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President Donald Trump suggested today that he will order pay for all Department of Homeland Security employees as a record-long partial shutdown continues, expanding a prior move covering TSA workers, though it's not yet clear how the broader payroll would be funded.
Meanwhile, the Senate, led by John Thune, unanimously passed a bill to partially reopen DHS, now sitting with the House under Speaker Mike Johnson.
Republicans are considering a two-step plan to reopen the agency short-term and pass a larger immigration funding package later, as lawmakers remain on recess and pressure bills to end the standoff.
The vice mayor of Coral Springs, Florida, Nancy Metier Bowen, was found dead at her home Wednesday morning.
Authorities later arrested her husband, Stephen Bowen, at an apartment complex in Plantation, Florida.
about 13 miles south of the crime scene.
He faces charges of premeditated murder and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.
Medea Bowen, a Haitian American, was first elected to the city commission back in 2020 and reelected in 2024.
She received a master's degree in environmental health sciences and interned for the Obama administration and former Democratic Senator Bill Nelson.
Coral Springs Police Chief Brad Mock said the case is, quote, being investigated as a domestic violence incident
but declined to reveal additional details as this remains an ongoing investigation.
Oil prices plunged to $81 per barrel on Tuesday when Secretary of Energy Chris Wright posted on X that the U.S.
Navy successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz.
However, the post was taken down and White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt corrected the claim the same day during a press briefing.
This sent oil prices back up to around $91 per barrel.
In response, the Trump administration, via the U.S.
International Development Finance Corporation, is going to offer political risk insurance to tankers operating in the Gulf, which is intended to ease the yo-yo effect going forward.