A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos displayed at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 10, 2026. The Trump administration is continuing its push to deport Liam Conejos Ramos, the 5-year-old boy whose detention became a defining image of the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By MIRIAM JORDAN The Trump administration is continuing its push to deport Liam Conejos Ramos, the 5-year-old boy whose detention became

By SCOTT DANCE The Federal Emergency Management Agency said earlier this weekit would relaunch a canceled grant program that had helped states invest billions of dollars in projects that made local communities more resilient to floods, fires and other disasters. The announcement came days before a deadline imposed by a federal judge who ruled in December that the Trump administration’s decision to end the program, known as Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities, or

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security Committee in Washington on Wednesday, March 18, 2026. Mullin said Wednesday that if confirmed, he would “absolutely” revoke a policy that has dramatically slowed the flow of federal disaster aid under the current secretary, Kristi Noem. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By SCOTT DANCE Sen.

Cesar Chavez, center, joins with United Farm Workers while demonstrating in New York, Oct. 10, 1969. An investigation by The New York Times found extensive evidence that the United Farm Workers co-founder groomed and sexually abused girls who worked in the movement. (John Sotomayor/The New York Times) By SARAH HURTES and MANNY FERNÁNDEZ Every year, thousands gather to celebrate Cesar Chavez, the labor leader who rose from the poverty of Arizona’s lettuce fields to build one o

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters before a Senate briefing on the ongoing conflict with Iran, at the Capitol in Washington, March 3, 2026. Many Cubans in Florida have sought regime change for decades; they fear that President Trump’s talks with Cuba will not lead to wholesale political transformation. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By PATRICIA MAZZEI The musician Willy Chirino was singing a protest song at a gala hosted by Cuban American lawyers in Miami last

Rep. Nellie Pou (D-N.J.) speaks as an aide holds a photo of Leqaa Kordia during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 10, 2026. Kordia, who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University in 2024, has been released from a federal detention center in Texas, where she had been held for more than a year. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By MARIA CRAMER A New Jersey woman who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during an announcement regarding autism at the White House in Washington, Sept. 22, 2025. In a severe blow to the Trump administration’s health agenda, a U.S. district court in Massachusetts on Monday, March 16, 2026, blocked the government from implementing a series of decisions on vaccines made over the last year by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By MAGGIE ASTOR an

By KAROUN DEMIRJIAN and MADELEINE NGO Many Department of Homeland Security employees were on track to miss a paycheck last Friday amid the nearly monthlong lapse in funding for the agency, leading officials to warn of potential disruptions in air travel if more airport security workers call out of work. Travelers have already experienced long security line delays at some major airports, including John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and William P. Hobby Airport i

An Oakland County Sheriff vehicle stationed outside Temple Israel, which was attacked by a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon who drove a car loaded with fireworks into the synagogue in West Bloomfield, Mich., March 13, 2026. The Israeli military says that the brother of Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, who was killed by armed guards after his attack on the synagogue, was a Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon earlier this month. (Nick Hagen/The New York

The Tim Hortons coffee shop in Buffalo, N.Y., where Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, a nearly blind Rohingya refugee who spoke limited English, was dropped off by U.S. Border Patrol agents after his release from the Erie County Holding Center, on Feb. 26, 2026. Buffalo’s Arakan Rohingya community was rattled after a disabled man’s death. “Our worry comes from future incidents that may happen,” one resident said. (Jalen Wright/The New York Times) By MARK SOMMER In the Broadway-Fillmo