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--:-- Corva Coleman: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. The historic federal government shutdown has come to an end. The House passed the short-term spending bill last night.
--:-- Franco Ordonez: NPR's Franco Ordonez reports President Trump signed it soon after. President Trump signed the bill in a late-night ceremony from the White House where he continued to blame the Democrats for the shutdown.
--:-- Franco Ordonez: This was an easy extension, but they didn't want to do it the easy way. They had to do it the hard way, and they looked very bad, the Democrats do.
--:-- Franco Ordonez: The package funds most of the government through the end of January, but also includes three years of funding for some other programs, including agriculture and military.
--:-- Franco Ordonez: The legislation also includes a provision that would reverse layoffs of federal workers that were made during the shutdown and ensure retroactive pay for those who were furloughed.
--:-- Franco Ordonez: And Trump again pressed to end the Senate's filibuster rule that requires 60 votes to bring legislation to the floor.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Franco Ordonez NPR News With the House back in session Speaker Mike Johnson swore Arizona Democratic Congresswoman Adelita Gerhalva into office. Her oath was delayed for 50 days.
--:-- Corva Coleman: That also delayed action on a discharge petition intended to force a House vote. This demands the full release of files on late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
--:-- Adelita Gerhalva: I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Her signature provides a majority for the petition.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Speaker Johnson says he'll hold that vote next week.
--:-- Corva Coleman: This came on the day Democrats and then Republicans on the House Oversight Committee released emails from Epstein's estate.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Some emails raised new questions about his ties to President Trump.
--:-- Corva Coleman: The White House says the emails proved nothing and were released by Democrats in an effort to smear the president.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Even though the government shutdown is over, air travel is still reduced. The government has cut flights in the U.S. by 6 percent.
--:-- Corva Coleman: That is until enough air traffic controllers are able to return to work.
--:-- Corva Coleman: The U.S. Mint says it has stopped making pennies after producing them for more than 200 years.
--:-- Rafael Nam: The last penny coin was minted in Philadelphia. The end of this tiny little coin had already been announced by President Trump back in February.
--:-- Rafael Nam: Producing each penny was costing the U government nearly four cents and ending production would save the U.S. more than $50 million a year.
--:-- Rafael Nam: But the move to face that penny has been a big pain for many retailers and banks, which are struggling to provide exact change.
--:-- Rafael Nam: After all, pennies remain legal tender, meaning that they can still be used.
--:-- Rafael Nam: Chances are, though, many of them will stay where they've probably been for years, in big jars, coffee cans, or somewhere under the cushion of your couch.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Rafael Nam, NPR News.
--:-- Corva Coleman: This is NPR.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized in Chicago.
--:-- Corva Coleman: His organization, the Rainbow Push Coalition, says he is being treated for a neurodegenerative condition. It's called progressive supranuclear palsy.
--:-- Corva Coleman: The group says he has been managing PSP for more than a decade.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Jackson is 84.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Missouri National Guard troops are being deployed to assist ICE agents in that state.
--:-- Corva Coleman: Missouri's largest black police union is objecting.
--:-- Donnie Walters: Members fear the deployment could break trust with communities of color.
--:-- Corva Coleman: From St Louis Public Radio Andrea Henderson has more.
--:-- Andrea Henderson: Early last month Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe authorized troops to help ICE agents with clerical duties as arrests spike under the Trump administration.
--:-- Donnie Walters: Let's say they come in for six weeks. And whatever they're doing, when they leave, we now are left with the fallout.
--:-- Donnie Walters: Walter says sending in more troops and ICE agents doesn't reduce crime. Job training and equal access to education and housing does.
--:-- Corva Coleman: For NPR News, I'm Andrea Henderson in St. Louis.
--:-- Corva Coleman: The robo-taxi company Waymo says it's going to expand its service to include freeways and interstates.
--:-- Corva Coleman: The driverless taxis will offer this service in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco, Waymo's greatly expanded service in the Bay Area down to San Jose.
--:-- Corva Coleman: I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News.
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