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Lines at major airport security checkpoints are starting to shrink, as Marlon Hide of
“Membersation W.A.B.E. reports, transportation security administration officers are beginning”
to receive pay checks after President Trump signed a memo ordering the Department of Homeland Security to pay them. After days of long security lines at Lano Hartfield Jackson International Airport, a spokesperson says wait times are now under 10 minutes at all checkpoints. She five-year-old Carol Knows just arrived back to Atlanta.
She says the security lines look unrecognizable from last week. "Well, I'll just give ready to take some pictures of myself, like it's just the same airport. That's how good it looks."
Immigration and customs enforcement officers are still around, even checking ID's at
security checkpoints with no word on when that deployment will end. The Union representing TSA officers says that while employees are starting to receive pay for previous weeks, it is not everything they are owed.
“The FBI says an attack on a Detroit area synagogue earlier this month was an act of terrorism”
inspired by the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, Michigan Public Radio's Colin Jackson has more. On March 12, a man armed with fireworks, gasoline, and weapons rammed his truck into Temple Israel and West Bloomfield. I'm in Gazale, exchanged gunfire with the security guard before feet of the shooting
himself. Federal agents, Saigazali, had been posting and consuming pro Hezbollah content online. U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon says it does not matter whether the attack was directed or inspired. "There's no legal difference, whether a Hezbollah commander called this man and said go do
this attack or whether this man consumed Hezbollah propaganda and heated the call within the propaganda to go do an attack." The FBI says it doesn't have any evidence of co-conspirators. For NPR News, I'm Colin Jackson, in Detroit. "Palistinians can now face the death penalty in Israel and its occupied territories according
to a new law passed by Israeli lawmakers. It's an initiative from Israel's far-right cabinet ministers that received the support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu despite condemnation from European countries on Piers' Daniel Etchen reports." The new law makes the death penalty by hanging the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in what Israel classifies as terrorism cases.
Israel's far-right national security minister, Eta Marbengvier, championed the law, he celebrated its passage toasting with lawmakers. Critics say the law is ridden in a way to not impose the death penalty against Jewish Israelis convicted of killing Palestinians. The bill had drawn opposition among Israeli national security and foreign affairs officials.
The UK, France, Germany, and Italy had urged Israel not to pass the law calling it discriminatory. A civil rights group has already filed a court challenge. Daniel, Estrian NPR News, Tel Aviv. "This is NPR News. Spain has closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved in the Iran war.
After earlier saying the U.S. couldn't use jointly operated military bases there for operations related to the conflict, Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has been one of Europe's most
critical voices of the U.S. and Israeli military actions in the Middle East.
Colorado's Department of Transportation is requesting millions of dollars in unspent snow plow funds to prepare state roads for wildfire season as M.A. Vanden 90 reports." Up to $12 million of snow contingency funds could be used to clear fuels along roads, but officials caution they'll need more to handle the season ahead. Bob Fifr is the deputy director of operations for the Colorado Department of Transportation.
He says this is the first time that's been able to request these funds due to the record lack of snowfall. "We've actually hit our peak snowpack about two weeks ago, which means that's the most snow our mountains will see, which is not very much. In fact, most of our mountains are really down to dirt."
The National Interagency Fire Center says parts of Interstate 70 and the Western Slope are expected to be at a above average risk for significant fires. For M.P.R. News, I'm M.A. Vanden 90 in Denver, Colorado. A note book with meeting minutes and a ledger are among the Ku Klux Klan related items found recently when a Mississippi government office was cleared out.
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety disclosed the discovery last week, NAACP officials
“say it shows how deep Klan influence ran and that it's important to understand so history”
is not repeated. The items have been moved to state archives. listening to NPR News from Washington.
