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ICE agents sent to airports to assist TSA as partial shutdown drags on

By Suzanne Gamboa, Julia Ainsley and Laura Strickler Travelers in America’s overstressed airports on Monday spotted Department of Homeland Security personnel, including ICE agents, who have been tasked with assisting Transportation Security Administration workers as they entered another week without pay due to a partial government shutdown. NBC News confirmed that ICE and DHS officers and agents were at several major airports, including Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. At O’Hare’s Terminal 3, armed DHS agents and officers were seen at a walkway connecting the secured area to the general terminal. An officer manning that area

Tom Homan says ICE agents will assist at crowded airport security points amid TSA staffing shortages

By Alexandra Marquez, Megan Shannon and Katie Taylor White House border czar Tom Homan said Sunday that ICE agents will deploy to airports across the country Monday to assist TSA officers with security at airport entrances and exits where lines have been particularly long in recent weeks. Homan told CNN’s “State of the Union” he was currently working on a plan for the deployment with the leaders of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Transportation Security Administration. He said he believed it would begin at large airports that have seen longest wait times and that agents would cover security points but wouldn’t provide help with baggage screenings. “You

Passenger jet collides with fire truck in New York’s LaGuardia, killing both pilots

By Gursimrankaur Mehar, Bing Guan, Shubham Kalia and Allison Lampert An Air Canada Express (AC.TO), opens new tab jet collided with a fire truck while landing ​at New York’s LaGuardia airport late on Sunday, killing both pilots, injuring dozens and closing the facility, authorities said, in an incident likely to heighten concerns over ‌strains across the U.S. aviation system. The Air Canada Express CRJ-900 plane, operated by its regional partner Jazz Aviation, was carrying 72 passengers and four crew members from Montreal, Canada, said Kathryn Garcia, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Jazz is owned by Chorus Aviation (CHR.TO). Garcia

Bipartisan talks to end Homeland Security standoff get serious as shutdown drags on

By Scott Wong, Frank Thorp V and Brennan Leach Top Republicans and Democrats trying to end the monthlong Department of Homeland Security shutdown huddled with White House border czar Tom Homan in the Capitol on Thursday. The in-person talks come as Senate Majority Leader John Thune threatened to nix the upcoming two-week Easter recess unless negotiators can strike a deal. Since DHS funding lapsed on Feb. 14, lawmakers have shown little interest in ending the partisan standoff. But with recent suspected terrorist attacks across the country, thousands of federal employees working without pay and major disruptions at some airports as Transportation Security Administration agents miss paychecks,

Historically Black Land-Grant Universities Celebrate USDA Agreement as ‘Big Win’

Leaders of historically Black land-grant universities are celebrating—and breathing a sigh of relief—after they signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture earlier this month to reaffirm and deepen their collaboration with the federal agency. The USDA has signed such agreements with these institutions since Ronald Reagan—often at the start of a new administration—but the new memorandum of understanding reassures the universities’ leaders that the Trump administration will continue to support and work with their institutions, said Harry Williams, CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, which represents public HBCUs. Felecia M. Nave, president and CEO of the 1890

Father of service member killed in Iran war said he never told Pete Hegseth to ‘finish’ the job

By Peter Nicholas Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met privately Wednesday with the families of six service members who died in the Iran war and, in a press briefing the next morning, said the message he got was consistent and supportive. “What I heard through tears, through hugs, through strength and through unbreakable resolve was the same from family after family. They said, ‘Finish this. Honor their sacrifice. Do not waver. Do not stop until the job is done,’” Hegseth said. One of the people he met at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware was Charles Simmons. His 28-year-old son, Tech. Sgt.

Gov. Sanders stops by Rep. French Hill’s HBCU summit

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders touted what she calls her commitment to supporting Arkansas’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Thursday morning at Rep. French Hill’s (R-Little Rock) second HBCU summit. The summit was held at Arkansas Baptist College, and the theme was “Building Resilient Futures for HBCUs: Infrastructure, Innovation, and Economic Mobility.” During the event, Arkansas HBCU leaders discussed sustainability, private capital, public-private partnerships and connecting HBCU talent to the economy. Speaking to attendees, Sanders praised Arkansas Baptist College students who have gone on to do great things, such as Civil Rights leader Rev. Joseph Crenchaw, musician Louis Jordan and

Powell has ‘no intention of leaving’ the Fed until Trump’s DOJ probe is closed

By Steve Kopack Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says he will not step down from the central bank’s board until an investigation launched by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department into Powell’s congressional testimony last year is fully put to rest. “I have no intention of leaving the board until the investigation is well and truly over with transparency and finality,” Powell said Wednesday at a news conference in Washington, D.C. Powell also left the door open to remaining on the board even if the probe ends and Trump’s nominee to succeed him as chair, economist Kevin Warsh, is confirmed by the

US airports scramble with TSA staffing shortages amid partial government shutdown

By Alexandra Skores More than a third of the security screeners at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport didn’t show up to work Tuesday, the airport’s general manager said, causing passengers to have to wait in line for up to two hours. Long lines have stretched through different airports this week as Transportation Security Administration officers worked without pay during the busy spring break travel season. On Friday, more than half of TSA employees called out at Houston’s William P. Hobby International Airport. They are among the 61,000 government employees in the Department of Homeland Security caught in the middle as Congress

CEOs of top airlines demand Congress restore funding to Homeland Security and pay airport workers

By Anne D’innocenzio The CEOs of the nation’s top airline companies, including American, Delta, Southwest and JetBlue, are imploring Congress to restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security and embrace a bipartisan solution to pay federal aviation workers including airport security officers during the partial government shutdown. “Once again, air travel is the political football amid another government shutdown,” the executives wrote in an open letter to Congress that was published Sunday online and in The Washington Post. The letter, which was also signed by the CEOs of the cargo companies UPS, FedEx and Atlas Air, said that Congress should pass the Aviation

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