White House: Furloughed workers can return to work

Published October 17, 2013 5:19am ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government is back open for business.

The Obama administration changed the government’s status to “open” early Thursday, more than two weeks after a partial shutdown took hold when funding from Congress ran out.

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