The lawmakers’ verdict: Traditional antitrust laws aren’t up to the challenge, and the laws need their biggest overhaul in more than 40 years. But the Justice Department, after its own 16-month investigation, filed a major suit against Google on Tuesday relying on those very same antitrust laws. And according to the agency, the laws are more than enough to successfully challenge Google’s monopoly behavior. That’s because under existing antitrust laws, a company is a violator if it has used restrictive contracts to protect its dominant position, undermining competition and thus harming consumers.

LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigerian security forces opened fire Tuesday night at a demonstration in Lagos against police brutality, hitting several people according to witnesses, in a major escalation of the unrest that has gripped the country for two weeks. The extent of the casualties was unclear, but some witnesses said that they saw people who were killed, and videos posted to social media showed wounded people, crackled with apparent gunfire and showed uniformed forces shooting into the air. The shooting came toward the end of a day of mounting violence in multiple cities, with the national police deploying riot squads in the capital, Abuja, in Lagos and elsewhere. The unrest spread even after President Muhammadu Buhari attempted to respond to the protesters’ demands by announcing last week that he would disband a special unit of police officers accused of brutalizing people.

Mr. Broidy’s guilty plea relates to only his work on behalf of Malaysian and Chinese interests. But Judge Kollar-Kotelly said that prosecutors intended to introduce evidence at Mr. Broidy’s sentencing related to his efforts “to obtain business from a Middle Eastern country,” which is most likely the United Arab Emirates, and his “efforts to influence U.S. policy toward a second Middle Eastern country,” which is known to be Qatar. Some of Mr. Broidy’s associates in the scheme with Mr. Low have already been charged, including Nickie Lum Davis, a fund-raiser who pleaded guilty in August and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. Mr. Broidy’s guilty plea came on the same day it was revealed that an Asian subsidiary of Goldman Sachs would plead guilty to charges in the United States to resolve a foreign corruption and bribery case over its involvement in the 1MDB matter.

The Rangers selected the consensus top prospect, Alexis Lafreniere, first over all and made another first-round pick after they traded up three slots. The draft was originally scheduled for June in Montreal, which would have been fitting as Lafreniere became the first Quebecois player selected No. Despite the deferral, the first pick was a dream realized for Lafreniere and the Rangers. The Rangers, who had not selected first since the expansion era began in 1967, added a polished prospect with the skill and poise to compete at the top level immediately.

“The drop in female labor-force participation was quite dismal and not surprising with the return back to school not happening,” Betsey Stevenson, a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan, told Jessica. That has made public schools de facto day care centers — until the pandemic, which upended the entire system, and left many children learning from home for some or all of each week. The economists that Jessica spoke to thought the dire job situation for women was directly related to remote learning and the lack of available child care. To be sure, it’s not just moms: Over all, four times more women than men dropped out of the labor force in September.

In what might be the final months of the Trump administration, and close enough to the election to make his firing unlikely, Dr. Hahn seems to be trying to save the F.D.A. scientists and policymakers have questioned whether Dr. Hahn could preserve their scientific integrity in the face of a president who openly calls them untrustworthy actors of the deep state. Over the past few tumultuous months, Dr. Hahn has commiserated with Dr. Robert R. Redfield, the director of the C.D.C., who has also been widely criticized for failing to stand up to the White House. scientists, Dr. Hahn, an oncologist and former hospital administrator with no experience in Washington, has been a disappointing leader for much of his 10-month tenure.

The United States and Russia on Tuesday appeared to be edging toward a short-term extension of the main arms control treaty limiting the size of the two nations’ nuclear arsenals, after Russia agreed to add a “political obligation” that would freeze its stockpile of nuclear warheads for a year. It was unclear whether the modest move would be enough for President Trump to extend the New START accord before the presidential election next month, which would allow him to argue that he has gained something in his efforts to nurture a relationship with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia — and for his determination to avoid criticizing Mr. Putin for human rights violations, authoritarian crackdowns and cyberattacks on the United States. Its provisions call for a five-year extension, which Mr. Putin said he was willing to embrace. But Mr. Trump has called the treaty deeply flawed and refused a straight renewal, saying at first that China had to become a party to the agreement and then that the Russians had to freeze the weapons in their stockpile but not those deployed.

