President Donald Trump swiftly signed a bipartisan legislation Thursday to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, but not its immigration enforcement operations, shortly after the package won final approval in the House, ending the longest agency shutdown in history.
DHS has been without routine funds since February 14, causing hardship for workers, though many of the immigration enforcement operations were able to keep running with separate funding sources.
A 45-year-old man was charged Friday with attempted murder in the stabbings of two Jewish men in London, the latest in a string of attacks that have sparked fear and anger in Britain’s Jewish community.
Essa Suleiman appeared in Westminster Magistrates’ Court to face two counts of the charge related to the attack in Golders Green. He also faces a third count of attempted murder over an incident elsewhere in the city earlier the same day that left a man with minor injuries.
Ukrainian forces struck an oil terminal in the Russian Black Sea city of Tuapse, Ukraine’s General Staff said on Friday, marking the fourth attack targeting the region’s oil infrastructure in just over two weeks.
Local officials in Russia said a Ukrainian drone attack sparked the blaze and that no casualties were reported. Russian attacks have continued to strike parts of Ukraine.
Claudia Ferreiro can be reached at ferr1664@stthomas.edu.
