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On Wall Street, stocks extended their downward trend.

The Dow Jones Industrials lost 498 points Tuesday.

The Nasdaq fell 275 points.

And the S&P 500 said 55.

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Congress is working on a bill to guarantee that air traffic controllers and other FAA workers are paid during government shutdowns.

The measure is getting support from Democrats and from Republicans.

It would be funded by a rarely used fund that sets aside money to reimburse airlines if the government commandeers and damages their planes.

Air traffic controllers are required to work during shutdowns, but many called in sick and took on temporary work to tide them over.

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sent 50 people to Ukraine this week in the largest deportation flight since the Russian invasion.

As NPR's Ximena Bustillo reports, the Trump administration originally wanted to deport even more.

At least one of 25 teenage girls kidnapped from a boarding school in northern Nigeria has reportedly escaped and returned home.

A search continues for the remaining captives.

No group has claimed responsibility for the abductions.

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The longest government shutdown in American history may soon end.

The House is expected to vote today on a bipartisan measure to reopen, and President Trump says he'll sign it.