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

A notice sent to several congressional committees added detail to the thinly articulated legal rationale behind three U.S. military strikes President Trump ordered on boats in the Caribbean Sea last month.

The Isle of Wight, England’s biggest island and home to more than 140,000 people, is more cut off than most.

President Trump speaking to reporters this week. He has reveled in a threat to target what he called “Democrat Agencies” for temporary and permanent cuts.

Justice Department veterans see an overarching pattern in the dismissals — a quickening effort by the Trump administration to ignore and eventually demolish longstanding civil service legal precedents meant to keep politics out of law enforcement work.

Members of the American Federation of Government Employees union protesting budget cuts and layoffs near the Capitol in February. Probationary workers were the target of the first round of staff reductions.

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.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border this month. He named military operations at the border as an exception to the proposed cuts.

Big banks like Morgan Stanley spend a large percentage of their payrolls on the kinds of jobs most likely to be affected by generative A.I., according to the Burning Glass Institute.