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Monday, November 10, 2025
Air travel could slow to 'trickle'
For a third day on Nov. 9, travelers found themselves glued to their phones and computers, tracking whether their flights were among the growing wave of government-mandated cancellations. Some disruptions and delays were reported during the first two days of cuts, but uncertainty looms as Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told CNN on Nov. 9 that flight cancellations will likely grow if the government shutdown continues. "It's only going to get worse," he said. "I look to the two weeks before Thanks giving, you're going to see air travel be reduced to a trickle." "We have a number of people who want to get home for the holidays, they want to see their families, they want to celebrate this great American holiday," Duffy said. "Listen, many of them are not going to be able to get on an airplane, because there are not going to be that many flights that fly unless this thing doesn't open back up." By the morning of Nov. 9, more than 2,300 flights within, into or out of the United States had been delayed, and over 1,300 flights had been canceled, according to FlightAware. Delta, SkyWest
Rastafarian may get Supreme Court's help
WASHINGTON – A Supreme Court that has been increasingly protective of religious rights is expected to be sympathetic to a Rastafarian asking for help after Louisiana prison guards forcibly shaved his dreadlocks. But if the justices are not attuned to the spiritual significance of the lengthy locks when they take up Damon Landor's appeal on Nov. 10, perhaps religious scholars will have convinced the court of their significance. Seven of the Supreme Court justices were raised Catholic. Because dreadlocks are a connection to the living essence of the universe, cutting them off is like keeping a Catholic from receiving the Eucharist, five experts on the religion wrote in a filing supporting Landor. "To be irrevocably deprived of such an important symbolic and physical connection to God against one's will," they wrote, "is a brutal and dehumanizing intrusion into a Rastafari's religious liberty that demands an avenue for recompense." The court will debate on Nov. 10 whether Landor can seek damages from the prison officials who cut off the knee-length locks he'd been growing for nearly a decade. Landor has the backing of the Department of Justice and a variety of religious and civil liberties groups across the ideological spectrum.
Remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald
Captain Ernest McSorley and his crew were fighting for their lives in a battle against the "Witch of November" when his final words went out over the radio: "We are holding our own." Less than 15 minutes later, the 35-foot waves on Lake Superior and a blinding snowstorm overcame the mighty SS Edmund Fitzgerald and its 29-person crew. There was no distress signal. Nov. 10 marks 50 years since the sinking of the Fitzgerald. Its crew still rests 500 feet below the surface of Lake Superior in Canadian waters near Whitefish Bay, according to the Detroit Historical Society. But their memory lives on in legend, song and tradition.