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might end its war against Iran.

The Senate has confirmed Mark Wayne Mullen is the new Homeland Security Secretary.

The vote was mostly along party lines.

NPR's Elena Moore reports Mullen takes over an agency that's been partially shut down for more than a month.

The partial DHS shutdown means TSA agents who work airport security lines have not been paid for weeks.

They've called out, and that's led to some significant wait times at some airports.

One of the people caught in the airport security lines was a specialist from the National Transportation Safety Board.

She was trying to fly from Houston to a crash scene at New York's LaGuardia Airport.

NDSB Chair Jennifer Homendy says her office had to beg airport authorities to let the specialist through.

Regarding the New York-LaGuardia crash, Homendy says investigators have the data recorders.

They're looking at why an airport fire truck was cleared to cross the runway just as a jet had landed.

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Military officials in the South American nation of Colombia say a military plane crash has killed at least 66 people.

A military cargo plane went down yesterday after it took off in southwestern Colombia near the border with Peru and Ecuador.

A new study finds the number of abortions in the U.S.

was the same in 2025.

compared to the year previous.

NPR's Selina Simmons-Duffin explains there's one major reason why that's true, despite abortion bans in 13 states.

Officials in Port Arthur, Texas, have told some city residents to shelter in place after an explosion at a Valera oil refinery.

Port Arthur is on the Gulf, close to the border with Louisiana.