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military buildup in the Caribbean, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio says no one mentioned their concerns to him during a recent G7 meeting in Canada.

Here's NPR's Michelle Kellerman.

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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 the 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.

But 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.

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This is day 41 of the government shutdown, but for the first time since it began, Congress is a step closer to ending it.

Eight members of the Senate Democratic Caucus voted with Republicans yesterday to advance an agreement to reopen the government.

They did so without a guaranteed extension of federal health care subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.

That's been the key demand of Democratic lawmakers since the shutdown began.

Here's Senate Majority Leader John Thune.

Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois was among the Democrats who broke ranks with others in his party's leadership.

He called on Thune to keep his promise to hold a Senate vote to extend the expiring health care subsidies by mid-December.