Patrick Schiltz, an Ethicist, Is the Minnesota Judge Blasting ICE

Judge Patrick Schiltz, an appointee of George W. Bush, became an unlikely critic of the Trump administration’s tactics in Minnesota.Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz has shown increasing frustration and anger with the Trump administration and its tactics in court.

Z Zach Montague

How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis

Our reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who deployed twice to Afghanistan as a Marine and later was our Kabul bureau chief, looks at the battlefield technology used for an immigration arrest at a home in Minneapolis.

T Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Leila Medina and Coleman Lowndes

Man Accused of Squirting Ilhan Omar with Vinegar Is Charged With Assault

Ms. Omar was sprayed with liquid from a syringe as she spoke at a town hall and called for the resignation of Kristi Noem, who leads the Homeland Security Department.Anthony J. Kazmierczak was accused of squirting Representative Ilhan Omar with a substance during a town hall in Minneapolis.

M Mitch Smith, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Chelsia Rose Marcius

Venezuelan Lawmakers Approve Sweeping Overhaul of Oil Sector

Bowing to Trump administration pressure, the new legislation improves conditions for foreign oil companies and opens the way to slash the taxes they pay.A statue of a hand holding a drilling rig near Venezuela’s state oil company last year.

S Simon Romero

Trump Warns Iran With Military Muscle, but Risks a Regional War

Iran’s Islamic Republic, weakened by airstrikes in June and huge popular unrest, warns that it will strike back hard if attacked by the United States. This time, Iran may mean it.Smoke from an explosion caused by Israeli airstrikes in Tehran in June. President Trump has shown that he likes military

S Steven Erlanger

How Trump’s 2020 Election Claims Have Been Debunked Again and Again

The Trump administration has recently escalated its efforts to prove widespread voter fraud in 2020. Election officials and top Republicans have repeatedly said these claims are baseless.People gathered outside the Supreme Court for a “Stop the Steal” protest in early December 2020.

R Reid J. Epstein and Nick Corasaniti

Appeals Court Upholds TPS Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S.

The Trump administration has sought to end Temporary Protected Status for more than a million people from troubled nations. About 600,000 are from Venezuela.Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, at the White House in Washington, D.C., this month.

J Jazmine Ulloa

She Protested a Book Ban. Oklahoma Revoked Her Teacher’s License.

Summer Boismier, a high school English teacher in Oklahoma, lost her teaching license after she protested a book ban. Now she is fighting to return to the classroom.When Oklahoma passed laws that pressured teachers to remove books on race, gender and sexuality from their classrooms, Summer Boismier

D Dana Goldstein and Nick Oxford

Parents Navigate a Fracturing Vaccine Landscape

Rattled by the C.D.C.’s actions and the spread of measles, some parents are scrambling to figure out how to best protect their children.Sabrina and Cameron Scully, parents to a 2-month-old in Denver, said it was unsettling to have the federal vaccine guidelines change so abruptly. “How do you know w

M Maggie Astor

OpenAI in Talks to Raise as Much as $100 Billion

OpenAI’s discussions with Microsoft, Nvidia, Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds and others could value it at $750 billion or more.OpenAI’s San Francisco offices.

C Cade Metz and Karen Weise

California Jury Convicts Ex-Google Engineer of Stealing AI Secrets

A federal jury found that Linwei Ding stole thousands of confidential files to help him start a company in Beijing.The case is one of several that has surfaced in recent years against Chinese nationals in the United States as the fight for technological dominance ramps up.

T Tripp Mickle