First National Survey Finds. A survey by the C.D.C. found high rates of sadness, bullying and suicide attempts among transgender and gender-questioning teenagers.
• Harris Plan Would Expand Medicare to Help Cover Home Health Care. The vice president’s health care plan is meant to help Americans who are struggling to find affordable home care for themselves or aging relatives.
• Revealing Rich Details Of How a Body’s Cells Develop and Function. The prize was awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, which helps determine how cells develop and function.
• As Bird Flu Spreads, Two Cases Are Detected in California. Both patients were dairy workers whose illnesses were mild. Investigators are continuing to evaluate the contacts of a Missouri patient who had no exposure to animals.
• Unexpected Health Effects Plague Some. A growing number of marijuana users in the U.S. are experiencing severe health problems like these.
• What to Know About the Marburg Virus Disease Outbreak. In Rwanda, 11 deaths have been reported from this rare but deadly disease. Two people tested negative in Germany this week.
• You’re Due for a Colonoscopy, but What if You Don’t Want It? Doctors can provide alternative forms of screening for colon and rectal cancer but sometimes have a good reason to stick with the colonoscope.
• Trump Retains Secretive Grip On Health File. If elected again, he would become the oldest president by the end of his term. Yet he is refusing to disclose even basic health information.
• Gilead Agrees to Allow Generic Version of Groundbreaking H.I.V. Shot in Poor Countries. Many middle-income countries are left out of the deal, widening a gulf in access to critical medicines.
• Despite Doubts Over Drug, Human Trials Continue. The S.E.C. alleged shortcomings in research said to support the drug, and its developer agreed to a $40 million settlement. Some experts wonder why clinical trials have not been stopped.

Well

• Her Face Was Unrecognizable After an Explosion. A Placenta Restored It. The same qualities that make placentas so valuable during pregnancy make them profoundly useful for healing burns and wounds, too. So why do we throw so many away?
• 4 Ways to Turn Around a Bad Day. There’s still time to salvage it.
• She Was Having Bouts of Vision Loss. Why? The young woman had been seeing specialists about her symptoms for nearly her entire life. Eighteen years in, she got a diagnosis that made sense.
• Can I Use an Expired Covid Test? The expiration date listed on the box might not be accurate. Here’s what to know.
• Mounjaro and Zepbound Are No Longer in Shortage, F.D.A. Says. The change will expand access to the diabetes and weight-loss drugs. But it will also complicate the future of compounded versions of the medications.
• Can Drugs Like Ozempic Treat the Most Common Eating Disorder? Doctors are already using weight loss drugs to treat binge eating disorder. But some experts warn that it’s a Band-Aid, not a fix.
• This Pill Could Be the Next Tool to Help Smokers Quit. The medication, called cytisine, is already used elsewhere in the world. There are efforts to bring it to the U.S.

Eat

• Is It Better to Eat Before a Workout or After? How you time your meals can influence your performance and recovery, experts say. Here’s what the research suggests.

Family

• Is the Election Affecting Your Relationships? If this political season is influencing your marriage, friendships or dating life, for better or worse, we want to hear about it.

Live

• Have We Reached Peak Human Life Span? After decades of rising life expectancy, the increases appear to be slowing. A new study calls into question how long even the healthiest of populations can live.

Mind

• How to Let People Down and Be OK With It. Setting boundaries often means disappointing others. We asked therapists for advice on how to do it — without feeling guilty.
• Is Nighttime Depression Really a Thing? There are lots of reasons your mood might tank at night. Here’s how to address the bedtime blues.
• How to Stop Straining Your Eyes. That achy, tired feeling comes from more than just screen time. Experts share tips for easing the discomfort.

Move

• I.B.S. Is Difficult to Treat. Exercise Can Help. Working out is not a cure-all for your gut, but it can be an important part of managing your symptoms.
• Should You Exercise When You’re Sick? If you have a cold, Covid or the flu, here’s how to determine whether it’s wise to work out.

