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DHS funding deal on shaky ground as Trump and Democrats both decline to embrace it : NPR

DHS funding deal on shaky ground as Trump and Democrats both decline to embrace it : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters after a weekly policy luncheon at the Capitol. Roberto Schmidt/AFP hide caption toggle caption Roberto Schmidt/AFP After weeks of halting talks, a new proposal is materializing on Capitol Hill that aims to fund critical parts of the Department of Homeland Security as travelers across the country deal with long lines and missed flights at airports experiencing TSA officer shortages. But despite optimism from top Senate Republicans, President Trump and Senate Democrats have yet to embrace the emerging framework. For more than a month, Republicans demanded an agreement to fund DHS in its entirety. Funding for the department lapsed in mid-February amid anger over the agency’s handling of immigration enforcement. GOP leadership previewed a plan Tuesday to fund the majority of the department, minus Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s enforcement and removal operations division. But the GOP plan failed to clear an initial procedural vote on Wednesday, as most Democrats say they are unwilling to approve any additional funding for ICE without significant reforms to rein in the …

Vibration plates are suddenly everywhere. What I learned after one (very shaky) month

Vibration plates are suddenly everywhere. What I learned after one (very shaky) month

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the Well Enough newsletter with Harry Bullmore for tips on living a healthier, happier and longer life Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Could the key to losing weight, building muscle and bone density and improving circulation be as simple as shaking for five minutes a day? That’s what I set out to discover over the last month by using a vibration plate for 5-10 minutes daily. The machine – a 2-3-foot wide plastic and rubber pedestal that vibrates at the command of a remote – has been around for more than 20 years. But it has found new fans across social media, featuring in more than 130,000 TikTok videos and Instagram Reels. A recent social media challenge asked users to film themselves trying to drink a cup of water on the plates. “I’ve seen the girlies who use this and they have abs, like actual abs,” says beauty influencer Maiya Sagoo, one of many toned women in workout gear posting videos while standing …

Texas Reps. Menefee, Green advance to runoff as first midterm primaries show incumbents on shaky ground

Texas Reps. Menefee, Green advance to runoff as first midterm primaries show incumbents on shaky ground

Published by Sam Flores

Christian Menefee and Al Green. Al Drago | Sergio Flores | Reuters The first round of primary elections is showing how this year’s midterms will be taking place on shifting political ground for incumbents. That was particularly true in Texas — the first state to redraw its congressional districts last year — where incumbent members of Congress have been pushed to runoffs and another has been scuttled from the House altogether. Former Rep. Colin Allred, who abandoned his initial U.S. Senate run to pursue Texas’ 33rd Congressional District, is headed to a runoff with Rep. Julie Johnson, who holds the U.S. House seat that used to be his. Democratic Rep. Al Green, an outspoken liberal who has twice been ejected from President Donald Trump’s State of the Union addresses for protesting, and newly elected Rep. Christian Menefee will compete in the May 26 runoff for a Houston-area district. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a Republican and former Navy SEAL with an independent streak, faced attacks from the party’s hard right that he was not in lockstep with …

‘Trump introduces new tariffs as legally shaky as those struck down by the Supreme Court’

‘Trump introduces new tariffs as legally shaky as those struck down by the Supreme Court’

Published by Sam Flores

Nothing suggested that Learning Resources, the company founded in 1984 by Rick Woldenberg’s mother, would one day make history thanks to one of the US Supreme Court’s most high-profile decisions. Its CEO, an Illinois-based importer of educational games, was one of the first among some 2,000 business leaders to file suit against Donald Trump’s tariffs. That is how his case made its way to the nation’s highest court, under the title 24-1287 Learning Resources Inc. v. Trump, and a majority of the justices ruled that one of the main pillars of the American administration’s economic policy was unconstitutional. Read more Subscribers only Tariffs: US Supreme Court delivers major setback to Trump’s trade policy For months, Trump has insisted that other countries, because they supposedly “rip off” the United States, should pay tariffs. Woldenberg, however, knows exactly who ends up footing the bill. The US president’s passion for tariffs has already cost Learning Resources $10 million (about €8.5 million) since April 2025. “My hope is that this ruling is an opportunity for everyone to take a …