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Majority of US Senate votes to block bid to rein in Trump Iran war powers, voting continues

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March 4, 2026 10:00 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago

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WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) – A majority of ​the U.S. Senate ‌on Wednesday backed President Donald Trump’s military ​campaign against Iran, ​voting to block a ⁠bipartisan resolution ​aiming to stop ​the air war and require that any ​hostilities against ​Iran be authorized by Congress.

As ‌voting ⁠continued, the tally in the 100-member chamber ​was ​52-47 ⁠not to advance the war ​powers resolution.

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Reporting ​by ⁠Patricia Zengerle; Additional reporting by ⁠Richard ​Cowan and ​Noland D. McCaskill; editing ​by Mark Porter

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Elon Musk to avoid deposition about DOGE, dismantling US foreign aid agency

March 4, 2026 9:35 PM UTC / Reuters

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WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) – Elon Musk, ​the billionaire and former adviser to President Donald ‌Trump, will not have to sit for a deposition about his tenure leading the Department of ​Government Efficiency and his role in ​dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, ⁠a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday.

The ​U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ​ruled 2-1 to grant Musk’s petition to avoid the deposition.

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Prior to its dismantling, USAID coordinated federal efforts to ​alleviate poverty and disease. Musk, with Trump’s ​backing, fired thousands of its employees and contractors, throwing ‌global ⁠humanitarian relief operations into chaos. Former USAID employees and contractors are accusing him of illegally shuttering the agency.

Circuit Judge Roger Gregory dissented, saying ​Musk and ​two other ⁠officials targeted for depositions were the only people who could provide ​relevant information, including about decisions to ​shut ⁠down USAID headquarters and the agency’s website.

“Defendants do not even attempt to suggest adequate substitutes ⁠for ​their depositions,” Gregory wrote.

Reporting ​by Courtney Rozen in Washington and Daniel Wiessner in Albany, ​New York Editing by Mark Porter and Matthew Lewis

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$4.2M US torpedo detonates under Iranian warship in historic ‘No Mercy’ strike

Former submarine commander says strike sends message that ‘gloves really are off’ as 650-pound warhead lifted warship up out of the water

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Published March 4, 2026 5:14pm EST

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that an American submarine torpedo sank an Iranian warship in international waters in a first since World War II.

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A multi-million-dollar U.S. Navy torpedo detonated underneath an Iranian warship in a nighttime submarine strike off Sri Lanka’s southern coast — an attack, War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday in a Pentagon update, was the first of its kind since World War II.

The weapon, identified as a Mark 48 Advanced Capability (ADCAP) torpedo, underscored the scale of force used, and signaled to Tehran that

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Trump nominee to lead nation’s cyber agency removed from post as senior DHS adviser

Updated on: March 4, 2026 / 6:52 PM EST / CBS News

Sean Plankey, the Department of Homeland Security senior adviser and Trump nominee to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, was escorted out of the U.S. Coast Guard headquarters late Monday and had his access badge removed, according to sources familiar with the matter. The nominee to lead the cyber defense agency has left his role at DHS, though circumstances behind the sudden move remain unclear.

Plankey, a retired U.S. Coast Guard officer, formerly served as senior adviser to the homeland security secretary for the Coast Guard, a role he held while awaiting Senate action on his nomination to lead CISA, the agency responsible for protecting federal civilian networks and U.S. critical infrastructure from cyber threats.

A Coast Guard spokesperson referred inquiries to DHS. “We have no personnel matters to announce at this time,” a DHS spokesperson said. CBS News has also reached out to CISA for comment.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott placed a hold on Plankey’s 2025 nomination, and at the end of the legislative session last year, his nomination expired, along with other nominations that did not receive a Senate vote. President Trump renominated Plankey in January after his earlier nomination stalled in the Senate. But multiple people familiar with the process said the renomination was unintended and occurred as part of what one source described as an administrative error in a broader list of nominations submitted by the White House.

But a White House official said that Plankey’s renomination was, in fact, intentional and reaffirmed that Plankey is the nominee to lead CISA, despite his removal. The official referred questions about his removal from the Coast Guard position to DHS.

People familiar with internal dynamics at CISA said Plankey had longstanding tensions with Madhu Gottumukkala, who served as the agency’s acting director until he was replaced days ago. Gottumukkala previously worked in South Dakota and has close ties to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the sources said.

Those tensions escalated in recent months during disagreements over cybersecurity contracts, according to one person briefed on the dispute. The person said Plankey pushed for certain contracts to move forward while Gottumukkala was uncomfortable approving them. Because Plankey is a nominee who’s awaiting Senate confirmation, he is generally expected to avoid involvement in agency operations, particularly those related to the department’s contracting.

