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that funds most of the Department of Homeland Security.
“The agency's been shut down for more than 40 days as Democrats and Republicans disagreed”
over the limits to federal immigration agents operations. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says most departments within DHS will get paid. This long overdue due agreement funds TSA, the Coast Guard, FEMA, CISA, strength and security at the border in the ports of entry and keeps Americans safe. This could have been accomplished weeks ago if Republicans hadn't stood in the way.
But it won't fund most federal immigration operations. Senate Majority Leader John Thun, they wanted an issue. Politics over policy, self-interest over reform, pandering to their base over actually solving a problem.
It's an appalling commentary on the State of the Democratic Party.
But the funding issue isn't yet over. This measure has to go to the House for a vote before it's fully passed by Congress. President Trump says he'll delay his threat to attack Iran's energy plans by 10 days.
“He now says Iran has until Monday, April 6th, to reopen the state of Hormuz.”
Israel and the U.S. are still attacking Iran, including the capital to Iran, and Iran is still retaliating against its Gulf neighbors, and Pierce Emily Fang has more. Israel's military said it had struck a missile in sea-mind production facility in Yazd province in the middle of Iran. overnight it also said it targeted ballistic missile in aerial defense system production sites
in Tehran. A handful of social media posts have made it out of Iran's near-total telecommunications blackout, and they show strikes on Tehran and Iran in city of Isfahan and the early dawn hours of Friday.
Hours earlier on Thursday night Iran's revolutionary guard said it had struck U.S. bases
in the UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait in the Gulf using missiles in drones. Emily Fang and Pernu's van Turkey. A federal judge in California has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's ban on the
“Artificial Intelligence Company, and Thropic.”
She's ruled that the Trump administration appears to be trying to punish the company. And Pierce John Ruich reports. The case stems from a dispute between Anthropic and the Pentagon over how the military can use the company's artificial intelligence, and Thropic doesn't want it used for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance of Americans.
The Pentagon says it's up to the military, not the company, to decide how to use a product. Last month, President Trump ordered all government agencies to stop using Anthropic, and the Pentagon later labelled the firm a supply chain risk. That's a designation that's been reserved for foreign adversaries. Now a federal judge in Northern California, Judge Rita F. Lin, says the supply chain risk
label was likely contrary to law, John Ruich and PR news. You're listening to NPR. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is going to Paris this weekend to join a meeting of foreign ministers from G7 nations. There's much to discuss, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the war and Iran, and the related
surge in energy prices because of that conflict. The European Group, the organization for cooperation and development, says that global energy disruption will lead to slower economic growth and surging inflation around the world. Federal prosecutors have charged two people for allegedly planting a bomb outside a U.S. military base in Tampa, Florida.
From member station WUSF, Carrie Sheridan reports, one suspect has fled to China. The improvised explosive device was left outside McDill Air Force Base. That's the headquarters for U.S. Central Command, which is overseeing the bombing campaign in Iran. U.S. Attorney Greg Kieho says the device did not go off.
But I will tell you that it could have been potentially very deadly. The suspects are a brother and sister, Alan and Ann Mary Zhang. She is in custody and allegedly helped her brother escape to China. Kieho says U.S. officials are exploring every avenue to get him back in the U.S. Both are U.S. citizens and face 30 to 40 years behind bars if convicted.
For NPR News, I'm Carrie Sheridan in Tampa. Police in Hawaii say a helicopter on a tour crashed yesterday on the island of Kuwait. Three people were killed and two others injured on a remote beach. She'll say the helicopter was operated by a company called Airborne Aviation. I'm Core of a Coleman, NPR News in Washington.
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