Times Insider

• A Cryptic Letter With a Clear Warning. A domestic terrorist group sent a note to The New York Times admitting to detonating a bomb in Queens.
• From the Sidelines, Joy and Strength on Display. Sui-Lee Wee, the Southeast Asia bureau chief, reported on women who had fled Myanmar and found refuge — and the delight of soccer — in Thailand.
• Chasing Down a Trail of Climate Conspiracies. Who was behind a national campaign to ban geoengineering? One reporter went down a few rabbit holes to find out.
• Curious About How The Times Is Covering the Election? Send Us Your Questions. The election is fast approaching. New York Times editors and reporters want to answer your questions about how we will cover one of the biggest nights in news.

Corrections

• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024.
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Tuesday, October 8, 2024
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Monday, October 7, 2024.
• No Corrections: Oct. 7, 2024. No corrections appeared in print on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024.
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Sunday, October 6, 2024.
• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024.
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• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Friday, October 4, 2024
• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Friday, Oct. 4, 2024.
• No Corrections: Oct. 3, 2024. No corrections appeared in print on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024.
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Thursday, October 3, 2024.
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Wednesday, October 2, 2024.
• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024.

Crosswords & Games

• Wordle Review No. 1,208. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024.
• The Connections Companion No. 486. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024.
• Spelling Bee Forum. Feeling stuck on today’s puzzle? We can help.
• Give Some Lip. Justin Werfel edges toward the endgame.
• The Connections Companion No. 485. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024.
• Wordle Review No. 1,207. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024.
• Blueprint Detail. While away the hours with Desirée Penner and Jeff Sinnock.
• The Connections Companion No. 484. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Monday, Oct. 7, 2024.
• Wordle Review No. 1,206. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Monday, Oct. 7, 2024.
• Teacher’s Marks. John Kugelman makes the grade.
• Wordle Review No. 1,205. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024.
• The Connections Companion No. 483. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024
• There Are Layers to This. Natan Last goes toe to toe with us in this challenging puzzle.
• Wordle Review No. 1,204. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024.
• The Connections Companion No. 482. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024.
• Acrobat Displays. Zhouqin Burnikel opens our solving weekend.
• Wordle Review No. 1,203. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, Oct. 4, 2024.
• The Connections Companion No. 481. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, Oct. 4, 2024.
• Kurt Vonnegut the Board Game Designer. “Man created the checkerboard,” Mr. Vonnegut once wrote. While working on novels in the 1950s, he created a board game of his own.
• Leaf Maker. Rena Cohen makes her New York Times Crossword debut, and that’s the truth.
• Wordle Review No. 1,202. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024.
• The Connections Companion No. 480. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024.
• Best of the Best. Luke K. Schreiber mixes business with leisure.

The Learning Network

• Weekly Student News Quiz: V.P. Debate, Middle East, Nibi the Beaver. Have you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.
• Fall Video Games. What new games are you playing?
• Word of the Day: debacle. This word has appeared in 259 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• What Are Your Thoughts About a Year of War in Israel, Gaza and the Middle East? A year into this devastating war, what are you feeling and thinking? How have your feelings changed over the course of the year?
• Who Most Inspires You? A guest essay argues that Shohei Ohtani and his magnificent baseball season can reconnect us all to our own potential for greatness. Who does that for you?
• Word of the Day: initiative. This word has appeared in 1,445 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• Exploring Your Political Identity and Values: A How-To Guide for Our 2024 Coming of Age Contest. Four steps to figuring out what you want to say and how you would like to say it, with inspiration from 31 teen-created works across genres.
• Would You Want to Be a Child Star? Jenna Ortega tells Times readers about the joys and the challenges of stardom at a young age. What can we learn from her experience?
• Woman With Flowers. Tell us a story, real or made up, that is inspired by this image.
• Word of the Day: longitudinal. This word has appeared in 21 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• Teenagers on What Has Shaped Their Political Beliefs and Values. Ahead of the 2024 Election, we invited teens to explore their political identities and tell us how they have come to believe what they believe.
• What’s Going On in This Picture? | Oct. 7, 2024. Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see.
• Listen: ‘Walnut’ What can animals teach us about mortality — and life?
• Should Junk Food Come With Warning Labels? A guest essay argues that it’s time to use warning labels to steer people away from food that is unhealthy. Do you agree?
• Laughing Emojis. What do you think this image is communicating?
• Word of the Day: aphorism. This word has appeared in 20 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• Should We Abolish the Penny? Each year the U.S. Mint produces billions of pennies. Many are hardly ever used. Are these small copper-colored coins worth the trouble?
• Hurricane Helene. What is your reaction to this image? What does it tell you about the impact of the storm?
• Word of the Day: unscathed. This word has appeared in 180 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

