NPR (Sam Gringlas) - Senate votes to fund much of DHS, minus immigration enforcement
The Senate approved a bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, early Friday. The bill does not fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.
NYTIMES (Hannah Beech and Binod Ghimire) - Nepal’s New Prime Minister, Former Rapper Balendra Shah, Sworn In
A leaked report on the deadly violence and mass arson that broke out last year has put the new leader under pressure to ensure accountability.
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NPR (The Associated Press) - Judge weighs whether Venezuela can pay Maduro's legal costs in US drug trafficking case
A U.S. judge pressed the Trump administration Thursday about its basis for barring Venezuela's government from paying former President Nicolás Maduro's legal fees in the drug trafficking case that has put him behind bars in New York.
ABCNEWS - WATCH: 109-year-old Orioles fan throws first pitch on Opening Day
109-year-old Arthur Green, a World War II and Korean War veteran, threw out the ceremonial first pitch for the Baltimore Orioles on Opening Day.
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ABCNEWS - WATCH: Firefighters rescue man who got stuck in clothing donation box
Firefighters in Spain made an unusual rescue after a man got stuck inside a clothing donation container.
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NYTIMES (Amelia Nierenberg and Regin Winther Poulsen) - The Faroe Islands, Wary After Greenland, Vote for Change
Statehood had been a key issue in this tiny Danish archipelago before President Trump threatened Greenland. Now, Faroese voters are focused more on their own economy than geopolitics.
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WASHINGTONPOST (Meg Kelly, Alex Horton) - Iran images appear to show land mines scattered by U.S. forces, a first in years
The land mines were photographed outside Shiraz, a city located about three miles from one of several nearby Iranian ballistic missile sites.
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NYTIMES (Michael Kimmage) - The War in Ukraine Transformed Conflict. Iran Is the Proof.
Open-ended military conflict in Europe could, at some point, intersect with open-ended military conflict in the Middle East.
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NYTIMES (Kenneth Medlock III) - Iran Has a Chokehold on the World’s Oil. Here’s How to Break It.
Nations are looking for alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz.
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ABCNEWS - WATCH: Trump extends deadline second time for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz
For the second time this week, President Trump extended an ultimatum for Iran to completely open the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping traffic, saying peace talks "are going very well."