Congress ends US shutdown, avoids default

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress reopened the U.S. government Thursday and signed off on more borrowing so America could pay its bills, quelling a deep political and fiscal crisis. But the deal only pushed the unsolved and bitter ideological battle a few months into the future.

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