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FAA Flight Reductions From Shutdown Begin Friday

The map above shows the 40 airports that may be affected by the FAA cuts and flight cancellations caused by the ongoing government shutdown. Phil Holm/AP hide caption toggle caption Phil Holm/AP The Federal Aviation Administration 's unprecedented order to scale back flights nationwide because of the record-long government shutdown is set to take effect

Kazakhstan Joins Abraham Accords, Boosting Trump Initiative

FILE - Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States at the Palace of the Nation in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Oct. 10, 2025. Vladimir Smirnov/AP via Pool Sputnik Kremlin hide caption toggle caption Vladimir Smirnov/AP via Pool Sputnik Kremlin WASHINGTON

Supreme Court allows birth-sex passport policy to take effect

The U.S. Supreme Court Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Trump to proceed with his plan to require that passport applicants list their sex as what was designated on their birth certificate. The court's decision overturns a lower court order pausing Trump's policy

Where Redistricting Stands After California’s Vote

Loading... California voters this week made the biggest Democratic move yet against President Trump's effort to reshape voting maps in favor of Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections. They overwhelmingly approved a map for congressional districts that could help Democrats win five more seats in the U.S. House. The ballot language itself referred to Texas

Jury Acquits Man Who Threw Subway Sandwich at Federal Officer

Subway sandwich thrower found not guilty in D.C. jury rebuke FBI and Border Patrol officers speak with Sean Charles Dunn, after he threw his sandwich at an officer, along the U Street corridor during a federal law enforcement deployment to the nation's capital on August 10, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Andrew Leyden/Getty Images hide caption

White House Secures Lower Prices for Weight-loss and Diabetes Drugs

Novo Nordisk agreed to lower the price for its obesity drug Wegovy in a deal with the Trump administration announced Thursday. Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images People who rely on Medicare for their health insurance will soon be able to get blockbuster obesity and Type 2

Remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 Years Later

The 729-foot ore boat Edmund Fitzgerald, shown in 1972 file photo, in Marie, Mich. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bettmann Archive/Getty Images No one was more surprised than Gordon Lightfoot when his ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" became one of the biggest hits of 1976, less than a year after the

Teacher Shot by 6-Year-Old Awarded $10 Million

Former Richneck Elementary School teacher Abby Zwerner looks back into the courtroom Oct. 28 during her civil lawsuit trial in Newport News, Va. Stephen M. Katz/The Virginian-Pilot via AP hide caption toggle caption Stephen M. Katz/The Virginian-Pilot via AP NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A jury in Virginia on Thursday awarded $10 million to a former

How Trump Could Subvert the 2026 Midterms

TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. This week, voters across the country went to the polls for a handful of special and local elections. And the outcome is that Democrats won big and small races in what was seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump. But while people were looking

Gaza classrooms double as schools by day, shelters at night

About 300,000 UNRWA pupils have been deprived of a formal education since Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023. Gaza’s classrooms are slowly coming back to life, following two years of relentless Israeli war and devastation that has destroyed the Palestinian enclave’s fabric of daily life: Homes, hospitals and schools. Four weeks into the
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