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President Trump and candidates around the country spent the weekend making their final pitches to voters before Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections. Here\u2019s the latest.
While Mr. Trump is not on the ballot, many view the elections as an opportunity to assess his leadership, and the results will affect the remainder of his term.
\u2022 News analysis: Dozens of House races are exceptionally close, recent polls by The Times and Siena College show. As a result, modest shifts among undecided voters or a slightly higher turnout could yield significantly different outcomes. Democrats would have to flip 23 Republican-held seats to gain control of the chamber.
\u2022 The Tip Sheet: Our daily analysis of the elections looks at where things stand .
\u2022 In Georgia: Brian Kemp, the secretary of state and the Republican nominee for governor, said that Democrats were under investigation for allegedly trying to hack the state\u2019s voter registration files. Democrats called the inquiry a political stunt.
As President Trump and his allies waged a fear-based campaign to drive Republican voters to the polls, far-right communities online have seen their once-fringe views given prominent support .
\u201cI\u2019ve seen white supremacists and extremists talk about these anti-Semitic and racist ideas for years,\u201d said Oren Segal, the director of the Anti-Defamation League\u2019s Center on Extremism. \u201cBut it was always in the corner. Now, you don\u2019t know where the mainstream starts and the fringe ends.\u201d
\u2022 Tracing a meme: In less than two weeks, the phrase \u201cjobs not mobs\u201d moved from the right-wing internet onto some of the most prominent political stages in the country.
\u2022 Election misinformation: Two months ago, The Times asked readers to send in examples of election-related misinformation. Here\u2019s how they responded.
\u2022 From the Magazine: White supremacists and other far-right extremists have killed far more people since Sept. 11,2001, than any other category of domestic extremists. But U. S. counterterrorism strategy has ignored the rising danger .
Oleg Deripaska has spent two decades trying to buy respect in the West. London has welcomed him; Washington hasn\u2019t, really.
Suspected by the U. S. of having ties to organized crime, Mr. Deripaska is on a list of Russians who faced sanctions from the Trump administration as punishment for Russian interference in the 2016 election.
\u2022 Coming decision: The administration is nearing a deadline next month for a final ruling on sanctions against Mr. Deripaska\u2019s companies. There are signs that he could escape them entirely.
Brent Taylor, the mayor of North Ogden, Utah, told his constituents in January that he would go to Afghanistan to train an Afghan commando battalion. It was his fourth deployment.
Major Taylor, 39, was killed on Saturday, apparently by one of the people he was there to help. He leaves behind a wife and seven children. His body is scheduled to arrive at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware this evening.
\u2022 The Afghan war: Major Taylor\u2019s death was a reminder that there\u2019s no end in sight for the 17-year conflict.
\u2022 After another strong jobs report, our chief economics correspondent looked at how the financial lives of the middle class have changed in the past two years. It\u2019s a mixed picture.
\u2022 President Xi Jinping of China kicked off a major trade show in Shanghai today intended to show the country\u2019s appetite for foreign goods.
Notably absent were the leaders of Britain, Germany, Japan and South Korea, and the U. S. didn\u2019t send an official delegation at all.
\u2022 American sanctions on Iranian oil resumed this morning. It\u2019s one of the headlines to watch this week.
\u2022 More than 250 antiquarian book dealers in 24 countries are pulling over a million books off an Amazon-owned site for a week after the site abruptly banned sellers from several nations.
\u2022 U. S. stocks were down on Friday. Here\u2019s a snapshot of global markets today.
Tips for a more fulfilling life.
\u2022 Parents shouldn\u2019t spank their children, the American Academy of Pediatrics said today. It\u2019s the group\u2019s most strongly worded warning against corporal punishment.
\u2022 Create a holiday table setting that avoids clich\u00e9s .
\u2022 Recipe of the day: Pack a lunch of farro salad with beets, their greens and feta .
\u2022 Shabbat services across the U. S., the first since a gunman killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, drew people of all faiths .
\u2022 A gunman with a history of misogyny and racism killed two women and injured five other people at a yoga studio in Tallahassee, Fla. He then killed himself.
\u2022 The Los Angeles Rams lost their first game of the season, to the New Orleans Saints. Here are the highlights from Week 9 in the N. F. L.
\u2022 A British man who spent five months at sea is believed to be the first person to swim around Britain.
\u2022 \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d bid goodbye to its central hero, Rick Grimes. We spoke to Andrew Lincoln about the role he has played since 2010. (Spoilers, obviously.)
\u2022 \u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d overcame lackluster reviews to earn about $50 million and the top spot at the domestic box office .
\u2022 A marathon in photographs
The New York City Marathon on Sunday involved 50,000 runners, 12,000 volunteers and hundreds of thousands of spectators. Here\u2019s what it looked like.
Mary Keitany of Kenya won the women\u2019s race for the fourth time, finishing in 2 hours 22 minutes 48 seconds. Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia won the men\u2019s race for the first time, in 2:05:59.
\u2022 In memoriam
Roy Hargrove, a virtuoso trumpeter, became a symbol of jazz\u2019s youthful renewal in the early 1990s, and established himself as one of the most respected musicians of his generation. He was 49.
\u2022 Dancers, and shoes, of color
Some ballet performers paint or dye shoes to match their skin color. But they soon might not have to.
\u2022 Quotation of the day
\u201cHey, we\u2019re in politics. What did people think they were going to, a tea party?\u201d
\u2014 Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic minority leader, on how she responds to members of her party who say they won\u2019t support her for speaker if Democrats win a majority of seats on Tuesday.
\u2022 The Times, in other words
Here\u2019s an image of today\u2019s front page, and links to our Opinion content and crossword puzzles .
\u2022 What we\u2019re reading
Jenna Wortham, a writer for The Times, recommends this piece from Guernica: \u201cWhat does it feel like when everything familiar disappears? This short story is technically science fiction, but it feels unnervingly close to reality.\u201d
Stickers can be surprisingly motivating, even for adults.
That\u2019s the idea behind the \u201cI Voted\u201d stickers handed out at polling stations \u2014 that they\u2019ll encourage voters to turn out, and inspire those who see them to vote themselves.
The stickers first appeared in the 1980s, offered by businesses, unions and civic groups. State and local governments began making their own.
While some states keep them simple, others express their identities. Some stickers, like Alabama\u2019s, Ohio\u2019s and Tennessee\u2019s, incorporate the shape of the state. Georgia\u2019s include a peach, while California\u2019s is in 13 languages.
Alaskans who voted early this year got stickers with cartoon versions of state animals. Louisiana\u2019s stickers, which feature the Cajun artist George Rodrigue\u2019s \u201cBlue Dog,\u201d have appeared on eBay.
New York City has a subway-themed sticker. Other cities are following Chicago\u2019s lead and offering wristbands instead.
The stickers have also transformed online. Instagram has \u201cI Voted\u201d and \u201cYo Vot\u00e9\u201d emblems, along with a \u201cWe Voted\u201d story on Election Day that gathers posts by a user\u2019s friends.
Do they actually make a difference? One study found that in 2010, Facebook\u2019s \u201cI Voted\u201d button drove 340,000 Americans to the polls.
Either way, you still get a sticker.
Jennifer Jett wrote today\u2019s Back Story.
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