Nora Rahm

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Today is day 40 of the government shutdown, the longest ever.

The Senate is working through the weekend to attempt to craft a bipartisan solution to the deadlock.

NPR's Ava Pukach reports.

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy tells CNN holiday travel will be affected.

Flights are being canceled or delayed by a shortage of air traffic controllers who are required to work but aren't getting paid.

Russia says it currently has no intention of resuming nuclear testing, but acknowledged it's studying the possibility.

NPR's Charles Maines reports from Moscow.

The head of the British military, Sir Richard Knighton, says Belgium's NATO's allies are helping the country bolster its defenses after several drone incursions believed to have been carried out by Russia.

Knighton was interviewed on the BBC.

This is NPR News in Washington.

Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says he's donating $1 million from his campaign funds to bring Turning Point USA chapters

to all Texas colleges and high schools.

Texas Public Radio's Jerry Clayton has more.

Tonight marks the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, when German Nazis attacked Jewish communities, setting synagogues on fire and vandalizing Jewish homes and businesses.

Walter Bingham, now 101, recalls what he saw that night.

From 1941 through 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered 6 million Jewish men, women, and children.

Bingham says education is necessary to fight anti-Semitism today.

I'm Nora Rahm, NPR News.