Friday Briefing – The New York Times

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Friday Briefing – The New York Times

New poll shows a tighter U.S. race

Kamala Harris begins a 103-day sprint for the presidency in a virtual tie with Donald Trump, according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll, which showed Democrats rallying behind the vice president as the presumptive nominee. Only 14 percent said they would prefer another option.

Trump led Harris 48 percent to 47 percent among likely voters and 48 percent to 46 percent among registered voters in a head-to-head match, a marked improvement for Democrats over Biden’s showing earlier this month. At rallies, Trump has begun caricaturing his new opponent as a left-wing ******** and a “lunatic.”

Harris’s swift reassembling of the Democratic coalition seems to have narrowed the significant advantage Trump had over President Biden. She had 93 percent support from Democrats in the poll, the same share Trump was getting from Republicans. Barack Obama is expected to back her candidacy soon, insiders said.

Go deeper: Harris was faring better among groups with whom Biden had been weakest, especially younger and nonwhite voters. Some Democrats ***** she might not retain the strengths Biden has had among older voters, among whom the poll does show some erosion of Democratic support.

For more: The poll is full of findings unlike any we’ve seen this cycle, with the exception of Trump’s slight lead, Nate Cohn writes.

Trump conviction: Manhattan prosecutors argued that the Supreme Court’s decision this month granting the former president broad immunity for official actions he took in the White House had “no bearing” on his ********* hush-money conviction.

Let the Games begin

The Paris Olympics are finally here. The opening ceremony is at 7:30 p.m. Paris time. Athletes will float in on boats in the Seine, dressed in their national costumes.

Some competitions have already begun, but the Games get into full swing tomorrow, with women’s swimming, men’s basketball and tennis. More than 300 events, many sprinkled across Paris, will take place before the Olympics end on Aug. 11.

“Gymnastics, swimming and track remain the heartbeat of the Games,” said Andrew Das, our lead Olympics editor. “Good stories there will make any Olympics more memorable.”

Here’s more on what to watch at the Paris Games. Sign up for our Olympics newsletter to follow the highlights.

More on the Olympics:

Security fortress: More than 400,000 spectators will watch the opening ceremony in person. Protecting all those people is a daunting security challenge.

Names to watch: Leon Marchand, a swimmer known as the French Michael Phelps, and Teddy Riner, a fashionable French judoka looking for his third heavyweight gold medal, are generating excitement, as are Simone Biles, the superstar ********* gymnast, and the ********* swimmer Katie Ledecky, who is looking to add to her seven gold medals.

Speed: Can you guess how fast various Olympic implements move?

Soccer: Racheal Kundananji, who will lead Zambia’s team, has become one of the most valuable female soccer players on the planet.

******* recovers five hostages’ bodies

******** forces on Wednesday retrieved the bodies of five hostages from a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip, the military said yesterday, amid growing international and domestic pressure for a cease-***** deal that would lead to the release of the remaining captives. ******** officials say 115 hostages are still in Gaza, a number that includes about 40 who are presumed *****.

The bodies were found on Wednesday in a zone around the city of Khan Younis that ******* had previously designated as a safe humanitarian area, the military said. ******* has been carrying out a new military operation in Khan Younis this week. At least 30 people were ******* and dozens more injured over a 24-hour ******* in Gaza on Wednesday and Thursday, local health officials said.

Biden: The president met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of ******* at the White House. Their brief bonhomie masked deep tensions over the Gaza war and ********* efforts to broker a cease-*****. “We’ve got a lot to talk about,” Biden said.

Kamala Harris: The vice president offered Netanyahu strong support for *******’s right to defend itself, but she declared that “far too many innocent civilians” had *****, saying she would “not be silent” about Gazans’ suffering.

MORE TOP NEWS

The village of Congham, England, hosted an unusual group of athletes this month: 85 garden snails. Each heat in the World Snail Racing Championships began with a snail master saying, “Ready, steady, slow!” Meet the winner.

Lives lived: Martin Indyk spent decades trying to solve the riddle of Middle East peace, as the U.S. ambassador to ******* and later as a special envoy. He ***** yesterday at 73.

CONVERSATION STARTERS ARTS AND IDEAS Call it ‘underconsumption core’

After years of being told what to buy, TikTok users are trying something new: buying and using only what they need. The latest move away from influencer culture features secondhand clothes and minimal skin care collections, rather than fashion fads and makeup bags with the latest products.

“Is anyone just over the era of influencers recently?” one user recently asked her followers. “I can’t do it anymore. I can’t watch any more videos of people going to Pilates at 5 a.m. and drinking their greens and bone broth and walking around the city and sending emails and going to the Hamptons on holidays.”

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