Rachel Belle with Jada Yuan, NYT 52 Places travel writer // Steven Portnoy on the government shutdown // Jeremy Smith, author of Breaking and Entering, and his subject, a hacker named Alien // Colleen O'Brien's dose of kindness -- Steve Hartman's feature on a gracious wrestler // Sports Insider Danny O'Neil with more of what makes Edgar Martinez great/ the Mariners-Yankees-Reds trade // David Fahrenthold live on the government shutdown/ the Mueller probe // Hanna Scott on firearms legislation in Olympia // Chris Sullivan's Chokepoint -- 99 update and diverging diamonds