Kelly Kasulis Cho

• Well+Being

Potatoes rule U.S. dining tables, mostly in processed forms. Upcoming U.S. dietary guidelines could reclassify them — but the industry has long fought such a change.

• Israel-Gaza War

Tensions are mounting across the region, amid Israel’s strikes in Gaza and exchanges with Hezbollah, strikes on ships in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthis, a new round of U.S. strikes on Yemen and strikes by Iran in Iraq and Pakistan.

• By The Way

Experts say unsecured children could’ve been harmed on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, when a door plug blew off. But if lap sitting isn’t safe, why is it allowed?

• Transportation

Federal investigators are also intensifying scrutiny of the bolts meant to hold in a piece of the plane that blew out of a flight in midair last week.

• Business

The finding, part of a preliminary inspection ordered by the FAA, raises questions about possible systemic problems with the Boeing 737 Max 9 jet.

• Transportation

Alaska Airlines sought answers after the Boeing 737-9 Max aircraft’s auto-pressurization fail light came on three times in recent weeks, the NTSB said.

• Transportation

The Federal Aviation Administration has called for an inspection of 171 aircraft after part of a Boeing 737-9 Max’s wall blew out on an Alaska Airlines flight.

• Israel-Gaza War

Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah warned of “a response and punishment” following the assassination of Saleh Arouri in a suspected Israeli drone strike.

• Asia

Lee Jae-myung, who heads South Korea’s liberal Democratic Party, was stabbed in the neck while touring a new airport site. He underwent surgery and is recovering, a spokesman said.