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Here’s what we’re covering:

Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told by Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt

Deepfakes, Insults and Job Cuts: A Government Shutdown Like No Other by Erica L. Green

F.D.A. Approves Generic Abortion Pill as Opponents Push Trump for New Restrictions by Pam Belluck

Deadly Attack Outside U.K. Synagogue on Yom Kippur Is Declared Terrorism by Michael D. Shear, Lizzie Dearden, Stephen Castle, Emma Bubola and Thomas Fuller

OpenAI’s Sora Makes Disinformation Extremely Easy and Extremely Real by Tiffany Hsu, Stuart A. Thompson and Steven Lee Myers

On ‘Showgirl,’ Taylor Swift Has a Lust for Love (and Her Foes) by Jon Caramanica

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