In August, Kansas GOP Sen. Roger Marshall said he was set up “quite nicely” for reelection. But now he finds himself in a tossup race in a state that President Trump won by 16 percentage points in 2024 (on.wsj.com)
As European nationalist parties have been rising in the polls, they have come to see President Trump as a liability and have distanced themselves from him (on.wsj.com)
President Trump is halting implementation of most of the sanctions that were to be imposed on Russia under a bipartisan bill he signed last month (on.wsj.com)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution of a soldier who went on a 20009 shooting spree would be livestreamed—setting off a dayslong debate within the White House (on.wsj.com)
Elon Musk is putting a small fortune into Republicans’ effort to salvage the Senate seat in Texas, seen as critical to the party keeping control of the chamber in the fall elections (on.wsj.com)
The geography of U.S. politics might be changing. Rural voters are among those showing less enthusiasm for the GOP, WSJ polling shows. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
Sen. Susan Collins and Troy Jackson wrapped up their fourth and final debate in Maine on Thursday, tangling over President Trump, the high cost of fuel and the Supreme Court (on.wsj.com)
The US Army needs to get rid of old explosives near its new artillery ammo plant. They''re too dangerous to move, so it''s blowing them up. (www.businessinsider.com)
PODCAST: Trump drops Russia sanctions, Israeli settlers attack US photojournalist, Oregon police say teacher and parent stopped school shooter (reut.rs)
How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Gave Florida Democrats a Chance - 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. (www.newyorker.com)
Your Next Vacay Is . . . the Strait of Hormuz? - The ad agency MC Saatchi has been working to boost tourism in the war-torn region. One of its inspo pics is Anthony Bourdain in sunglasses. (www.newyorker.com)
Andre D. Wagner’s Eye for the Photo-Ready - Wagner knows the special alchemy that can happen when you point a camera at a Black person on the street. (www.newyorker.com)
We Can Never Understand Elizabeth Holmes, or Nathan Fielder - Unlike Fielder’s past work, “You Can See Everything” isn’t very funny. Instead, the documentary, co-directed by Lance Oppenheim, is a haunting exploration of the limits of other people’s knowability. (www.newyorker.com)
Elon Musk Is Trying to Buy the Midterms, and He Doesn’t Care Who Knows It - Alex Gibney, the director of the new documentary “Musk,” on how the richest man in the world consolidated his power—and now wields it with abandon. (www.newyorker.com)
Anthony Scaramucci Says the Universe Did Katie Zacharia a Favor - The former White House communications director reflects on his record for occupational brevity being broken. (www.newyorker.com)
Has MAGA Lost Faith in Donald Trump? - Rich Baris, a pollster supportive of the MAGA “big tent,” talks about how the President lost control of his movement, and why that spells disaster for Republicans. (www.newyorker.com)
Molly Fischer on Waymo, the Driverless Taxi Coming to a City Near You - Removing human drivers isn’t only a cost-cutting strategy; Waymo riders prefer the solitude, the New Yorker staff writer Molly Fischer says. (www.newyorker.com)
Facing the Death Penalty - The cases of Christa Pike and Nidal Hasan show how vanishingly fine the line is between a routine execution and an unbearable one. (www.newyorker.com)
The Toxic Logic Behind the Shaming of Cornell’s Jane Doe - One of the biggest failures of the post-#MeToo moment is our collective inability to provide a confident, humane account of sex as a basic good. (www.newyorker.com)
The Season of Rosalyn Drexler - With the reissue of her 1974 novel “The Cosmopolitan Girl,” a gallery show, and a documentary screening, the renegade artist is everywhere this fall. (www.newyorker.com)
The Irish Punks Who Know Their Yeats - Fontaines D.C., a young quintet from Dublin, brings a raucous intelligence to its songs of oblivion. (www.newyorker.com)
Trump’s October Surprise Is a Pivot to Putin - No one thinks Russian diesel can save the Republicans, so why is the President doing it? (www.newyorker.com)
Spoiler Alert: Keeping Movies Under Wraps - Why do so many new films have plots and structures that make reviews a delicate dance of hints and secrets? (www.newyorker.com)
The Death of a Young Haitian’s American Dream - Pierre Damas Bel was a twenty-year-old college student planning for his future. His family says that ICE monitoring made him lose hope. (www.newyorker.com)
What’s at Stake in the 2026 Midterms - The midterms could deliver a major victory for Democrats. What would that tell us about Trump’s hold on the country—and the party hoping to succeed him? (www.newyorker.com)