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WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents

By SCOTT SHANE, MATTHEW ROSENBERG and ANDREW W. LEHREN

Jason Reed/Reuters

The C.I.A. headquarters in Langley, Va. If the WikiLeaks documents are authentic, the release would be a serious blow to the agency.

The documents describe agency tools used to hack into smartphones and TVs, as well as to bypass encryption on programs like Signal and WhatsApp.

Proposed amendments to the Affordable Care Act during a markup by the House Energy and Commerce Committee in July 2009.

Obamacare Took Months to Craft; Repeal May Be Much Swifter

By ROBERT PEAR

In comparison with the pace of work on the Affordable Care Act in 2009, the timetable for the Republicans’ health care bill is lightning fast.

Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, last month. He built a career suing the agency he now leads.

E.P.A. Head Stacks Agency With Climate Change Skeptics

By CORAL DAVENPORT

Scott Pruitt seems intent on building an E.P.A. leadership that is fundamentally at odds with the officials who carry out the agency’s missions.

Charles Peters, the founder of Washington Monthly, at his home. In his new book, “We Do Our Part,” he chastises the Democratic Party for catering to the liberal professional class at the expense of blue-collar voters.

A Lefty Legend Pleads for a Return to a New Deal Ethos

By JONATHAN MARTIN

At 90, Charles Peters, founding editor of Washington Monthly and author of a new book, wants “to grab people by the lapels and say, ‘We’ve got to change.’”

Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, has pointedly and repeatedly refused to offer personal assurances about President Trump’s claims that President Barack Obama tapped phones in Trump Tower during the presidential campaign.

Trump Aides Address His Wiretap Claims: ‘That’s Above My Pay Grade’

By GLENN THRUSH and MAGGIE HABERMAN

The president’s team has been uncharacteristically muted when pressed about Mr. Trump’s explosive and unproven accusations about President Barack Obama.

Republican senators and representatives opposed to the health care bill put forward by Republican leaders gathered for a news conference outside the Capitol on Tuesday.

G.O.P. Health Bill Faces Revolt From Conservative Forces

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER

Before the bill has even reached House committees, conservative senators and groups have come out against the plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.

A United States soldier inside the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Fact-Check: Trump Is Wrong About Guantánamo Detainees

By CHARLIE SAVAGE

President Trump’s assertion that 122 former prisoners released during the Obama administration have returned to militant activity is false.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, said the appointment of a special counsel was necessary to shield the inquiry from the appearance of political interference by the Trump administration.

Democrats Seek Special Counsel to Investigate Russian Election Interference

By CHARLIE SAVAGE and ERIC LICHTBLAU

Senator Dianne Feinstein said the move was necessary to shield the inquiry from the appearance of political interference by the Trump administration.

Rod J. Rosenstein, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, at a news conference in Baltimore last week.

Sessions’s Potential Deputy Faces a Stern Test on Russia Inquiries

By ERIC LICHTBLAU

If his nomination to become deputy attorney general is successful, Rod J. Rosenstein would oversee any investigations into Donald J. Trump’s campaign and Russia.

The Upshot

Attendees at an event in Salt Lake City wrote questions for Senator Mike Lee, who they hoped to see — he did not show up — late last month. Like many lawmakers, he has been facing questions from constituents about health care reform, and on Tuesday he called the Republicans’ new plan “not the Obamacare repeal bill we’ve been waiting for.”

Why Even Some Republicans Are Rejecting the Replacement Bill

By MARGOT SANGER-KATZ

The bill seems unlikely to lower costs, does less to open up the market than conservatives had hoped and offers subsidies still seen as too generous.

The Upshot

At the Port of Oakland in California last August. The United States exported 0.9 percent more goods in January than it did in December.

The Huge January Trade Deficit Shows Trump’s Hard Job Ahead

By NEIL IRWIN

What matters is not whether the deficit is rising or falling, but why.

Economic Scene

The flight deck of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt in the Persian Gulf in August 2015. President Trump’s proposed budget would cut $54 billion from discretionary civilian spending to increase military spending.

Trump Budget Proposal Reflects Working-Class Resentment of the Poor

By EDUARDO PORTER

By protecting Social Security and Medicare while going after anti-poverty programs, the plan suits a constituency that strongly backed the president.

A Great Wall Motors factory in Baoding, China. The country’s leaders worry that an increasingly well-educated younger generation is rejecting factory work for higher-paid office jobs.

China’s Plan to Build Its Own High-Tech Industries Worries Western Businesses

By KEITH BRADSHER and PAUL MOZUR

European and American companies say that a $300 billion effort to make China self-sufficient in important sectors could lead to unfair competition.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly talk about the Trump administration’s second attempt at a travel ban.

‘The Daily’: Travel Ban Do-Over

By MICHAEL BARBARO

Monday’s travel ban from the Trump administration was different from the first one, both in presentation and in substance.

The Dior store at CityCenterDC, a sleek complex of luxury stores that opened in downtown Washington about three years ago.

What the Trumps’ Arrival in Washington Means for a Luxury Mall

By VALERIYA SAFRONOVA

CityCenterDC, which opened to some skepticism in 2013, might benefit from the wealth and glamour of the new administration.

The Upshot

Representative Greg Walden, the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, at a town hall meeting last month in Oregon. Mr. Walden’s committee has played a key role in writing the American Health Care Act.

G.O.P. Repeal Bill Would Cut Funding for Poor and Taxes on Rich

By MARGOT SANGER-KATZ

The new plan would decrease the dollars to states that cover poor adults through their Medicaid program.

An image distributed by the North Korean government showing the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, visiting a missile test center in North Pyongan Province. Analysts say the pair of engines he is standing in front of could power an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Trump Inherits a Secret Cyberwar Against North Korean Missiles

By DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROAD

The United States has been trying to sabotage North Korea’s missile program. President Trump must decide what to do next.

Tracking Trump’s Agenda, Step by Step

By JOSH KELLER and ADAM PEARCE

A tracker of the latest status of President Trump’s major priorities.

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Donald Trump’s Cabinet Is Taking Shape. Here’s the Latest List.

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

A list of appointees and nominees for top posts in the new administration.

President Trump leaving the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va., on Saturday, his first full day in office.

Grand Plans vs. Reality: White House Veterans Recall Their First 100 Days

By JEREMY W. PETERS

Don’t Ask, don’t Tell.” Bombing Iraq. Somali pirates. Top officials from the Clinton, Bush and Obama White Houses recall how nothing goes exactly as planned.