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Nov. 10, 2025, 12:58 PM ESTBy Kate Reilly and Corky SiemaszkoThere may soon be an end to the government shutdown that has been causing massive flight delays for weeks, but the travel nightmare caused by the political chaos in Washington showed no signs of abating Monday.A day after senators approved a preliminary agreement to end the impasse, which is now in its 41st day, the Federal Aviation Administration announced it would continue to restrict commercial flights into and out of some of the country’s busiest airports.As of Monday morning, more than 1,400 flights had been canceled of the more than 25,000 scheduled, according to Cirium, an aviation analytics company. On Sunday, more than 2,600 flights were canceled, which amounted to about 10% of all scheduled flights. It’s not clear how many were scheduled cancellations because of the shutdown and how many were canceled for other reasons, such as weather.And the number of scheduled flight cancellations is expected to increase to 6% on Tuesday, up from the initial 4% that started on Friday. Lolita Honkpo, who was back at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Monday after her flight to Atlanta was canceled on Sunday, said that she was fed up with the government shutdown and that it was time to make “every person in a position of power uncomfortable about this.””I think that, really, people should be calling their Congress people at this point,” Honkpo said.The airports where the FAA was restricting flights Monday include Chicago O’Hare International Airport; Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport; Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport; Boston Logan International Airport; Los Angeles International Airport; Dallas Fort Worth International Airport; George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston; Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas; Denver International Airport; and two of the three major airports in the New York City metropolitan area.Travelers make their way through a security line at Boston Logan International Airport on Monday. Joseph Prezioso / AFP – Getty ImagesAll are airports that have been grappling with staffing shortages since air traffic controllers have been working without pay because of the shutdown.Controllers are considered essential workers and not allowed to walk off their jobs — even if they’re not being paid. Airports across the country have reported staffing shortages and flight delays since the start of the government shutdown.President Donald Trump, in a post Monday on Truth Social, threatened to dock the pay of air traffic controllers who have missed work and said he would recommend a $10,000 bonus for those who haven’t taken any time off.“For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU,” Trump wrote.Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, who has steadfastly defended the controllers through the crisis, called his members “unsung heroes” during a news conference on Monday.“They are doing everything they can to hold this system together and be out there serving the American public during these trying times, 41 days without pay is unacceptable,” Daniels said. “Air traffic controllers should not be the political pawn during a government shutdown.”Responding to Trump’s post, Daniels said: “I’ll take anything that recognizes these hard-working men and women, but we’ll work with the administration on any issues that are out there.””Air traffic controllers will continue to show up during this shutdown,” he said. “They’ve endured the longest shutdown in American history, and every single day they absolutely, not only deserve their pay, they deserve to be recognized for what’s going on, so we’ll work with the administration through it.”Kate ReillyKate Reilly is a news associate with NBC News.Corky SiemaszkoCorky Siemaszko is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital.Jay Blackman and Sam Brock contributed.

- Latest News - November 10, 2025

There may soon be an end to the government shutdown that has been causing massive flight delays for weeks, but the travel nightmare caused by the political chaos in Washington.

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Nov. 10, 2025, 11:00 AM ESTBy Erika EdwardsCanada has lost its measles elimination status, the country’s Public Health Agency announced Monday, because of its inability to control an ongoing outbreak of the virus for at least a year.A World Health Organization group “reviewed recent epidemiological and laboratory data, confirming sustained transmission of the same measles virus strain in Canada for a period of more than one year,” the Public Health Agency of Canada said in a statement.Canada eliminated measles in 1998, two years before the U.S. As of Monday, the country’s health officials had tallied 5,138 measles cases since October 2024. The outbreak began in New Brunswick, a province on the country’s eastern seaboard. Two babies, infected in utero, were born pre-term and died.The U.S. is also on the brink of losing its measles elimination status, as an outbreak that began in January continues to spread across the country. The outbreak started in West Texas and stretched into New Mexico. At least 862 people — mostly in Texas — were infected. Three people died. Two were little girls who lived in the epicenter of the outbreak, Gaines County, Texas.Though cases have subsided in West Texas, the virus has continued to spread. Utah and Arizona are seeing an outbreak concentrated in a close-knit community that straddles the border between the states. As of last week, 1,681 measles cases had been confirmed in the U.S. in 2025, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the most in more than 30 years. Who determines a nation’s measles elimination status?The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), part of the WHO, determines whether a country in North, South or Central America has maintained or lost its elimination status.In 2019, PAHO established a panel of independent experts, called the Regional Verification Commission, to do an annual review of how countries are able to control measles spread.The panel met last week in Mexico City to analyze the latest measles data submitted from countries with active outbreaks through October.There are multiple criteria for losing an official measles elimination status, including declines in vaccination rates. The most significant factor is ongoing measles transmission of the same strain of the virus for a full year.Canadian health officials will now have to come up with a plan to get back on track, including improving vaccination rates and “enabling better overall surveillance efforts,” the agency wrote. Measles is the most contagious virus known on the planet. The virus can linger in the air for up to two hours after an infected person leaves the room. Anyone in that room who hasn’t been vaccinated against measles will likely get sick. Erika EdwardsErika Edwards is a health and medical news writer and reporter for NBC News and “TODAY.”

- Latest News - November 10, 2025

Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the country’s Public Health Agency announced Monday, because of its inability to control an ongoing outbreak of the virus for at least a.

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