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By Ellis Kim, Ted Barrett, CNN

(CNN) — The US House on Tuesday voted in strong bipartisan fashion to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country. But the measure’s fate in the Senate remains far from certain.

Senate Republican leaders have not said whether they will bring the bill – known as the “Sunshine Protection Act” – to a floor vote. Majority Leader John Thune has previously opposed efforts to default the nation to permanent Daylight Saving Time, but on Wednesday did not rule out scheduling a future floor vote.

Here’s what we know about what’s next:

What exactly have Senate GOP leaders said about the bill?

Thune, who represents South Dakota, would not rule out bringing the bill to a vote when pressed by reporters on Wednesday – even though in the past, he opposed a similar push to adopt Daylight Saving Time year round.

He told reporters at the Capitol he believes the House bill provides optionality for states who use permanent standard time. The bill allows states to buck the switch to saving time, so long as they adopt permanent standard time before it takes effect. Residents in Hawaii, much of Arizona, and other US territories all observe permanent standard time.

“I think the main concern is that there’s optionality for states, and my understanding is that’s in the House bill. I just don’t think we want a mandate and that was tried once before and repealed,” he said. “But you know, we’re looking at it. You know, the House had a big vote. There’s a lot of interest in it from members on our side over here. Some for, some against.”

Asked if it can get the necessary 60 votes to break a filibuster, Thune said that “remains to be seen.” He added “that’s not an issue that we’ve really probed much yet.”

When asked if he would support the measure, Thune would only note he comes from a “northern” climate and that he opposed a similar measure when it was voted on in the Senate Commerce committee last April.

Is it facing any opposition in the Senate?

Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas has staunchly opposed moves towards year-round Daylight Saving Time. He remains opposed, dashing any proponents’ hopes that the Senate will quickly approve the bill on the floor through a process known as unanimous consent, which requires all 100 senators to agree to an expedited vote.

Cotton’s strong opposition means GOP leaders would be wary of using up valuable floor time on an issue he would filibuster.

The Arkansas senator hasn’t been shy about his opposition, and has warned that a later sunrise would endanger children who will be forced to commute to school in the dark.

Cotton and other opponents of the change also contend the shift would devastate workers – like construction crews, farmers, factory hands – who would have to report to their jobs in the dark. Some areas of the US do not see the sun rise until after 9 a.m. during Daylight Saving Time.

Has the Senate taken up this issue before?

Congress has moved before to make Daylight Saving Time permanent. It adopted a measure in the 1970s, as the US was experiencing an energy crisis, but swiftly reversed course amid deep unpopularity.

In 2022, senators passed a version of a Daylight Saving Time bill through swift action on the floor – facing no objections from their colleagues. It did not get a floor vote in the House.

Cotton later revealed he would have blocked that effort, and vowed to object to any future efforts to pass that kind of legislation quickly on the floor.

ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (KEYT) – Two men were convicted of felony elder abuse earlier this week after violently attacking an elderly unhoused man who was sleeping at Elm Street Park on the morning of March 20 of this year.

Both men, 21-year-old Boaz Winslow Brigham and 18-year-old Malachy Damien Hayes, also admitted to multiple aggravating factors associated with the attack which made their conviction count as a serious and violent felony and a strike under California's Three Strikes Law.

On March 20, 2026, around 1:30 a.m., surveillance video captured the two men approach Douglas Mark while he slept under an outdoor picnic area at Elm Street Park detailed the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney's Office in a press release Wednesday.

According to local prosecutors, surveillance footage showed Hayes stand over the sleeping elderly man and begin to urinate on him until he awoke from the feeling of liquid splashing on his face he later told investigators.

As Mark struggled to his feet, Hayes began punching him in the head and face before Brigham walked into view of the surveillance camera and joined the attack noted the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney's Office.

Both men continued to punch and kick Mark as he lay on the ground and Brigham recorded the violent encounter on his cell phone added the local prosecutor's office.

Records retrieved from both of the attackers phones captured the duo laughing and celebrating the assault, even high-fiving at one point, during and after the attack and they later shared video of the incident with others on Snapchat explained the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney's Office.

Prosecutors asked for seven years in state prison for the pair, the maximum sentence available, but the San Luis Obispo County Probation Department recommended probation with one year in county jail shared the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney's Office.

"For this to be considered probation is outrageous...my eyes were filled of blood, [I] get headaches...have a brain injury...What if I died? My brain is broken, it doesn't work right, I don't think right...They ruined my brain," shared Douglas Mark in his statement to the court before adding,"They are devoid of any conscience."

Judge Crystal T. Seiler considered the provided arguments and reports, reviewed letters submitted on behalf of the defendants, and a victim impact statement submitted to the court before placing both men on formal probation for four years, condition on serving 364 days in county jail detailed the local prosecutor's office.

Both men were immediately remanded into the custody of the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office to begin their jail sentence upon completion of the court proceedings added the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney's office.

According to the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney's Office, a special condition of the defendant's probation prohibits them from using any social media for the entirety of their formal probation term and a restitution status hearing has been scheduled for both men on September 14, 2026.

