Kim Vinnell

TSA agents have now been without pay for weeks and employees are calling in sick at record rates as a partial government shutdown that's stopped their pay stretches past a month.

And now the Department of Homeland Security is sending ICE agents to airports to help those TSA agents, although their role so far has been limited.

Here's reporter David Shepardson again.

Meanwhile, the man who will head the Department of Homeland Security, responsible for both TSA agents and ICE, has been confirmed in the Senate.

Mark Wayne Mullen takes over from Kristi Noem and says he plans to create more of a low profile.

The Trump nominee is a businessman and a former MMA fighter.

He's also a member of the Cherokee Nation, making him only the second ever Native American to serve as a cabinet minister.

Conservative justices on the Supreme Court are signaling they might ban states from counting mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day.

At issue is Mississippi's law allowing a five-day grace period for ballots postmarked by Election Day.

About 30 states have similar policies.

The Trump administration is backing the Republican challenge as part of a broader push to restrict mail-in voting ahead of November's midterms.

The ruling is expected in June.

Danish voters are heading to the polls in an election, in part, shaped by US President Trump's desire to take Greenland.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called the vote after her tough pushback against Trump's rhetoric boosted her standing at home.

But while that standoff helped frame the campaign, opinion polls suggest her Social Democrats are still headed for their weakest result in decades, with other issues now top of voters' minds.

Here's Reuters correspondent Steena Jacobsen in Copenhagen.

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