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Congress is ending a record-long shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security.

Today, the U.S.

House approved by voice vote the Senate's DHS funding bill.

The measure excludes money for immigration and customs enforcement and parts of Border Patrol.

As NPR's Sam Greenglass tells us, the measure heading to President Trump's desk caps two and a half months of bitter debate over mass deportations and enforcement tactics that resulted in the deaths of two U.S.

citizens in Minneapolis.

Louisiana's Secretary of State has just announced that U.S.

House primaries are suspended following yesterday's Supreme Court decision that Louisiana's congressional map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

And Pierre Sanzi-Lowong reports voting rights advocates are raising concerns about the court's ruling and its impact on many voters of color across the U.S.

Against the backdrop of the Iran war, the price of jet fuels nearly doubled since February.

Montana Public Radio's Austin Amistoy reports on what that could mean for fighting wildfires in the coming months.

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Camp Mystic, the Christian all-girls camp where 27 people died in last year's flooding in central Texas, says it is withdrawing its application to reopen this summer while investigations are ongoing.

The statement was obtained by member station KUT.

President Trump's pulled his nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General, following questions about her position on nontraditional medicines, vaccines and other health issues.

President Trump is now nominating Dr. Nicole Sapphire, a radiologist and regular Fox News contributor.

A scientist who played a critical role in the sequencing of the human genome has died.

NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boyce reports J. Craig Venter's work accelerated the mapping of humanity's DNA.

Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.