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By Morgan Rimmer, Alison Main, CNN

(CNN) — Markwayne Mullin will serve as Donald Trump’s next Department of Homeland Security secretary, elevating the US senator to helm the agency at the center of the president’s controversial immigration enforcement effort and an ongoing shutdown.

The Senate confirmed the nomination on Monday night, less than three weeks after Trump tapped Mullin to take over from embattled Secretary Kristi Noem.

Mullin is set to take over a department in turmoil. Its funding lapsed on February 14, and while lawmakers and the administration have engaged in negotiations in an effort to end the shutdown, a deal has not yet been reached. Democrats have demanded changes to immigration enforcement procedures and tactics following the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota.

The final confirmation vote was 54 to 45, with GOP Sen. Rand Paul voting “no” and Democratic Sens. John Fetterman and Martin Heinrich voting “yes.”

Ahead of his confirmation, Mullin made the case to his Senate colleagues that he will be a different kind of leader at DHS than Noem, and faced questions over his temperament and allegations of stolen valor.

Paul, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has sharply criticized Mullin’s temperament and accused him of “anger issues.” During his confirmation hearing, Paul pointed to Mullin’s public comments that Paul is a “snake” and that he “understood” why Paul’s neighbor attacked him in 2017 to highlight his concerns, as well as a 2023 Senate hearing where Mullin appeared ready to physically fight a witness.

Fetterman and Heinrich, on the other hand, both pointed to their friendships with Mullin in explaining their support for him. After voting to advance Mullin’s nomination on Sunday, Heinrich insisted in a statement that they could have a “constructive” relationship, and argued that Mullin wouldn’t be pushed around by other White House officials.

Heinrich, who served with Mullin in the House, said he’s “seen first-hand that Markwayne is not someone who can simply be bullied into changing his views.”

Throughout his tenure in the Senate, Mullin has been a key figure working to bridge gaps between the House and Senate Republican Conferences due to his strong relationships in both chambers. During his confirmation hearing, he told senators that he would be accessible to them, noting he wouldn’t change his cellphone number, and would keep in mind the frustration that members of Congress feel when the administration is not as responsive as they would prefer.

He’s a close ally of Trump as well, often appearing on conservative media platforms to tout the president’s message. Mullin has described the president as a “friend,” a relationship that was solidified after Trump reached out to Mullin consistently while the Oklahoma Republican’s teenage son was suffering a severe brain injury.

During his confirmation hearing, Mullin also faced allegations of stolen valor, which he chalked up to a “misun

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By Morgan Rimmer, Alison Main, CNN

(CNN) — Markwayne Mullin will serve as Donald Trump’s next Department of Homeland Security secretary, elevating the US senator to helm the agency at the center of the president’s controversial immigration enforcement effort and an ongoing shutdown.

The Senate confirmed the nomination on Monday night, less than three weeks after Trump tapped Mullin to take over from embattled Secretary Kristi Noem.

Mullin is set to take over a department in turmoil. Its funding lapsed on February 14, and while lawmakers and the administration have engaged in negotiations in an effort to end the shutdown, a deal has not yet been reached. Democrats have demanded changes to immigration enforcement procedures and tactics following the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota.

The final confirmation vote was 54 to 45, with GOP Sen. Rand Paul voting “no” and Democratic Sens. John Fetterman and Martin Heinrich voting “yes.”

Ahead of his confirmation, Mullin made the case to his Senate colleagues that he will be a different kind of leader at DHS than Noem, and faced questions over his temperament and allegations of stolen valor.

Paul, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has sharply criticized Mullin’s temperament and accused him of “anger issues.” During his confirmation hearing, Paul pointed to Mullin’s public comments that Paul is a “snake” and that he “understood” why Paul’s neighbor attacked him in 2017 to highlight his concerns, as well as a 2023 Senate hearing where Mullin appeared ready to physically fight a witness.

