The absence of migrants is evident in places like this nutrition bar factory, which was raided in September by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in Cato, N.Y., Oct. 22, 2025. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times) By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ Year 1 of President Donald Trump’s quest to conduct the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history turned towns and cities into battlegrounds. Americans were inundated, first slowly and then all at once, with videos of masked agents, seemingly

President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. The president issued a raft of clemency grants last week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By KENNETH P. VOGEL and SUSANNE CRAIG In 2021, a convicted fraudster named Adriana Camberos was freed from prison when President Donald Trump commuted her sentence. Rather than taking a

By NICHOLAS FANDOS Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-N.Y.) has a word of warning for Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor she just helped to elect: Back off city politics. Tension has quietly been growing between the two Democratic allies for weeks over who should succeed Velázquez in Congress as she retires after 32 years representing parts of Brooklyn and Queens. But Velázquez pushed it into the open Thursday in an interview with The New York Times, when she formally endorsed A

Federal agents perform immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis, on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. A federal agent shot and injured an immigrant in Minneapolis on Wednesday night, federal officials said, an incident that touched off clashes between protesters and law enforcement and that came just one week after an immigration agent killed a woman in the city. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times) By MITCH SMITH, NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS, SHAILA DEWAN and REIS THEBAULT Gov. T

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 7, 2026. Republican leaders in the Senate are mounting a last-minute effort to snuff out dissent within their own party and block a resolution that would require President Donald Trump to seek congressional approval for any U.S. military action related to Venezuela. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By ROBERT JIMISON and MEGAN MINEIRO The Senate earlier this week blocked a resolution that sought

People gather at a makeshift memorial at the scene where Renee Nicole Good was killed by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis, Jan. 9, 2026. The split-screen television images of mass demonstrations in Minneapolis and Tehran have highlighted the president’s disparate views of democracy and popular dissent. (Ryan Murphy/The New York Times) By PETER BAKER President Donald Trump had a ringing message of solidarity on Tuesday for demonstrators in the streets. “KEEP PROTESTI

Federal agents arrest a protester on the street amid an operation in Minneapolis, on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times) By THOMAS FULLER and JAZMINE ULLOA The video shows a young employee in a reflective vest being hauled away by federal agents from the entrance of a Target store in a Minneapolis suburb. “I’m a U.S. citizen!” the worker shouted as the armed agents shoved him into an SUV on Monday, after he had directed expletives at one. “U.S. cit

Brad Lander, the former New York City comptroller and a current Democratic candidate for the House, applauds striking nurses on the picket line outside Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, one of the hospitals affected by a strike, on Monday morning, Jan. 12, 2026. The striking nurses are aiming to force hospitals to ensure minimum staffing ratios. (Vincent Alban/The New York Times) By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN Nearly 15,000 nurses went on strike earlier this week at some of New York Ci