By ADEEL HASSAN With conditions treacherous on a highway in Michigan on Monday after a blast of lake-effect snow, more than 100 vehicles slipped and crashed into one another in a chain-reaction pileup, with some sliding off the interstate entirely, authorities said. Numerous injuries were reported, but no deaths, according to the Michigan State Police. The pileup, set off around 10:20 a.m., forced the closure of Interstate 196 in both directions between Hudsonville and Zeelan

President Donald Trump gestures to fans while attending the College Football Championship at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla., on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. (Allison Robbert/The New York Times) By FRANCESCA REGALADO President Donald Trump proclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday evening, after he was criticized by civil rights activists for breaking from tradition by failing to recognize King’s legacy or attending commemorations of the holiday. In the past, preside

Agents hold down a protester outside the Whipple Federal Building, a site of ongoing demonstrations against the federal immigration crackdown and its tactics, in Minneapolis, Jan. 11, 2026. Legal and criminal justice experts said a ruling by a federal judge last week revealed conduct by immigration agents that evokes the civil rights era. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times) By STEPHANIE SAUL A protester detained, her bra removed and wedding ring cut off, and some of her c

Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington, speaks at Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, March 11, 2025. McElroy is among a group of clerics who have criticized U.S. foreign policy. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By RUTH GRAHAM The three highest-ranking Roman Catholic clerics who lead archdioceses in the United States said in a strongly worded statement on Monday that America’s “moral role in confronting evil around the w

To deliver on President Trump’s campaign promise to deport millions of people, his administration is pushing new approaches to immigration enforcement across much of the government. By RAJ SAHA, ZACH LEVITT and ALBERT SUN To deliver on President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to deport millions of people, his administration is pushing new approaches to immigration enforcement across much of the government. Officials have closed the border to asylum-seekers. They have unleash

Customs and Border Protection agents in Los Angeles, June 12, 2025. The Department of Homeland Security was formed after 9/11 amid international terrorism threats. Now, its most visible targets are domestic. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times) By HAMED ALEAZIZ In November 2002, President George W. Bush signed a bill creating a federal agency devoted to protecting the United States. The country was still reeling from the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, and the threat o

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