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DHS shutdown tied for second-longest ever as Dems again block funding amid airport chaos, terrorism concerns
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Long airport lines and rising concerns about threats at home weren’t enough to stop Senate Democrats from blocking Homeland Security funding again Friday.
It’s the fifth time Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Republicans have tried to reopen the agency. The latest failed attempt comes as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown hit its 35th day, tying it for the second-longest shutdown in history.
As airport lines stretch for blocks and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents go without pay, and concerns about further attacks in the U.S. increase after two shootings last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his caucus aren’t budging.
DEM SENATORS CALL TO FUND DHS AFTER VOTING TO BLOCK IT 4 TIMES AMID SHUTDOWN FIGHT
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during the House and Senate Democrats’ joint news conference on DHS funding negotiations in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
They have tried several times to force votes on standalone funding bills for other portions of DHS that don’t involve immigration operations, including several attempts to pay TSA agents, which have been blocked.
«Republicans are saying unless you pass ICE as is without reform, we’re not going to help the TSA workers get paid and reduce the lines at the airport,» Schumer said.
Thune told Fox News Digital that Democrats have been beholden to their base and forced into a position to continue blocking government funding in a bid to defund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
«The question is,» Thune said, «[Are] any number of Democrats going to be willing to actually make a deal and have enough respect for the appropriations process and for the job that we have here to keep the government functioning, to step up and do what may be a hard thing, even though their base is, you know, screaming at them to do something else.»
DEMS UNMOVED AS WHITE HOUSE REVEALS DHS CONCESSIONS IN SHUTDOWN BATTLE
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told Fox News Digital that it was Democrats’ far-left base that was preventing them from reopening DHS. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Still, there was slight movement this week that could signal an off-ramp is forming.
Democrats, after over two weeks of radio silence, sent the White House another counteroffer. The administration dubbed it an unserious effort by Democrats and, in response, made public a list of five concessions it was willing to offer to reopen DHS.
«The parties remain far apart, in large part because the administration has put forward a five-part serious proposal that we are willing to engage in additional conversations on, but that has not been reciprocated in kind,» a senior White House official said earlier this week.
But that offer and public counter led to a closed-door meeting with border czar Tom Homan on Capitol Hill on Thursday, where Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine; Katie Britt, R-Ala.; Angus King, I-Maine; Maggie Hassan, D-N.H.; and Patty Murray, D-Wash., had the first real face-to-face meeting of the shutdown.
That same group is expected to meet again on Friday, Thune said.
«I think we’re going to know today whether we’re actually serious about getting a deal,» he said.
FIRED DHS CHIEF KRISTI NOEM FACES CRIMINAL REFERRAL FROM CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., faced a difficult grilling from a fellow Republican at the start of his Senate confirmation hearing. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
It also comes as the Senate is moving to confirm Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., President Donald Trump’s pick to replace embattled DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. He eked out a committee approval thanks to support from Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., but faces a hostile Democratic crowd in the Senate.
Schumer and Democrats demanded Noem’s firing, and Mullin made concessions during his confirmation hearing that his colleagues across the aisle have been demanding for weeks — most notably his willingness to require judicial warrants for ICE agents to enter homes in most cases.
Still, Democrats were unswayed. They plan to force a vote on just funding TSA, which will also likely fail.
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And Thune isn’t keen on letting lawmakers leave Washington, D.C., again until the government reopens, given that after next week, they’ll get a two-week break for Easter.
«It needs to get resolved, you know, by the end of next week,» Thune said. «I can’t see us taking a break if the government is still shut down.»
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NYC Mayor Mamdani’s wife glorified terrorists in online posts, criticized US military: report
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The wife of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani reportedly celebrated terrorists in a series of social media posts as a teenager and young adult as scrutiny over her online history continues.
In September 2017, Rama Duwaji posted a photo on her Tumblr account of Leila Khaled, longtime active leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who participated in two plane hijackings in 1969 and 1970.
«If it does good for my cause, I’ll be happy to accept death,» the caption said.
CITY-RUN BOARD CANCELS LEASE OF ISRAEL DRONE SUPPLIER, SPARKING BACKLASH TOWARD MAMDANI: ‘LUDICROUS’
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and wife Rama Duwaji wave after his ceremonial inauguration as mayor at City Hall Jan. 1 in New York. Duwaji has come under scrutiny over her past social media posts criticizing Israel. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
Khaled is the first woman to hijack an airplane and is revered by terrorists for her role in the crimes.
Many of her posts were made in her early 20s, the Washing Free Beacon reported, noting that Duwaji, now 28, spent her early childhood in New Jersey before moving with her family to Dubai.
In March 2015, when she was 17, Duwaji reposted a tweet on International Women’s Day praising the terrorist Shadia Abu Ghazaleh. An image in the post shows Ghazaleh, who participated in the bombing of an Israeli bus and led several other terrorist attacks.
The image showed her posing with a rifle. She was killed in 1968 when a bomb she was building in her home accidentally exploded. The device that killed her was allegedly intended to blow up a building in Tel Aviv.
