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is in a historic shutdown.
“It hasn't gotten new federal funding since mid-February, as NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports”
attempts to fund the department are growing increasingly complicated on Capitol Hill." Republicans in the Senate plan to fund the Department of Homeland Security minus immigration enforcement, which they would then fund in a separate reconciliation bill. But that plan requires cooperation from the GOP-led House, which so far isn't playing ball.
Hardline conservatives in the House oppose voting for a bill that doesn't include immigration enforcement funding. The House may work this week to remove language from the Senate pass bill that's zeroed out funding for immigration enforcement agencies. The clock is ticking.
DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullins says the emergency funds they've been using to pay employees will run out at the end of the month. Barbara Sprunt and Pair News, Washington. Federal prosecutors have formally charged the suspect in the attempted attack at the White
“House correspondent's dinner last Saturday.”
Cole Allen is accused of attempting to assassinate President Trump and two firearms charges. NPR's Jacqueline Diaz says prosecutors alleged Allen planned the attack. In early March, President Trump announced he'd be going to the White House correspondent winner in prosecutors alleged that about a month later Allen booked a room at the Washington
Hilton for that weekend. Prosecutors say Allen traveled from his home in California to Chicago and then on to DC via Amtrak train and they alleged he was traveling with at least two guns. NPR's Jacqueline Diaz reporting, Allen's next hearing cord is on Thursday.
Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla met President Trump in first lady Melania Trump
at the White House yesterday for T and a private meeting, King Charles will address a joint meeting of Congress later this afternoon. Texas lawmakers convened in Austin yesterday to hear findings of an investigation into camp mystic.
“28 people died at the Christian girl's summer camp last July during deadly flooding in the”
Texas Hill Country from member station KUT, Kaylee Hunt reports. Officers told Texas State lawmakers that camp mystic exhibited a complacent attitude towards flooding prior to last July's deadly storms. Kaylee Garrett, who's conducted more than 140 witness interviews as part of the investigation, says they can't feel the adequately trained its college age counselors on how to respond
in an emergency situation, such as a flash flood. Every single person that I've spoken with that are former counselors, current counselors.
There was never any real training, there were never drills, no drills of any kind.
While makers are expected to hear more testimony about camp mystic today, for NPR News, I'm Kaylee Hunt and Austin. This is NPR. Peace efforts between the U.S. and Iran appear stalled. This comes as Iran's foreign minister met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow.
Putin says Russia supports Iran in the conflict, separately US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. is facing fractured leadership in Iran, and that's making it difficult to negotiate. A group of low-cost airlines says it is asking the Trump administration for $2.5 billion in aid.
The money would pay for jet fuel, costs are spiked since the start of the war with Iran. The situation officials say Congress would need to play a role in that request. In Washington State, two books have broken the record for the oldest ever return to a library. From Northwest Public Broadcasting, Courtney Flat reports, the books have been checked out
in the 1960s. A good Samaritan in Switzerland, Washington recently inherited an old book collection from a friend. While thumbing through the books, they discovered two belong to the Richland Public Library. The checkout cards were dated 1962.
Before that, the longest bookstay checked out was about a year. Chris Nulf manages the library. He says both books were biographies on Henry Ford. In the books, too, we found a form about how to write essays. So they think perhaps the books were loaned to a student.
If the library had collected overdue fees, which they no longer do, they would have totaled about $3,000. And I'm Core of a Coleman, NPR News from Washington. Every day NPR reports stories that keep you informed without fear or favor. That's the promise of a free press in a democracy.
It's in the first amendment.
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