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By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN

(CNN) — Across some of the nation’s busiest airports on Monday, groups of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surveyed what felt like never-ending security lines, some directing confused travelers while others silently supervised with their thumbs tucked into the sides of their tactical vests.

Hundreds of ICE agents were deployed to 14 airports on Monday as part of the Trump administration’s effort to mitigate painful travel delays that have resulted from a Department of Homeland Security shutdown. Fliers have faced hourslong waits and lines snaking out of airports as hundreds of TSA employees have quit and thousands more have called out of work after going weeks without pay.

But while the ICE agents – who are being paid – were spotted in Atlanta, New York, Houston, Chicago and others cities on Monday, officials have said they are limited in what duties they can perform: They are not trained, for example, to operate the understaffed security checkpoints that are often the source of delays.

Instead, White House Border Czar Tom Homan said they will assist with simpler tasks, ideally freeing up more TSA employees to perform critical and specialized security work.

While airports in Atlanta and Houston have seen hourslong TSA wait times, travelers at LaGuardia Airport in New York were not even able to get into security lines until Monday afternoon, after a fatal collision between an Air Canada plane and a fire truck closed the airport overnight.

As travelers and CNN crews observed federal agents roving through several airports on Monday, it was at times unclear what tasks they were assigned to carry out.

Even so, Homan said more airports may see an ICE presence in the coming days. Here’s what we know.

ICE will allow TSA to focus on security screenings, Homan says

Mounting TSA employee callouts have crippled US airports that rely on the government employees for security, as an influx of spring break travelers wheel their suitcases through the doors.

Some airports have been forced to dramatically cut down on the number of security checkpoints as an increasing number of TSA employees haven’t shown up to work.

At the world’s busiest travel hub, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, 41% of TSA workers called out on Sunday. Similar numbers were reported at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, where passengers waited in line for as many as four hours the following day. Read more

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Las guerras, a diferencia de los aranceles ilegales, no se pueden activar y desactivar a voluntad para satisfacer los caprichos de un presidente ni para apuntalar permanentemente mercados en caída libre.

Así pues, la pregunta clave tras la suspensión por parte del presidente Donald Trump de los ataques con los que había amenazado contra las centrales eléctricas de Irán no es si ha tenido otro momento TACO (“Trump siempre se acobarda”).

La cuestión es si Trump podrá salir de su guerra con Irán, incluso si él quisiera hacerlo.

Tras varios días de retórica ambivalente, Trump dio señales el lunes de una posible desescalada en el conflicto, al mencionar 15 puntos de acuerdo en lo que calificó de conversaciones productivas con Irán.

Teherán, por su parte, afirmó que no había habido diálogo.

La interpretación más esperanzadora de los últimos acontecimientos es que tanto Estados Unidos como Irán han llegado a un punto en el que el coste de seguir escalando el conflicto sería tan terrible que ambos necesitan encontrar una salida.

Estas revelaciones pueden empezar a poner fin a las guerras.

Trump había llevado a sus adversarios al límite al amenazar con bombardear las centrales eléctricas de Irán si no abría el estrecho de Ormuz, un punto estratégico para las exportaciones de petróleo.

Teherán había prometido tomar represalias incendiando infraestructura vital en los estados del Golfo aliados de Estados Unidos.

El conflicto podría haber desencadenado una recesión global y empeorado la ya precaria situación humanitaria de la población civil iraní a la que Trump prometió ayudar.

Pero existen muchos motivos para dudar de que un avance significativo sea inminente.

Los días de retórica errática y contradictoria de Trump, sumados a la incapacidad de su administración para esgrimir una justificación coherente para la guerra o para trazar una estrategia de salida, hacen que cualquier declaración estadounidense carezca de credibilidad.

La costumbre del presidente de bombardear durante los plazos que él mismo fija en Irán significa que a nadie le sorprendería que rompiera su propia moratoria de cinco días sobre los ataques a las centrales eléctricas del país.

Algunos escépticos también señalan que la pausa del presidente se extenderá durante toda la semana en los mercados globales.

Con los futuros de las acciones desplomándose y los precios del petróleo disparándose tras el fin de semana, ¿acaso buscaba simplemente crear un colchón de estabilidad en el mercado?

No sería la primera vez que las declaraciones oficiales parecen tener como objetivo controlar la volatilidad. Y funcionó de nuevo: el Dow Jones, el S&P 500 y el Nasdaq subieron más del 1 % el lunes, mientras que el crudo Brent, la referencia mundial del petróleo, cayó un 11 %.

Los conductores estadounidenses esperan un respiro en las gasolineras.

Es posible que Trump quiera ganar tiempo por otro motivo: las fuerzas estadounidenses que podrían darle la opción de invadir la isla de Kharg —epicentro de la industria petrolera iraní y un centro económico vital— u ocupar islas y regiones costeras en el estrecho aún no están completamente desplegadas.

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By Zoe Sottile, CNN

(CNN) — An Air Canada plane traveling from Montreal collided with an emergency vehicle on the runway at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport in the late hours of Sunday night, killing two pilots and injuring dozens of people.

Emergency vehicles flooded the runway and passengers inched out onto the wing of the aircraft in the aftermath of the crash.

“It was just chaos in there,” said Jack Cabot, one of 72 passengers aboard the flight. “Everybody was hunkered down and everybody was screaming pretty quickly.”