Few right-wing narratives have been as durable as Spygate, which has morphed over time into a kind of catchall theory encompassing various allegations of Democratic malfeasance. But nobody embraced the theory like Mr. Trump, who has returned to it frequently to deflect attention from his own troubles, whether it was the Mueller investigation or his administration’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. As the election approaches, it’s worth looking back on Spygate’s evolution, both because it illustrates the way that partisan misinformation bubbles up through the right-wing media ecosystem, and, ultimately, because it shows how Mr. Trump’s obsession with a confusing, hard-to-follow narrative may have backfired as a campaign strategy. March 2017: Right-wing blogs and media outlets began discussing theories they called “DeepStateGate” or “Obamagate,” a reference to false claims that President Obama had tapped Mr. Trump’s phone.

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Los Angeles Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Rays gathered at Globe Life Field here Tuesday for the first game of the World Series, the 116th in history and the first at a neutral site.“I’m sad that it didn’t happen at Dodger Stadium, because this game would have been at Dodger Stadium,” infielder Enrique Hernandez said after clinching the pennant in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series here on Sunday. The World Series is here only because of the coronavirus pandemic — but if Scott Boras had his wish, this would be the start of a new tradition. Boras, the most prominent agent in baseball, has called for a neutral-site World Series for at least a decade, once making the proposal in a letter to Bud Selig, the former commissioner.

He had excelled, scoring three times, and so had his team: Just as in 1995, 1997, 2001 and 2005, Argentina won the tournament. So fast had his star risen that, when the plane carrying the team back to Buenos Aires touched down, Di María barely made it through passport control.“When we landed, he got off our plane and onto the one that took him to Europe,” said Hugo Tocalli, the coach of that team. Nor was he the last: Within a year, nine more members of Tocalli’s team had been enticed away from Argentina.

It was well past midnight in Scotland by the time Sophia Popov FaceTimed with her parents, Philipp and Claudia, and older brothers Alex and Nicholas after winning the Women’s British Open at Royal Troon Golf Club in August. The victory by Popov, then ranked 304th, shocked the golf world. After seemingly coming from nowhere to win at Royal Troon, Popov’s ascendance was briefly halted by missing the ANA Inspiration — the second major on the reshuffled 2020 schedule — when the L.P.G.A.25 in the world rankings and possessing a two-year exemption on the LPGA Tour, Popov is adjusting to her new status entering only the fifth major of her career.

A British theater found a hit during the pandemic with “Blindness,” a sound installation in which masked and socially distanced audience members spend 75 minutes listening to Juliet Stevenson perform an adaptation of José Saramago’s dystopian novel about a society afflicted by an epidemic. Now three important North American producers — one each in New York, Washington and Toronto — are planning to bring the work, with the Stevenson audio, to their theater-starved cities. Each producer — the Broadway veteran Daryl Roth, the Canadian theater owner David Mirvish, and Simon Godwin, the artistic director of Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington — must overcome local hurdles before welcoming patrons. The show, created for London’s Donmar Warehouse by the playwright Simon Stephens and the director Walter Meierjohann, was a critical and popular success in England, and the Donmar is hoping it will eventually be staged in multiple global cities.

NEW DELHI — In a televised address Tuesday night, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India urged his countrymen to tighten up their vigilance against the coronavirus as the Hindu festival season approaches.“Recently, we saw many photos and videos which clearly proved that people have lowered their guard,” he said. India is rapidly catching up to the United States in terms of reported infections, having almost 7.6 million known cases, compared with 8.2 million in the United States. India had been outpacing the United States in new daily infections, reaching nearly 100,000 in mid-September, but in recent days the number of new daily infections has come down.

Online shopping has exploded during the pandemic. The holidays are approaching. The combination of our reliance on online shopping during a pandemic and our eagerness for online shopping during the holidays has made some e-commerce experts predict a “shipageddon” in the United States — delays and chaos as parcel companies already stretched thin also tackle a surge in holiday packages. The potential for hiccups shows the complications when our zeal for shopping from home meets the physical limits of humans, warehouses stuffed to the rafters, roadways and ocean freight shipping.

