Independent News Drop

From Inkwell, this is the Independent News Drop for 11 PM.

Arsenal has reached its first Champions League final in two decades. Bukayo Saka scored the decisive goal tonight as Arsenal beat Atletico Madrid 1-0, securing a 2-1 aggregate victory in their semifinal matchup. The club will now face Real Madrid in the final later this spring.

In other news, the FBI has reassigned roughly a quarter of its workforce to immigration enforcement following the Trump administration's deportation push. That's over 9,000 personnel redirected from other assignments. Security experts have raised concerns that the scale of the redeployment could compromise the bureau's ability to investigate terrorism, cybercrime, and other national security threats.

Moving to international developments: Australia says it will allow the return of four women and nine children with links to the Islamic State who have been held in a Syrian camp. An Australian government minister confirmed the group has already booked tickets home. The families have spent years in the camp since the collapse of IS territorial control in Syria and Iraq.

On this day in history: In 1941, the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt made its first flight — it would go on to become one of the most widely produced fighter aircraft of World War Two.

We'll be back next hour. From Inkwell.