“When it happened, I was like, ‘Oh my God — it’s time,’” the conductor Elim Chan said of her appointment in San Francisco. “It is groundbreaking. It’s another ceiling broken.”

Ramzi Kassem, who once sued the New York Police Department for its surveillance of Muslim Americans, is now advising the mayor on police matters.

Disney’s new chief executive, Josh D’Amaro, at Disneyland last year, when he was chairman of Disney experiences.

The ceremony in Baghdad on Monday at which Ali al-Zaidi was announced as prime minister-designate. The photograph was released by the president’s media office.

Kevin M. Warsh will be at a Senate hearing next week to consider him as the next chair of the Federal Reserve.

Will Lewis, the chief executive and publisher of The Washington Post, has stepped down, the company announced Saturday.

President Trump has said anybody who disagrees with him will never get the top job at the Federal Reserve, prompting concern that his nominee will prioritize pleasing him over all else.

Zohran Mamdani was officially sworn in as mayor of New York City at the old City Hall subway station early Thursday.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani named Kamar Samuels as New York City’s schools chancellor. He starts on Thursday.

Dan Bongino, the F.B.I. deputy director, at the Capitol last month.

Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko outside her office in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. She was appointed to the position by President Volodymyr Zelensky in July.

A training event known as “the gauntlet” at the Citadel, the South Carolina military academy, in 2019.

President Trump gave King Charles a replica of a sword belonging to Dwight D. Eisenhower last month during his state visit to Britain. The administration had sought a real one.

President Trump has been trying to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board for months.

Justice Department veterans see an overarching pattern in the dismissals — a quickening effort by the Trump administration to ignore and eventually demolish longstanding civil service legal precedents meant to keep politics out of law enforcement work.

“Playing around with the Fed can often have adverse consequences — the absolute opposite of what you might be hoping for,” Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan bank, said Tuesday.

Emil Bove III, a top Justice Department official, at his confirmation hearing on Wednesday for an appeals court judgeship.

Kim Sajet at the National Portrait Gallery in 2022. It is unclear if President Trump has legal grounds to fire her.