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NPR's Aya Batraoui reports some ships are passing through the narrow waterway, but most oil and gas tankers remain trapped.

The House Homeland Security Committee is examining how the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security is affecting Americans.

TSA agents are not getting paid.

Many are quitting or calling out.

Many airline passengers have to wait hours to clear airport security.

The acting TSA administrator is Hanwen McNeil.

She is telling lawmakers at a hearing this morning that TSA agents are being unfairly treated.

President Trump has deployed ICE agents to some major airports, but that is drawing criticism.

The head of the union for TSA agents says ICE officers are untrained and could make airport security worse.

The Trump administration is facing a deadline to nominate a new director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A law on federal vacancies is setting the timetable for the CDC.

On Wall Street, the Dow is up 430 points.

This is NPR.

A series of Trump administration policies is increasing pressure on U.S.

farmers, and Pierre's Danielle Kurtzleben reports rural area residents tend to support the president, but these challenges may test their patience.

A Democratic candidate won a special state House election in Florida yesterday.

Emily Gregory won the local House seat in the district that is also home to President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.

The president had endorsed Gregory's Republican rival,

But Gregory flipped the seat previously held by a Republican.

Results have finally been tabulated in a primary election in North Carolina.