By ANNIE CORREAL On Sunday, immigration agents appeared at the family home of a recently deported college student in Austin, Texas, according to the family and their lawyer. The agents arrived in three unmarked vehicles, and one agent in a green vest marked ERO — Enforcement and Removal Operations — rushed toward the student’s father, Francis López, as he washed his car, López said. He ran into his backyard and closed a latched gate. The agent forced open the gate and proceed

Former FBI Director James Comey is sworn in during a Senate hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 8, 2017. A federal judge on Saturday night threw up a roadblock to the Justice Department’s plans to seek another indictment against Comey as early as this week. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By ALAN FEUER A federal judge on Saturday night threw up a roadblock to the Justice Department’s plans to seek another indictment against former FBI Director James Comey as early as

U.S. Navy Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley, left, and U.S. Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrive for a closed door classified meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. Democratic and Republican lawmakers on Thursday came away with starkly different conclusions after top military officers showed them video of an attack on a boat suspected of carrying drugs, including a follow-up strike that killed two sur

Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president, speaks to reporters at Junior’s Restaurant and Bakery in Brooklyn, Sept. 16, 2024. Reynoso’s bid to succeed Rep. Nydia Velázquez in Congress will most likely be contested by a candidate backed by the Democratic Socialists of America. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By NICHOLAS FANDOS and BENJAMIN ORESKES Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president, said Thursday that he would run for a New York City House seat being vacated b

Authorities work near an area where two members of the National Guard were shot in Washington, Nov. 26, 2025. The Trump administration is prioritizing the detention of Afghan nationals who have previously been ordered to leave the United States, part of a broader crackdown on refugees from Afghanistan after last week’s shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, according to internal documents reviewed by The New York Times. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By MIRIAM JO

President Donald Trump participates in a cabinet meeting, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. Near the end of the two-hour meeting, Trump unleashed a xenophobic tirade against Somali immigrants, calling them “garbage” he does not want in the United States. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS and SHAWN McCREESH President Donald Trump unleashed a xenophobic tirade against Somali immigrants earlier this week, calling t

President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras addresses the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 25, 2019. President Donald Trump formally pardoned Hernández on Dec. 1, 2025. Hernández was accused of flooding the United States with cocaine and had been sentenced to 45 years in prison. (Brittainy Newman/The New York Times) By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, MAGGIE HABERMAN, KENNETH P. VOGEL and JONAH E. BROMWICH President Donald Trump formally pardoned former President Juan Orlando Hern

A FEMA search and rescue worker in Swannanoa, N.C., after Hurricane Helene, Oct. 6, 2024. The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, said it was revoking the reinstatement of 14 employees who had been on administrative leave since August, when they wrote a letter to Congress warning that President Trump was gutting disaster response in the United States. (Loren Elliott/The New York Times) By MAXINE JOSELOW The Trump administration said earlier this week