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One U.S. citizen was among the passengers in the turboprop that crashed into the Mekong River in southern Laos on Wednesday.

Although a debt default has been at least temporarily averted, the knock-on effect for the economy will still bite.

"There was no economic rationale for this," the president said of the 16-day federal government shutdown, which he said cost billions of dollars.

The end of the government shutdown is dominating conversation in Washington, D.C., but how's it playing out across the country? Host Michel Martin catches up with a group of regional newspaper editors for some perspective: Michael Smolens of U-T San Diego, Dana Coffield of The Denver Post, and Christopher Ave of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

With the debt crisis averted and the partisan standoff finally at an end, here are some memorable images from the 16-day partial government shutdown.

It turns out that the mosquito-borne illness has been hanging around Houston longer than thought. A look at blood and spinal fluid samples collected from patients a decade ago found that quite a few of them had been sick with undiagnosed dengue fever.

Since the shutdown, the eight-week-old cub at the National Zoo has put on 2 pounds and opened both eyes.

But the country with the highest prevalence of modern-day slavery is Mauritania. That's according to a report released Thursday by the Walk Free Foundation, an anti-slavery group. The numbers are in line with previous estimates from the U.N. and the State Department.

The federal shutdown that ended Thursday left markets, economists and Federal Reserve policymakers with a gap in economic data. Government economists are scrambling to pull together their long-delayed reports on unemployment and other key statistics.

A tax on medical devices stays in place, as does financial help for health coverage for staffers in Congress and the executive branch. One putative win doesn't amount to much. Legal language that would require the government to certify it's verifying the income of people getting subsidies is largely redundant.