— James Comey’s memos were released, and the war of words between former FBI officials and the president continued.

Former FBI Director James B. Comey’s redacted, declassified memos detailing his meetings with President Donald Trump were released late Thursday after the Justice Department sent them to Congress.

The memos offer an intimate look at the interactions between officials at the highest levels of government in the months leading to Comey’s ouster, elaborating on the president's concerns about the salacious dossier detailing his supposed ties to Russia and the investigation into Michael T. Flynn, his national security adviser at the time.

Trump repeatedly lashed out at his former FBI director this week as Comey continued his publicity tour across television networks to promote his tell-all memoir, “A Higher Loyalty.”

Andrew G. McCabe, Comey’s former deputy director who was fired hours before retirement, also faced renewed attacks from conservatives after federal prosecutors began examining whether they had enough evidence to open a criminal investigation. A Justice Department inspector general report had repeatedly faulted McCabe for misleading investigators.

— Mike Pompeo secretly visited North Korea. It’s a sign that talks are progressing.

Trump confirmed that Mike Pompeo, the CIA director and his nominee for secretary of state, visited North Korea to meet with its leader, Kim Jong Un. The goal of the trip, which took place over Easter weekend, was to lay the groundwork for a summit meeting between Trump and Kim.

But Trump warned on Wednesday that if he felt the diplomatic gesture was not headed toward success, he would scrap the planned summit meeting or even walk out while it was underway. Although the North has reportedly dropped its demand that the United States remove troops from South Korea as a condition for denuclearization, the Trump administration has reacted warily.

But the president reacted more favorably early Friday evening when Kim announced that North Korea no longer needed to test nuclear weapons or missiles and would close a nuclear test site.

“This is very good news for North Korea and the World - big progress!” Trump wrote on Twitter.

The president, who spent part of the week meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, also rebuffed the prospect of rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a multinational trade agreement. It was another blow to Japan, which fears it has been sidelined as Trump cultivates relationships with other Asian countries.

— Within the administration, there was division over how hard to target Syria and Russia.

The New York Times reported this week that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was overruled in his push to get congressional approval for a barrage of missile strikes against Syria by U.S., British and French forces. He succeeded, however, in limiting the strikes to three targets that did not risk endangering Russian troops at military installations scattered through Syria.

But a military intelligence report found that while the strikes probably stalled the production of sarin gas, President Bashar Assad of Syria is expected to continue researching and developing chemical weapons.

There was also a public divide over whether the administration would impose a fresh round of sanctions against Russian companies found to be aiding Syria’s chemical weapons program. Trump rejected the measure after his ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki R. Haley, said on a Sunday television program that the administration would be enforcing them.

Haley pushed back against the idea that there had been “momentary confusion” over the issue, as Larry Kudlow, the president's top economic adviser had suggested. “With all due respect, I don’t get confused,” she said.

— It was another week of upheaval for Trump’s legal team.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, will join Trump’s legal team in an attempt to “quickly” resolve the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and ties to Trump campaign associates.

A federal judge in Manhattan indicated Monday that she was not prepared to grant Trump exclusive first access to the documents that FBI agents had seized in raids on the office and hotel room of his personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen. In the courtroom, it was also revealed that Sean Hannity, the Fox News commentator, was another client of Cohen.

Cohen has been treated poorly by Trump over the course of their relationship, with gratuitous insults, dismissive statements and, at least twice, threats of being fired. There is now concern about that treatment backfiring if Cohen ends up cooperating with federal officials.

Trump’s campaign also faced a new legal entanglement Friday after the Democratic National Committee named the campaign in a sweeping lawsuit filed in federal court. The committee says it was the victim of a conspiracy by Russian officials, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks to damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

— Despite strong opposition, some of Trump’s political nominees are progressing through the confirmation process.

Pompeo, the current CIA director, is expected to be confirmed as the country’s 70th secretary of state. However, he is also expected to receive a historic rebuke from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is not likely to recommend his confirmation.

The CIA is mounting an unusual campaign to ensure that its deputy director, Gina Haspel, a career spy with a highly classified career, succeeds Pompeo as the agency’s director. Haspel faces opposition from Democrats, who are likely to have questions about her role in overseeing the brutal interrogation of a terrorism suspect at a secret prison in Thailand and conveying orders to destroy videos that documented torture.

The nominee to lead NASA, Jim Bridenstine, was confirmed Thursday in a stark partisan vote, ending the longest span of time that the agency has gone without a leader. The vote, which lasted more than 45 minutes, was punctuated by the arrival of Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill. She cast her “no” vote with her infant daughter cuddled in her lap — a first for the Senate.

— Barbara Bush, the wife of one president and mother of another, died at 92.

Barbara Bush, the beloved wife of the 41st president and the mother of the 43rd, died Tuesday evening at her home in Houston. She was 92.

She and her husband, President George H.W. Bush, had celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary in January, making them the longest-married couple in presidential history.

Barbara Bush, who had congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, decided this week to forgo further medical treatment and instead spend her last few days saying goodbye to loved ones and her family.

Her funeral was held Saturday in Houston, with first lady Melania Trump representing the White House at the ceremony. Former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama also attended.