1. Senate leaders offered the first glimmers of a potential resolution to the government shutdown, scheduling procedural votes Thursday on two competing bills to reopen the government.

One measure includes funding for President Trump’s border wall; the other is a short-term spending bill that would fund shuttered agencies through Feb. 8. Although neither is likely to pass, the compromise gives each party a chance to press its proposal. And the votes could prompt the two sides to negotiate a bipartisan compromise.

Above, Mexican migrants prepare to jump the border fence to get into the U.S. in December.

At the same time, Mr. Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi remained in a private standoff about whether he should be allowed to deliver his State of the Union address next week. Ms. Pelosi has yet to issue Mr. Trump a formal invitation.