Democratic Lawyer Stymied Trump in 2020. Other Efforts Played Into G.O.P. Hands. Marc Elias, hired to help Kamala Harris in election-related fights, helped to pave the way for big money in politics.

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Hot Nights Fuel Wildfires, Complicating Containment Efforts Climate change is causing more fires to burn overnight, growing bigger, lasting longer and challenging the fire teams trying to control them.

Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Is Stepping Up Efforts to Preserve Memories With the survivor generation shrinking and antisemitism on the rise around the world, Israel’s Holocaust memorial is stepping up efforts to safeguard its vast collection of artifacts and testimony.

TikTok Lays Out Past Efforts to Address U.S. Concerns The company said the disclosures support its argument that a law signed by President Biden in May is unconstitutional.

Report: TikTok’s efforts to silo US data are ‘largely cosmetic’ Illustration by Nick Barclay / The VergeSince 2022, TikTok has undertaken a massive, expensive effort to silo off its US operations — and American users’ data — from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. TikTok has described the corporate restructuring, which it dubbed Project Texas, as “an unprecedented initiative dedicated to making every Ame…

Ukraine Indicts Officials Linked to Efforts to Investigate the Bidens Three officials were accused of operating at the behest of Russian intelligence when they aligned with efforts by Rudolph W. Giuliani to tie the Biden family to corruption in Ukraine.

Sam Bankman-Fried May Testify to Role of Lawyers, ‘Good Faith’ Efforts, Filing Says In a series of filings throughout Thursday, the Department of Justice and Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense crossed swords on issues ranging from charts the defendant wants to use in his testimony to an ongoing question of whether the defense can rely on a presence of counsel argument.

Speaker Mike Johnson Helped Efforts to Overturn The 2020 Election Representative Mike Johnson recruited House Republicans to back a lawsuit to overturn the results, and he was a key architect of his party’s objections to certifying President Biden’s victory.

Supreme Court Delays Efforts to Redraw Louisiana Voting Map The Louisiana dispute is one of several voting rights cases churning through the courts that challenge a state’s congressional map.

U.S. CBDC Efforts Opposed in Legislation Advanced by House Republicans A crypto-related bill meant to stifle a future U.S. central bank digital currency is now heading toward consideration on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives after committee approval Wednesday, marking further progress for digital assets legislation in Congress.

McCarthy Puts Off Spending Votes, Stymied in Efforts to Avert a Shutdown Action on the floor stalled as Speaker Kevin McCarthy struggled for votes to bring spending bills up for debate and remained stalemated with right-wing members.

Relief Efforts in Libya Turn to Disease Prevention, as Hopes for Finding Survivors Dim Thousands were killed after dams broke last week in the country’s northeast, displacing more than 40,000 people, and leaving survivors with a shortage of medical supplies and drinking water.

Rescue efforts are underway, but not in full swing, in Morocco.

A Judge Rejected Trump’s Efforts to Delay His Federal Jan. 6 Trial Also, Florida braces for a hurricane. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.

Biden Welcomes South Korea’s Efforts to Warm Relations With Japan The thaw highlights how willing Korean officials appear to be to resolve or downplay traditional conflicts in order to address increasingly urgent security issues in the region.

Maui Pets Are Focus of Search Efforts by Volunteers After a fire destroyed the seaside town of Lahaina, the fate of beloved animals became a wrenching concern.

Maui Wildfires: What We Know About Cause, Search Efforts and Damages The fire has been contained, but access to the islands is limited, and as the focus turns to search efforts, the death toll could rise.

Indictment Says Trump Had 6 Co-Conspirators in Efforts to Retain Power While their identities could not be determined, their descriptions match up with a number of people who were central to the investigation of Jan. 6.

Trump Was Indicted Over His Efforts to Overturn the 2020 Election Also, Europeans evacuate from Niger. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.