Noel King

The government shutdown is expected to stretch into 2019. The secretary of Homeland Security visits El Paso, Texas, Friday. Stocks end higher after spending much of Thursday in negative territory.

President Trump makes his first trip to an active combat zone. The Department of Homeland Security promises changes to protect migrant children. Police In Sudan fire live ammunition at protesters.

An 8-year-old Guatemalan boy dies in U.S. immigration custody. The standoff over the border wall continues and the government remains closed. Relations have been improving between the U.S. and Turkey.

The Down Jones Industrial average has suffered its worst Christmas Eve performance. How is President Trump reacting? Israel's government wants to move up its elections from Nov. 2019 to April.

Children are invited to use their imaginations to fill in the blanks in Coloring Without Borders. The bilingual book was created to help immigrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The federal government is likely to remain partially shut down until after the new year. The death toll is expected to rise after a tsunami hit Indonesia. U.S. troops wind down their mission in Syria.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will leave the Trump administration in February. Congress still has time to avert a government shutdown. And, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is asked: Is ISIS defeated?

The U.S. and Mexico have reached an agreement in which third-country asylum seekers will wait in Mexico while claims are processed. Up to this point, asylum seekers have waited in the U.S.

U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announces indictments of two Chinese nationals for allegedly hacking a broad range of American government and business interests.

President Trump says it's time for U.S. forces to leave Syria. Roughly 2,200 U.S. troops have been fighting ISIS in Syria. And, another federal court decision blocks Trump's immigration crackdown.

Senate approves bipartisan criminal justice bill. Several thousand migrant children in U.S. custody could be released soon. Open scientific collaboration may be helping North Korea cheat on sanctions.

Amazon is opening a new office in Long Island City, Queens. Critics of the plan say New York got ripped off from a big corporation. We spent a day in the neighborhood asking people what they think.

New York, Washington and dozens of other cities threw billions in tax incentives at Amazon's HQ2. It reminded us of an episode we did back in 2016.

Among those who died in a mass shooting at a California bar Thursday was Sheriff's Sgt. Ron Helus. NPR's Nate Rott says Helus was among the first to run into the bar. His colleagues call him a hero.

President Trump will speak at the White House, where he is expected to claim victory for widening the GOP's Senate majority. NPR's Noel King, Scott Detrow and Tamara Keith offer a preview.

Morning Edition's Noel King and Ashley Lopez, reporter for member station KUT, discuss the midterm results in Texas, where incumbent GOP Sen. Ted Cruz defeated Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke.

Democrats have retaken the House and Republicans consolidated control of the Senate. In Florida, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, who is in the mold of President Trump, is projected to win.

Candidates are making their closing arguments to voters this weekend. Also, a trial about race-based admissions at Harvard ends today and liberal blogger Aaron Brown discusses Minnesota's race.

We drove out to two small cities in Minnesota's 8th Congressional District to ask voters about their views ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections.

One person is now in federal custody after a nationwide bomb scare. The news follows the discovery of two more potentially threatening packages on Friday.