Hundreds of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents began arriving at airports from Atlanta to JFK on Monday after Trump ordered their deployment amid a five-week partial government shutdown that has left TSA officers unpaid and long security lines stretching for hours.
Efforts to halt the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran stalled after President Donald Trump said Tehran wanted the Strait of Hormuz reopened while its leadership tried to stabilise itself, underscoring how ceasefire terms, nuclear sequencing and shipping access have become one intertwined negotiation.[1][2]
The decorated Vietnam veteran and longest-serving FBI director since Hoover died last Friday. His special counsel investigation into Russian election interference defined Trump's first term and remains divisive.
Marco Rubio said Cuba's leadership must change as Washington renewed a $100 million aid offer, while blackouts and fresh protests in Havana exposed how quickly humanitarian pressure, regime-change rhetoric and fuel shortages are colliding.
Federal prosecutors have charged former NIAID adviser David Morens with conspiring to conceal Covid-era communications, turning a long-running transparency fight over pandemic research and the lab-leak debate into a criminal case.[1][2]
Asha Bhosle, the Indian playback singer whose catalogue stretched across more than seven decades and roughly 12,000 songs, died in Mumbai on Sunday at 92, prompting tributes from officials, musicians and fans while reviving debate over the scale of her legacy.[1][2][3]
