Mara Hvistendahl and Lauren Hirsch    Court records, mistakenly made public, tell a story about the birth of ByteDance, its bumpy road to success and the role of the Republican megadonor Jeff Yass’s firm.

Mara Hvistendahl    The records briefly surfaced in a lawsuit involving the Republican megadonor Jeff Yass’s firm.

David McCabe and Sapna Maheshwari    A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.

Tracy Mumford, Luke Broadwater, Ian Stewart, Jessica Metzger and James Shield    Plus, a brazen gold heist.

Ronen Bergman, Farnaz Fassihi, Eric Schmitt, Adam Entous and Richard Pérez-Peña    Israeli officials say they didn’t see a strike on a high level Iranian target in Syria as a provocation, and did not give Washington a heads up about it until right before it happened.

Nico Grant    The dismissals escalated longstanding tensions between company leaders and activist employees opposed to supplying technology to Israel’s government.

Ben Protess and Jonah E. Bromwich    Jury selection in the trial of former President Donald Trump accelerated on Day . He is accused of falsifying business records to conceal hush money to a porn star.

Michael Barbaro, Jonah E. Bromwich, Rikki Novetsky, Will Reid, Lynsea Garrison, Rob Szypko, Paige Cowett, Dan Powell, Marion Lozano, Elisheba Ittoop and Chris Wood    Here’s what has happened so far in the unprecedented proceedings against a former U.S. president.

Neil MacFarquhar and Eric Schmitt    Young migrants from the former Soviet republic were accused of an attack on a concert hall in Moscow that killed people.

Neil MacFarquhar    Hundreds of Tajik men have joined an Islamic State affiliate, analysts say.

Nicholas Nehamas    More than a dozen members of the storied political family will endorse the president in Philadelphia, rejecting one of their own as he worries Democrats with an independent bid.

Maggie Astor    A report to the Election Assistance Commission from researchers at Rutgers University found that disabled voters’ turnout lagged non disabled voters’ by percentage points, down from .

Maya King    Many older Black voters see moral and political reasons to vote. Younger Black voters feel far less motivated to cast a ballot for Democrats or even at all.

Astead W. Herndon, Elisa Gutierrez and Caitlin O’Keefe    A look at new polling that shows Joe Biden may be struggling with the Gen Z voters he needs to win.

Suhasini Raj    Avatars are addressing voters by name, in whichever of India’s many languages they speak. Experts see potential for misuse in a country already rife with disinformation.

Matthew Goldstein and David Yaffe-Bellany    Two ex contestants on The Apprentice sold the former president on the idea of a social media platform. Now, the company and the pair are wrangling over their stake.

David Yaffe-Bellany and Matthew Goldstein    Donald Trump’s social media platform has outdistanced similar conservative sites such as Parler and Gettr, even as it lags far behind X and others.

Somini Sengupta and Manuela Andreoni    The disaster, intensified by El Ni o, is devastating communities across several countries, killing crops and livestock and sending food prices soaring.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs    Lethal injections of Black people in the United States were botched more than twice as often as those of white people, according to a report from an anti death penalty group.

Carl Hulse    Republicans say the quick dismissal of charges against Alejandro Mayorkas sets a dangerous precedent. Democrats say the mistake would have been to treat the case seriously.

Eduardo Medina    Agents in South Carolina, the fastest growing state in the country last year, say that many newcomers are Republicans eager to leave the Northeast and West Coast.

Norman L. Eisen    Jail time is an actual possibility. It’s unlikely, but it is plausible.

Michelle Cottle and Damon Winter    Biden needs to find a narrative for his candidacy, then work like hell to push it out. But it’s hard to argue people out of their feelings.

Stephanie Cooke    The nuclear industry has a long history of failing to deliver on its promises.

Gail Collins    Is it possible for us to get to the same place on gun safety that we’re getting to on abortion where the people who make the policy feel pressure to be sensible

David Leonhardt    Many Arab leaders see Iran as a bigger problem than Israel, even if they don’t say so publicly.

Livia Albeck-Ripka    The heavy rains also flooded parts of Dubai International Airport, causing scores of flight delays and cancellations, and brought other cities in the U.A.E. to a standstill.

Sharon Otterman    For Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, a hearing on antisemitism went relatively well. But on campus, intense protests suggest a difficult road ahead for the university.

Erika Solomon    Björn Höcke, one of the most prominent far right figures in Germany, has called the trial an attempt to suppress patriotism.

Carl Zimmer    After a drawn out global controversy over the coronavirus, the W.H.O. has updated its classification of how pathogens spread through the air.

Gus Powell    Scenes from the pre opening at the pivotal art event.