Kilmar Armando Abrego García arrives at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Aug. 25, 2025. A judge in Tennessee cast doubt on the testimony of a prosecutor who brought charges against Abrego García. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By MATTATHIAS SCHWARTZ In late April, a lawyer for the Justice Department told a federal judge that her colleagues had been in the midst of negotiations with a Rhode Island hospital about turning over gender-trans

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin looks on as President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Wednesday, May, 20, 2026. Mullin’s proposal could block hubs like Boston, New York and Los Angeles from accepting international flights. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By KAROUN DEMIRJIAN and MADELEINE NGO Travel industry and business leaders are denouncing a proposal by Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to remove customs officers from ai

Annie Pearl Avery of Birmingham, Ala., took part in the march from Tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma, Ala., on May 16, 2026. As Republicans rush to redraw the region’s congressional maps, some voters are confused and concerned, and civil rights activists are gearing up for the fight of a generation. (Wes Frazer/The New York Times) By EMILY COCHRANE and RICK ROJAS It is a confusing moment to be a voter in the South. Republican leaders across the region have redrawn congressio

By ORLANDO MAYORQUÍN Crews recovered the bodies of two workers who were still missing after an explosion last week at a paper mill in Longview, Washington, bringing the death toll to 11, officials said Saturday. Initially, two people were found dead and nine workers were reported missing after a tank holding 600,000 gallons of a caustic chemical known as “white liquor” exploded Tuesday morning at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging plant on the Columbia River in southwestern Washin

Anti-ICE demonstrators and counterprotested yell at one other outside Delaney Hall, a federal detention facility in Newark, N.J. on Saturday, May 30, 2026. Clashes between protesters and armed federal agents here have flared off and on since the Memorial Day weekend; on Friday, federal officials left the area outside the detention center so that the state police could assume control. (Vincent Alban/The New York Times) By MAIA COLEMAN and MARK BONAMO New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sher

Author E. Jean Carroll leaves the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in lower Manhattan, Sept. 6, 2024. Andrew Boutros, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for Northern Illinois, has opened a criminal investigation into Carroll, the 82-year-old former magazine writer who accused President Trump of sexual assault, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times) By GLENN THRUSH and BENJAMIN WEISER The Justice Department has

An aerial view of the Port of Longview, Washington in 2008. Nine workers at a paper mill in the city remained missing and two were dead in what Gov. Bob Ferguson warned would likely be the worst industrial disaster in the state’s modern history. (Wikipedia) By BILLY WITZ, CHRISTINE HAUSER, ALEXANDRA BERZON, ANNA GRIFFIN and CHRISTINE MORALES Nine workers at a paper mill in southern Washington state remained missing and two were dead earlier this week in what Gov. Bob Ferguson

Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas waves as he arrives at a primary election night gathering in Dallas, March 3, 2026. Paxton, the scandal-scarred attorney general of Texas and loyalist to President Trump, defeated Senator John Cornyn in a Republican primary runoff election on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, according to The Associated Press, casting out the state’s senior senator and bolstering Democratic hopes of flipping the seat. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times) By SHANE GOLDMA

The Brigade 2506 Monument in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami, March 8, 2026. More than 4,300 Cubans were deported from the United States to Mexico between President Trump’s 2025 inauguration and March 9, 2026. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/The New York Times) By PATRICIA MAZZEI Record numbers of Cuban nationals have been deported from the United States since President Donald Trump returned to office last year, but most have not been repatriated to Cuba. Instead, they have been

President Donald Trump shows a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 31, 2026. President Trump is trying to create individual lists of citizens by state to determine who can vote, even as his administration acknowledges they would be unreliable. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By ADAM SELLA President Donald Trump is seeking to create state-by-state citizenship lists, saying they are necessary to block noncitizens from voting, a virt