Russian forces strike Dnipro-Zaporizhzhia train, conductor out of contact






/2026/09/08/6a9fd062f0ab4417011167.jpg)
/2026/09/08/6a9fd062f0ab4417011167.jpg)
/2026/09/08/6a9fd15d0a8df578723130.jpg)
/2026/09/08/6a9fd15d0a8df578723130.jpg)




© Francisco Seco/Associated Press


© Dado Ruvic/Reuters


© Nic Antaya for The New York Times


© Jason Redmond/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images


© Pete Marovich for The New York Times


© Emily Elconin for The New York Times


© Marisa Schwartz Taylor/The New York Times


© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Players generally welcome interacting with their fans. But as the league’s popularity surges, there are dangers to be aware of
Caitlin Clark spent most of the 2025 WNBA season sidelined with a series of injuries that forced her to miss more than 30 games. But she also spent part of the season (and the preceding offseason) quietly navigating a tumultuous and scary reality: a 55-year-old man was stalking her, and he was convinced they were in a relationship.
That man, Michael Lewis, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison last July. Lewis sent Clark “hundreds” of messages – many of which were “threats and sexually explicit” – between 12 December 2024 and 11 January 2025. Lewis, who is from Texas, was arrested at a hotel in Indianapolis, where Clark plays for the Indiana Fever. The case took a toll on Clark: she said she feared for her safety and had changed her appearance in public.
Continue reading...
© Photograph: Christian Petersen/Getty Images

© Photograph: Christian Petersen/Getty Images

© Photograph: Christian Petersen/Getty Images

The Philadelphia Union midfielder has gotten his longest run of game time since turning pro, and the data is tantalizing
There’s a video from a United States U-15 camp three years ago that will make your head spin. It’s a routine training session for the boys on the pitch except one, a head shorter and a year or two younger than the others, who’s practicing with the national team for the first time.
Is the boy nervous? He is not. A pass floats into the box and he checks his run, tries to get under it, but the ball is too high for his 13-year-old head to reach. He doesn’t even jump. As the cross sails over him, he flings himself forward like Superman and flicks a heel up behind his back, catching the ball with a scorpion kick that bounces straight into the path of a teammate for a cartoon assist.
Continue reading...
© Photograph: Chris Szagola/AP

© Photograph: Chris Szagola/AP

© Photograph: Chris Szagola/AP

















Russia attacked Kyiv overnight into 8 September with ballistic, cruise, and anti-ship missiles and jet-powered drones, killing two people and injuring ten, Ukrainian local authorities and the Air Force reported. Ukraine's foreign minister says Moscow launched it the moment the US peace envoys left the capital, and the country's president says the weapons were combined deliberately to cause the greatest possible harm to life. Strikes the same night reached six other regions.
US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner made their first visit to Kyiv on 6 September. Ukraine halted strikes on Moscow for three days around the trip, while the Kremlin said its pause on Kyiv ran only to Monday. Nothing else stopped, and Ukraine logged impacts at 11 sites while the delegation was in Moscow.
Russia launched another massive attack on Kyiv the moment the envoys left, damaging residential areas and killing at least two people, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said.
"[Russian President Putin's] ballistic missiles speak louder than his words on diplomacy. Strike after strike on residential buildings brings him no closer to winning this war—it is nothing but senseless terror," the minister wrote.
Fires in Kyiv after Russia's missile and drone attack last night
— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) September 8, 2026Kyiv City Emergency Service pic.twitter.com/OF500h8TE3
Russian forces resumed strikes on the capital after a three-day break tied to the American visit, RFE/RL's Belarus service reported.
The attack ran from 18:00 on 7 September through the night, the Ukrainian Air Force reported, without giving the total number of launched ballistics.

