Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, during an appearance before the Senate appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday.

Representative Eliot Engel in his Bronx office in 1998. He was a reliable champion of liberal causes.

President Trump has said anybody who disagrees with him will never get the top job at the Federal Reserve, prompting concern that his nominee will prioritize pleasing him over all else.

Jack Smith, the former special counsel, during a break in a closed-door deposition with the House Judiciary Committee.

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, then known as H. Rap Brown, in 1967. At the time, he was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Pentagon reporters have had access to the building’s corridors for decades.

Representative Jim Jordan, rear row, right, is among the leaders requesting that college consulting firms share information about their pricing algorithms, among other issues.

“President Trump wants to eliminate the agency,” Kari Lake said, referring to her global media agency. “We need to eliminate this agency, find what’s salvageable and move it over to the Department of State.”

Emil Bove III, a top Justice Department official, at his confirmation hearing on Wednesday for an appeals court judgeship.

President Trump’s budget proposes deep reductions for nearly ever major federal agency, reserving its steepest cuts for foreign aid, medical research, tax enforcement and a slew of anti-poverty programs.

Justice Neil Gorsuch with former Justice Stephen Breyer at a memorial event for Antonin Scalia last year during a Federalist Society convention in Washington.

As an Olympic swimmer, Kirsty Coventry twice won gold medals for Zimbabwe.

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

Former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign announced it had raised $34.8 million after being convicted of multiple felony charges in Manhattan on Thursday.

Gov. Mike DeWine, Republican of Ohio, had called a special legislative session to fix what is typically a minor procedural issue.

The chief executives of Meta, Snap, Discord, X and TikTok testified on Wednesday in a Senate hearing about online child safety. Lawmakers have at least six bills waiting in the wings about the issue.