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Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium

Trump’s Secretary of ‘Loyalty and Money’ Why Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick remains in his position, despite missteps By @vmsalama @AshleyRParker @michaelscherer

Veteran ICE officials whom @NickMiroff spoke with view the use of masks as an unquestionably negative development. But it’s not going away anytime soon, Miroff reports:

The Trump administration is moving ahead on a new plan to house thousands of Gazans displaced by the war. @hanamkiros spoke with officials with direct knowledge of the initiative—and the literal dividing line it’s built on.

Most of Trump’s deportation campaign is inaccessible because after arrests are made, it is moving quickly, far from public view. For every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about, @itscaitlinhd writes.

SCOOP: There’s a deal to reverse the mass layoffs of federal workers (RIFs) since Oct. 1 as part of the bill to reopen the gov’t Sen. Collins told R’s at lunch that the issue of *future* RIFs is unresolved & Sen. Kaine pushing hard on it. WH opposes w/ @bresreports @JakeSherman

A “medium-sized tent?” By ⁦@elainejgodfrey⁩

Tulsi Gabbard’s Quest to Bring the ‘Deep State’ Under Her Control By Quinta Jurecic and ⁦@shaneharris⁩

Police spent more than 50 days searching a lake for Ryan Borgwardt, a kayaker they assumed had drowned. Then they told his wife that they’d come to believe something different. Wild story, from @ThompsonJamieL https://t.co/fkheZJ13Vq

After Tuesday, many Democratic lawmakers feel like they have finally landed a clean punch after 9 months of taking body blows from Trump. Caving on the shutdown now, they say, would be an unforced error. So the shutdown continues… W/ ⁦@JonLemire⁩

Just When It Looked Like the Shutdown Might End Election Day happened. On the game of chicken that could last through turkey day, with ⁦@JonLemire⁩

JUST IN: Trump administration appeals order to pay states full SNAP benefits for November.

The United States is amassing an armada in the Caribbean as Trump figures out his endgame with Maduro. By ⁦@missy_ryan⁩ ⁦@nancyayoussef⁩ ⁦@michaelscherer⁩ and ⁦@vmsalama⁩

Tuesday’s election results cast doubt on the wisdom of the GOP’s gerrymandering war, @russellberman reports. “None of this is good for Republicans,” one longtime GOP strategist told him.

Breaking: @USDOT @FAANews to announce reduction in scheduled capacity at major airports starting Friday if no shutdown deal is reached per sources

NEWS — INSIDE THE ROOM per multiple GOP senators... After reporters were kicked out, Trump said the election results showed that the shutdown has been “worse for us than for them” & that R’s “are getting killed.” Trump said the GOP will become a “dead party” if they don’t nuke

Trump on the shutdown: "It is Democrat-created, but I don't think they're getting really the blame that they should." "I don't think that they'll act so soon."

Tonight is such a blowout so far that I wonder if it gives some Rs pause about redistricting in states that are still pondering it. They already needed to "stress-test" the districts (and they did in TX-NC-MO, I think, even considering tonight), but still.

NEW: Zohran Mamdani will be the unlikeliest mayor in NYC history He vanquished Cuomo (again) and will have to trade lofty promises for gritty governing And now Mamdani faces a war with the president, himself a New Yorker. It’s the fight Trump wants

Update: this has happened. Dems on track to win at least 64 (!) VA House of Delegates seats, w/ two races still outstanding. Massive Dem night.