Fetterman and Heinrich, on the other hand, both pointed to their friendships with Mullin in explaining their support for him. After voting to advance Mullin’s nomination on Sunday, Heinrich insisted in a statement that they could have a “constructive” relationship, and argued that Mullin wouldn’t be pushed around by other White House officials.

Heinrich, who served with Mullin in the House, said he’s “seen first-hand that Markwayne is not someone who can simply be bullied into changing his views.”

Throughout his tenure in the Senate, Mullin has been a key figure working to bridge gaps between the House and Senate Republican Conferences due to his strong relationships in both chambers. During his confirmation hearing, he told senators that he would be accessible to them, noting he wouldn’t change his cellphone number, and would keep in mind the frustration that members of Congress feel when the administration is not as responsive as they would

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INDIO, Calif. (KUNA) – La familia de una enfermera local que falleció tras ser atropellada por un vehículo en un cruce peatonal solicitó a la comunidad y a los medios de comunicació que asistieran a la audiencia judicial para exigir justicia y honrar su memoria, la cual se llevaría a cabo la mañana de este lunes 23 de marzo, en el Centro de Justicia Larson de la ciudad de Indio.

Los familiares y amigos se encontrarón con la sorpresa de haber llegado tarde sin saberlo, ya que esta audiencia fue cambia de las 10:30 am a las 8:30 am, según comenta la familia, nunca se les notificó sobre dicho cambio.

Fue el 10 de enero de 2025, cuando Anabel Sánchez fue atropellada por un vehículo mientras cruzaba la calle Oasis Street en Indio, cerca de la intersección con la autopista 111, en ese momento fue trasladada al hospital en estado crítico y lamentablemente falleció a causa de sus heridas.

Telemundo 15 conversó con sus hijas y amistades cercanas, quienes exigen un castigo de acuerdo a la ley para la persona responsable, ya que de manera desconcertada dicen haber sido según sus palabras ignoradas por la justicia, al haber sido cambiado el horario de la audiencia sin aviso alguno.

Todos los detalles los tendrá esta tarde en punto de las 6 pm solo por Telemundo 15.

The post Más de un año de espera y la primer audiencia fue pospuesta: familia de enfermera hispana atropellada en Indio pide justicia appeared first on News Channel 3-12.

By Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken, CNN

(CNN) — Pilots have raised concerns about miscommunication, air traffic control missteps and other hazards at LaGuardia Airport, according to a CNN review of government records for the past two years.

“Please do something,” a pilot wrote last summer in one of at least a dozen reports about LaGuardia to NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System – citing a close call when air traffic controllers failed to provide appropriate guidance about multiple nearby aircraft.

“The pace of operations is building in LGA (LaGuardia). The controllers are pushing the line,” the pilot said. “On thunderstorm days, LGA is starting to feel like DCA did before the accident there,” referring to the January 2025 mid-air collision over the Potomac River in Washington, DC that killed more than 60 people.

On Sunday, two pilots were killed and dozens of passengers were injured at LaGuardia airport when an Air Canada plane collided with a fire truck in a high-speed runway collision. An air traffic controller had cleared the fire truck to cross the runway and frantically tried to stop it at the last minute, but it was too late. After the crash, he said on the ground radio frequency that he had been “dealing with an emergency earlier” and that he “messed up.”

Only a few months ago, in October, two Delta Airlines regional jets collided on a LaGuardia taxiway, which sent one person to the hospital. And in Newark just this week, a close call occurred when two aircraft were attempting to land on intersecting runways.

In the two years leading up to Sunday’s fatal crash, multiple reports detailed situations where collisions at LaGuardia were narrowly avoided, according to CNN’s review of the voluntary reporting system, which allows employees in the aerospace industry to anonymously flag safety issues and can take several months to include the most recent reports. While the reports are reviewed by a team of safety analysts who are tasked with alerting the Federal Aviation Administration of any hazards, the individual details of each report have not necessarily been verified by government regulators.

In December 2024, for example, a report to the NASA database described how a plane came dangerously close to another aircraft on the ground because of inaccurate instructions from air traffic controllers. And months before that, in July, a copilot reported a similar near collision after controllers said the plane was cleared to cross the runway even though another aircraft was landing at the same time.

