A look back at the weekend's biggest stories
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6:02 PM on Sunday, November 9
By The Associated Press
If you missed out on the news this weekend, here’s a summary of the top global headlines with links to some of our best journalism.
As the Senate held a rare Sunday session, its Republican leader said a potential deal was “coming together” on the government shutdown but there was no guarantee it would end an impasse now stretching to 40 days. The shutdown has disrupted flights nationwide, threatened food assistance for millions of Americans and left federal workers without pay.
Here are our stories about the shutdown and its impact:
1. Thanksgiving air traffic could ‘slow to a trickle’ if shutdown persists, transport secretary says
2. Flight cuts from government shutdown strain a supply chain that’s already stretched thin
3. What to know if your travel plans are impacted by the FAA’s flight cancellations
4. Trump administration demands states ‘undo’ SNAP benefits
5. California students turn to college food pantry
6. At U.S. bases overseas, workers go without pay because of shutdown
7. Struggling families need help feeding pets as SNAP payments in doubt
8. Washington’s struggling economy takes another hit from the shutdown
The system came ashore on Sunday with 115 mph winds in the northeastern coast of the Philippines, where the massive storm had already left at least two people dead and forced more than a million people to evacuate from flood- and landslide-prone areas.
One photo captures the tenderness amid the chaos as Fung-wong hits.
The head of the BBC and the British broadcaster’s top news executive both resigned Sunday after criticism of the way the organization edited a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump. Britain’s publicly funded national broadcaster has been criticized for editing a speech Trump made on Jan. 6, 2021, before protesters attacked the Capitol in Washington.
The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago. Despite some progress, scientists say Earth’s warming has outpaced efforts to reduce fossil fuel pollution that came out of the 2015 accord. This issue will be a focus of this week’s U.N. climate talks in Brazil. Read our analysis.
And here is what to know about COP30, this year’s U.N. climate talks
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist. The AP has interviewed him in his home near Paris.