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  1. Hundreds of Minnesota Businesses on Strike in Protest Against ICE

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:29:32 -0000

    Thousands of protesters shut down streets throughout Minneapolis-St. Paul to demand that federal immigration agents end their weekslong crackdown. Businesses closed in solidarity.
  2. FBI Agent Resigns After Trying to Investigate ICE Officer in Renee Good Shooting

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:02:31 -0000

    The resignation of the agent, Tracee Mergen, was only the latest shock wave to have emerged from the Justice Department’s handling of the shooting of Renee Good.
  3. The Whipple Building Is at the Center of Minnesota’s Immigration Drama

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:45:37 -0000

    Just outside Minneapolis, the Whipple Building houses offices, a detention center and a courthouse — and has become the home base for immigration agents and protesters alike.
  4. Storm Poses Big Threats to Power Grids Across U.S.

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:04:36 -0000

    Managers of electric grids say freezing temperatures and ice and snow could lead to power outages in many places, potentially leaving millions in the dark.
  5. Trump’s Turnabout on Greenland Shows the Limits of His Coercive Powers

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:08:28 -0000

    President Trump’s faith in his ability to wring concessions by taking maximalist positions was on full display this week. So were the costs, as he splintered NATO and then undercut his credibility by climbing down from his threats.
  6. Trump’s Push to Take Greenland Holds Promise and Peril for Putin

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:57:37 -0000

    If the United States under President Trump starts acting as if it’s Russia, where does that leave President Vladimir V. Putin?
  7. Trump Wants to Build More U.S. Military Bases in Greenland. How Many Are There Now?

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:39:36 -0000

    The U.S. once maintained more than a dozen. Now it has one. President Trump wants more.
  8. Joint Chiefs Chairman Issues Rare Invitation to Foreign Military Heads

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:03:53 -0000

    Top military leaders from 34 countries plan to discuss improving efforts in the Western Hemisphere to fight drug trafficking and transnational criminal organizations.
  9. At March for Life, Some Abortion Opponents Want More From Trump

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:26:41 -0000

    At the March for Life, Vice President JD Vance acknowledged “a fear that some of you have that not enough progress has been made.”
  10. Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional, Rejecting Decades of Science

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:51:47 -0000

    Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who leads the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said a person’s right to refuse a vaccine outweighed concerns about illness or death from infectious diseases.
  11. How the National Park Service Is Deleting American History

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:04:29 -0000

    Philadelphia sued the Trump administration after it directed the Park Service to rip out a memorial to slavery. Elsewhere, materials about climate change and labor history were being removed.
  12. Colorado Authorities Confirm Suicide by Hunter S. Thompson

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:44:26 -0000

    After a monthslong review, investigators have concluded that “all speculative theories could not be substantiated.”
  13. TikTok Updates Its Terms and Conditions in the U.S.

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:33:33 -0000

    The changes came after the app’s Chinese parent company spun out an American entity to run TikTok in the United States.
  14. A Timeline of TikTok’s Evolution, From Dances to BookTok to the Supreme Court

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:04:58 -0000

    What started as “the dance app” became the center of political clashes, legal battles and a widely watched business deal. Here’s how it got here.
  15. Will I Have to Download a New TikTok App? And Other Big Questions About The Deal.

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:36:54 -0000

    The popular short form video app has a new corporate structure in the United States, which could result in some changes for the 200 million Americans who use TikTok.
  16. Voters Are Split on Deportations but Disapprove of ICE, Poll Finds

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:03:40 -0000

    While roughly half of voters support President Trump’s handling of the border between the United States and Mexico, a sizable majority says that ICE’s tactics have “gone too far.”
  17. Why Polls About ICE and the Shooting of Renee Good Are So Hard to Parse

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:31:59 -0000

    Numerous surveys in recent weeks have addressed ICE and the aftermath of her shooting in Minneapolis. The results are more complicated than they might seem.
  18. Ryan Wedding, Canadian Ex-Snowboarder Accused of Running Drug Ring, Is Arrested

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:29:26 -0000

    Ryan Wedding, 44, who competed in snowboarding in the 2002 Winter Olympics, has been charged with murder and smuggling cocaine into the United States.
  19. As Iran Grieves, Accounts Emerge of Disrespectful Treatment of Protest Victims

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:15:42 -0000

    Witness testimony and videos from Tehran’s largest cemetery show disrespectful treatment of the dead after a brutal government crackdown.
  20. Trump Says U.S. ‘Armada’ Is Heading to Iran, Raising Pressure on Regime

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:00:01 -0000

    President Trump said the United States was “watching Iran” and sending a naval force there, despite also saying that his threats had halted executions.
  21. 5 Arrested in Shooting of Indiana Judge Steven Meyer and His Wife

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:29:25 -0000

    The police said the attack was part of a plot to kill Judge Steven Meyer to halt a trial he was to conduct. He and his wife were injured but are recovering.
  22. Can Max Greyserman Achieve Golf Greatness by Thinking Like a Wall Street Trader?

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:15:05 -0000

    He is ranked No. 33 in the world. Can he rise to the top by using lessons from his father’s time on Wall Street?
  23. Towering Snowdrifts Bury City on Remote Russian Peninsula

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:08:06 -0000

    It’s the biggest snowfall the Kamchatka Peninsula has experienced in nearly 60 years.
  24. Luke Thompson Finally Takes the ‘Bridgerton’ Spotlight

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:00:36 -0000

    As his character assumes the lead in a new season, Luke Thompson is bringing Shakespearean depth to one of the buzziest streaming shows of our time.
  25. Is This Who Trump Meant by the ‘Worst of the Worst’?

