Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Ice officers could remain at U.S. airports even after T.S.A. workers start getting paid
“again, according to White House borders' art home home.”
Emperor's Jeff Radie reports T.S.A. paychecks could resume as early as tomorrow, even the Congress hasn't allocated money for that. After lawmakers failed to pass a Department of Homeland Security budget last Friday, President Trump directed the transportation security administration to pay workers from existing funds. Immigration and customs enforcement officers have been helping the T.S.A. with checking
identification and other tasks. On CNN State of the Union, Tom Homan said ice officers might remain at airports. "Pen so many T.S.A. agents come back to work. How many T.S.A. agents have actually quit and have no plan coming back to work?" The T.S.A. says hundreds of workers quit after going weeks without pay, that's increased
security weight times by hours at airports around the country. Democrats vowed to block T.S. funding without reforms after officers killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. Jeff Radie and P.R. News.
“Israel says it will widen its invasion of southern Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu”
says he's expanding a security buffer zone to prevent his beloved militants from firing rockets southward into Israel. That's a move that quickly pundits a thousands of people displaced permanently. The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres worries that Israel is trying to use its Gaza model on Lebanon.
Israel has blown up bridges and destroyed homes and Lebanon's government says Israeli attacks
have killed at least 1,200 people and displaced more than 1 million.
Police in Israel turned away the Vatican's top official in Jerusalem from praying in one of Christianity's holiest sites today. The Latin Patriarch had already canceled public Palm Sunday events in keeping with the wartime restrictions, but he was barred from holding smaller private prayers. The first time in centuries, according to church leaders.
“And here's Kary Khan reports from Jerusalem, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Hockabee”
criticized the move. "The bells of the Church of the Holy Seplicer ring out in the old city, but you can't get close to the site where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified and resurrected. Israeli officials are limiting public gatherings in Jerusalem's holy sites to under 50 people.
The Holy Al-Aqsa mosque has been close to just staff during the entire war. Judaism's holy western wall allows 50 worshipers at a time. This year's Palm Sunday procession had been canceled in accordance to the rules, but police Sunday even prevented Latin Patriarch Cardinal Pierre Baltista Pizzaballen and other official for mentoring the site in what church officials say is "a manifestly unreasonable and grossly
disproportionate measure is reals president to apologize to Kary Khan and P.R. News Jerusalem." And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. NASA is preparing to send four astronauts on a mission that could take them around the moon. And here's NL Greenfield Voice Reports.
The official say everything is on track for a launch attempt on Wednesday. The Artemis-2 astronauts are in pre-flight quarantine at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Mission commander Reed Weisman told reporters that it's surreal to see the massive 322-foot tall rocket standing on the launch pad. "You look at the size of this vehicle and you know it's going one place.
It is going to space and it is going to go there and I hurry. And those engines like this thing is moving out." Their test flight is expected to last 10 days.
First while their Orion capsule is in orbit around Earth, they'll check out its communications,
life support, navigation, and propulsion. If their spacecraft all looks good, they'll go on a looping trip around the moon before coming back to splash down in the Pacific. NL Greenfield Voice and PR News. At the weekend box office, Amazon, MGM's Project Hail Mary took the top spot again with
an estimated $58 million in ticket sales. The Phil Lord and Chris Miller sci-fi adventure, dipped only 32 percent after knocking the best non-franchise opening weekend since 2023's Oppenheimer. The film, which cost $200 million to produce, has already grossed $300 million worldwide in two weeks.
In second place Disney Pixar's original Hoppers with $12 million in its fourth weekend,
that film has made nearly $300 million globally. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News.