“Ground Control issued a stop command just in time,” the report said.

Other reports appear less serious or clear-cut about what went wrong but also cited confusing or dangerous scenarios at LaGuardia, which is considered one of the busiest airports in the country.

Given the chronic understaffing of air traffic control facilities and previous government shutdowns, reports of near misses and concerns about safety are not uncommon about airspaces and runways around the country, other data from the safety reporting system shows.

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Por Alayna Treene y Lauren Fox, CNN

Al presidente Donald Trump se le presentó el domingo una posible vía de salida al cierre, de más de un mes, del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS, por sus siglas en inglés): financiar todas las partes del departamento excepto las operaciones ejecutivas del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE), dijeron a CNN dos fuentes familiarizadas con las conversaciones.

El líder de la mayoría del Senado, John Thune, habló con Trump justo después de que el personal presentara la idea al presidente, pero el mandatario rechazó la propuesta mientras recurría a Truth Social para atacar a los demócratas por no respaldar la “Ley SAVE America”, un proyecto de reforma de las elecciones federales que enfrenta probabilidades de aprobación casi imposibles en el Senado, dijeron las fuentes.

“No creo que debamos hacer ningún acuerdo con los Demócratas de la Izquierda Radical, Locos y Destructores del País a menos, y hasta que, voten con los republicanos para aprobar ‘LA LEY SAVE AMERICA’”, publicó Trump en Truth Social, haciéndose eco de una amenaza que hizo por primera vez más temprano, el domingo por la noche, durante una entrevista telefónica con NewsNation.

“Es mucho más importante que cualquier otra cosa que estemos haciendo en el Senado, y eso incluye dar a estas mismas personas terribles, los Dems (¡que tienen la culpa de este desastre!), un recorte de US$ 5.000 millones en la financiación de ICE, un acuerdo que, incluso cuando se disfraza como otra cosa, es inaceptable para mí y para el pueblo estadounidense”, añadió el presidente.

Pero la idea de financiación marcó un gran giro para los republicanos, que durante semanas han bloqueado propuestas similares de los demócratas, y reflejó la dinámica política cambiante a medida que crecen las filas en los aeropuertos por falta de personal.

También refleja un sentimiento creciente entre algunos en el Partido Republicano, incluido el senador de Texas, Ted Cruz, cuyo estado se ha visto muy afectado por las filas de la TSA en los últimos días.

Los demócratas han argumentado durante mucho tiempo que estarían dispuestos a financiar todo excepto ICE, ya que las negociaciones para frenar las políticas de cumplimiento migratorio de Trump se han estancado en el Senado.

A pesar de que los legisladores han tenido múltiples reuniones en los últimos días con el zar de la frontera de la Casa Blanca, Tom Homan, los asesores advierten que el progreso ha sido tedioso y lento. Y hay pocas señales de que los negociadores puedan romper el estancamiento para finales de la semana únicamente continuando la búsqueda de un punto medio en las complicadas políticas migratorias ejecutivas que los demócratas han atacado durante meses.

Como parte del plan, se le dijo a Trump que los legisladores podrían financiar partes migratorias de ICE mediante reconciliación —el arcano proceso presupuestario que permite a los republicanos del Senado aprobar proyectos de ley con solo 51 votos—, dijeron las fuentes. Ese proceso le permitió al Partido Republicano, el verano pasado, inyectar miles de millones en la política ejecutiva migratoria sin apoyo demócrata.

El lunes, Thune calificó de “poco realista” que Trump vincule la aprobación de su proyecto de ley de identificación de votantes a la financiación del DHS.

“Creo que están bastante claros mis puntos de vista sobre la Ley SAVE America”, dijo Thune, quien ha enfatizado repetidamente que los republicanos no tienen el apoyo demócrata necesario para aprobar el paquete ni el apoyo republicano para ir más allá del debate indefinido.

“En algo en lo que creo que hay un acu