Good morning. Showers could linger until lunchtime, then cloudy with a high around 63. A low near 54 overnight. The Nationals visit Detroit again this evening. How well do you know the District? Play our new geography game and test your local knowledge. You can find me on Bluesky, I’m @abeaujon .87 on Signal, and there’s a link to my email address below. This roundup is available as a morning email newsletter. Sign up here. I can’t stop listening to: Cabaret Voltaire, “Nag Nag Nag.” The industrial pioneers’ farewell tour stops at the Howard Theatre tonight. Take Washingtonian Today with you! I keep ridiculously long playlists on Apple Music and on Spotify of this year’s music recommendations. Here are 2025’s songs (Apple, Spotify), too. Here’s some administration news you might have blocked out: The war: The remarkable recent success of Houthi rebels in Yemen was directed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, multiple officials say. (AP) US and Iranian officials met in New York Tuesday, according to President Trump. (Axios) The meeting followed Trump’s address to the United Nations General Assembly, where he said he had “a big decision to make”—should he make a deal with Iran, he pondered aloud, or “annihilate” it? (Reuters) Trump made a number of false statements during the speech. (AP) The President also signed what he trumpeted as a deal with Denmark over the US military presence in Greenland, a document that’s in fact a “major retreat” from his earlier demands to buy the island. (NYT) Trump berated a CNN reporter for asking him a question at the UN, saying the network “should not be here covering me.” (Washington Post) Oh yes, the press ban: The US Department of Justice will attempt to defend Trump’s abrupt ban on CNN, Politico, and MS Now in a DC courthouse this afternoon. (NPR) The three outlets sued to get their access to the White House restored. In its response, DOJ argues that the news organizations “failed to maintain minimum professional journalistic standards by publishing classified and national security information” and includes letters it sent to the outlets yesterday asking them to account for certain articles but doesn’t “claim that any of the cited stories contained classified information.” Politico’s letter complained about a story that cited “bad ‘vibes’ at the recent GOP midterm convention in Texas.” (Politico) Melania Trump‘s office approved CNN’s and Politico’s credentials for an event yesterday. (CNN) Vibe check: For Republicans, the vibes do appear to be worsening. (Punchbowl News) Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds removed references to his relationship with Trump from his campaign website. (Miami Herald) Trump is bleeding support from Republicans over his handling of the Iran war he started in February. (CNN) Other GOP politicians are distancing themselves from the President as the midterm elections approach. (Axios) US Senator John Curtis of Utah, a Republican, asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate Donald Trump Jr.‘s recent wedding ceremony, which was bankrolled by a Russian oligarch. (AP) Trump said he would support a ban on diesel exports as the average price of a gallon of the fuel in the US topped $6.50. (NYT) Healthcare update: Vice President JD Vance announced the administration had booted more than 750,000 people from Affordable Care Act coverage, saying they got insurance fraudulently. (NYT) CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz announced a “six-month moratorium on allowing new insurance brokers to sell ACA plans.” (Washington Post) Meanwhile: The Department of Health and Human Services moved millions of dollars from the Office of Minority Health to fund the “ballooning cost of security” for Health Secretary RFK Jr. (WSJ) ICE in Texas: The ICE officer who shot DoorDash driver Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in Austin on Sunday was a recent recruit and was not wearing a body camera. (CBS News) Garces Perez’s attorneys have questioned his subsequent release from a hospital, despite the fact that he still had a bullet in his back, and his transfer to ICE detention. (Texas Tribune) A judge said the US can’t deport Garces Perez before his hearing next week. (BBC News) Related: US Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky said the Department of Homeland Security hasn’t provided the results of its investigations into the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by immigration officials in Minneapolis. (Politico) Administration perambulation: Trump will travel to Joint Base Andrews this evening to greet Chinese President Xi Jinping. (AP) The FBI was investigating whether US Senator Susan Collins of Maine funneled government contracts to a donor before the effort ended amid Trump’s cuts to the bureau’s public-corruption investigations. (ProPublica) A group of hackers says it has stolen information about “all FBI employees and applicants.” (404 Media) The administration will welcome more white South Africans as refugees. (CBS News) X Strategies, a company that runs some of Trump’s social media accounts, sued one of its cofounders, “accusing him of embezzling and gambling away millions of dollars.” (Politico) Polish President Karol Nawrocki suggested a new US base in Poland could be named “Fort Trump.” (Notes From Poland) Trump renamed AI. (Washington Post) Recently on Washingtonian dot com: • Dōgon chef Kwame Onwuachi tells us about his new cookbook, which he says shows “how I actually eat, not just how I cook for other people.” Local news links: • Trump aides are looking into slapping his name on Ford’s Theatre—because the Kennedy Center initiative went so well, I suppose? (MS Now) • The jury in DC Council member Trayon White‘s bribery trial is likely to begin deliberations today. (ABC7) • D.C. United has made a deal with labor unions as it tries to convince the DC government to pony up for the team’s planned expansion of Audi Field. (Axios D.C.) • Alexandria spent $3.7 million more than planned on its DASH bus system “because someone put the wrong numbers in a spreadsheet.” (NBC4 Washington) • Capitals owner Ted Leonsis will head the NHL Board of Governors. (WBJ) • Former Turnstile guitarist Brady Ebert is not competent to stand trial, a judge ruled. Police say Ebert attacked the father of Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates with a car in Silver Spring this past March. (Baltimore Banner) • You can get a head start on knocking out your holiday shopping for the transit nerd in your life. (WMATA) • Police rescued a runaway pig in Dale City yesterday. (DC News Now) Wednesday’s event picks: • Sanaz Toossi‘s play “Wish You Were Here” opens at Studio Theatre. • Dance Place presents the duet “Lay Him Quietly” tonight and tomorrow. 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