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"We start the day's other headlines in the nation's capital, where pressure is mounting on Congress to end the Homeland Security funding fight. Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he's given Democrats what he called a last and final offer. SEN. JOHN THUNE , Minority Leader of the House of..."
[0:00] We start the day's other headlines in the nation's capital, where pressure is mounting
[0:04] on Congress to end the Homeland Security funding fight.
[0:08] Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he's given Democrats what he called a last and
[0:12] final offer.
[0:13] SEN.
[0:14] JOHN THUNE , Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Enough is enough.
[0:16] Republicans have bent over backward to negotiate with Democrats, and now Democrats need to
[0:24] get serious about funding the Department of Homeland Security.
[0:26] A vote to advance a bill to fund DHS was halted while senators discussed the latest Republican
[0:33] offer behind closed doors.
[0:35] Democrats have said the proposals so far don't do enough to put guardrails on immigration
[0:40] enforcement officers.
[0:41] Meantime, airport chaos continues across the country, as TSA agents are poised to miss
[0:47] another paycheck tomorrow.
[0:49] Nearly 500 officers have quit the job altogether.
[0:53] Officials said TSA lines at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston took up to four hours and
[1:00] warned they could only get worse as the weekend approaches.
[1:03] Florida Democrat Sheila Scherfelis McCormick, who's been indicted for allegedly stealing
[1:09] millions in taxpayer money, faced a rare Public Ethics Committee hearing in Congress today.
[1:15] The bipartisan panel, which hasn't held a public hearing against a sitting member of
[1:20] the House in more than 15 years, began this investigation in 2023.
[1:26] Members questioned why they should delay their conclusion as she requests.
[1:29] SEN.
[1:31] CHUCK SCHUMER , Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Enough is enough.
[1:32] SEN.
[1:33] We know the Presidency of Congress is pernah-silть under dès.
[1:34] To demand accountability of all of us, when they're, if their elected representatives
[1:38] are without integrity.
[1:39] REP.
[1:41] SCHERFELIS McCOR-MIC's lawyer joined the case less than three weeks ago.
[1:45] The congresswoman has denied any wrong doing and has pleaded not guilty to the father charges
[1:51] against her.
[1:52] The result of the ethics process could bring political consequences including possibly
[1:57] getting expelled from the house.
[1:59] REP.
[2:00] NEW YORK'S LAGUARDIS AIRPORT HAS RE-OPENED THE RUNWAY którego WAS THE SCENE OF THIS
[2:03] fora U.S. DEL monitor...
[2:04] deadly collision of an Air Canada jet and a fire truck.
[2:07] Crews hauled away the wreckage last night.
[2:10] The mangled plane was taken to a hangar for passengers to reclaim their belongings.
[2:15] The regional port authority said clearing the runway will help one of the nation's busiest
[2:20] airports return to full operational capacity.
[2:24] Most of the roughly 40 people who were injured in the crash have been released from area
[2:28] hospitals.
[2:30] A federal judge says he will not dismiss the case against ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas
[2:34] Maduro and his wife because of a dispute involving their lawyers' legal fees.
[2:40] Maduro's attorney said the U.S. government was violating his client's constitutional
[2:44] rights by blocking the Venezuelan government from paying those fees.
[2:48] The judge said he'll rule on the issue soon.
[2:51] The deposed leader and his wife, Celia Flores, have pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking
[2:56] and weapons charges.
[2:57] President Trump said today that the Justice Department will bring other cases against
[3:01] Maduro, but did not elaborate.
[3:04] The International Olympics.
[3:05] The Olympic Committee has banned transgender women from competing, beginning with the
[3:09] 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
[3:12] This aligns the IOC with President Trump's executive order barring transgender athletes
[3:17] from women's college sports.
[3:20] Athletes wanting to compete in women's events will have to undergo a one-time genetic test.
[3:25] Today, only one openly transgender woman has competed at the Olympics, a weightlifter from
[3:30] New Zealand in 2021 who did not medal.
[3:35] On Wall Street today.
[3:36] Mallas is met with a range of
[3:59] men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.
[4:02] These men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments are up for sale at any time today.
[4:05] The women's and men's basketball tournaments in New Zealand are on display.
[4:06] They are under construction today.
[4:06] They have been scheduled to open for sale in September.
[4:06] Those who are interested in watching the program in the upcoming months can view the news
[4:06] wrote Otto Shellhammer, an eighth grader from the Pittsburgh area. In the ESPN Women's March
[4:12] Madness Challenge, he's correctly picked all of the 48 games played so far. There are no perfect
[4:19] men's brackets. What makes Otto's achievement all the more remarkable is that he says he knows
[4:24] basically nothing about basketball and doesn't even watch the games. But now his mother says
[4:29] he'll be watching very intently. Still to come on the NewsHour, how climate change has powered
[4:35] a heat wave that blanketed the West Coast. Germany debates whether to ban social media
[4:41] for children. And the newest umpires in Major League Baseball? Robots. This is the PBS NewsHour
[4:52] from the David M. Rubenstein Studio at WETA in Washington, headquarters of PBS News.
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