Ed Kalecki

More than 100 people were injured Saturday evening in Israel by multiple Iranian strikes in the country's south, as Tehran sought to retaliate for an earlier attack on its own nuclear facility.

The president's comments hinting at a de-escalation came shortly after he ruled out a ceasefire and kept the door open to deploying ground troops, highlighting how the president continues to send wildly divergent signals about his objectives and plans for the U.S.

and Israeli war on Iran.

President Trump says he is ready to deploy ICE agents to U.S.

airports as soon as Monday if congressional Democrats don't agree to a plan for funding parts of the Department of Homeland Security.

Trump said Saturday in a social media post that the ICE agents would not only assist the TSA in handling normal airport security,

But added he would direct them to arrest anyone suspected of immigrating illegally to the U.S.

The president posted, quote, I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE agents to the airports where they will do security like no one has ever seen before, including the immediate arrest of all illegal immigrants who have come to our country, with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia.

In a later post, he updated his plan to say that he looked, quote, forward to moving ICE in on Monday and have already told them to get ready, no more waiting, no more game.

systems.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says negotiations have been productive.

Ice reforms have been a sticking point for Democrats.

This is Virginia Senator Mark Warner.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker.

There's still masked agents jumping out of unmarked cars.

violating the dignity of our communities, taking actions that are violating people's civil rights.

Senators hope to hammer out a deal before going on Easter holiday recess on the 30th.

Till then, thousands of TSA employees will keep working without pay.

Robert Mueller, the FBI director who transformed the nation's premier law enforcement agency into a terrorism fighting force after the September 11, 2001 attacks, and who later became special counsel in charge of investigating ties between Russia and Donald Trump's presidential campaign, has died.

He was 81.