By KEN SWEET, Associated Press Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — The pain Americans are facing at airports across the country is expected to get worse this week if Congress is unable to reach a deal to reopen the federal government.

People wait in line to check in to American Airlines flights at Chicago O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Ill., Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)

U.S. airlines canceled more than 1,500 flights Saturday and more than 2,900 Sunday to comply with an FAA order to reduce traffic as some air traffic controllers, who have gone unpaid for nearly a month, have stopped showing up for work.

As of early Monday, airlines had already canceled nearly 1,600 flights for Monday and nearly 1,000 for Tuesday.

The Senate took a first step toward ending the shutdown Sunday, but final passage could still be several days away and experts have said it will take time for flights to go back to normal even after the government reopens.

Many airports are facing significant delays for flights that haven’t been canceled as well, with airports in Newark, Orlando, Chicago and Detroit all facing departure delays of more than an hour and increasing, according to FlightAware.

This is the second pay period that air traffic controllers have not received any pay for their work. The head of the air traffic controllers union, Nick Daniels, will hold a press conference Monday morning to address the impact the shutdown is having on them.

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The delays and cancellations are likely to get worse as airlines are increasingly unable to reposition planes, pilots and flight attendants due to the air traffic controller shortage.

The FAA implemented a 4% mandatory reduction in flights this weekend to manage staffing. That will increase to 6% on Tuesday and 10% reduction by this upcoming weekend. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on “Fox News Sunday” that additional flight cuts of up to 20% might be needed.

“More controllers aren’t coming to work day by day, the further they go without a paycheck,” Duffy said.

The government has been short of air traffic controllers for years, and multiple presidential administrations have tried to persuade retirement-age controllers to remain on the job. Duffy said the shutdown has exacerbated the problem, leading some air traffic controllers to speed up their retirements.

While 4% may sound modest, much of that reduction is happening at 40 of the nation’s busiest and most congested airports. The FAA says the flight reduction is necessary to keep travelers safe as many of the remaining controllers have been putting in long hours and mandatory overtime while the government remains unfunded.

If not addressed soon, the situation could get even worse as the U.S. heads into the busy holiday travel season. Duffy said that air travel may “be reduced to a trickle” by the week of Thanksgiving.

Associated Press writers Stephen Groves and Kevin Freking contributed to this report from Washington. Associated Press writer Rio Yamat contributed from Las Vegas.

The roller coaster continues for the Vikings.

After looking as if they had turned a corner last weekend in a 27-24 win over the Detroit Lions on the road, the Vikings couldn’t build on that momentum this weekend in a 27-19 loss to the Baltimore Ravens at home.

The performance on Sunday afternoon at U.S. Bank Stadium left something to be desired across the board. Let’s just say the issues for the Vikings went much deeper than the growing pains of young quarterback J.J. McCarthy.

Here are some takeaways from the game:

J.J. McCarthy got more inaccurate with time

Minnesota Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy (9) pass the ball in the second quarter of a NFL game against the Baltimore Ravens at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)

After an impressive start in the early stages, McCarthy’s play steadily declined as time wore on. He was excellent on the opening drive while working with a scripted set of plays. He was hit star receiver Justin Jefferson with a strike to the sideline, then found speedy receiver Jalen Nailor with a perfectly placed ball over the top. There was a noticeable decisiveness that McCarthy displayed on both throws. The ball came out of time in the rhythm and timing of the offense. There wasn’t the same level of execution from McCarthy down the stretch. He was wildly inaccurate for prolonged stretches with many passes sailing on him. The inability to string together completions made life difficult for the Vikings against Ravens. His final stat line featured him completing 20 of 42 passes for 248 yards, a touchdown, and a pair of interceptions. This is becoming a trend for McCarthy. He will play well at the start of the game before his slowly losing steam. There needs to be marked improvement with his consistency moving forward.

The rushing attack didn’t get enough run

There numbers are pretty damning in hindsight when considering that veteran running back Aaron Jones averaged 5.2 yards per carry while fellow running back Jordan Mason averaged 6.3 yards per carry. As effective as Jones and Mason proved to be, they only combined for 13 carries in the game. Not feeding them with more regularity was an oversight by head coach Kevin O’Connell that he will likely regret when he goes over the film. Though the Vikings eventually had to abandon the run completely as they tried to mount a comeback against the Ravens, they didn’t stick to it nearly enough when the game was still hanging in the balance. A microcosm of that miscalculation came shortly after halftime as O’Connell decided to throw on third down despite only needing a yard to move the chains. The play resulted in McCarthy throwing an interception after Jefferson fell down while trying to gain separation. That ball probably should have been handed off to either Jones or Mason.

Justin Jefferson lacked his usual juice

A calling card for Jefferson throughout his career has been the amount of joy he plays with whenever he puts on the pads. He almost always carries himself the same way regardless of how he’s playing in a game. That’s why his demeanor stood out while the Vikings were struggling against the Ravens. It wasn’t so much that Jefferson was going through the motions out there. He just lacked his usual juice. Whether it was stumbling with a chance to make a play in single coverage, or failing to come up with a contested catch near the goal line, Jefferson seemed a little bit off. He took accountability for his actions after the game and made it clear that he has to be better.

The defense did everything it could

The name of the game for the Vikings against the Ravens was stopping superstar quarterback Lamar Jackson. That’s exactly what they did as Jackson finished with less than 200 yards through the air and less than 50 yards on the ground. Never mind that the unit led by defensive coordinator Brian Flores didn’t force any turnovers in the game. The defense did everything  it could to keep Jackson off balance while also limiting running back Derrick Henry to 75 yards on the ground. That should’ve been enough for the Vikings to walk away with the win. The offense simply didn’t pull its weight on the other end.