En español

• Una encuesta en Florida ofrece otra perspectiva de las elecciones. La delantera de Trump en el estado se suma a la evidencia de una menor ventaja para él en el Colegio Electoral. Y una decisión de los encuestadores haría que pasen por alto los cambios en el estado.
• Una guerra sin final. A un año de los ataques el 7 de octubre, violencia en México y otras lecturas para ponerse al día.
• Nuestros fotógrafos en Israel y Gaza hablan de las imágenes que no pueden olvidar. Siete fotoperiodistas de The New York Times describen momentos que han definido un año de guerra.
• ¿Por qué el Everest crece cada año? La montaña más alta de la Tierra sigue creciendo lo mismo que el grosor de un espagueti cada año. Un nuevo estudio añade una posible causa de ese crecimiento.
• A pesar del distanciamiento, el padre de Harris ha estado presente en su vida. Los logros de Donald J. Harris, un destacado economista de origen jamaiquino, marcaron una pauta que ayuda a explicar el ascenso de su hija, Kamala. En la actualidad, ambos apenas se hablan.
• ‘Guasón 2: Folie à Deux’: hazles reír (y bostezar). La gran “novedad” de “Guasón 2: Folie à Deux” es que se trata de un musical a medias con una estrella que sabe cantar, Lady Gaga, en el papel de Harley Quinn, y otra (Joaquin Phoenix) que no sabe o no quiere.
• ¿Puedo usar una prueba de covid si ya caducó? Es posible que la fecha de caducidad que aparece en la caja no sea exacta. Esto es lo que hay que saber.
• Indignación en Sudáfrica por unos granjeros acusados de alimentar a cerdos con mujeres muertas. Las acusaciones han abierto el debate sobre algunos de los temas más controversiales del país, como la raza, la violencia de género y la propiedad de las granjas.
• Una idea ‘elegante’ para financiar la protección de árboles. El objetivo del Tropical Forests Forever Facility es pagar a los países con bajos índices de deforestación 4 dólares por cada hectárea de selva en pie que pueda identificarse mediante imágenes satelitales cada año.
• Esta enfermedad puede dañar el hígado durante años sin ser detectada. Casi cuatro de cada 10 personas en el mundo padecen de esta afección conocida como hígado graso no alcohólico. Si se detecta a tiempo, es posible revertirla.

América Latina

• Culiacán, zona de guerra tras una traición en el Cártel de Sinaloa. Un engaño explosivo ha desgarrado a uno de los grupos delictivos más poderosos de México y ha desatado una guerra entre las facciones rivales.
• Un alcalde es brutalmente asesinado en México a los pocos días de asumir el cargo. El espantoso asesinato representa un reto más para la nueva presidenta del país, quien se enfrenta a una creciente presión para mostrar avances en la lucha contra los violentos cárteles.
• El ejército mexicano dispara fatalmente a 6 migrantes. Según las autoridades, los oficiales habrían confundido a las personas con integrantes de un grupo delictivo.

