After protesters called for a pause on economic activity and work to strike against the federal immigration crackdown, many business owners won’t open their doors on Friday.Many businesses across Minnesota are expected to close on Friday as part of a general strike against the Trump administration’s
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.”
Documents unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday include dossiers that investigators prepared on pro-Palestinian student activists before they were targeted for deportation.Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved the revocation of visas for five international students last year.
The New York Times ran the image through an A.I. detection system and concluded that it showed signs of manipulation.Nekima Levy Armstrong after speaking at an anti-ICE rally in St. Paul, Minn., on Monday. The Justice Department said on Thursday morning that it had taken her into custody, accusing h
Plus, your Friday news quiz.The Chinese parent company of TikTok said a group of non-Chinese investors would create an American TikTok to avoid a federal ban.
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.Heavy snow and freezing raining can weigh down tree branches and power lines, causing equipment failures that can often cripple power systems.
Plenty of New York City mayors have faced blowback over their handling of blizzards. In several appearances this week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has sought to show he is prepared.At a news conference on Thursday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that he fully expected New Yorkers to judge him on how he responde
A storm is expected to bring hazardous driving conditions to much of the United States this weekend. Stay home if you can, but those who must travel should take it slow.Drivers navigating a snowy highway in Atlanta in January 2025.
The president appeared to be lashing out in response to stark, high-profile remarks by Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada that rejected Mr. Trump’s efforts to dismantle the international order.
President Trump said that NATO soldiers stayed “a little off the front lines” during the conflict. In Britain, which lost 457 soldiers in the war, the response was swift.British soldiers in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in 2007. Britain lost 457 soldiers during two decades of fighting in Afghanista
Leaders from across the European Union held an emergency summit in Brussels to discuss Greenland and, more broadly, their fragile relationship with America.President Trump addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
The Chinese parent company of the popular video app said a group of non-Chinese investors would create an American TikTok to avoid a federal ban.
Chinese firms must contend with geopolitical tensions and mistrust to do business in the United States. Some are choosing to avoid the U.S. altogether.The short-video platform TikTok, owned by ByteDance, has become a geopolitical football in relations between the United States and China.
Several big companies and investment firms are part of the new American TikTok. Many have ties to one another and President Trump.
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.It is unclear how much, if anything, will change for TikTok’s 200 million American users.
Witness testimony and videos from Tehran’s largest cemetery show disrespectful treatment of the dead after a brutal government crackdown.An image taken from a video posted on social media and verified by The New York Times, showing a scene at the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran.
President Trump said the United States was “watching Iran” and sending a naval force there, despite also saying this week that his threats had halted executions.President Trump spoke to reporters on Air Force One as he flew back to Washington from Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday.
The former special prosecutor argued a case he was never allowed to in court: that President Trump “engaged in criminal activity” that undermined democracy.Jack Smith, the special prosecutor who twice indicted Donald J. Trump, at the Capitol on Thursday.
In his remarks, the former special counsel repeatedly denied that he had acted out of partisan animus and bemoaned the Trump administration’s efforts to go after the president’s perceived enemies.Jack Smith, the former special counsel, urged the lawmakers on Thursday to stand up for the rule of the
In the past, Ukrainian and Russian negotiators have relied on Americans to mediate, and it was unclear how the talks would play out.A Ukrainian soldier from the 63rd Mechanized Brigade firing a howitzer at a Russian position in eastern Ukraine this month.
A crackdown on problems with fairness and safety is achieving results, including a big drop in the number of sick patients being passed over for transplants.A medical worker holding a recovered kidney.
Leaked videos have prompted a scandal involving President José Jerí and two Chinese men under investigation.President José Jerí of Peru arrives at Congress to speak to lawmakers in Lima, Peru, on Wednesday amid a scandal over undisclosed meetings with a Chinese businessman.
Nearly 15,000 health care workers in New York have been off the job since last week in a labor action affecting some of the city’s major hospitals.Nurses protested Tuesday outside Mount Sinai West Hospital in Midtown Manhattan.
In 1961, the author inscribed a book for the sister, a nurse who cared for him at the Mayo Clinic. Her copy of “The Old Man and the Sea” is being donated to the Nobel Museum.Ernest Hemingway in Cuba in 1952.
