Airlines have canceled more than 7,500 flights since Friday due to weather and air traffic control shortages, but relief now appears to be in sight as more controllers report to work with news of a possible end to the government shutdown. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said staffing shortages at air traffic control facilities eased significantly…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s administrative stay of a lower court order for the Trump administration to immediately complete payment of full SNAP benefits for November. The decision, despite Judge Jackson’s own objection, preserves the status quo as Congress appears poised to end the record-long government shutdown and fully fund…
Jimmy Kimmel’s band leader and childhood friend Cleto Escobedo III died Tuesday morning. Kimmel announced on social media. Escobedo, who led the band Cleto and the Cletones at Kimmel’s show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” He was 59 years old. No cause of death was provided. “Early this morning, we lost a great friend, father, son, musician…
The longest government shutdown in American history is nearing an end, as the House is scheduled to meet Wednesday to vote on the federal spending bill. The Senate approved the measure Monday night, with eight members of the Democratic caucus joining Republicans. The United States Capitol dome is visible on November 10, 2025 at the…
President Donald Trump said the U.S. economy is strong and insisted that polls showing Americans are feeling economic pain are “false” during an interview on Fox News that aired Monday night. Trump said bad news about the economy amounted to a “Democrat scam,” adding that Democrats “feed” anchors on major news networks the message that…
Disruptions to air travel continued across the United States on Tuesday, with more than 1,100 flights canceled before dawn, according to a flight data tracker. Some 541 flights within, to or from the United States were also delayed around 5 a.m. ET, according to conscious flightalong with the 1,156 that had been cancelled. A passenger…
Observers on Monday were quick to frame President Donald Trump’s broad pardon of so-called “false electors” as a symbolic gesture, since the various criminal cases against those individuals exist in the states, outside the jurisdiction of the presidential pardon. But there is one notable exception: Harrison Floyd, a little-known former Marine who served on Trump’s…
Stocks closed sharply higher on Monday after the Senate voted hours earlier to advance a possible deal on the government shutdown, which has weighed on economic output and sowed uncertainty in markets for more than a month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 380 points, or 0.8%, while the S&The P 500 rose 1.5%….
President Donald Trump promised over the weekend to provide every American with a $2,000 dividend to be distributed from what he said was tariff revenue. “Everyone will be paid a dividend of at least $2,000 per person (not including high-income earners!),” the president partially wrote on social media on Sunday. Within hours, however, Treasury Secretary…
1 hour and 21 minutes ago Trump tells air traffic controllers to “get back to work NOW” and calls for a $10,000 bonus for some President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at air traffic controllers who lost their jobs amid the government shutdown, recommending a $10,000 bonus for those workers who continued to work…
