Under its chief, Harmeet Dhillon, the civil rights division of the Justice Department has pushed hard to replenish the ranks of a unit that was once a magnet for top legal talent.

Bill Harris, center, after being captured in 1975, the year after the S.L.A. kidnapped Patty Hearst. Her family, he later said, “was in control of a media empire that we viewed as an arm of propaganda for the United States government.”

Six members of the S.L.A. died in a shootout with Los Angeles police in May 1974. Clockwise from top left, Camilla Hall, William Wolfe, Donald DeFreeze, Patricia Soltysik, Nancy Ling Perry and Angela Atwood.

Eva Marie Saint and Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest” in 1959. She said some of the easiest work in her entire professional life involved the many retakes required to film their kissing scenes.

Charges were dismissed against David Hearn, the former Olympian wrongly accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, and a judge has barred prosecutors from trying to revive the case against him.

Police officers and student protesters facing off outside a school in Paris on Thursday.

Demonstrators gathered in Paris to protest ailing schools.

Brooke Eby in December 2024.

Frank Strada speaks at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville after an execution in August.

The Cornell University Police Department gathered additional evidence in its investigation into allegations that several fraternity members had sexually assaulted a woman.

A construction site for a border wall near Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park in August.

Attorney General Letitia James, center, has frequently waded into politically fraught matters.

An ad that was approved by President Trump and paid for by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Extreme heat warnings have been issued from Santa Barbara to San Diego, lasting through at least next Friday.