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secretary, making Christy know him the first member of his cabinet to depart in his
“second term. And a social media post, Trump said he will nominate Oklahoma Republican”
Senator Mark Wayne Mullen to the post. And here's the amount of a steel says he will face a lot of challenges if he's confirmed." He's going to have a lot to juggle. Trump says that he could take over by the end of March, though, of course, he will have to get confirmed by the Senate. And it is unclear whether the agency will be funded by Congress by then. There is bipartisan consensus that there's
a lack of trust in federal immigration enforcement officers. And internally, there have also been fractures.
"The shake-up at DHS comes after Christy known face to grilling by lawmakers this week over
her leadership. Texas Republican Congressman Tony Gonzalez is abandoning his re-election campaign. Gonzalez made the announcement a short time ago on social media.
“A day after a congressional ethics panel announced an investigation into an affair he's acknowledged”
with a former staffer who later died by suicide. The house has blocked a measure to limit President Trump's war powers and he ran the vote Thursday. It came a day after a similar measure failed in the Senate, as it appears Clotique Rosalice reports." War powers debates are nothing new since the Cold War presidents of both parties have asserted the right to order-limited strikes without congressional sign-off.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said blocking further operations in Iran now
would have been a "dangerous gambit." "It would have been a very serious misstep by Congress and I'm grateful that that resolution failed." Both U.P. led chambers blocked the bill largely along party lines. In the House, Kentucky Republican Thomas Massey and California Democrat
“wrote, "Cona teamed up again to force the vote. Only one other Republican, Ohio”
Congressman Warren Davidson, joined Massey to advance the resolution." Democrats saw four defections, including Maine's Jared Golden and Henry Quayar of Texas who sided with the GOP. Clotique D'Sullis and Pierre News, the Capitol. China sending a special envoy to the Middle East as a war with the Iran as led to a surge in oil and gas prices and Pierre's Jennifer Pack reports from Beijing.
China's foreign minister Wang Yi announced this move in separate phone calls with his counterparts in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Foreign Ministry statements do not give details on the exact mission of China's envoy. China has been calling for all parties to cease military action and return to the negotiating table. Wang told the Saudi Foreign Minister that no matter what the justification is, quote, "the indiscriminate use of force is unacceptable."
In a separate call with his UAE counterpart, China's foreign minister stressed that non-military targets should not be attacked. He added that the security of shipping routes should be safeguarded. Jennifer Pack and Pierre News Beijing is the MPR. The Treasury Department has authorized a sale of Russian oil to India for 30 days. The move is intended to boost the global supply and bring down prices amid the Iran War and a statement on X Treasury Secretary Scott Beson said
the waiver only applies to transactions involving oil already stranded at sea. The Pentagon is labeling the artificial intelligence company and "thropic" as a supply chain risk. A move that could force other government contractors to stop using Claude and Thropic's AI chat pot. In a statement Thursday, the Pentagon said that it has officially informed and "thropic" and that the designation is effective immediately. And Thropic CEO says the company
has no choice but to challenge a Trump administration in court. What are Olympics may be over, but the legacy of the games lives on on the Billboard Singles chart, his MPR Steven Thompson reports. This week's pop charts demonstrate that there's more than one way to make a song ahead. When figure skater Alyssa Lue won gold twice last month, her fame skyrocketed. Near the end of the winter Olympics, Lue performed in a non-competitive gala skating to the
song "State Side" by Pink Pantherists featuring Zara Lars. Lue's performance went viral and now "State Side" takes a huge leap up the Billboard Hot 100 climbing from number 41 to number 13. The song's chart success can be directly linked to the timing of the Olympic figure skating gala, which makes Alyssa Lue not only a two-time gold medalist, but also a taste maker. Steven Thompson and PR news. This is MPR News.
