The New York Times: Το Ισραήλ κλιμακώνει τον πόλεμο στον Λίβανο. Ισραηλινά χτυπήματα σε όλο τον Λίβανο και το σκάνδαλο δεκαετιών του Ντόναλντ Τραμπ – Ένα νιγηριανό δράμα για τα πολλά παιδιά – Η ζωή του Ντόναλντ Τραμπ με σκάνδαλα – Στη Μολδαβία, μια κομβική επιλογή κρέμεται από την κόψη του μαχαιριού – Κούβα: Ο Όσκαρ έφτασε στην ξηρά ως τυφώνας κατηγορίας 1. Η χώρα αντιμετωπίζει μια συνεχιζόμενη κρίση ηλεκτρικού ρεύματος, έχοντας κατακλυστεί μέσα και έξω από το απόλυτο μπλακ άουτ για μέρες – το «Gidan Badamasi», ένα δράμα για τις συνέπειες της απόκτησης πολλών παιδιών, έχει χτυπήσει τη χορδή στη Νιγηρία, όπου οι γυναίκες, κατά μέσο όρο, έχουν περισσότερα από πέντε. Ωστόσο, καθώς ο τρόπος ζωής αλλάζει, οι οικονομικοί και κοινωνικοί υπολογισμοί γύρω από το μέγεθος της οικογένειας αλλάζουν επίσης – Τα εγγόνια του Ολοκαυτώματος

Donald Trump’s campaign turned his Georgia mug shot into a piece of promotional material, putting it on posters, T-shirts and buttons. Doug Mills/The New York Times

Donald Trump’s lifetime of scandals

Donald Trump has survived more scandals than any major presidential candidate, much less president, often turning them on their head and casting himself as a serial victim rather than a serial violator. Any one of those scandals, by itself, would typically have been enough to derail another politician.

Peter Baker, our chief White House correspondent, recalls the decades of allegations against Trump: “Whether in his personal life or his public life, he has been accused of so many acts of wrongdoing, investigated by so many prosecutors and agencies, sued by so many plaintiffs and claimants that it requires a scorecard just to remember them all,” he writes.

Related: With polls tightening, Vice President Kamala Harris has stepped up attempts to paint Trump as dangerous and unfit to lead.

Your questions: We asked Lisa Lerer, a national political correspondent, this question from a reader. (Send us your questions here.)

Where do voters living in the nonswing states find the motivation to vote? The way I understand the U.S. system, their votes barely matter. And as a follow-up: Why don’t they protest more against this? — Marcel Schutte, the Netherlands

Lisa: Voters living in nonswing states are still casting ballots for a list of other statewide and local offices, so their votes do matter in those races. There’s also a sense of sending a political message. While New York or Texas is unlikely to change the outcome of the presidential race, shifts in party support in those states can impact the political mandate a new president has to lead.

Scrapping the Electoral College would require a constitutional amendment, which would face an extraordinarily — if not nearly impossible — bar to passage. With no clear way to change the system, most Americans focus on more pressing concerns, like the economy, immigration, abortion rights or even foreign policy.

Smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut. Diego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times

Israel escalates its war against Hezbollah

Israel conducted a wave of airstrikes across Lebanon yesterday, targeting branches of Al-Qard al-Hasan, a financial association associated with Hezbollah. It operates as a financial services provider for civilians, with Lebanon’s traditional banking sector in shambles. Many branches are situated in residential buildings. Here are the latest updates.

The Israeli military has been trying to show that it is taking measures to protect civilians, saying it had warned people to evacuate in advance. Lloyd Austin, the U.S. defense secretary, has called for Israel to scale back its strikes in and around Beirut, saying on Saturday that the number of civilian casualties was “far too high.”

The attacks came as Israel continued its renewed assault in northern Gaza against Hamas. A major overnight airstrike on Saturday in the town of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza left at least 87 people dead or missing, according to the Gazan Health Ministry, with dozens more wounded and many people still trapped under the rubble.

Context: The killing of the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, last week raised some hopes that negotiations to end the war might gain new momentum — but the Israeli government, Hamas and its ally Hezbollah have all signaled that they will not back down. And the violence instead appears to be ramping up.

Shaaban al-Dalou: A beloved 19-year-old son wanted to escape Gaza and become a doctor. Video of him burning to death at a hospital has been viewed around the world.

Voters in Moldova decided on their president and on a pivotal referendum yesterday. Daniel Mihailescu/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

In Moldova, a pivotal choice hangs on a knife-edge

A pivotal referendum in Moldova that would declare E.U. membership a “strategic objective” was too close to call early this morning, with nearly 98 percent of ballots counted. Votes were almost evenly divided between those who want to lock in their country’s exit from Moscow’s sphere of influence and their pro-Russian opponents.

Moldova has been tugged between East and West for decades, and its pro-Western president, Maia Sandu, had hoped that the referendum would finally settle the matter.

What’s next: Sandu was well ahead in the presidential election, which was also held yesterday, but she did not have an outright majority. Her closest rival is a former prosecutor general who is under investigation for corruption. A runoff between the top two candidates is set to take place in two weeks.

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A Morning Read

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“Gidan Badamasi,” a dramedy about the consequences of having too many children, has struck a chord in Nigeria, where women, on average, have more than five. Yet as lifestyles change, the economic and social calculations around family size are also shifting.

Birthrates are plummeting in richer regions, but in Africa a protracted baby boom has fueled the youngest, fastest-growing population on the planet. The trend comes with enormous opportunities — and significant challenges for societies that need to educate and employ all of these people.

Cycling: Sir Chris Hoy, the six-time Olympic champion, has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, he said.

N.F.L.: The league is trying to build a fan base for the sport in Ireland before committing to playing a game there.

Soccer: How England hired Thomas Tuchel.

Formula 1: Charles Leclerc won the U.S. Grand Prix, and Carlos Sainz finished second. Read our recap.

Photo illustration by Ben Denzer

The grandchildren of the Holocaust

Three generations on, Jewish filmmakers, writers and artists are making new meaning from ancestral trauma.

“A Real Pain,” a forthcoming movie about two American cousins who travel to Poland, written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg, is one such example. “I’m telling the story of the third generation with all of its contradictions,” Eisenberg said, “with its distance, its privileged remove, its grotesque fascination, as well as all the reverence that should be applied.”

“The third-generation perspective on the Holocaust is carefully hedged, defiantly distanced, explicitly filtered, supremely self-aware,” my colleague Marc Tracy writes in this essay. “These stories fundamentally do not belong to the writers or artists, who are always reminding you and themselves of that fact.”

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Cook: This warm sweet potato salad has as much texture as flavor.