The U.S. Homeland Security Department said on Friday it was taking emergency action to pay 50,000 airport security officers who have gone unpaid since mid-February, after work absences brought chaos and long security lines to U.S. airports. "(The Transportation Security Administration) has immediately begun the process of paying its workforce....
Discord Down for Thousands of Users, Downdetector Shows
Discord experienced a possible outage Friday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com. More than 2,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 12:43 p.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources. Most users reporting issues say they’re experiencing...
US House Republicans Reject Senate Deal to Restore Airport Security Funding
Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday rejected a bipartisan Senate compromise to end a six-week partial government shutdown, raising the prospect that travelers may continue to see long security lines at U.S. airports through the busy spring break season. Instead, the House will vote on a...
Musk Joined Trump and Modi Call on Iran, Says New York Times
Elon Musk joined a phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday about the war in Iran, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing two U.S. officials. It was unclear why Musk was on the call or whether he spoke, the newspaper...
Stocks Stumble to Lowest Levels in Over Six Months as Middle East Tensions Weigh
U.S. stocks tumbled on Friday, with each of the three major U.S. indexes falling to their lowest levels in over six months as megacap stocks provided the biggest drag, as the month-long Middle East war continued to stifle risk appetite. Markets took little solace from U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement...
More Than 400 Hezbollah Fighters Killed in New War With Israel so Far, Sources Say
More than 400 fighters from Hezbollah have been killed since the Lebanese armed group launched the opening salvoes of a new war with Israel on March 2, two sources familiar with Hezbollah's count told Reuters. The figure was the first overall toll provided of Hezbollah fighters killed in Israel's expanding air...
Another Senior House Republican Will Retire as Midterm Exodus Grows
WASHINGTON — Rep. Sam Graves, the 13-term Missouri Republican who leads the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said Friday that he would retire in January, the latest powerful member of his party to leave Congress ahead of midterm elections in which it is bracing for big losses. “It’s time to pass...
US Senate Deal to Restore Airport Security Funding May Stall in House
A U.S. Senate-approved compromise measure to end a six-week partial government shutdown was at risk of failing in the House of Representatives on Friday, as some Republican lawmakers voiced opposition to the measure aimed at ending long security lines at airports during the busy spring break season. House Speaker Mike...
What We Know About Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ Protests
More than 3,000 “No Kings” demonstrations are scheduled across the country Saturday to condemn an array of President Donald Trump’s policies and to express general discontent toward the president, whom the protesters view as acting like a monarch. “Trump wants to rule over us as a tyrant,” the No Kings...
Kern County Authorities Arrest Wasco Man With 175 Pounds of Stolen Copper Wire
Kern County authorities arrested a Wasco man Thursday after he was found in possession of 175 pounds of stolen copper wire, part of a months-long scheme targeting agricultural equipment across the county. Detectives with the Kern County Sheriff’s Office Rural Crimes Investigation Unit identified Agustin Ramirez Ayala, 50, as a...