People in the community run from clouds of tear gas deployed by federal agents after federal immigration officers crashed into a vehicle in south Minneapolis, Jan. 12, 2026. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times) By ERNESTO LONDOÑO Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned Tuesday over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter, accordi

The Four Corners Power Plant outside of Fruitland, N.M., on Oct. 10, 2025. The president’s embrace of fossil fuels and withdrawal from the global fight against climate change will make it hard to keep warming at safe levels, scientists said. (Benjamin Rasmussen/The New York Times) By LISA FRIEDMAN By pulling the United States out of the main international climate treaty, seizing Venezuelan crude oil and using government power to resuscitate the domestic coal industry while ch

Venezuela’s autocratic leader, Nicolás Maduro, waves the country’s flag during a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 1, 2025. The government will have to navigate difficult legal issues and use testimony about incidents clouded by time. But conspiracy laws are powerful tools for prosecutors. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By JONAH E. BROMWICH, BENJAMIN WEISER and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM The episodes described in the indictment are vivid, even cinematic. There is Ni

Demonstrators are placed under arrest by police during a protest outside of an immigration detention facility in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday night, Jan. 8, 2026. Federal agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday during a traffic stop, a day after the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis stoked outrage over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. (Jordan Gale/The New York Times) By GLENN THRUSH The Trump administration blocked Minnesota officials from inve

People gather along the downtown waterfront in Portland, Ore. to protest recent shootings involving federal ICE agents across the country, on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026. Mounting outrage over an ICE agent’s killing of a woman in Minneapolis manifested this weekend in a series of planned nationwide demonstrations. (Jordan Gale/The New York Times) By CHRIS HIPPENSTEEL Mounting outrage over an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent’s killing of a woman in Minneapolis spilled int

Demonstrators gather in protest of the immigration crackdown by Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. A federal immigration agent fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times) By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS, MITCH SMITH and JACEY FORTIN A top state law enforcement official

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks at a news conference with Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), left, and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), right, on a Venezuela war powers resolution at the Capitol in Washington, on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. The Senate on Thursday agreed to debate a war powers resolution aimed at curbing President Trump’s use of military force in Venezuela, with five Republicans joining Democrats in a rare bipartisan rebuke of the White House. (Kenny Holston/The

A FEMA search and rescue worker in Swannanoa, N.C., after Hurricane Helene, Oct. 6, 2024. Federal Emergency Management Agency supervisors are advising their staff to prepare for the elimination of 1,000 jobs this month as part of changes that Kristi Noem, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, is overseeing at the agency, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions. (Loren Elliott/The New York Times) By SCOTT DANCE Federal Emergency Management A