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Where the battle for Senate control stands after the Texas and North Carolina primaries

2026-03-06T11:00:34.158Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/politics/senate-races-texas-north-carolina-2026-midterms

The fight for control of the US Senate is now officially underway after primaries in Texas and North Carolina delivered the first clues for Democrats and Republicans as they prepare for an eight-month march to the November midterm elections.

Democrats see some encouraging signs in Tuesday’s results about the energy in the party. Turnout in the Texas Democratic primary hit record levels for a midterm year, with more than 2.3 million ballots cast — second only to the 2008 cycle, when there was a presidential contest.

In the North Carolina primary, Democratic former Gov. Roy Cooper easily clinched the Senate nomination, receiving more than 750,000 votes — compared with about 625,000 for the entire GOP field. Those numbers align with CNN polling that shows Democrats are far more motivated to vote in the midterms than Republicans, despite having dismal views of their party leaders.

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Beyond the energy edge, Democrats also stand to benefit from the clarity that came from both primaries, with Cooper and state Rep. James Talarico emerging as the party’s nominees. While former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley won the GOP Senate primary in the Tar Heel State, the party must contend with the added uncertainty and cost of a 12-week runoff in Texas between incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Republicans are also grappling with other signs of a challenging political environment, with recent CNN polling showing President Donald Trump’s approval rating hitting a new low with independents as the American public increasingly questions his priorities and signals doubt that his proposals will help the country.

While the economy and cost of living remain top concerns for voters, the war with Iran could emerge as a flashpoint in the midterms. Nearly 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of the US decision to take military action in Iran, according to a CNN poll fielded shortly after the start of the attacks. Trump’s advisers are mindful of the political risks of a prolonged conflict, which has already sparked some backlash from voices in the MAGA universe.

The GOP still has the Senate math and map in its favor, with Democrats needing to gain four seats to win the majority — and several of their best opportunities resting in deeply Republican turf.

Here’s a look at where the key Senate races stand eight months from Election Day:

There weren’t any surprises Tuesday in North Carolina, which is home to one of the marquee battleground Senate races of the cycle. From Texas to Capitol Hill, Republicans are waiting to see what Trump decides in the Senate runoff — and when — with a March 18 deadline for candidates to remove their names from the May ballot.

While their matchup was formally set on Tuesday, Cooper and Whatley had been treating the North Carolina Senate race like a general election contest for some time.

The results are what strategists had long expected. Cooper, a top Democratic recruit for the cycle, received more than 90% of the vote in his primary. Whatley, who is running with Trump’s endorsement, got about 65% of the vote on the Republican side — a potential sign of work to do with GOP voters heading into the fall campaign.

North Carolina is crucial to the Democratic Party’s hopes of winning the majority, and Democrats see Cooper as having a strong profile to help the party win a Senate seat here for the first time since 2008.

Whatley, in turn, is leaning in to his ties to Trump, who won North Carolina during all three of his presidential bids. In his victory speech Tuesday, Whatley pitched himself as “a conservative champion for North Carolina who will be an ally for President Trump.”

What happens with the Republican runoff in Texas stands to have a dramatic effect in shaping the direction of the race this fall. And Trump is poised to play a decisive role in steering the outcome.

After staying neutral during the primary, the president announced Wednesday he would endorse either Cornyn or Paxton “soon” and would call on the other candidate to exit the race. Top Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune, have urged Trump to back Cornyn, with some believing Paxton’s long history of controversies could jeopardize their chances of holding the seat in November.

If Trump throws his support behind Cornyn, there’s no guarantee Paxton — a popular figure with the MAGA base — will drop his bid. “No, I’m staying in this race,” Paxton told Real America’s Voice this week. “I owe it to the people of Texas.”

In a later post on social media, Paxton said he “would consider dropping out” of the Senate race if GOP leaders in the chamber agreed to do away with the filibuster and pass the SAVE Act, an elections bill that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote, among other provisions.

How the runoff plays out could have Texas-sized implications for the Senate map and allocation of resources, with Republicans believing it would require significant additional spending to boost Paxton in a general election.

Talarico’s primary victory and his “politics of love” message are lifting the Democratic Party’s hopes of flipping Texas — where Democrats have not won statewide since 1994 — particularly in a potential matchup against Paxton. After her primary loss to Talarico, US Rep. Jasmine Crockett quickly urged her supporters to rally around her former rival, who performed well in parts of the state with large shares of Latino voters.

Even as the GOP race remains unsettled, Republicans swiftly moved to try to define Talarico, circulating clips online they believe could resonate with voters in the conservative-leaning state come November.

Four states are at the center of the battle for the Senate majority: North Carolina, Georgia, Maine, Michigan.

