NPR News: 11-07-2025 12PM EST
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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. As the holiday season begins to ramp up, airlines are starting to cancel hundreds of flights to meet a federal target of 10% fewer traffic at the nation's busiest airports. The fallout of a government shutdown. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says air traffic restrictions will happen gradually.
It's going to be 4% today in regard to those 40 airports.
What are the implications of flight cancellations during the holiday season?
And again, we're going to step ladder that up to get to 10% next week. The exact number I can't give you. And I don't want to see the disruption. I don't want to see the delays.
As air traffic controllers go on five weeks working without pay, Duffy says the restrictions are the best way to keep air travel safe. Duffy addressed reporters at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., where in January, a midair collision between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter killed 67 people. The shutdown has forced a broad cross-section of federal workers to go weeks without a paycheck. Some community organizations are stepping up. For Member Station WAMU, Jackson Sinnenberg reports on how one school district in the Washington, D.C. area is helping.
Arlington is the first Virginia suburb you hit west out of D.C. and home to the Pentagon. It's a hotbed for federal employees. That's why the superintendent of Arlington Public Schools asked the district to come up with ideas to help families. One solution? Serve dinner at three schools while the shutdown lasts. Arlington Public Schools' Frank Bellavia.
When you think about communities, you think about the schools that are there, and these really are the backbones of the community. So us being here and doing this meet is nothing different.
The school system plans to serve 250 meals at each school every weeknight for 30 days, or until the shutdown ends. For NPR News, I'm Jackson Sindenberg in Washington, D.C.
The first Friday of the month typically offers a comprehensive report on the performance of the nation's employment sector for the prior month. Today, Labor Department has not released such a report. The government shut down. President Trump says that Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords. These normalize diplomatic ties between Israel and several Muslim countries during Trump's first term in office. But NPR's Frank Ordonez reports Kazakhstan already has full diplomatic relations with Israel.
The president declared the move as a major step toward building bridges across the world. At a dinner with Central Asian leaders, including Kazakhstan, Trump posted that the administration is negotiating with other foreign leaders about joining.
The Abraham Accords are very sought after right now. We're going to be announcing some very important countries that are joining.
It's a largely symbolic move. The White House described it as a signal that the accords are alive and well in the second administration. Regional concerns over the war in Gaza has been a major impediment to attracting more signers to the agreement, including Saudi Arabia.
That's Frank Ordonez. It's NPR News. The Trump administration struck two more deals with the pharmaceutical industry as part of its push to get lower drug prices for Americans. This time, they involved the popular and expensive obesity drugs made by Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk. Here's NPR's Sydney Lepkin.
A lot of the stuff about the obesity drugs is unique to the administration's arrangements with Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly. That said, today's deals also included similar terms to deals with Pfizer and AstraZeneca, such as a three-year exemption from certain tariffs. Sydney Lupkin reporting.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is facing allegations of mortgage fraud. The accusations are similar to the ones against New York Attorney General Letitia James in Virginia. Each is accused of claiming multiple homes as a primary residence on mortgage documents in an effort to secure more favorable interest rates. Lauren McGaughy with the Texas Newsroom reports.
Hunter Bonner is a lifelong Republican and chairman of the Marion County GOP, but he's also a critic of Paxton, who's running to unseat Republican U.S.
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