The Israeli and U.S. bombardment of Iran continued early Wednesday, as did Iran’s retaliatory missile and drone barrage across the Gulf region.

The process of tallying primary ballots in Texas’ second-most-populous county was thrown into uncertainty on Tuesday evening when the State Supreme Court temporarily blocked an earlier court ruling allowing voters more time to cast ballots.

Bobby Pulido, a moderate Democrat and Latin Grammy Award-winning Tejano singer, won his House primary race on Tuesday in South Texas, defeating Ada Cuellar, an emergency room doctor who challenged his center-left views on abortion and his connections to the Democratic establishment.

Breaking News: Senator John Cornyn of Texas was forced into a Republican primary runoff against Ken Paxton, the state attorney general, in the race to be their party's nominee for U.S. Senate this November. nyti.ms/4cqGzMM

Since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday, destroying its ballistic missile capabilities has emerged as a top objective. Here's a look at some of the key sites that have been hit, and what it says about the U.S. and Israel’s strategy. nyti.ms/46E5c4Z

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Obviously there is more to the story here than just Trump’s instincts,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes about war on Iran. “But I think it makes sense to put them at the center of the story, rather than Israeli influence or Saudi pressure.”

The Department of Homeland Security has opened an internal investigation into a report that Gregory Bovino, a senior Border Patrol commander, made disparaging remarks about the Jewish faith of the top federal prosecutor in Minnesota during an immigration operation in the state.

When asked on Tuesday who he would like to rule Iran, President Trump responded: “Most of the people we had in mind are dead.” “Now we have another group,” he continued. “They may be dead also, based on reports. So I guess you have a third wave coming. Pretty soon we’re not going to know anybody.”

Breaking News: The U.S. conducted joint military operations with Ecuador against “designated terrorist organizations,” the Pentagon said. The U.S. Southern Command called it an effort to “combat the scourge of narco-terrorism,” but did not provide other details. nyti.ms/4cld7aV

Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appears to be a front-runner to become his father’s successor. Known for having close ties to the Revolutionary Guards, Mr. Khamenei first joined the Islamic military corps around 1987 after finishing high school. nyti.ms/4rTua8U

Iranian strikes conducted over the weekend and on Monday damaged structures that are part of or near communication and radar systems on at least seven U.S. military sites across the Middle East, according to a New York Times analysis of satellite imagery and verified videos.

Polls have closed in Texas, where results in a combative and expensive Senate primary have begun arriving as the first races of the midterm elections were being decided on Tuesday. Follow live results as votes are counted.

A Toronto synagogue was damaged by gunfire on Monday night, the beginning of the Jewish holiday Purim, the police said. No one was hurt. A vehicle was reportedly seen leaving the area after the shots, but there is no description of any suspect, the police said. nyti.ms/4bqWI2L

More than 870 people have been killed in the fighting in the Middle East since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday. The vast majority of those reported so far have been in Iran, but others have died in Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and Israel as well.

Two people were left dangling more than 900 feet in the air after their hot air balloon that had been floating in the almost cloudless sky was punctured, ripped to shreds and left fluttering from the 1,000-foot communications tower it struck near in Texas on Saturday. nyti.ms/4l9N0pF

No Democrat has won a statewide election in Texas since 1994. In fact, only one major statewide race has even been close this century — when Beto O’Rourke came within three points of knocking out Senator Ted Cruz in 2018.

President Trump has endorsed hundreds of Republican candidates running for office this year. See results for the candidates running in tonight’s primaries.

Roy Cooper, a former Democratic governor of North Carolina, and Michael Whatley, a former chairman of the RNC, won their respective primaries for a U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina on Tuesday.

A conservative member of the Texas Legislature is facing a tough challenge in Tuesday’s Republican primary from an Air Force veteran who went to prison for breaching the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

U.S. officials have identified four of the U.S. soldiers killed by an Iranian drone on Sunday. They were Army Reserve officers from Nebraska, Florida, Iowa and Minnesota. One was wrapping up his final deployment and hoped to open a martial arts studio. nyti.ms/4r9Cnoa

President Trump is trying to tamp down an uproar over whether Israel had dragged the U.S. into a war with Iran, even as he and top officials offered contradictory explanations for why, exactly, Trump had ordered military action. nyti.ms/4rXVbbh

The State Department urged Americans to depart immediately from 14 Middle East countries. Iran has targeted U.S. facilities in Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE. And the Israeli military moved to seize more areas inside Lebanon. Track the widening war across the Middle East with these maps.

Dallas police officers took a man into custody outside of a hotel where the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, was set to hold his election night watch party on Tuesday. Officers appeared to find magazines for a rifle when searching his car.

