ICE Killing in Houston Puts Focus on Surge in Immigration Arrests

The shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo occurred as immigration enforcement has ramped up across the country, with thousands being arrested daily.Representative Sylvia Garcia spoke during a news conference on the case of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston on Friday.

J Jazmine Ulloa, Hamed Aleaziz and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega

Mexico to File Criminal Complaints in U.S. Over Immigrant Deaths

The nation’s president vowed to go “beyond diplomatic notes” after a U.S. immigration agent fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican man, in Texas this week.A candlelight vigil on Wednesday in Houston, at the spot where Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed a day earlier.

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U.S. Employers Told to Dismiss Thousands of Immigrant Workers

Shifting deadlines are confusing businesses as the end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and others looms, making them ineligible to live and work in the United States.A rally in San Diego on Thursday in support of immigrants with Temporary Protected Status.

M Miriam Jordan and Madeleine Ngo

Buckling Manhattan High Rise Becomes Focus of Criminal Investigation

The inquiry, being conducted by the New York City Department of Investigation and the Manhattan district attorney’s office, was in an early stage, and its focus was unclear.Workers were converting an office building on East 42nd Street in Manhattan to apartments when they noticed bending steel and c

W William K. Rashbaum, Hurubie Meko, Claire Fahy and Mihir Zaveri

Trump Is Promoting ‘Freedom Fuel’ for $3.47 a Gallon. Who’s Behind It?

The president has praised a network of 25 recently rebranded gas stations in the Philadelphia region that have been selling gas for considerably less than the national average.A former Valero station is one in a chain of 25 newly branded Freedom Fuel gas stations in the Philadelphia region, promoted

A Audra D. S. Burch and Mark Bonamo

Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species

The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.Piping plovers need undisturbed beaches to nest and raise their young.

C Catrin Einhorn and Maxine Joselow

Trump Says Negotiations With Iran Will Continue as U.S. Ramps Up Strikes

U.S. forces hit more than 170 targets, including air defense systems, drone and missile storage sites, and military speedboats.The funeral procession in Tehran on Thursday for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s former leader, who was killed in February during U.S. and Israeli military strikes on his cou

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Witnesses to ICE Killing Dispute the Official Account

Also, a major housing bill could become law without Trump’s signature. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.The site where a federal immigration officer shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston.

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D.S.A. Members Blast Mamdani Adviser for Elevating Graham Platner

A letter circulated by Democratic Socialists of America members asked that candidates sever ties with Morris Katz, a consultant for Mr. Platner and Mayor Zohran Mamdani.Morris Katz, a political strategist who was a leader of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign, is being criticized for his work with Grah

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Historian Kerri K. Greenidge and Her Book ‘The Grimkes’ Come Under Fire

Kerri K. Greenidge appeared to lose her professorship at Tufts University after scholars began scrutinizing her 2022 book, “The Grimkes,” which is no longer listed on its publisher’s website.Historians are questioning the validity of multiple works by the historian Kerri K. Greenidge, who is no long

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The Work of Helping A.I. Destroy Work

Start-ups are paying white-collar professionals to teach their jobs to artificial intelligence models. It’s a bonanza. It’s bleak. Where will it end?

L Lora Kelley

What China’s Successful Rocket Launch Means for the Future of the Space Race

A space neophyte not long ago, China is now the United States’s main competitor for supremacy throughout the solar system.An image released by the Chinese state-run Xinhua News Agency purporting to show the returning first stage of the Long March 10B rocket on a seaborne platform in the South China

K Kenneth Chang