DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calls for bipartisan effort to address rise in migrant crossings
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Thursday that "Republican and Democratic senators are at the table to discuss how the broken immigration system should be fixed," although he avoided speaking about specifics amid high-stakes negotiations between both parties as another government shutdown looms.
"This is all about solutions, not making the problem worse by taking away the funding that our public servants rely on to do their work in the service of the American people," Mayorkas told "CBS Mornings."
The White House has asked Congress to provide more funding for Israel and Ukraine, but Republicans are insisting on tying that aid to a border security package. A bipartisan group of senators has been trying to work out a deal, but they are coming up against shutdown deadlines as several key government programs are only funded through Jan. 8, and others through Feb. 2.
Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday said it will consider the constitutionality of the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund, agreeing to review a lower court decision that upended the mechanism for funding programs that provide communications services to rural areas, low-income communities and schools, libraries and hospitals.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched six space tourists on a high-speed dash to the edge of space and back Friday, giving the passengers — including a husband and wife making their second flight — about three minutes of weightlessness and an out-of-this world view before the capsule made a parachute descent to touchdown at the company's west Texas flight facility.