The chairman of the Football Association, Greg Clarke, meanwhile, has been accused of considering an idea that would see the Premier League expanded to include a second division, with its biggest clubs allowed to introduce so-called B teams further down the pyramid, of conspiring with the authors of Project Big Picture. There are always too many — and this includes the sainted “other 14” of the Premier League who have been hailed this week as the game’s saviors roughly five months after several of them flirted with the idea of abandoning the season entirely, costing their fellow clubs hundreds of millions of dollars, simply so they did not get relegated — happy to turn a blind eye to the need for change because the status quo works for them. The leagues do not trust the clubs. The clubs do not trust the leagues.

Nearly two weeks ago, President Trump told Americans that they would soon be getting an antibody treatment that he had promoted, without evidence, as a “cure” for the coronavirus. This weekend, as the country braced for another major wave of coronavirus infections, Mr. Trump’s health secretary promised such therapies were just around the corner.A smooth distribution of the antibody treatments will be dependent on the very same factors that have so far bedeviled the country’s response to Covid-19: fast and plentiful testing, coordination between state and federal officials, and equitable access to health care. The drugs are believed to work best in people who have recently been infected and are not yet very sick.

In a televised address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Indians to keep their guard up as more than a billion people get ready to celebrate Diwali and other major holidays. The authorities are worried about the spread of the coronavirus from people packing together.“Recently, we saw many photos and videos which clearly proved that people have lowered their guard,” he said Tuesday night.“This isn’t right.” He also talked about a future vaccine, which he said the government was working rapidly to produce.

NAIROBI, Kenya — Sudanese people and their government officials are celebrating the news that after 27 years the United States plans to remove the country from its list of state sponsors of terrorism — a move that could help Sudan revive its ailing economy and bolster its transition to democratic rule. President Trump announced on Monday over Twitter that he will lift the terrorist designation as soon as Sudan deposits a payment of $335 million in compensation to victims, and their families, of attacks on U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the U.S. Navy destroyer Cole in Yemen in 2000. The announcement is likely to bolster Sudan’s fledgling transitional government, which came to power last year after the ouster of the strongman leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir, and has been facing protests from those calling for a quicker pace of reform.“It’s a new day in Khartoum and the whole of Sudan.”

Would that have slowed Google and prevented the need for a Big Bang and risky lawsuit to try to change what the company does?(Google said on Tuesday that the government’s lawsuit is “deeply flawed,” and that people use its online services because they choose to.)The government can’t just declare that Google stop doing stuff like this just because it makes the company stronger. But I do wonder if more effective oversight by every corner of the government in the last decade would have done with less fuss what this antitrust lawsuit is trying to do — kept Google from tilting the game to its advantage.

Precisely 51 seconds elapse between pressing “record” on Zoom and Carlo Ancelotti asking the question that, according to those who work with him, is never far from his lips these days. It is very important to Carlo Ancelotti that you should know about Crosby. Until the turn of the year, Ancelotti was one of the unlucky ones: He was someone who had never been to Crosby. In the first few weeks after taking the job as Everton manager last December, though, Ancelotti set out with his wife to find a place to call home.

WASHINGTON — The fiancée of the slain Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi accused Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in a lawsuit on Tuesday of murder and dismemberment in an attempt to silence Mr. Khashoggi’s criticism of the kingdom. The lawsuit also names more than two dozen other Saudis, including people now imprisoned for the killing as well as senior government officials who are close advisers to Prince Mohammed, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler. But lawyers for Hatice Cengiz, Mr. Khashoggi’s fiancée, and Democracy for the Arab World Now, the human rights organization he founded, said they hoped to use the lawsuit to gather documents from Saudi Arabia and uncover more information about his death. The lawsuit was filed under the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, a law that has been used to sue other foreign leaders.

With that change came a new political wrinkle: Some House candidates, typically Democrats, can usually count on support from students living on college campuses in their districts — but many of those students are now living back home, tied to their computers for classes. For Representative Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, a Democrat who beat an incumbent Republican in 2018 and flipped the Eighth Congressional District blue for the first time in 20 years, the switch to largely virtual teaching means the potential loss of thousands of reliably Democratic voters at Michigan State University in East Lansing. In a House district that was decided last time by 13,098 votes out of more than 340,000 ballots cast, the loss of any votes this year keeps Ms. Slotkin up at night. Michigan State’s delayed football season is just starting this Saturday, and only the families of football players will be allowed into the stadium.

