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

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

Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, said he did not bring up the chip with Chinese officials in Beijing last week.

Ships in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Musandam, Oman, on Monday. Many have been stranded since the start of the war.

Steel pipes await export in Lianyungang, China. The country’s trade surplus reached nearly $1.2 trillion last year as exports continued to outpace imports.

“Frankly, we wouldn’t be able to afford 420,000 square feet in downtown San Francisco,” said Keith Miao, the founder of Birdstop, a drone start-up in Detroit.

Cargo ships near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen last month from northern Ras al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates.

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.

A photo of Jeffrey Epstein with other faces redacted by the Justice Department.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi standing atop a vehicle during an election campaign in Tokyo on Saturday.

Documents released by the Justice Department directly contradict Howard Lutnick’s assertion on a podcast last year that he had decided never to be in the same room with Jeffrey Epstein again.

A truck hauling material out of a mining valley for heavy rare earth metals on the outskirts of Longnan, China, in April.