To win control of the chamber, Democrats almost certainly must flip Maine and North Carolina while also holding on to seats in Georgia and Michigan. A loss in any of those would make the party’s path much more difficult.

Sen. Jon Ossoff, the lone Democratic senator seeking reelection in a state Trump won in 2024, is sitting on a massive war chest as the GOP continues jockeying over the chance to run against him in November.

No candidate has yet to emerge as the clear leader in the three-way GOP primary between US Rep. Buddy Carter, US Rep. Mike Collins and Derek Dooley, the former football coach at the University of Tennessee. While Trump has so far not endorsed in the contest, Gov. Brian Kemp is backing Dooley.

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, who leads the National Republican Senatorial Committee, has urged Georgia leaders to coalesce around a single candidate. “We need to get it down to one candidate as soon as possible,” Scott told The Washington Examiner.“ And if we are able to do so, we have a chance to be successful there. But as long as we have three candidates, it’s gonna be tougher for us.”

The split field and the lack of Trump’s involvement raises the chances the race might not be settled on May 19. If no candidate clears the 50% majority threshold in the GOP primary, the contest will head to a June runoff, dragging out the intraparty fight and giving Ossoff a clearer path heading into November.

Maine

Sen. Susan Collins, the only GOP senator running in a state former Vice President Kamala Harris carried in 2024, unboxed a pair of New Balance sneakers as she made her reelection bid official last month. “This is perfect for 2026 because I’m running,” she said in the video.

But which Democrat she will run against remains an open question. The Democratic primary between progressive oyster farmer Graham Platner and two-term Gov. Janet Mills is still three months from being decided.

Polling shows Platner currently holding an advantage — with a recent University of New Hampshire survey putting him up more than 30 points over Mills, who is favored by the party establishment, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. That suggests Democratic primary voters so far have not been swayed by the controversies surrounding Platner’s candidacy, including past offensive online posts and a tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol.

The dynamics of the Iran war could become a factor in this race, particularly if US military action extends for a prolonged period of time. Democrats seized on the decision by Collins to vote against a war powers resolution aimed at requiring the president seek congressional approval for future military action against the country.

The Democratic field in Michigan remains splintered with the nominating contest in the pivotal battleground state still five months away.

Republicans believe the extended intraparty fight on the Democratic side could work to the advantage of Mike Rogers, the former GOP congressman who lost a 2024 Senate bid against Sen. Elissa Slotkin.

The Democratic race to succeed retiring Sen. Gary Peters includes Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive former executive director of the Detroit Health Department; state Sen. Mallory McMorrow; and US Rep. Haley Stevens, a moderate who is seen as the favorite of the party establishment.

Some divisions within the primary field are beginning to play out. At a forum hosted by the United Auto Workers last month, the three candidates drew distinctions over the role of corporate political action committees in elections.

El-Sayed and McMorrow each said their campaigns are not accepting contributions from corporate PACs. Stevens did not directly answer the question and instead focused on calling for an end to Citizens United, a US Supreme Court decision that opened a flood of outside money into electoral politics. McMorrow seized on Stevens’ response, saying, “We need to know who our next senator is working for.”

Beyond the four main battleground states, Democrats and Republicans are also eyeing targets in states where the opposing party holds an advantage at this stage.

Democrats are hoping their chosen candidate in Alaska can help make a dent in the GOP majority in the Senate.

Former US Rep. Mary Peltola, a moderate running with a “fish, family, and freedom” message, was recruited into the race by Democratic leadership. She has a history winning statewide, though she lost her House reelection bid in 2024.

Peltola will face steep competition as she challenges two-term GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan in a state where Trump won by double digits in his three presidential runs. Moderate GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski has backed Sullivan’s reelection bid despite endorsing Peltola in her House races in the past.

Ohio has been trending toward Republicans in recent years, but Democrats believe a strong recruit can help them expand the map here.

Former Sen. Sherrod Brown, who lost his seat to Sen. Bernie Moreno in 2024, is back for another round as he challenges Sen. Jon Husted, who was appointed to the seat vacated by Vice President JD Vance.

Brown is no stranger to competitive races and has long been aligned with the economic populism that has taken a stronger hold within the Democratic Party today. Republicans believe that the state’s shift to the right during the Trump era gives Husted a structural advantage as he seeks a full six-year term in the Senate.

Democrats face an uphill climb in this state that Trump carried by solid margins in all three of his presidential runs, but they hope the decline in the president’s approval, particularly his handling of tariffs, could work in their favor here.

US Rep. Ashley Hinson has Trump’s endorsement in the GOP primary as she attempts to succeed retiring Sen. Joni Ernst.

