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5 min readCongress has passed legislation to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, ending a period that began in mid-February when the agency lost its full funding. President Trump signed the bill into law. According to NPR’s Claudia Grisales, DHS had been moving money around to keep paying employees. The Senate had passed a funding plan five weeks ago, but it excluded some immigration enforcement divisions that could not get through the House. The White House then redirected government funds to pay DHS workers, even though the legality of that move was questioned. That redirected money was about to run out. The new funding comes from what Congress provided last year when it passed the “one big beautiful bill” that President Trump backed.
It has now been sixty days since President Trump began military action against Iran. Under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, a president must get authorization from Congress to continue a war after 60 days. But in Senate testimony yesterday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dismissed that requirement. He argued that the current ceasefire with Iran essentially satisfies the legal obligation.
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- 1 (00:03) **DHS Funding Bill Signed** - Congress passed and President Trump signed legislation funding most of the Department of Homeland Security, ending a period of shuffling money since mid-February.
- 2 (01:00) **Iran War Powers Dispute** - Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth testified that the 60-day war powers deadline does not apply, citing the current ceasefire with Iran as the legal obligation.
- 3 (01:24) **Gas Prices Surge** - AAA reports the national average price for a gallon of regular gas jumped nine cents overnight, up 33 cents in a week, with Indiana averaging $4.80.
- 4 (02:10) **Census Bureau Field Test for 2030** - The Census Bureau is testing an online survey and in-person interviews by postal workers in Huntsville, Alabama and Spartanburg, South Carolina.
- 5 (03:00) **Surgeon General Nominee Changed** - President Trump dropped Dr. Casey Means as his nominee for Surgeon General after her Senate stall, and tapped Dr. Nicole Sapphire, a radiologist and wellness influencer.
- 6 (03:12) **Postpartum Depression Rates Vary Globally** - A study in *The Lancet Psychiatry* finds rates of major depressive disorder in the year after birth range from 15% in southern sub-Saharan Africa to 3% in high-income Asia Pacific, with North America at 4-5%.
- 7 (04:00) **Oscar Winner's Statue Missing** - Pavel Talankin, winner of the Best Documentary Oscar for *Mr. Nobody Against Putin*, lost his statuette after a TSA agent and Lufthansa official deemed it a potential weapon and put it in checked luggage, where it went missing.
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