An ICE agent shot and killed a man in a vehicle on Monday morning in Biddeford, Maine. It was the second fatal episode in a week, as the Trump administration continues its immigration crackdown, and the latest in a string of encounters between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and people in cars.

On Tuesday, the Trump administration ordered ICE to halt most vehicle stops while carrying out enforcement operations. The suspension marks a significant tactical shift for the agency, which has faced criticism in the past year over allegations of excessive use of force and scrutiny over deaths that have occurred during its operations. White House border tsar Tom Homan says the move is not a policy change, but “a temporary pause” and that deportations will continue.

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) declined to comment, telling the BBC: “We are always evaluating our procedures to keep our officers safe and criminals off our streets.” The mounting questions surrounding those incidents have renewed public scrutiny of ICE’s aggressive tactics.

Meanwhile, hundreds of people in Maine protested Tuesday over the fatal shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 25-year-old Colombian national. He was authorized to work in the US and was issued a Social Security number, the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition said. He wasn’t the target of the immigration operation. Amid the lethal encounters, lawmakers, policing experts and former federal immigration officials have called on the agency to review its training methods and use-of-force policies.

At least nine people have been killed nationwide since the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign began last year. No one has been charged in connection with the deaths, and the federal government has suggested state prosecutors don’t have jurisdiction to investigate federal officers.

Late last week, President Donald Trump sent Congress a formal notification that the U.S.-Iran war has officially resumed as Washington and Tehran started trading fresh strikes over the Strait of Hormuz again. U.S. Central Command announced on Tuesday night that it completed an additional round of strikes on “dozens” of military targets near the strait and Iran’s coastal region.

The latest strikes came after the U.S. resumed a naval blockade, with over 20 U.S. Navy warships and hundreds of military aircraft operating in the Middle East. “We’re going to hit them very hard tonight … and then next week it gets really bad for them,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News last night. “Because next week comes the power plants, next week comes the bridges.”

But many lawmakers are now denouncing the return to active hostilities, despite the interim cease-fire agreement signed last month. On Tuesday Senate Democrats blocked a $1 trillion annual defense bill, refusing to advance the bipartisan package that would substantially increase Pentagon spending, (including a pay raise for the troops). Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said they could not support it, with the war dragging into a fifth month with no clear endgame in sight. The tally was 50-46, failing largely along party lines to reach the threshold needed.

It’s safe to say that in our current political climate, Republicans and Democrats don’t agree on much. But on Tuesday, both parties voted overwhelmingly to make daylight saving time permanent. The measure, fittingly named the “Sunshine Protection Act,” passed on a 308-to-117 vote.

However, the measure to spare Americans the semiannual clock-changing that shortens winter days faces an uncertain path to enactment. President Trump has championed the effort to save an extra hour of daylight before nightfall and make the time zone permanent, describing the ritual of moving clocks forward in the spring and back in the fall a “ridiculous, twice yearly production.”

You might recall, a Senate version of the Sunshine Protection Act stalled last year after Sen. Tom Cotton (the Republican from Arkansas) objected to fast-tracking the bill’s passage via unanimous consent in October. He made some interesting points: Like the change to permanent daylight saving time could lead to overlooked negative consequences, pointing to parts of the country where the sun wouldn’t rise until 9 a.m. or later and citing potentially dangerous, dark morning commutes and workers who would need to work early mornings without sun.