1. Federal prosecutors accused Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, of lying to them about his contacts with Trump administration officials and other matters.

After signing a plea agreement in September, Mr. Manafort, above, “stated he had no direct or indirect communications with anyone in the administration,” prosecutors working for the special counsel, Robert Mueller, wrote in a memo to a judge.

But, they said, Mr. Manafort concealed information about his contacts with administration officials, telling “multiple discernible lies.”