The agency has also faced scrutiny in recent months after reporting revealed Gottumukkala uploaded sensitive but unclassified government documents marked “for official use only” to a public version of ChatGPT, triggering automated security alerts and prompting an internal review into the handling of sensitive information.

The leadership turmoil comes as CISA has undergone a series of rapid changes. Gottumukkala was replaced last month as acting director by Nick Andersen, the agency’s executive assistant director for cybersecurity.

Plankey has also advised on Coast Guard policy matters, working to help the service branch secure roughly $25 billion in funding for the service in the most recent appropriations bill.

Two senior homeland security officials told CBS News that Plankey remains the nominee for CISA director, despite his abrupt removal as senior DHS adviser. People familiar with the confirmation process say that Senate schedules and the upcoming campaign season may stand in the way of a speedy confirmation, but another obstacle arose Tuesday, during Noem’s testimony before the Senate.

GOP Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina threatened to stall President Trump’s nominees and Senate business if Noem ignored inquiries from his office regarding immigration enforcement operations and disaster response funding in his state.

“If I don’t get an answer that you’ve had a month to respond to, and the remaining ones … as of today, I’ll be informing leadership that I’m putting a hold on any en bloc nominations until I get a response, and in two weeks, if I don’t get a response, I’m going to deny quorum and markup in as many committees as I can until I get a response,” the senator said during a hearing.

Meanwhile, some cybersecurity officials and industry experts say the prolonged leadership turmoil risks undermining CISA’s standing with the private sector. While larger critical infrastructure companies increasingly rely on private intelligence vendors for faster cyber threat information, smaller organizations — including water utilities and manufacturers — still depend heavily on CISA alerts and guidance.

The uncertainty comes as the federal government faces a partial shutdown of DHS and officials warn of heightened cyber threats from foreign adversaries, including Iran-linked actors targeting U.S. infrastructure.

Last week, the Department of Homeland Security issued a Critical Incident Report to law enforcement partners warning that the hacktivist group, the Cyber Islamic Resistance has called for cyberattacks against the United States and Israel, urging mobilization of cyber warfare supporters. The report finds that Iran-aligned actors may conduct low-level cyber operations, such as website defacements and distributed denial of services attacks, amid rising tensions that has also broadened the risk of retaliatory activity targeting Jewish, pro-Israel, or U.S. government–linked sites.

Trump, tech companies sign voluntary pledge to protect consumers from rising electricity costs

By Ella Nilsen, CNN | Published Mar 4, 2026, 6:23 PM ET

President Donald Trump unveiled a voluntary pledge with major tech companies on Wednesday that the administration said will protect consumers from rising electricity costs spurred by artificial intelligence development.

At a White House roundtable — another attempt to assuage voters’ affordability concerns ahead of the 2026 midterms — Trump and CEOs of seven big tech companies signed a so-called “ratepayer protection pledge,” where companies pledged to build or buy the vast amount of electricity needed to power data centers, as well as the infrastructure needed to connect the power to the grid. Companies pledged to pay a different rate for electricity than a regular consumer as part of the agreement.

Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI and Amazon signed on to the agreement, which Trump said would help keep utility bills down “very substantially.”

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“(It’s) going to have a tremendous impact on electricity costs; we’re bringing down all of the costs,” Trump said.

Electricity rates in the US are rising for several reasons, but some political backlash has focused on vast data centers that power artificial intelligence. Data center buildout in some regions of the country is using more electricity than is available – causing prices to rise sharply. Ratepayers in Mid-Atlantic states including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia have seen spikes driven in part by the world’s largest cluster of data centers in Virginia.

But one expert told CNN that Wednesday’s voluntary commitment from companies doesn’t have teeth.

“The White House has the bully pulpit but no legal authority to impose new rate structures that ensure data centers pay their full costs of service,” Ari Peskoe, director of the Harvard Law School’s electricity law initiative, said in an email. “The burden should be on utilities and utility regulators to address these issues.”

Administration officials admitted Wednesday that enforcement of the pledge would have to come from states and state utility regulators — the bodies that approve electric rate increases. Several states are starting to adopt regulations and pass laws that would ensure consumers don’t pick up the tab for data center power, but there is no such federal regulation in place.

“This is an agreement between the president and the technology companies for a nationwide framework, and that’s why negotiating separate rate structures with the state utilities is so important,” an administration official told reporters.

Peskoe said the announcement itself is a sign that the White House and companies are feeling public pushback on the issue.

“The noteworthy element here is both the White House and the companies conceding that large-scale data centers can raise everyone’s power bills and someone needs to do something about it,” he said.

