Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
The Senate is holding a rare Saturday session debating the Republicans' Safe America Act,
“which has new requirements for voter registration and requires photo IDs at the polls”
to make sure only citizens can vote. But Democrats say federal law already blocks non-citizens from voting. They're also debating ending the DHS shutdown and getting TSA workers paid. Democrats have repeatedly blocked efforts to fund all of the Department of Homeland Security without reforms to ICE.
Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer. Every bill they have brought before the Senate says, "Oh, yeah, we want to pay the TSA workers, we want to reduce the lines and airports, but only if you pass ICE funding with no reform." And the American people want reform. They know that.
Senate Majority Leader John Thun. It's very, very hard to explain if, you know, we leave town this next week without having funded the Department of Homeland Security. Meanwhile, the Senate today blocked a proposal that would have banned trans athletes from competing in women's sports.
Britain says Iran launched a non-successful missile attack at a joint British and American base in the Indian Ocean and appears Ruth Sherlock has more. In a statement to NPR, the British Ministry of Defense accused Iran of lashing out across the region after it said Iran had made a failed attempt to strike at Diego Garcia military base.
It's unclear how close the missiles came to the base, located on the Chego Islands in the Indian Ocean, some 2,500 miles away from Iran.
“The base has long been strategically important for the US, which has used it in military”
operations from the Vietnam War to the invasion of Iraq and in other more recent conflicts. The British government has said US bombers can use some British bases including Diego Garcia for operations to prevent Iran attacking ships in the strategic straight of Harumos, waterway, Ruth Sherlock and Piani's. Nearly two months of virtual learning ended this week, if for students in St. Paul, Minnesota,
it was a response to the sweeping immigration enforcement surge in the state, and here's Meg Anderson has more.
More than a third of the students at the elementary school switched to online learning
during the ice search. Piani PR is not naming the school because the staff fears the federal government could target them. After weeks of online learning, the school year feels like it's starting all over again, and not every student came back, one family is now in El Salvador, others are in Mexico.
But many of the students who returned are relieved, like Camila, a fifth grader. "Nafel good, because I got to see my friends again, and they helped me feel safer." She says it's starting to feel just a little bit, like how it was before. Meg Anderson and Piani's. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
Robert Mueller, the FBI director who transformed the agency into a terrorism fighting force after the 9/11 attacks, has died. He was 81 years old. Mueller was also the special counsel in charge of investigating ties between Russia and Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and whether the Trump campaign illegally coordinated
with the Kremlin to sway the outcome of the 2016 presidential race. Mueller led the FBI for 12 years and was named Special Counsel eight days after Trump fired FBI director James Komi, who was also investigating Russia in the Trump campaign. Trump has then forgiven Mueller's investigation, though, saying in a post on social media "Good, I'm glad he's dead, he can no longer hurt innocent people."
The British version of Saturday Night Live debuts tonight with Tina Fey hosting. The Kuberker has more from London. Comedy and satire are not strangers to the British airwaves, but live comedy and satire is.
“Cas member Iowa Day bang boy A telling the BBC, "I mean, I'm nervous, but I think my”
nerves are just like excitement, you know what I'm nervous because you care." The user James Longman is confident the SNL brand will appeal to British viewers. The world is rough out there at the moment, so it's really good times a laugh, and we are
creating, hopefully, something very special with an amazing cast and amazing team of writers.
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