After authorities intercepted 12 package bombs sent to Democratic politicians such as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the nation is asking: Where do threatening rhetoric and physical threats intersect? President Donald Trump has blamed the media for stoking discord, but his opponents were quick to recirculate clips of the president’s own threatening statements, which opponents say incited Floridian Cesar Sayoc, 56, who’s federally charged in the mailings. Arrested Friday near Fort Lauderdale in a van covered with pro-Trump stickers — including one depicting Clinton in a rife scope’s crosshairs — Sayoc’s politics promise to dominate the case.

He’s the “Tropical Trump.” Jair Bolsonaro has populist appeal, has promised to drain Brasília’s swamp of corruption and, with his military background and junta nostalgia, has engendered fears of a return to dictatorship. In Sunday’s election, he’s leading his leftist, ruling-party rival Fernando Haddad by 12 points in recent polls, although not last week’s 18. There’s one place he differs from the American president, however: If elected, he won’t pull out of the Paris climate accord, provided he can get assurances that Brazil won’t lose control over its carbon-consuming Amazon region.

A midlevel trader at Copenhagen’s giant Danske Bank shelled out just $1.30 to download a client’s British financial disclosure and found something startling: It reported zero assets after funneling $480 million through Danske’s branch in Estonia. Thus erupted one of the world’s biggest money laundering scandals, with some $230 billion passing between Russia and former Soviet republics. The employee ended up quitting after higher-ups, including the conglomerate’s star CEO, seemed unwilling to shut the operation down. Now the chief’s out, and the case is reverberating across the financial world.

Last year, China and Hong Kong imported nearly 4 million tons of the world’s recyclable waste annually. In December, China shut down that trade, citing environmental concerns. That’s devastated the market for recyclables, with material in some areas losing half its value and ending up in landfills. In Asia, China’s cutoff has sent huge quantities of plastic and other waste, often illegally, to Southeast Asia, triggering a new type of environmental crisis. What’s the solution? Probably a throwback, experts say, to a time when bottles were reused and bulk purchases were the norm.

The Week Ahead: Voters in the former Soviet republic of Georgia have a chance to elect their first woman president on Sunday. Facebook and Apple, set to report earnings on Tuesday and Thursday, respectively, are expected to influence now-bearish stock markets. And on Thursday in Tennessee, convicted murderer Edmund Zagorski is scheduled to become the first person to die in an electric chair (his choice) in 11 years.

Know This: Mexico has offered temporary work permits, health care and schooling to a thousands of migrants in a caravan heading for the U.S., which President Trump has vowed to block using troops and possibly a border closure. The fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has refused an invitation to the White House. And NBC has removed Megyn Kelly as an anchor of the Today Show after she defended the use of blackface on Halloween.

Tune In: What happens when 100 White women discuss guns, race and privilege under the limelight? OZY’s fourth primetime show, Take On America, went to Nashville to find out. Watch this provocative exchange, then join the conversation on Facebook and YouTube to give your #takeonamerica.

They went the distance. Eighteen innings of baseball, ending with L.A.’s 3-2 victory over Boston on a walk-off Max Muncy home run. The 7 hours and 20 minutes — the longest Fall Classic game in both time an innings — featured 18 pitchers, including Dodger rookie starter Walker Buehler throwing 108 pitches in seven innings. Before Game 3, the World Series records were 14 innings, last equaled in 2015, and five hours, 41 minutes, set in 2005. Tonight the Red Sox, leading the series 2-1, and Dodgers will play again in L.A.

America’s state-oriented political system is giving inordinate power to a minority of voters, and that could spark a new civil war, argues social critic Jonathan Taplin. By 2040, 30 percent of voters, largely conservative, will likely choose 70 senators who can block the majority’s will. But Taplin believes there’s a paradoxical hedge against this: the state-empowering 10th Amendment, notorious for prolonging the South’s codified racism. Twenty-four states have recently legislated prescription drug cost controls, and many are suing to assert rights over other progressive issues, like regulating guns and pollution.

“Your ass is about to get swatted.” Thus tweeted Tyler Rai Barriss — after being jailed in Kansas for a December Wichita 911 call that precipitated the death of unarmed Andrew Finch by a policeman’s bullet. His ability to hack a jail computer allegedly helped him track down earlier targets who’d be swarmed by authorities after his false bomb or shooting reports. Now Barriss reportedly plans to plead guilty to 46 federal charges unrelated to the Kansas involuntary manslaughter case, in which he allegedly was hired to swat a rival gamer, who provided an old address.

As a candidate, Donald Trump vowed to lower prescription prices and tackle opioid abuse in 2016. Two years later, with prices still high and addiction still rampant, it’s Democrats’ turn to sell drug policy. Particularly in opiate-wracked Tennessee and West Virginia, they’re blasting Republicans as tools of the pharmaceutical industry who do little to fight the epidemic. Half of Democratic Party political ad dollars have been used to attack Republicans on health care, which experts believe is a bigger midterms issue than immigration. Now voters must decide if Democrats can cure what ails them.

As one of the most sexualized mainstream TV networks, HBO is trying to do it correctly. The Deuce series star Emily Meade, who knows how uncomfortable performing sex scenes can be, insisted the network be more sensitive. It now employs an “intimacy coordinator” on set to put actors at ease. While it’s not a radical concept, practitioners like Alicia Rodis, co-founder of Intimacy Directors International, help directors tell the story they want to tell — while making sure actors don’t walk away feeling sexually assaulted or exploited.