The unpaid workers will handle tax returns, refunds during shutdown, but phone service will be curtailed and walk-up centers closed.
Author: Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY
‘I did it’: Saudi teen fleeing alleged family abuse arrives in Canada as an asylum refugee
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Trump blasts Comey as ‘total sleaze’ in response to FBI probe reports
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Ex-Nazi camp guard deported from U.S. dies in nursing home in Germany
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Texas governor defends Muslim party official as GOP faction seeks his ouster
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Kremlin says US arrested Russian businessman day after capture of alleged American spy
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Parkland survivor David Hogg, who was mocked by Fox host over college rejections, finds Ivy League comeback
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Gatwick airport reopens after 2 arrested for using drones to disrupt flights
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‘Not just hysteria’: 25 US employees at embassy in Cuba did suffer inner-ear damage from mystery illness, study says
The Americans reported dizziness, pain, memory loss from mysterious ‘force field’ in 2016 and 2017.