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Live from NPR News in Washington. I'm Dave Mattingley. The longest government shutdown on record is officially over. Last night, the House passed a bill that funds the federal government through January. The vote was 222 to 209. Six Democrats joined all but two Republicans to pass the measure. It cleared the House two days after Senate approval where seven Democratic senators and one independent joined all but one Republican to secure the 60 votes. needed. Democratic leaders in Congress did not support reopening the government without Republicans first agreeing to extend health care subsidies set to expire at the end of the year. The GOP did not. President Trump signed the measure at the White House and blamed Democrats for the 43-day shutdown. We're sending a clear message that we will never give in to extortion because that's what it was.

They tried to extort. The Democrats tried to extort our country. furloughed federal employees can now head back to work. Democrat Adelita Grijalva of Arizona has been sworn in as the newest member of Congress. She won a special election to succeed her father in the House nearly two months ago. NPR's Sam Gringlass says Grijalva provides the last signature needed to force a House vote on the full release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. House Speaker Mike Johnson administered the oath after weeks of declining to seat Grijalva while the House was not in session. 50 days that over 800,000 Arizonans have been left without access to the basic services that every constituent deserves.

And for weeks, a special petition had been one vote short. That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files. The files have come back to the forefront after House Democrats released emails suggesting President Trump knew about the sexual abuse Epstein was committing. The White House says the emails prove Trump. nothing wrong. Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington. European countries are expressing concerns about the U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean, but Secretary of State Marker Rubio says no one mentioned their concerns to him during a recent G7

meeting in Canada. Here's NPR's Michelle Kellerman. Wrapping up his two-day visit to Canada, Secretary Rubio brushed off reports that the U.K. is withholding certain intelligence from the U.S. because of concerns about deadly strikes on alleged drugboats from Venezuela. We have very strong partnerships with the U.K. and other countries. Again, nothing has changed or happened that is impeded in any way, our ability to do what we're doing, nor are we asking anyone to help us with what we're doing in any realm, and that includes military. Rubio says the U.S. has plenty of military assets in the region that can collect intelligence

for what he calls a counter-narcotics campaign, and he says this issue never came up during his meetings with other G7 foreign ministers. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department. This is NPR News. The state of California says it will revoke 17,000 commercial driver's licenses after a federal audit found their expiration dates went beyond the time that drivers were legally allowed to be in the U.S. The announcement follows criticism of California and other states from the Trump administration over licenses being given to people in the country illegally.

The Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration is reshaping where migrants without legal status live in the U.S. Some are leaving the country, but others are moving to other cities and states, as NPR's Jasmine Guards reports. A woman who asked to go by her first initial E says she and her family are moving to a small town in Michigan. They've lived in Florida for two decades. She says they've chosen to move to Michigan because a friend there told them. It's quiet here, no rates. I can find you a job. Homeland Security says 1.6 million people have self-deported during the Trump administration. It's hard to say how many have moved internally to escape enforcement, but demographers say migrants have been relocating from big cities to smaller towns for decades. Jasmine Garz, NPR News. The Reverend Jesse Jackson is hospitalized in Chicago. The civil rights leader and founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition is under observation.

for progressive supranuclear palsy. In a statement, the coalition says Jackson has been managing the neurodegenerative condition for more than a decade. Jackson is 84 years old. I'm Dave Mattingly, NPR News, in Washington.