Politics

Dana White, chief executive of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, photographed in 2015.

Trump offers the press secretary job to UFC boss Dana White, who flies to Washington for a Monday meeting

Gadi Eisenkot in November 2022, at the start of his first term as a member of the Knesset, in Jerusalem.

Herzog passes over Netanyahu and gives Gadi Eisenkot 28 days to form Israel's next government

The chamber of the United States House of Representatives, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., in 2017. Democrats take over the chamber's committees in January.

Democrats set a November 11 deadline for Homeland Security records as they prepare subpoenas over killings by immigration agents

Stephen Miller, then White House deputy chief of staff for policy, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, in February 2025.

Trump hands the White House staff to Stephen Miller three days after losing both chambers of Congress

Santiago Peña, then president of Paraguay, during an official visit to Taiwan in May 2026.

Paraguay's prosecutors order the arrest of Santiago Peña hours after the Senate removed him

Santiago Peña at a meeting at the U.S. Department of State in Washington in January 2025.

Paraguay crisis

Paraguay's Senate removes President Santiago Peña by 44 votes, and Vice-President Pedro Alliana takes over

Paraguay's president, Santiago Peña, in an official portrait taken during his visit to Taiwan in May 2026.

Crisis in Paraguay

Paraguay's Senate sits as a court and hears Santiago Peña's defense on Friday

Gadi Eisenkot in November 2022, when he was a member of the Knesset. A former chief of the general staff of the Israel Defense Forces, he now leads the Yashar party.

Eisenkot gets 67 recommendations to Netanyahu's 46, and Herzog names on Sunday who will try to form Israel's government

Lawmaker Fernando Villavicencio during a session of the Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador, in April 2023.

A Quito judge sends seven defendants to trial as alleged masterminds of Fernando Villavicencio's assassination

First Lady Melania Trump in her official White House portrait, released in January 2025.

White House diplomacy

Melania Trump brings Russian and Ukrainian officials into the White House, days after the truce she brokered expired

The National Congress building in Asunción, home to the Chamber of Deputies now weighing the impeachment request.

Paraguay's lower house takes up the impeachment of President Santiago Peña over the collapse of ueno bank

The official portrait of Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House of Representatives, taken in July 2024.

Republican leadership

Mike Johnson gives up the House Republican leadership, and Scalise and Jordan line up to replace him

Official portrait of Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo as chief of the Indonesian National Police, released by the force in 2024.

Prabowo dismisses Indonesia's presidential chief of staff, arrested over suspected wiretapping of the president

The floor of the United States Senate chamber in the Capitol, in an undated photograph released by the Senate.

Democrats take the Senate with seven flipped seats, and Mississippi narrows to 43 votes

The United States Capitol in Washington, seen in June 2024.

Midterm elections

Democrats win the House and flip Senate seats in Texas and South Carolina, with Senate control still undecided

The facade of the Palácio do Planalto, seat of the Brazilian presidency, in Brasília.

Re-elected, Lula sets four foreign trips before January, from COP31 in Turkey to Trump's G20 in Florida

La Moneda Palace, the seat of Chile's presidency, in Santiago, in 2022.

Chile's opposition prepares impeachment of the justice minister over reduced sentences for 56 people convicted of sex crimes against children

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Justice, in Washington, D.C., in 2014.

Justice Department charges 63 people with election crimes one day before the midterms

Representative Haley Stevens, Democrat of Michigan, in her official US House portrait, made in November 2018.

A Democratic congresswoman endorses the Republican in Michigan's Senate race, a day before the vote

The official US Senate portrait of Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, made in 2013, his first year in the chamber.

Senator Chris Murphy, 53, suffers a stroke and is moved to Johns Hopkins two days before the midterms