DHS shutdown due after today
A shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security is all but certain this weekend after Republican leaders in the House and Senate sent members of both chambers home for a planned recess with no funding deal in place. Republican congressional leaders have blamed Democrats, saying the White House made reasonable concessions after several Democratic leaders demanded changes to ICE protocols. The next steps are uncertain. Although talks are ongoing between the White House and Democrats, the two chambers of Congress aren’t scheduled to return to Washington for 11 days, though GOP leaders could still call members back if a deal is reached.
Minnesota federal agent surge ending
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey expressed “cautious relief” at the end of Operation Metro Surge, which sparked mass protests. Trump administration masked federal agents broke into homes, made thousands of arrests including many U.S. citizens, and killed two U.S. citizens. At its height, about 3,000 federal officers were deployed in what was the largest immigration enforcement operation in the country’s history.White House border czar Tom Homan announced Thursday that the monthslong immigration enforcement crackdown in Minnesota would be ending. “I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude,” Homan said.
Trump administration’s story on shut down of airspace wasn’t true
The story told by the Trump administration that the shutdown of airspace around the El Paso, Texas, airport was because the airspace had been invaded by Mexican drug cartel drones was not true. It has come to light that the Department of Defense had given Customers and Border Protection a laser weapon to use and border patrol personnel fired it into airspace used by civilian airliners and general aviation aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration reacted to the incident by closing the airspace. It reopened the airspace after a few hours. The border patrol personnel shot down a party balloon that had drifted up into the sky.
FBI describes suspect in Nancy Guthrie case
The FBI on Thursday shared a description of a suspect in the Nancy Guthrie case and also raised the reward for information to $100,000. The person in the video is described as a 5’9” to 5’10” man with an average build wearing a black, 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack. “We hope this updated description will help concentrate the public tips we are receiving,” the FBI’s Phoenix office said. Investigators have also recovered multiple gloves, though it’s unclear whether they were worn by the suspect. People living near Guthrie’s home have been asked to submit any footage from doorbell cameras of cars and people from about a month before the 84-year-old went missing.
Epstein scandal hits Goldman Sachs officer
Kathy Ruemmler, the chief legal officer at Goldman Sachs, said late Thursday that she is resigning amid fallout from the Justice Department’s release of millions of pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents. Her announcement comes in the middle of recent scrutiny of her relationship with the disgraced financier, which she maintains was professional. Separately, powerhouse talent agent Casey Wasserman is facing a revolt after appearing in the Epstein files for both riding on the late convicted sex offender’s plane and exchanging suggestive messages with Epstein’s former girlfriend and convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. Though not accused of wrongdoing, there have been calls from clients and colleagues for him to step aside.
Trump ends ability to regulate greenhouse gas air pollution
The Trump administration delivered a major blow to longstanding U.S. climate policy on Thursday, finalizing rules that revoke the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate climate pollution. First issued in 2009, the endangerment finding determined that six greenhouse gases could be categorized as dangerous to human health under the Clean Air Act. It has underpinned the EPA’s authority to limit planet-warming pollution from the oil and gas industry, power plants and vehicles since the Obama administration and is considered the federal government’s most powerful tool to tackle climate pollution and the country’s contribution to the global crisis. Trump, when repealing the policy that has cleaned the air throughout the U.S., called it “disastrous” and a “giant scam.”
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