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President Donald Trump endorsed a plan Wednesday to end the nearly seven-week-old shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security by going around Democrats to fund parts of the agency.Trump urged Republicans to send him a party-line bill by June 1 to fund two agencies within the department — Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol — using the reconciliation process.

MOSCOW — A German artist who created carnival displays mocking Russian President Vladimir Putin was sentenced in absentia on Thursday to 8 1/2 years in prison by a court In Moscow.Jacques Tilly was convicted on charges of spreading false information about the Russian military and insulting religious feelings.Carnival parades in Germany are famed for their floats mocking a wide variety of domestic and global political figures, and Putin has frequently been a target.Tilly, 62, has been designing and building floats for Düsseldorf’s Carnival parade — one of Germany’s best-known — since 1984.In recent years, his designs have depicted Putin scrubbing…

President Donald Trump said he plans to sign an order to pay “all” employees at the Department of Homeland Security amid the record-long agency shutdown.

NEW DELHI: Three-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders opened their Indian Premier League 2026 campaign against five-time champions Mumbai Indians away from home at the Wankhede Stadium on March 29.After finishing a lowly eighth in the standings last season, the 2024 champions will be looking for a turnaround this year. Following their opener in Mumbai, KKR will play three matches on the trot at their home ground — Eden Gardens — starting with a clash against Sunrisers Hyderabad on April 2.KKR have a strong home record, and these matches will give them a chance to build momentum early in the season.Also…

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday said President Trump expressed a willingness “to do a deal” that would “allow” Iran “to exist under certain conditions” in his evening address on the conflict against the Middle Eastern country. “And how does this movie end? Here’s what President Trump said tonight, if you’re in Iran, you better…

Oil prices surged around 8 percent and stock markets fell after President Donald Trump presented no plan to open the critical waterway.

The D.C.-area utility responsible for a massive sewer line that failed catastrophically in January had planned to reinforce the aging section years ago but repeatedly delayed construction as federal officials studied potential environmental impacts, including risks to a blue wildflower and an endangered bat species, a Washington Post investigation found.

Getty Images St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Masyn Winn suffered no serious injuries in a single-car accident following the team’s walk-off win over the New York Mets on Wednesday (2-1 in 11 innings), the Cardinals announced. They added that the accident was due to wet pavement on Interstate 40.Here is the team’s statement on Winn’s accident:”Masyn, who was alone in the vehicle, was attended to by local police and Cardinals security and medical staff. He was examined at a nearby hospital and suffered no serious injuries. We are grateful that he is OK, and thank the first responders in our community…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants appears to be in jeopardy following Supreme Court oral arguments on Wednesday. Supreme Court justices pursued what Amy Swearer, a senior legal fellow at Advancing American Freedom, described as a “disappointing” line of questioning. Liberal and conservative Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical of Trump’s order, which the president has argued is necessary to end a “magnet” for illegal immigration and “birth tourism,” in which foreign nationals travel to the U.S. to give birth so their child gains citizenship.Lawyers for…

People watch as smoke billows from an oil warehouse in the Kani Qirzhala area on the outskirts of Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, following a suspected drone strike, on April 1, 2026. AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption AFP via Getty Images As the war against Iran approaches its sixth week, President Trump told Americans on Wednesday that the U.S. is “on the cusp of ending Iran’s sinister threat to America and the world.” In his first formal address to the nation since the U.S. and Israel launched the war on Iran on Feb. 28,…