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the homeland security department bringing in end to the longest agency shut down in history.
“Now, it's gave the measure final approval Thursday. How's 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 reigned in. In the end, Republicans cut Democrats out of the process adopting
a budget resolution to eventually provide $70 billion for immigration enforcement.
U.S. Senate is banning its members staff and officers from betting on upcoming events in prediction markets. The ban was unanimously approved Thursday and took effect immediately. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer calls the change in Senate rules. A no-brainer is encouraging the House and the Trump administration to follow suit. President Trump has signed an executive order expanding retirement access for lower
income Americans, Imperial Stephen Bassaha says the plans are for workers without access to employee match plans like 401k. Federal workers making less than $35,000 have already been able to access retirement plans where the government provides up to a $1,000 match. This order will make the plans available to any private sector worker below that income limits. Trump spoke about the order in the of office.
In my state of the union earlier this year, I promised to make these same types of retirement
“accounts enjoyed by the federal employees available to all Americans. So that's what we're doing.”
You know, we seem fair. The plans will be available next year. Trump says he also wants to work with Congress to expand this plan to middle-income Americans. Stephen Bassaha and P.R. News. A commercial fly from the U.S. arrived in Venezuela Thursday.
Imperial's Joel Rose reports it was the first between the two countries in seven years.
American Airlines flight 35.99 took off from Miami and landed a little over three hours later in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. It was the first direct commercial flight between the two countries since the Department of Homeland Security ordered an indefinite suspension in 2019 citing security concerns. The resumption of regular commercial service to Venezuela comes months after the U.S. captured then President Nicolás Maduro in a nighttime raid on his residence in
Caracas in early January. The U.S. formally reopened its embassy there in March.
“American was also the last U.S. airline flying to Venezuela in 2019. After Delta and United”
pulled out of the country two years earlier. Joel Rose and P.R. News. This is in P.R. In Texas, camp mystic is dropping plans to reopen the summer. State officials say the camp has withdrawn its application for a license to operate following outrage by Texas lawmakers and from families of the 25 young campers and two teenage counselors who were killed during devastating floods over the 4th of July weekend last year. The camp sooner was also killed. The New York drama
circles create a critic circle. An organization of 22 critics from daily newspapers and other outlets. An ounce winners of their annual words last night reported Jeff London says the results were surprising. In a Broadway season where only six new musicals opened, the critics chose to not name a best musical. They did, however, give a special citation to the Revival Ragtime. Samuel DeHunter's Little Bear Ridge Road set in the author's native Idaho was named Best Play,
Alden Aaron Reich one an individual acting award for his role in Becky Shaw. While a Sean and Andre Gregory got lifetime achievement awards and Queen Jean who had costumes in three shows this year got a citation as well. For NPR News, I'm Jeff London, in New York. The elusive street artist known as Banksy has confirmed that he is behind a large new statue in central London near Buckingham Palace. Banksy posted a video on his Instagram account
Thursday showing the statue being dropped into place in the dead of night. I'm Giles Snyder,
in PR News. This year for the first time in NPR's history, public media is operating
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