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1. Two Candidates, Two Israels, One Nation in the Balance

   Tue, 27 Oct 2026 05:19:10 -0000

   As Israel votes, hard-right nationalism competes with the country’s founding ideals. The outcome could shape Israel’s identity for years.

2. Netanyahu Pushed for Attack on Iran Ahead of Israeli Election, Officials Say

   Tue, 27 Oct 2026 01:34:24 -0000

   Israel’s military chief resisted the prime minister, who then pressed in recent days for a separate action, short of an overt strike, according to an official and a person briefed on the matter.

3. Israel Has Committed Genocidal Acts in Gaza Since Cease-Fire, U.N. Human Rights Panel Says

   Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:30:07 -0000

   The panel also accuses Israel of committing crimes against humanity in the West Bank. Israel condemned the report.

4. Justice Dept. Brings More Charges Against Comey, Accusing Him of Leaks

   Tue, 27 Oct 2026 01:36:02 -0000

   Lawyers for James B. Comey said the case centered on an issue that had already been investigated and had not led to charges, of a purported leak of national security information to The Times in October 2016.

5. Ken Paxton’s State-Funded Jet-Setting Draws Campaign Scrutiny

   Tue, 27 Oct 2026 03:48:53 -0000

   Mr. Paxton, the Republican candidate for Senate in Texas, has taken about 350 trips outside of the state since he was sworn in as attorney general.

6. How Scuffles at Trump Rallies Echo His Past Events

   Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:39:20 -0000

   Examining President Trump’s praise of a rallygoer who punched a protester last week, David E. Sanger, a White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times, studied the atmosphere at Mr. Trump’s recent events. What he found was a faint echo of the moments that made Mr. Trump’s 2016 rallies so shocking.

7. Appeals Court Declines to Intervene in California Ballot Lawsuit

   Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:04:44 -0000

   By a 2-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel denied the Trump administration’s request that it immediately order the state to set aside 20,000 mail-in ballots.

8. King Charles Faces High Stakes Test With Caribbean Tour

   Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:01:07 -0000

   The king will confront calls for reparations and apologies for his country’s colonial past as he attends the Commonwealth heads of government meeting.

9. What Is the Commonwealth? What to Know as King Charles Hosts Meeting in the Caribbean

   Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:01:13 -0000

   King Charles III is traveling to host a meeting of the leaders of more than 50 nations.

10. Gaze at the Cosmic Dawn in Dizzying Detail

    Mon, 26 Oct 2026 21:14:48 -0000

    A new simulation offers a highly immersive look at what happened during the first couple of billion years following the Big Bang.

11. Bob Woodward Criticizes Jeff Bezos in New Memoir

    Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:24:09 -0000

    Six takeaways from a new memoir by Mr. Woodward, the star Washington Post reporter, including his disappointment with the newspaper’s billionaire owner.

12. Cease-Fire Brokered by Melania Trump Begins in Ukrainian City of Oleshky

    Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:25:45 -0000

    Many people left in Oleshky, where bombardment is constant, have run out of food. A truce that began Tuesday is supposed to allow aid in and civilians out.

13. Civilian Suffering Was Goal of Russian Strikes in Ukraine, U.N. Panel Says

    Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:12:02 -0000

    The assaults on infrastructure, which cut off heat and power on bitterly cold winter days, amounted to a crime against humanity, investigators said.

14. Book Review: ‘Princes and Thieves,’ by Matthew Cole

    Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:32:50 -0000

    The new book by the reporter Matthew Cole connects $2 billion in slush funds from gulf state leaders to Trump’s son-in-law in an effort to influence U.S. policy.

15. Judge Temporarily Blocks Further Alterations at D.C.’s East Potomac Park

    Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:00:18 -0000

    A federal judge stopped the Trump administration from cutting trees and prohibited other changes at the park where the president has sought to overhaul a golf course.

16. How Lula’s Social Media Campaign Helped Him Win Brazil’s Election

    Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:45:27 -0000

    President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won another term on Sunday, with the help of a seismic social media campaign that convinced Brazilians to reject his rival.

17. Brazil Supreme Court Orders Flávio Bolsonaro to Hand Over Passports in Money Laundering Inquiry

    Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:55:15 -0000

    Brazil’s Supreme Court told the police to seize passport of Mr. Bolsonaro, who lost the presidential election, over his links to an investigation.

18. What to Know About Brazil’s Election, and What Comes Next

    Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:08:13 -0000

    President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory ended a string of presidential election wins by right-wing candidates in Latin America. His opponent has refused to accept defeat.

19. Walter Koenig, Chekov From ‘Star Trek,’ Has Died

    Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:32:43 -0000

    As the baby-faced Russian navigator of the U.S.S. Enterprise, he was a mainstay of the original television series and seven films. He was 90.

20. What It Will Take to Defeat the Houthis

    Tue, 27 Oct 2026 05:00:06 -0000

    The international community should set a clear goal to end the Yemeni group as an armed terrorist force.

