Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests  —  For hours, links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from cities where dramatic rallies escalated  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter's radically reduced anti-propaganda team grappled on Sunday with a flood of nuisance content …

Key Trump 2024 Rivals Silent After His White Supremacist Meeting  —  Many of Donald Trump's potential 2024 rivals and some top Republicans have fallen silent on the former president's dinner with a notorious white supremacist, illustrating the party's continuing struggle to escape his grasp.

China's zero-Covid protests create a rare nationwide coalition of interests  —  Both factory workers and urban elites oppose a policy that the Communist party has no easy way to abandon  —  Every day, somewhere in China, there is a local protest going on.  The country sees hundreds of strikes a year …

Junot Díaz in limbo  —  Your Email addressSign Up  —  It took a bit of persuading to get the writer Junot Díaz to meet me at the McNally Jackson bookstore on Spring Street in Manhattan last Saturday.  Once inside, he pulled his Detroit Tigers cap low over his eyes and pretended to browse the nonfiction paperbacks table.

The far right is losing.  That's why America has never been so dangerous.  —  “Tis the season, apparently.  Pre-Thanksgiving travelers who clogged the busy Gate D10 at Seattle-Tacoma International were shocked — although maybe slightly less shocked than they would have been five years ago …

Presidential Memorandum to Promote Accountability for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence  —  Today, President Biden will sign a Presidential Memorandum on Promoting Accountability for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence to strengthen the U.S. government's efforts to combat conflict-related sexual violence …

Asian faiths try to save swastika symbol corrupted by Hitler  —  Sheetal Deo was shocked when she got a letter from her Queens apartment building's co-op board calling her Diwali decoration “offensive” and demanding she take it down.  —  “My decoration said ‘Happy Diwali’ and had a swastika on it …

Ga. Senate runoff between Warnock, Walker has bitter closing  —  Ads with the candidates' ex-wives.  Cries of “liar” flying in both directions.  Stories of a squalid apartment building and abortions under pressure.  Questioning an opponent's independence.  His intellect.  His mental stability.

Iran want USA banned for 'offending country's dignity' over World Cup flag  — USA show Iran flag without emblem of Islamic republic  — Teams meet on Tuesday in their final Group B match  —  It has long threatened to be one of the World Cup's biggest flashpoints: the “Great Satan” against the “Axis of Evil”.

Meet the Voters Who Fueled New York's Seismic Tilt Toward the G.O.P.  —  Republicans used doomsday-style ads to prey on suburban voters' fear of crime in New York, helping to flip enough seats to capture the House.  —  GREAT NECK PLAZA, N.Y. — Lynn Frankel still has bouts of nostalgia for her old life …

After more than 600 mass shootings this year, let's be honest about guns  —  The mass shootings that plague this nation are a uniquely American jumble of contradictions.  Each new one horrifies, and yet fits into a depressingly familiar pattern.  Communities count the dead …