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This city is on track to run out of water by 2030 Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, is on track to be the first modern city to run out of water and could do so as soon as 2030, according to a report from the nonprofit Prosper Global. It’s part of a broader problem, as cities from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Iran’s capital Tehran, face water shortages so severe that residents are bracing for “day zero” — when taps run dry for large parts of a city. Growing populations, strained infrastructure and a warming climate are often to blame. But Kabul faces an especially dire mix, compounded by decades of conflict and a steep decline in foreign aid since the Taliban returned to power in 2021. + Read more: Kabul is on track to be the first modern city to run out of water. For many residents, that day is already here + Video: Residents of Corpus Christi, Texas, are staring down a water crisis

Wall Street rides the AI wave Wall Street is on pace for a record year of profits, fueled in part by massive investment in artificial intelligence. The industry raked in $45.9 billion in profits in the first half of 2026, up 51% from a year earlier, driven by strong trading. IPO activity has also picked up, with dozens of companies — including several tied to AI — waiting to go public, potentially bringing banks even more business. The surge has also lifted pay, with the average Wall Street salary, including bonuses, topping $561,000 last year. But rising interest rates and bond market volatility could weigh on profits by raising borrowing costs and cooling trading in the months ahead. + Read more: Wall Street is booming. Surging yields could shake things up + Plus: Anthropic expected to IPO as soon as November

Trump signs order aimed at lowering diesel prices A person pumps diesel fuel into his tractor-trailer. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Monday aimed at easing near-record diesel prices by expanding the use of cheaper, tax-free red-dyed diesel, typically reserved for off-road vehicles. Trump said the move will “drive down the costs of all goods, including groceries,” and could offer relief to truckers and farmers. Diesel has jumped from $3.76 a gallon before the Iran war to $6.32 on Monday, according to AAA. A trucker filling up an 18-wheeler with 250 gallons of diesel currently costs about $1,575, and tax-free diesel could cut that cost by roughly $150. “It’s not really a needle-mover,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, an app that tracks fuel prices. “This won’t fix the problem overnight, but it can allow politicians to take a bit of a victory lap.” + Read more: Trump signs executive order aimed at lowering diesel prices + Meanwhile: Americans are rushing to buy hybrid cars

The Senate is up for grabs Control of the Senate this November could hinge on just a handful of closely watched races. Democrats need 51 seats to take the majority, while Republicans need 50, with Vice President JD Vance able to break any tie. One promising sign for Democrats: They’re drawing notable crossover support from Republican voters. A CNN review of recent polling data shows Democratic candidates have led among GOP voters by double digits in four key Senate races, and they lead by an average of at least 9 points in seven of the top 10 races. That crossover support is particularly strong among non-MAGA Republicans, though polls have underestimated Republican support in recent elections. + Read more: Democrats are taking big chunks of GOP voters in key Senate races, polls show + For subscribers: Plot each party’s best path to winning with this interactive map

Protests grow at Cornell University A demonstration at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, on Monday. (AP) Cornell University faculty have introduced a resolution calling for a vote of no confidence in the university administration over its handling of an alleged 2024 gang rape on campus, as demands for accountability grow. A no-confidence vote would signal a loss of faith in university leadership and increase pressure for change. “The faculty have been approached by hundreds of students, alumni, staff who are demanding that we do something,” said professor Paul Ortiz. This comes as hundreds of students and community members gathered Monday, chanting “shame” and “resign” over what they say was the university’s failure to respond when the woman, known as Jane Doe, first reported the alleged assault to campus police. Some groups are also planning a seven-hour sit-in Wednesday in solidarity with her. + First on CNN: Cornell faculty prepare no-confidence vote against university administration + Video: Protesters at Cornell speak out on handling of alleged gang rape

