A Washington Post live-updates page leads with Sensor Tower's estimate that Grand Theft Auto VI has passed $1 billion in sales a week before its November 19, 2026, release, sending Take-Two shares up more than 8 percent. It also covers Tennessee's effort to block Christa Pike's attorneys from testing the lethal-injection drug, Congress's funding impasse ahead of a December 11 shutdown deadline, no House Democrat losing to a Republican in the midterms, Trump's Veterans Day defense of military force, and Gwyneth Paltrow's new "The Goop Guide" vodcast.