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What is the current status of the Department of Homeland Security funding?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. The Department of Homeland Security is in a historic shutdown. It hasn't gotten new federal funding since mid-February. As NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports, attempts to fund the department are growing increasingly complicated on Capitol Hill.
Republicans in the Senate plan to fund the Department of Homeland Security minus immigration enforcement, which they would then fund in a separate reconciliation bill. But that plan requires cooperation from the GOP-led House, which so far isn't playing ball. Hardline conservatives in the House oppose voting for a bill that doesn't include immigration enforcement funding. The House may work this week to remove language from the Senate-passed bill that zeroed out funding for immigration enforcement agencies. The clock is ticking. DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen says the emergency funds they've been using to pay employees will run out at the end of the month. Barbara Sprint, NPR News, Washington.
Federal prosecutors have formally charged the suspect in the attempted attack at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last Saturday. Cole Allen is accused of attempting to assassinate President Trump and two firearms charges. NPR's Jacqueline Diaz says prosecutors allege Allen planned the attack.
In early March, President Trump announced he'd be going to the White House Correspondents' Dinner, and prosecutors allege that about a month later, Allen booked a room at the Washington Hilton for that weekend. Prosecutors say Allen traveled from his home in California to Chicago and then on to D.C. via Amtrak train, and they allege he was traveling with at least two guns.
NPR's Jacqueline Diaz reporting. Allen's next hearing in court is on Thursday. Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla met President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at the White House yesterday for tea and a private meeting. King Charles will address a joint meeting of Congress later this afternoon. Texas lawmakers convened in Austin yesterday to hear findings of an investigation into Camp Mystic. Twenty-eight people died at the Christian Girls Summer Camp last July during deadly flooding in the Texas Hill Country. For Member Station KUT, Kaylee Hunt reports.
Investigators told Texas state lawmakers that Camp Mystic exhibited a complacent attitude towards flooding prior to last July's deadly storms. Casey Garrett, who's conducted more than 140 witness interviews as part of the investigation, says the camp failed to adequately train its college-age counselors on how to respond in an emergency situation, such as a flash flood. Every single person that I've spoken with that are former counselors current counselors, there was never any real training. There were never drills, no drills of any kind. Lawmakers are expected to hear more testimony about Camp Mystic today. For NPR News, I'm Kaylee Hunt in Austin.
This is NPR. Peace efforts between the U.S. and Iran appear stalled. This comes as Iran's foreign minister met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Putin says Russia supports Iran in the conflict. Separately, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the US is facing fractured leadership in Iran, and that's making it difficult to negotiate. A group of low-cost airlines says it is asking the Trump administration for $2.5 billion in aid. The money would pay for jet fuel. Costs have spiked since the start of the war with Iran. Administration officials say Congress would need to play a role in that request. In Washington state, two books have broken the record for the oldest ever returned to a library.
For Northwest Public Broadcasting, Courtney Flatt reports the books have been checked out in the 1960s.
A good Samaritan in Richland, Washington, recently inherited an old book collection from a friend. While thumbing through the books, they discovered two belonged to the Richland Public Library. The checkout cards were dated 1962. Before that, the longest the books they'd checked out was about a year. Chris Nolfe manages the library.
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