Luke Vargas

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson says he has the votes to end a partial government shutdown as soon as today.

That follows a push by President Trump to pressure a handful of House Republicans to drop their opposition to the bill unless it included voter ID legislation.

Johnson has a thin majority in the House and will need near-unanimous support from Republicans if he hopes to pass the measure.

Across the aisle, Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffrey said that while some in his party may back an eventual spending package, they're united in opposing an earlier procedural vote.

One of those demands, that federal officers wear body cams, is being partially addressed by the administration.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says that officers in Minneapolis will receive body cameras effective immediately, an effort that would expand to DHS law enforcement nationally, quote, as funding becomes available.

Speaking in the Oval Office, President Trump told reporters that the move was all Noem's.

As a part of shutdown talks, Democrats also want to bar federal agents from wearing masks and mandate that they carry proper identification.

Some 350,000 Haitian immigrants to the U.S.

will no longer lose their work permits or become targets for deportation today after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from revoking their temporary protected status.

DHS had moved to end the protections last year, arguing it was in the national interest.

However, the judge said that the government offered no evidence Haitians under the designation posed a threat to the U.S.,

and that the decision was, quote, motivated, at least in part, by racial animus.

The administration has sought to end protected status designations for a range of countries, including Honduras, Somalia, and Venezuela, with a number of those efforts tied up in the courts.

And former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have offered to give depositions to a House committee investigating sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The two had been facing a contempt vote after earlier declining to appear for depositions.

The Clintons have said they had no personal knowledge of Epstein's criminal activities, though Bill Clinton has acknowledged flying on Epstein's private jet.

Lawyers for the two have argued the subpoenas against them are designed to embarrass the Clintons, while Democrats say the chair of the House committee and Republicans are failing to investigate President Trump's connections with Epstein.

Meanwhile, the fallout from the latest release of Epstein documents, which included photos of former Prince Andrew kneeling over an unidentified woman, is now reaching across the Atlantic, as journal correspondent Max Colchester explains.

Mandelson, who quit the ruling Labour Party this week, says he has no recollection or record of having received money from Epstein, as newly released emails appeared to show, and he didn't immediately respond to an email requesting further comment.