Elon Musk and Tim Cook, far right, were among the U.S. chief executives in attendance during a state banquet in Beijing last week.

President Trump seems even less inhibited by the rules, written or unwritten, that governed his predecessors.

Senate Republicans are muscling through legislation to provide more than $70 billion by employing a special budget exemption that was never intended to be used this way.

Cuban revolutionaries taking over the Havana Docks Corporation facilities in 1960.

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

This work by Stephanie J. Woods on display at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is part of a competition that recognizes excellence in portraiture.

On Pam Bondi’s first day as attorney general in February 2025, she signed a directive that appeared to prohibit the kind of fund the Trump administration established this week.

A U.S. military official said that Iran had been able to study the flight patterns of American fighter jets and bombers.

A Customs and Border Protection officer at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

The Justice Department is tapping an unlimited fund created by Congress to settle lawsuits filed against the government.

A lawsuit against the F.D.A. threatens access to medication abortion, and the Trump administration has remained strikingly silent about the case, even as it reached the Supreme Court.

Argentine security forces seizing a young man in 1982 in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War.

President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, welcomed King Charles III of Britain and Queen Camilla to the White House on Tuesday evening for a state dinner.

From left: At a memorial to Charlie Kirk, a flag flying at half-staff, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro walking in front of his firebombed home.