Both Canadian and American authorities are investigating the collision, which follows several high-profile aviation disasters in 2025 — including a shocking midair collision between a military helicopter and a commercial jet near Washington, DC, which left 67 dead — that brought scrutiny to the industry and triggered calls for reform.

The crash marks the first deaths at LaGuardia, the New York area’s third-busiest airport, in 34 years, Port Authority Executive Director Kathryn Garcia said Monday.

Sunday night’s collision brought operations at the airport – a major transit hub that served over 32 million passengers last year – screeching to a halt before it reopened Monday afternoon. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled at the airport, and runway 4 will remain closed until 7 a.m. Friday, according to a public notice from the FAA.

The closure came as a Department of Homeland Security funding shutdown has led to TSA staffing shortages and massive lines at airports across the country, with some passengers reporting hours spent waiting to go through security.

There’s no evidence the shutdown contributed to the collision; air traffic controllers, unlike TSA agents, are still paid during this partial shutdown.

Here’s what we know about the collision.

Plane struck fire truck on runway

Just three minutes elapsed between when the Air Canada flight was cleared to land and when it collided with the fire truck.

Air Canada Flight 8646 took off from Montreal-Trudeau International Airport shortly after 10:30 p.m. ET Sunday night. The plane, with four crew members, arrived at LaGuardia about an hour later, according to the flight tracking site FlightRadar24. It was cleared to land at around 11:35 p.m.

On the other side of the airport, another plane had already reported an emergency.

United Flight 2384, scheduled to depart for Chicago, aborted its takeoff due to a warning light at around 11:18 p.m. As controllers worked to find a gate for that plane, the pilots reported an odor in the cabin had sickened the flight attendants, according to a LiveATC.com recording of air traffic control audio.

A Port Authority aircraft rescue and firefighting vehicle dispatched to respond to the United flight requested permission to cross the runway where the Air Canada aircraft was landing.

The fire truck was cleared to cross moments before the collision, the audio indicates.

Just 10 seconds after granting permission for the fire truck to cross, the controller seemed to reverse course and frantically told it to stop.

“Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop, truck 1. Stop,” he said.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Fire crews tackled a house fire just before 7:00 p.m. in Santa Barbara on Monday at the 1600 block of Overlook Lane.

Your News Channel arrived at the home and noticed heavy smoke coming from inside before fire crews arrived.

The Santa Barbara City Fire Department mentioned no injuries from the fire and received help from several ambulances and a utlility truck in the response.

More information on the house fire will be provided as it becomes available to Your News Channel.

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By Sarah El Sirgany and Nic Robertson

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (CNN) — Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea port of Jeddah is bracing for an increase in business over the next two weeks.

On a breezy Sunday afternoon, the five ships on its platforms were fewer than its usual traffic, but with the near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the airspaces of countries along the Persian Gulf, the kingdom’s west coast ports are providing a safer lifeline to and from the region.

About a three-hour drive north of Jeddah, a 700-mile-long gas pipeline has been repurposed to export Saudi oil to tankers lined up at another Red Sea port, Yanbu. These oil cargoes represent much of a one-third hike in Red Sea traffic in the weeks since the war began, according to Saudi officials.

Yet, securing the passage of incoming supplies is equally important to a region that imports about 85% of its food.

US and Israeli attacks on Iran and Iranian retaliatory strikes have halted traffic in and toward ports along the Persian Gulf, choking these essential import and export supply chains.

Gulf-bound ships diverted

When the war began, over 60 ships en route to ports in the gulf had to divert, some back to their home bases in China and India, according to MarineTraffic data shared with CNN. Others headed to ports on the Arabian Peninsula along the Arabian and Red seas, while others chose regional ports farther afield.

The Omani ports of Sohar and Salala, the Emirati port of Khor Fakkan and Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah emerged as the alternatives of necessity delivering shipments directly to the Arabian Peninsula.

“There is no industry standard for this crisis. Your cargo’s arrival date now depends entirely on which carrier’s strategy you’re tied to,” wrote Ronan Boudet, head of container intelligence at Kpler, which specializes in global trade analytics.

With the war in its fourth week, the focus is shifting towards finding solutions to fill supermarket and pharmacy shelves across the region.

“The region is extremely import-driven, which means that from all the containers that are coming into the region, every single commodity that you could think of would be within those containers,” said Charles van der Steene, regional managing director of shipping giant Maersk.

He said shipping companies are working with local governments to set priorities.

Priorities for daily life

“Food and medicine are the priority … Whether it is for the UAE, whether it’s for Saudi, whether it’s for Bahrain or Kuwait, and any other country within the gulf, these are the prime priority to make sure that the population can receive what they need as part of their daily life,” he explained.

Identifying the right port and overland route is a key factor in ensuring that the entire length of the supply chain is efficient and available after the container has been unloaded from the vessel, van der Steene said.

As the only country that shares borders with all its Arab neighbors on the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia launched the “Logistics Routes Initiative” to facilitate such transfers to these countries through the easing of customs regulations and a network of roads and trucks. Saudi officials say they recorded over 94,000 outbound trucks to all land borders between February 28 and March 18.

While this network facilitates inland transfers from different ports, there is a growing emphasis on Jeddah as a main entry point. Officials at the port, the biggest in Saudi Arabia, told CNN during a visit Sunday that an increase in demand will be reflected in a 50% surge in arrivals in two weeks.

Security, however, is an ongoing vulnerability. Iranian drones have