Ciencia y Tecnología

• Dos científicos reciben el Nobel de Física por su investigación pionera en IA. Con sus trabajos sobre el aprendizaje automático mediante redes neuronales artificiales, John Hopfield y Geoffrey Hinton “mostraron una forma completamente nueva de utilizar las computadoras”, dijo el comité.
• El huracán Milton se intensificó en 24 horas. Así es como pasó. Milton era una tormenta tropical el sábado por la tarde y se volvió huracán el domingo. El lunes a mediodía ya era categoría 5.
• ¿La esperanza de vida humana llegó a su límite? Tras décadas de aumento de la esperanza de vida, el incremento parece estar ralentizándose. Un nuevo estudio pone en duda hasta qué punto pueden vivir las poblaciones más sanas.
• Victor Ambros y Gary Ruvkun reciben el Premio Nobel de Medicina. El premio les fue otorgado por su descubrimiento del microARN, que ayuda a determinar cómo se desarrollan y funcionan las células.
• Fue víctima de canibalismo hace 179 años y acaba de ser identificado. Un nuevo estudio ofrece pistas sobre un misterio del siglo XIX que acabó con la vida de más de 100 exploradores de la expedición Franklin en el Ártico canadiense.
• Después de tu muerte, ¿quién cuida del perro? Un fideicomiso para mascotas designa un nuevo tutor para los animales de compañía y reserva fondos para su cuidado. Y lo que es mejor, es legalmente vinculante.
• El eclipse solar ‘anillo de fuego’ será visible en algunas zonas de Sudamérica. No todo el mundo podrá ver el fenómeno, conocido como eclipse anular, pero un eclipse solar parcial podrá ser visible el miércoles en partes de Brasil y Uruguay, así como en zonas de la Antártida y Hawái.
• Los restos del ‘barco fantasma del Pacífico’ aparecen frente a California. El redescubrimiento del buque, que fue capturado por las fuerzas japonesas durante un tiempo en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, pone de relieve el potencial de los vehículos autónomos submarinos para cartografiar el fondo oceánico.

Cultura

• Kurt Vonnegut, diseñador de juegos de mesa. “El hombre creó el tablero de ajedrez”, escribió una vez Vonnegut. Mientras trabajaba en novelas en los años 50, creó su propio juego de mesa.
• Las 4 conclusiones de ‘Los hermanos Menendez’, en Netflix. El documental, basado en nuevas y extensas entrevistas con Lyle y Erik Menendez, añade nuevos matices y detalles sobre los asesinatos de sus padres y las secuelas.
• Christopher Ciccone, hermano de Madonna, muere a los 63 años. Artista, diseñador, coreógrafo y bailarín, fue conocido sobre todo por escribir unas memorias rencorosas sobre el vínculo que le había unido a la estrella del pop: “Nací hijo de mi madre, pero moriré hermano de mi hermana”.
• En ‘La Máquina’, Gael García Bernal y Diego Luna van por la revancha. Amigos de toda la vida, no habían vuelto a aparecer juntos en pantalla desde 2012. En la serie en español que desarrollaron, interpretan los papeles de un boxeador y su representante.
• ‘Rust’ se estrena en cines, 3 años después del tiroteo mortal ocurrido en el rodaje. Después de que la película de Alec Baldwin se convirtiera en escenario de una tragedia con la muerte de su directora de fotografía, la película se estrenará el mes que viene en un festival que celebra la cinematografía.
• Luego de un diagnóstico de cáncer, Sophie Kinsella decidió escribir una comedia romántica. La nueva novela de Kinsella es menos alegre que las historias que suele publicar, pero no deja de ser una historia de amor. También es divertida, por extraño que parezca.

