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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.
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.
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.
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.