Trump directs DHS to pay employees during shutdown

President Trump on Friday ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to pay all of its employees as the partial government shutdown approaches 50 days. The Presidential Memorandum directs DHS Secretary Markway Mullin and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue pay checks to thousands of agency employees with back pay… Source link

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South Carolina gets revenge on UConn in Final Four upset

Alexa FilippoApril 3, 2026, 09:18 pm ET to close Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer multiple authors PHOENIX–During summer workouts, South Carolina Gamecocks The…

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Iran and Oman drafting protocol to ‘monitor’ Hormuz Strait traffic: IRNA

Iran and Oman are drafting a protocol to “monitor transit” through the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported Thursday morning, citing an official. Tanker traffic through the key oil-shipping route “should be supervised and coordinated” with the two countries, said Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister of legal and international affairs, according…

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