The Democratic field narrowed last month when Marine Corps veteran Nathan Sage dropped out of the race and backed state Rep. Josh Turek, a two-time Paralympic gold medalist. Turek is facing off against state Sen. Zach Wahls, a progressive who gained national attention in 2011 when he addressed the Iowa House of Representatives, speaking in defense of marriage equality and about being raised by his two mothers.

Republicans are hoping a familiar name in New Hampshire will give them an opening in the race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.

Democrats are optimistic they will hold onto the state given its political lean and the broader electoral environment. US Rep. Chris Pappas, who is the first gay person to represent New Hampshire in Congress, is considered the Democratic frontrunner and has won tough races for his House seat.

But Republicans think a comeback bid by former Sen. John E. Sununu, who has been out of office since 2009 and whose family has been a fixture in Granite State politics for decades, could be successful. Sununu earned Trump’s endorsement earlier this year in the primary against former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown.

Republicans see Minnesota as trending in their direction long-term. But the political environment might make winning there in 2026 difficult. The president’s immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis, including the fatal shootings of two protesters by federal agents, also have emerged as a flashpoint in the state.

Democrats are confident they can defend home turf in Minnesota in the race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Tina Smith, especially with Sen. Amy Klobuchar — a popular figure in the state — running for governor. The August primary features an ideological clash between moderate Rep. Angie Craig and progressive Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan. While the state has consistently backed Democrats in presidential elections, Harris only carried it by about 4 points in 2024.

Republicans see former sportscaster Michele Tafoya as the best candidate to potentially make the seat competitive.

日本执政联盟向高市早苗提议放宽武器出口限制

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据日本媒体报道，日本自民党和日本维新会组成的执政联盟向日本首相高市早苗提出建议，主张放宽武器出口限制。日本政府将参考该建议，最早于今年春季修改“防卫装备转移三原则”运用指南。

日本共同社报道称，执政联盟星期五（3月6日）的建议内容包括取消对武器出口的五种类型限制、原则上允许出口战斗机和护卫舰等杀伤性武器、为在例外情况下允许向交战国家出口武器保留空间。

新华社引述报道称，高市对此建议表示赞同。

根据现行“防卫装备转移三原则”运用指南，日本向其他国家出口的防卫装备原则上仅限于救援、运输等五种以后勤用途为主的武器类型。

自去年年底以来，高市政权就已显露出欲放宽武器出口的企图，相关动向在日本国内引发强烈担忧和批评。

Daylight saving time 2026 starts soon. Here’s when the time changes and more key details.

March 6, 2026 / 6:00 AM EST / CBS News

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Daylight saving time, the yearly time change colloquially known as daylight savings, is set to start for 2026, meaning most Americans will lose an hour of sleep when they “spring forward” this weekend. For nearly 20 years, the annual ritual of moving clocks an hour ahead has taken place on the second Sunday of March.

What is daylight saving time, exactly?

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By shifting clocks forward an hour, daylight saving time effectively moves an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening.

For example, on Saturday, the day before the time change takes effect, sunrise in Boston will be at 6:09 a.m. and sunset at 5:41 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. On Sunday, after the clocks change, the sun will rise at 7:08 a.m. and set at 6:42 p.m.

What day and time does daylight saving time start for March 2026?

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This year, daylight saving time starts on Sunday, March 8, at 2 a.m. local time.

The start date has been on the second Sunday of March since 2007, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, the official source of time for the Defense Department.

For the two decades preceding 2007, daylight saving time began on the first Sunday of April. Before 1987, the Uniform Time Act of 1966 set the start date as the last Sunday of April.

During the energy crisis of the 1970s, Congress decided to try year-round daylight saving time, beginning on the first Sunday of January in 1974, according to the Congressional Research Service.

The experiment didn’t last the full year, with the country going back to standard time that October and then resuming daylight saving time on the last Sunday of February in 1975. After 1975, the start date went back to April.

Do we lose or gain an hour for daylight saving time in March?

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Most of the U.S. will lose an hour Sunday from the changing of the clocks — at 2 a.m. the time jumps ahead to 3 a.m.

We “spring forward” ahead of the actual beginning of spring, which comes with the vernal equinox on March 20.

When will daylight saving time end for 2026?

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Most Americans will “fall back” to standard time at 2 a.m. local time on the first Sunday of November, which this year is on Nov. 1. By then, the country will be nearly six weeks into fall after the autumnal equinox on Sept. 22.

Daylight saving time will be in effect for 238 days, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a government agency that provides the official time for the U.S.

Why do we have daylight saving time?

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Daylight saving time was first adopted in the U.S. in 1918 in an effort to conserve fuel during World War I, according to the Congressional Research Service. It was used during World War II for the same reason and to “promote national security and defense,” according to the Defense Department.

