After a gunman killed 17 students and adults last year at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, young survivors declared #NeverAgain and demanded action on gun control legislation. With support the of their peers, parents, advocates and celebrities, they rallied at state houses across the country, called out lawmakers by name and marched for their lives, applying unwavering pressure...

President Donald Trump and congressional leaders reached a deal Friday to temporarily reopen the government and end the longest shutdown in U.S. history. Trump agreed to endorse a short-term funding bill that doesn’t include money for a border wall — something he had previously demanded as part of any continuing resolution to end the shutdown.

The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that it will issue a partial paycheck to most employees as thousands of other federal workers are set to miss a second biweekly paycheck, marking nearly a month since they were last paid. TSA Administrator David P. Pekoske said the agency scraped together limited funds from varying sources in order to pay a portion...