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Mike Pompeo’s year of service as the director of the C.I.A. has given him a running start as he becomes Secretary of State.

Every spring, thousands of miles of so-called winter highways, mostly serving oil and mining towns in Siberia and in the far north of European Russia, melt back into the swamps from which they were

A Petróleos Mexicanos refinery in Tula, north of Mexico City. The leading presidential candidate has proposed building two refineries to process crude oil for domestic consumption, a move that would

Special counsels such as Robert S. Mueller III would be able to appeal their firing to a panel of judges under the legislation a Senate committee advanced on Thursday.

A Trump campaign rally in Johnstown, Pa., in 2016.

A Sacramento County sheriff’s deputy carried bags of evidence from the home of the suspect in the Golden State Killer case on Thursday.

Christine A. Moore, who was recently named the featured milliner of the 144th Kentucky Derby, adjusts a hat on one of her employees.

At Luda’s Dumplings in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, Eugene Tulman makes pelmeni inspired by his mother’s recipes.

Cody Critcheloe, who makes music and art under the name Ssion, is releasing “O,” his first album in seven years.

A boy received treatment following a suspected United States drone airstrike in Afghanistan in 2016.

“From what I understand, they’re looking at his businesses,” President Trump said of the investigation into Michael Cohen. “I’m not involved, and I’ve been told I’m not involved.”

President Trump and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany in the Oval Office last year, during a visit in which Mr. Trump missed or ignored a cue to shake hands with Ms. Merkel. Few expect a warmer

Joan Illuzzi, the prosecutor now overseeing the Harvey Weinstein inquiry, has expertise in cold cases in which there is little or no physical evidence and the credibility of witnesses is paramount.

Students at Howard University staged a sit-in for eight days in late March and early April, calling for the resignation of the university president, adequate housing and an end to tuition increases,

Kalyan Krishnamurthy, Flipkart’s chief executive, is credited with turning the online retailer around after a rocky start.

Law enforcement officials at a home searched in connection with the arrest of a man on suspicion of murder in Citrus Heights, Calif.

Dr. Ronny L. Jackson in January. The White House has withdrawn his nomination to become the next Veterans Affairs secretary.

Central American children playing at an immigrant respite center after their families were released from U.S. immigration officials in McAllen, Tex., in February.

Remains of victims found by archaeologists, who determined the villagers were slaughtered in their homes on the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea.

Then-President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea, right, flew to Pyongyang in June 2000 for talks with Kim Jong-il, left, North Korea’s leader. It later emerged that the South had paid the North $450