The annual time change has been in effect consistently since the ’60s, but it hasn’t been found to be a significant source of decreasing energy consumption. In 1974, the Transportation Department found it had minimal benefits when it came to energy conservation, traffic safety and reducing violent crime, according to the Congressional Research Service.

After daylight saving time’s start date was moved up in 2007, the Energy Department found electricity consumption fell by 0.03%. The time shift has also been associated with some negative health effects.

Which states don’t do daylight saving time?

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Only two states don’t observe daylight saving time: Hawaii and Arizona, with the exception of the Navajo Nation in the northeast part of the Grand Canyon State.

The territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands also don’t change their clocks.

Will my phone change time for daylight saving automatically?

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Phones should update with the time change on their own if they’re set to update automatically.

Apple, Google and Samsung have support pages for people who need help changing the time on their devices, and carriers like Straight Talk and Tracfone have instructions for Motorola users.

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美国上周失业救济申请人数持平，接近一年来低位，劳动力市场释趋稳信号。 （彭博社）

美国申领失业救济人数上周保持稳定，进一步显示劳动力市场正在趋稳。

彭博社报道，美国劳工部星期四（3月5日）公布的数据显示，截至2月28日当周，首次申领失业救济人数为21.3万人，与前一周持平。此前，彭博调查的经济学家预估中值为21万5000人。

持续申领失业救济人数在此前一周升至187万人，创今年以来最大增幅。

失业救济申请人数近几个月经历假期和冬季天气因素干扰后，正在趋于稳定，接近过去一年中的较低水平。这组数据释放了更为明确的信号，显示劳动力市场继续处于低裁员环境。

首次申领失业救济人数四周移动均值上周降至21万5750人。

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美国上周失业救济申请人数持平，接近一年来低位，劳动力市场释趋稳信号。 （彭博社）

美国申领失业救济人数上周保持稳定，进一步显示劳动力市场正在趋稳。

彭博社报道，美国劳工部星期四（3月5日）公布的数据显示，截至2月28日当周，首次申领失业救济人数为21.3万人，与前一周持平。此前，彭博调查的经济学家预估中值为21万5000人。

持续申领失业救济人数在此前一周升至187万人，创今年以来最大增幅。

失业救济申请人数近几个月经历假期和冬季天气因素干扰后，正在趋于稳定，接近过去一年中的较低水平。这组数据释放了更为明确的信号，显示劳动力市场继续处于低裁员环境。

首次申领失业救济人数四周移动均值上周降至21万5750人。

尽管整体趋稳，上周未经季节性调整的首次申领失业救济人数仍有所增加，主要受纽约州申请人数激增影响，密歇根州也呈上升趋势。

“I was the last person in the US that he knew”: Teachers face the deportation crackdown taking students away | CNN Politics

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“I was the last person in the US that he knew”: Teachers face the deportation crackdown taking students away

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Over the last year, four of Kristen Schoettle’s students have been detained by ICE and taken roughly 1,500 miles from Detroit to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.

“The most emotional moment for me personally is the first time it happened,” she said, recalling how she witnessed one student being taken away in handcuffs by immigration agents while their class was on a school field trip last May.

The next few times, Schoettle knew which lawyers to call, whom to inform and which steps to take. She has worked with families to track down birthdates, hunt for contacts in foreign countries and learn about court proceedings in immigration detention.

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And while her students were detained, Schoettle became one of the primary adults that the teens could trust on the outside world and spoke to them daily, becoming de facto therapist, legal adviser, and friend to her students as they navigated their time behind bars.

“It’s been about a lot more than just the classroom and the curriculum and the management,” Schoettle said. “It’s been huge. It’s way bigger than what education and teaching used to look like.”

As an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher, Schoettle has seen up close how President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has impacted vulnerable students.

And she is not alone. Many teachers across the country are finding themselves taking on roles far beyond the bounds of school to support students, undocumented or otherwise, facing immigration challenges, Randi Weingarten,president of the American Federation of Teachers union, told CNN.

“Thousands are fearful and are outraged by what’s going on and scared for their students,” she said. “Teachers care about their students and their students’ families and they are really regardless of what their position is on immigration, regardless of whether they voted for Trump or didn’t.”

This month, the last of Schoeffle’s students to still be in detention, a 17-year-old asylum-seeker from Venezuela, was released.

Kristen Schoettle (center) poses with Antony (second left), a 17-year-old student who was arrested by ICE and later returned, and his family.

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Their reunion was bittersweet. Although he and two others who are also seeking asylum have returned home to Detroit , Schoeffle said, the student she witnessed being taken away in May was deported with his family.

“It’s crazy to think that I was the last person in the US that he knew, to see him before he left,” she said.

“I wish I had news for you”

Whenever her cell phone rang with a call from the area code 866, Schoettle knew exactly who would be on the line: One of her students was calling from Dilley.

