The Atlantic’s November Cover: Josh Tyrangiel Profiles Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk on Their Race to Control Outer Space—And Measures Who Is Ahead (www.theatlantic.com)
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning''s Regular Press Conference on October 13, 2026_Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People''s Republic of China (news.google.com)
Kimberly Guilfoyle’s resignation feeds into Democrats‘ theme that White House officials are preoccupied with self-dealing. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Special Edition Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
The big-donor group aligned with Senate Republicans disclosed that it plans to spend heavily to help Sen. Pete Ricketts (R., Neb.) before Election Day, in the latest sign of the GOP’s Midwest angst (on.wsj.com)
Can fitness wearables really track your blood pressure without the panic-inducing arm squeeze? @nicnguyen tested out five options and consulted with cardiologists. Here’s what she found. (on.wsj.com)
The White House called on Kimberly Guilfoyle to step down as U.S. ambassador to Greece, after The Wall Street Journal reported that she had solicited 100,000 from a Trump donor in the runup to her confirmation hearing last year (on.wsj.com)
Medicare for All has become a defining policy fight for Democrats—and a measuring stick of how far left the party wants to move. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
Germany To Start Nord Stream ''War Crime'' Trial With Prosecutors Blaming Ukrainian ''State Authorities'' - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (news.google.com)
Cold Kills Batteries, Screen Glare Destroys Night Vision: I Built HushHike with Render, ElevenLabs & Mastra to Navigate the Alpine in 30 Seconds (dev.to)
Is This the Beginning of the End of Indian Democracy? - The Modi government has removed more than a hundred million people from voter rolls and is cracking down on a vigorous protest movement. (www.newyorker.com)
Encountering the Past in “Music Against the Night” - John Field and Adelaide Percheron, the protagonists in my new book, were born in the eighteenth century. Was I writing a historical novel? (www.newyorker.com)
“The Journey” Update: The D.A. Brings Charges - Three weeks after we released The Journey, Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang were arrested, and local prosecutors charged them with child abuse. (www.newyorker.com)
An Unlikely Taylor Swift Fan Gets Out of Prison, in “Daylight” - Joe Garcia, who wrote about finding Swift’s music after a murder conviction, searches for redemption in a new short film by Jon Kasbe. (www.newyorker.com)
Some Mangled Foreign Title Translations - “Dune: Part Two” to “Those Mad Worms Won’t Stop, Mate” (Australia): You think those dodgy snakes in the outback are devo? You ain’t seen nothing, mate! (www.newyorker.com)
How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American Wilderness - By studying fire scars in ancient wood, many scientists have become convinced that Indigenous people transformed North America long before Christopher Columbus arrived. (www.newyorker.com)
How a Canadian TV Show May Have Helped Foil the FlyDubai Terrorist Attack - The documentary series “Air Crash Investigations” has attracted a cult following by obsessively dissecting historic plane crashes. Then a fan of the show found himself aboard a hijacked plane headed for Israel. (www.newyorker.com)
Hollywood’s Tech-Founder Fixation Takes a Dark Turn - Tech-entrepreneur bio-pics used to give us flawed men who built great products. But the latest wave of movies, from “The Social Reckoning” to “Artificial,” recast Silicon Valley titans as unambiguous villains, and suggest that the products themselves are the threat. (www.newyorker.com)
My Education on the Border of the Syrian War - In the last Turkish town on the road to Aleppo, jihadis and spies mixed with reporters trying to prove themselves. (www.newyorker.com)
Deana Lawson’s Subjects of Surveillance - In a new series featuring security-camera stills of suspected shoplifters, the photographer seems more interested in the surface than in the soul. (www.newyorker.com)
The First Candid - In 1838, Louis Daguerre snapped a photo of a Parisian street, empty but for a shoeshine boy and his client. Now that some sleuths have zeroed in on the location, the city is marking it with a plaque. (www.newyorker.com)
Around the World in Explorer Names - The American Geographical Society has long invited big-name adventurers—Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong—to sign its ceremonial globe. The latest? Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan. (www.newyorker.com)
Kramer and Fauci—Enemies to Friends to Protagonists - The playwright and the immunologist famously argued about AIDs live on C-SPAN, in 1993. Their heated exchange now unfolds in a new play that almost included a “Guys and Dolls” song break. (www.newyorker.com)
Cinema of Wayward Souls - The director Lee Chang-dong excavates the traumas of contemporary Korean history in starkly personal terms. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Occidental Book of the Dead,” “Luna, Phoenix, Queen,” “The Minimalist,” and “The Decadent Movement.” (www.newyorker.com)
The Yakuza and the Way of the Would-Be Warrior - For generations, Japanese gangsters have styled themselves as heirs to the samurai—a mystique that helped them prosper in league with politicians, police, and big business. (www.newyorker.com)
In Argentina, Rural Residents Send Messages Over the Radio - In rural Argentina, isolated residents exchange messages over AM radio. (www.newyorker.com)