Was Renee Good Obligated to Comply With an ICE Agent’s Orders?

The agent told Ms. Good to get out of her car before she was fatally shot. Legal experts said immigration agents may sometimes, but not always, have the authority to make such commands.A memorial for Renee Good. She was shot after beginning to drive away from an ICE agent who told her to get out of

S Shaila Dewan

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

Venezuela’s Interim Leader Delivers State of the Union Address

In her State of the Union address, Delcy Rodríguez echoed her predecessors’ fiery rhetoric but tried to hew to President Trump’s agenda.Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, delivering a speech at the National Assembly in Caracas on Thursday.

E Emiliano Rodríguez Mega and Patricia Sulbarán

U.S. Forces Seize Sixth Oil Tanker Linked to Venezuela

The Coast Guard boarded and seized the Russian-flagged tanker, originally named Veronica, in a pre-dawn operation in the Caribbean Sea.An image from video released by the U.S. military showing the oil tanker Galileo, previously named Veronica, in the Caribbean on Thursday.

C Christiaan Triebert, Nicholas Nehamas and John Ismay

How Activists in Iran Are Using Starlink to Stay Online

Activists spent years preparing for a communications blackout in Iran, smuggling in Starlink satellite internet systems and making digital shutdowns harder for the authorities to enforce.A Starlink receiver atop a house in Kurdistan, Iran, in 2023. About 50,000 Starlink terminals are now in the coun

A Adam Satariano, Paul Mozur and Sheera Frenkel

Israel and Arab Nations Ask Trump to Refrain From Attacking Iran

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel asked the president to postpone any planned attack. Israeli and Arab officials fear Iran could retaliate by striking their countries.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel with President Trump last month in Florida. The Israeli leader spoke to Mr. Tru

E Edward Wong, Tyler Pager and Eric Schmitt

Trump Administration Lawsuit Seeking California Voter Data Is Dismissed

The Justice Department has sued about two dozen states over access to voter rolls, as the federal government pushes to create a national database.Voting in Los Angeles last year. A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Thursday that the Justice Department had filed against California last year demand

N Neil Vigdor and Rylee Kirk

Pentagon Will ‘Refocus’ Military Publication Stars and Stripes

The agency’s chief spokesman outlined plans to intervene in the previously independent newspaper’s coverage.Two soldiers from the 25th Infantry Division reading an issue of Stars and Stripes in Cu Chi, South Vietnam, in 1969. The military newspaper has been published continuously since 1942.

E Erik Wemple

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

Humanities Endowment Awarding Millions to Western Civilization Programs

The National Endowment for the Humanities is giving more than $40 million to programs that have been embraced by conservatives as a counterweight to liberal-dominated academia.The University of Texas received $10 million to hire faculty members and help “launch academic majors in Strategy and Statec

J Jennifer Schuessler

None of Mamdani’s Deputy Mayors Are Black. It Has Become a Problem.

Some Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani and that they may lose the ground they had gained under former Mayor Eric Adams.Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday announced Afua Atta-Mensah, who led his campaign outreach to Black voters, as the dire

J Jeffery C. Mays

Number of Businesses in New York City Plunged Last Spring, Report Says

Roughly 8,400 businesses closed in the second quarter of 2025, according to the most recent city data, creating the largest net decline in business activity since before the pandemic.An empty storefront in Lower Manhattan. The drop-off in New York City business activity was most pronounced in major

M Matthew Haag

Nydia Velázquez Gives Mamdani a Warning as She Endorses a Successor

The veteran congresswoman said she would like Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president, to replace her after she retires. She also said the mayor should stay out of political races.Representative Nydia M. Velázquez was an early backer of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign.

N Nicholas Fandos

The Priest, the Financier and the $10 Million Townhouse

When a pastor learned his childhood home might undergo a glow-up, he saw his beloved Brooklyn further receding — and took to a different kind of pulpit.The home in question, a modernist townhouse in Brooklyn Heights designed by Mary and Joseph Merz.

G Ginia Bellafante

Nick Reiner Was in a Mental Health Conservatorship in 2020

Mr. Reiner, who is accused of killing his parents, was under a yearlong legal arrangement that allows for involuntary psychiatric treatment.Nick Reiner was charged with two counts of first-degree murder. The mental health challenges he faced in recent years are likely to be central to his legal defe

T Tim Arango, Julia Jacobs, Ellen Barry and Matt Stevens