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(WASHINGTON) -- Amid efforts to end the ongoing government shutdown, the Trump administration has informed the Supreme Court that it intends to continue seeking a stay of a lower court's order requiring full payment of November SNAP benefits.That order remains on hold following a late-Friday night administrative action by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Solicitor General John Sauer told the court that if the government reopens, its request would become moot -- but in the meantime, the […]

(NEW YORK) -- More than 1,600 flights have been canceled across the U.S. on Monday as the Federal Aviation Administration limits capacity at 40 major U.S. airports, with President Donald Trump threatening air traffic controllers to "get back to work, NOW!!!""All Air Traffic Controllers must get back to work, NOW!!! Anyone who doesn't will be substantially 'docked,'" Trump said in a social media post on Monday.In addition to the 1,656 flights canceled […]

Snow Potential - Through Wednesday Map (ABC News) (NEW YORK) -- The first snow of the season struck the Midwest this weekend, and more snow is on the way for the North in the next few days while freeze warnings hit the South.The snow forecastVery heavy snow -- at rates of 2 inches per hour -- fell overnight in Valparaiso, Indiana, with more than 9 inches of snow reported as […]

Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG (NEW YORK) -- More than 1,500 flights were canceled across the country early on Monday amid the Federal Aviation Administration's limiting capacity at 40 major U.S. airports.Another 881 flights were expected to be delayed on Monday, according to FlightAware, an airline traffic tracker, which also logged some 1,509 cancellations for flights within, into or out of the United States.The travel chaos, which comes amid […]

Grant Baldwin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Nationwide flight disruption stretched into Sunday following cancellations or delays to thousands of flights on Saturday, as the Federal Aviation Administration limited capacity at 40 major U.S. airports amid the longest government shutdown in American history.As of 5:30 a.m. ET on Sunday, more than 1,100 flights were cancelled across the country according to the FlightAware website, as the FAA grappled with sustained staffing issues […]

FDNY (NEW YORK) -- Patrick Brady, a New York City firefighter, had a "medical episode" while battling a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn on Saturday and later died at the hospital, officials said.Brady, 42, was an 11-year veteran of the department, FDNY Commissioner Robert S. Tucker said in a joint press release with Mayor Eric Adams."Firefighter Patrick Brady gave his life protecting the city we all love; there is no sacrifice […]

(NEW YORK) -- There is a paragraph on page 22 of the Trump administration's appeal of a federal judge's requirement that it make full November SNAP payments that has to be seen to be believed.The opening sentence asserts that "the district court's order threatens significant and irreparable harm to the government which outweighs any claimed injury to plaintiffs."In plain English, the Justice Department is telling the court that it would […]

mphotoi/Getty Images (SAN ANTONIO) -- Three people were shot dead at a landscape supply company in San Antonio, Texas, early Saturday, authorities said.San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said on social media that the suspect is "down" with a "self-inflicted" wound.McManus said at a news conference earlier on Saturday that "the people involved in this event are employees of that landscape supply company.""There may be others wounded, but we're not […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Americans in parts of the Midwest to northern New England could see their first snow of the season early next week due to an arctic blast.The very warm Great Lakes combined with arctic air will kickstart the lake-effect snow season late this weekend into the new workweek, but this will not be historic snowfall by any measure.A Winter Storm Watch is in effect for Chicago […]