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Police have shared more details about how a five-year-old girl fell overboard while on a Disney cruise ship on its way back to South Florida in June. Authorities said the girl’s mother encouraged the five-year-old to get up on the railing of the ship and pose for a photo in an open porthole before she went overboard.

South of the border, the weather could add to the turbulence surrounding the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Thousands of flights have been cancelled after air traffic controllers and security staff – who had been working without pay for weeks – stopped showing up. As Jackson Proskow explains, it now looks like the shutdown could finally be nearing its end.