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Transportation Security Administration officers work at a checkpoint at O'Hare airport in Chicago, Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019.
National Security

Shutdown forces TSA to shift security screeners to major airports

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Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers assist travelers with luggage through a security screening area during a partial federal government shutdown Monday, Dec. 31, 2018, in SeaTac, Wash. TSA staff are among tens of thousands of federal employees considered essential as the federal government shutdown moves into its second week. They are working without pay until the shutdown ends, but will likely be paid retroactively later on.
National Security

Shutdown could compromise airline safety, House Democrat warns

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White House Chief of Staff John Kelly walks on the tarmac as he arrives Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017, in Phoenix.
Immigration

Incoming Democratic House chairman: John Kelly allowed Trump to take country ‘down a dark path’

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FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2004 file photo, ships carrying containers are loaded and unloaded at the Port of Los Angeles. The nation's busiest port is approving Thursday, June 5, 2014 a new director and a nearly $1 billion budget that focuses on construction projects to keep business from increasingly aggressive competitors. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
National Security

DHS may soon have to draft list of threats at all 300 US ports and waters around Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands

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House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., pauses as he speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington.
News

Democrats ask Paul Ryan to help dislodge DHS records on Russian election meddling

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Partisan tensions flared on Feb. 27 with National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers' testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Rogers said that he hadn't received a direct order from President Trump to counter Russian activities aimed at U.S. elections. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Magazine

As midterms heat up, lawmakers feeling good about ballot box security

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President Donald Trump gets a tour of the newly-opened Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Miss., Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, left, joins the president on the tour. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
News

Trump honors civil rights icons at opening of Mississippi Civil Rights Museum: ‘We strive to be worthy of their sacrifice’

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News

Jackson mayor: ‘If we can change right here in the belly of the beast, we can see a change take place across the world’

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Reps. John Lewis and Bennie Thompson said they would not attend the opening of a civil rights museum if Trump attends. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
News

Congressional Black Caucus chairman: ‘This White House is not serious about civil rights’

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U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., expresses his concern about steering as much of the construction work as possible to local and minority-owned businesses at the ceremonial start of construction of the Continental AG's $1.45 billion tire plant in Clinton, Miss., Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016.
News

Top Democrat: Trump’s attacks on San Juan mayor done under ‘not so subtle veil of racism and sexism’

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