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Around 1,400 flights were canceled today after the Trump administration ordered cuts to flights at 40 airports around the country on a phased-in basis as the FAA deals with staffing issues with air traffic controllers who are working without pay.

And peers Amy Held has more.

A stressed system is stressing out flyers.

Total headache, disaster nightmare.

Richard Alvario's Philadelphia to Florida flight was rebooked twice.

Working unpaid, fewer air traffic control workers are showing up.

The Senate meantime showing up for its first Saturday session in the shutdown.

Capping the week, it became the longest in history,

surpassing the record 35 days under the first Trump administration.

Mounting travel disruptions then pressured lawmakers and Trump to compromise.

Now weeks before the Thanksgiving rush, with billions of dollars and millions of travelers on the line, travel industry groups

are imploring Congress to end this shutdown and avert what they say would be a crisis. Amy held

and PR News. The Senate adjourned their session today without any deal. A federal judge ruled the Trump administration violated the First Amendment rights of Education Department employees when it replaced workers out-of-office messages during the shutdown. And peers Corey Turner reports.

The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by a public employee union that represents education department workers.

Soon after the shutdown began, the Trump administration replaced workers out-of-office email notifications with partisan language,

blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.

The union sued, and Friday, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper wrote in his decision that,

quote, when government employees enter public service, they do not sign away their First Amendment

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