Congress Leaves DC as DHS Shuts Down

Despite a deadlock over funding for the agency, lawmakers left town and left Democratic and White House negotiators to try to work out a deal in their absence.Congress left Washington for a weeklong recess despite not reaching a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security.

C Carl Hulse

A Surge of ICE Arrests Overwhelms the Federal Court System

A surge of immigration arrests in the state sent thousands of people to detention centers in Texas, New Mexico and elsewhere. Federal courts have been overwhelmed with their pleas for release.“Even if the constant emergency of this siege ends now,” said Graham Ojala-Barbour, an immigration lawyer fr

J Jacey Fortin

Beyond the Big Cities, ICE Is Rattling Small-Town and Exurban America

Far from the national spotlight, towns like Cornelius, Ore., and Coon Rapids, Minn., are dealing with President Trump’s expanding mass deportation effort, and the effects can be acute.In Cornelius, Ore., population 14,763, town leaders declared a state of emergency and asked the governor for money t

A Anna Griffin and Chelsia Rose Marcius

Trump’s Minnesota Retreat Points to the Power of Public Anger

The withdrawal came as polls show Americans opposing the president’s immigration tactics, and as some Republican lawmakers began to find ways to distance themselves.The Trump administration said on Thursday that it was winding down its deployment of immigration agents to Minnesota.

R Reid J. Epstein and Tim Balk

The Mutually Beneficial Ties Between Jeffrey Epstein and Thorbjorn Jagland

Thorbjorn Jagland, a former prime minister of Norway who led the Nobel Committee, promised influence, and the disgraced financier had gifts to give, new emails show.Thorbjorn Jagland, center left, a former prime minister of Norway, in Oslo on Thursday. A recently released tranche of emails revealed

L Lynsey Chutel and Henrik Pryser Libell

Amid Fallout From Epstein Files, Dubai’s DP World Boss Is Replaced

Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem was credited with turning the state-backed DP World into a global logistics powerhouse. He was recently identified in correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein.Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem in 2022. He was identified this week in files related to Mr. Epstein.

A Abdi Latif Dahir

Conspiracy Theories Only Flourish With More Epstein Evidence

The dump of millions of documents has fueled a new wave of speculation, A.I.-generated hoaxes and foreign disinformation.New emails and documents about Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who owned Little Saint James Island, above, have spawned a wave of new conspiracy theories and hoaxes.

T Tiffany Hsu and Steven Lee Myers

White House Sees Win After 2 Strong Economic Reports

Solid jobs data and a soft inflation reading for January are welcome news for President Trump. But the bigger economic picture is less encouraging.“President Trump has defeated Joe Biden’s inflation crisis,” a White House spokesman said this week. The bigger economic picture is more uncertain.

L Lydia DePillis and Sydney Ember

German Officials Needle Trump at Munich Security Conference

Friedrich Merz, the chancellor of Germany, said that under President Trump, the United States’ claim to global leadership “has been challenged, and possibly squandered.”Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany speaking at the Munich Security Conference, on Friday.

J Jim Tankersley

AOC Ties Inequality to Rise of Authoritarians at Munich Security Conference

Speaking at a security conference, the New York progressive argued that “extreme levels of income inequality lead to social instability” and eventually far-right populism.Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York spoke at a town-hall panel on populism on Friday at the Munich Security Confe

K Kellen Browning

Venezuela’s Natural Gas, Not Oil, Might Be a Big Early Prize

The South American country has natural gas that could be extracted and exported quickly, but U.S. sanctions, which are now being eased, have stymied development.A liquefied natural gas terminal in Trinidad and Tobago, a country that has the infrastructure that Venezuela needs to bring its vast reser

R Rebecca F. Elliott and Daniel Wood

U.N. Condemns U.S. Measures Halting Oil Deliveries to Cuba

The measures were installed last month by the Trump administration after the U.S. captured Nicolás Maduro and seized control of Venezuela’s oil industry.A street in Santa Cruz del Norte, Cuba, this month during a scheduled outage as part of energy rationing.

N Nick Cumming-Bruce

Looks Aren’t Everything? Clavicular Begs to Differ.

Braden Peters, known as Clavicular, has emerged as a beacon for a group of narcissistic, status-obsessed young men. He wants to take his fixation with “looksmaxxing” mainstream.The 20-year-old streamer goes to extremes to achieve an ideal of male beauty, but that’s not the only reason he’s become an

J Joseph Bernstein

What It Means to Be a White ‘Race Traitor’

From Schwerner and Goodman to Good and Pretti, white people putting themselves in harm’s way has helped galvanize Americans for justice.Demonstrators in Greenville, Miss., in 1964 after the disappearance of three civil rights workers, who were later found dead.

N Nikole Hannah-Jones

Man Pleads Guilty in Murder Plot U.S. Says Is Tied to Indian Government

Nikhil Gupta was accused of plotting to assassinate an American citizen. Prosecutors have argued the case mirrors similar efforts against Sikhs, including the killing of one in Canada.Nikhil Gupta is accused of plotting to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, pictured here, a lawyer and a proponent of inde

B Benjamin Weiser, Colin Moynihan and Kate Christobek

At the Winter Olympics

We look at what life is like on the ground in Milan and Cortina.U.S. women’s hockey fans.

S Sam Sifton