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President Trump and candidates around the country spent the weekend making their final pitches to voters before Tuesday’s midterm elections. Here’s 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.
• 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.
• The Tip Sheet: Our daily analysis of the elections looks at where things stand .
• 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’s 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 .
“I’ve seen white supremacists and extremists talk about these anti-Semitic and racist ideas for years,” said Oren Segal, the director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. “But it was always in the corner. Now, you don’t know where the mainstream starts and the fringe ends.”
• Tracing a meme: In less than two weeks, the phrase “jobs not mobs” moved from the right-wing internet onto some of the most prominent political stages in the country.
• Election misinformation: Two months ago, The Times asked readers to send in examples of election-related misinformation. Here’s how they responded.
• 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’t, 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.
• Coming decision: The administration is nearing a deadline next month for a final ruling on sanctions against Mr. Deripaska’s 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.
• The Afghan war: Major Taylor’s death was a reminder that there’s no end in sight for the 17-year conflict.
• 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’s a mixed picture.
• President Xi Jinping of China kicked off a major trade show in Shanghai today intended to show the country’s appetite for foreign goods.
Notably absent were the leaders of Britain, Germany, Japan and South Korea, and the U. S. didn’t send an official delegation at all.
• American sanctions on Iranian oil resumed this morning. It’s one of the headlines to watch this week.
• 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.
• U. S. stocks were down on Friday. Here’s a snapshot of global markets today.
Tips for a more fulfilling life.
• Parents shouldn’t spank their children, the American Academy of Pediatrics said today. It’s the group’s most strongly worded warning against corporal punishment.
• Create a holiday table setting that avoids clichés .
• Recipe of the day: Pack a lunch of farro salad with beets, their greens and feta .
• Shabbat services across the U. S., the first since a gunman killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, drew people of all faiths .
• 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.
• 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.
• A British man who spent five months at sea is believed to be the first person to swim around Britain.
• “The Walking Dead” bid goodbye to its central hero, Rick Grimes. We spoke to Andrew Lincoln about the role he has played since 2010. (Spoilers, obviously.)
• “Bohemian Rhapsody” overcame lackluster reviews to earn about $50 million and the top spot at the domestic box office .
• 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’s what it looked like.
Mary Keitany of Kenya won the women’s race for the fourth time, finishing in 2 hours 22 minutes 48 seconds. Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia won the men’s race for the first time, in 2:05:59.
• In memoriam
Roy Hargrove, a virtuoso trumpeter, became a symbol of jazz’s youthful renewal in the early 1990s, and established himself as one of the most respected musicians of his generation. He was 49.
• Dancers, and shoes, of color
Some ballet performers paint or dye shoes to match their skin color. But they soon might not have to.
• Quotation of the day
“Hey, we’re in politics. What did people think they were going to, a tea party?”
— Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic minority leader, on how she responds to members of her party who say they won’t support her for speaker if Democrats win a majority of seats on Tuesday.
• The Times, in other words
Here’s an image of today’s front page, and links to our Opinion content and crossword puzzles .
• What we’re reading
Jenna Wortham, a writer for The Times, recommends this piece from Guernica: “What does it feel like when everything familiar disappears? This short story is technically science fiction, but it feels unnervingly close to reality.”
Stickers can be surprisingly motivating, even for adults.
That’s the idea behind the “I Voted” stickers handed out at polling stations — that they’ll encourage voters to turn out, and inspire those who see them to vote themselves.
