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New movement today on Department of Homeland Security funding that gets TSA agents paid
“again, and security checkpoints staffed up enough to spare travelers from having to wait hours”
in line. Early this morning, the U.S. Senate voted to fund the H.S. Now, the House is considering it. And P.R. Sam Greengloss, as the bill, does not include any reforms to immigration enforcement tactics, the Democrats wanted.
The DHS funding lapse has forced tens of thousands of employees to work without pay or quit, and resulted in long waits at some airports amid peak spring break travel. If the House signs off on the deal today, money will flow again to FEMA, TSA, the Coast Gardens, cybersecurity.
The deal came after a week of erratic negotiations and President Trump moving to unilaterally
pay TSA agents, being an executive order. Crats say they stood firm on no new funding for ICE and border patrol, and will keep pressing for reforms, like requiring judicial warrants for immigration officers to enter homes. But Republicans are now signaling the time to negotiate has passed.
Sam Greengloss and P.R. News, Washington. Maggie Sabotino, says the showdown makes a person, quote, "Feel like a pawn on a chess sport between two players who don't know how to play the game." Sabotino's a union rep for TSA workers at Philadelphia International Airport. She is questioning, "Why President Trump waited until last night to announce an emergency
order to pay TSA agents again?"
It makes you think hard.
“If he can order DHS to pay us now, why wait 42 days?”
Why wait the last time 43 days? Why have a four day stint in between? Why wasn't this done automatically? Sabotino and NPR is morning edition. Israel is committing more troops to its ground invasion of southern Lebanon.
It's trying to wipe out his bolo, which is backed by Iran. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has arrived in France to join a meeting of G7 foreign ministers to talk about the war in the Middle East as well as the war in eastern Europe between Russia and Ukraine. We have more from NPR as Eleanor Beardsley.
President Trump's request of NATO G7 allies to help reopen the maritime route. Largely fell on deaf ears. Meanwhile, Trump has turned his back on Russia's aggressive war on Ukraine, which continues on a bayided.
“Alexander de Hoopshefer, president of the non-partisan policy group, the German Marshal”
fund of the United States, says the two wars actually intersect and show how much the transatlantic allies need each other. "You can still need a strong U.S. involvement in the European leaders and President Trump have made it clear that they need European allies, and they need European allies support and reopening the Hormus straight."
Eleanor Beardsley bringing us that story from Paris, it's NPR News. There have been verdicts this week in two landmark trials against social media companies. Jerevertics have determined that the design of social media platforms are harmful to children's mental health. NPR's Ritu Chattergy reports on recent studies of social media use among children and
teens. Scientists studying the impacts of digital media use and adolescent brain development have been asking kids about symptoms of addiction to screens and social media. Pediatrician Dr. Jason Karta is at the University of California San Francisco and one of the researchers looking into this.
We found that like 16% of 11 to 12 year olds said that they tried to use their social media apps last but couldn't 18% so that they use social media apps to forget about their problems. Negata and others have also found that such compulsive use of screens and social media are linked to mental health symptoms, like depression and even suicidality, free to tragedy and
care news. The former President of Brazil, Jerebo Sanato, is now serving out a 27-year sentence for a coup attempt under House arrest. The country Supreme Court approved the form of his confinement from the grounds of a penitentiary to his residence in an upscale gated community on the grounds of Bolsonaro's failing health.
The 71-year-old was hospitalized roughly two weeks ago for pneumonia. He was discharged today. His confinement could be reviewed in 90 days. The Dow is down 421 points at 45,539.
