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The Senate has voted mostly along party lines to confirm one of its own.

Republican Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma is the next Homeland Security Secretary.

Mullen is taking over a department that's been without funding for more than a month as lawmakers in the White House square off over immigration enforcement.

Here's NPR's Sam Greenglass.

Those long lines at major airports because of the DHS shutdown are impacting the investigation into Sunday night's crash at New York's LaGuardia Airport.

Jennifer Homendy is chair of the National Transportation Safety Board.

She says one of her investigators spent three hours in a TSA line in Houston.

Two pilots were killed in the crash between an Air Canada jet and a fire truck that had been given the okay to cross the runway.

Dozens of people were rushed to the hospital.

President Trump and Iran are sending conflicting signals.

President Trump claims Iran is eager for a deal to end the war.

and that the U.S.

is talking with an Iranian leader.

Trump has extended a deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face attacks on power plants.

However, Iran denies that it's in talks.

At least three big explosions have been heard in Lebanon's capital, where Israel has been attacking Iran-backed Hezbollah militants.

Lebanon's government says at least 10 people were killed in Israeli attacks today, as NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from Beirut.

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