The New York Times

1. Supreme Court Decision on Late-Arriving Mail-In Ballots Grants Relief to 18 States

   The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that state laws allowing ballots to arrive after Election Day are legal. The decision is the latest in a series of setbacks for President Trump’s efforts to regulate elections.

2. Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Request to Appeal $5 Million Verdict in E. Jean Carroll Case

   President Trump had asked the justices to intervene after a jury found that he had sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll.

3. ‘No One’s Coming to Save Us but Us’: Gen Z Runs for Office

   Melat Kiros’s challenge Tuesday to Representative Diana DeGette, who was elected the year before Ms. Kiros was born, is the latest Gen Z test in a year defined by generational upheaval.

4. Why Maine Has Turned Into Such a Tight Race

   A Times/Siena poll reveals several crosscurrents in a key contest for Senate control.

5. Colorado Supreme Court Rejects Democratic Redistricting Plans

   The state’s high court found that ballot initiatives designed to change state law to install a newly gerrymandered map violated Colorado law.