Musk Pours $276 Million Into the Midterms, and Federal Agents Raid Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar

Plus, setting a record on Mars. 

Here’s what we’re covering:

• Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans, by Theodore Schleifer
• Homeland Security Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, by Devlin Barrett, Hamed Aleaziz, Ernesto Londoño and Alan Feuer
• U.K. and Europe Recoil From Trump’s Diesel Deal With Putin, by Michael D. Shear and Jeanna Smialek
• Israel’s Destruction of Southern Lebanon Intensified After the Cease-Fire, by Christina Goldbaum, Samuel Granados and Adina Renner
• 28 Miles and Counting: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sets a Mars Driving Record, by Kenneth Chang

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