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How the government shutdown hurt military personnel

Hundreds of thousands of military personnel were set to return to work this week after the government shutdown ended Thursday following a historic 43 days. But furloughed civilian defense employees, who haven’t received a paycheck in weeks despite being ordered back to the

Stop all

Every one of the pings, dings and clicks on this page gives me the hives. Run them in a quick sequence and I need to leave the room. They are our Pavlovian bells, designed to trigger us into action. At the bottom right is a button that says ‘stop all.’ That’s a useful idea. We