Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
The Wall Street Journal reports that 10 American military personnel were wounded when an Iranian
“missile hit a shared base in Saudi Arabia, two of them were in serious condition and”
PR is independently confirmed that the attack did take place. President Trump is ordering the Department of Homeland Security and Office of Management and Budget to pay TSA agents. As NPR's Daniel Kurt Sleven reports, the order comes as Congress again failed to end the DHS shutdown.
In the memo, President Trump says the slowdown to airport security and low morale among TSA workers quote, "Constitute and emergency situation compromising the nation's security." The memo states that 60,000 TSA employees are currently not being paid. Since federal agents killed two Americans in Minneapolis earlier this year, Democrats have refused to fund DHS without limits on immigration enforcement tactics.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has rejected a Senate pass bill that would fund DHS minus ICE and Border Patrol. Johnson called the bill a joke.
“Danielle Kurt Sleven and PR news the White House.”
House Democratic Leader Hakim Jeffree says the better way forward in the budget showdown is to have the House vote on the funding measure passed by the Senate Thursday night that compromise bill would restore funding for much of DHS, including FEMA, the Coast Guard and TSA. House Democrats are prepared to support the bill.
To end the Trump Republican shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, make sure TSA agents are paid, stand up for FEMA and for the Coast Guard and for our cybersecurity professionals. Democrats have been holding up the funding because they want ICE agents to stop wearing face masks where the same identification other police agencies use and to stop conducting
raids around schools and other sensitive places. Secretary of Defense Pete Higgs-Seth has intervened to stop the promotions of six military officers and PR's cool Lawrence reports that they were black or female and on track to become one-star generals.
“Since he took office, Pete Higgs-Seth has fired many prominent black and female officers.”
Now U.S. officials familiar with a matter but not authorized to speak publicly told NPR that Higgs-Seth made the highly unusual move of interfering in the regular promotion process to block three female and three black officers from becoming generals. A different U.S. official confirmed that Higgs-Seth has been waiting out senior officers who are deemed ideologically incompatible.
Before his appointment by the Trump administration, Higgs-Seth wrote books, "Despairaging the U.S. military as "woke" and suggesting that diversity in the ranks has weakened the force." While street-finished its fourth-strait losing weak on Friday with all major indices finishing down its the Marcus longest-losing streak in almost four years.
The Nasdaq was hurt the most losing 2.15 percent on the day, the Dalf finished 1.73 points
down. You're listening to NPR news. Secretary of State Mark Rubio says Ukraine's president was lying when he said this week that the U.S. wants his country to hand over territory in order to receive American security guarantees.
Rubio says he told Ukraine that Russia wanted the land exchange, but that the U.S. is not advocating for that in ceasefire talks. The last talks between the U.S. and Ukraine took place last week in Florida. Gulfer Tiger Woods was arrested on suspicion of DUI today after a crash near his home on Jupiter Island, Florida.
Sophia Bautodano, member station WLRN has more on our story. The Martin County Sheriff's Office say wood showed signs of impairment at the scene of the crash in which he struck another vehicle and rolled over. Authority say woods and the other driver were not injured. Wood is also facing another miseminer charge of refusal to submit a lawful test.
While Woods took a breath and a laser test, which registered nothing, police say he refuses to submit a urine sample.
The accident marks the third time wood has been involved in a car crash.
In February 2021, his SUV ran off a coastal road in Los Angeles, causing multiple leg and ankle injuries. He was also arrested on DUI charge in 2017 when South Florida police found him asleep behind the wheel. For MPR News, I'm Sophia Bautodano, in Miami.
Notedame guard Hannah Hidalgo had 31 points, 11 rebounds and 10 steals as noted nameslip past Vanderbilt Friday, 67 to 64, Sarah Strongman while had 21 points and 10 rebounds as defending champion Connecticut, beat North Carolina, 63 to 42. I'm Dale Wilman and PR News.
