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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. 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. 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. NPR's Joel Rose reporting.

Watched all groups led by former parks' service employees say that the shutdown worsened the funding and environmental crisis at national parks. NPR's Kirk Siegler reports that the Trump administration ordered most national parks to stay open with the skeleton staff. Thousands of furloughed National Park Service employees are now returning to work after the 43-day 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. 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. 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 Sigler, NPR News. In Michigan, three men are charged with trying to aid a terrorist organization. From member station WDET, Quinn Kleinfelter reports that the session, are accused of plotting an attack over the Halloween weekend. 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. The government has arrested eight individuals so far in connection with the case, including men from New Jersey and Washington State and several juveniles. Defense attorneys counter those indicted just talk tough on social media, but never planned to harm anyone. For NPR News, I'm Quinn Kleinfelter in Detroit. 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 business in Kyiv were damaged in the attacks. You're listening to NPR. 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. 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. Boeing machinists in the St. Louis area have ended their four-month-old strike after approving the company's latest contract offer. From St. Louis Public Radio, Olivia Mizell has the story. Union members voted more than two to one to approve Boeing's five-year offer. It raises the ratification bonus to $6,000, but leaves other elements unchanged. Many members said the contract wasn't ideal, but they voted yes because the length of the strike is weighing on him. Kevin Gray, however, says he voted no. There's just a couple of thousand dollars added more on the front end, and that's it. It's like still, boy, 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. Even so, Gray says he's ready to get back to work. Striking workers will return to work starting the evening of November 16th. For NPR news, I'm Olivia Maisal in St. Louis. 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. This is NPR News.