The 75-day Department of Homeland Security shutdown ended after the House of Representatives passed a funding bill for the agency, sending it to President Donald Trump's desk. The ordeal, which involved hundreds of thousands of workers without pay and upended air travel, was prompted by Democrats' demands for immigration enforcement reforms following the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota. President Trump announced that the U.S. is currently in "what some would call" a war with Iran, marking a new distinction from the president. Dr. Nicole Saphier, chosen for President Trump's new nominee for U. S. surgeon general, has previously held the title of "farmer".