High Prices Haunt Trump and the GOP on Eve of the Midterms

A backlash over high prices helped Republicans capture a majority in 2024. Now, it may be the source of the party’s own undoing.President Trump at a campaign event on Tuesday in Lubbock, Texas, where he talked about the political forces that had propelled his return to office, including high prices.

T Tony Romm

Binance Suspends Withdrawals After Crypto Hackers Steal $6.3 Billion

The crypto exchange said it was compromised in what could be the biggest crypto heist ever. One research lab attributed the theft to “North Korea’s elite hacking unit.”Changpeng Zhao, Binance’s founder, said the incident “does look like a hack.”

D David Yaffe-Bellany and Ryan Mac

Why Trump Is Losing Young Men

Young men swung to Donald Trump in 2024. Polling shows they are now moving away — but to what? Sabrina Tavernise, a reporter for The New York Times, went to Michigan to find out.

S Sabrina Tavernise, Kassie Bracken, Mark Boyer, Luke Piotrowski, Erik Ljung, David Jouppi and Ruth Igielnik

Israel’s Election Is Unlikely to Change Its Policies and Global Isolation

The leading contenders, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot, aren’t substantially different in their approach to Israel’s security or in their opposition to a Palestinian state.Campaign posters for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party, and Gadi Eisenkot, leader of th

S Steven Erlanger

An Arab Town in Israel Celebrates the Election but Wonders What Will Change

Gains for Arab-led parties have electrified Taibe, in central Israel, even as voters elsewhere in Israel say they have no place in any future government.Ahmad Tibi, a leader of the Joint List party, with supporters on Tuesday outside a polling station in Taibe, Israel, a predominantly Arab town. “We

A Adam Rasgon and Natan Odenheimer

Trump Erupted After Learning of Alina Habba’s $50 Million Deal

Angry about the scale of a contract signed by one of his former lawyers with the family of a wealthy pardon seeker, the president told allies he wanted some of the money to go to his future presidential library.Alina Habba Mildon, while working as an adviser at the Justice Department, had signed on

T Tyler Pager

Patrick Stewart Brought Elegance To ‘Star Trek’ as Jean-Luc Picard

Led by the Shakespearean veteran in his role as Jean-Luc Picard, “Star Trek: The Next Generation” gracefully went where the franchise had never gone before.Patrick Stewart was initially uncertain whether he should play Jean-Luc Picard in “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” but it became his signature

S Sopan Deb

Tax the Rich? Easier Said Than Done.

Forget California’s billionaire wealth tax. The economist Natasha Sarin believes there are better ways to make billionaires pay up.

N Natasha Sarin and Emily Holzknecht

Mosquito Lasers

China has come up with an innovative way to kill the insects.In China.

S Sam Sifton