"This elderly man was homeless, asleep, and completely defenseless when he was humiliated and brutally beaten, leaving him with a permanent brain injury," San Luis Obispo County District At

By Kristen Holmes, Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN

(CNN) — Chief of staff Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump’s closest aide, and FBI Director Kash Patel helped personally orchestrate a sprawling investigation last week at the White House aimed at determining who in the government leaked information about the security deficiencies of a Qatari-gifted airplane meant to be used as Air Force One – with some officials being asked to turn over their phones to investigators on White House grounds, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Trump had fumed over disclosures about the new plane, sources said, and his government quickly stood up an intense leak probe that roiled the government. As the investigation unfolded, at least one federal agency emailed employees warning that if they were contacted by outside agencies requesting information and devices, they needed to immediately contact their own agency’s attorneys, one source told CNN.

The sources said Patel — who had been preparing to travel to Chicago — was diverted to the White House on Friday to take a hands-on role in running the probe, which became public early the next morning when the New York Times reported that the Justice Department had issued subpoenas to four of its journalists who reported on security concerns surrounding the new plane.

Patel posted up in an office next to Wiles’ for roughly seven hours, as the two established what one source referred to as a “war room” in the West Wing.

In addition to asking for cell phones, investigators sought information from those who were traveling with Trump or had a role in the trip, including officials across various agencies. Not all officials who were asked to turn over their devices did so, one of the sources told CNN.

The effort reflects the extent to which the White House was willing to exert control over a law enforcement investigation — a significant breach of the Justice Department’s historic independence, though one that has become somewhat common in Trump’s administration. CNN has previously reported that Trump also talked with Patel on the phone about the leak investigation.

CNN has reached out to the White House and FBI for comment.

Journalists and free press advocates have criticized the Justice Department’s move to subpoena the New York Times journalists as an affront to the First Amendment, and the Times has said it plans to fight them in court.

The concerns about the new, $400 million Qatari-gifted jet came to dominate the conversation in Washington last week when Trump abruptly announced he was sending the new plane ahead to England’s Mildenhall Air Force Base just before he departed a NATO summit in Turkey. Trump said in a social media post that the change in planes was simply to give US service members stationed at the base “a chance to tour the Aircraft.” He had previously touted the plane, which was remade and repainted to his tastes.

“Everybody is so excited, and we thought that they should be the first,” he wrote.

Trump departed on an older plane, then switched back at a secure US airbase in the UK. He downplayed the idea that security was the reason for the switch, though sources have told CNN and other outlets that it was.

“There wasn’t a security concern, except we sent it a little early, same line going back. We sent it a little bit early, so that we could let them see,” Trump said.

Sources told CNN that after Trump traveled to Turkey for the summit, the security assessment changed, and Wiles briefed Trump that he would need to leave the country on an older vessel. The Qatari plane, sources said, had been quickly retrofitted with defense capabilities but was still not as secu

By Kristen Holmes, Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN

(CNN) — Chief of staff Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump’s closest aide, and FBI Director Kash Patel helped personally orchestrate a sprawling investigation last week at the White House aimed at determining who in the government leaked information about the security deficiencies of a Qatari-gifted airplane meant to be used as Air Force One – with some officials being asked to turn over their phones to investigators on White House grounds, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Trump had fumed over disclosures about the new plane, sources said, and his government quickly stood up an intense leak probe that roiled the government. As the investigation unfolded, at least one federal agency emailed employees warning that if they were contacted by outside agencies requesting information and devices, they needed to immediately contact their own agency’s attorneys, one source told CNN.

The sources said Patel — who had been preparing to travel to Chicago — was diverted to the White House on Friday to take a hands-on role in running the probe, which became public early the next morning when the New York Times reported that the Justice Department had issued subpoenas to four of its journalists who reported on security concerns surrounding the new plane.

Patel posted up in an office next to Wiles’ for roughly seven hours, as the two established what one source referred to as a “war room” in the West Wing.

In addition to asking for cell phones, investigators sought information from those who were traveling with Trump or had a role in the trip, including officials across various agencies. Not all officials who were asked to turn over their devices did so, one of the sources told CNN.

The effort reflects the extent to which the White House was willing to exert control over a law enforcement investigation — a significant breach of the Justice Department’s historic independence, though one that has become somewhat common in Trump’s administration. CNN has previously reported that Trump also talked with Patel on the phone about the leak investigation.

CNN has reached out to the White House and FBI for comment.

Journalists and free press advocates have criticized the Justice Department’s move to subpoena the New York Times journalists as an affront to the First Amendment, and the Times has said it plans to fight them in court.

The concerns about the new, $400 million Qatari-gifted jet came to dominate the conversation in Washington last week when Trump abruptly announced he was sending the new plane ahead to England’s Mildenhall Air Force Base just before he departed a NATO summit in Turkey. Trump said in a social media post that the change in planes was simply to give US service members stationed at the base “a chance to tour the Aircraft.” He had previously touted the plane, which was remade and repainted to his tastes.

“Everybody is so excited, and we thought that they should be the first,” he wrote.

Trump departed on an older plane, then switched back at a secure US airbase in the UK. He downplayed the idea that security was the reason for the switch, though sources have told CNN and other outlets that it was.

“There wasn’t a security concern, except we sent it a little early, same