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House Speaker Mike Johnson has rejected a Senate-passed bill to fund Homeland Security as a ‘joke’ and plans a vote on an alternative. The House was considering whether to approve funds to pay Transportation Security Administration agents and most other Homeland Security agencies after the Senate unanimously passed the measure early Friday morning. The deal does not include funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but the package puts no new limits on immigration enforcement, which has continued uninterrupted during the shutdown. TSA workers were set to miss a second paycheck Friday. Prior to the Senate bill’s passage, President Donald Trump said he would sign a separate order to pay the TSA agents immediately, but nothing has been signed yet.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Federal law enforcement officials disrupted a plot to fire bomb the New York City home of a prominent Palestinian activist. Nerdeen Kiswani, co-founder of the group Within Our Lifetime, said she was informed by an FBI official late Thursday that “a threat on my life that was about to take place.” She said she was told that the man, Alexander Heifler, had been apprehended. According to a criminal complaint, Heifler, a New Jersey resident, was arrested in his New Jersey home late Thursday after an undercover operation revealed that he planned to throw a dozen Molotov cocktails at Kiswani’s home. He had spent weeks discussing the plot with an undercover law enforcement official, the complaint said.

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An Iranian envoy says Tehran will “facilitate and expedite” humanitarian aid through the Strait of Hormuz. Ali Bahreini, the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, said Friday that Tehran has accepted a request from the world body to allow the safe passage of humanitarian aid and agriculture shipments through the critical waterway. He says the “measure reflects Iran’s continued commitment to supporting humanitarian efforts and ensuring that essential aid reaches those in need without delay.” Bahreini's post on X came hours after the U.N. announced a task force to address the ripple effects the Iran war has had on the passage of aid.

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Former world number one Tiger Woods was involved in a rollover crash in Florida on Friday afternoon, ABC News reported, citing the local sheriff's office. The 50-year-old 15-times major champion's condition was not immediately clear, ABC News said. The Martin County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reuters contacted his agent but did not immediately receive a response. Woods was involved in a serious car crash in February 2021, suffering severe right leg fractures. His injury history spans more than two decades and includes multiple back microdiscectomies, ACL reconstruction, Achilles tendon ruptures, various spinal procedures, and chronic left knee issues — all of which have significantly limited his competitive schedule in recent years. Woods had only just returned to action, leading his Jupiter Links Golf Club in a TGL Finals match on Tuesday, his first appearance since missing the cut at the 2024 British Open. The American had not yet confirmed whether he planned to compete at this year's Masters, which starts on April 9 in Augusta.

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How goes the war? Is “victory creep” setting in

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MAGA Backs Trump 100%

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Today Josh breaks down his speech at CPAC, the reaction it received, and the overall mood at this year’s conference. As two factions on the right continue to clash—the sane, serious conservatives and the grifters and bad actors chasing clicks and cash—Josh explains what’s really at stake for the conservative movement. Josh also brings the latest updates on the Iran war and the mixed signals coming out of the administration. Plus, he discusses how “Team Sanity” scored a major win following a recent Olympic ruling and the reaction that decision is generating.

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DHS is Getting Funded...but not ICE

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Rep. Kristin Robbins speaks on the Minnesota Fraud 

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Iran-linked hackers on Friday claimed they had accessed FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email inbox, publishing photographs of the director and other documents to the internet. On their website, the hacker group Handala Hack Team said Patel "will now find his name among the list of successfully hacked victims." The hackers published a series of personal photographs of Patel sniffing and smoking cigars, riding in an antique convertible, and making a face while taking a picture of himself in the mirror with a large bottle of rum. A Justice Department official confirmed that Patel's email had been breached and said the material published online appeared authentic. The FBI did not respond to a request for comment. The hackers did not respond to messages. Handala, which presents itself as a group of pro-Palestinian vigilante hackers, is considered by Western researchers to be one of several personas used by Iranian government cyber-intelligence units. Handala recently claimed the hack of Michigan-based medical devices and services provider Stryker on March 11, saying they had deleted a massive trove of company data. Alongside the photographs of Patel, the hackers published a sample of more than 300 emails, which appear to show a mix of personal and work correspondence dating between 2010 and 2019. Reuters was not able to independently authenticate the Patel messages, but the personal Gmail address that Handala claims to have broken into matches the address linked to Patel in previous data breaches preserved by the dark web intelligence firm District 4 Labs. Alphabet-owned Google, which runs Gmail, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Iran-linked hackers - who initially kept a low profile after the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes against the Islamic Republic last month - have increasingly boasted of their cyber operations as the conflict drags on. In addition to the hack against Stryker, Handala on Thursday claimed to have published the personal data of dozens of defense company Lockheed Martin employees stationed in the Middle East. In a statement, Lockheed Martin said it was aware of the reports and had policies and procedures in place "to mitigate cyber threats to our business." Gil Messing, chief of staff at Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point, said the hack-and-leak operation against Patel was part of Iran's strategy to embarrass U.S. officials and "make them feel vulnerable." The Iranians, he said, are "firing whatever they have." It is not unusual for foreign hackers to target senior officials' personal emails, and breaches and leaks both happen periodically. Hackers famously broke into Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's personal Gmail account ahead of the 2016 election and published much of the data to the WikiLeaks site. In 2015, teenage hackers broke into then-CIA director John Brennan's personal AOL account and leaked data about U.S. intelligence officials. Relatively unsophisticated breaches of this nature are in line with a U.S. intelligence assessment reviewed by Reuters on March 2. The assessment said Iran and its proxies could respond to the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with low-level hacks against U.S. digital networks. Iran-linked hackers may have other emails in reserve. Last year, another group operating under the pseudonym "Robert" told Reuters it is considering disclosing 100 gigabytes of data stolen from White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and other figures close to U.S. President Donald Trump. Reuters has not been able to verify the claim and the group has not responded to messages in several months.

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Authorities say a U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to protect former first lady Jill Biden accidentally shot himself in the leg at Philadelphia International Airport. A spokesman for the Secret Service says Biden was not in the area when the agent was injured during a “negligent discharge” of his gun. A police spokeswoman says initial reports indicate the agent was traveling in an unmarked car when he accidentally fired his gun shortly before 9 a.m. He was hospitalized in stable condition. Airport operations were not affected.

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Dems' Green Energy Mandates Are Crushing Families With Sky-High Electric Bills

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Hegseth Drops Truth Bomb: Obama-Biden Funded Iran’s Missile Machine

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Trump Will Take Drastic Measures to End Shutdown

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TDS is Real Among Democrats

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Trump Pauses Strikes On Iran For 10 Days With Brent Sadler, Senior Research Fellow, Naval Warfare and Advanced Technology, Allison Center for National Security at The Heritage Foundation.

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Voting & The SAVE AMERICA Act With Aundrea Gomez, Policy Research Associate for AFA Action (AFAaction.net), the government affairs affiliate of American Family Association | @AFAAction

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The Left Literally Flipped The Script: Criminals In Minnesota Are Now Suing ICE

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BREAKING NEWS: Chris Runs For Congress

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ICE Agents Saves Life of a 1-Year-Old

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