Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump is ordering the Department of Homeland Security and Office of Management and Budget to pay TSA agents. As NPR's Daniel Kurtzleben reports, it comes as Congress again failed to end the DHS shutdown. In the memo, President Trump says the slowdowns at airport security and low morale among TSA workers, quote,

constitute an emergency situation compromising the nation's security, end quote.

The memo states that 60,000 TSA employees are currently not being paid.

Since federal agents killed two Americans in Minneapolis earlier this year,

Democrats have refused to fund DHS without

limits on immigration enforcement tactics. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has rejected a Senate

pass bill that would fund DHS minus ICE and border patrol. Johnson called the bill a joke.

Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, the White House. The U.S. says about one-third of Iran's missile

arsenal has been destroyed. As NPR's Greg Myrie reports, the U.S. has focused heavily on

eliminating missiles. President Trump and the Pentagon have reported major progress in destroying

Iran's missiles, but haven't released specific figures. An American official, who's not authorized to speak publicly,

told NPR that the U.S. has only been able to confirm the elimination of around one-third of Iran's

missile capabilities. The missile program consists of multiple elements, factories that make the

weapons, launchers that fire them, and the missiles themselves.

Overall, Iranian missile attacks have dropped dramatically since the early days of the war.

Still, missiles, along with drones, remain Iran's most effective weapons.

Greg Myrie, NPR News, Washington.

Stocks dropped again today, ending another volatile week on Wall Street.

As NPR's Maria Aspen reports, the Dow slid 793 points or nearly one in three quarters of a percent.

The S&P 500 fell more than one and a half percent.

President Trump's latest efforts to pause the war in Iran didn't appear to reassure investors.

Oil prices continued rising, stoking more fears of a prolonged energy crisis, and a closely

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