Could the longest shutdown in U.S. history end tonight? Here's the latest on votes to reopen, timing, how to watch, and more.

Senate votes to end government shutdown as Chuck Schumer faces calls to resign: Live updates - The funding bill has passed in the Senate and the House will have to approve it next

The heads of the Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Transportation announced that they would reduce flight restrictions at 40 key airports from 6 percent to 3 percent beginning Saturday at 6 a.m. Eastern time, scaling back cuts they had imposed as staffing problems among air traffic controllers worsened during the shutdown.

US senators have voted to approve a bill which could prove to end the longest ever government shutdown. Government services have been temporarily suspended during the 41-day shutdown, with roughly 1.4 million federal employees on upaid leave or working without pay.

Ghislaine Maxwell, the co-conspirator of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, plans to ask Trump for a commutation of her 20-year sentence, a whistleblower said.

The Senate failed for the 14th time to advance a bill to end the government shutdown, now the longest in U.S. history.

As the government shutdown hits Day 38, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Democrats offered a plan that would reopen the government. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.)

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., made a public offer to Republicans on Friday to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for a year. But Republicans immediately rejected it, with Thune calling it a “nonstarter.”