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Airlines have begun canceling flights at some of the nation’s busiest airports ahead of the Trump’s administration’s mandate to reduce air traffic starting tomorrow. The cuts could affect hundreds of thousands of travelers.
Officials said they planned to slash air traffic by 10 percent at 40 major airports if the government shutdown continued, but they did not announce where the reductions would take place. A preliminary list under discussion includes airports in New York, Washington, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and Seattle. [See if the airport closest to you is expected to face cuts.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/airports-list-flight-cuts-governme…
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Airlines have begun canceling flights at some of the nation’s busiest airports ahead of the Trump’s administration’s mandate to reduce air traffic starting tomorrow. The cuts could affect hundreds of thousands of travelers.
Officials said they planned to slash air traffic by 10 percent at 40 major airports if the government shutdown continued, but they did not announce where the reductions would take place. A preliminary list under discussion includes airports in New York, Washington, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and Seattle. See if the airport closest to you is expected to face cuts.
Airline industry officials expect the reductions to start at 4 percent tomorrow and ramp up through the weekend, reaching 10 percent by next week. The transportation secretary said the cuts were needed to ease the strain on air traffic controllers, who have been working without pay — with many pulling overtime shifts — during the shutdown.
Many major U.S. airlines have indicated that they will maintain international flights and reduce regional trips. Some promised to waive cancellation and change fees. If you have plans to fly, our Travel desk has tips.
It is not clear if there are enough votes in the Senate to end the deadlock. Members of both parties have been quietly negotiating an off-ramp. But after a lunch meeting today, Democrats said they planned to stick to their demands.
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Tesla approved a $1 trillion payday for Musk
Tesla shareholders voted to approve a pay package that could make the car maker’s chief executive, Elon Musk, the world’s first trillionaire. The plan would grant Musk control over roughly 29 percent of Tesla shares if he achieves a series of sky-high goals, including selling a million humanlike robots.
It’s an amount difficult for humans to conceptualize. Consider someone with $1 billion, for comparison: If they spend $100 per second, it would take them about 116 days to go broke. If you had $1 trillion? It would take you 317 years.
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Trump announced a deal to cut obesity drug prices
The Trump administration said it struck an agreement with two major drugmakers that could significantly expand access to hugely popular obesity drugs for millions of Americans.
Under the deal, the drugmakers Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly would lower the price of the pill form of their obesity drugs, set to be approved in the coming months, to as little as $149 a month for the lowest dose. The price of the injectable versions is set to be available for an average of $350 a month. Eligible patients on Medicare and Medicaid would also be able to get the drugs for $50 a month or less starting next year.
In other Trump administration news:
The Supreme Court cleared the way for the administration to require passports to reflect the sex found on original birth certificates.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fund food stamps in full by tomorrow.
More than 100 nations were poised to approve a fee on cargo-ship pollution. The Trump administration killed it with “very personal” threats to the leaders of small countries.
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Nancy Pelosi is retiring
After nearly four decades in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi announced this morning that she would retire at the end of her term in early 2027. Her career made history: She was the nation’s first and only female House speaker.
Despite entering politics later in life, she became one of the most powerful forces in Washington, ushering Obamacare, climate change legislation and infrastructure programs through Congress. In her final years in leadership, she became the face of the Democratic opposition to Trump.
More top news
**Ukraine: **Russia is on the verge of capturing the strategic Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, which would be its biggest prize since 2023.
**Health: **In the U.S., C-sections have been steadily increasing. The “worst test in medicine” is driving the trend.
**Gaza: **Israeli officials said that scores of Palestinian militants were blocked by the military from leaving Israeli-controlled parts of Gaza, posing a challenge to the cease-fire.
**Canada: **With more than 5,000 cases this year, the country is about to lose its status as having eliminated measles.
**Court: **In a viral act of opposition to Trump’s law enforcement policies in Washington, Sean Dunn threw a sandwich at a federal agent. A jury found him not guilty of assault.
**Politics: **Tucker Carlson’s interview with the antisemitic “Groyper” Nick Fuentes could split the MAGA movement.
Weather: As the death toll for Typhoon Kalmaegi rose into the triple digits, the Philippines braced for another storm.
**Britain: **Villagers in Hellesdon, England, are pushing to change the name of Prince Andrews Road.
TIME TO UNWIND
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A career-defining role for Jennifer Lawrence
Lynne Ramsay’s latest film, “Die My Love,” which arrives in theaters tomorrow, stars Jennifer Lawrence as a young mother losing her mind in rural Montana. But the plot alone is not enough to convey what it’s like to watch the movie, our critic Alissa Wilkinson wrote.
Alissa described the film as “full-body immersion cinema,” and said it was “the role I’ve been wanting to see Lawrence play.” She added, “I loved it the first time I saw it, and loved it more the second.”
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What it takes to row across the world’s biggest ocean
There’s a reason that more people have walked in space than have rowed across the Pacific Ocean: It’s incredibly difficult.
Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne experienced that when they made the 6,907-nautical-mile trip this year. Their rudder broke, their power went out and they had to fix their water filter with underwear. But Rowe and Payne completed the journey in 165 days — the first female crew to make the trip without stopping. Read about their experience.
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Dinner table topics
Colorful and sequined: Judy Garland’s “lucky jacket” is heading to Carnegie Hall, where it became famous.
**State symbol: **Diners have special salience in New Jersey. So it was only natural that one play a big part in the new Bruce Springsteen biopic.
**Long-term relationships: **We spoke to three people who fell in love with A.I. chatbots.
**Life aboard a cruise ship: **Crew members’ videos let fans see behind the scenes. (Spoiler: It’s not as glamorous as you might think.)
WHAT TO DO TONIGHT
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ONE LAST THING
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A legendary diamond resurfaced after a century
The Florentine Diamond has long been the subject of intense fascination. It’s a beautifully cut, 137-carat stone that had been owned by the Hapsburg dynasty, and before that by the Medici family. It was believed to have disappeared in 1919, when Charles I, the Hapsburg emperor of Austria-Hungary, escaped to Switzerland. Many believed the diamond was stolen.
But now, more than 100 years later, his descendants finally revealed the true story to our culture reporter Robin Pogrebin. It has been in a bank vault in Canada since the family fled there during World War II. And they hope to put it on display there to thank the country for taking them in.
Have a shining evening.
Thanks for reading. I’ll be back tomorrow. — Matthew
Philip Pacheco was our photo editor.
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Matthew Cullen is the lead writer of The Evening, a Times newsletter covering the day’s top stories every weekday.
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