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:40:43 -0000

    The columnist Jamelle Bouie argues that the Trump administration’s immigration policy has more in common with ethnic cleansing than actual immigration enforcement.
  26. The Trump Crackup

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:27:22 -0000

    Events are being propelled by one man’s damaged psyche.
  27. For His Next Act, Darren Walker Is Heading to Hollywood

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:40:02 -0000

    Anonymous Content, a production company whose top investor is Laurene Powell Jobs’s Emerson Collective, has named Darren Walker as president and chief executive.
  28. Couple Receive $200,000 Settlement After ‘Pungent’ Indian Food Complaint

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:13:43 -0000

    The University of Colorado, Boulder, denied liability in the civil rights lawsuit, which the couple filed after a comment about a dish that one of them was heating in an office microwave.
  29. What Happened At the Funeral For Fashion Designer Valentino

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:40:15 -0000

    The designer Valentino Garavani, who died on Monday at 93, was celebrated in Rome, a city that he “embodied,” according to its mayor.
  30. Hochul and Sherrill’s Fight Over Port Authority Leadership Delays Garcia’s Confirmation

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:56:14 -0000

    In her first week as governor of New Jersey, Mikie Sherrill is playing hardball to get her choice approved for a key role in Port Authority leadership.
  31. It’s Time to Talk About Donald Trump’s Logorrhea

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:33:08 -0000

    How many polite ways are there to ask whether the President of the United States is losing it?
  32. The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees

    Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her New Jersey district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison.
  33. The Ice Curtain

    Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Since Putin invaded Ukraine, the short distance between Nome, Alaska, and Russia seems wider than ever.
  34. Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS News

    Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    The network’s new editor-in-chief has championed a press free from élite bias, while aligning herself with a billionaire class more willing than ever to indulge Donald Trump.
  35. Vinson Cunningham on Barry Blitt’s Obama “Fist Bump” Cover

    Sun, 18 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Here’s one big risk a public satirist of racism takes: by displaying tropes and crude imagery, he reveals just how well he knows and can deploy them himself.
  36. The Overlooked Deaths of the Attack on Venezuela

    Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    To many on the ground, civilian fatalities were simply the cost of ousting Nicolás Maduro.
  37. An Unhappy Anniversary: Trump’s Year in Office

    Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    The toll of a destructive twelve months—and what can be done to repair the damage.
  38. From Selma to Minneapolis

    Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    On M.L.K. Day, the death of Renee Good calls to mind another woman who died protesting for the rights of others.
  39. Why Trump Supports Protesters in Tehran but Not in Minneapolis

    Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    During the President’s second Administration, universal principles such as self-determination and due process are wielded only opportunistically.
  40. How Europe Can Respond to Trump’s Greenland Imperialism

    Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:25:06 -0000

    The President’s obsession with acquiring the Danish territory has put the transatlantic alliance at risk.
  41. Can Trump Really Use the Insurrection Act?

    Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:40:07 -0000

    An expert on Presidential emergency powers discusses the history and legality of military deployments in American cities.
  42. How Donald Trump Has Transformed ICE

    Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:46:06 -0000

    A former D.H.S. oversight official on what, legally, the agency can and can’t do—and the accountability mechanisms that have been “gutted beyond recognition.”
  43. What Makes the Iranian Protests Different This Time

    Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:43:40 -0000

    Unrest has spread across the Islamic Republic as it faces economic disaster at home and a profound weakening of its network of regional allies.
  44. Can American Churches Lead a Protest Movement Under Trump?

    Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:49:54 -0000

    The Sanctuary Movement was led by clergy, and many religious leaders are activists today. But, as congregations have shrunk, dissent has diminished.
  45. How a Sixtysomething Football Coach from a So-So School Turned Indiana Into World-Beaters

    Sun, 18 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Curt Cignetti has the Hoosiers on the verge of a national championship. Everyone wants to know the blueprint for his stunning success.
  46. What Comes After the Protests

    Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    The killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis will continue to bring people to the streets. Can it bring change?
  47. The Dangerous Paradox of A.I. Abundance

    Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Silicon Valley envisions artificial intelligence ushering in an era of economic plenty. But what if the benefits are largely confined to corporations and investors that own the technology itself?
  48. The Mayor of an Occupied City

    Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:13:48 -0000

    Jacob Frey, of Minneapolis, is governing a city under siege by its own federal government.
  49. Two New Yorker Films Receive 2026 Oscar Nominations

    Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:59:09 -0000

    The dark comedy “Two People Exchanging Saliva” and the dreamy animation “Retirement Plan” will vie in short-film categories at the ceremony in March.
  50. A Massacre in Mashhad

    Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Under the cover of an internet blackout, Iranian security forces killed hundreds of demonstrators. Only now are details of the carnage starting to emerge.
  51. The Battle for One of the Richest and Smallest Counties in Texas

    Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:34:02 -0000

    A few families have been duelling for control of Loving County for decades. Then the followers of a hustle-culture influencer moved in.
  52. Bringing Zohran Mamdani to the Big Screen

    Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    In 2023, Julia Bacha began filming a backbench state assemblyman. Little did she know that she was making a documentary about the next mayor of New York City.
  53. What It’s Like to Be Trump’s Closest Ally Right Now

    Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Britain still relies on the U.S. for so much. How long can it hold on?
  54. A D.H.S. Shooting Puts Portland Back Under the Microscope

    Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    After a year under siege, the city’s police department contends with the tactics of federal immigration agents.
  55. The Minnesota War Zone Is Trump’s Most Trumpian Accomplishment

    Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:43:08 -0000

    The President may have started out by trash-talking America; one year into his second term, he is simply trashing it.