Gas Prices Have Risen More Than 30% in Some States in Weeks Since Iran War Began

Across the South and Southwest, where price hikes have been the most severe, drivers have lamented how the increased costs have cut into their budgets.In states like Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico, where the price spikes have been the steepest, motorists say the cost of gas has begun to sting.

C Chris Hippensteel and Steven Rich

Israel Orders Military to Intensify Demolitions in Southern Lebanon

Israel Katz, the defense minister, said he ordered troops to destroy more bridges and buildings in southern Lebanon, stoking worries that Israel was widening a military-controlled buffer zone there.Cars turn around on a bridge in southern Lebanon after an Israeli strike destroyed it on Sunday.

A Aaron Boxerman

ICE to Help TSA at Airports Amid Partial Shutdown, Trump’s Border Czar Says

Tom Homan, President Trump’s chief border official, cast the operation largely as one to help ease long security lines that have been frustrating passengers at U.S. airports.Security lines at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Sunday. Tom Homan, the White House border czar, sai

E Erica L. Green and Gabe Castro-Root

Mullin Explored Bipartisan Deal to Rein in Immigration Crackdown

The G.O.P. senator President Trump chose to lead the Department of Homeland Security privately discussed concessions the White House has repeatedly rejected.Senator Markwayne Mullin had been quietly working to hash out a compromise on immigration enforcement that offered more ground than the White H

M Michael Gold

The Supreme Court Could Make it Harder to Vote by Mail in the Midterms

The Republican National Committee wants to toss ballots arriving after Election Day. Critics say thousands of votes — a majority cast by Democrats — are at stake.The Supreme Court in Washington. Watson v. Republican National Committee will be the subject of oral arguments on Monday.

N Nick Corasaniti

How the Supreme Court Could Change Voting by Mail

The Supreme Court is ruling on whether ballots received after Election Day should be disqualified. Our national politics reporter Nick Corasaniti explains how a Supreme Court ruling could affect hundreds of thousands of Americans in rural and urban areas.

N Nick Corasaniti, Gilad Thaler, Léo Hamelin, June Kim, Christine Zhang and Coleman Lowndes

The Billionaire Funding France’s Far Right

Pierre-Édouard Stérin is financing projects to make France less Muslim, more Catholic and more capitalist. He says his program has trained thousands running for municipal office on Sunday.Pierre-Édouard Stérin at his chalet in the French Alps on Wednesday. He moved his family to Belgium in 2012.

C Catherine Porter

Introducing the Robot Umpire

We explain a technological change that’s about to transform baseball.At spring training in Phoenix.

M Matthew Cullen

Not All Malls Are Struggling

A certain type of shopping mall has become a surprising bright spot for real estate investors.Roosevelt Field, a mall in Uniondale, N.Y., earlier this week.

I Ian Frisch