Good morning!🙋🏼‍♀️ I’m Nicole Fallert. What should you do with all that leftover Halloween candy?
Quick look at Monday’s news:
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The government shutdown is days away from becoming the longest in American history.
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The Dodgers’ win was World Series history.
All eyes on air traffic controllers
The last time a government shutdown broke records, a 35-day funding pause in December 2018 and January 2019, it ended partly because of increasingly tight staffing at some of the nation’s busiest airports.
What about this time? Although air traffic controllers are largely seen as having played a central role in ending the previous shutdown, representatives from their union say they hope to remain apolitical and focus on the traveling public’s safety.
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Is travel hurting? Despite sporadic staff shortages at air traffic control facilities across the country since the shutdown began, flight operations have been largely normal.
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What about federal food assistance? Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that President Donald Trump wants to hear from the courts about how to legally move money around to fund Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments, but he noted during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” that it “could” flow by Wednesday.
Meanwhile, a little party
President Trump hosted a Great Gatsby-themed party Friday at Mar-a-Lago, as multiple federal judges ruled the administration could not stop funding food aid amid the ongoing government shutdown. The party was labeled “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody.”
President Donald Trump talks with guests during a Halloween party at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Friday in Palm Beach, Florida.
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These women will make their own Epstein list
Six years after Epstein’s death, there are hundreds of women who call themselves Survivor Sisters. They are the driving force behind the renewed public pressure to identify Epstein associates they say assaulted them or participated in his trafficking ring. Epstein’s estate did not respond to requests for comment. In the weeks since gathering on Capitol Hill in Septemeber, USA TODAY spoke with three women who recounted being abused when they were younger across multiple states and territories over a period of many years at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein. This is their story.
ICE said sign a form. He could not read it.
Pablo Cruz Vásquez, an undocumented Glass House worker, was among detainees in one of the largest raids nationally during President Trump’s current immigration crackdown. The 35-year-old is severely hearing impaired and has limited ability to speak. Federal agents, he said, made few attempts to accommodate his disability. At least two other deaf immigrants detained by federal officials in recent months have been held without access to translators, according to media reports.
Today’s talkersCan we talk about that World Series?!
Game 7 was so insane, so compelling, so breathtaking, so dramatic, that when the final out was made early Sunday morning, Dodgers three-time Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw looked at his teammates in disbelief. It was that kind of night: the Dodgers really won the World Series, 5-4, in 11 innings over the Toronto Blue Jays. Los Angeles is the first team in a quarter-century to go back-to-back.
Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers celebrate after winning Game 7.
Photo of the day: Runner’s high
A trio of women from Kenya finished atop the podium, continuing the country’s domination in the professional race at the TCS New York City Marathon, with Hellen Obiri crossing the finish line first at Central Park, breaking the course record after a final sprint down the stretch.
Hellen Obiri of Kenya reacts while crossing the finish line during the New York City Marathon on Sunday.
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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Shutdown, air traffic, election, Trump, Epstein, ICE, World Series, NYC Marathon: Daily Briefing