Estados Unidos

• 7 puntos clave de la entrevista de Harris en ‘60 Minutes’ Aunque fue presionada en repetidas ocasiones, Kamala Harris se mantuvo centrada en los puntos que quería tratar.
• Trump siguió en contacto con Putin tras dejar la presidencia, según un nuevo libro. El libro del periodista Bob Woodward también relata que Donald Trump envió en secreto a Vladimir Putin lo que entonces eran raras máquinas de prueba COVID-19 para uso personal del líder ruso.
• A cuatro semanas de las elecciones, las encuestadoras hacen una pausa. Hasta el momento, ninguno de los candidatos tiene una ventaja significativa.
• El boleto de Mega Millions aumentará a 5 dólares, más del doble actual. Los responsables de esta lotería dijeron que las probabilidades de los jugadores aumentarían y el tamaño de los premios sería mayor tras el aumento de precio el próximo mes de abril.
• Una nueva encuesta muestra a Harris en ascenso al desafiar a Trump en materia de cambio. Un sondeo nacional de Times/Siena revela que Kamala Harris aventaja ligeramente a Donald Trump. Los votantes son más propensos a verla a ella, no a Trump, como una ruptura con el statu quo.
• Milton ya entró en los libros de récords. Esto es lo que puede seguir. La tormenta se intensificó al doble de la velocidad con que crecen estos fenómenos.
• La nueva vida de Melinda French Gates: la política del aborto y Kamala Harris. Tras divorciarse de Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates pasó a disponer de miles de millones de dólares con los que podía hacer lo que quisiera. Solía insistir en parecer apartidista, pero ya no.
• En las encuestas hay dos historias distintas de las elecciones de EE. UU. Una elección metodológica ha creado trayectorias divergentes en los resultados de los sondeos. ¿Estas elecciones se parecen más a las de 2020 o a las de 2022?
• Los discursos de Trump, cada vez más iracundos y confusos, reavivan el tema de la edad. Una revisión de sus apariciones públicas en los últimos años sugiere que los discursos del expresidente de 78 años se han vuelto menos centrados, más oscuros, hostiles, largos, furiosos, soeces y cada vez más obsesionados con el pasado.
• Tras el huracán Helene, la desinformación es una grave amenaza. En Carolina del Norte y otros estados, un torrente de teorías conspirativas y afirmaciones falsas sobre los esfuerzos de asistencia está alarmando y desanimando a funcionarios y trabajadores.
• Milton se acerca a Florida, y las advertencias aumentan en la zona. Las autoridades instaron a los residentes en la trayectoria prevista del huracán a prestar atención a las órdenes de evacuación mientras el estado moviliza recursos de respuesta.
• Su chofer de Uber chocó. Un pedido de pizza malogró su demanda. Una pareja demandó a Uber tras un accidente en el que resultaron gravemente heridos. Un tribunal de apelaciones dictaminó que habían acordado resolver las disputas extrajudicialmente al utilizar Uber Eats.
• Harris se pronuncia sobre las crícias republicanas a las ‘señoras con gatos y sin hijos’ “Todos entendemos que esto ya no es la década de 1950”, dijo la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris en el pódcast “Call Her Daddy”, popular entre mujeres milénials y de la generación Z.
• Las encuestas indican las elecciones más reñidas de la historia contemporánea de EE. UU. Las número más recientes del Times/Siena muestran a Harris por delante en Míchigan y Wisconsin, y con una ventaja razonable en el Segundo Distrito de Nebraska
• Todas las elecciones oscilan, incluso en un país polarizado. En 2024 volverá a pasar. En los últimos años, muchas cuestiones podrían haber llevado a los votantes estadounidenses a reconsiderar sus lealtades.
• Trump prometió hacer público su historial médico pero sigue sin hacerlo. Si vuelve a ser elegido, se convertirá en el presidente de mayor edad al final de su mandato. Sin embargo, se niega a revelar incluso la información médica básica.
• ¿Afectado por Helene? Estos 9 consejos te ayudarán a conseguir las indemnizaciones de las aseguradoras o FEMA. Los expertos ofrecen varias recomendaciones para que el proceso de recuperación sea exitoso. Esto es lo que hay que hacer y lo que hay que evitar.
• El gobierno de Biden no extenderá permisos legales para migrantes de 4 países. La decisión se produce mientras aumenta la presión política para recortar los programas que permiten a los migrantes permanecer temporalmente en Estados Unidos, incluso sin visa o tarjeta de residencia permanente.
• Dos comentarios improvisados de Biden agitaron los mercados y Medio Oriente. Las declaraciones informales del presidente hicieron notar el poder de sus palabras y la rapidez con que se propagan por el mundo.
• 4 claves del informe de Jack Smith en el caso contra Trump sobre las elecciones de 2020. El fiscal especial aportó nuevos detalles que buscan sustentar que Donald Trump intentó mantenerse en el poder, y expuso su argumento para que el caso sobreviva a la decisión de inmunidad presidencial de la Corte Suprema.
• Excompañeros de JD Vance en Yale recaudan dinero para los residentes haitianos de Springfield. Algunos de los donantes dijeron que buscaban reparar el daño que la campaña de Trump, y el propio Vance, habían causado al difundir rumores falsos.
• ¿Visitas un parque de Disney? Aquí te explicamos cómo pasar menos tiempo en la fila. Aunque el precio para evitar tiempos largos de espera puede ser alto, en algunas atracciones vale la pena.
• Donald Trump intensifica su retórica catastrofista: tengan miedo. Aunque desde hace mucho tiempo ha utilizado el miedo como herramienta para agitar a su base conservadora e influir en los votantes indecisos, Trump ha llevado sus profecías apocalípticas a un nuevo extremo.
• ¿Qué está pasando con el sindicato de trabajadores portuarios en EE.UU.? Ambas partes siguen sin llegar a un acuerdo satisfactorio en el tema del aumento salarial y el uso de equipo automatizado que, según los empleados sindicalizados, podría poner en riesgo sus trabajos.
• ¿Quién ganó el debate? Vance se impone a Walz. Los candidatos a la vicepresidencia evitaron en gran medida los ataques personales. JD Vance demostró su habilidad para modificar la historia, mientras que Tim Walz pareció luchar contra los nervios.
• Cortesía y luego un enfrentamiento sobre el 6 de enero: 7 conclusiones del debate. JD Vance, senador por Ohio, y Tim Walz, gobernador de Minnesota, discutieron sobre migración, aborto y política exterior, y luego sobre la derrota de Donald Trump en las elecciones de 2020.
• Debate Walz-Vance: tensión, enfoque en las políticas y una discusión sobre la democracia. El debate entre el senador por Ohio, y el gobernador de Minnesota, se cerró con una pregunta sobre si el hecho de que Trump no cediera el poder tras perder las elecciones de 2020 era una amenaza para la democracia.
• Tim Walz y JD Vance debaten: video, comentarios y resumen en vivo. Más de una veintena de periodistas The New York Times analizan y verifican el debate vicepresidencial entre JD Vance y Tim Walz esta noche.
• Debate vicepresidencial: qué efecto puede tener en las encuestas electorales. La historia demuestra que es poco probable que tenga un gran impacto, sin embargo, el debate del martes podría dar a los votantes una mejor idea de lo que piensan de JD Vance y Tim Walz.

