Tuesday morning news: November 11, 2025

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Government shutdown latest » Speaker Mike Johnson said the House will be ready to move quickly on a vote to reopen the government.

With the House in recess, he’s urging members to get a head start and begin returning to Washington now.

JOHNSON:  At the very moment that they do that final vote, I will call all house members to return to Washington as quickly as possible. We'll give a 36 hour formal and official notice so that we can vote as soon as possible.

That comes after the Senate took a massive step toward ending the government shutdown Sunday night. Up till then, nearly all Senate Democrats said they would not agree to reopen the government until Republicans agreed to extend Obamacare tax credits.

But eight senators crossed the aisle to break a filibuster and move forward with a stopgap funding package.

Angus King was among them technically not a Democrat, but the independent caucuses with the party. He explained:

KING:  The question was, does the shutdown further the goal of achieving some needed support for the extension of the tax credits? Our judgment was that it, it will not, it would not produce that result.

Those eight senators settled for a guarantee that the Senate will take up the matter and vote on it next month.

Air traffic controllers » The record shutdown is nearly six weeks old now, and all the while, air traffic controllers have been among those asked to work without paychecks—for now.

And President Trump says he’s looking at possible $10,000 bonuses for those controllers who didn’t call out sick.

When asked where the money would come from, he responded:

TRUMP:  I don't know. I'll get it from someplace. I'll get it from, I always get the money from someplace regardless. It doesn't matter. We did a lot of, I do a lot of bonuses with people because it's really something that, it's like the American way when you think about it.

Thousands of flights have been cancelled each day for the last several days, with thousands more delayed.

That followed the FAA’s order to reduce the number of flights to ensure safety due to staffing shortages in air traffic control towers—tied to the government shutdown.

SCOTUS won't hear same-sex marriage case » The Supreme Court has rejected a new challenge to its 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage. WORLD’s Benjamin Eicher has more.

BENJAMIN EICHER: The justices on Monday declined to hear an appeal from former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis without giving any explanation.

Davis made headlines in 2015 when she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

She was jailed for five days and later ordered to pay $100,000 in damages to one couple.

In her latest petition, Davis asked the court to overturn the judgment against her, refund roughly $260,000 in legal fees, and revisit the Obergefell decision itself.

While many conservatives have urged the justices to reconsider that precedent the high court’s refusal leaves the 2015 ruling firmly in place—for now.

For WORLD News, I’m Benjamin Eicher.

Kushner Israel talks, former hostage speaks out » President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, serving as an unofficial special envoy, met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel Monday.

Israeli government spokeswoman Shosh Bedrosian said they discussed phase one of Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas.

BEDROSIAN: Which we are currently still in to bring our remaining hostages and the future of phase two of this plan, which includes the disarming of Hamas, demilitarising Gaza, and ensuring Hamas will have no role in the future of Gaza ever again.

Meantime, along the country’s northern border with Lebanon:

SOUND: [Israeli tanks]

Israeli tanks were once again on the move.

Israel is pushing Lebanon's army to be more aggressive in disarming the Hezbollah terror group inside its borders.

FDA menopause treatment » The Food and Drug Administration says it will remove a long-standing warning from hormone-based drugs used to treat menopause symptoms in women.

For more than 20 years, the drugs have carried the FDA’s most severe warning label.

But FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and some other doctors have long criticized the current warning as outdated and unnecessary. Makary said not only are such treatments generally not harmful:

MAKARY:  By a large body of evidence, there are now recognized to be profound long-term health benefits that few people, even physicians know about.

There are some experts, however, that maintain that the warning carries important information about actual risks.

Shots fired at federal agents in Chicago » A man is in custody after opening fire on Border Patrol agents in Chicago over the weekend.

Officials say the suspect—reportedly a Mexican national pulled up in a black Jeep in the city’s Little Village neighborhood and fired several shots before speeding away. No one was hurt.

Investigators recovered shell casings and surveillance video from the scene.

CBP Chief Patrol Agent Greg Bovino called out Illinois’ governor and Chicago’s mayor following the arrest.

BOVINO: This individual should have never been walking the streets of Chicago. This is what you get with a JB Pritzker or a Mayor Johnson. And that crazy rhetoric—this individual should not have been in this country.

He said the suspect is an illegal alien that had a prior felony conviction for firearms.

The Department of Homeland Security says four federal vehicles were also rammed during weekend operations and warns that attacks on ICE and Border Patrol agents are up more than 1,000 percent since January.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: a conversation with WORLD’s Steve West about a handful of religious liberty cases. Plus, how the Pittsburgh airport took care of a recurring pesky flight delay.

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