Monday, November 10, 2025

Is the shutdown winding down?

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The Short List

Mon Nov 10 2025

 

Phaedra Trethan National Correspondent

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👋🏼 Hi there! I'm Phaedra Trethan, back after a couple of college visits with my teenager, and contemplating this story over my coffee. ☕️ ❤️

In Monday's news:

Is the government shutdown nearing an end?
The Supreme Court makes a crucial call on gay marriage.
New guidance from the FDA could help millions of women.

But first: Tomorrow is Veterans Day. But today we give thanks to the men and women who've served in the U.S. Marine Corps. Happy birthday! 🫡 🙌🏽

Shutdown winding down?

The longest-ever federal government shutdown may be nearing an end. But there's still a lot in limbo, including pay for federal workers like air traffic controllers, SNAP food assistance and the potential for political blowback to put a possible deal in jeopardy. What to know.

Progressive Democrats are balking, citing a lack of clarity on healthcare subsidies.
Flying home for the holidays? The shutdown, even if it ends, might impact your plans. ✈️
A mother-daughter political family feud erupted over the Senate vote to end the shutdown.
The Senate Democrats who broke with the party.
Winners & losers in the shutdown showdown.
What's next?

Usa Shutdown

U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks with reporters outside the Senate Chamber after the vote on the 40th day of the partial government shutdown, in Washington, D.C., Nov. 9, 2025.

Aaron Schwartz/REUTERS

⚖️ SCOTUS: Obergefell decision stands

The Supreme Court said Monday it won't revisit its 2015 decision that legalized same-sex marriage , Obergefell v. Hodges. The Court rejected an appeal from Kim Davis, a former Kentucky court clerk who drew international attention for her religiously-based refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

The High Court will consider questions about mail-in ballots.

Real quick

The New York Giants fired their head coach after going 2-8. 🏈 🏈 🏈
A housecleaner went to the wrong house. Authorities are investigating her fatal shooting.
Watch: The latest people to be pardoned by President Trump.
Would you take out a 50-year mortgage? 🏡 💸 🤔

Change in FDA guidance over 'change of life'

Doctors have for years told women that hormone replacement therapy could help alleviate their perimenopause and menopause symptoms, including night sweats, hot flashes, brain fog and urinary tract issues. But many women shied away from the treatment, worried about FDA warnings about links to breast cancer, blood clots, stroke and dementia.

Some physicians called the "black box" warnings "outdated and harmful," and the FDA is telling drug companies they can remove the labels from the medications. Why the guidance changed and what that means for women.

More young, otherwise healthy women are being diagnosed with lung cancer. Why?

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Dr. Heather Hirsch is the author of The Perimenopause Survival Guide and the founder of the Menopause Clinic at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

The Collaborative

The U.S. at 250: Journeys Across America

🎶 🎵 The latest stories in our Journeys Across America series really sing!

The Mississippi Delta is just one piece of this vast land. But it's had an outsized influence on our musical and cultural history, giving rise to all of our quintessentially American music: the blues, jazz, rock and roll, R&B. 🎙️

And does any artist exemplify American music more than The King himself, Elvis Presley?

This Revolutionary rider's journey made history, and helped make the nation.
The California Gold Rush brought big dreams to the West. The state still draws dreamers. 💰
Journey to Freedom: Following the truth along the Underground Railroad.

News Usa 250 Delta Blues

Blues posters, pictures and drawings are displayed for sale at Cat Head Delta Blues and Folk Art in Clarksdale.

Ayrton Breckenridge, USA TODAY

A break from the news

Say it ain't snow! Where the winter flakes are flying. ❄️
Generations of women who rock took the stage in L.A. 🎶 ✊🏼 🎵
Did someone say "free doughnuts"? 🍩

Phaedra Trethan is a national correspondent at USA TODAY. She'd love to hear from readers about The Short List, story ideas from across the nation and what old TV shows deserve a reboot. Email her at ptrethan@usatoday.com.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) speaks during a prayer rally on the ninth day of a federal government shutdown in the courtyard of St. Mark's Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill on October 09, 2025 in Washington, DC.

The shutdown could end without a guarantee to extend COVID-19 pandemic-era subsidies that made some health plans less expensive for millions of Americans.

A canceled Southwest Airlines flight is posted in Terminal 4 during the government shutdown on Nov. 7, 2025, at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
 

Trump orders air traffic controllers back to work, scolds shutdown absences

Trump ordered all air traffic controllers back to work, after absences during the government shutdown led to thousands of flight disruptions.

Alexis Vargas, a raft pilot from Guatemala, waits for customers on the Mexican side of the Suchiate River, along the border with Guatemala, on Thursday, August 21, 2025. A year earlier, Vargas was earning up to $100 a day ferrying migrants from Guatemala to Mexico on their journey to the United States.
 

Why migrants in Mexico are heading south, not north

The flow of migrants at the Guatemala-Mexico border has dramatically decreased since the Trump administration implemented stricter border policies.

Tourists look at the view from Guano Point on the west rim of the Grand Canyon on the Hualapai Indian Reservation, Arizona, U.S. February 28, 2018. Picture taken February 28, 2018.
 

65-year-old man dead after slipping, falling at Grand Canyon West

Authorities used a rope system to recover the 65-year-old man's body on Nov. 6.

Sam O'Hara is photographed in Washington, DC on Nov. 7, 2025. O'Hara filed a lawsuit on Oct. 23 against a member of the Ohio National Guard and several police officers after being detained at a September protest in the nation's capital while playing a well-known villain theme song from the "Star Wars" movies.
 

'Star Wars' music as protest? This man says police wrongly cuffed him.

Sam O'Hara said he has 'lots of respect' for the military but criticized its presence in cities, including Washington, DC.

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters upon his return to Washington at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, U.S., November 9, 2025.
 

Trump's shutdown moves dialed up the pain. Did the strategy work?

Laid off federal workers. Lapsed food aid. Airline flight cuts. The pain was mounting before Democrats agreed to a deal ending the shutdown.

A woman shops at a Target store in Chicago on November 26, 2024, ahead of the Black Friday shopping day.
 

Amazon, Target and Home Depot targeted by anti-Trump boycott over DEI

Progressive groups are urging shoppers to vote with their wallets this holiday season and stop shopping at Amazon, Target and Home Depot.

A passenger stands by a screen showing delayed flights due to the government shutdown, at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California, U.S., November 6, 2025.
 

How to reach your airline if your flight is among thousands canceled

Here's how to reach your airline if your flight has been canceled due to government shutdown cuts.

Cody Bellinger is one of the top free agents this winter.
 

10 biggest MLB hot stove questions: Top free agents, trade rumors

MLB's offseason kicks off with the GM Meetings. Here's what to look for at the high-stakes event in Vegas.

Sarah Mclachlan performs on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" On Sept. 23, 2025.
 

Taylor Swift, Sarah McLachlan nominated for Songwriters Hall Of Fame

Taylor Swift has been nominated for the Songwriters Hall of Fame's 2026 class. She joins LL Cool J, David Byrne, Sarah McLachlan, Pink, Kenny Loggins, and KISS members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley on the ballot.

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