WASHINGTON (AP) – Senators raced Tuesday to clinch an emerging proposal to end the Homeland Security shutdown by funding much of the department, including the Transportation Security Administration airport workers going without pay, but excluding ICE operations that have been core to the dispute.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – The European Union and Australia on Tuesday agreed on the final text of a free trade agreement, some two years after negotiations broke down over Australian demands for more red meat market access and complaints about Australian products labeled with traditionally European names such as prosecco.

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Danish voters went to the polls Tuesday in a general election, with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen seeking a third term at the helm of the Scandinavian country after a standoff with U.S. President Donald Trump over the future of the kingdom’s semiautonomous territory of Greenland.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) – A rebel group in eastern Congo has detained civilians, including two journalists, in metal shipping containers without light or ventilation, an advocacy group said Tuesday.

Bob Woodward’s next book will be an inside account of how the bestselling author and award-winning journalist came to write so many inside accounts. “Secrets: A Reporter’s Memoir” will offer Woodward’s take on some of the government leaders he has known and the news he has helped break, from Watergate to the inner workings of the Trump administration.

Some journalists at Voice of America charged in a lawsuit Monday that the Trump administration – while largely shutting down the government-run outlet that provides news around the world – has turned what remains into a voice for propaganda.

The U.S. Defense Department will remove media offices from the Pentagon after a federal judge sided with The New York Times in a lawsuit challenging limits on reporters’ access to the building, a department official announced Monday.