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Trump’s Rambling Speeches Reinforce Question of Age

PETER BAKER, DYLAN FREEDMAN, CHEVAZ CLARKE AND AARON BYRD

With the passage of time, the 78-year-old former president’s speeches have grown darker, harsher, longer, angrier, less focused, more profane and increasingly fixated on the past, according to a review of his public appearances over the years.

False Claims Are Disrupting Recovery from Hurricane Helene

EMILY COCHRANE, CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE, MICHAEL D. SHEAR AND TIFFANY HSU

In North Carolina and other states, a barrage of conspiracy theories and false claims over efforts to bring relief after Hurricane Helene is alarming and disheartening officials and workers.

2 Boys Charged in Assault on Former New York Gov. David Paterson and Stepson

CHELSIA ROSE MARCIUS

The boys, 12 and 13, were charged with gang assault, according to the police. Two adults who were involved in the attack have not been caught, the police said.

Gaza’s Schools Are for Learning, Not for Dying

MOSAB ABU TOHA

Schools across Gaza have turned into refugee centers, and Israeli attacks on them have killed hundreds.

Climate Change and the New Story We Need to Tell About It

OLIVER JEFFERS

We need to act as a single unified force to find ways to strike a lasting balance with our natural world.

The 3 Brothers at the Center of the Bribery Inquiry Rocking City Hall

JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN, ELIZA SHAPIRO AND JAN RANSOM

David Banks and Philip Banks III eclipsed their younger brother by rising to help run New York City. Then federal prosecutors seized the phones of all three men.

Supreme Court Returns With Possible Election Cases Looming

ADAM LIPTAK

Aside from major disputes on issues like transgender rights and guns, the docket is fairly routine. That could change fast if the presidential race is contested.

At North Carolina Churches After Helene, a Time to Grieve and a Time to Hope

AUDRA D. S. BURCH, EMILY COCHRANE AND NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS

Worshipers gathered on Sunday, many for the first time since the storm decimated their communities, “to cry and pray and process.”

Climate Change Is Scorching Stretches of the Amazon River in Brazil

ANA IONOVA

As a punishing drought dries up stretches of the Amazon River, Brazil is resorting to dredging to try to keep food, medicine and people flowing along the watery superhighway.

In Talking About ‘Freedom,’ Harris Hopes She Has a Winning Message on Guns

SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

The vice president is talking about firearms in a new way for a Democrat — by co-opting the language of Republicans.

A Year After Feinstein’s Death, Her Life’s Belongings Are for Sale

SHAWN HUBLER

Senator Dianne Feinstein collected fine jewelry, paintings and a trove of political mementos. Because of her trust, many of those items are available for public inspection — and purchase.

How the Push to Avert a Broader War in Lebanon Fell Apart

BEN HUBBARD, MARIA ABI-HABIB, MICHAEL D. SHEAR AND EDWARD WONG

Diplomats thought both Israel and Hezbollah supported a call for a temporary cease-fire. Then Israel killed Hezbollah’s leader.

A Master Storyteller, at the End of Her Story

MATTHEW SHAER

At 96, Lore Segal is approaching death with the same startling powers of perception she brought to her fiction.

As America’s Marijuana Use Grows, So Do the Risks

MEGAN TWOHEY, DANIELLE IVORY AND CARSON KESSLER

The drug, legal in much of the country, is widely seen as nonaddictive and safe. For some users, these assumptions are dangerously wrong.

LeBron and son Bronny James play together for the first time in a preseason game for the Lakers

LeBron James and his son Bronny made NBA history when they played together for the first time during the Los Angeles Lakers' preseason game against Phoenix