With her own money, Schoettle bought credits for her students in detention so they could make phone calls and access the internet. They sometimes texted her using the video conferencing tool – Microsoft Teams – that their school uses.

Hopes, fears and details of lives in detention are revealed in their conversations and messages, mostly in Spanish, some of which were shared with CNN.

“I’m afraid I won’t be able to return, miss,” one student wrote to her in December. “I’m sad…. I don’t want to be here,” they said.

“ I’m not going to lie. Today I am a little sad. I miss all of you,” said another. “Are there people trying to help us? We want to get out of here, teacher.”

Often, the children were looking for practical guidance. The conversations centered around what could come next for them, and the students looked to her for answers.

“I wish I had news for you!” Schoettle replied to one of the students who was checking in. “I love you and we are still trying to make something happen. I still have hope, but we need something to happen before your court date in February.”

Kristen Schoettle, seen in this screengrab of a video by the American Federation of Teachers union.

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During that time, Schoettle was working to reach anyone who could help — lawyers, members of Congress or immigration advocates. She even said she would serve as a sponsor for one of the students to be released without their parent, with whom they were detained, if necessary.

Some messages describe the daily rhythms and routine of detention. Meals were at set times:breakfast at 7am, dinner at 5pm. Sometimes, there would be an art class to attend or a doctor’s appointment to go to.

At other times, the students, who Schoettle wrote to her just to express how they felt — and how badly they wanted out.

On the phone, they relayed to Schoettle “how the food isn’t good, how sometimes it’s maybe there’s bugs in it, maybe there’s mold on it, how the water is disgusting and people don’t drink it, how everything in the commissary is too expensive, how the conditions are bad,” she said. People got sick all the time, they told her.

Asked about these conditions, the facility, which is also known as Dilley Immigration Processing Center, referred CNN to a previous comment stating in part that it “work(s) every day to ensure the families in their care are safe, healthy and well.”

At one point, two of her students bumped into each other, not realizing until the moment that they had both been detained.

One was so shocked to see the other “she couldn’t even speak,” she told Schoettle.

“That sticks with me,” Schoettle said, “because the place that they should be together, seeing each other, is every day at school. But instead, they’re seeing each other in prison across the country.”

Empty seats in the classroom

The empty chairs in Schoettle’s classroom became unsettling symbols to the students that remained, all of whom had only arrived in the US in recent years and settled in Detroit.

Western International High School serves a diverse community of about 1,900 students; about one-fifth are immigrants, and many more — about 70% — are children of immigrants.

Western International High School in Detroit, seen in this screengrab of a video by the American Federation of Teachers union.

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While her students were gone, there was“a heaviness that everyone, myself included, had to reckon with and had to think about every day,” Schoettle said. “They’re still on my roster. I’m still marking them absent,” and yet, “they’re not here.”

Her remaining students feared that “they could be next,” Schoettle said.

“I walk them through what they need to know. How can they protect themselves? Where shouldn’t they go, for example? What places are more, maybe, dangerous than others? How can you drive safely?”

But many have stopped coming to school, Schoettle said, and some have been asking to transfer to a virtual school or asking for teachers for schoolwork on Microsoft Teams. She estimates that 20% of her students this academic year have missed school out of fear for being detained.

“My classroom used to once be a place of joy and learning English and being with each other, but it’s definitely become more of a place of fear,” she said.

“I don’t want them to feel alone”

Schoettle doesn’t see things changing anytime soon.“With the constant threat that still exists in our city and throughout the country, there’s still the constant fear,” she said.

Last week, she led students in a walkout during school to protest ICE’s tactics in their community.

“This is not normal,” she said to the crowd of students gathered in front of their school. “This is our community being terrorized, and we are tired of it.”

Schoettle and other teachers, parents and community members have been working with the school board to provide support for students, such as safer transportation options and conducting “Know Your Rights” trainings to help people understand what rights they have if they are stopped by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

That’s happening across the country, said Weingarten, the American Federation of Teachers president. After hearing from members, the teachers’ union – the country’s largest – has started webinar trainings to help educators respond to the moment. They are also providing emergency kits with whistles and distributing “Know Your Rights” literature.

For Schoettle, “it’s been about trying to get our kids out of ICE detention. It’s been about talking to parents, talking to lawyers, understanding the legal system.”

“I want them to know that people want them out. People are fighting for them, and people are going to continue to fight for them,” she said. “I don’t want them to feel alone.”

