Thousands of would-be protesters detained before a single march could begin. Delhi police locked down the capital to stop a planned mass demonstration against Modi's government.
— via NPR, The Associated Press
A new Met show puts Lee Krasner's canvases next to Jackson Pollock's, treating the married couple as artistic equals rather than the usual story of one overshadowing the other.
— via NPR, Anastasia Tsioulcas
Israel and Hamas agreed to stop fighting a year ago, but residents describe near-constant strikes and restrictions since. The truce Trump announced has not meant peace on the ground, Palestinians say.
— via NPR, Anas Baba
Reports of blindness and pancreatitis in people taking Ozempic-style drugs keep surfacing, but the data needed to prove or rule out a link barely exists. That gap is now complicating both scientific research and the lawsuits piling up against drugmakers.
— via NPR, Yuki Noguchi
Trump says Putin agreed by phone to sell the U.S. diesel, loosening years of pressure on Moscow. The move comes as the White House scrambles to bring down fuel prices before the midterms.
— via NPR, The Associated Press
Polymarket says it's cracking down on criminal abuse of its platform, just as scrutiny over manipulation and insider trading there keeps rising. The timing raises an obvious question: fix or damage control?
— via NPR, Bobby Allyn
A Republican donor says Kimberly Guilfoyle asked for $100,000 in exchange for access to senior Trump officials, then never delivered. Amna Nawaz talks with Eric Deters, the donor making the claim, about what he paid and what he says the U.S. ambassador to Greece promised.
— via PBS NewsHour, Amna Nawaz
Navi Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for defending international law under siege. Hours later, the Trump administration sanctioned the ICC where she once served as judge.
— via PBS NewsHour, Nick Schifrin
ICE agents opened fire on a car in New York City Thursday, with a young child in the back seat. Federal officials say the driver, 28-year-old Oscar Belgal, tried to ram officers before they shot at him.
— via PBS NewsHour, William Brangham
Hurricane Isaias has jumped to a Category 3 with winds up to 120 mph, and it's on track to hit the Gulf Coast Friday night. Michael Brennan of the National Hurricane Center tells Amna Nawaz what residents still have time to do before landfall.
— via PBS NewsHour, Amna Nawaz
Most people still back social media over democracy's enemies, but in richer countries that faith is cracking fast. Meanwhile, 34 of 37 countries surveyed expect AI to kill jobs and widen inequality, and only 17% of Israelis and 21% of Palestinians think two-state coexistence is still possible.
— via Pew Research, Aloprete
Isaias is the Atlantic's first hurricane this season, and it's tracking toward the northern Gulf Coast. Oil producers aren't waiting to find out how bad it gets.
— via NPR, Willa Rubin
A global treaty backed by 197 countries, Russia included, requires governments to report any death that might signal a coming outbreak.
— via NPR, Gabrielle Emanuel
The Pentagon plans to livestream Nidal Hasan's firing squad execution at Fort Hood, the site of his 2009 mass shooting. It would be the first public execution in the U.S. since the 1930s.
— via NPR, Rachel Treisman
ICE officers fired seven rounds at a Dominican man with a 5-year-old in his car, hitting him near the neck, after he drove into their vehicles, officials say. Mamdani and Hochul pushed Trump's administration to release him and the body camera footage; both requests were denied.
— via PBS NewsHour, Rebecca Santana, Associated Press
A Siberian lab worker's death from pneumonia sparked plague fears, though Russian officials say tests found none. The disease never disappeared: the U.S. still logs about seven cases a year, and here's how it spreads, what it does to the body, and why it's treatable if caught early.
— via PBS NewsHour, Associated Press
None of the Democrats in line to chair committees next year could keep their jobs under Republican term-limit rules, which cap chairmanships at three terms. Some in the caucus, including Rep. Eugene Vindman, want to adopt similar limits; veterans like Richie Neal and Frank Pallone, each a decade-plus into their posts, call the idea undemocratic.
— via PBS NewsHour, Kevin Freking, Associated Press
Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, competing for an open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, are set for their first campaign debate Thursday after weeks of sparring both online…
— via PBS NewsHour, Joey Cappelletti, Associated Press
Trump rules out striking Iran before the midterms. Separately, a 28-year-old man is hospitalized after an ICE agent shot him in the neck.
— via NPR, Brittney Melton
An ICE officer fired seven rounds at a man pulling into a parking spot in Manhattan, hitting him near the ear while his 5-year-old was in the car. Federal agents later pulled the wounded man from his hospital bed, defying pleas from the mayor and governor to let him go.
— via PBS NewsHour, Philip Marcelo, Associated Press
