ICE Agents Deployed to More Than a Dozen US Airports; Wall Street Up after President Trump Postpones Strikes on Iranian Power

The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed it has begun deploying hundreds of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to more than a dozen U.S. airports to aid security screening, as staffing absences by unpaid airport security officers have caused massive delays. ICE and Homeland Security Investigations officers were being deployed to around 14 airports including Atlanta, JFK in New York, New York LaGuardia, Newark, New Orleans, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Newark, Phoenix, and Fort Myers, according to officials and social media posts.

Wall Street’s main indexes rose in broad gains on Monday, after President Donald Trump said he ordered the military to postpone strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure, following “productive conversations” with Tehran. Global markets staged a sharp recovery after Trump’s comments, with Europe’s STOXX 600 and precious metals edging up, while oil prices fell.