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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history may soon be coming to an end. The House is expected to vote as early as tomorrow on a deal to reopen the government, which President Trump has indicated he will sign. Here's NPR Sam Greenglass. The House has not held any votes since well before the shutdown began 42 days ago. But after the Senate voted late Monday on a deal to reopen the government, House leadership called members back to Washington. The agreement funds most of the government through January 30th and select agencies through the end of next September, as well as guarantees back pay to federal workers and reverses firings carried out by the Trump administration while the government was closed. The deal also came with the promise of a Senate vote on the expiring Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies, setting up a contentious debate on health care in the coming weeks.

Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington. Weeks before Thanksgiving air travel still affected in the fall of. out of the shutdown, the flight tracking website Flight Aware says more than 2,000 flights within or out of the U.S. were canceled today and more than 1,200 or delayed, partly due to the shutdown-related air traffic restrictions as well as a blast of wintry weather across large parts of the U.S. On a chilly Veterans Day, thousands turned out for the annual parade in New York City. NPR's Quill Lawrence reports from the noisy scene at Manhattan's Madison Square Park. Amid spitting snow, veterans and service members and dignitaries and girl and boy scouts march down Fifth Avenue.

Danny Prince is a veteran of the Navy, the Coast Guard, and the FDNY. So much meaning from all the people that sacrificed so much to get us the freedom that we have and that we have right now. And people don't appreciate what we have. And it's so important to come out and thank them for what they did. Parade marshals, including Medal of Honor recipient Clint Romisha, and astronaut Sanita Williams, laid wreaths on a memorial statue in the park at 11, 11, 1, on the 11th day of the 11th month, the date that commemorates the end of World War I. Quill Lawrence NPR News, New York.

Organic baby formula maker Byhart is recalling all of its products. Here's NPR's Maria Godoy. Since August, at least 15 infants in at least 12 states have been hospitalized with botulism after consuming Byhart's infant formula. No deaths have been reported. The voluntary recall includes Byhart's whole nutrition infant formula and its anywhere pouches of powdered formula. Over the weekend, Byhart had announced it was recalling two lots of its infant formula.

On Tuesday, the company said its decision to expand the recall to all of its products came amid an ongoing investigation with, quote, too many unanswered questions. It said the safety of infants is its biggest priority. That's NPR's Maria Godoy, report. At last check on Wall Street, the Dow is up more than 500 points. It's NPR. Romania, a member of NATO, is accusing Russia of another incursion into Romanian airspace. The defense ministry says it found drone fragments on its soil following Russia's overnight attack on Ukraine's Danube River ports. The government says the fragments landed in an uninhabited area.

NATO member Poland also protested a similar Russian drone encounter. curion of its territory two months ago. Poland and Romania are now deploying the new American Merop system to identify encounter drones. A growing number of people are turning to artificial intelligence for legal help. But as NPR's Windsor-Johnston reports, some experts warn that could come with serious risks. AI tools are being used to draft contracts, interpret laws, and even file court motions. But legal experts say these systems aren't trained for accuracy and they often produce errors. Logan Brown is an attorney and AI researcher. She says the technology can be useful for quick summaries but shouldn't replace license counsel. AI is designed to

give you an answer as quickly as possible and to state it as confidently as possible, no matter the nuance, the detail, or the complexity of what's actually behind it. So people are relying on something that is clearly sploken whenever it's actually far, far more complex than it is. Brown says some attorneys have phase penalties for submitting AI-generated filings with bogus legal references. Windsor Johnston, NPR News. The Dow has gained 581 points or 1.2%. SMP's up 20. The NASDAQ is off 35 points. It's NPR News.