President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine dismissed the head of the country’s air force on Friday, days after the crash of an F-16 warplane in what may have been a friendly fire incident.

Two foreign citizens have been charged with falsely reporting threats against the U.S. Capitol and prominent officials, including members of Congress and Cabinet members, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — As Speaker Nancy Pelosi was evacuated from the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, while the complex was under attack, her motorcade passed by a pipe bomb at the Democratic National Committee headquarters that law enforcement had yet to render safe, according to video and analysis released this week by House Republicans.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met Thursday with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and held rare talks with a top Chinese military official in a sign that the two countries are communicating at senior levels despite tensions over the South China Sea and Taiwan.

More than three years ago, the U.S. Postal Service unveiled a sweeping 10-year plan meant to steer the organization out of a financial crisis. The plan, which included consolidating locations, raising prices and lengthening promised delivery times, was meant to stabilize an agency that had lost $87 billion over the past 14 years.

Vice President Kamala Harris is aiming to go on offense against former President Donald Trump in Georgia, kicking off a bus tour on Wednesday in the rural southeastern corner of the battleground state.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday maintained a temporary pause on a new effort by President Joe Biden to wipe out tens and perhaps hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt.

Nearly 1 million people in Japan were under evacuation orders Thursday morning as Typhoon Shanshan approached the mainland with hurricane-force winds, torrential rain and the threat of landslides, with authorities warning that the storm could produce a large-scale disaster.

PARIS — Pavel Durov, the Russian-born entrepreneur who founded the online communications tool Telegram, was charged on Wednesday in France with a wide range of crimes for failing to prevent illicit activity on the app, and barred from leaving the country.

Students were braced for a stalemate. There was an Ultimate Frisbee team without money to compete, an airport shuttle whose cost to students almost doubled without a campus subsidy, and a ballroom dance team unable to rent rehearsal space.