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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingley. 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. 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. David Kinselman, a senior vice president at United, told NPRs All Things Considered, that the airline will adjust.

We have service disruptions frequently in the airline business, so we've got a good playbook. 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. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington. This is day 38 of the government shut down the longest on record. A bipartisan resolution requiring President Trump to get congressional approval to escalate U.S. military action against Venezuela has failed to clear the Senate. Fifty-one Republican senators voted against it. Two GOP senators ran Paul of Kentucky and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted with Democrats in favor. Hours after the vote, Defense Secretary Pete Hed

said announced American forces had carried out another airstrike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean. 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. South Korea's military says North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile into the sea today. It's the sixth known launch so far this year. A jury in Washington, D.C. has acquitted a man charged with assaulting a federal officer when he threw a sandwich at him. NPR's Carrie Johnson says jurors deliberated for about seven hours before finding the man not guilty. 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. A grand jury refused to indict Sean Charles Dunn on a felony charge. Instead, prosecutors moved ahead with a less serious misdemeanor case. The jury found Dunn not guilty of forcibly assaulting, resisting, or impeding the immigration agent. Agent Gregory Lairmore testified the sub exploded on his ballistic vest, and he smelled mustard and onion. But defense lawyers say there was no injury, and Lermore kept gag gifts about the incident in his office. Dunn was fired from the Justice Department after the sandwich video went viral. He says he's relieved and wants to move forward with his life. Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.

This is NPR News from Washington. Washington. Shareholders at Tesla's annual meeting in Texas have approved a massive pay package for CEO Elon Musk. As NPR's Kamila Dominovsky reports, the package is potentially worth a trillion dollars. Elon Musk's previous pay package is currently tied up in a legal battle after a shareholder challenged it. That pay package was a world record, too. Stock worth more than $55 billion if Musk hit all the targets, which he did. 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.

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. Camila Dominovsky, NPR News. Honda is reporting a sharp drop in earnings for the first half of its fiscal year, the Japanese. Japanese automaker says profits were down 37 percent compared to the same period a year ago. It comes amid higher tariffs on vehicles exported to the U.S. Honda is lowering its profit outlook for the rest of the fiscal year. Earlier this week, Japanese rival Toyota raised its earnings outlook. Wall Street is coming off a day of sharp losses.

The Dow dropped 398 points yesterday. The S&P 500 lost more than 1%. The NASDAQ dropped 445 points or 1.5. This year's inductees into the National Toy Hall of Fame include the board games trivial pursuit and battleship. The Hall Museum is in Rochester, New York. I'm Dave Mattingly.