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特拉维夫上空传爆炸声 疑似伊朗导弹来袭

发布/2026年3月6日 17:25

3月5日，一枚伊朗导弹飞向以色列中部。 （路透社）

以色列中部的特拉维夫上空传来爆炸声，此前以色列军方探测到伊朗向以色列发射导弹。

据法新社记者报道，星期五（3月6日）以色列商业中心特拉维夫上空传来数声爆炸声之后，军方称：“不久前，以色列国防军发现有伊朗向以色列领土发射的导弹。防御系统正在运行，拦截这一威胁。”

新华社引述伊朗伊斯兰共和国通讯社的报道说，革命卫队发布公告称，已发起“真实承诺－4”第21波攻势，向以色列特拉维夫市中心发射导弹和无人机。

特拉维夫上空传爆炸声 疑似伊朗导弹来袭

2026-03-06T09:25:22.000Z / 联合早报

以色列中部的特拉维夫上空传来爆炸声，此前以色列军方探测到伊朗向以色列发射导弹。

据法新社记者报道，星期五（3月6日）以色列商业中心特拉维夫上空传来数声爆炸声之后，军方称：“不久前，以色列国防军发现有伊朗向以色列领土发射的导弹。防御系统正在运行，拦截这一威胁。”

新华社引述伊朗伊斯兰共和国通讯社的报道说，革命卫队发布公告称，已发起“真实承诺－4”第21波攻势，向以色列特拉维夫市中心发射导弹和无人机。

U.S. plans to exhume and identify remains of 88 Pearl Harbor sailors who were buried as unknowns

2026-03-06T06:43:00-0500 / CBS/AP

Updated on: March 6, 2026 / 6:44 AM EST / CBS/AP

The U.S. military plans to exhume the remains of 88 sailors and Marines killed when the USS Arizona was bombed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who were buried as unknowns in a Honolulu cemetery.

It’s part of an effort to use advances in DNA technology to attach names to those the military was unable to identify after the aerial assault 85 years ago.

The disinterments from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific are due to begin in November or December, Kelly McKeague, the director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, said Thursday in a statement.

About eight sets of remains will be removed every two to three weeks, and the DNA will be compared with samples collected from family members of missing troops.

Dozens of ships sank, capsized or were damaged in the Dec. 7, 1941, bombing of the Hawaii naval base, which catapulted the U.S. into World War II.

The identification effort follows earlier projects dating back a decade to use DNA for Pearl Harbor unknowns. The agency has identified hundreds of crew members — including U.S. Navy Fireman 1st Class Edward D. Bowden in October — from the USS Oklahoma, USS West Virginia and other ships using similar methods.

The Arizona sank just nine minutes after being bombed, and its 1,177 dead account for nearly half the servicemen killed in the attack. Today the battleship still lies where it hit bottom, with more than 900 sailors and Marines are entombed inside.

This December 7, 1941 file photo obtained from the US Naval Historical Center shows the USS Arizona, sunk and burning furiously. Her forward magazines had exploded when she was hit by a Japanese bomb. Shown at left are men on the stern of USS Tennessee as they move fire hoses on the water to force burning oil away from their ship. HO/AFP/Getty Images

According to the DPAA, one officer who led an impromptu rescue party noted that “most of the men who were burned were unrecognizable,” but they succeeded in moving many of their shipmates off of the burning wreckage and pulling others out of the nearby waters.

Remains in that underwater grave will stay where they are. Only those in the cemetery will be exhumed.

“Still grieving”

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Robert Edwin Kline was a 22-year-old gunner’s mate second class when he was killed on the Arizona. Kevin Kline, a real estate agent in northern Virginia, said he was always told that his great-uncle’s remains were on the ship. It was only a few years ago that he heard some crew members were buried as unknowns in a cemetery.

Kline does not have high expectations that his great-uncle will among those identified. But he believes that families that do get a DNA match, some of whom continue to grapple with “generational grief,” will get some closure.

Robert Edward Kline DPAA

He shared the story of one woman who was mystified why she was always so sad around Christmas. She later noted that her grandmother, who lost a son on the Arizona, and her mother, who lost her brother, never celebrated the holiday as it came just weeks after the anniversary of his death.

“As she got older, she realized that her grandmother and her mom were still grieving about this loss,” Kline said. “And it fell on her as well.”

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, which is part of the Department of Defense, resisted exhuming the Arizona remains for years, saying it would not be pragmatic because it had medical and dental records and relatives’ DNA samples for only a small share of the men – just 1% of the families as of 2021.

Kline and an organization he founded, Operation 85, has spent the past three years locating families and arranging for them to share their DNA. Only about 15 of the 1,500 people he contacted declined to participate.

So far, family members of 626 sailors and Marines have shared their DNA, Kline said. That’s just under 60% of the crew members still missing, and sample kits are still coming in.

Kline was frustrated and even infuriated by the military’s past reluctance. But his feelings have changed.

“I’m happy that we were able to kind of pull this together and turn that hard no,” Kline said.