Russia fired Oniks anti-ship missiles, ballistic Iskander-M, S-400, and KN-23 missiles, and 32 Kh-101 cruise missiles from four of its regions and occupied Crimea, along with 166 Shahed-type drones, more than half of them jet-powered, and decoys launched from two Russian regions and occupied territory. Air defense downed or suppressed 175 targets by 08:30: two ballistic missiles, 31 cruise missiles, and 142 drones. Kyiv Oblast and Odesa Oblast were the main axes.
"It was a hard attack, which the Russians deliberately tried to calculate for the greatest possible harm to life," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
Results against cruise missiles were very good, he said, while ballistics remain especially hard, and Ukraine proves that need for interceptors to its partners every day. He said he had already discussed it with the Americans and Europeans and would meet states and companies the same day about supplies and about Ukraine's FREYJA anti-ballistic system.
Ukraine has 67 companies working on interceptors, three to five with real results.
First explosions in Kyiv came at 03:30. Fires and damage reached at least 16 locations in five districts, the Kyiv Military Administration reported. Warehouses, garages, and cars burned, fire spread from a garage to a business center, and a strike on a 26-story non-residential building wrecked structures at the 23rd floor, the State Emergency Service said. Ten people were freed from a blocked five-story block, the service said, and rescuers saved 13 in all, according to Zelenskyy. Morning drone attacks added a warehouse fire, the city said, and the night's damage forced it to reroute a series of bus, tram, and trolleybus lines.

Two Russian drones hit the locomotive of the Kyiv–Sumy train in the morning, which a monitoring team had stopped in time to evacuate passengers and crew without casualties, Ukrainian Railways board chairman Oleksandr Pertsovskyi said.
Outside Odesa the strike damaged pavilions at the 7th Kilometer market, the country's largest wholesale market for non-food goods, and hospitalized its 58-year-old guard, oblast head Oleh Kiper said.
In Kharkiv two people were injured, one of them a 17-year-old, and Russian forces most often target energy sites, according to oblast head Oleh Syniehubov, who said they struck settlements across the oblast almost 800 times last week alone.
Zelenskyy said Kyiv Oblast's critical infrastructure, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast were also hit.


Behind the intense political movements of the last decade, from Trumpism to wokeness and back again, there’s a strange and erratic rhythm. Movements saturate the culture seemingly overnight, only to evaporate or spark backlash just as rapidly. We’re extremely politically engaged, yet we’ve rarely felt so powerless to create lasting policy change.
I haven’t seen many very successful attempts to explain what is driving this volatility. But one concept that has taken off recently, and captures what so many of us are feeling, is “hyperpolitics.”
The idea comes from Anton Jäger, a historian and contributing writer to New York Times Opinion. In his book “Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences,” Jäger theorizes what it means to live in a moment marked by hyper-engagement — high voter turnout, mass protests, trends that flare up and fade with extreme rapidity — yet where institutional trust is low, institutional relationships are decayed and people are disconnected from the structures that make political efforts stick.
I think Jäger’s theory cuts to the core of this political era. So I invited him on the show to break down what hyperpolitics is, how we got here and what it actually takes to build lasting change today.
Mentioned:
“Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences” by Anton Jäger
“Hyperpolitics in Command?” by Anton Jäger
“Trump’s Revolutionary Sense of Time Is Changing Politics” by Ivan Krastev
“Public Opinion” by Walter Lippmann
Book Recommendations:
“The Prophet” by Isaac Deutscher
“Cheese” by Willem Elsschot
“Quelques mois dans ma vie” by Michel Houellebecq
“Extension of the Domain of Struggle (Whatever)” by Michel Houellebecq
“Serotonin” by Michel Houellebecq
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.
You can find the transcript and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.html
This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Marie Cascione. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota and Gautam Srikishan. Our recording engineer is Aman Sahota. Cinematography by Marina King and Azamat Yakubov. Video editing by Dani Dillon and Arpita Aneja. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Annie Galvin, Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin, Emma Kehlbeck, Jack McCordick and Jan Kobal. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Shows is Annie-Rose Strasser.
Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.


© Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

© Reuters

/2026/09/08/6a9fca0ec00ce916460976.jpg)
/2026/09/08/6a9fca0ec00ce916460976.jpg)
/2026/09/08/6a9fbfa5b429a459008637.jpg)
/2026/09/08/6a9fbfa5b429a459008637.jpg)


:fill(blur):format(jpg)/2026/09/08/6a9fc808a9662074385145.png)
:fill(blur):format(jpg)/2026/09/08/6a9fc808a9662074385145.png)
:fill(blur):format(jpg)/2026/09/08/6a9fc6e3e7d31748147849.png)
:fill(blur):format(jpg)/2026/09/08/6a9fc6e3e7d31748147849.png)






