Dan Bongino, the F.B.I. deputy director, at the Capitol last month.

Nicaragua’s co-presidents, Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, in Managua this month in a photograph released by state media.

President Trump has sought to control the Justice Department to pursue his political enemies.

Major universities have made it their mission to embrace diversity and expand their reach in the world. The Trump administration would like them to do the opposite.

The Trump administration is preparing budget cuts and further layoffs that could ultimately force the Internal Revenue Service to shed as much as 50 percent of its work force.

Clockwise from top left, Adrien Brody, Ariana Grande, Timothée Chalamet and Zoe Saldaña are on track for nominations. But there are few shoo-ins this year.

A rebel fighter with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the most powerful militia group in Syria, at a presidential palace in the capital, Damascus.

Ohio has become a key front in the fight over access to abortion as voters are set to decide on an amendment that would enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution.

One of the entrances to the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center sits behind a statue, “Freedom of the Human Spirit,” in Corona Park, Queens.