Here’s why experts say now is an ideal time to protect yourself from flu It’s October and time for flu shots. Medical experts urge getting a flu vaccination soon, before influenza starts spreading widely — and to get up to date on protection against other fall respiratory viruses, too. Updated COVID-19 shots are available now, plus shots for people especially vulnerable to another winter risk called RSV. Read more. Why this matters: Every year flu alone causes hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations in the U.S. and kills tens of thousands. Fall vaccine advice usually comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its independent advisory panel. But this year that panel, which influences state and insurance vaccine policies, is caught in a court battle and the CDC hasn't updated its flu advice. Now doctors’ groups are filling the gap. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ One shot or two? What to know about HPV vaccination recommendations Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the US

Trump says his super PAC will pay for taxpayer-funded ads President Donald Trump said Monday that he will stop using taxpayer funds for television advertisements glorifying himself that sparked a major backlash and instead tap his super PAC to cover costs going forward. Read more. What to know: In a post on his social media site, Trump defended the ads, which cost at least $1.5 million in federal funds, saying they were “positive promotion for our Great U.S.A.” But he added that he’d “decided to do the Patriotic Ads, among others, and pay for them myself, and with money I raised for MAGA, Inc.” That is Trump’s political war chest, which had amassed more than $400 million by the end of July. Trump has begun to tap it to boost Republican candidates around the country ahead of midterm elections. Trump’s abrupt about-face came after leaders from both parties criticized using taxpayer funds for the ads. Legal experts said the ads might even violate federal statutes. Trump provided no details on reimbursing taxpayers for ads that already aired, nor how he would go about having his political organization pay for such future advertising. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ WATCH: Trump says threats prompted US to remove bombers from British air base Supreme Court rejects Roy Moore’s push to restore $8.2M defamation verdict Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan Trump criticizes election officials in Arizona’s Maricopa County over error affecting 3,000 ballots Republican Sen. Tillis calls his deciding vote for Hegseth the ‘biggest regret of my career’ in a new book Rubio begins three-nation NATO tour in Iceland, which is wary of Trump’s Arctic intentions Dennis Hastert, longtime Republican House speaker who went to prison, dies at age 84

