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  • Government Shutdown
  • Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton plans to sign budget bills on Wednesday that would end a nearly three-week state government shutdown and put thousands of public employees back to work.
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  • Government Shutdown
  • Minnesota stumbled into its second government shutdown in six years on Thursday, with a partisan divide over taxes and spending to close a $5 billion deficit becoming only more bitter as a midnight deadline came and went without agreement.
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  • Perilously close to a shutdown, President Obama and congressional leaders forged an agreement late Friday.
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  • Federal workers were asked about the prospects of an 11th hour deal, and how that would change the mood in this area.
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  • President Barack Obama says a last-minute deal with congressional leaders to avert a government shutdown happened because "Americans of different beliefs came together."
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  • Independence Hall
  • The Philadelphia region will see some immediate changes if the White House and Congress fail to reach an agreement on a new budget by midnight and the federal government shuts down.
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  • Republican leaders have called the party's House rank and file to a highly unusual late night meeting in the Capitol to discuss budget negotiations with President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats.
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  • Independence Hall
  • Click play to watch David Henry's report
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  • Click play to watch Shirleen Allicot's report.
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  • The Pentagon says a government shutdown would delay the $100,000 death benefit paid to families if a military service member dies in the line of duty during the shutdown.
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