Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corvett Coleman.

The Senate has voted for a package that funds most of the Department of Homeland Security.

The agency has been shut down for more than 40 days as Democrats and Republicans disagreed over limits to federal immigration agents' operations.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says most departments within DHS will get paid.

This long overdue agreement funds TSA, the Coast Guard, FEMA, SISA,

strengthens security at the border and the ports of entry, and keeps Americans safe.

This could have been accomplished weeks ago if Republicans hadn't stood in the way.

But it won't fund most federal immigration operations, sent a majority leader, John Thune.

They wanted an issue. Politics over policy, self-interest over reform, pandering to their base over actually solving a problem.

It's an appalling commentary on the state of the Democratic Party.

But the funding issue isn't yet over.

This measure has to go to the House for a vote before it's fully passed by Congress.

President Trump says he'll delay his threat to attack Iran's energy plants by 10 days. He now says Iran has until Monday, April 6th,

to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Israel and the U.S. are still attacking Iran, including the capital

to Iran, and Iran is still retaliating against its Gulf neighbors.

And Pierce Emily Feng has more.

Israel's military said it had struck a missile in sea mine production facility in Yazd province in the middle of Iran.

Overnight, it also said it targeted ballistic missile and aerial defense system production sites in Tehran.

A handful of social media posts have made it out of Iran's near total telecommunications blackout,

and they show strikes on Tehran and the Iranian city of Isfahan in the early dawn hours of Friday.

Hours earlier on Thursday night, Iran's Revolutionary Guard said it had struck U.S. bases in the UAE,

Bahrain, and Kuwait in the Gulf using missiles

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