New York Times

• After Michigan Loss, AIPAC Weighs a Second Effort to Defeat El-Sayed

  The pro-Israel organization spent $32 million in an unsuccessful effort to defeat Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. It might try again in the general election.

• El-Sayed’s Michigan Senate Primary Win Sets Up the Left’s Biggest Test of the Fall

  Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate candidacy poses a critical challenge for Democrats’ ascendant progressive wing: Can an insurgent candidate, with unabashedly liberal positions, win a general election in a moderate state?

• Mayor Says El-Sayed’s Win Shows He Is More Than a ‘Mini-Mamdani’

  Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York said that Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s close victory in the Michigan Senate primary put “working-class Americans back at the heart of our politics.”

• Michigan Democrats Pick El-Sayed

  Also, the Senate confirms a new C.D.C. director. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.

• Suspected Iran Cyberattacks on U.S. Water Supply Follow Years of Warnings and Neglect

  Federal and state officials are racing to address an assault on the nation’s water supply that they believe is the work of Iranian hackers.