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6:13 PM on Monday, October 6

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the government shutdown is putting more stress on air traffic controllers who already have an extremely stressful job, as well as threatening a program that small communities rely on to help subsidize airline service

11:38 AM on Monday, October 6

Here’s a question submitted by an Associated Press reader: Is it legal to fire furloughed federal workers during a shutdown

11:00 AM on Monday, October 6

9:05 AM on Monday, October 6

11:12 AM on Sunday, October 5

Washington lawmakers remain at a standstill over reopening the government, showing few signs of progress as President Donald Trump says layoffs are “taking place right now.”

6:39 PM on Friday, October 3

In what appears to be the first major challenge to the new $100,000 fee required for H-1B visa applications, a coalition of health care providers, religious groups, university professors and others filed a federal lawsuit Friday to stop the plan

10:58 AM on Friday, October 3

From Wall Street trading floors to the Federal Reserve to economists sipping coffee in their home offices, the first Friday morning of the month typically brings a quiet hush around 8:30 a.m. eastern, as everyone awaits the Labor Department’s monthly jobs report

5:10 PM on Thursday, October 2

3:05 PM on Thursday, October 2

10:42 AM on Thursday, October 2

Protesters have taken to the streets in Paris and over 200 other locations across France to denounce spending cuts and demand higher taxes on the wealthy

9:00 AM on Thursday, October 2

9:00 AM on Thursday, October 2

2:54 PM on Wednesday, October 1

The government shutdown will deprive policymakers and investors of economic data vital to their decision-making at a time of unusual uncertainty about the direction of the U.S. economy

1:18 PM on Wednesday, October 1

9:20 AM on Wednesday, October 1

An active shooter hoax that plunged New Jersey’s largest military base into lockdown was prompted by a civilian employee who wanted to “trauma bond” with her colleagues

9:00 AM on Wednesday, October 1

3:39 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Thousands of demonstrators have marched through Athens as part of a general strike protesting changes to Greece's labor laws

12:05 AM on Wednesday, October 1

The government shutdown means further disruption for the U.S. Education Department, which has seen half of its employees laid off by the Republican Trump administration

12:01 AM on Wednesday, October 1

The federal government was thrown into a shutdown with no easy endgame in sight

11:30 PM on Tuesday, September 30

U.S. stocks rose to more records as Wall Street still doesn’t seem to care much about the latest shutdown of the U.S. government