In deep red Hanover County, Virginia, just north of Richmond, Donald Trump won 62 percent of the vote in 2024. It might have followed that the voters there supported his administration’s immigration agenda. And yet, in January, Hanover County’s board of supervisors opposed the Department of Homeland Security’s plan to purchase and retrofit a local…
For years, federal health officials have warned about the risks associated with a supplement derived from the leaves of kratom trees that adherents say can kill pain or boost energy. Sold in gas stations across America, kratom has been linked to liver toxicity, seizures and thousands of deaths. Powerful figures close to President Trump, including…
Federal disaster declarations, which unlock millions of dollars in aid for communities hit by catastrophes, have been delayed significantly in President Trump’s second term, and money is flowing especially slowly to states that Mr. Trump lost in the 2024 election, according to a New York Times analysis. The review of Federal Emergency Management Agency data…
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reversing job cuts that Kristi Noem, the former homeland security secretary, had overseen before she was fired last month. FEMA has reinstated 14 people who had signed a public letter that became known as the Katrina Declaration, which warned that the agency risked repeating mistakes learned during Hurricane Katrina…
As the Trump administration prepared to remove protections from deportation for more than 350,000 Haitians living in the United States, a government researcher privately complained that she was being ordered to manipulate evidence to support the move, internal emails show. Ashley Holland, who worked at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, wrote in a September 2025…
The Trump administration is scrambling to conduct environmental impact reviews of warehouses it plans to convert into immigrant holding facilities, after a flurry of lawsuits claiming the administration sidestepped federal requirements. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is buying the warehouses to help it increase the rate of deportations, which depends on having enough space…
It was the quiet that most troubled Mara Lynne. Her street usually bustles and thrums, but when armed, masked agents grabbed a passing man and stuffed him into the back of an S.U.V., she was the lone witness. “There was nobody around, just me,” she said. “It was silent. That’s the part that freaks me…
For decades, immigrants who have followed the rules and have not broken the law have had hopes of earning a green card, a document that allows them to live legally in the United States and gain a path to citizenship. But under new guidance issued by the Trump administration, immigrants can now be denied a…
Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé was in bed at home in Anniston, Ala., when she was startled awake by banging. Men had surrounded the bungalow where Ms. Ross-Mahé, a French citizen, had lived with her American husband until he died in January. They were knocking loudly on the windows and doors. When Ms. Ross-Mahé, 85, opened the door,…
