Dave Mattingly

Overnight, heavy rains drenched existing tents and the ruins of bombed-out homes in parts of the area.

The Swedish aerospace company Saab says it's working on a deal to sell more fighter jets to Canada.

Dan Karpinchuk reports.

Major League Baseball's most valuable players for the past season are Shohei Otani of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees.

I'm Dave Mattingly, NPR News in Washington.

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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.

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 Greenglass says Grijalva provides the last signature needed to force a House vote on the full release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

European countries are expressing concerns about the U.S.