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--:-- Corva Coleman: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. Effective just now, the Federal Aviation Administration has lifted all flight restrictions on air travel in the U.S. The FAA had reduced flights by up to 6 percent last week. Officials were trying to deal with growing staff shortages among air traffic controllers. That was linked to the federal government shutdown.
--:-- Steve Yeager: The government shutdown I thought was really disappointing all around and showing how dysfunctional our government is.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Tens of thousands of flights were delayed or canceled during the 43-day-long government shutdown. Airlines say they're confident their operations will return to normal in time for people to travel over the Thanksgiving holiday.
--:-- Corva Coleman: President Trump has reversed course. He now says that House Republicans should vote to release the Justice Department's files on late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Trump says quote we have nothing to hide.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Writing online last night Trump described the issue as a quote Democrat hoax and claimed it was intended to deflect from GOP success Trump's declaration comes as a bipartisan group in the House has already gathered enough support to vote on releasing the files.
--:-- Luke Garrett: And Pierre's Luke Garrett has more. Republican Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky helped gather the 218 signatures needed to force the vote.
--:-- Thomas Massey: On ABC News, Massey cautions his fellow Republicans that this ballot record will live on beyond President Trump. In 2030, he's not going to be the president, and you will have voted to protect pedophiles if you don't vote to release these files, and the president can't protect you.
--:-- Luke Garrett: Trump called Massey a loser. NPR's Luke Garrett reporting.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Newly released paperwork shows a former member of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors violated ethics rules for financial transactions. NPR's Scott Horsley reports the board member abruptly resigned from the central bank three months ago.
--:-- Scott Horsley: Paperwork released by the Office of Government Ethics shows Adriana Kugler bought and sold individual stocks last year in violation of Fed policy. Some of the transactions took place during the so-called blackout periods around Fed meetings, when trading is even more strictly regulated. The rules are designed to avoid the appearance that Fed officials are trading on inside information.
--:-- Adriana Kugler: Kugler says the trades were made by her husband without her knowledge.
--:-- Scott Horsley: News of the stock trades may explain Kugler decision to quit the Fed in August almost six months before her term expired. Her resignation gave President Trump an early opening to install White House economist Stephen Myron on the Fed board, where Myron has echoed the president's call for more aggressive interest rate cuts.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the Trump administration will designate a new terror group. He says it's Cartel de los Solas. The administration claims it's run by Venezuela's president.
--:-- Marco Rubio: Rubio spoke as a major U.S. aircraft carrier sailed into the Caribbean Sea.
--:-- Corva Coleman: This is NPR.
--:-- Corva Coleman: A court in Bangladesh has sentenced former Prime Minister Shea Kassina to death. Her trial was held in absentia. She is in India.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Shea Kassina was ousted from office last year by a popular student uprising. The Bangladeshi court says she ordered lethal force against the students. Hundreds were killed in the protests.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Early data suggests that the number of first-time international college students in the U.S. is down sharply from last year. That's according to the Institute of International Education. It's a non-profit that tracks global enrollment trends.
--:-- Kirk Carapesa: From member station GBH in Boston Kirk Carapesa reports The survey of 800 colleges shows the number of international students enrolling at U colleges for the first time is down 17 percent.
--:-- Gerardo Blanco: Professor Gerardo Blanco directs Boston College's Center for International Higher Education. He attributes that decline to a shift in policy and tone coming from the White House.
--:-- Gerardo Blanco: I think there is a sense that international students are not unambiguously welcome in the United States, and I think that is a significant change in the mood for higher education.
--:-- Kirk Carapesa: The loss is a major blow to schools that depend on international students to offset declining domestic enrollment and dwindling tuition dollars.
--:-- Corva Coleman: For NPR News, I'm Kurt Carapesa in Boston.
--:-- Corva Coleman: The U.S. Postal Service says it lost $9 billion in the last fiscal year. U.S. Postmaster General David Steiner warns the post office cannot fix its finances just by cutting services.
--:-- Corva Coleman: I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News.
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