“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.”

Executives at Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, see some signs of stress among shoppers.

A health worker measures the temperature of a motorcyclist passing through a checkpoint in Goma, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Thursday.

Spencer Pratt’s campaign has received a boost from A.I. videos that depict him as a superhero fighting Democratic leaders.

Mira Nair, the acclaimed film director and mother of Zohran Mamdani, in Amritsar, India, in March.

Elon Musk and Tim Cook, far right, were among the U.S. chief executives in attendance during a state banquet in Beijing last week.

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

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mandate is more exploratory in ideas than a law that will immediately change the jobs picture for California residents.

Senate Republicans are muscling through legislation to provide more than $70 billion by employing a special budget exemption that was never intended to be used this way.

Cuban revolutionaries taking over the Havana Docks Corporation facilities in 1960.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s executive budget release earlier this month was given the star treatment by some of his followers on social media.

A furniture workshop in Havana carries reminders that the Castro family has been part of Cuba’s ruling elite for more than 65 years.

A billboard in Tehran showing the three supreme leaders, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his son, Mojtaba Khamenei.

Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, during an appearance before the Senate appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday.