
Struggling restaurant owners pin their hopes on a new recovery fund
CNN
The federal Restaurant Revitalization Fund launched last week, aiming to offer direct aid to struggling restaurant owners and caterers -- who were among the hardest hit by pandemic restrictions on gatherings.
The White House said that more than 180,000 applications were submitted in the first few days after the $28.6 billion program's May 3 launch. And on Monday, the Small Business Administration said it had already approved more than 16,000 applicants. Those applicants were drawn from a pool of women-owned, vet-owned and minority-owned restaurants, groups which are being given priority in the program's first three weeks.
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.










