Elon Musk on Saturday offered to personally cover the paychecks of Transportation Security Administration officers as a partial government shutdown enters its fifth week, leaving tens of thousands of airport security workers without pay and travelers facing hours-long checkpoint lines.

Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who led the investigation into claims of Russian interference in the 2016 election, died Friday at 81 years old.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a leading Senate conservative, is proposing to colleagues the idea of splitting off Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from the rest of funding for the Department of Homeland Security to end growing chaos at airports around the country. The proposal appeared to be gaining momentum...