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"Here are some of the more notable effects, from CNN's reporting and as documented by other outlets, of what is officially tied for the longest US government shutdown in history," Zachary B. Wolf writes | Analysis https://cnn.it/4nEpctU

The "Wicked" and "Bridgerton" star is likely the first publicly out gay person to receive the award. https://cnn.it/49vOdUw

Starbucks said on Monday it would sell control of its China operations to investment firm Boyu Capital in a deal valued at $4 billion, in one of the most valuable divestments of a China unit by a global consumer company in recent years.

The Los Angeles Dodgers enjoyed a party that was more than three decades in the making on Friday as they celebrated their World Series win over the New York Yankees with an open-top bus parade through downtown Los Angeles before a pep rally at Dodger Stadium. Read more: https://cnn.it/4qARLed

The route from the land of the dead to San Andrés Mixquic, a little town just outside Mexico City, is lined with marigolds. Ángel Jiménez del Aguila, who died in 2010, need only follow the trail of flower petals, the scent of smoldering copal and the rhythm of danzón music to find his old front door, where his wife and children wait for him. According to Mexican tradition, every year, the door between the world of the living and the dead swings open on the first two days of November. This is Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. Read more: https://cnn.it/3JkjG1s

A judge has ended Justin Baldoni's $400 million defamation lawsuit against Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, their publicists and the New York Times. CNN's Elizabeth Wagmeister explains what happened to cause the lawsuit to go away.

Chinese e-commerce platform Shein announced on Monday a “complete ban” on sex dolls on its site after France threatened to cut off its access to the French market. Over the weekend, France’s anti-fraud office, the DGCCRF, accused the fast-fashion platform of selling sex dolls “with a childlike appearance,” saying in a statement: “Their description and their categorization on the site make it difficult to doubt the pedopornographic nature of the content.” The dolls were available for purchase on the French version of Shein’s platform until 4 a.m. local time Monday, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV, which prompted a stark warning from French Finance Minister Roland Lescure. “I want to be very clear: If these behaviors are repeated, we will be entitled to… ban access to the French market for the Shein platform,” he told BFMTV Monday. “These horrible objects are illegal,” he added. Read more: https://cnn.it/4oWJEY1

An Antarctic glacier shrunk by nearly 50% in just two months, the fastest retreat recorded in modern history, according to a new study — and the way it retreated could have big implications for global sea level rise. The Hektoria Glacier, roughly the size of Philadelphia, is on the Antarctic Peninsula, a spindly chain of mountains sticking off the continent like a thumb pointing toward South America. It is one of the fastest warming regions on Earth. Grounded glaciers like Hektoria, which rest on the seabed and don’t float, generally retreat no more than a few hundred meters a year. But between November and December 2022, Hektoria retreated by 5 miles, according to the study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience. Read more: https://cnn.it/3Lmm4Fp

President Donald Trump urged New Yorkers to vote for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the city’s mayoral race on the eve of the election. “Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. You must vote for him, and hope he does a fantastic job,” the president wrote on Truth Social on Monday, adding that Cuomo “is capable of it” and that Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani “is not!” Trump has previously offered tepid support for the former Democratic governor who’s running as an independent, casting the election as a choice between the better of two bad options, while completely discounting the Republican candidate. “I’m not a fan of Cuomo one way or another, but if it’s going to be between a bad Democrat and a communist, I’m going to pick the bad Democrat all the time, to be honest with you,” Trump told CBS’ “60 Minutes” in an interview that aired Sunday. Mamdani quickly seized on Trump’s comments in that interview, posting his congratulations to Cuomo on X on Sunday and adding, “I know how hard you worked for this.” Read more: https://cnn.it/4olGjBB

In an interview with CNN's Elex Michaelson, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi criticized President Trump's actions, stating he's the president, but "doesn't honor the Constitution" and is the "worst thing on the face of the Earth." Watch Pelosi's full interview with Michaelson on "The Story Is with Elex Michaelson" at 9p PT/12aET.