Your Weekend Briefing

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Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead.

1. With hardly more than a week to go before Election Day, the presidential race was rocked by news that the F.B.I. found new emails that “appear to be pertinent to the investigation” of whether Hillary Clinton or her aides mishandled classified information.

Mrs. Clinton pushed for the F.B.I. to release full details about the emails, which were found on a computer belonging to Anthony Weiner. Mr. Weiner, the estranged husband of Huma Abedin, a top Clinton aide, is being investigated for illicit text messages sent to a 15-year-old.

“This is like an 18-wheeler smacking into us,” said the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.

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2. The Chicago Cubs need to win tonight if they are to keep alive their dream of securing their first World Series championship in 108 years.

The Cleveland Indians routed them in the last two games, putting the Indians up 3-1 in the Series and positioning them to clinch the title on Sunday (8 p.m. Eastern, FOX).

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3. France is relocating more than 6,000 refugees and migrants after demolishing the so-called Jungle migrant camp outside Calais. The country is pushing Britain to take in some of the 1,500 unaccompanied minors displaced from the camp.

Thousands of people have been transferred to temporary lodging, but the number of migrants sleeping on the streets of Paris has also increased. Our correspondent called the Calais camp “a continuous assault on human dignity.”

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4. “I live a lie just so that I wouldn’t end up getting killed.”

After we posted a video about Saudi women voting and running for office for the first time, nearly 6,000 poured out their hearts about living in a society where male relatives oversee all aspects of their lives.

Some spoke of the system working for them, and others said subtle change was in progress.

But many described frustration, cruelty and danger. One said she nearly died after a car accident because the ambulance crew would not take her to a hospital in the absence of a male guardian.

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5. The Supreme Court will enter the national debate on transgender rights.

On Friday, the court announced it would decide whether Gavin Grimm, above, a Virginia high school student who was designated female at birth, may use the boys’ bathroom. The argument will be heard early next year.

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6. Genetically modified crops appear to have fallen short of meeting two of their main goals: to increase yields and decrease pesticide use, according to an extensive examination by The Times.

The analysis showed that the U.S. and Canada, which embraced genetic modification about 20 years ago, have gained no discernible advantage in yields over Western Europe, which has largely rejected the technology. And herbicide use in the U.S. has increased.

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7. New research showed that this French Canadian flight attendant did not, after all, set off the American AIDS epidemic.

An analysis of stored blood samples revealed that the virus Gaétan Dugas was infected with was circulating in New York even before he first visited gay bars in the city.

Even his designation as Patient Zero was incorrect — the letter O on his chart, for “outside” the region of an early study, was later read as a zero.

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8. Bob Dylan finally mentioned the Nobel Prize.

“Amazing, incredible,” he told an interviewer. “Whoever dreams about something like that?”

Whether he will attend the ceremony in December to receive the literature prize remains a bit murky. “Absolutely,” Mr. Dylan said in an interview with a British newspaper. “If it’s at all possible.”

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9. We’re one week away from the New York City Marathon. In? We’d love to hear about your training runs.

And let’s talk long runs. Pete Kostelnick, a financial analyst from Nebraska, made it all the way across the U.S. in a record 42 days, 6 hours and 30 minutes.

“I’m not running back,” he said.

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10. Finally, a few musings for your Halloween preparations.

The holiday used to be romantic. Largely forgotten parlor games of the early 20th century — some involving apples, chestnuts or mirrors — were focused on finding or predicting love.

Now, it’s all about the costume (and candy). Clown costumes were nowhere in sight at one store we visited, perhaps thanks to a number of creepy clown sightings reported to the police recently. Presidential politics also seems out of favor. Boo.

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Have a great week.

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