October 6, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. Thousands of Cornell students and faculty joined a protest march against the university’s administration last night as the school continues to grapple with allegations of sexual assault on campus. There’s a lot more below — including a fascinating look at the power of geography. But first, a few words about our pets and their palates. Mathias Depardon for The New York Times Picky eaters You know what’s a big business? Cat food. Americans spent more than $17 billion on the stuff over the last year, an increase of 14 percent from the same period in 2024. A lot of it’s fancy, “human-grade” food designed to improve health, with recipes that are said to aid aching joints, strengthen muscles or keep the old cat brain humming along. Those kitties we picked up during the pandemic aren’t getting any younger. “Aging is one of the biggest opportunities,” one pet-food executive told The Times. Her company’s senior cat food line includes an extra-soft mousse for old cats and an easy-to-eat kibble for even older cats. Purina last year brought out a “tender cuts in elegant jelly” creation, shaped like a pyramid to encourage cats to take wide bites. Of course all this stuff is expensive. I can tell you that from experience with both cats and dogs. My elderly Labrador eats the same kibble she’s been eating since she was a puppy and never complains. My young Lab used to eat raw beef, chicken feet, salmon heads and lots of liver, until we put her on the old one’s kibble program. (Much easier and far less expensive. The raw meat situation was like a MAHA fever dream.) My old cat, though? That fellow demands canned turkey pate twice a day until he suddenly turns his nose up at it and wants, what — the beef one, the chicken, the fish? Keeping his larder full costs as much as the dog food — and he weighs 80 pounds less than each of the girls. Sometimes all he’ll eat is kibble, then stare at me, slightly malevolently. I used to be a restaurant critic. If my cat did that job, there’d be no raves. He’s the Anton Ego of feline cuisine. And he’s not alone. Jenny Gross, one of our business reporters, traveled to southern France recently to visit a research facility owned by Mars (yes, the candy makers), where dozens of judgmental cats like mine chill out in a kind of day-care facility, waiting for dinner time. When it comes, the researchers present each cat with two choices of food, with scales beneath the trays to measure how much of each they consume. Then they monitor their postprandial behavior. Are the cats more lethargic than usual? Playful? (The researchers study dogs as well.) They use the data from the discerning animals to adjust recipes and come up with new ones. One factory manufactures 146 types of kibble. Dogs at the Royal Canin Pet Center in France. Mathias Depardon for The New York Times Hot tuna! A researcher at another feline taste-testing center, in England, told Jenny his team was especially interested in understanding the senses and tastes of cats. They wanted to know why cats don’t prefer sweet foods, for instance, and why they like tuna so much. “He said researchers determined that cats had the umami taste receptor,” Jenny writes. “Tuna has a unique combination of compounds that is akin to ‘super umami’ for cats,” the researcher told her. My cat’s unfazed by the stuff, though. He just wants what he wants. I continue to attempt to fathom what that is, knowing that he’ll want something entirely different tomorrow, or next week. In this regard, anyway, 🐕> 🐈. Read more about the four-legged taste testers. THE LATEST NEWS Politics Outside the Supreme Court. Alex Kent/The New York Times The Supreme Court heard arguments in the first case of its new term — about whether local governments can hold oil companies responsible for damage caused by climate change. President Trump signed an executive order that aims to ease fuel costs by allowing a special kind of diesel typically used for farm equipment to be used more broadly. The Midterms Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, is accusing pediatricians in the state of forcing vaccinations on children. Trump said his super PAC would now pay for television ads supporting him that had aired at taxpayer expense. Hispanic voters, who shifted Republican in the 2024 election, now overwhelmingly disapprove of the party, an NBC News/Telemundo poll found. Cornell Rape Investigation Cornell’s faculty senate plans to consider a vote of no confidence against the university’s administrators. Ketamine played a central role in Jane Doe’s assault. It’s become a popular party drug on campus. Lives Lived Jeffrey Archer was a best-selling thriller writer with a British political career as full of scandal and spectacle as one of his books. In 2001, he was jailed for perjury. He died at 86. Jim Bakker rose to fame in the 1970s and ’80s as a television evangelist before scandals brought down his ministry and sent him to prison. He also died at 86. Iran War The U.S. military withdrew its bombers from a base in Britain because of the risk of a drone attack ordered by Iran, officials said. The war against Iran has forced world leaders to reckon with the role of geography in global affairs. More International News France is bracing for nationwide strikes today after union leaders agreed to join students in protests that began last month. The government in Russia is trying to stop rumors that a woman in Siberia died of plague. Melting ice in