Two first-time semifinalists at Roland Garros will square off, while two Grand Slam champions will meet in the other match on Philippe Chatrier Court, with all four players seeking their first appearance in a French Open final. With a guarantee that a first-time French Open champion will be crowned, nerves may be on edge, but the quality of tennis will surely be superb. Because of the number of matches cycling through courts, the times for individual matchups are at best a guess and are certain to fluctuate based on the times at which earlier play is completed. Swiatek, 19, has been having an exceptional French Open.

The government says Google is illegally protecting its dominant position in the market for search and search advertising with the deals it has struck with companies like Apple. The Justice Department is also challenging contracts Google has with smartphone makers that use Google’s Android operating system, requiring them to install its search engine as the default. The Justice Department also investigated Google’s behavior and acquisitions in the overall market for digital advertising, which includes search, web display and video ads. To prevail, the Justice Department has to show two things — that Google is dominant in search, and that its deals with Apple and other companies hobble competition in the search market.

This week, Alex Ingram shares a collection of images from small British islands. The waters surrounding Britain are speckled with thousands of small islands, only a small fraction of which are inhabited, some by as few as one or two people. Among those who call Britain’s small islands home are a collection of wardens — caretakers who spend their lives in quiet solitude, away from the crowded corners of our urban world. Often employed by nonprofit conservation groups, their role is to maintain and manage the preservation of their small speck of land — its natural beauty, its wildlife — for future generations, often while conducting research into delicate ecosystems.

JERUSALEM — When the elderly father of an ultra-Orthodox radio personality in Israel contracted the coronavirus recently, his family dreaded the prospect of his entering an isolated hospital ward and possibly never coming out.A small charity was offering an under-the-radar service treating mostly ultra-Orthodox and older Covid-19 patients in their homes, even in severe cases where health experts say it could endanger lives. Hundreds had already turned to the charity for care out of a sense that remaining with family — and avoiding public hospitals — outweighed the risks. Since the home-care initiative was reported by Israel’s N12 news service this week, health officials and experts have responded with a mix of condemnation and curiosity.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, said on Tuesday that she was optimistic that a deal could be reached with the Trump administration to pass a new economic relief bill before Election Day, setting aside a deadline she had imposed for reaching a compromise by the end of the day.“Hopefully, by the end of the day today, we’ll know where we all are,” the speaker said in an interview on Bloomberg TV. On Sunday, Ms. Pelosi said that to pass a bill before the election, a deal would have to be reached within 48 hours.“It isn’t that this day was the day that we have a deal,” Ms. Pelosi said.

The Astros also tied a postseason record by using five rookie pitchers in a game, a relay through the first six and two thirds innings before Josh James and Ryan Pressly took over. After tearing through Minnesota and Oakland in the first two rounds, when he hit .500, Correa was 2 for 14 through the first four games of the A.L.C.S. After going hitless in his first two at-bats of Game 5, he got a critical pointer from Cintron, the hitting coach.“We’ve got to fix you, you’re doing everything wrong,” Correa said Cintron told him, as the Astros came to bat in the middle innings.

Wolves were seen nearby, the letters said. But there were no wolves. The soldiers who organized it created a campaign of their own: printed fliers warning that the wolves had been seen in the valley. They also broadcast the sounds of growling wolves from speakers, according to The Ottawa Citizen, which reported on the incident Wednesday.

It isn’t easy to say that anything has truly “gone extinct.”Once biologists suspect a documented species’ extinction, the challenge shifts to proving whether it has disappeared forever, or just disappeared from sight. Even when scientists are 99 percent certain something is gone, they may never know whether pathogens, habitat disturbance, invasive species, climate change or some other force drove them out of existence.“There’s a sense that we’ve got it down — that we know our flora and we know what’s extinct,” said Anne Frances, the lead botanist for NatureServe, which promotes wildlife conservation.