• The Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded that election systems in all 50 states were targeted by Russia in 2016, an effort that was largely undetected and more far-reaching than previously acknowledged.
• Inequality and history are dominating the Democratic presidential race, as the two leading black candidates, Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, directly challenge Joe Biden over his decades-long record.
• No one on federal death row has been executed since 2003, but on Thursday, William P. Barr, the attorney general, announced that the government was resuming executions, starting with five men convicted of killing children.
• The House passed a two-year budget deal that would allow the government to keep borrowing and raise spending, amid grumblings from fiscal conservatives over the measure’s impact on the national deficit.
• It took just two weeks for his administration to reach the point of collapse, undermined by a popular uprising that the governor initially thought he could withstand. Yet Ricardo A. Rosselló misread the anger brewing among his people after years of economic stagnation and broken promises.