On the seventh day of the shutdown, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen tells NPR she's working with colleagues from both parties to find common ground and reopen the government.

A state employee who helped facilitate the purchase of a warehouse in Nashua by China-based Nongfu Spring did not violate any laws or policies, but kept key information about the deal from his bosses.

The federal government is currently shut down. The NPR Network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting services across the country.

“The breadth of the anti-DEI laws’ prohibition is startling,” wrote Judge Landya B. McCafferty, with the U.S. District Court in Concord, New Hampshire. “The definition of ‘DEI’ contained [in the law] is so far-reaching that it prohibits long-accepted — even legally required — teaching and administrative practices.”

At the heart of the shutdown is a fight over health policy. In New Hampshire, marketplace experts are preparing people to expect higher health care premiums whether or not subsidies through the Affordable Care Act are extended.

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, based in Kittery, Maine, employs thousands of civilians who live in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.

"When we're coming up on a looming government shutdown, people have been willing to sit down and negotiate," Shaheen said. "That's been sorely lacking this time."

Raising turnpike tolls isn’t something the state Legislature can just decide like the gas tax. It has to go through the New Hampshire Executive Council and the governor.

Government shutdowns lasting more than a few days were relatively rare — until recently. The 2018-2019 shutdown was the longest in U.S. history, stretching on for five weeks.

A new report says that the number of books being challenged or removed from public schools across the country has risen exponentially in the past two years. A Clockwork Orange tops their list.