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CNN 5 Things
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🗓️ 13 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, from CNN. I'm AfomaDK, with the five things you need to know for Thursday, November 13th. |
| 0:07.8 | The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is over, but things won't get back to normal right away. |
| 0:14.3 | Flight delays and cancellations will linger as air traffic controllers staff up again. |
| 0:18.9 | Since the government reopened last night, the Federal Aviation Administration reported |
| 0:23.1 | staffing problems at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport. |
| 0:29.1 | When the roughly 1.4 million federal workers who have been furloughed or working without pay |
| 0:33.9 | will receive their back pay may vary by agency. |
| 0:36.9 | According to an email shared with CNN, |
| 0:39.3 | Senate staffers will start getting paychecks tomorrow. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says |
| 0:44.7 | TSA employees will get their paychecks in the coming days, and that some employees could receive a |
| 0:49.6 | $10,000 bonus check. The Agriculture Secretary says most SNAP recipients can expect to receive |
| 0:55.6 | their November food stamp benefits by Monday at the latest. Economic data went dark while the government |
| 1:01.1 | was shut down. That backlog in how it might impact expectations for interest rate cuts, |
| 1:06.3 | has investors worried. Wall Street had its worst day in a month. All three major U.S. stock indexes |
| 1:12.7 | ended the day in the red, with the Dow falling nearly 800 points. National Economic Council |
| 1:18.3 | Director Kevin Hassett told Fox News that the monthly jobs report for October will be released, |
| 1:23.7 | but will be incomplete. The household survey wasn't conducted in October, so we're going to get half the employment |
| 1:29.6 | report. We'll get the jobs part, but we won't get the unemployment rate. |
| 1:33.3 | House GOP leaders are expecting a significant number of Republicans to support a bipartisan bill |
| 1:38.9 | calling for all of Jeffrey Epstein's case files to be released. |
| 1:42.3 | Here's CNN's Manu Raju. |
| 1:44.3 | Just four Republicans did sign on to that effort that would circumvent the Republican |
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