The remains will be taken to the agency’s lab at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for analysis. DNA samples will be sent to the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

The decision to disinter the Arizona unknowns was first reported by the independent military newspaper Stars and Stripes.

In 2024, Lou Conter, the sole living survivor from the sinking of the USS Arizona, died in California at the age of 102.

How Kristi Noem finally lost Trump — and her job

2026-03-06T08:00:33.633Z / CNN

After a year of controversies, Kristi Noem’s fate was sealed over just a few days. It started with a heads-up from the Hill.

Sen. John Kennedy let the White House know Sunday that he was not going to go easy on the Homeland Security secretary when she appeared before the Judiciary Committee. The Louisiana Republican planned to pepper Noem with tough questions about her agency’s lavish spending on an advertising campaign that prominently showcased her.

Before cameras and a packed audience Tuesday, Kennedy eased into his line of questioning. Properly vetting people at the southern border isn’t racist, right? Both Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are needed to do that, are they not? Noem responded in the affirmative. “OK,” Kennedy said. “I just wanted to get my congratulations on the record.”

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He then delivered on his plan, unleashing a series of questions about the $220 million ad campaign and how that squared with Noem’s stated promise to root out waste from her agency.

He had to ask more than once whether Trump approved that spending spree before Noem provided a direct answer: “Mmhmm, yes.”

That response, it turned out, was the embattled Cabinet secretary’s final straw. Kennedy got a call from Trump later that evening. The president, Kennedy told CNN, “was pissed.”

“Her version and the president’s version of whether the president, A) was informed and B) consented are decidedly different,” Kennedy said. (Trump told NBC News Thursday that he hadn’t known about the advertising campaign. “I wasn’t thrilled with it,” he said.)

It was in that same conversation with Kennedy that Trump floated an idea for a replacement: What did he think about his colleague in the Senate, Oklahoma’s Markwayne Mullin?

“I told him I’m very fond of Markwayne,” Kennedy recalled of their conversation. Even if he didn’t like Mullin, a former mixed-martial arts fighter, he added: “I wouldn’t say otherwise because he’d whoop my ass.”

By Thursday, Trump had ruminated with other allies on Capitol Hill about replacing Noem, finally selecting Mullin for the job and announcing it in a midday social media post before the senator could even talk to his wife about the opportunity.

Minutes after Trump posted the news — including a new title for Noem as “Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas” — she was scheduled to step on a stage in Nashville to deliver preplanned remarks to a friendly audience of police officers at the Sergeant Benevolent Association Major Cities Conference.

Noem learned of her firing as she was arriving at the Nashville event, three sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Two of the sources said Trump called Noem directly to inform her of his decision.

Noem remained in the car for several minutes upon arrival at the conference, multiple local law enforcement officials present at the conference told CNN. She then got out of the car and went into the reception room where she met staffers who were present. While Noem was backstage waiting to give her speech, the news alert that she had been fired began to cross on staffers’ phones.

Throughout her speech, Noem made no mention of her departure from the agency. In fact, some of her remarks indicated she had a forward-looking role at the department — though she did make some vague allusions to a new role Trump had selected her for focusing on drug trafficking.

Noem sent a memo to employees Thursday afternoon, describing her role as the “honor of my life.”

In the end, it wasn’t the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis alone that cost Noem her job. Nor was it her immediate reaction to prematurely paint both the mom-of-three and the veterans’ nurse as wannabe terrorists and aspiring cop killers. It wasn’t the sexual relationship she allegedly had with her unpaid subordinate, Corey Lewandowski (both are married and have denied the relationship), the exorbitant spending on executive jets, or the public messaging from her agency which was riddled with White nationalist dog whistles and error-prone descriptions of immigrants.

But each of those controversies accumulated — and then Noem dragged Trump’s name into it.

After Tuesday, a White House official told CNN, it became clear that “it was time” for Noem to go.

“Replacing Kristi was based on the culmination of her many unfortunate leadership failures including the fallout in Minnesota, the ad campaign, the allegations of infidelity, the mismanagement of her staff, and her constant feuding with the heads of other agencies, including CBP and ICE,” the official said.

They added: “Kristi’s drama sadly overshadowed and distracted from the Administration’s extremely popular immigration agenda, which will continue full force.”

Lewandowski, who has long frustrated some top White House aides, is expected to depart with Noem.

In her post, Noem was charged with executing the president’s signature campaign pledge: carrying out mass deportations. And her approach was flashy from the outset. She was photographed on ride alongs with ICE on immigration enforcement operations, filmed riding horseback at Mt. Rushmore for ads, and posing in front of a cell of detainees at El Salvador’s mega prison after the US sent hundreds of Venezuelans there.

