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In First Six Months, Cost of Weather Catastrophes Escalated at a Record Pace

The Trump administration stopped updating a database tracking the costs of the country’s worst disasters. A group of scientists has revived it.

© Anna Watts for The New York Times

Sifting for belongings after a tornado blew through Plantersville, Ala., in March. That tornado outbreak caused $10.6 billion in damage, one of this year’s costliest disasters.
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Meta Plans to Cut 600 Jobs at A.I. Superintelligence Labs

The cuts will not affect Meta’s newest A.I. hires, who are in some cases being paid up to hundreds of millions of dollars. The layoffs are focused on correcting an earlier hiring spree.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, at the company campus in Menlo Park, Calif., last month. Meta has hired aggressively to build A.I. in recent years.
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Maine U.S. Senate Candidate Apologizes for Tattoo With Nazi Links

Graham Platner, a Democrat, said he would remove the tattoo. He also sought to distance himself from old Reddit posts that drew criticism.

© Greta Rybus for The New York Times

Graham Platner at the oyster farm he helps run off Frenchman Bay in Maine. He is running for the U.S. Senate in Maine as a Democrat.
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