Voting this past week in Tingbjerg, Denmark. The governing party, which has championed a stricter stance on asylum, performed badly in municipal elections.

A Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago last week on the first day of the government shutdown.

President Trump visiting sailors aboard the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush off the coast of Norfolk, Va., on Sunday.

A government shutdown started at midnight on Wednesday.

To keep the government open past Oct. 1, lawmakers in Congress have to agree on a spending bill.

Zohran Mamdani’s Five Boroughs Against Trump tour will start on Monday.

Senator Chuck Schumer, left, and Representative Hakeem Jeffries, congratulated Zohran Mamdani but stopped short of endorsing him.

Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani celebrated on election night with Brad Lander, New York City’s comptroller. They had formed an alliance with cross-endorsements in the mayoral race.

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is beginning a three-day, five-city swing through Western states alongside Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

Senator Chuck Schumer and Democrats warned that the measure was the leading edge of a broader assault by Republicans on abortion rights.

Sharon Bradford Franklin, the chairwoman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, was among three board members picked by Democrats who received an email from the White House telling them to submit resignation letters.