Today's Top Headlines

Monday, November 10

Good morning Wypierdalaj,

Call it a movement game.

Call it a checkpoint game, as my friend Tom E. Curran did on Patriots Pregame Live.

Call it a truth-serum game, the kind where you find out what a team really is, as my friend Michael Holley suggested.

The U.S. Senate has narrowly voted on a proposal that could end the government shutdown, an effort that was spearheaded by New England lawmakers but still faces hurdles before moving ahead.

In the meantime, the shutdown continues to cause chaos throughout the country and across multiple sectors.

A big pain point remains air travel, with more than 2,000 flights getting canceled on Sunday across the country, on top of more than 7,000 flight delays.

The Trump administration has told states that sent out full SNAP food aid benefits for November to undo the action, saying in a memo that doing so “was unauthorized.”

But Gov. Maura Healey, who earlier confirmed that the state’s November SNAP benefits were sent out Saturday, said Sunday that residents can keep spending funds on their EBT cards on food.

“If President Trump wants to penalize states for preventing Americans from going hungry, we will see him in court,” she said in a statement. “Massachusetts residents with funds on their cards should continue to spend it on food.”

A maker of organic baby formula is recalling some of the product after federal officials linked it to a 10-state infant botulism outbreak.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the outbreak includes 13 hospitalizations since August of children who consumed ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula.

No deaths have been reported.

Police are asking for the public’s help as they investigate a robbery that occurred overnight at a general store in Lowell, Vermont.

State police were notified around 5:26 a.m. Saturday of a burglary at the Lowell General Store, on Vt. Route 100, and say preliminarily it appears someone wearing a mask broke the store’s window around 12:07 a.m. and waited about two hours before going inside just before 2 a.m.

The masked subject stole various items from the shelf and an undisclosed amount of cash from the register, according to police, who released a photo of the suspect later Saturday.

Every year for decades, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia provides Boston Common’s Christmas Tree as a gift. This year, Mayor Michelle Wu will attend the tree-cutting in person.

It’s a personal note of thanks for the long relationship, which pays tribute to the city of Boston for sending aid in the wake of the deadly explosion of a supply ship carrying explosives in Halifax Harbour in 1917, during World War I. It was the largest manmade explosion until the advent of the atomic bomb.

“For well over a century, Boston and Nova Scotia have shared a special bond of neighborly care and friendship,” Wu said in a statement. “I’m honored this year to visit our neighbors to the north for the first time and deliver a personal thank you on behalf of the people of Boston for continuing this partnership and connection that transcends boundaries and generations.”