Switzerland has revealed ancient artifacts once frozen in the glaciers. In the video below, the climate reporter Raymond Zhong takes us on a search for ancient objects. Click to watch. The New York Times Nobel Prizes A psychiatrist, a plant physiologist and a biophysicist won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for a technique that uses light to activate neurons in the brain. Francis Halzen, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin. Other Big Stories Karoline Leavitt, the former White House press secretary, is joining Fox News as a contributor. An argument over Trump at an Ohio dog park led to a shooting. Two men face prison time in the case. THE GREAT UNANSWERED A detector at a neutrino observatory, relevant to the 44th question. Ng Han Guan/Associated Press The Times asked 100 scientists to give us the big unanswered questions in their fields. You may already have contemplated some of these puzzles: Did time have a beginning? What preceded the Big Bang? Why do we sleep? Which animals dream? Others seem esoteric (though still important): Are all atoms of the same element and isotope identical, or is every atom in the universe unique? Here’s one to ponder while you’re shaving or plucking: Why are humans the only species with a chin? One molecular biologist even sent us back a question that encompasses the other 99: What is curiosity? Read our list of what some of the world’s best minds are thinking about. THE MORNING QUIZ This question comes from a recent edition of the newsletter. Click an answer to see if you’re right. (The link will be free.) One activist became the face of Spain’s housing crisis, which helped bring down the government. She is … A landlord who says her rapacious peers raise the rent too often. An 87-year-old evicted from her Madrid apartment. A tween from the foster-care system. The queen, who rarely speaks on politics but made an exception for housing. OPINIONS Trump’s attempts at voter suppression are laying the groundwork for the 2028 election, Jeffrey Toobin writes. Attribution science, an emerging field that studies the effect of specific actions on extreme weather, could help hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for climate change in court. The Anniversary Sale ends soon: Morning readers, enjoy our best offer. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your interests with expert coverage of news, culture, business and more. Save now: $1/week for your first year. FREE TO READ Jiwoong Hong for The New York Times The future? A theme park in South Korea lets visitors experience life with humanoid robots. See what it’s like. Mudslinging: The candidates for governor in Ohio, Amy Acton and Vivek Ramaswamy, are portraying each other in ads as a con artist and a drunk. I Spy: To celebrate the 40th anniversary of its founding, the long-defunct Spy magazine is posting one story a day from its archive on Substack — each one about Donald Trump. Your pick: The most clicked link in The Morning yesterday was about a sexually suggestive political ad for a California Republican. TODAY’S NUMBER 6 — That is the number of percentage points by which the Democrat James Talarico leads the Republican Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race, according to the latest Times/Siena poll. Explore the Democrats’ overall advantage here. SPORTS M.L.B.: The scrappy Chicago White Sox are one win away from the American League Championship Series. Tennis: Daniil Medvedev was removed from a semifinal match against Novak Djokovic in the China Open after hitting a fan in the face with a ball. RECIPE OF THE DAY Bryan Gardner for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Brett Regot. Counterintuitive: Kay Chun’s recipe for her grandmother’s buttery chicken wings calls for cooking the chicken slowly, not quickly, in a covered pan, so the fat renders slowly, basting the skin. Soy sauce delivers a salty pop. Good eats. FOCUS CHALLENGE Rubenshuis We’d like you to see if you can spend 10 minutes looking at a painting. This one’s “The Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest,” painted by Willem van Haecht in 1628. Even if you don’t go the distance, what do you see? Inspect it closely. More on culture Remember box sets? There’s a new one out, “Donna Summer: The Casablanca Studio Albums,” that captures the queen of disco’s musical breadth. Don’t call it a comeback. LL Cool J is back, in “NCIS: New York.” He talked to The Times about the thrill of the work. “How do you keep a show on the air?” he asked. “Scene by scene.” THE MORNING RECOMMENDS Take our sleep quiz and find out what kind of sleeper you are. Read “Hotel Ukraine,” Martin Cruz Smith’s final novel about the great Moscow detective Arkady Renko, who battles bad people and the ravages of Parkinson’s disease. Prepare for October’s Prime Day, if Amazon shopping’s your jam. The bargain hunters at Wirecutter have found a lot of good deals. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was violator. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, Crossplay and Strands. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times and me. See you tomorrow. — Sam Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Host: Sam Sifton Editor: Adam B. Kushner News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Evan Gorelick, Brent Lewis, Lara McCoy, Karl Russell Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Editorial Director, Newsletters: Jodi Rudoren Deputy Editorial Director: Lauren Jackson