Other posts include someone wearing keffiyeh clothing while sewing a flag.
«Photography: ‘A Palestinian demonstrator sews a Palestinian Liberation Organization flag before a protest during the first Intifada’, February, 1988,» the caption says.
Another showed a Bangladeshi postage stamp that said, «We salute the valiant freedom fighters of Palestine.»
A July 2015 post criticized the U.S. military presence abroad.
«*taps mic* American soldiers fighting in imperialist wars are not brave nor are they fighting for anyone’s freedom,» the post said. «They are mercilessly slaughtering 3rd world civilians and fighting to maintain American hegemony. That is all, thank you! *drops mic*»
ISRAEL ACCUSES MAMDANI OF POURING ‘ANTISEMITIC GASOLINE’ AFTER HE REVOKES ADAMS EXECUTIVE ORDERS
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, administers the oath of office to Mayor Zohran Mamdani, right, as Rama Duwaji, center, holds the Quran during Mamdani’s inauguration ceremony, Jan. 1, 2026, in New York. (Andres Kudacki/AP Photo)
Later that same year, Duwaji reposted a Tumblr user.
«You can’t blame muslims for terrorism because they didn’t construct, fund nor train Al-Qaeda,» the user wrote. «White People did that too.»
In another 2015 post, she reposted a criticism of Snapchat for adding Tel Aviv to its live story feature.
«But in all reality, @Snapchat has disappointed me. F*** #TelAviv. Shouldn’t exist in the first place. They’re occupiers. You celebrate them,» a post retweeted by Duwaji said.
«And finally. Hey @Snapchat, as you give Israelis an outlet to celebrate their atrocities, youre supporting a genocidal state. Bye. #TelAviv.»
Duwaji, who was born in Houston and identifies as Syrian, married Mamdani in 2025,. She drew national attention after revelations she liked several posts in the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack that were critical of Israel.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani stands on stage with wife Rama Duwaji after he was ceremonially sworn in as New York City’s 112th mayor at City Hall. (Getty Images)
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On the day of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, Duwaji liked an Instagram post showing images from participants who livestreamed footage of the onslaught, which left 1,200 Israelis dead, including young children.
She also allegedly liked a February 2024 Instagram post claiming The New York Times’ investigation into sexual violence during the Oct. 7 attack was «fabricated,»
Fox News Digital has reached out to the mayor’s office.
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Fricción sin contacto, el fenómeno que fascina a la ciencia moderna y podría convertirse en el futuro de la energía
Desde hace siglos, la comprensión de la fricción se ha basado en principios clásicos formulados a partir de experimentos con materiales en contacto directo. El núcleo de este enfoque tradicional se encuentra en la llamada ley de Amontons, desarrollada en el siglo XVII, que sostiene que la fuerza de fricción entre dos superficies es proporcional a la fuerza normal que las mantiene unidas, pero independiente del área de contacto y de la velocidad relativa.
Posteriormente, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb perfeccionó y popularizó esta ley, proporcionando a la física un marco sencillo para analizar el roce entre objetos sólidos.
Durante décadas, la ciencia y la ingeniería aplicaron este modelo, que considera la fricción como un fenómeno mecánico derivado del contacto real entre las irregularidades microscópicas de los materiales. Según esta explicación, por muy lisos que parezcan dos cuerpos, siempre existen asperezas que, al deslizarse, generan la resistencia propia de la fricción.
En este modelo, la transferencia de energía ocurre únicamente con contacto físico, lo que conlleva el desgaste progresivo de los materiales. No obstante, nuevos experimentos y estudios recientes, como el publicado en la revista científica Nature Materials, empiezan a cuestionar estos conceptos, abriendo el debate sobre la existencia de fenómenos de fricción más allá del modelo clásico.
En el campo de la física de materiales, se han presentado descubrimientos que muestran que dos materiales pueden experimentar fricción incluso sin contacto físico directo entre sus superficies. Investigadores realizaron experimentos utilizando capas de imanes, una fija y otra móvil, que interactuaban únicamente por sus campos magnéticos.
El estudio publicado en la revista científica Nature Materials detalló que, cuando se acercaban estas capas a una distancia mínima, aparecía una fuerza de fricción medible, a pesar de que los materiales nunca llegaban a tocarse.
Se denomina a este fenómeno fricción magnética sin contacto, lo que desafía la visión tradicional del concepto, ya que demuestra que la resistencia al movimiento puede generarse únicamente por la interacción de campos magnéticos y no por el roce directo de las superficies.
Los investigadores observaron que la fricción puede surgir a partir de la dinámica colectiva de los momentos magnéticos, incluso cuando no hay contacto físico. Este resultado fue replicado en laboratorio y publicado en una de las revistas científicas más prestigiosas, lo que obliga a reconsiderar las bases de la ley de Amontons y promueve nuevas líneas de investigación en la física de materiales.
A nivel microscópico, la fricción se ha interpretado históricamente como resultado de la interacción entre las irregularidades de las superficies. Sin embargo, los nuevos experimentos introducen como factor decisivo la estructura interna y la dinámica de los materiales, sobre todo en sistemas magnéticos.
