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'PhantomCaptcha' hackers impersonate Ukrainian president’s office in attack on war relief workers https://therecord.media/phantomcaptcha-spearphishing-campaign-ukraine-war-relief-groups

🪣 Drivers Beg for Relief Bill to Allow More Parking for Bathroom Breaks and Rest
#nyc

Drivers Beg for Relief Bill to Allow More Parking for Bathroom Breaks and Rest
For-hire drivers who work for companies like Uber and Lyft often struggle with urinary issues and have a hard time finding bathrooms during long shifts, advocates testified in the City Council.

The SEC's decision to dismiss its lawsuit against SolarWinds and its CISO, Tim Brown, was met with immediate and widespread joy across the cybersecurity leadership community.
But experts say CISOs should start shoring up their internal defenses in case the policy or legal winds shift again.
Check out my latest CSO piece on what the decision means for CISOs. Many thanks to Joe Sullivan, Gadi Evron, Diana Kelley and Cara Peterman for their insights.
What CISOs should know…

What CISOs should know about the SolarWinds lawsuit dismissal
The SEC’s dismissal of its lawsuit against SolarWinds and its CISO brought widespread relief to cybersecurity leaders and potentially marks a turning point for how regulators, boards, and executives think about cybersecurity accountability.

Hangin' with the Boys: Defensive Relief https://www.dallascowboys.com/podcast/hangin-with-the-boys-defensive-relief

Judge orders Trump admin to offer relief to men deported under Alien Enemies Act (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/22/alien-enemies-act-james-boasberg-ruling-00704244
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p120#a251222p120

Thinking about giving to folk in #Gaza; quite complicated feelings. Firstly, we do *have* to give, and give personally, because conventional charities are not effectively getting relief to Gaza -- presumably because they are being blocked by #Israel -- and because our governments are doing nothing.
Bu…

I bought this lovely piece of pottery in Reykjavík (from artist Dagný at Kaolin), and I finally got some tea lights to put inside. I love the orange glow, kinda like lava.

On Wednesday night, Nvidia released its highly anticipated/dreaded quarterly earnings report
— and Wall Street let out a sigh of relief,
— at least initially.
The multitrillion dollar chipmaker at the center of the AI boom reported
a ludicrous $57 billion in quarterly revenue,
netting it nearly $32 billion in profit.
Compared to the same quarter from the year before,
it amounted to a 62 percent surge in sales,
and a further 65 percent increase …

Oops! Nvidia’s Stock Is Falling Again After Its “Blowout” Earnings Report
After dazzling Wall Street with a "blowout" earnings report which saw its stock rise, Nvidia's stock is already declining.

Trump directs federal disaster aid along partisan lines, granting relief to red states & denying blue states in a display of political favoritism and control.
☑️ #Trump Denies #Disaster #Aid for Bl…

Trump Denies Disaster Aid for Blue States While Approving It for Red States
Trump directs federal disaster aid along partisan lines, granting relief to red states and denying blue states in a display of political favoritism and control.

Transit stations I want to visit:
Relief and reward for passengers as Rome’s ‘museum stations’ finally open
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/16/passengers-rome-museum-stations-open-metr…

Transit stations I want to visit:
Relief and reward for passengers as Rome’s ‘museum stations’ finally open
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/16/passengers-rome-museum-stations-open-metr…

Melissa hit blockaded Cuba too. You can donate to the appeal here (via CSC shop).
CSC news: CSC launches #Hurricane #Melissa relief appeal

CSC launches Hurricane Melissa relief appeal
DONATE NOW TO THE HURRICANE MELISSA RELIEF APPEAL The Cuba Solidarity Campaign extends its sympathy and solidarity to all those affected by Hurricane Melissa, which has devastated several Caribbean islands this week. Cuban authorities are dealing with the immediate impact of the hurricane which has severely ...

GB News pays substantial libel damages to Islamic Relief after airing false claims that the charity sent money to terrorist groups in the Middle East (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co…

GB News pays substantial damages to Islamic Relief over false terrorism claim
GB News has paid "substantial" libel damages to a UK charity an interviewee falsely claimed had sent money to terrorist groups.

