Almost 1,000 flights canceled morning after government shutdown ends

Nearly 1,000 flights were canceled on Thursday, as the country reels from the lingering effects of the record-long government shutdown. Flight cancellations totaled 996 at 10 a.m. EST, according to FlightAware’s tracker of flights arriving in, departing from or traveling within the U.S. That already exceeds the 910 cancellations reported on Wednesday. On Tuesday, 1,264…