• Kavanaugh Is One of Only 114 to Join the Exclusive Club of Justices. Here’s How He Fits In.

The country received a dire climate warning as another hurricane hit the Southeast

A landmark report from the United Nations released Monday said the consequences of climate change could be far more dire and arrive sooner than anticipated: food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040.

Yet it appears that Mr. Trump and his administration will continue to remain isolated from an otherwise global effort to attempt to address the problem. [Read the story]

He said he would most likely visit next week parts of the Southeast ravaged by Hurricane Michael. Residents in Florida, Georgia and other states are struggling to find resources in the aftermath of the storm. [Read the story]

Additional Reading

• New U.N. Climate Report Says Put a High Price on Carbon

• As Storms Keep Coming, FEMA Spends Billions in ‘Cycle’ of Damage and Repair

• E.P.A. to Disband a Key Scientific Review Panel on Air Pollution

In other midterm news: Beto O’Rourke, attack ads and a look toward 2020

Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic candidate looking to unseat Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, on Friday unveiled a historic level of fund-raising in the last three months. But the announcement also revealed tensions about what Democrats think he should contribute to races other than his own. [Read the story]

A Democratic challenger in Kentucky, Amy McGrath, has promised not to run any attack ads during her campaign. It will serve as a test of whether negative ads, which are generally disliked at face value by voters, are effective. [Read the story]

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. levied some of his harshest criticism on Friday against Mr. Trump, in an apparent test of what could be a campaign to defeat the president’s re-election. [Read the story]