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--:-- Joel Rose: The FAA is not saying when it will lift the temporary flight reductions at dozens of major airports across the U.S. As NPR's Joel Rose reports, many air traffic controllers took on second jobs to tide them over during the government shutdown.
--:-- Joel Rose: Over this past weekend, the FAA reported staffing shortages at dozens of facilities at once, leading to some of the worst delays of the entire shutdown. This week, the number of staffing shortages declined sharply to just a handful over the past few days. And that gave regulators some confidence that more controllers are coming to work. But they say they will not lift these reductions completely until the safety data improves.
--:-- Joel Rose: NPR's Joel Rose reporting.
--:-- Kirk Siegler: Watchdog groups led by former Park Service employees say that the shutdown worsened the funding and environmental crisis at national parks. NPR Kirk Siegler reports that the Trump administration ordered most national parks to stay open with the skeleton staff.
--:-- Kirk Siegler: Thousands of furloughed National Park Service employees are now returning to work after the 43 shutdown. Many entrance gates at parks remained open but unstaffed. One estimate by watchdog groups predicts the service may have lost upwards of $40 million in entrance fee revenue.
--:-- Kirk Siegler: This is a big deal because it follows cuts to the agency ordered by President Trump and his Doge team. Since January, the Park Service lost a quarter of its entire staff, from scientists to janitors to rangers.
--:-- Kirk Siegler: Meanwhile, the return of the remaining staff is seen as a relief following reports of vandalism of artifacts at Arches National Park in Utah, base jumpers off El Capitan at Yosemite, and damage to a stone wall at historic Gettysburg.
--:-- Kirk Siegler: Kirk Ziegler, NPR News.
--:-- Quinn Kleinfelter: In Michigan, three men are charged with trying to aid a terrorist organization. From member station WDET, Quinn Kleinfelter reports that the suspects are accused of plotting an attack over the Halloween weekend.
--:-- Quinn Kleinfelter: FBI Director Cash Patel applauded the Bureau for stopping the alleged Halloween assault in the Detroit area before it could begin. Now a grand jury is indicting 19-year-old Ayyab Nasser, his 20-year-old brother Muhammad Ali, and 20-year-old Majid Mahmoud, accusing them of stockpiling weapons to use in a crime and conspiring to help the Islamic State terrorist group.
--:-- Quinn Kleinfelter: The government has arrested eight individuals so far in connection with the case including men from New Jersey and Washington State and several juveniles.
--:-- Quinn Kleinfelter: Defense attorneys counter those indicted just talk tough on social media but never plan to harm anyone.
--:-- Quinn Kleinfelter: For NPR News, I'm Quinn Kleinfelter in Detroit.
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--:-- Shea Stevens: Residents in the Ukrainian capital were urged to stay indoors early today amid a series of Russian attacks that left at least 11 people injured, at least one critically. Critical infrastructure, multiple apartment buildings, private homes, and businesses in Kyiv were damaged in the attacks.
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--:-- Shea Stevens: The Justice Department is suing California's Secretary of State and Governor Gavin Newsom over new voter-approved redistricting plans. DOJ says the plan mandates racially gerrymandered congressional districts.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Newsom says the aim is to create more Democratic seats in response to the Texas redistricting that recently added five likely Republican seats in the U.S. House.
--:-- Olivia Mizell: Boeing machinists in the St. Louis area have ended their four-month-old strike after approving the company latest contract offer From St Louis Public Radio Olivia Mizell has the story.
--:-- Olivia Mizell: Union members voted more than two to one to approve Boeing's offer. It raises the ratification bonus to but leaves other elements unchanged.
--:-- Olivia Mizell: Many members said the contract wasn't ideal, but they voted yes because the length of the strike is weighing on them.
--:-- Kevin Gray: It's just a couple of thousand dollars added more on the front end and that's it. It's like still, Boeing don't value us. They make too much money for us to be trying to start people off at $18 an hour. That's ludicrous.
--:-- Olivia Mizell: Even so, Gray says he's ready to get back to work. Striking workers will return to work starting the evening of November 16th.
--:-- Olivia Mizell: For NPR News, I'm Olivia Mizell in St. Louis.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Regions at Texas A&M University have adopted a new policy requiring prior approval before professors can discuss topics on race and gender in classrooms. The change comes months after a video of a student confronting a professor over a lesson on gender identity went viral.
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