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People wait in long security lines at LaGuardia Airport on March 25, 2026 in the Queens borough of New York City. Travel disruptions continue as hundreds of TSA agents have quit or are working without pay during a partial government shutdown. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — U.S. senators showed no movement Wednesday toward a deal to end the shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security, despite the problems it’s causing for the thousands of federal workers set to miss yet another paycheck and travelers waiting hours to get through airport security lines.  Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said an offer from Democrats, sent over in the morning, was completely unacceptable and that GOP lawmakers wouldn’t even bother to send back a counterproposal.  “They know better. They’re asking for things that have already been turned down,” he said. “So it just seems like they’re going in circles.” Thune said the chamber would vote later on a funding bi...

Emily Gregory upset the Trump-endorsed candidate in HD 87 during a special election. (Via Emily Gregory campaign) What does representing President Donald Trump in the Florida Legislature mean to the first-time Democratic candidate who upset the president’s choice in his Mar-a-Lago state House district? “It means he’s one of 180,000 constituents,” Emily Gregory told the Florida Phoenix, brushing off any special treatment for Trump hours after flipping HD 87 blue for the first time since the 2020 redistricting. “It’s incredibly important to me to serve all of them and meet their needs, and to reflect their values and interests at the Capitol.” Gregory, a small business owner who runs a fitness center for postpartum moms, edged out financial planner Jon Maples during Tuesday’s special election by just under 800 votes. Maples was endorsed by Trump, who voted by mail days earlier. The win was an upset. Although the district only leans red, Trump had won it by 11 percentage points i...

A turbine from the Revolution Wind project roughly 15 miles south of the Rhode Island coast rises above the water. As President Donald Trump tries to block the development of additional projects, federal officials announced a deal Monday to pay nearly $1 billion to an energy firm to forfeit its leases for two offshore wind farms. (Photo courtesy of Revolution Wind via the Rhode Island Current) The U.S. government will pay a French energy firm nearly $1 billion to cancel its plans to build a pair of wind farms off the East Coast, the Trump administration announced Monday in its latest move to stymie offshore wind.  The French firm TotalEnergies will forfeit its leases for projects off the coasts of New York and North Carolina, with the United States paying $928 million to reimburse what the company initially spent on the leases. Under the deal , TotalEnergies will reinvest that money into oil and gas projects, including a liquefied natural gas export facility in Texas. ...

Alan Armstrong, left, Oklahoma’s newest U.S. senator, participates in a reenactment of his swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol on March 24, 2026, alongside his wife, Shelly Armstrong, and Iowa GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley, president pro tempore of the Senate. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)  WASHINGTON —  Alan Armstrong , a Tulsa businessman, was sworn in Tuesday as Oklahoma’s newest U.S. senator. Armstrong temporarily fills the seat of  Markwayne Mullin , who was sworn in as U.S. Department of Homeland Security secretary earlier Tuesday.  The Senate on Monday  confirmed Mullin’s nomination to lead the agency responsible for carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.  Armstrong was sworn in at the U.S. Capitol just hours after Oklahoma GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt appointed him to the post Tuesday morning at the Oklahoma state Capitol in Oklahoma City.  Iowa GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley, who serves as president pro tempore of the Se...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed split Tuesday on whether the Trump administration should be allowed to turn away asylum-seekers who present themselves at ports of entry at the U.S.-Mexico border. The question presented to the justices was whether migrants have to fully cross into the United States in order to have the right to apply for asylum and be processed, or if they can apply for asylum when they appear at a port of entry while on Mexico’s side of the border.  The policy requiring a full crossing, known as metering, is defunct, but the Trump administration is asking the high court to make a determination in order to potentially revive the practice for future use at the southern border. “This is an important tool in the government’s toolbox for dealing with border surges when they occur,” Vivek Suri, assistant to the U.S. solicitor general, told the court during oral argumen...

Federal immigration officers were at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday, March 23, 2026, to help with airport security as the partial shutdown continues. The airport was telling travelers to prepare for at least four-hour wait times to get through security Monday. (Photo by Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder) Airport security workers missed work Monday at the highest rate since a partial government shutdown began in mid-February, the Department of Homeland Security said, and the Trump administration sent immigration officials to some airports in an attempt to keep lines moving. Travelers reported hourslong security lines at major airports in Atlanta and Houston, while waits of 30 minutes or more were reported at several other hubs Monday. Nearly 3,500 Transportation Security Administration agents, roughly 11.8% of the scheduled nationwide workforce, called out from work Monday. TSA officers have been working without pay since the department that oversees ...