A U.S. senator was denied entry to a prison holding Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia and other deportees. The authorities arranged a meeting at a hotel instead. Here’s what to know.
Senator Chris Van Hollen, center right, and Chris Newman, a family lawyer for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, speaking to a member of the military in El Salvador after being prevented from the prison where Mr. Abrego Garcia was being held on Thursday.
The producer and director Don Mischer in 2004 at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Working in live television, he said, was a job that had “a stress level that can be scary but is so thrillingly alive, it becomes addictive.”
The head of the division directed its staff to focus on enforcing edicts on transgender women in sports and other issues, shifting from its founding purpose of fighting race-based discrimination.
Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, has taken steps to reverse a handful of high-profile Biden-era actions focused on addressing racial discrimination.
Stepping up its pressure campaign, the Education Department accused the university of failing to report large foreign gifts as required by law. Harvard disputed the claim.
The Harvard campus this week. The Education Department told the university to provide names of foreign donors and all records of communication with them from the beginning of 2020.
President Trump again attacked the chair of the Federal Reserve this week, but advisers say the president has turned more cautious on policies that could stoke extreme financial volatility again.
Sarah Redzikowski began picking her skin as a child as a way to cope with stress at home. “I get in front of the mirror and then suddenly the time is gone,” she said.
As of August, the president’s investment portfolio showed significantly more in bonds than in stocks. It is unclear if his personal holdings had any bearing on his decisions regarding tariffs.
The judge, a conservative Reagan appointee, wrote a blistering opinion accusing the administration of failing to give a man wrongly deported to El Salvador any semblance of due process.
In recent weeks Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III has voiced his outrage at the White House’s mistake and refusal to do much to get Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia back from a notoriously dangerous Salvadoran prison.
President Donald Trump with President Xi Jinping of China at the G20 Summit in Japan in 2019. “He’s been a friend of mine for a long period of time,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Xi last week.
Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, used his veto power to increase school funding limits for four centuries longer than Republican lawmakers in the state had intended.
The Elon Musk operatives were abruptly shifted to the department’s immigration enforcement unit as part of an expanding effort to use personal data in deportation cases, one official said.
Gary Shapley, a longtime I.R.S. agent, was lauded by conservatives after he publicly argued that the Justice Department had slow-walked its investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes.
The Google antitrust lawsuits are “important affirmations of the ability of the government to pursue major monopolization cases and prevail,” said Nancy Rose, an M.I.T. economist.
A measure to limit day tourism on peak days began for the second year on Friday, charging day trippers five euros (or 10 for the spontaneous traveler).
To President Trump, Judge James E. Boasberg is “a troublemaker” and a “Radical Left Lunatic.” But his record and biography, including a friendship with Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, say otherwise.
Two people were killed and six others were injured when a 20-year-old gunman opened fire on campus on Thursday. Court records show the suspect had a rocky upbringing.
Social media feeds are awash in images of lavish baskets overflowing with expensive gifts. Some parents are giving their children bikes. Others are pushing back.
F.B.I. headquarters. In the past, the bureau would counter foreign disinformation campaigns by calling them out, but it has instead shut down its foreign influence task force.
The administration cast the threat by the judge, James E. Boasberg, to open criminal contempt proceedings as another salvo in an increasingly bitter battle between the White House and the courts.
President Trump has vowed that the Iran-backed Houthi militia will be “completely annihilated.” But forceful American strikes do not seem to have deterred the Yemeni fighters.
A still image from a video released on Friday by Al-Masirah, a Houthi-run channel, said to show destruction at the site of American strikes on the port of Ras Isa, Yemen.
Syria’s ousted dictator, Bashar al-Assad, unleashed a Sarin gas strike on the suburbs of Damascus in 2013, killing at least 1,500. Now, the survivors want justice.
A liquefied natural gas plant in Port Arthur, Texas. Chinese energy firms have been big buyers of L.N.G. in the United States, but have been selling its purchases to Europe.
A Nepali investigation blamed lawmakers and officials for looking the other way. The $216 million airport receives only one international flight a week.
Crowds welcomed passengers from the first international flight to arrive at Pokhara International Airport in 2023. Nepal is saddled with a Chinese loan it cannot afford to repay.
Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, in El Salvador with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland who was wrongly deported, in a handout photo from the senator’s office on Thursday.
Since the post-Nixon era, the Internal Revenue Service has had a degree of independence from the White House. President Trump is seeking to change that.
Some children were exposed to lead and investigators found flaking paint inside aging schools. Two federal experts, expected to help guide the response, have lost their jobs.
Fernwood Montessori students have been temporarily bused to another school while their building remains closed for lead removal.
Syria’s ousted dictator, Bashar al-Assad, unleashed a Sarin gas strike on the suburbs of Damascus in 2013, killing at least 1,500. Now, the survivors want justice.
China is the biggest foreign patron of Cambodia, where Mr. Xi concluded a tour of Southeast Asia. But the region also needs to curry favor with President Trump.
Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, and King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia walking past the honor guards upon arrival at Phnom Penh International Airport on Thursday.
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