Lukashenko trades prisoners for sanctions relief — and keeps the upper hand: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/17/lukashenko-trades-prisoners-for-sanctions.html

Snap Benefits Resume In Texas, Despite Future Sabotage - The Concho Observer #Texas

Snap Benefits Resume In Texas, Despite Future Sabotage
Relief has hopefully arrived for the 3.2 million Texans, and 12,000 citizens of Tom Green County who rely on assistance through SNAP.

"But as you can see, the programs do come at a cost... we estimate about $27.4m a year goes to the administrative costs and also the projected fare revenue reduction."
I'm waiting for the slide where they estimate the much higher cost of all the unmetered parking spaces across the city, and of turning off meters at 6pm and on Sundays. I'm sure that'll definitely be later in this presentation, right?

Aerial view of Libertyville, Illinois, north of Chicago, after a light snow. #SilentSunday

I'm curious - what San Francisco media has covered this? Admittedly something I have not been looking for. But a quick search doesn't find many news articles - but it appears to be a nationwide problem. Sure, FDA has published their alert (2022) but that's not a great tool to reach people who need to know about risks.
The FDA has warned against this ‘natural remedy’ for joint pain. San Francisco immigrants still trust it

I'm curious - what San Francisco media has covered this? Admittedly something I have not been looking for. But a quick search doesn't find many news articles - but it appears to be a nationwide problem. Sure, FDA has published their alert (2022) but that's not a great tool to reach people who need to know about risks.
The FDA has warned against this ‘natural remedy’ for joint pain. San Francisco immigrants still trust it

🌳 Urban heat relief: Trees need water and space to maximize cooling, study finds
#trees

Urban heat relief: Trees need water and space to maximize cooling, study finds
Urban trees are often seen as natural allies in fighting summer heat waves. But how much they actually help to cool their surroundings depends heavily on how moist the soil is. This is the main finding of a new study led by environmental engineers at ETH Zurich and Eawag published in npj Urban Sustainability, which investigated several urban neighborhoods in Zurich.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Chalk:
🎵 Pain
#Chalk
https://isobelanderson.bandcamp.com/track/effortless-pain-relief
https://open.spotify.com/track/14M05BE09j5oytK3Wd9KWL

Valve are launching a new controller and a new gaming computer and a new VR headset early next year.
My main question is, don't people release these things in time for Christmas any more? Maybe it's running late.
Kinda need a media PC for the new bedroom in December. Do I want to wait until early next year? Grr. Needs to run two monitors and a projector really too, which may be tricky for a machine with only two video ports.
A VR headset that isn't owned by Facebook will be a blessed relief. Designed to run on Linux? Amazing. Hope it's brilliant.
Don't think I have much use for the controller though. Only really play games in VR these days.
Looks great! Three months too late!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKrKTwtukE

Troops stung by hard credit checks and denials in relief loans
https://taskandpurpose.com/military-life/usaa-credit-loan-troops-shutdown/

President TACO to announce $12 billion tariff relief for farmers
Farmers nationwide have been grappling with low crop prices and challenging TARIFFS that have pushed many into bankruptcy.
Some 181 farmers filed for bankruptcy protection in the first half of the year,
a 60 percent increase from the previous year
and the highest six-month reading since 2020, according to U.S. court records.

The new assistance package is expected to particularly help soybean farm…

Trump to announce $12 billion tariff relief for farmers
Farmers — particularly those who produce soybeans — have felt the impact of the president’s tariff policies.

That's a (temporary) relief: 'Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!' https://www.androidauthority.com/android-power-users-install-unverified-apps-3615310/

Urbanity - Urbana Composita 🌆
城市化 - 建构城市 🌆
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

A man named Earthquake.

It’s been three months since we left #Vietnam. I miss my dear vegan Phở from Kiez Hanoi. The stolls, ride, life.
In other news, the North is still fighting the floods and rain from 10 days ago. Read more and click through the impact

This is the "If you give a mouse a cookie..." approach to fiscal policy.
Trump to announce $12 billion tariff relief for farmers
https://archive.ph/K0tIs

