Musk Pours $276 Million Into the Midterms, and Federal Agents Raid Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans , by Theodore Schleifer
Homeland Security Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar , by Devlin Barrett, Hamed Aleaziz, Ernesto Londoño and Alan Feuer
U.K. and Europe Recoil From Trump’s Diesel Deal With Putin , by Michael D. Shear and Jeanna Smialek
Israel’s Destruction of Southern Lebanon Intensified After the Cease-Fire , by Christina Goldbaum, Samuel Granados and Adina Renner
28 Miles and Counting: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sets a Mars Driving Record , by Kenneth Chang
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Devlin Barrett covers the Justice Department and the F.B.I. for The Times.
Christina Goldbaum is The Times’s bureau chief in Beirut, leading coverage of Lebanon and Syria.
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