Harris Baits Trump: Inside Their Fiery Debate

As the presidential race enters its final 45 days, we assemble a campaign round table with our colleagues from the politics desk.Maggie Haberman, Shane Goldmacher and Nate Cohn interpret this week’s biggest developments.Guest: Maggie Haberman, a senior political correspondent for The New York Times.Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspondent for The New York Times.Nate Cohn, the chief political analyst for The New York Times.Background reading: Harris had stronger debate, polls find, but the race remains deadlocked.Here’s the latest on the 2024 elections.For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

Hundreds of electronic devices carried by Hezbollah members exploded simultaneously across Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday in an audacious plot by Israel.Patrick Kingsley, the Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times, discusses what the attack accomplished, and what it cost.Guest: Patrick Kingsley, the Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times.Background reading: What we know about the deadly wireless-device explosions in Lebanon.Israel’s pager attack was a tactical success without a strategic goal, analysts say.For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

Warning: this episode contains descriptions of violence.In the last year, the world’s eyes have been on the war in Gaza, which still has no end in sight. But there is a conflict in another Palestinian territory that has gotten far less attention, where life has become increasingly untenable: the West Bank.Ronen Bergman, who has been covering the conflict, explains why things are likely to get worse, and the long history of extremist political forces inside Israel that he says are leading the country to an existential crisis.Guest: Ronen Bergman, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine.Background reading: How extremist settlers took over Israel.What is the West Bank and who controls it?For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

A suspect was charged on Monday in connection with what appears to be a second assassination attempt on Donald J. Trump.Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Glenn Thrush, who have been covering the case, and Peter Baker, The Times’s chief White House correspondent, discuss the suspect’s background, the Secret Service’s struggle to protect the former president, and this new era of political violence.Guests: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, a correspondent on the National desk of The New York Times.Glenn Thrush, who reports on the Justice Department for The New York Times.Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times.Background reading: What we know about the latest apparent assassination attempt.The case is another sign of how much the American political landscape has been shaped by anger stirred by Mr. Trump and against him.For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

From the moment Donald Trump and Kamala Harris walked off the debate stage, both their campaigns have argued about who won the showdown.But the real question is what the debate meant to a small sliver of voters in a handful of swing states.Campbell Robertson, a reporter on The Times’s National desk, and Stella Tan, a producer on “The Daily,” speak to three undecided voters about what they saw during the debate, and how much closer it brought them to a decision.Guest: ​​Campbell Robertson, a reporter for the National desk at The New York Times, who has been tracking undecided voters in Pennsylvania.Stella Tan, an audio producer for “The Daily,” who spoke to an undecided voter in Wisconsin.Background reading: Voters said the vice president talked about a sweeping vision to fix the country’s most stubborn problems. But they wanted to hear more.“The Run-Up”: Here’s what undecided voters are thinking.For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

If Próspera were a normal town, Jorge Colindres, a freshly cologned and shaven lawyer, would be considered its mayor. His title here is “technical secretary.” Looking out over a clearing in the trees in February, he pointed to the small office complex where he works collecting taxes and managing public finances for the city’s 2,000 or so physical residents and e-residents, many of whom have paid a fee for the option of living in Próspera, on the Honduran island of Roatán, or remotely incorporating a business there.Nearby is a manufacturing plant that is slated to build modular houses along the coast. About a mile in the other direction are some of the city’s businesses: a Bitcoin cafe and education center, a genetics clinic, a scuba shop. A delivery service for food and medical supplies will deploy its drones from this rooftop.Próspera was built in a semiautonomous jurisdiction known as a ZEDE (a Spanish acronym for Zone for Employment and Economic Development). It is a private, for-profit city, with its own government that courts foreign investors through low taxes and light regulation. Now, the Honduran government wants it gone.

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At this week’s presidential debate, Donald J. Trump went into an unprompted digression about immigrants eating people’s pets. While the claims were debunked, the topic was left unexplained.Miriam Jordan, who covers the impact of immigration policies for The Times, explains the story behind the shocking claims and the tragedy that gave rise to them.Guest: Miriam Jordan, a national immigration correspondent for The New York Times.Background reading: A local official said there was “absolutely no evidence” for the outlandish claim about Haitian migrants that Mr. Trump and his campaign have amplified.How an Ohio town landed in the middle of the immigration debate.For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

In a highly unusual move, the Biden administration signaled last week that it would block a Japanese company from buying an iconic American company in a critical swing state.Alan Rappeport, who covers the Treasury Department for The Times, discusses the politics that could doom the multibillion-dollar deal, and what it says about the new power of American labor.Guest: Alan Rappeport, an economic policy reporter for The New York Times.Background reading: President Biden is expected to block Nippon Steel’s takeover of U.S. Steel.How swing-state politics are sinking a global steel deal.For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

In their first and possibly only presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris dominated and enraged former President Donald J. Trump.Jonathan Swan, who covers politics and the Trump campaign for The Times, explains how a night that could have been about Ms. Harris’s record instead became about Mr. Trump’s temperament.Guest: Jonathan Swan, a political correspondent for The New York Times.Background reading: Read The Times’s live coverage of the debate as it happened.Who won? Here’s a sampling of the reaction.And here’s a fact-check on Mr. Trump and Ms. Harris.For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.