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Air-traffic controllers, classified as essential personnel, were expected to work through the funding impasse, with paychecks deferred until the end of the shutdown.

Over the past six weeks, a drought of government economic statistics during the federal-spending impasse has further obscured the path forward.

Canberra and Ankara are under pressure to break the impasse and avoid a scene in Belem, where Brazil is desperate to show that climate diplomacy still works.

The impasse was yet another signal of the shifting center of gravity in the media world — one moving away from linear-television stalwarts like the Walt Disney Co.

But in the mid-19th century, elevator designers were at an impasse.