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Federal workers question whether the longest government shutdown was worth their sacrifice

By FATIMA HUSSEIN
Nov 13, 2025 7:16 am - With the longest shutdown ever coming to a close, hundreds of thousands of other federal workers who missed paychecks will soon get some relief.
FAA says flight cuts will stay at 6% because more air traffic controllers are coming to work

Nov 12, 2025 8:06 pm - Flight reductions at 40 major U.S. airports will remain at 6% instead of rising to 10% by the end of the week because more air traffic controllers are coming to work, the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration announced Wednesday.
Pritzker worries that Trump will go to extremes to distract from Epstein files

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI
Nov 12, 2025 8:04 pm - Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he’s worried about how President Donald Trump might respond to the growing controversy over documents tying him to Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump signs funding bill, ending shutdown

By KEVIN FREKING, JOEY CAPPELLETTI and MATT BROWN
Nov 12, 2025 7:33 pm - President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill Wednesday night, ending a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded scores of travelers at airports and generated long lines at some food banks.
House effort to force vote on releasing Epstein files can advance

By Kadia Goba and Hannah Knowles
Nov 12, 2025 7:26 pm - A bipartisan House effort to force a vote on releasing more files related to the federal government’s investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein can now move forward.
Catholic bishops launch new program in defense of migrants

By Michelle Boorstein
Nov 12, 2025 6:37 pm - The Trump administration has deported 400,000 people this year and detained some 60,000 others, part of a crackdown on undocumented immigrants that has also swept up some who are in the country legally. Immigration enforcement officials have blocked priests from offering Communion to some incarcerated immigrants.
Flight cancellations appear to improve, but disruptions are not over yet

By Niha Masih and Lori Aratani
Nov 12, 2025 4:14 pm - Flight operations in the United States appeared to improve Wednesday, with fewer scheduled cancellations on the sixth day of air travel disruptions, though airlines have warned it would take time for normal services to resume.
US Mint in Philadelphia presses final pennies as the 1-cent coin gets canceled

By MARYCLAIRE DALE
Nov 12, 2025 4:10 pm - The U.S. Mint on Wednesday ended production of the penny, a change made to save money and because the 1-cent coin that could once buy a snack or a piece of candy had become increasingly irrelevant.
Israel’s president says ‘shocking’ settler violence against Palestinians must end

By MELANIE LIDMAN and JULIA FRANKEL
Nov 12, 2025 3:58 pm - Israel's president and high-ranking military officials on Wednesday condemned attacks a day earlier by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank, calling for an end to a growing wave of settler violence in the occupied territory.
Planned Parenthood closes 20 clinics after Medicaid cuts, warns of grim future

By Praveena Somasundaram
Nov 12, 2025 3:48 pm - Planned Parenthood has spent tens of millions of dollars providing health care to low-income patients and has closed 20 clinics in the months since the Trump administration blocked the group from billing Medicaid — but weathering the funding cut on its own will soon become untenable, its leaders say.

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