A photo distributed by Iranian state media showed thousands in the streets of a town in southern Iran on Tuesday during the funeral for victims of an airstrike on a girls’ elementary school that killed at least 175 people, many of them students, on Saturday. nyti.ms/3N6jh4i

Joichi Ito, a prominent figure in a technology and entrepreneurship project led by the government in Japan, is leaving the initiative after renewed scrutiny over his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein. nyti.ms/47dC7NR

Polls are closed in much of Texas, where both parties have held costly and contentious Senate primaries. Follow results here.

The Pentagon released the names of four U.S. troops who were killed by an Iranian drone attack in Kuwait in an opening salvo of strikes on U.S. military facilities amid President Trump’s widening war with Iran. nyti.ms/4aMaaiu

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “In their focus on the self and detachment from real experiences, looksmaxxers intensify Gen Z’s generation’s approach to romance — or the lack thereof,” writes Christine Emba.

President Trump weighed in on many races ahead of Tuesday’s Republican primary in Texas. Here are some of the candidates Trump has endorsed in the high-stakes elections.

The senior clerics responsible for selecting Iran’s next supreme leader met on Tuesday to deliberate, and the son of the slain former leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, emerged as the clear front-runner, according to Iranian officials familiar with the deliberations.

Tuesday’s primary elections will provide an important snapshot of the 6.5 million Hispanic voters in Texas, as both parties are trying to figure out the best way to appeal to them. Here are some of the races where Latinos are poised to have the biggest influence.

President Trump on Tuesday acknowledged the deep uncertainty about what comes next in Iran, saying that officials whom the United States had eyed as potential new leaders had been killed in the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...

NEW from @nytimes: Senior Iranian clerics are close to anointing Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in a US-supported Israeli attack, as the next leader of Iran. He’s the favorite candidate of the IRGC, a powerful military group. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...

The head of the Veterans Affairs Department has said that the agency needs to hire more doctors and nurses, even as President Trump seeks to shrink the federal government. But the VA has cut thousands of medical positions that were left vacant after a wave of resignations and retirements last year.

The New York attorney general is investigating Columbia University for its handling of allegations against Robert Hadden, a former university gynecologist who continued to work at one of its hospitals for weeks after his 2012 arrest on sex crimes.

More than 10,000 Haitians call Springfield, Ohio, home. Trying to protect their neighbors from immigration raids, some of the city’s residents have converted their basements and spare bedrooms into shelters for Haitian families who could be targeted by the Trump administration.

News Analysis: With President Trump's decision to authorize war against Iran, he is taking the biggest gamble of his presidency, risking the lives of American troops, more deaths and instability in the world’s most volatile region and his own political standing.

“I haven’t slept for four nights.” Many residents of Tehran managed to escape Iran’s capital when the U.S.-Israeli attack began. Others could not get out, or had nowhere to go to. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/w...

A federal judge in New Jersey will now require immigration officials to formally declare that they are aware of court orders that bar migrants from being transferred out of state, after the government repeatedly flouted those directives.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has chosen four areas of New York City to kick-start his push to provide free child care for 2-year-olds — an early step in what is sure to be a long road to fulfilling his promise to create a universal child care system.

Residents of British Columbia will change their clocks this weekend as daylight saving time shifts into place and then will never do so again. The Canadian province is permanently adopting the new clock, officials announced on Monday, ending the twice-a-year ritual of changing every clock you own.

Representative Al Green is facing his first competitive primary in years against Representative Christian Menefee, who is less than half his age. The Texas race is just one of the contests this year that pit older Democrats against newcomers.

Thousands in Iran attend burial of children killed in bombing of school. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...

Texans are casting votes in the most expensive Senate primary in history, and voters in North Carolina and Arkansas are also going to the polls as the 2026 midterms officially get underway. Follow live updates on the first primary election contests of 2026.

Hundreds of thousands of stranded travelers were rushing to find ways out of the Middle East amid a widening conflict after the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran. The U.S. urged Americans to leave the region on Monday, but did not start disclosing plans to assist them until Tuesday.

A South Carolina county is now ground zero for the largest measles outbreak since 2000. Many parents want the right to decide medical treatments for their children. But the recent contagion shows what happens when high vaccination rates — meant to keep children safe — are clipped.

One day before the U.S. and Israel launched an attack on Iran, a surge in big bets of at least $1,000 placed on Polymarket suggested that some bettors may have seen the strike coming, raising concerns about insider trading.

"Two people not knowing, together." The psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz is grappling with the complications of love and desire in his new book, "Love's Labor." nyti.ms/4r3TfwB

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “To help understand how the Iranian people will react after the American and Israeli attacks end, it is important to realize that the 1979 Iranian revolution was no revolution at all,” Abbas Milani writes.

Midterm primary season is upon us, as voters in Texas, Arkansas and North Carolina on Tuesday begin to answer critical questions facing both political parties as they head into elections that will decide control of Congress. Here's what to watch.