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--:-- Dave Mattingly: Airlines are offering fewer flights beginning today because of the ongoing shutdown of the federal government. NPR's Joel Rose says the Federal Aviation Administration ordered a reduced flight capacity to ensure safety amid staffing shortages at airports.
--:-- Joel Rose: United, Delta, and American have begun canceling hundreds of flights on Friday and beyond. The FAA officially released a list of 40 major airports that will be affected by the reductions, including airline hubs in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, and elsewhere.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: David Kinselman, a senior vice president at United, told NPR's All Things Considered that the airline will adjust.
--:-- David Kinselman: We have service disruptions frequently in the airline business, so we've got a good playbook.
--:-- Joel Rose: The FAA has already been delaying flights at some airports because of staffing shortages among air traffic controllers. Those controllers are required to work without pay during the shutdown, but some have taken on second jobs and many are calling out sick.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: This is day 38 of the government shutdown, the longest on record.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: A bipartisan resolution requiring President Trump to get congressional approval to escalate U.S. military action against Venezuela has failed to clear the Senate.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: 51 Republican senators voted against it. Two GOP senators, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, voted with Democrats in favor.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: Hours after the vote, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced American forces had carried out another airstrike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean.
--:-- Pete Hegseth: He says three people aboard the boat were killed in international waters. Strikes on such vessels in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific have left nearly 70 people dead in recent months.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: South Korea's military says North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile into the sea today.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: It's the sixth known launch so far this year.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: A jury in Washington, D.C. has acquitted a man charged with assaulting a federal officer when he threw a sandwich at him.
--:-- Kerry Johnson: NPR's Kerry Johnson says jurors deliberated for about seven hours before finding the man not guilty.
--:-- Kerry Johnson: The case has come to symbolize how parts of D.C. have resisted a surge of federal law enforcement agents part of President Trump's effort to make the city safe and beautiful.
--:-- Kerry Johnson: A grand jury refused to indict Sean Charles Dunn on a felony charge. Instead, prosecutors moved ahead with a less serious misdemeanor case.
--:-- Kerry Johnson: The jury found Dunn not guilty of forcibly assaulting, resisting, or impeding the immigration agent.
--:-- Kerry Johnson: Agent Gregory Larimore testified the sub exploded on his ballistic vest, and he smelled mustard and onion.
--:-- Kerry Johnson: But defense lawyers say there was no injury, and Larimore kept gag gifts about the incident in his office.
--:-- Kerry Johnson: Dunn was fired from the Justice Department after the sandwich video went viral.
--:-- Kerry Johnson: He says he's relieved and wants to move forward with his life.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: This is NPR News from Washington.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: Shareholders at Tesla's annual meeting in Texas have approved a massive pay package for CEO Elon Musk.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: As NPR's Camila Domenoski reports, the package is potentially worth a trillion dollars.
--:-- Camila Domenoski: Elon Musk's previous pay package is currently tied up in a legal battle after a shareholder challenged it.
--:-- Camila Domenoski: That pay package was a world record, too. Stock worth more than $55 billion if Musk hit all the targets, which he did.
--:-- Camila Domenoski: The new one, an order of magnitude larger, is linked to a new set of targets for valuation and earnings and the number of cars and robots sold.
--:-- Camila Domenoski: Musk has said it's not the money that he values so much as the influence the stock represents. Influence over Tesla and more specifically over the humanoid robots and other AI-powered tech that Tesla might build and sell.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: Honda is reporting a sharp drop in earnings for the first half of its fiscal year.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: The Japanese automaker says profits were down 37 percent compared to the same period a year ago.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: It comes amid higher tariffs on vehicles exported to the U.S.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: Honda is lowering its profit outlook for the rest of the fiscal year.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: Earlier this week, Japanese rival Toyota raised its earnings outlook.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: Wall Street is coming off a day of sharp losses. The Dow dropped 398 points yesterday.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: The S&P 500 lost more than 1 percent.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: The Nasdaq dropped 445 points, or 1.9 percent.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: This year's inductees into the National Toy Hall of Fame include the board games Trivial Pursuit and Battleship.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: The Hall Museum is in Rochester, New York.
--:-- Dave Mattingly: I'm Dave Mattingly.
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