Under Trump, a Shift Toward ‘Absolute Immunity’ for ICE

Since the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, administration officials have defended the use of deadly force, which agency guidelines say should be a last resort.Newly recruited Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at a training center last year. President Trump and administration off

H Hamed Aleaziz and Nicholas Nehamas

Appeals Court Opens the Door to Mahmoud Khalil’s Rearrest

Any new detention would not come immediately, and Mr. Khalil’s lawyers plan to appeal. But the ruling is a major blow to Mr. Khalil, a Columbia graduate and prominent figure in the pro-Palestinian movement.Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest last year was an early, high-profile example of the Trump White House’

J Jonah E. Bromwich

Harvard Slips on a Global Ranking List, as Chinese Schools Surge Ahead

Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring academic output. Other American universities are falling farther behind their global peers.Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, is now at the top of a global ranking of research output, supplanting Harvard University.

M Mark Arsenault

Trump Vows to Make Venezuela Rich. It Will Take More Than U.S. Cash.

History suggests that the price of oil and a wider distribution of wealth are as important as foreign investment.A statue in Caracas, Venezuela. While most oil-dependent countries are vulnerable to booms and busts, Venezuela has challenges even by those standards.

N Noam Scheiber

U.S. Cuts Health Aid and Ties It to Funding Pledges by African Governments

The Trump administration has signed $11 billion in agreements with African nations, in deals tied to foreign policy goals.A health clinic Mhlosheni, Eswatini, in May. Health funding in Eswatini — where a quarter of adults live with H.I.V. — would drop by 34 percent under the foreign assistance agree

S Stephanie Nolen

For the World’s Food Supply, Federal Funding Cuts Have Long-Term Impacts

The U.S. Agency for International Development has been a major supporter of global agriculture research. Now many studies are being scuttled or scaled back.Brian Diers was employed by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign soybean “innovation lab” before it was shuttered. Now he works with soyb

T Ted Alcorn

Leading Prediction Firms Share a Commonality: Donald Trump Jr.

Traders in companies with ties to the president’s eldest son can bet on the outcome of events the president affects.Donald Trump Jr. is both an investor in and an unpaid adviser to Polymarket, and a paid adviser to Kalshi, the two biggest prediction markets.

S Sharon LaFraniere

Russia Knocks Out the Heat in Ukraine

The Kremlin has tried for years to freeze Ukraine into submission. This winter, its attacks have been the most devastating ever.Emergency services have set up tents that offer electricity and heat as Russian strikes have caused prolonged power outages during an extreme cold snap in Kyiv, Ukraine.

A Andrew E. Kramer, Oksana Parafeniuk and Lynsey Addario

Trump’s Gulf Allies Do Not Want Him to Bomb Iran

While several of the Gulf Arab countries harbor little love for Iran, they worry that the consequences of rising tensions could blow back on them.A patriotic banner in Tehran on Wednesday.

V Vivian Nereim

Coinbase, the Biggest U.S. Crypto Company, Asserts Its Power in Washington

The top executive of the crypto exchange Coinbase scuttled a planned Senate committee vote on a major cryptocurrency bill after voicing his concerns, a sign of the company’s clout.A planned vote on a cryptocurrency bill on Thursday was canceled after Brian Armstrong, Coinbase’s chief executive, obje

D David Yaffe-Bellany

Greenland’s Future

We examine the debate over the Arctic island and what residents are saying.Nuuk, Greenland.

S Sam Sifton