Trump often publicly praised her. But internally, her agency still faced tremendous pressure from the White House to deliver. Federal immigration authorities fell short of White House-imposed daily quotas of 3,000 arrests, even as the administration cast a wide net over who could be subject to arrest, including controversial sweeps in Democratic-led cities led by top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino.

The aggressive — and at times, haphazard — approach fueled tensions within the department, according to officials. The first public rebuke appeared to come with White House border czar Tom Homan’s deployment to Minnesota to resolve issues associated with the massive surge of federal agents for immigration enforcement.

But issues within the department extended beyond her handling of immigration. She also tightened her grip on her department’s purse strings, ordering that every contract and grant over $100,000 must cross her desk for approval — a move that Noem has frequently defended as intended to cut down on waste.

Noem’s cost controls led to a delay in monetary relief for areas decimated by natural disasters last summer — delays that echoed similar controversies during her tenure as South Dakota’s governor.

Over the past year, Noem drove an aggressive overhaul of FEMA, the disaster relief agency within DHS she had vowed to dismantle, calling it bloated, partisan and ineffective.

During her tenure, FEMA lost many of its most experienced leaders and about a third of its permanent workforce, according to current and former officials. Noem and her team cut contracts, grants, training and travel — moves that, officials say, raised fears the agency would struggle to handle another major catastrophe.

Multiple Homeland Security officials expressed relief over Noem’s ouster. While many were stunned by the president’s announcement, some saw it as inevitable.

“I think it’s long overdue. She wasn’t qualified for the position from the beginning,” a Homeland Security official told CNN.

Another Homeland Security official said Noem “paid the price” after what they alleged was her exploiting the role for personal gain.

The most anticipated change following her departure, officials said, is a steady hand at the helm of the department that had been wracked with firings and frequent reprimanding from Lewandowski.

Officials anticipate that immigration policies and priorities are largely expected to remain the same at the department. One Trump administration official told CNN her departure will likely serve as a reset for Homan, who was deployed to Minneapolis in response to Good and Pretti’s killing and whose approach to immigration enforcement is more targeted. Homan and Noem have rarely spoken to each other in recent months, US officials told CNN.

“This signals the very welcome end of a totally needless, damaging petty ego civil war within DHS and a full reset for Tom Homan and an adult DHS secretary to build a unified team that will get President Trump’s missions accomplished faster and better,” a Trump administration official told CNN.

Inside FEMA, many employees — from high-ranking officials to rank-and-file staff — celebrated news of Noem’s departure. Multiple staffers inside headquarters described audible cheers across the office when the news broke.

“The mood across headquarters is relief,” one high-ranking FEMA official told CNN. “We haven’t seen the morale this high in a while.”

Her team imposed a culture of fear among FEMA staffers, officials said, polygraphing some in a hunt for leakers and abruptly removing others from their positions without explanation.

“She oversaw the complete destruction of the agency, forced the resignation of some of the brightest minds and most experienced people in emergency management, ignored every one of the hard learned lessons from Katrina and put us in a place where we are no longer well prepared to help people before, during or after disasters,” another high-ranking FEMA official said. “It will take decades to fix the damage she has caused.”

In Mullin, Trump has selected a reliable champion of his immigration agenda whom the White House says should be confirmed “as quickly as possible.” The Oklahoma senator will inherit an agency that is expected to define both Trump’s legacy and his own.

Shortly after Trump announced his intention to have Mullin serve as Homeland Security secretary, Mullin said his focus would be to “keep the homeland secure.”

“There’s a lot of work we can do to get the Department of Homeland Security working for the American people,” Mullin said.

Mullin has suggested that children born in the US to undocumented immigrants should be deported with their parents so as not to be separated. He has said that people should be expected to carry their papers in case they are stopped by immigration officers. He defended immigration officers’ actions in the incidents that led to the deaths of both Good and Pretti.

But his and Trump’s alignment on one specific issue – the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, has been more tenuous. During the attack, Mullin, who was serving in the House at the time, helped to barricade the doors to the House floor and later said he threatened to physically engage any rioters who broke through.

As Trump was mulling the possibility of pardoning those rioters after his election, Mullin urged him on CNN to “look at the facts before he does something,” and after Trump did pardon them, the Oklahoma senator said there was “no question” the siege of the Capitol was a “riot” and a “horrible day.”

“However,” he said, by electing Trump, Americans have chosen to “move on.”

It’s unclear how Noem will move on. But some Republicans in the Senate are relishing the chance to turn over a new leaf.

After Mullin’s new position was announced, Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, an animal lover who during this week’s hearing sparred with Noem over admissions in her 2024 memoir that she shot her misbehaving puppy, shared a picture of Mullin’s family to social media, saying the senator “is a great guy and a great choice to lead DHS.”

“Another big positive: he likes dogs,” Tillis wrote.

CNN’s Kristen Holmes and John Miller contributed.