Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corvick-Holman. The Senate has voted to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security. After a lapse of 42 days, the deal does not include any money for ICE, but it also does not include any reform to immigration enforcement tactics that Democrats had demanded. NPR Sam Greenglass reports.

The DHS funding lapse has forced tens of thousands of employees

to work without pay or quit and resulted in long waits at some airports amid peak spring break

travel. If the House signs off on the deal today, money will flow again to FEMA, TSA, the Coast Guard,

and cybersecurity. The deal came after a week of erratic negotiations and President Trump

moving to unilaterally pay TSA agents be an executive order. Democrats say they stood firm on

no new funding for ICE and Border Patrol and will keep pressing for reforms like requiring

judicial warrants for immigration officers to enter homes. But Republicans are now

signaling the time to negotiate has passed. Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington. President Trump says

he is again extending a deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz for shipping. This deadline's

moved to Monday, April 6th. Both the Trump administration and Iranian officials have issued competing demands to end the conflict.

Trump says talks are going well. Iran says there aren't any talks. And Pierre's Aibetrae says both sides are exchanging messages.

We did get confirmation now that Egypt and Pakistan have both said they're involved in passing messages now.

And that's because the traditional mediators, which have been al-Men in Qatar in the past,

they came under attack after this war began, some retaliation attacks from Iran.

And so they're not involved in the talks at the moment, although Al-Man says they are playing a role at this moment.

But the talks seem to be, or not talks, let's say the back channel efforts to get

talks going are being conducted by Egypt and Pakistan. And PR's Aib Betrawi reporting. Secretary of

State Marco Rubio is going to France today. He'll meet with other foreign ministers from G7

countries over the weekend. They'll talk about the war in Iran, and Rubio is expected

to seek European support. But this week, President Trump slammed NATO for not helping the U.S.

in the war effort. Mortgage rates have risen sharply since the war began. NPR Stephen Bissaha

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