• A Câmara dos Representantes dos EUA aprovou um projeto de lei de dotações para o Departamento de Segurança Interna na quinta-feira, abrindo caminho para encerrar uma paralisação de dois meses da agência que havia interrompido partes das operações federais de imigração, fronteira e cibersegurança.
• O presidente Donald Trump assinou a medida pouco depois, restaurando o financiamento total para o Departamento de Segurança Interna e evitando possíveis interrupções na segurança dos aeroportos, nas operações de deportação e na fiscalização de fronteiras até o fim do ano fiscal.
• O conflito da paralisação colocou aliados de Trump contra republicanos centristas e democratas em relação aos níveis de fiscalização de fronteiras, mas o projeto final preservou iniciativas fundamentais da era Trump na fronteira, ao mesmo tempo em que suavizou algumas exigências de gastos de linha dura.
A votação ocorre no mesmo dia em que a Suprema Corte dos EUA revoga uma disposição fundamental da Voting Rights Act. O legislativo da Flórida aprovou um novo mapa congressional destinado a maximizar a vantagem dos republicanos no estado como parte da batalha nacional de redistritamento que Donald Trump lançou antes das eleições de meio de mandato deste ano. A votação ocorreu apenas dois dias depois que o governador, Ron DeSantis, revelou sua proposta e no mesmo dia em que a Suprema Corte dos EUA revogou uma disposição fundamental da Voting Rights Act. A decisão pode dificultar para os democratas contestarem os esforços republicanos de redesenhar distritos congressionais de formas que limitam a influência de eleitores de cor. Continue lendo...
The decision to extend a warrantless security law until 30 April came after 20 Republicans worked with House Democrats to defeat attempts to pass five-year and 18-month renewalsSign up for the Breaking News US emailHello and welcome to our live coverage of US politics.The House of Representatives voted early on Friday to briefly extend an expiring and controversial law that grants the US government sweeping powers for warrantless surveillance.Donald Trump announced a 10-day ceasefire in Lebanon to be followed by a meeting between Israeli and Lebanese leaders next week.Progressive Democrat Analilia Mejia won a New Jersey special election for the US House on Thursday. Mejia, who was endorsed by Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is far more critical on Israel and was the only candidate in the Democratic primary to call Israel’s actions during the war in Gaza a genocide.Todd Lyons, the acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is stepping down after a turbulent year carrying out Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.Donald Trump nominated Erica Schwartz, former deputy surgeon general during his first administration, to lead the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).Schwartz was under immediate pressure from critics of the health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, to oppose his anti-vaccine ideology. At a heated oversight hearing, House Democrats grilled Kennedy over his vaccine rollbacks.Speaking in Las Vegas, Trump told supporters “the war in Iran is going along swimmingly, we can do whatever we want.” He did not explain why, then, the US military has been unable to stop Iran from closing the strait of Hormuz.The US Department of Justice opened an investigation into Eric Swalwell following his resignation from Congress, according to a source familiar with the matter.Police in Illinois responded Wednesday evening to the home of Pope Leo’s brother, John Prevost, after a bomb threat was made, NBC Chicago reported. Continue reading...
• The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously approved the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act of 2025 on March 16, with the bill now awaiting President Trump's signature to become law.
• The legislation eliminates procedural legal defenses in Nazi-era art recovery claims, including acquisitive prescription, the act of state doctrine, and international comity, allowing foreign states to be subject to U.S. court jurisdiction for Nazi-looted art claims.
• Representative Laurel Lee stated the new version ensures claims "are evaluated on their merits—not dismissed because of technical legal barriers," expanding upon the 2016 predecessor legislation.
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