De acuerdo con el estudio de Nature Materials y la información de la revista de divulgación Muy Interesante, la fricción sin contacto físico aparece porque los imanes, al acercarse, reorganizan sus momentos magnéticos, lo que provoca una respuesta colectiva capaz de generar resistencia al movimiento.
Este fenómeno ya no depende solo de las asperezas, sino de cómo los dominios magnéticos interactúan a distancia. Así, se redefine el concepto de “contacto”, ya que implica interacción de campos y configuraciones internas y no necesariamente roce físico.
La investigación demostró que los mecanismos de fricción pueden involucrar fuerzas de origen no mecánico, que actúan incluso cuando los materiales están separados por pequeñas distancias, pero significativas en la escala microscópica.
El descubrimiento de la fricción sin contacto físico tiene implicaciones directas para la tecnología y la industria. Una fricción que no implique desgaste físico permite desarrollar mecanismos y dispositivos más duraderos, donde la transferencia de energía no esté asociada a la degradación de las superficies.
Según la revista de divulgación Muy Interesante, este principio podría aplicarse en la fabricación de motores, sistemas de levitación magnética y componentes electrónicos que busquen minimizar el desgaste y la necesidad de mantenimiento.
El mencionado estudio muestra que es factible diseñar interfaces capaces de transmitir fuerza y movimiento sin que exista el roce físico, lo que abre la puerta a una nueva generación de tecnologías basadas en la manipulación de campos magnéticos.
En los sistemas donde la fricción convencional genera calor y pérdida de material, la fricción sin contacto físico permitiría reducir el consumo energético y aumentar la vida útil de los equipos, hecho especialmente relevante para los sectores del transporte y la microelectrónica.
Los hallazgos sobre fricción sin contacto han movido a la comunidad científica a reconsiderar los conceptos fundamentales sobre el movimiento y la transferencia de energía.
Hasta el momento, la fricción se entendía como resultado del contacto directo y desgaste material, pero los experimentos recientes demuestran que la interacción magnética entre materiales puede generar resistencia al movimiento a través de nuevos mecanismos.
Esta perspectiva, respaldada tanto por el trabajo publicado en Nature como por la divulgación en Muy Interesante, muestra que el estudio de los materiales y sus interacciones internas puede develar fenómenos inesperados, con consecuencias teóricas y prácticas.
El avance representa un cambio de paradigma en la física, donde ya no se requiere el roce para explicar la aparición de fuerzas resistentes, ampliando el campo de estudio y el control sobre el movimiento y la energía en el mundo material.
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was chased out of the country’s largest mosque Friday as Muslims in attendance voiced anger over his stance on the Israeli war against Hamas.
Albanese was called several names, including a «putrid dog» and a «genocide supporter» in reference to the deaths of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack in Israel, The Telegraph reported.
Video footage showed the prime minister standing alongside Tony Burke, the home affairs minister, at the Lakemba Mosque in Sydney as the community marked Eid, the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
GRAHAM SAYS AUSTRALIAN PM PUT JEWS ‘AT RISK,’ CALLS WESTERN NATIONS ‘PATHETICALLY WEAK’ AFTER HANUKKAH ATTACK
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese leaves Lakemba Mosque after a visit for Eid al-Fitr in Sydney, Australia, March 20, 2026. (Hollie Adams; Reuters)
«Why is he in here? Get him out of here!» some shouted.
Albanese and his Left Labor government have drawn criticism for its support of a ceasefire in Gaza and Israel’s right to defend itself.
During the commotion, Gamel Kheir, the mosque’s secretary, pleaded for calm.
«Respect the place you’re in,» he said. «We must engage and have frank and open dialogue with our political leaders and not shy away and be reclusive.»
«You called him honorable. He’s responsible for the deaths of 1 million people, 1 million of our brothers and sisters,» one person reportedly shouted.
AUSTRALIAN PM ALBANESE GETS BOOED DURING BONDI BEACH VIGIL HONORING HANUKKAH ATTACK VICTIMS
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was heckled out of a mosque in Sydney during a visit Friday. (AuBC via APTN)
Albanese was taken into an office inside the mosque by security before he was taken out of the building and into his motorcade.
As he was leaving, cries of «shame on you» and the slur «Alba-tizi,» a derogatory Arabic play on his surname, referencing buttocks, were shouted.
«He wants to come here after shaking hands with the president of Israel, who’s got blood on his hands,» said one person who confronted the prime minister. «To come here and act like nothing has happened is a disgrace.»
Albanese posted photos on X showing him smiling and shaking hands with attendees.
Attendees heckled Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a visit to a mosque Friday, March 20, 2026. (AuBC via APTN)
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«Overwhelmingly, the reception was incredibly positive,» he told reporters of his visit. «I walked through the crowd to the mosque, and not a single person heckled. There were a couple of hecklers inside. They were dealt with.
«Contrary to what’s been suggested, no one was rushed out,» he added. «We just sat there. … It was dealt with by the community themselves because overwhelmingly they did not want that to occur.»
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