
Biden meets with key Democratic negotiator as White House presses to keep agenda on track
CNN
President Joe Biden met with Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Tuesday at the White House as his administration ramped up its push for a path forward for its sweeping dual track infrastructure agenda.
Sinema is the lead Democratic negotiator in the bipartisan infrastructure talks -- negotiations that for a time this week appeared to run aground -- as well as a critical vote on the $3.5 trillion social safety net proposal Democrats plan to move separately on their own. Biden sought to use the meeting to ensure the bipartisan talks were back on track after an unusually public blame game by the various senators involved in the talks as they missed yet another deadline Monday night.
Hundreds of Border Patrol officers are mobilizing to bolster the president’s crackdown on immigration in snowy Minneapolis, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday, as tensions between federal law enforcement and local counterparts flare after an ICE-involved shooting last week left a mother of three dead.

Nationwide outcry over the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent spilled into the streets of cities across the US on Saturday, with protesters demanding the removal of federal immigration authorities from their communities and justice for the slain Renee Good.

Since early December the US Coast Guard and other military branches have boarded and taken control of five oil ships that had previously been sanctioned, all either accused of being in the process of transporting Venezuelan oil or on their way to take on oil that has been subject to US sanctions since President Donald Trump began a pressure campaign against the leadership of the country during his first term.










