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A Transportation Security Administration agent at New York's LaGuardia airport on Sunday

WORLD

Mar 23, 2026

Staff absences soar at some U.S. airports as ICE agents prepare to screen travelers

Over a third of Transportation Security Administration staff at major U.S. airports were absent amid a partial shutdown, with immigration enforcement agents set to fill in.

A man identified as Emir Balat is detained by police officers during a rally to stop public Muslim prayer outside Gracie Mansion, the official residence of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, in New York City on Saturday.

WORLD / Crime & Legal

Mar 10, 2026

Two men charged with terrorism after homemade bomb thrown at anti-Islam protesters in New York

Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, are accused of traveling from Pennsylvania to Manhattan with dangerous improvised explosive that they used at an anti-Islam rally.

A law enforcement officer uses a battering ram to force entry into a home during an immigration raid in St. Paul, Minnesota.

WORLD

Feb 13, 2026

Trump is ending deportation surge in Minnesota, White House border czar says

It was a rare retreat by the U.S. president that ⁠came after even some fellow Republicans raised questions about the operation.

U.S. federal immigration agents patrol in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

WORLD

Feb 5, 2026

Trump withdraws 700 immigration agents from Minnesota deportation surge, but thousands remain

White House border czar Tom Homan said about 2,000 agents will stay in place, a number Minnesota’s Democratic leaders say is still too high.

A detained woman sits inside a vehicle surrounded by federal agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday.

WORLD / Politics

Jan 22, 2026

U.S. appeals court lifts order curbing ICE tactics against Minnesota protesters

The decision comes as Washington launches a criminal probe of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, among the U.S. president’s loudest political opponents.

People hold signs reading “Sanctuary” as the Los Angeles City Council meets to consider adopting a “Sanctuary City” ordinance at City Hall, in Los Angeles, California, in November 2024.

WORLD / Politics

Jan 15, 2026

Trump threatens funding for states over sanctuary cities as clashes intensify in Minneapolis

The move expands the U.S. president’s attacks on mostly Democratic-run cities following days of chaotic clashes on the streets of Minneapolis.

A person takes a video of the ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House on Friday.

WORLD

Oct 25, 2025

Tourists gawk and recoil at Trump’s destruction of the White House East Wing

The U.S. leader says they aren’t missing much and no one should mourn its demise. “It was a very small building,” Trump told reporters this week.

The Business School campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Tuesday

WORLD / Politics

Apr 16, 2025

After Harvard rejects U.S. demands, Trump adds new threat

The Trump administration has rebuked universities across the country over their handling of last year’s pro-Palestinian student protest movement.

Noor Abdalla, 28, wife of Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil who was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement looks at an ultrasound photograph in New York on Wednesday.

WORLD / Politics

Mar 13, 2025

Wife of student arrested in U.S. says she was naive to think he would be secure

Two days before U.S. agents came, her husband asked her if she knew what to do if immigration agents were at their door.

Mahmoud Khalil speaks to members of the media about the Revolt for Rafah encampment at Columbia University during the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York on June 1, 2024.

WORLD / Politics

Mar 13, 2025

Judge extends ban on deportation of U.S. student over opposition to war in Gaza

The case that has become a flash point following a pledge by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to deport some pro-Palestinian college activists.

John Adolph holds his son, Remy, as he stays with his friends after his home in Altadena was damaged during the Eaton Fire, in Eagle Rock, California, on Friday.

WORLD

Jan 20, 2025

Displaced by wildfires, Los Angeles’ residents search for a place to live

In the wake of the wildfires, rents in Los Angeles have surged, and uncertainty over insurance settlements has left some of the displaced in limbo.

Luigi Mangione arrives at a helicopter pad after being extradited from Pennsylvania, as New York Mayor Eric Adams walks behind him, in New York, on Thursday.

WORLD / Crime & Legal

Dec 20, 2024

Suspect in UnitedHealthcare killing slapped with new charges

Federal prosecutors have charged Luigi Mangione with the federal crime of murder using a firearm, two charges of stalking and a charge of using an illegal gun silencer.

A man walks across a makeshift walkway across a damaged bridge on U.S. Route 64 after the passage of Hurricane Helene, in Bat Cave, North Carolina, on Monday.

WORLD

Oct 1, 2024

Recovery efforts hampered by ‘post-apocalyptic’ destruction after storm Helene

As many as 600 people remained unaccounted for, with flooded roads and toppled cellphone towers isolating devastated communities.

Ryan Routh speaks during an interview at a rally to urge foreign leaders and international organizations to help provide humanitarian aid in central Kyiv in April 2022, amid Russia's invasion of its neighbor. Routh, 58, was charged with two gun-related crimes in a federal court in Florida on Monday, a day after he was spotted with a rifle hiding in shrubbery on the property line of Trump's golf course.

WORLD / Crime & Legal

Sep 17, 2024

Suspect in second Trump assassination attempt had criminal history

Ryan Routh was charged with two gun-related crimes in a federal court in Florida a day after he was found with a rifle hiding near Donald Trump’s golf course.

Visitors walk through the gas chamber during a tour of the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, Missouri, in 2013.

WORLD / Crime & Legal

Jan 11, 2024

U.S. judge allows first nitrogen-gas execution to proceed

U.S. states have found it increasingly difficult to obtain barbiturates used in lethal-injection execution protocols, in part because of a European ban.

Japan Times

WORLD

Jan 29, 2017

How Trump’s abrupt Muslim ban sowed confusion at airports and agencies

After immigration agents detained two Iraqis on Saturday at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, their lawyers and two U.S. representatives accompanying them tried to cross into a secure area — and were stopped themselves.

Japan Times

WORLD / Politics

Apr 18, 2016

It’s up to you, New York: state takes center stage in presidential primaries

U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is throwing a concert in a park with a dramatic view of Manhattan’s skyscrapers. At the opposite end of New York state, Republican front-runner Donald Trump will be holding a rally in Buffalo, a Rust Belt city recovering from economic decline.

Japan Times

WORLD / Politics

Jan 21, 2015

Obama’s State of the Union speech shows populism has gone mainstream in U.S. politics

President Barack Obama reached into his party’s progressive past to deliver a robust endorsement of higher taxes for the wealthy, government intervention in the economy and an array of new benefits for lower- and middle-income Americans.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

The Terasaka Rice Terraces are seen with Mount Buko in the background.

What Yokoze can teach Japan about rural revival

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