


President Trump seems even less inhibited by the rules, written or unwritten, that governed his predecessors.

On Pam Bondi’s first day as attorney general in February 2025, she signed a directive that appeared to prohibit the kind of fund the Trump administration established this week.

Aliko Dangote at home in Lagos, Nigeria, 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.

Young men carried Albert Ojwang’s coffin at his funeral in Kakoth village, Kenya, on Friday.

Tear gas and smoke at a protest in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, on Wednesday. As demonstrations flared, banks and businesses in the center of the city were closed amid a heavy police presence.

Mayor Eric Adams appeared in federal court as a judge weighed the Justice Department’s request to drop corruption charges against him.

Wayne LaPierre had led the N.R.A. for more than three decades.

When Eric Adams was running for mayor, he put Brianna Suggs, then 23, in charge of his fund-raising operation.