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thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Yesterday, lawmakers approved a last-minute stopgap funding bill to avert a shutdown set

to take effect today.

Here's why this is good news.

If a partial government shutdown had occurred, airline passengers could see major delays if

unpaid air traffic controllers chose not to work.

National parks and other sites could have closed.

Processing of Social Security claims and benefits verification would have stopped,

and any company doing business with the U.S. government could have been impacted.

In other words, what happened behind closed doors in

Washington affected millions across the nation. Some other stories in the news illustrating this theme.

A man in Illinois woke up to a bat on his neck in mid-August. The bat tested positive for rabies,

but he declined the rabies vaccine and died of rabies a month later. After the Milwaukee Bucks clinched their division Sunday, star pitcher

Devin Williams drunkenly punched a wall on his way home. He needs surgery and will miss the

playoffs. Hurricane Sam is hundreds of miles offshore,

but the National Hurricane Center is warning that the unseen storm will likely cause

life-threatening surf and riptide conditions along the east coast. An erupting volcano in Hawaii

does not threaten residents on the island, but officials

worry that the spectators coming to view it will spread COVID-19. On this day in 2017, a gunman

opened fire on a Las Vegas concert crowd, killing 58 and wounding hundreds before killing himself. His motives remain unknown.

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