“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.”

At the Vatican, Pope Leo presents a new foil for President Trump.

It was unclear whether Sam Altman was home at the time of the attack.

Representative Eric Swalwell of California, one of President Trump’s most vocal critics in the House, said that he was being targeted by the Trump administration.

The Super Bowl in Silicon Valley “is tech billionaires who got picked last in gym class paying $50,000 to pretend they’re friends with the guys who got picked first,” a venture capitalist said.

Federal agents outside Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark in June. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has curbed access to its detention centers and required seven days’ notice for lawmakers seeking entry.

Grand Canyon National Park will remain open to the public during the shutdown.

U.N. Plaza in San Francisco was redesigned around a simple skate park.

Members of the Missionaries of Charity, the religious community founded by Mother Teresa, participating in the first prayer service, a rosary, in honor of Pope Francis, in Vatican City on Monday.

Elon Musk during President Trump’s inauguration parade held last month inside Capital One Arena in Washington. Mr. Musk’s political activities and reduced presence at Tesla are stirring dissatisfaction within the company.

Employees of the Hilton Boston Logan Airport were among the roughly 10,000 hotel workers represented by UNITE HERE who went on strike Sunday.

In Mountain House, Calif., temperatures yesterday reached 107 degrees, the start of what is expected to be a weeklong heatwave. High temperatures in the region average 95 degrees in a typical July.

A humpback whale in the Santa Barbara Channel, off the coast of California, last year.