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.

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.

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

Attendees listen as Katie Sims speaks during an afterparty at Maria’s Packaged Goods and Community Bar following the Democratic Socialists of America Summit on Friday in Chicago, Illinois.

A delivery in Wilmington, N.C., this month. Heat is linked to hundreds of workplace deaths each year, but labor groups say the true toll is unknown because heat-related illnesses are not properly tracked or reported.

David Hearn, center, pleaded not guilty this month to a felony charge of vandalism. Prosecutors had accused him of ripping the Reflecting Pool’s lining.

Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri at his home near Washington on Thursday. His release from jail was a rare concession by China after President Trump raised his case.

Liliana Figueroa, who had migrated to Brazil, returned to Venezuela after her daughter, Angelina, was killed in the earthquake.