Dave Mattingly

The government shutdown is nearly four weeks old.

It's the second longest on record.

NPR's Luke Garrett says paychecks for members of the U.S.

military and federal food services are set to stop, with Congress showing few signs of resolving the funding impasse.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says he believes President Trump may soon escalate U.S.

airstrikes against Venezuela and Colombia.

In recent months, the military has been targeting boats from the two countries suspected of carrying drugs and cartel members in the Caribbean and in the Pacific.

Graham says he thinks those airstrikes might soon be expanded to strikes on land.

He was speaking to CBS's Face the Nation.

Graham describes such an escalation as a real possibility.

French authorities continue to question two men suspected of breaking into the Louvre Museum and stealing more than $100 million worth of jewels.

The two were arrested over the weekend with the help of a security video and DNA samples, as NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports from Paris.

This is NPR News from Washington.

President Trump has arrived in Japan, the latest stop on his current trip to Asia.

The president announced U.S.

trade agreements with four Southeast Asian nations during his visit to Malaysia, the first stop on his trip.

Trump says he hopes to add a trade deal with China.

The president is scheduled to hold a summit with China's President Xi Jinping on Thursday.

As families in the U.S.

and around the world have fewer children, economists say that trend is reshaping parts of the global economy.