U.S. airlines started cancelling hundreds of flights on Friday, hours after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered the cuts amid the more-than-monthlong government shutdown. The cuts were ordered as air traffic controllers have missed their paychecks due to the government shutdown, now the longest in U.S. history. Air traffic control staffing shortages have been disrupting flights...

Cornell University said on Friday that it reached a deal with the Trump administration to restore hundreds of millions of dollars worth of research funds the government cut earlier this year. The university will directly pay the federal government $30 million over three years “as a condition for ending pending claims that have been brought...