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ICE agents deployed to US airports: Which airports are affected?
- Trump administration deploys ICE agents at airports across US United States immigration agents have begun deploying to major airports across the US to help ease long security lines as a government funding standoff leaves many airport security staff off work. The partial government shutdown affects the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), meaning ...

Source: aljazeera.com
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Trump reportedly cast Florida mail ballot as he pushes SAVE America Act restrictions
- Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. President Trump and his allies are pushing to restrict the practice, following years of election conspiracy theories Removed from bookmarks reportedly voted by mail in an upcoming local special election in Florida, despite the Republican's frequent and false claims that mail-in voting is plagued with ...

Source: independent.co.uk
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Strikes hit Iran and Tehran targets Israel and Gulf states amid mixed signals over talks to end war
- – Airstrikes battered Iran and Iranian missiles and drones targeted Israel's Tel Aviv and sites across the Mideast on Tuesday, even as President Donald Trump said the United States with the Islamic Republic to end the war. With thousands more U.S. Marines on their way to the Gulf, both sides firing barrages and Iran denying any negotiations are taking place, the a day after Trump delayed his self-imposed ...

Source: news4jax.com
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Trump administration to spend $1B to prevent wind farm construction
- By March 23 (UPI) -- The Trump administration closed a deal with the French energy company TotalEnergies to pay it nearly $1 billion to end construction of wind farms off the shores of New York and North Carolina. TotalEnergies will be paid $928 million after it invests the same amount of money in oil, natural gas and liquefied natural gas production in the United States, the Department of the Interior announced on ...

Source: miamiherald.com
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Mamdani's NY Estate Tax Exemption Should Target Dynastic Wealth
- New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's reported plan to slash the state's estate tax exemption threshold to $750,000 highlights a real problem—the US under-taxes inherited wealth. And the plan has triggered a familiar round of backlash. Beneath the reflexive outrage to an admittedly flawed plan lies a central tension: Why does the tax code treat inherited wealth more generously than income earned through work? ...

Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
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Pentagon unveils new reporter restrictions following court loss
- March 24 (UPI) -- The Department of Defense has announced new restrictions on reporters, including removing their office space from the Pentagon, after a judge last week struck down a Trump administration policy that threatened journalists' credentials for obtaining unauthorized information. Under the new policy announced Monday, reporters will be required to work from new office space outside the Pentagon but in ...

Source: upi.com
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Trump Killed TSA Funding Deal in Fiery Private Exchange With John Thune: Report
- President Donald Trump reportedly killed a TSA funding proposal privately pushed Sunday by Senate Majority Leader John Thune , one that would have ended the 37-day shutdown and had support from Senate Republicans and Democrats alike. The plan would fund Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operations but defer funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the focal point of the standoff. The plan also ...

Source: mediaite.com
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Senate approves Markwayne Mullin as next DHS secretary
- The Senate on Monday night confirmed President Donald Trump's nomination of Sen. Markwayne Mullin to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Mullin advanced out of Senate committee last week after a fiery confirmation hearing. The Oklahoma Republican will take the place of Kristi Noem, whose tenure at the department was mired in controversy. U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump's nominee to be ...

Source: cnbc.com
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It Could've Been Worse—but France's Local Elections Are a Warning to the Left
- The French left managed to hold on to key cities, but the far right and mainstream right also won key victories—and the intra-left bickering shows no signs of subsiding. Bluesky M arseille —If you're on the left, one way of looking at France's municipal elections is to say they could've have gone worse. Nearly two years after joining forces to create the New Popular Front alliance, France Unbowed (La ...

Source: thenation.com
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IEA chief says more than 40 energy sites damaged in Iran war
- March 23 (UPI) -- More than 40 energy sites in the Middle East have been damaged since the United States and Israel launched a war with Iran, the head of the International Energy Agency said Monday. Fatih Birol said at the National Press Club in Canberra, Australia, that energy assets across nine countries have been "severely or very severely" damaged. The breadth of the damage and the closure of the Strait of ...

Source: upi.com