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agreed to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security.
“Senators voted to fund DHS agencies, including TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard, but not”
the DHS's immigration enforcement operations. That includes ICE. The measure now goes to the House. The partial DHS shutdown has led to long airport security lines. TSA agents are calling out or quitting because they're not getting paid.
And beer's jewel Rose has more. The acting head of TSA, Ha Winn McNeill, told Congress this week that the strain on the workforce is growing.
Some are sleeping in their cars, selling their blood in plasma, and taking on job-second
jobs to make ends meet all while being expected to perform at the highest level when in uniform to protect the traveling public. More than 400 TSA officers have already quit. Thousands more have called out sick, leading to historically long wait times at some airports on busy travel days.
More Rose and PR news, Washington.
“For a second time, President Trump has delayed his deadline to bomb Iran's power plants.”
He says the new deadline is Monday April 6th for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz to shipping. Trump cited ongoing talks with Iranian officials, but Iran says there are no ongoing talks. Officials in Pakistan say they have exchanged messages between both sides, and beer's jammer Keith says administration officials claim Iran is looking for an off-ramp.
Trump's mid-East on-voice Steve Woodcoff's stead during that cabinet meeting yesterday that the U.S. has a 15-point action list that forms a framework for a peace deal. Iran has its own set of demands, and we don't have a lot of specifics, but they don't appear to be close. And beer's jammer Keith reporting.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is going to France to meet other foreign ministers from G7 countries, he'll work to shore up support from allies for the U.S. war against Iran. A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by billionaire Elon Musk.
“He had claimed that advertisers on his social media platform X had organized an illegal”
boycott.
And PR's Bobby Allen reports that this is the second legal set back for Elon Musk this
week. In 2023, Musk stepped in the stage of a public event if someone is going to blacklist me with advertising, then well, they can hit the road, except he used more graphic language. It was a reference to advertisers like Apple, Disney, IBM, and Comcast that had halted spending on X after concerns that anti-Semitism was spreading on the site unchecked.
Musk sued over it, alleging a brand organized conspiracy against him. Now a federal judge in Texas has thrown the lawsuit out for a lack of merit. The legal defeat comes days after a jury in San Francisco found Musk to fraud it investors in his purchase of the site once known as Twitter, Musk's lawyer has said the trial was corrupted by the judge's bias against Musk, Bobby Allen and PR news.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Officials in Mexico say there has been an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico this month. They estimate the oil has spread more than 370 miles and has reached at least 7 nature preserved in Mexico, but they do not see major environmental damage. Mexico says the oil can be traced to two different places where oil naturally seeps into
the water and to a ship at anchor on Mexico's east coast. The musician, dashed crops, who made up half of the soft rock duo seals and crops, has died at the age of 87, and PR's Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento has this appreciation.
The dashed crops first two instruments were the piano and the drums.
In the late 1950s, he played in a rock band with saxophonist Jim Seals, but it would take another decade for the two musicians to find their groove doing something totally different, playing guitar and harmonizing. Seals and crops were to multiple hits that permeated the airwaves throughout the 1970s, including summer breeze and diamond growth.
They separated in 1983, but reunited for several performances in the coming decades. Crofts daughter, Lua Crofts, shared news of our father's death on social media. She wrote, quote, "With sorrow and gratitude, we mourn a man who's loving kindness, remarkable compassion, beautiful and tender voice, has uplifted hearts across the globe." Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento and PR news.
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