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NYTIMES (Erica L. Green) - Trump Defends His Use of Mail-In Voting: ‘Because I’m President’

President Trump wants to restrict voting by mail, which he says amounts to “cheating.” But he defended his own use of the practice in a special election this week.

NPR (Joel Rose) - As TSA agents miss another paycheck, what's happening at airports with private security?

At 20 airports around the U.S., security screeners are getting paid as usual despite the ongoing DHS shutdown — because they're private contractors. Will more airports look at privatizing security?

NYTIMES (Megan Mineiro and Robert Jimison) - G.O.P. Senator Weighs Forcing Congress to Vote to Authorize the Iran War

Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is drafting a formal authorization for the use of military force in Iran, seeking to put some parameters around the operation as the Trump administration has boxed out Congress.

WASHINGTONPOST (Laura Meckler, Danielle Douglas-Gabriel) - Education Dept. to hand headquarters building to Department of Energy

Abandoning the D.C. headquarters is the Trump administration’s latest and most visible move toward eliminating the Education Department altogether.

AXIOS (Alex Isenstadt) - Scoop: Cabinet to huddle to talk midterm politics

President Trump 's political team is meeting with his Cabinet late Thursday to discuss plans for top officials to fan out across the country to stress what the administration is doing to help the economy, sources tell Axios. Why it matters: The meeting comes as the Iran war has sent gas prices soaring, and after the stock market's worst day since Trump launched the war a month ago. - Trump's team believes the economy — above all other issues, including any anxiety over the president's actions on Iran or immigration — will drive voter sentiment heading into the November elections. - Democrats have won a series of state and federal elections in recent weeks, as Trump's poll numbers — including on his handling of the economy — have…