Estilos de Vida

• ¿Quién invitó a Jack Nicholson al desfile de moda? En su más reciente hazaña de entretenimiento protésico, el artista Alexis Stone se transformó en el actor para el desfile de Balenciaga en París.
• ¿Por qué durante la noche aparecen síntomas de la depresión? Hay muchas razones por las que tu estado de ánimo puede decaer por la noche. A continuación te explicamos cómo afrontar el bajón nocturno.
• Desplazar a los hombres del centro de mi vida fue fácil. Dejar de desearlos, no tanto. Siempre sentí que organizar mi vida en torno a un futuro marido de ensueño no era para mí.
• ¿Pueden los fármacos como Ozempic tratar el trastorno por atracón? Algunos expertos advierten que el efecto de los fármacos para perder peso puede ser problemático para las personas que intentan sintonizarse con sus propias señales de hambre.
• Lo que debes saber sobre Galaxy Gas y el uso indebido del óxido nitroso en redes sociales. La popularidad de videos que muestran a gente joven inhalando óxido nitroso de las latas de cargadores de crema batida ha causado que TikTok bloquee las búsquedas y que el proveedor suspenda las ventas.
• ¿Qué puedo hacer para aliviar la fatiga visual? Esa sensación de dolor y cansancio no solo se debe a las pantallas. Los expertos comparten consejos para aliviar el malestar.
• Si me enfermé, ¿cuándo puedo volver a ejercitarme? Los especialistas dan algunos consejos para saber si es mejor descansar o volver al gimnasio en estos casos.
• ¿Por qué tantas mujeres llevan gafas gigantes? Un lector se pregunta por qué cada vez más mujeres optan por monturas gruesas a cierta edad. Nuestra crítica de moda lo explica.

