The federal government slowly started to reopen Thursday but things remain far from normal after President Donald Trump signed a Republican government funding bill that narrowly passed both houses of Congress to end the longest shutdown in U.S. history.

Air travel remained snarled with hundreds more flights canceled and delayed, but experts said things would slowly return to normal as the busy Thanksgiving holiday approaches.

Furloughed federal workers were expected to return to work in coming days and receive back pay from missed paychecks, along with essential workers like air traffic controllers and airport security screeners, who were forced to work without pay during the record 43-day shutdown.

Millions of low-income recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) be

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