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NPR News: 03-29-2026 6PM EDT

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🗓️ 29 March 2026

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NPR News: 03-29-2026 6PM EDT

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0:00.0

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

0:04.9

ICE officers could remain at U.S. airports even after TSA workers start getting paid again.

0:10.3

According to White House borders are Tom Holman.

0:13.0

MPIRS Jeff Brady reports TSA paychecks could resume as early as tomorrow,

0:17.4

even though Congress hasn't allocated money for that.

0:20.9

After lawmakers failed to pass a Department of Homeland Security budget last Friday,

0:25.2

President Trump directed the Transportation Security Administration to pay workers from existing

0:30.3

funds. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been helping the TSA with checking

0:35.1

identification and other tasks. On CNN's state of the union,

0:38.9

Tom Homan said ICE officers might remain at airports. Depends how many TSA agents come back to work.

0:44.9

How many TSA agents have actually quit and have no plan coming back to work? The TSA says

0:49.7

hundreds of workers quit after going weeks without pay. That's increased security wait times by hours

0:55.4

at airports around the country. Democrats vow to block DHS funding without reforms after officers

1:01.5

killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. Jeff Brady, NPR News. Israel says it will widen its

1:08.5

invasion of southern Lebanon. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

1:12.1

says he's expanding a security buffer zone to prevent Hezbollah militants from firing rockets southward

1:18.5

into Israel. That's a move that could leave hundreds of thousands of people displaced permanently.

1:24.1

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres worries that Israel is trying to use its Gaza model on Lebanon.

1:30.8

Israel has blown up bridges and destroyed homes, and Lebanon's government says Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,200 people and displaced more than 1 million.

1:40.8

Police in Israel turned away the Vatican's top official in Jerusalem from praying in one of Christianity's holiest sites today.

1:48.3

The Latin Patriarch had already canceled public Palm Sunday events in keeping with the wartime restrictions,

1:53.5

but he was barred from holding smaller private prayers the first time in centuries, according to church leaders.

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