Myles Price changed the game with his fumble

After garnering some attention for his prowess as a kick returner, rookie receiver Myles Price learned a hard lesson midway through the game. In an effort to provide a spark after halftime, Price fought tooth and nail for a few extra yards while being brought down. Unfortunately for Price, the ball ended up being punched out in the process, which put the Vikings in a tough spot after the Ravens recovered. That fumble changed the tenor of the game. The teaching point point for Price is obvious. As much as he might want to gain as many yards as possible, he has to make securing the ball his top priority when he’s being tackled. It was nearly an even worse showing for Price as he also coughed it up on the next kick return. That proved to be less costly because rookie tight end Ben Yurosek recovered the ball.

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By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has pardoned his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and others accused of backing the Republican’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a Justice Department official says.

Ed Martin, the government’s pardon attorney, posted on social media a signed proclamation of the “full, complete, and unconditional” pardon, which also names Sidney Powell, an attorney who promoted baseless conspiracy theories about a stolen election, and John Eastman, another lawyer who pushed a plan to keep Trump in power. The proclamation, posted online late Sunday, explicitly says the pardon does not apply to Trump.

Presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes, and none of the Trump allies named were charged in federal cases over the 2020 election. But the move underscores President Donald Trump’s continued efforts to promote the idea that the 2020 election was stolen from him even though courts around the country and U.S. officials found no evidence of fraud that could have affected the outcome. It follows the sweeping pardons of the hundreds of Trump supporters charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, including those convicted of attacking law enforcement.

The proclamation described efforts to prosecute those accused of aiding Trump’s efforts to cling to power as “a grave national injustice perpetrated on the American people” and said the pardons were designed to continue “the process of national reconciliation.”

The White House didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment Monday.

Also pardoned were Republicans who acted as fake electors for Trump in 2020 and were charged in state cases of submitting false certificates that confirmed they were legitimate electors despite Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in those states. Another key figure on the list is Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who championed Trump’s efforts to challenge his election loss.

Trump himself was indicted on felony charges accusing him of working overturn his 2020 election defeat, but the case brought by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith was abandoned in November after Trump’s victory over Democrat Kamala Harris because of the department’s policy against prosecuting sitting presidents.

Giuliani, Meadows and others who were named in the proclamation had been charged by state prosecutors over the 2020 election, but the cases have hit a dead end or are just limping along. A judge in September dismissed the Michigan case against 15 Republicans accused of attempting to falsely certify Trump as the winner of the election in that battleground state.

Giuliani, Powell, Eastman and Clark were alleged co-conspirators in the federal case brought against Trump but were never charged with federal crimes.

Giuliani, a former New York City mayor, was one of the most vocal supporters of Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of large-scale voter fraud after the 2020 election. He has since been disbarred in Washington, D.C., and New York over his advocacy of Trump’s bogus election claims and lost a $148 million defamation case brought by two former Georgia election workers whose lives were upended by conspiracy theories he pushed.

Eastman, a former dean of Chapman University Law School in Southern California, was a close adviser to Trump in the wake of the 2020 election and wrote a memo laying out steps Vice President Mike Pence could take to stop the counting of electoral votes while presiding over Congress’ joint session on Jan. 6 to keep Trump in office.

Today is Monday, Nov. 10, the 314th day of 2025. There are 51 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On Nov. 10,1975, the Great Lakes freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a severe storm on Lake Superior, claiming the lives of all 29 crew members.

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In 1775, the U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress.

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In 1898, a mob of up to 2,000 white supremacists killed dozens of African Americans in Wilmington, North Carolina, burned Black-owned businesses and forced the mayor, police chief and aldermen to resign at gunpoint before installing their own mayor and city council in what became known as the “Wilmington Coup.”

In 1954, the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, was dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Arlington, Virginia.

In 1969, the children’s educational program “Sesame Street” made its debut on National Educational Television (now PBS).

In 2019, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, resigned after weeks of public protests in response to alleged fraud in a general election that year.

In 2021, Kyle Rittenhouse took the stand in his murder trial, testifying that he was under attack and acting in self-defense when he shot and killed two men and wounded a third during a turbulent night of street protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin. (He would be acquitted of all charges.)

In 2024, a shooting during homecoming weekend at Tuskegee University in Alabama left one person dead and 16 others wounded, a dozen of them by gunfire.

Today’s Birthdays:

Lyricist Tim Rice is 81.
Country singer Donna Fargo is 80.
Film director Roland Emmerich is 70.
Actor-comedian Sinbad is 69.
Actor Mackenzie Phillips is 66.
Author Neil Gaiman (GAY’-mihn) is 65.
Actor Hugh Bonneville is 62.
Actor-comedian Tommy Davidson is 62.
Long jump world record holder Mike Powell is 62.
Country singer Chris Cagle is 57.
Actor-comedian Tracy Morgan is 57.
Actor Ellen Pompeo is 56.
Rapper-producer Warren G is 55.
Actor Walton Goggins is 54.
Football Hall of Famer Isaac Bruce is 53.
Rapper-actor Eve is 47.
Country singer Miranda Lambert is 42.
Actor Josh Peck is 39.
Actor Taron Egerton is 36.
Golfer Jon Rahm is 31.
Actor Kiernan Shipka is 26.
Olympic gold medal pole vaulter Armand Duplantis is 26.
Actor Mackenzie Foy is 25.