The F.B.I. director has come under withering attack in recent days, but with Republicans backing him, the proceedings fell into a familiar partisan groove that appeared to play to his strengths.

After allowing a stopgap spending bill to move forward earlier this year, Democrats are under intense pressure not to do so again.

Mr. Woodward said Mr. Redford, who portrayed him in the classic 1976 film “All the President’s Men,” was a “genuine, a noble and principled force for good.”

As Israel mounts a major Gaza offensive, President Trump has neither urged restraint nor endorsed the action, which Israel’s leader has taken as an implicit green light to proceed.

The judge overseeing the case against Mr. Mangione said the evidence underpinning two of the most serious counts, one of which charged him with first-degree murder, was “legally insufficient.”

The long-anticipated military assault is aimed, the Israelis said, at routing the militants of Hamas, but it deepened the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

House Republicans extended a maneuver they engineered earlier in the year that effectively strips Congress of the power to disapprove of President Trump’s tariffs.

Redford “stood for an America we have to keep fighting for,” his frequent collaborator Jane Fonda said after his death was announced on Tuesday.

Named the year’s “new star” at the 1954 Golden Globes, she appeared alongside the biggest names of her time. She later embarked on a long career in television.

The voluble former senator, now retired from politics, appears to miss the arena and is mulling a return to it.

Reluctant to focus on style or his looks, Mr. Redford nevertheless became the embodiment of an enduring aesthetic.

He made serious topics like grief and political corruption resonate with the masses, in no small part because of his own star power.

“I did see some stones that looked a little too perfect,” said the winner of the Stone Skimming World Championships. The offending contestants were disqualified.

How do we think about the climate future, now that the era marked by the Paris Agreement has so utterly disappeared?