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Thousands of U.S.

paratroopers and Marines are deploying to the Middle East.

This comes as President Trump weighs whether to seize Karg Island.

NPR's Jackie Northam reports that's home to Iran's main oil processing facility.

Senate Democrats have blocked a Republican plan to end the partial shutdown of the Homeland Security Department.

It would have funded the agency, including TSA agents who are not getting paid.

But Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin says the GOP plan failed to address demands about federal immigration officers in the wake of the killings of two Minneapolis protesters.

But North Dakota Republican Senator Kevin Cramer says the Democrats' plan is unserious.

There are different wait times this morning at major U.S.

airports.

The longest is four hours at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.

The White House has missed a deadline for naming a new leader at the nation's top public health agency.

NPR's Ping Huang reports,

That leaves the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in an unusual position.

Ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro is scheduled to appear in U.S.

District Court in Manhattan today.

He and his wife, Celia Flores, want to have their federal drug trafficking charges thrown out.

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