Dale Willman

As NPR's Joel Rose reports, the Federal Aviation Administration says controllers received the first installment of their back pay from the government shutdown today.

A federal judge has signed off on Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy plan.

The plan involves settling lawsuits against the company at the center of the nation's opioid crisis.

NPR's Sydney Lepkin has more on our story.

The Pentagon said Friday that it launched another attack in the Caribbean on a boat officials say was carrying drugs.

Four people were killed in that attack.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the attack on Friday, even though it occurred last Monday.

That was one day after two other similar attacks by U.S.

forces.

Stocks closed mixed today on Wall Street, and you're listening to NPR News.

Russia says Ukraine has attacked a key oil port city along the southern Black Sea.

At least four people were injured in that strike.

It comes during a number of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia's energy sector.

MPS Charles Mainz reports from Moscow.

Shareholders of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are backing the proposed $85 billion merger of the two railroads.

If approved by the U.S.

Surface Transportation Board, it would create the nation's first coast-to-coast rail network.

The proposed merger has also won the support of the largest rail union, along with hundreds of shippers.

But competing railroad BNSF says the merger would hurt competition and lead to higher rates.

Police in Oakland, California say Laney College football coach John Beam died Friday after being shot on the campus the day before.