Day 19 (a bit late): Alice Oseman
As I said I've got 14 authors to fit into two days. Probably just going to extend to 30? But Oseman gets this spot as an absolute legend of queer fiction in both novel & graphic novel form, and an excellent example of the many truths queer writers have to share with non-queer people that can make everyone's lives better. Her writing is very kind, despite in many instances dealing with some dark stuff.
I started out on Heartstopper, which is just so lovely and fun to read, and then made my way through several of her novels. The one I'll highlight here which I think it's her greatest triumph is "Loveless", which is semi-autobiographical and was at least my first (but no longer only) experience with the "platonic romance" sub-genre. It not only helped me work through some crufty internal doubts about aro/ace identities that I'd never really examined, but in the process helped improve my understanding of friendship, period. Heck, it's probably a nice novel for anyone questioning any sort of identity or dealing with loneliness, and it's just super-enjoyable as a story regardless of the philosophical value.
To cheat a bit more here on my author count, I recently read "Dear Wendy" by Ann Zhao, which shouts out "Loveless" and offers a more expository exploration of aro/ace identities, but "Loveless" is a book with more heart and better writing overall, including the neat plotting and great pacing. I think there are also parallels with Becky Albertalli's work, though I think I like Oseman slightly more. Certainly both excel at writing queer romance (and romance-adjacent) stuff with happy endings (#OwnVoices wins again with all three authors).
In any case, Oseman is excellent and if you're not up for reading a novel, Heartstopper is a graphic novel series that's easy to jump into and very kind to its adorable main characters.
I think I've now decided to continue to 30, which is a relief, so I'm tagging this (and the next post that rounds out 20) two ways.
#20AuthorsNoMen
#30AuthorsNoMen

From Bill McKibben
Unimaginable thirst in Tehran--but some relief in New York?
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/tale-of-two-cities

Tale of Two Cities
Unimaginable thirst in Tehran--but some relief in New York?

It is refreshing to recognize that the universe has no inherent meaning, and that I am free to create my own meaning on this blank page, one that ultimately burns away when I die.
This realization makes it so much easier for me to let go of my social media accounts, and honestly, that is a relief.
#Nihilism

Here's yet another step in the emasculation of Congress.
Here El Cheato is running a protection racket in which he imposes high tariffs but then offers relief to from those tariffs to companies that jump to a Cheato's tune-of-the-day, in this case, a reduction in certain drug prices under Medicare (presumably Part D?)
Congress should be setting these policies and doing so in a way available to all drug makers, not just certain ones favored by Cheato. But no, Congress jus…

Certain obesity drugs will cost as little as $149 and Medicare will start covering them under White House deals
Certain blockbuster obesity drugs will be available for as little as $149 per month and more Medicare enrollees will have access to them under two deals announced Thursday by the Trump administration.

"In 2020, Berlin passed a law that resulted in a five-year rent freeze [...] for 90% of the flats in the city. While the law offered relief to about 1.5 million households who had seen rents rise by an estimated third in the six years prior, it was ruled as unconstitutional in 2021 after Germany’s highest court sided with landlords and property investment lobbyists who had argued it was inappropriate and illegal for the state to meddle with the private market."

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 5️⃣: Earth
Here’s a minimal isometric relief map of #Santorini. I haven’t been to #Greece 🇬🇷 but I definitely want to see Athens, and either Santorini or Mykonos. Maybe I …

I made some new prints for QWERTY Fest Milwaukee this weekend.
#art #printmaking #typewriters

Relief of EGFR/FOS-downregulated miR-103a by loganin alleviates NF-kappaB-triggered inflammation and gut barrier disruption in colitis
Yan Li, Teng Hui, Xinhui Zhang, Zihan Cao, Ping Wang, Shirong Chen, Ke Zhao, Yiran Liu, Yue Yuan, Dou Niu, Xiaobo Yu, Gan Wang, Changli Wang, Yan Lin, Fan Zhang, Hefang Wu, Guodong Feng, Yan Liu, Jiefang Kang, Yaping Yan, Hai Zhang, Xiaochang Xue, Xun Jiang

Relief of EGFR/FOS-downregulated miR-103a by loganin alleviates NF-kappaB-triggered inflammation and gut barrier disruption in colitis
Due to the ever-rising global incidence rate of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and the lack of effective clinical treatment drugs, elucidating the detailed pathogenesis, seeking novel targets, and developing promising drugs are the top priority for IBD treatment. Here, we demonstrate that the levels of microRNA (miR)-103a were significantly downregulated in the inflamed mucosa of ulcerative colitis (UC) patients, along with elevated inflammatory cytokines (IL-1beta/TNF-alpha) and reduced tigh…

"I am not at all an expert on the topic you propose I should cover, and I see that those topics on which I claim to have some knowledge are already very expertly covered by colleagues. This is actually a source of relief, since I think that such a resource is highly important, yet my schedule over the next year is already so full that I would not be able to give it the attention it deserves. I wish you all the best for the project!"

