Electric vehicles at a Volkswagen plant in Dresden, Germany. The company is an extreme example of how difficult it has been for foreign automakers to cope in the U.S. car market.

President Trump at the White House on Friday.

Police blocked off an area near where the victims of the shooting were found in Portland, Ore., on Thursday afternoon.

President Trump and members of his cabinet at a meeting with oil executives at the White House on Friday.

The December jobs tally showed how President Trump’s agenda may have impacted the economy during his first year back in office.

Doug Mills, left, photographing President Trump after an interview with The New York Times on Wednesday.

A photograph released by Iranian state media showing shops in Tehran on Dec. 30 that were closed after protests.

“We do not have U.S. armed forces in Venezuela, and we are not occupying that country,” Speaker Mike Johnson said on Monday.

Club America members from Stratford High School in Houston found themselves caught between concerned parents on the left and Texas’ most powerful politicians on the right.

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.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani named Kamar Samuels as New York City’s schools chancellor. He starts on Thursday.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in May. By tradition, he releases his report about the state of the nation’s courts on the last day of the year.

The Arkansas Valley Conduit would provide clean water to 50,000 Colorado residents by diverting water from the Arkansas River, seen here at the base of the dam of the Pueblo Reservoir.