Controversy Over Rubio's $7.5M Deportation Deal

Plus, why private air travel is booming. 

Here’s what we’re covering:

Newsom in the Spotlight at the Climate Conference That Trump Decided to Skip by Somini Sengupta

A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics by Somini Sengupta and Brad Plumer

Trump Administration Plans to Send Border Patrol to Charlotte and New Orleans by Dana Goldstein and Hamed Aleaziz

Aircraft Carrier Moves Into the Caribbean as U.S. Confronts Venezuela by Eric Schmitt

Senator Criticizes Rubio for Paying $7.5 Million to Equatorial Guinea to Take Deportees by Edward Wong

House Returns After Long Recess to Take Up Bill to End Shutdown by Michael Gold

Who Didn’t Suffer During the Shutdown? People Flying Private by Christine Chung

Israel Arrests 4 After Jewish Extremist Attack in Occupied West Bank by Aaron Boxerman

The Volunteer Buglers Giving 24-Note Salutes by Danny Freedman

Tune in every weekday morning, and tell us what you think at: theheadlines@nytimes.com.

Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.