Flydubai pilot attempts terror hijacking of flight to Tel Aviv, foiled by Israeli passengers  —  Israeli official says “major disaster avoided” after pilot stabbed his co-pilot, attempted to hijack aircraft with over 100 Israeli passengers  • Plane makes emergency landing in Saudi Arabia

Hegseth details new initiatives in partisan address to troops  —  In a fiery speech, the Pentagon chief solicited bids to build a new base, called for more focus on religion and said Elon Musk will help develop next-generation weapons.  —  SummaryLoading...

G.O.P. Nominee in Texas Privately Said Trump's Convention Hurt Him  —  Ken Paxton, one of the party's top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody's numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.  —  Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for Senate in Texas …

FCC's Carr brushes off concerns about Trump's taxpayer-paid election ads  —  With five weeks remaining in the midterm election cycle, Donald Trump and his White House team have unveiled three propagandistic campaign ads, which are being financed entirely by American taxpayers and which appear …

Eric Schmitt defends mix-up that led to viral gaffe during Jack Smith's hearing  —  Sen. Eric Schmitt expressed no remorse Wednesday for falsely accusing Jack Smith of lying to Congress about attending a basketball game as a guise to investigate President Donald Trump …

In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It's All Trump's Fault  —  James Talarico may or may not win the Senate race in Texas.  But here's something we can say right now: Given how close Talarico is coming in this red state after running such an overtly pro-immigrant campaign …

How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes … Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's A.I. push is a tremendous success.  “Our investments in A.I. are accelerating every major part of our core business,” he has told investors.  “Every sign that we're seeing in our own work …

FTC opens sweeping probe of Anthropic, OpenAI and other super intelligence models  —  WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission is ramping up a sweeping probe of Anthropic, OpenAI and other frontier labs to uncover the potential dangers their technology poses to consumers …

GOP senator urges ICE to dial back enforcement sweeps  —  Republican Sen. Jim Justice said the Trump administration should reconsider its approach to immigration enforcement Tuesday, joining the chorus of criticism of a recent crackdown that has roiled rural communities ahead of the midterms.

GOP voter ID bill falls short in Senate  —  With the midterm elections just over a month away, Senate Republicans tried to score a few final political points before leaving Washington, forcing a vote on a congressional stock-trading ban that included an unrelated voter ID requirement.

Eliminating Disease-Carrying Pests And Restoring Enjoyment Of The Great Outdoors  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Background and Purpose.

How Zuckerberg shaped Trump's AI industry pledge  —  The Scoop  —  The idea for what became President Donald Trump's Tuesday pact with the AI industry came from a conversation between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and House Speaker Mike Johnson at last week's state dinner, a source familiar with the matter told Semafor.

Blackburn sues Jack Smith for obtaining her phone records  —  A close Capitol Hill ally of President Donald Trump is suing the Justice Department and former special counsel Jack Smith for obtaining her phone logs in the course of his investigation into Trump's bid to subvert the 2020 election.

Judge Questions Secrecy Around Trump Administration's Memo on Boat Strikes  —  The judge also ordered the Justice Department to privately show the court the contested document, which blesses the disputed killings at sea.  —  A federal judge dealt a blow on Wednesday to the Trump administration's efforts …

Justice Department files ethics complaint against Minnesota federal judges  —  The Justice Department has filed a formal complaint against nearly all of the federal district court judges in Minnesota, alleging that they violated the judicial ethics code by speaking out about the impact …

Trump Says FlyDubai Pilot in Incident Was ‘Perhaps a Terrorist’  —  President Donald Trump said a pilot who stabbed a colleague in the cockpit of a FlyDubai flight en route to Israel was “perhaps a terrorist” and said he had spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the incident.

Decline in tourism hits US economy  —  Overseas visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year, with even the FIFA Men's World Cup failing to arrest the decline in tourism.  —  The slide is hurting the US economy, and as Axios put it, is partly “self-inflicted …

White House begins mailing $500 ObamaCare ‘refund’ checks  —  The White House began mailing $500 refund checks Wednesday to just about 1 million Americans who the administration says were overcharged for their ObamaCare insurance.  —  Treasury Department checks will begin …

Trump announces vague ‘morally binding’ AI deal among tech CEOs for ‘tremendous self-policing’  —  US president also issued executive order officially rebranding ‘artificial intelligence’ as ‘superintelligence’  —  Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the heads of the largest US tech …

The New Radicals  —  Over the past year and a half I've warned promiscuously about the dangers of “funding Donald Trump's government.”  I've taken to referring to bipartisan spending bills, which have passed with Democrats casting decisive votes, as “enabling” legislation.  —  This language is provocative.

Inside Man: How Chinese spies used lies, love and betrayal to target the Federal Reserve  —  John Harold Rogers was walking Prada, his tiny spaniel, past a school bus stop in his suburban Washington neighborhood when FBI agents surrounded him.  They handcuffed the former senior Federal Reserve official …

Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting  —  The Trump administration is excluding several major allies from a gathering of NATO members next month — after threatening to deploy a “naughty and nice list” against governments that have run afoul of the president's priorities.

Jim Justice says he has a ‘short’ timeline for deciding on governor run  —  GOP Sen. Jim Justice said Wednesday that he'll decide whether to run for West Virginia governor before the end of the year but likely not until after the midterms.  “The timeline is short, because I don't want to jerk you around,” Justice said.

After Two Decades, U.S. Forces Leave Iraq to an Uncertain Future  —  Some Iraqis are celebrating the end of an American military presence that unleashed waves of bloodshed.  Others fear what happens next for their country, trapped between Washington and Tehran.  —  Listen  · 13:14 min

Troy Jackson apologizes for comments on Jewish Mainers' views of Gaza war  —  The Senate nominee's bid to unseat incumbent Susan Collins (R-Maine) is critical to Democrats' hopes for reclaiming control of the chamber.  —  Just now  —  Troy Jackson, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine …

OpenAI Executive Backs Out of Second $25 Million Donation to A.I. Super PAC  —  Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president and co-founder, said internally that the super PAC, Leading the Future, had become a “distraction” for the A.I. company.  —  The OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman and his wife …

Iran publishes propaganda letter urging US voters to punish Trump in midterm elections  —  Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps put out a 25-page letter addressed to Americans urging them to oppose President Donald Trump during the upcoming midterm elections.