THIS DAY IN HISTORY October 6 1866 The Reno brothers carry out the first train robbery in U.S. history The Reno brothers stage the first moving train robbery in American history, making off with $13,000 from an Ohio and Mississippi railroad train in Jackson County, Indiana. read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT Cold War 1973 The Yom Kippur War brings United States and USSR to brink of conflict Middle Eastern History 1981 The president of Egypt is assassinated Sports 1926 Babe Ruth sets a World Series record U.S. Presidents 1996 Bill Clinton debates Bob Dole World War I 1908 Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina

🏀 1 hoop thing: NBA to experiment with smart balls Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios The NBA is experimenting with two pieces of technology in the lead-up to the new season, which tips off Tuesday, Oct. 20: Some preseason games will include a smart basketball with a Bluetooth sensor that can collect data for future use in real-time officiating decisions. Some officials will also use wrist wearables to communicate with the replay center in designated situations, including replay reviews, scoring changes and clock malfunctions. Go deeper.

Russian plague puzzle Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Stock: Getty Images Two big unknowns stand in the way of determining how serious the plague threat in Russia is and whether travel advisories, restrictions at U.S. ports of entry or other precautions are warranted. We still don't know which pathogen killed a Russian researcher, or how well contained it is, Axios' Caitlin Owens and Adriel Bettelheim write. State of play: A worker at the Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia recently died after contracting pneumonia. There are conflicting accounts of how she got sick and whether she was infected with pneumonic plague, which is almost always deadly without prompt treatment with antibiotics. 👀 The intrigue: Experts say that if the Russian worker did die from pneumonic plague, there's a possibility it was a genetically altered version that behaves differently than the treatable strain. That's just speculation at this point. But the prevalence of "gain-of-function" research that enhances pathogens to study them, and Russia's known development of biological weapons, make it impossible to rule out. Keep reading.

💰 Charted: Wall Street's record profits Data: NYSE/Intercontinental Exchange via the New York State Comptroller. (2026 projected by the comptroller as if first-half growth continues.) Chart: Emily Peck/Axios Wall Street profits are blowing past expectations this year and are on track for an all-time record, Axios' Emily Peck writes from a new report by the New York State Comptroller's office. In the first half of this year, Wall Street firms raked in $45.9 billion — 51.3% more than the same period last year. Keep reading ...

The surveillance election Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios The 2026 midterms — a month from today! — will be the most intensely observed, recorded and dissected election in American history, Axios' Brittany Gibson writes. Why it matters: An army of partisan and nonpartisan observers will join a surge of Justice Department monitors, organizers looking for ICE, and citizen journalists broadcasting their search for illegal voting in real time. Nonpartisan observation can bolster confidence in elections, studies show. But officials worry that activists expecting to find wrongdoing could misread routine events. After the 2020 election, claims from observers and activist sleuths helped fuel challenges. Those claims led to numerous lawsuits by the Trump campaign. The cases were almost all dismissed or denied relief. 🔎 Zoom in: DOJ plans to train 1,000 election monitors to deploy across the country, one of the largest-ever efforts from the agency. It builds on a significant increase in observers in 2024. Senate Democrats will use office staff to monitor the polls. That's in addition to a new 50-state recruitment program by a coalition of Democratic state parties, aiming to enlist at least 10,000 election watchers. The Republican National Committee is building on its election watch network set up in 2020 to counter perceived voter fraud. GOP partisans have signed up in record numbers to be poll workers, and the party is hosting virtual and in-person training for observers and challengers. A network of anti-ICE activists is transitioning ICE-watch training into poll-watch training, responding in part to the Trump administration saying ICE could make arrests at the polls. When asked about deploying agents, Trump told TIME he hadn't thought of it. 🔭 Zoom out: These efforts will coexist with a slew of nonpartisan observing efforts, from voter protection groups to international election observers. State party and campaign staffers regularly monitor polls for mundane issues like accurate opening and closing times. White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis said: "Despite extreme Democrats and the media claiming it never happens, the evidence of voter fraud continues to pile up. Anyone who illegally votes in our elections will be held accountable." More than two dozen federal charges have been brought this year against people for voting when they're not eligible, according to the Justice Department. A review by the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation & Research says instances of illegal voting are "extremely small."

Kenya confirms its first Ebola case and death in a man who traveled from Congo NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan citizen who had been living in Congo before returning to Nairobi over the weekend became Kenya’s first confirmed case of Ebola and the country’s first death from the disease in the fast-moving outbreak, authorities said Tuesday, sparking urgent contact-tracing efforts to try to contain the spread of the virus. https://apnews.com/article/kenya-congo-ebola-death-nairobi-32ccde1e74048396ad5cb9f9fe47495e?