There have been numerous disgustingly fake 'nightscape' composites flooding the web where someone had merely pasted a deep astronomical image of comet C/2026 A6 #Lemmon into some landscape, making it look like it was a giant rivalling Ikeya-Seki oder West - oh, how I hated that. And what a relief that NOIRLab has now posted - https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2549a/ - this beautiful and apparently unmanipulated picture of Lemmon over Mauna Kea on 12 November. Yes, it reached 3 point something mag. and had nice tails in the end but it was not a great comet by any means: just look how small and faint it appears next to the southern Milky Way!

Brock Purdy not practicing, Mac Jones limited as 49ers prepare for Buccaneers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6700601/2025/10/08/brock-purdy-injury-update-49ers/

"Breath of relief as EU commits to CO2 reduction climate goal ahead of COP30"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Climate #ClimateChange

Breath of relief as EU commits to key climate goal ahead of COP30
After months of political impasse, EU environment ministers backed the revision of the EU's climate law, paving the way for a decision on the global 2035 climate target to be presented next week at COP30.

We're making an live code/algorithmic music release in aid of humanitarian relief in Palestine. We're collecting recordings over this weekend, to release it on (Bandcamp) Friday. If you'd like to join please DM me and I'll share the upload info, thanks!

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

New experiences every day. Today: PHPStorm 2025.2.3 freezes after a few seconds and can only be closed via the Task Manager. Restarting the system doesn't help either. Downgrading via the JetBrains Toolbox brings relief. #work #productivity

Die USA zeigen, was uns bevorstehen könnte, wenn wir den hässlichen Populismus der Rechtsextremen nicht klein kriegen. Trump nutzt das Leid der Bevölkerung zu politischen Erpressung, um Superreichen noch mehr Macht zu verschaffen. Extremer als Merz, aber was wäre in ein paar Jahren?
Gleichzeitig gibt es auch Initiativen aus der US-Bürgerschaft, die Hoffnung machen und zeigen, dass Solidarität weiterhin existiert.
From: @…

Check into a hotel in Canada. Turn on the TV and slog through channel after channel from the US. Feel a rush of relief when you finally find some curling.

The shutdown is starting to bite
– and throw Trump’s architectural folly into sharp relief.
On Saturday, with Congress still locked in a legislative stalemate,
a potential benefit freeze could leave tens of millions of low-income Americans without food aid.
Democrats accuse Trump’s Republican party of “weaponising hunger” to pursue an extreme rightwing agenda.
Images of wealthy monarchs or autocrats revelling in excess even as the masses struggle for bread

Trump to announce $12 billion tariff relief for farmers (Mariana Alfaro/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/08/trump-farm-aid-tariffs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p57#a251208p57

Emergency Relief Sought to Protect Upcoming Elections From Trump-Vance Administration Plot to Facilitate Illegal and Inaccurate Voter Roll Purge - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=152403

My back is back! Woke up this morning, got out of bed and everything had resumed regular service. Such a relief. It was a lovely day for a walk. Did about 6 km - half of them in the direction of lunch and then we walked back with very full bellies.
#Suburbia #Canberra

14-year old Miles Wu just won $25,000 for a research project based on an origami fold called "Miura-ori", which is known for collapsing and expanding with precision.
"I've been folding origami as a hobby for more than six years, mostly of animals or insects," Wu told Business Insider.
"Recently I've been designing my own origami, too."
"A problem with current deployable structures and emergency structures is, for example,
ten…

14-Year-Old Wins Prize For Origami That Can Hold 10,000 Times Its Own Weight
While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief.

