2025-11-14
13 分钟Good morning.
It's Friday, November 14th.
I'm Shamita Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show, changes could be coming to your high-rewards credit cards,
how one of the world's top photojournalists covers combat zones and conflicts,
and what happens when the hotel you're staying at goes bankrupt.
But first, after 43 days of shutdown, the government has finally reopened.
In some ways, the country is expected to go back to normal pretty quickly,
but that doesn't mean it was cost-free.
Over a million federal employees were either furloughed or worked without pay.
They were expected to return to work as soon as yesterday.
It'll take time to clear the bureaucratic backlog on everything from loan applications to unanswered customer calls.
Museums will gradually open over the weekend, and food stamp payments will go out in full.
But again, there might be some delays there in states getting it to recipients.
Bloomberg's Congress reporter, John Fitzpatrick,
told his network it takes some effort after President Trump put his pen to paper.
The main impediment to getting things moving is that you have had people sitting at home
because they were legally not allowed to work or people not being paid when they were working and you get a bit of a morale issue and people using their time off to either work a second job or just not show up to a job where they're not getting paid.
Disruptions at airports are expected to linger,