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Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY November 13, 2025 at 5:28 AM

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Quick look at Thursday's news: -

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history has come to an end.

The penny took its last breath.

The 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics is putting women first.

Shutdown over. A health care fight is not.

The government is open Thursday after President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday night that ended a 43-day shutdown and starts to resolve the mass chaos the closure created.

What happens now? After weeks without pay, hundreds of thousands of government workers will head back to work in the coming days. Shuttered preschool and food benefit programs will reopen, and so will federal agencies and national landmarks. Crucial government data will start circulating again.

Which House Democrats voted with Republicans? Almost all Democrats opposed a Senate-passed funding package, saying it didn't do enough to address the rising cost of health care. Six Democrats, all moderates, voted in support.

Who gained from this high-stakes political gambit? House Speaker Mike Johnson called the shutdown "pointless” while House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats’ fight to extend Obamacare tax credits isn’t over.

Is my flight back on time? Despite the shutdown ending, experts and airlines have cautioned that travelers should prepare for further flight disruptions throughout the week.

President Donald Trump signs the funding bill to end the shutdown at the White House on Wednesday.More Epstein emails coming soon, Dem says

House Democrats will be releasing more Jeffrey Epstein documents after the bombshell release of an email in which the disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker wrote that President Trump "spent hours at my house" with one of the victims.

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The Epstein email claims Trump "knew about the girls."

The House will vote next week on a bill compelling the Justice Department to release all Epstein files.

Adelita Grijalva was sworn in to the House after a 7-week delay — securing an Epstein files vote.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, during a ceremonial swearing of Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) at the United States Capitol on Wednesday.More news to know now -

Starbucks workers are on strike across the U.S. for Red Cup Day.

Thousands want to work for NYC Mayor-Elect Mamdani.

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Detainees could be released from ICE custody

Hundreds of immigration enforcement detainees from Illinois could be released, a federal judge said Wednesday, saying that "it seems highly unlikely that they’re drug traffickers or gang members or the assorted ne’er-do-wells ICE has claimed are the worst of the worst." The judge’s ruling could potentially set the stage to free many of the people detained during the immigration enforcement crackdown in Chicago.

The penny 'dies' at 232

The penny, the United States' iconic one-cent coin whose copper face and everyman symbolism endeared it to millions of Americans before it fell into change-drawer obscurity, died on Nov. 12, 2025. Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. Mint formally stamped what it said would be the country’s last circulating pennies in a ceremony celebrating an icon as emblematic of the national ethos. Decades of inflation had taken their toll on the humble coin.

Today's talkers -

We're watching "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" tonight.

Dolly Parton on turning 80: "So what?"

Taylor Swift is dropping a new "End of an Era" trailer today.

Caitlin Clark is hitting the links.

LA 2028 just took a big step toward equality

The 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics are still more than two and a half years away, but organizers made a significant statement about equality: The women’s 100-meter track final, not the men’s, will open the first night of medal competition at the Games. The men’s 100 final, which traditionally goes first, will be held the next evening. In reaction to the move, U.S. Olympic gold and silver medalist Sha’Carri Richardson said the road to LA28 is "about to be something special." USA TODAY Sports was first to report the 2028 Olympic competition schedule.

Photo of the day: Back in the upside down

USA TODAY spoke to "Stranger Things" stars Millie Bobby Brown, Noah Schnapp, Finn Wolfhard and Gaten Matarazzo at the Season 5 final premiere about how they're closing out this era of their lives.

(L-R) Sadie Sink, Caleb McLaughlin, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Noah Schnapp and Millie Bobby Brown attend the Los Angeles Premiere of Netflix's "Stranger Things" Season 5.

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