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> US stock markets close up (S&P 500 +0.7%, Dow +0.2%, Nasdaq +1.1%) as the Nasdaq composite and Nvidia hit all-time highs (More) > CNN CEO Mark Thompson will remain in charge of the news network after parent company Warner Bros. Discovery’s $110B acquisition by David Ellison’s Skydance, expected to close today (More) > General Motors to reintroduce hybrid vehicles to US lineup as the gasoline-electric cars account for a record 16.3% of total vehicle sales amid rising gas prices (More) | Calculate when it's worth buying a hybrid (More)

> Astronomers discover first known second-generation planet orbiting the remains of the dead star from which it was born; finding suggests our sun could one day leave behind the ingredients for a new world (More) > Medical professionals link heat waves to a 25% increase in medical complications among pregnant women; a 1 degree Celsius increase in heat can boost chances of a preterm birth by roughly 5% (More) > People who eat ultraprocessed meals have higher insulin and blood sugar levels shortly after eating than those who eat less-processed meals of similar calories and macronutrient content (More) | How processed is your food? (More)

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Book Ban Boom Public schools across the US implemented nearly 12,000 book bans over the past year, a new study revealed. The bans encompassed 7,370 individual works, marking the highest total since nonprofit organization PEN America began tracking bans in 2021. More than a dozen states have enacted sweeping laws to censor and remove books flagged as explicit or profane since 2021. Books addressing race, sexuality, and gender identity remain among the most commonly removed materials, according to PEN’s analysis. See the most banned titles here. Texas and Florida’s combined tally accounted for around 95% of all recorded bans nationwide (scroll for map of bans by state). Supporters say parents have a right to control their children’s educational materials, while opponents contend that bans violate the First Amendment. Stephen King was the most-banned author for the second consecutive year. His newest novel, “Other Worlds Than These,” comes out today. Watch how he became the king of horror (via YouTube).

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Who shows up to the midterms? Voter turnout in the last two midterm elections has been higher compared to midterms in the past four decades. https://usafacts.org/articles/who-shows-up-to-the-midterms/? What is a constitutional amendment? A constitutional amendment alters the Constitution of the United States by striking or inserting new language. The Constitution establishes the structure, powers and responsibilities of the federal government. https://usafacts.org/explainers/what-are-the-constitutional-amendments/amendment/all_amendments/? One last fact This past summer was one of the hottest on record for the US. Some spots had temperatures up to 8.6°F hotter than their average historical summer temperature. Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah had their hottest summers ever. Learn more on our Instagram.

Parting shot! Photo: Joe Capraro Finish Line readers and newlyweds Madi and Joe Capraro honeymooned through national parks last month. Here's one of their stunning captures: an elk at Mammoth Hot Springs inside Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.

Quebec separatists vowing independence vote win an election but fall short of majority TORONTO (AP) — The separatist Parti Québécois won Quebec’s provincial election Monday but fell short of enough seats to govern alone, returning to power with a promise to hold another referendum on independence from Canada. https://apnews.com/article/canada-quebec-election-a4e8ecaa4026c46d0346e9487c5e333d?

California scientist wins a Nobel Prize, then makes school lunches for his kids Dr. Karl Deisseroth spent hours fielding congratulatory calls after learning early Monday that he had won a Nobel Prize for medicine for helping to open a new field of brain science called optogenetics. Read More. Scientist who hunts mysterious ghost particles in the Antarctic ice wins Nobel Prize for physics STOCKHOLM (AP) — Belgian-born scientist Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that researchers believe offer clues to how the universe evolved. https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prize-physics-sweden-47d0ab2b92f3512eb09ed44ceb6006d8?

AI industry insiders voice alarms to NYC council as local governments take up safety concerns Artificial intelligence insiders warned New York City's leaders about the dangers of the emerging technology on Monday, calling for greater oversight as local governments move to respond to mounting concerns that the systems could endanger humanity. Read More.