Flying Too Close to the Hill

THE LATEST

President Donald Trump will attend midterm rallies in Kansas and Iowa on Sunday after all, resurrecting the events just hours after the White House announced it would cancel them.

A federal appeals court again rejected the Trump administration’s bid to segregate ballots in California from people the government has flagged as noncitizens.

• The DOJ has been ordered to turn over a list of 20,000 people the department has flagged as noncitizens on California’s voter rolls to advocacy groups by 5 p.m. today.

THE ADMINISTRATION

A low-altitude Air Force One flyover during the White House Halloween celebration yesterday drew condemnation from officials and residents, with the D.C. Council saying it received only 15 minutes’ notice before the plane flew over downtown Washington.

The companies that manage billions of dollars in prescription drug spending for workplaces will soon be required to inform their clients of all the different ways they get paid under a new final rule, The Hill reports.

THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

The NRSC asked the FEC to investigate whether Democratic Senate nominee Mary Peltola’s campaign and the DSCC were involved in an effort to recruit a spoiler candidate to run against incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Semafor reports.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sounded the alarm on the state’s “excruciatingly close” Senate race during an episode of his podcast today.

• “Understand, we could lose Texas. Let me repeat that: We could lose Texas. And by the way, not just the Senate race. We could lose every single statewide race in Texas. That’s how close these numbers are,” he said.

Jessica Killin, a Democratic House candidate in Colorado, has a “principal residence” in Maryland, according to Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation records reviewed by The Washington Sun.

Pope Leo XIV is the first pope to vote in a U.S. general election after he submitted his mail-in ballot for Illinois’ contests.

THE COURTS

Judge Ana Reyes says she will appoint a special master to investigate whether Justice and Interior Department officials lied to her regarding the East Potomac Park golf course case.

• The probe will include whether they counseled a Park Service official to exclude certain details and whether they misrepresented their plans to renovate the course.

A federal judge sounded open to allowing the Trump administration’s third and latest criminal case against James Comey to proceed so a grand jury can decide whether to indict the former FBI director.

An ICE officer accused of intentionally ramming his car into a Mexican construction worker in Houston was charged today with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, prosecutors said.

CHEESEBURGER IN SOFIA

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