Trump signs order to pay TSA

employees after Congress fails to act

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has signed a promised executive action that will pay Transportation Security Administration employees, after a bid to end the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security abruptly fell apart in Congress. Trump signed the action Friday with an eye toward easing long security lines at many of the nation’s top airports. “America’s air travel system has reached its breaking point,” Trump said in the memo authorizing the payments.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says TSA workers “should begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday.” Trump’s action came after House Republicans rejected a Senate-passed bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security

Older and younger conservatives

are split over Trump’s war in Iran

GRAPEVINE, Texas — A sharp generational split over the Iran war is opening up at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference. Younger attendees tell The Associated Press they feel disappointed and even betrayed by President Donald Trump’s launch of strikes against Iran. They say his actions clash with his America-first promises.

Older conservatives defend Trump and call the war a pragmatic response to threats. Some younger voters say their support has slipped, and they worry about troops deploying. Prominent conservatives in the media are also divided on the conflict. CPAC leaders are pushing for unity with tough midterms ahead.

Plot to firebomb Palestinian activist’s

home disrupted by NYPD, officials say

NEW YORK — Federal law enforcement officials have disrupted a plot to fire bomb the New York City home of a prominent Palestinian activist.

Nerdeen Kiswani, co-founder of the group Within Our Lifetime, says she was informed by an FBI official late Thursday that there was “a threat on my life.”

She says she was told that the man had been apprehended. According to a criminal complaint, Alexander Heifler was arrested in his New Jersey home late Thursday after an undercover operation revealed that he planned to throw a dozen Molotov cocktails at Kiswani’s home. The complaint says he spent weeks discussing the plot with an undercover law enforcement official.

The Associated Press