2. The Trump administration is considering sanctions on Chinese officials over the mass detention of ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups.

Some estimates suggest that China has detained as many as a million Uighurs in large internment camps, and a Times investigation found that the detainees are forced to give up their devotion to Islam. Above, a mosque in Xinjiang.

The U.S. also threatened sanctions against the International Criminal Court if it pursued an investigation of American troops in Afghanistan, and moved to close the P.L.O. office in Washington.

And we learned that the administration is making its third major step this year to roll back federal efforts to fight climate change: preparing to make it significantly easier for energy companies to release methane into the atmosphere.