21. Machado’s Return to Venezuela Tests Limits of U.S. Sway

    Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:09:14 -0000

    Seeking new elections, María Corina Machado will need to tread carefully to avoid offending the Trump administration, while also asserting her own leadership.

22. An Anxious Season for Muslims in Texas

    Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:38:50 -0000

    Facing severe political attacks and threats, Muslim civil-liberties activists in Texas are urging their communities to vote.

23. Did an Alternative-Medicine Guru Accidentally Kill Patients?

    Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In Switzerland, Thomas Rau offers treatments that many conventional doctors would question. Now he’s accused of lethally negligent care.

24. How Jim Morrison Surmounted Tragedy and Skied Down Everest

    Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The mountaineer and his partner, Hilaree Nelson, planned a first-ever descent. After her death, he pushed on.

25. Charles Kushner and the MAGA Ambassador’s Playbook

    Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Since taking up his post in Paris, Kushner has become known for lobbing provocations onto France’s domestic scene at sensitive moments. As he put it, “Nobody has the courage to say what I say.”

26. The State Officials Defending the Midterms from the President

    Sun, 25 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Donald Trump has tried to purge voter rolls nationwide. Deidre Henderson, the Republican lieutenant governor of Utah, is among the chief election officers standing in his way.

27. The Republicans’ Remarkably Bad Midterm Campaigns

    Sun, 25 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Things were going poorly even before Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign ran the most offensive ad of the year.

28. The Political Upstarts That May Decide Israel’s Election

    Sun, 25 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Frustrated with the polarization of the Netanyahu era, voters look for ways to create change.

29. The Great Schlep

    Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Tens of thousands of Israelis living abroad are flying back to cast votes in what many describe as the most pivotal election in the country’s history.

30. Gina Hinojosa’s Populism for Democrats

    Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A candidate’s search for common ground raises hopes in Texas.

31. How Macron Destabilized France

    Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:44:14 -0000

    Widespread protests against his policies were followed by violent riots across the country. Does this mean Marine Le Pen is all but certain to be the next President of France?

32. Gina Hinojosa Thinks Texas Is Different This Time

    Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:04:47 -0000

    The Democratic gubernatorial candidate argues that crony capitalism, distrust of data centers, and attacks on public education have disenchanted voters enough to finally bring a blue wave to the state.

33. Behind the Settler Attack on Palestinians and a Washington Post Journalist

    Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:18:47 -0000

    Jasper Nathaniel, an independent journalist who filmed the attack, describes the significant increase in West Bank violence on the eve of the Israeli election.

34. Is This the Beginning of the End of Indian Democracy?

    Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:38:26 -0000

    The Modi government has removed more than a hundred million people from voter rolls and is cracking down on a vigorous protest movement.

35. The World Series No One Wanted

    Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:44:14 -0000

    A matchup between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays was considered a “nightmare,” a bloodbath of small-ball hermeneutics. But the two old-school, thrifty teams have turned the Fall Classic into a showcase for what money can’t buy.

36. Trump’s Repudiation Is at Hand, Right?

    Thu, 22 Oct 2026 22:59:24 -0000

    As Democrats’ midterm expectations soar, history advises only a lowercase, cautious optimism.

37. Kimi Antonelli Has Always Been (Really) Fast

    Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    “I don’t like giving compliments to myself,” the Italian driver says, but he may soon become Formula 1’s youngest-ever champion.

38. Trump’s October Surprise Is a Pivot to Putin

    Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:45:50 -0000

    No one thinks Russian diesel can save the Republicans, so why is the President doing it?

39. Love, Sex, and Existential Dread for a Gay Vampire in “Time to Go”

    Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Renzo Cozza’s short film gives a classic monster a moral dilemma.

40. Inside Meta’s Efforts to Prevent School Shootings

    Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Algorithmic social media, which has helped create the conditions for the spread of such violence, is reckoning with how it can be part of the solution.

41. Alaska’s Senate Race Could Be Decided by Salmon

    Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Mary Peltola, whose campaign could determine whether the Democrats retake Congress, mostly just wants to talk about fish.

42. Can Justin J. Pearson Win in Tennessee?

    Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Republicans eliminated the state’s only Black-majority district, in Memphis, so Pearson took a campaign about economic inequality to rural white voters.

43. How ICE Is Targeting the 2026 Midterms

    Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:46:51 -0000

    In the run-up to the election, the Trump Administration is turning its immigration crackdown into a desperate hunt for voter fraud.

44. Lula’s Last Dance

    Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Brazil’s once towering leftist leader may soon be swept away by Latin America’s right-wing tide.

45. “An Unprecedented Case of Child Abuse”

    Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In an L.A. criminal court, new details emerge about the mysterious couple who collected more than twenty babies through surrogacy.

46. How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Gave Florida Democrats a Chance

    Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A competitive House race in Miami, which leads all American cities in ICE arrests, has revealed how mass deportations have eroded the President’s support among Latinos.