FEMA'S Presidential push alert that was scheduled for this week will be pushed back.

Over the weekend, FEMA had announced they would be sending out an alert meant to warn Americans in the event of a national emergency. The alert would be like an AMBER alert.

On Monday, FEMA tweeted that the alert test would be moved due to severe weather across the east coast and the ongoing rescue.

Rep. Chris Collins will stay on the congressional ballot in November even though he remains under indictment on insider trading charges, according to four sources familiar with the situation.

The sources, who asked not to be identified, say Collins has heeded the advice of his criminal attorneys who fear the potential complications of protracted election law challenges almost sure to be initiated by Democrats if he removed his name from the congressional ballot.

“It’s very fair to say there’s been a drastic shift,” said one of the sources, referring to the congressman’s earlier commitment to cooperate with local GOP officials and step aside for a substitute candidate. One GOP source noted the decision has always remained an option for Collins and that Republican strategists were prepared for his continuing presence on the ballot; but other sources remain unhappy that the move derails efforts to find a substitute candidate.

Erie County GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy said during an afternoon news conference that he felt like a “groom jilted at the altar” after Collins changed course.

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Until this year. I’m supporting Sri Preston Kulkarni for this seat and he’s being taken very seriously. That means that Pete has to get out and campaign. Bless his heart.

He blew it and got caught.

I live in the most diverse county in the nation. Pete was asked to speak at the India House to celebrate India’s Independence Day. And out tumbled these words.

“September 11th, 2001: 3,000 innocent Americans were killed by terrorists from Pakistan,” Olson told the audience. “26 November 2008, Mumbai: Two solid days of killing by people trained in Pakistan."

Pete said he misspoke. It’s just coincidence that he misspoke about Pakistan in front of an Indian-American event.

Migrant parents who failed an asylum screening after being separated from their children at the border would get another chance to seek refuge under a proposed settlement agreement filed Wednesday evening.

The proposed agreement — issued jointly by plaintiffs in three related lawsuits and the Trump administration — outlines a plan to address the asylum claims of parents and children who were split at the border.

Parents who failed an initial interview to determine whether they had “credible fear” to return to their home country, but who remain in the United States, would be granted a new interview under the agreement.

“The reason this is so significant is because when you present yourself at the U.S. border, you get one shot to show you qualify for asylum,” said Sirine Shebaya, senior staff attorney for Muslim Advocates, which represented parents in one of the cases. “And that shot was essentially denied.”

The plaintiffs argued parents couldn’t reasonably participate in credible fear interviews as their children were being forcibly taken from them.

The Trump administration has just agreed to give parents who were separated from their children at the US/Mexico border earlier this year a second chance to make asylum claims in the US.

The Department of Justice has negotiated an agreement that covers three lawsuits filed against the government over the family-separation policy. Parents in the US who’d been ordered deported would get another chance to pass an interview demonstrating a “credible fear” of persecution — the first step in the asylum process.

If either the parent or the child passes the screening interview, families will be allowed to apply for asylum together. Some parents who don’t pass will be allowed to remain with their children in the US while the children’s cases are adjudicated.

And in some cases, the government is even willing to consider reopening cases for parents who were already deported from the US.

The agreement covers three lawsuits: Ms. L vs. ICE, which forced the government to reunite separated families this summer; M- M- M- vs. ICE, brought on behalf of children separated from parents; and Dora v. Sessions, a lawsuit from parents who had failed their initial asylum screenings because they were distraught after weeks of separation from their children.