1. Russia plans to interfere in the 2020 election, the F.B.I. director warned, calling last year’s actions a “dress rehearsal for the big show in 2020.”

The bureau, intelligence agencies and the Department of Homeland Security have shifted additional agents and analysts to prevent foreign interference, making permanent the task forces that they created to confront 2018 midterm election interference.

Intelligence officials have said that Russia has kept up its election meddling operations under the direction of President Vladimir Putin, pictured above at Russia’s foreign military intelligence agency.