Mundo

• ¿Ya estás embarazada? China presiona para aumentar su población. El gobierno intenta de nuevo inmiscuirse en las decisiones de las mujeres sobre la maternidad, haciendo visitas inesperadas y realizando llamadas con preguntas que algunas consideran muy invasivas.
• El impacto de la teoría de juegos sobre Israel, Irán y los riesgos de escalar la guerra. Cada bando debe predecir cómo reaccionará el otro para evitar destruirse mutuamente.
• El cambio climático está secando el Amazonas, el mayor río del mundo. A medida que una sequía seca tramos del río Amazonas, Brasil recurre al dragado para tratar de mantener el flujo de alimentos, medicinas y personas a lo largo de la superautopista acuática.
• Premios Nobel 2024: lo que hay que saber. El lunes empezarán a anunciarse a los homenajeados. A continuación, una guía rápida sobre los premios de este año.
• Conmoción en Francia: se mostraron videos de los acusados de violar a una mujer drogada. Gisèle Pelicot luchó para que se mostraran públicamente en el tribunal los videos explícitos grabados por su marido, insistiendo en que eran pruebas esenciales en el caso de violación contra él y otros 50 hombres.
• El líder de Hamás está a la espera de una guerra mayor, según funcionarios de EE. UU. Aislado y escondido en Gaza, Yahya Sinwar espera que una guerra de mayor envergadura ejerza presión sobre Israel y lo fuerce a reducir sus operaciones en Gaza, dijeron los funcionarios.
• Rusia pide a sus ciudadanos más soldados y más bebés. El presidente Vladimir Putin destina cada vez más recursos a dos prioridades conectadas: reclutar más soldados y fomentar las familias numerosas.
• Esto es lo que hay que saber de los ataques entre Israel y Hizbulá. Ambos bandos tienen una larga historia de conflictos. Hizbulá ha dicho que no dejará de disparar hasta que Israel alcance un acuerdo de alto al fuego en Gaza.
• La guerra en Medio Oriente está alcanzando la escala que se temía. Las principales interrogantes ahora son cuánto se intensificará el conflicto y si Estados Unidos se involucrará más directamente en la defensa de Israel.
• ¿Eso es un panda o un perro? Algunos zoológicos han recurrido a un poco de tinte, o algo de simple y llano descaro, para hacer pasar un animal por otro.
• En el próximo sínodo de la Iglesia católica, el papel de la mujer sigue sin estar claro. La ordenación de mujeres diáconos ya no figura en el orden del día de una asamblea mundial en el Vaticano, pero se debatirá por separado.

Negocios

• ¿Quiénes están detrás del turbio proyecto de criptomonedas de Trump? Donald Trump ha dicho que su nueva empresa, creada con dos emprendedores poco conocidos con un largo historial de demandas y deudas, ayudaría a convertir a EE. UU. en “la capital cripto del planeta”. Los expertos no están tan seguros.
• ¿Apple acaba de matar las aplicaciones sociales? A algunos creadores de apps les preocupa que un sutil cambio en los permisos para compartir contactos del iPhone pueda obstaculizar el crecimiento que necesitan para competir.
• Para las empresas en China, salir de Sinkiang plantea un dilema complicado. La investigación del gobierno sobre la empresa matriz de Calvin Klein y Tommy Hilfiger, que dejó de comprar productos de Sinkiang, ha puesto a las empresas mundiales en una situación difícil.
• El sindicato portuario acuerda suspender la huelga. La Asociación Internacional de Estibadores recibió una nueva oferta salarial y suspenderá su paro en los puertos de la costa este y del golfo, que comenzó el martes.
• Así es la IA de Apple que llegará pronto a los iPhone. Estas son las herramientas que te serán más útiles, y las que puedes omitir, cuando el software llegue a los dispositivos este mes.
• La vida privada del fundador de Telegram se suma a sus problemas. La madre de tres hijos con Pavel Durov expone las inconsistencias en la imagen cuidadosamente gestionada del titán ruso de la tecnología a través de una denuncia penal y el relato de su opulento estilo de vida.
• 5 días con Elon Musk en X: ultrafalsos, mentiras y muchos memes. Casi un tercio de las 171 publicaciones hechas hace dos semanas por el propietario de X fueron falsas, engañosas o carecían de contexto fundamental.

Opinión

• Putin sigue amenazando con usar armas nucleares. ¿Lo haría? La semana pasada, el presidente de Rusia pareció rebajar el umbral para el uso de armas nucleares por parte de su país. No fue sutil, ni pretendía serlo.
• Nicole Kidman sabe muy bien lo que hace. Las cosas en Hollywood no son perfectas, pero han mejorado. Y ella ha sido parte de la solución.