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今年以来北京大兴国际机场口岸出入境人员破百万人次 | 联合早报

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今年经北京大兴国际机场口岸出入境人员数量突破100万人次。 （法新社档案照）

今年经北京大兴国际机场口岸出入境人员数量突破100万人次，比去年提前六天。

据中新社报道，北京大兴机场出入境边防检查站星期三（3月4日）介绍，其中，出入境外国人数量达26.1万人次，较去年同期增长约38.2%。

今年春节假期，大兴机场边检站共办理出入境航班830余架次，出入境人员超15万人次；入境外国人达1.5万人次，其中享受免签和临时入境许可政策入境的外国人约占七成。

北京大兴机场边检站通过实施“潮汐式”动态警力调配，依托北京边检总站航班流量预测程序动态调整查验通道，实现“高峰全开、平峰适度”；大幅缩短旅客中转时间，实行24小时直接过境旅客免办边检手续；整合临时入境许可签发流程，实现临时入境许可受理签发和入境手续一次办结。

Rep. Shri Thanedar accused Republicans of using illegal immigrant CDL concerns to distract from Trump’s ‘attack’ on Iran

By Charles Creitz
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Published March 4, 2026 5:52pm EST

Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., attempted to prematurely adjourn a House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing addressing the illegal immigrant CDL crisis, engaging with Chairman Josh Brecheen, R-Okla.

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A Democratic lawmaker who previously drafted impeachment articles against President Donald Trump disrupted a House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing Wednesday, accusing Republicans of using concerns about illegal immigrants holding commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) to distract from what he called Trump’s broader failures.

“This past weekend a convicted felon with bone spurs illegally attacked Iran, launching a protracted war of regime change,” Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., said during his opening remarks, arguing Republicans were diverting attention from congressional war powers.

The hearing — hosted by the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Accountability — focused on whether illegal immigrants are obtaining non-domicile CDLs and whether the Department of Homeland Security has properly coordinated with transportation authorities and ICE to enforce immigration laws tied to commercial trucking.

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Officials from Oklahoma and Florida were invited to testify about illegal immigrants holding non-domicile CDL licenses, which they said has caused deadly crashes on the nation’s highways.

St. Lucie County Sheriff Richard del Toro was one of the witnesses, and he investigated a high-profile case in which an illegal immigrant from India with a California CDL allegedly killed a family on Florida’s Turnpike after failing to properly complete an illegal U-turn on the tollway.

As Chairman Josh Brecheen, R-Okla., gaveled the hearing in, Thanedar interrupted with a parliamentary inquiry, questioning why the Homeland Security panel — rather than Transportation — was holding the proceeding.

“Per Rule X, the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has jurisdiction over transportation regulatory agencies, and roads and safety thereof,” Thanedar said.

“Any bills to improve highway safety would need to be considered and voted on by that committee.”

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The Detroiter added that he wanted to go on record about his objections to holding the hearing, saying it is really about “scapegoating immigrants” to deflect from issues with Trump’s handling of the economy, “which is running off the road.”

Brecheen appeared nonplussed, and reiterated that the committee remains a proper venue, and whether or not the House Transportation Committee could investigate similarly.

“While DOT is the primary federal regulator of CDLs, DHS plays a critical role in granting work authorizations and immigration benefits through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,” Brecheen said.

“ICE partnered with state highway patrol agencies in several states to conduct joint enforcement operations targeting illegal aliens operating commercial motor vehicles, resulting in significant arrests and taking unsafe drivers off the road.”

He noted one case in his home state where an illegal immigrant with a New York driver’s license that had a REAL ID endorsement and the name “No Name Given” was discovered and arrested along Interstate 40.

He observed the REAL-ID Act itself was signed by former President George W. Bush after 9/11 and that anyone authorized to haul hazardous materials could effectively be driving an 80,000-pound “chemical bomb” if they so chose.

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“This is absolutely under the jurisdiction of this committee,” he said.

After Brecheen’s own opening statement, Thanedar followed.

In 2025, Thanedar first drafted Articles of Impeachment against Trump, saying he is “unfit to serve” and “represents a clear and present danger to our nation’s Constitution.”

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Thanedar’s articles include usurpation of appropriations, abuse of trade powers, violation of First Amendment rights, creation of an unlawful office (DOGE), bribery and tyrannical overreach.

Thanedar was also the only Democrat to appear for the subcommittee hearing.

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Published 5:39 PM EST, Wed March 4, 2026 / CNN

A protester briefly disrupted a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing “to examine the current readiness of the Joint Force” on Wednesday. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) called for “calm” in the hearing.

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