Associated Press

A U.S. district judge had given the administration until Friday to make the payments through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

The latest round of exhumations of Native American students from a cemetery at the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School resulted in the remains of 17 being repatriated.

The court wrangling prolonged weeks of uncertainty for the food program that serves about 1 in 8 Americans, mostly with lower incomes.

Travelers can expect to see fewer flights to major U.S. cities like Philadelphia and Newark starting Friday morning.

The SNAP program serves about 1 in 8 Americans and is a major piece of the nation’s social safety net. It costs more than $8 billion per month nationally.

The affected airports in more than two dozen states include Philadelphia International Airport and Newark Liberty International in New Jersey.

The agency is confronting staffing shortages caused by air traffic controllers, who are working unpaid, with some calling out of work during the shutdown.

The economic challenges have played out in different ways at the local level. Most New Jersey voters said property taxes were a “major problem."

Trump was largely absent from the campaign trail, but the GOP candidates closely aligned themselves with the president.

The FAA slows down or even stops flights temporarily anytime it is short on controllers or if there is an equipment problem.

The outcome could gauge how the electorate is responding to Trump’s policies and whether some groups of core Democratic voters still have faith in the party’s leadership.

In an era of increasingly polarized judicial elections, Republicans mounted a late-emerging campaign to defeat the justices.