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of the Homeland Security Department bringing an end to the longest agency shutdown in history.
“Now, I'll scave the measure final approval Thursday, House Speaker Mike Johnson.”
This will relieve pressure from the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mullen who I was spoken to in the last couple of hours. We greatly relieved the President will, the administration will. We were not going to have lines at TSA, everybody get their pay checks now, we'll get moving forward, and then we will finish the work and finally get, again, for three years,
with no crazy Democrat reforms. We will fund border patrol and immigration enforcement, as soon as we return for the work session when that bill is finalized. The shutdown lasted for more than 70 days amid Democratic demands that immigration enforcement operations be rained in.
In the end, Republicans cut Democrats out of the process adopting a budget resolution
to eventually provide $70 billion for immigration enforcement.
Louisiana's suspending primary elections for its U.S. House seats, this decision follows Wednesday's Supreme Court decision that rule the state's congressional map amounts
“to an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.”
It had been redrawn to create a second majority black district in 2024, and appears actually low-pest reports. Louisiana's Republicans, Secretary of State, Nancy Landry, announced that most of Louisiana's primaries, including a closely-watched Senate primary, will proceed as scheduled, but not the House seats.
Early voting in the state starts on Saturday and voting ends on May 16 for the state's primaries. Absentee voting has already been underway. Republican Governor Jeff Landry said the state is sending notices to early voting sites to warn voters that even though U.S. House races will appear on their ballots, those votes
will not be counted. It is unclear when Louisiana will hold elections for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Ashley Lopez and Piano's. Mexico says its own attorney general will investigate allegations from U.S. federal prosecutors at several current and former officials in the state of Sinaloa have for years-aided drug
traffickers. Nina Kravinsky, a member of station KJZZ, reports from Eramuseo. U.S. prosecutors say the 10 law enforcement and government officials shielded cartel members in exchange for bribes in political favor. Mexico's president says Mexico will decide whether there's enough evidence against the
defendants to extradite them and warned she won't allow interference from foreign governments in her own country's affairs. The U.S. regularly prosecutes alleged cartel members, but rarely the politicians accused of protecting them. Vanda Felba Brown is with the Burkings Institution.
"It's certainly major escalation in the U.S. pressure on Mexico." The highest-ranking official charged the current governor of Sinaloa and other defendants have denied wrongdoing. For NPR news, I'm Nina Kravinsky, and our most CEO, Mexico.
The first direct commercial flight between the U.S. and Venezuela in seven years arrived
in Caracas Thursday, the flight follows the reopening of the U.S. embassy after the military operation at Alsted President Nicolas Maduro. This is NPR.
“Congress has agreed to a short-term extension of a key surveillance program.”
The House gave a 45-day extension final approval Thursday sending it to President Trump's desk, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, had been set to expire Friday. It's now been extended through June 12th, amid a dispute over a longer reauthorization. President Trump has named a new nominee for a surge in general. Trump on Thursday said he is nominating former Fox News contributor, Dr. Nicole Suffier
for the post, after Dr. Casey Meens Path for a word stalled in the Senate. There's both political parties grilled means on her vaccine stance and other health issues during a tense confirmation hearing. A new test for tuberculosis is fast, affordable, and accurate according to a new study in Piers' Arid annual reports.
The most common test for TB involves sampling someone's flam and looking for the tell-tale bacteria under the microscope, but the tests often wrong. The new mini-dock MTB was recently announced, which scans flam or a mere tongue swab for DNA from the TB bacteria. UC Irvine pulmonologist Adithia Katamanci and his colleagues enrolled almost 1,400 patients
to find that the new test is accurate and easy to use. What we hope it means is that many more people will have access to high quality TB testing. The test may not work for those with early stages of the disease and it can't distinguish between regular TB and the drug resistant variety, but Katamanci argues it's still a real step forward.
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