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Kamala Harris visited the southern border in Arizona this week as immigration takes center stage in the election. Though some recent polls show Harris neck and neck with Donald Trump in key swing states, she trails him on the issue of immigration among certain voters.

The GOP is a moral freak show, and freak shows attract freaks. Which is why Mark Robinson fits in so well in today’s Republican Party.
Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, has described himself as a “devout Christian.

Kamala Harris has campaigned as the tough-on-dictators candidate for president. The Democrat scores points off Donald Trump for his truckling and cringing to Vladimir Putin, for swapping love letters with Kim Jong Un.
Today—this very day—the vice president has her best opportunity to prove her toughness and assert her national-security credibility. She can issue a statement on Israel’s killing of Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader and terrorist in chief.

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Earlier today, Mayor Eric Adams pleaded not guilty to the five federal counts unveiled this week in a damning 57-page indictment that alleges that he engaged in a quid pro quo corruption scheme with Turkish nationals, among other campaign-funding violations.

23andMe is not doing well. Its stock is on the verge of being delisted. It shut down its in-house drug-development unit last month, only the latest in several rounds of layoffs. Last week, the entire board of directors quit, save for Anne Wojcicki, a co-founder and the company’s CEO. Amid this downward spiral, Wojcicki has said she’ll consider selling 23andMe—which means the DNA of 23andMe’s 15 million customers would be up for sale, too.

Israel said this afternoon that it had carried out an air strike on the “central headquarters” of Hezbollah, in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah was reportedly the target of the attack; his fate remains unclear.
The strike caps a sequence of Israeli attacks over the past two weeks that have wreaked havoc on Hezbollah as an organization. The pager and walkie-talkie attacks that began on September 17—which former U.S.

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A disaster is brewing on dark-web forums, in messaging apps, and in schools around the world: Generative AI is being used to create sexually explicit images and videos of children, likely thousands a day.

While working on his latest film, Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola had an idea: What if viewers interacted with the movie itself? He’d have microphones placed throughout audiences at every screening, so that at a predetermined moment, everyone who wanted to could ask the characters a question—and someone on-screen would respond. It would bridge the gap between fact and fiction. It would prove that cinema-going could truly be a unique experience.