Trump Civil Fraud Trial: Trump Lawyers Attack Law Clerk, Overshadowing Eric Trump’s Testimony (www.nytimes.com)
Since NYT paywalls everything, here’s the article:...
F.B.I. Tracks Increased Threats to Jews and Muslims After Hamas Attack (www.nytimes.com)
Republican Group Running Anti-Trump Ads Finds Little Is Working (www.nytimes.com)
A well-funded group of anti-Trump conservatives has sent its donors a remarkably candid memo that reveals how resilient former President Donald J. Trump has been against millions of dollars of negative ads the group deployed against him in two early-voting states....
Senate Confirms Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Sidestepping Tuberville Blockade (www.nytimes.com)
The Senate voted on Wednesday to confirm Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. of the Air Force as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, steering around a monthslong blockade of military promotions by Senator Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama, who has held up hundreds of nominees in protest of a Pentagon abortion access...
In Its First Monopoly Trial of Modern Internet Era, U.S. Sets Sights on Google - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)
Spanish Women’s Squad Refuses to Play Until Soccer Chief Resigns (www.nytimes.com)
Giuliani Concedes He Made False Statements About Georgia Election Workers (www.nytimes.com)
Alt links in case there’s a paywall:...
Over 1,000 Air Reservists Threaten to Stop Serving, as Israel’s Political Crisis Grows (www.nytimes.com)
In a move that experts say could significantly hurt Israel’s military readiness, pilots and other personnel issued a warning after Benjamin Netanyahu pressed ahead with a plan to limit judicial power....
Target Letter to Trump Raises Possibility of Obstruction and Fraud Charges (www.nytimes.com)
Tucker Carlson Turns a Christian Presidential Forum Into a Putin Showcase (www.nytimes.com)
Opinion | A Federal Judge Asks: Does the Supreme Court Realize How Bad It Smells? (www.nytimes.com)
Everyone Knew the Migrant Ship Was Doomed. No One Helped. (www.nytimes.com)
Supreme Court Backs Web Designer Opposed to Same-Sex Marriage (www.nytimes.com)
Reddit’s Chief Says He Wants It to ‘Grow Up.’ Will Its Community Let It? [Gift article] | Comments are open at NYT. It needs some from this community. (www.nytimes.com)
As the social media site matures, its users and moderators have made their displeasure about corporate changes known, putting the company into a bind.
They Graduated Into Gaza’s War. What Happened to Them? (www.nytimes.com)
A class of freshly minted dentistry graduates in Gaza had big plans. Now they are counting the dead and trying not to join them.
Russia Amps Up Online Campaign Against Ukraine Before U.S. Elections | Moscow has found better ways to conceal influence operations that spread arguments for isolationism, officials and experts say. (www.nytimes.com)
Russian operatives are laying the groundwork for what could be a stronger push to support candidates who oppose aiding Ukraine, or who call for pulling the United States back from NATO and other alliances, U.S. officials and independent researchers say....
Mexico Condemns Texas Law, and Says It Will Not Accept Deportations From the State (www.nytimes.com)
Hundreds of Navalny Mourners Detained Across Russia (www.nytimes.com)
Without paywalls: archive.ph/keKRu
Israel orders an evacuation of the largest hospital in Khan Younis (www.nytimes.com)
As explosions sounded nearby, Israeli forces on Tuesday ordered the evacuation of one of the last functioning hospitals in the Gaza Strip, according to two doctors and the Gazan health ministry, raising fears that troops would attempt to storm a facility crowded with patients and displaced people....
Biden Administration Toughens Limits on Deadly Air Pollution | The E.P.A. says the new rule will prevent 4,500 premature deaths annually. Industry leaders are expected to challenge the regulation (www.nytimes.com)
I’ll note that there is a long history of industry over-estimating the cost of complying with air pollution regulations.
Biden Takes Aim at Grocery Chains Over Food Prices (www.nytimes.com)
Trump’s Former Finance Chief in Negotiations to Plead Guilty to Perjury (www.nytimes.com)
GoFundMe Is a Boon for Disaster Survivors. Especially the Wealthy Ones. Campaigns on the crowdfunding site raised more money for wildfire survivors with high incomes than for those who need help most (www.nytimes.com)
Elon Musk Is Spreading Election Misinformation, but X’s Fact Checkers Are Long Gone (www.nytimes.com)
Civil rights lawyers and Democrats are sounding alarms about Mr. Musk’s claims about voting. The Biden campaign called his posts “profoundly irresponsible.”...
Bidencare Is a Really Big Deal (www.nytimes.com)
Biden, as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, largely resolved these problems, reducing maximum premium payments (net of subsidies) and eliminating the cliff at 400 percent. The result is to make health insurance coverage substantially more affordable, especially for middle-income Americans who previously earned too much...