Flight Dynamics to Sensing Modalities: Exploiting Drone Ground Effect for Accurate Edge Detection
Chenyu Zhao, Jingao Xu, Ciyu Ruan, Haoyang Wang, Shengbo Wang, Jiaqi Li, Jirong Zha, Weijie Hong, Zheng Yang, Yunhao Liu, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Xinlei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21085

Flight Dynamics to Sensing Modalities: Exploiting Drone Ground Effect for Accurate Edge Detection
Drone-based rapid and accurate environmental edge detection is highly advantageous for tasks such as disaster relief and autonomous navigation. Current methods, using radars or cameras, raise deployment costs and burden lightweight drones with high computational demands. In this paper, we propose AirTouch, a system that transforms the ground effect from a stability "foe" in traditional flight control views, into a "friend" for accurate and efficient edge detection. Our key insight is that analy…

Heute vor 72 Jahren: Am 26. Oktober 1953 fand in Emu Field, South Australia, der zweite #Atomtest der britischen Operation #Totem statt. Diese Tests legten den Grundstein für weitere Fortschritte im britischen Atomprogramm.

On Friday, federal judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island issued rulings
that could soon bring relief to millions of Americans whose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are set to expire on Nov. 1,
requiring the Trump administration to fund the program, at least partially while the legal proceedings continue.
The SNAP program, commonly referred to as food stamps, is among many government programs affectedby the ongoing shutdown,
and has been one…

JUST IN: Two Federal Judges Rule Trump Admin Must Fund Food Stamps — At Least Partially
On Friday, federal judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island issued rulings that could soon bring relief to millions of Americans whose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are set to expire on Nov. 1.

The Election Was a Rebuke of Trump and Not Only Because He Has Failed to Deliver Economic Relief (Andy Craig/The UnPopulist)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-election-was-a-rebuke-of-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p133#a251105p133

As a non-binary person living in #Bergen, #Norway, this video made me cry from pure euphoria, a wave of relief knowing I am seen just as I am.
I hope it brings you the same confidence and happiness, showing that you are truly seen and celebrated for who you are.

Relief sculpture of rays of sunlight, a book, clouds and the kind of lamp that a genie lives in from the Newark Valley Central School
#photo #photography #architecture

Congressional Democrats are introducing a bill that would provide childcare relief to federal workers affected by the shutdown of the federal government,
as it drags on through a second week.
Parents would be reimbursed for fees paid to childcare facilities during the shutdown under plans initiated by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.

Almost 55,000 children in Gaza are estimated to be acutely malnourished,
far more than have so far been identified as victims of the potentially lethal condition,
a study published in the Lancet, the respected international medical periodical, has revealed.
The study, published on Wednesday, and led by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa),
offers a month-by-month breakdown through much of the two-year conflict,
and shows for the first ti…

Cool personal announcement: I’m now working with Hachette Book Group, 3rd largest publisher in the world! 📚😍
I’m helping with their email #marketing on their executive marketing strategy team for the next 1.5 months. Got many book lists to curate!
This is a dream come true in many ways, reading is my longest-standing and most consistent hobby. I don’t know who I would be if I wasn’t constantly surrounded by books - definitely not the Mariya before you today.
As a reader, as a writer - getting to see publishing from the inside and help promote products that I fundamentally believe do good in the world is a relief and a blessing. I’m so honored and lucky.
(Don’t worry, my agency is not going anywhere and we are still very much working with other clients!)
#books #publishing #emailmarketing

ShelterBox USA
To provide families with life-saving shelter and essential tools and supplies that will enable them to rebuild their homes
and transform their lives after disaster
and to build awareness of global displacement.
https://shelterboxusa.org/

ShelterBox USA - Emergency Disaster Relief
ShelterBox USA provides emergency shelter to families who have lost their home to disaster, enabling them to rebuild their lives. Join us.

Relief carving of a globe on the school at Newark Valley
#photo #photography #buildings #architecture

Around 13,000 air traffic controllers and 50,000 TSA officers are facing work without pay,
leading to surging absences and sick says.
Since the shutdown began on October 1, staff absences have contributed to 53 percent of all flight delays compared to the usual 5 percent.
On some days almost 6,000 flights have been hit by delays, with several major airports forced to impose ground stops due to the shortages.
On Friday, more than 4,000 flights were delayed across the c…

Travel chaos as unpaid air traffic controllers abandon towers... while Thanksgiving threat looms
Americans will face more flight interruptions after Congress failed to provide last-minute relief for air-traffic controllers and aviation workers whose paychecks will stall due to the government shutdown.