Weather

• FEMA Chief: Hurricane Misinformation Is ‘Worst That I Have Ever Seen’ Deanne Criswell, who heads the agency, said the circulating falsehoods were hampering its work.
• Jobs and Housing Help Fuel Rapid Growth in Tampa. The region has been transformed by a number of economic and environmental factors, including its reputation for relatively few major storms.
• On Florida’s West Coast, Airports, Amusement Parks and Hotels Announce Closures. Visit Florida, the state’s official tourism organization, warned that Hurricane Milton is expected to grow and remain “extremely dangerous.” The travel industry is taking extreme precautions.
• Florida Rushes to Clear Helene Debris Before Milton Hits. Worried about flying wreckage, Governor Ron DeSantis said that the state was trying to clear as much debris from Hurricane Helene as possible before Hurricane Milton strikes.
• Fears of Hurricane Milton Drive Millions From Their Homes in Florida. More than 5.5 million people were urged to leave Florida’s western coast, one of the largest evacuations in state history. Some who have stayed for previous storms decided to go this time.
• Residents Flee Milton From Beach Towns Still Cleaning Up From Helene. A one-two punch along Florida’s Gulf Coast is confronting some residents with hard decisions, like whether to pack up for good.
• ‘Evacuate Now’: Biden Urges Floridians to Flee Hurricane Milton. President Biden called Hurricane Milton “a matter of life and death” for Florida residents.
• Mass Evacuations Clog Highways in Florida Ahead of Milton. Officials said the evacuation was likely the biggest the state has seen since Hurricane Irma in 2017, and warned residents to leave early to avoid heavy traffic.
• Milton poses an ‘extremely serious threat’ to Florida. Here’s the latest.
• Still Recovering From Helene, Florida Braces for Milton. Florida residents are preparing for Hurricane Milton while still cleaning up debris from Helene that some worry could get whipped up in strong winds.
• Milton Is Already a Storm for the Record Books. Here’s What May Come Next. The storm rapidly intensified on Monday.
• While Disney Remains Open, Other Florida Parks Announce Closures. All of the major theme parks said they were closely monitoring Hurricane Milton and would be updating their closure plans as needed.
• Hurricane Milton: Where People Are Evacuating in Florida. Updates on how the state is preparing for the storm’s arrival.
• Tampa Residents Warned to Expect ‘Worst Hurricane in Their Lifetime’ The Tampa Bay area, long used to relative safety from big storms, faces what could be its first direct hit by a major hurricane in a century.
• Here’s How Fast Hurricane Milton Intensified. On Monday morning, the storm was a Category 1. It became a Category 5 by noon.
• Gulf Coast States Have Been Battered by Hurricanes This Year. Here’s a look at the storms that have hit the area.
• Evacuation Orders Posted as Florida Braces for Hurricane Milton. The powerful, life-threatening hurricane is expected to make landfall on Wednesday even as residents continue to recover from Hurricane Helene.
• Monitoreo de la tormenta tropical Milton, en vivo. Consulta la trayectoria probable y las horas de llegada de los vientos de Milton.
• Here is the latest on the storm.
• Tracking Hurricane Milton. See the likely path, evacuation orders and wind arrival times for Milton.
• A Once-Dormant Hurricane Season Is Spinning Into Action. Technically, the hurricane season has fallen short of the “hyperactive” forecast, but in some ways it hasn’t.
• Trayectoria de una depresión tropical cerca de México. Consulta la trayectoria probable y las horas de llegada de los vientos de Once-E.
• Tracking Hurricane Leslie. See the likely path and wind arrival times for Leslie.
• Hurricane Helene Leaves Trail of Destruction in North Carolina. On Wednesday, the death toll of Hurricane Helene rose to at least 183, making it the deadliest hurricane to strike the mainland United States since 2005. Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, a reporter for The New York Times, describes the scene in North Car...
• Soaring Temperatures Give San Francisco an ‘Extreme’ Second Summer. It’s hot in Northern California this week, and some places won’t see relief for days.

Headway

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