Trump's FEMA council eyed major cuts. Will Mullin enact them as DHS head?

While President Donald Trump talks of finding negotiated peace in the Middle East, Iran launched more missile attacks at Tel Aviv that damaged a residential neighborhood. The Iranian group firing those missiles, the Revolutionary Guard, dismissed Trump’s claim of diplomatic progress, saying, “contradictory behavior of the deceptive U.S. president does not distract us from the battlefield.” NBC’s Richard Engel reports for TODAY.

The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday that long lines at airport security checkpoints caused by the ongoing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown delayed investigators arriving at the scene of a deadly collision between a jet and a fire truck at LaGuardia International Airport. An air traffic control specialist was stuck...

As ICE officers are sent to American airports, opponents of the plan argue federal officers are not properly trained.

The administration should ensure the State Department and New York team have the expertise and freedom to engage — and only then seek re-election.