The Trump administration plans to designate more than a half-dozen criminal groups with roots in Latin America as foreign terrorist organizations, said five U.S. officials with knowledge of the imminent action. The move, to be carried out by the State Department, follows an executive order President Trump signed on Jan. 20 calling for a crackdown … Read more
When Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last month that lifesaving humanitarian work would be exempt from a freeze on foreign aid, global health workers breathed a collective sigh of relief. But a new directive has put such exemptions on hold. Several senior employees at the U.S.A.I.D. Bureau of Global Health received an email Tuesday … Read more
A coalition of nonprofit aid groups said Wednesday at an emergency hearing that the Trump administration’s “opaque and chaotic” 90-day pause on foreign aid had already “devastated” their operations — consequences they said justified a judicial order halting the administration’s sweeping executive order. The aid groups filed suit Tuesday against President Donald Trump, Secretary of … Read more
Dozens of Venezuelan migrants sent by the Trump administration to the U.S. military base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are being guarded by troops rather than civilian immigration officers, according to people familiar with the operation. While the Trump administration has portrayed the detainees as legally in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, military guards … Read more
PHOENIX — Lawyers for 25,000 people incarcerated in Arizona have asked a judge to take over health care operations in state-run prisons and appoint an official to run them, saying the state is not capable of fixing deep failures in care even though it has been required to do so over the last decade. In … Read more
The New York Times has obtained a list of 53 men whom the Homeland Security Department has sent from an immigration detention site in Texas to a prison building at the military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The U.S. government has not released the men’s names but has described them as Venezuelan citizens under final … Read more
President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday calling for “reform” to the Foreign Service, America’s corps of professional diplomats, “to ensure faithful and effective implementation” of his foreign policy agenda. It was the latest of several recent moves by Mr. Trump to assert greater control over the federal work force, which the president largely … Read more
Immigration has always been the lifeblood of America, helping to create a unique melting pot of culture and history. However, the fight over who belongs, and who does not, is as old as the country itself. Since his inauguration last month, President Donald Trump has been testing the limits of his power through a flurry … Read more
Hi there. The country is changing — and so is this newsletter. We usually go deep on a different subject each night. But for the next few weeks, we’re going to stick with one big story: Elon Musk’s efforts to slash the federal bureaucracy and upend the nation’s politics. We’ll explain what he’s doing, what … Read more
As courts block parts of his agenda, President Donald Trump and his allies are ramping up criticism of judges and continuing to question judicial oversight of the executive branch. While he’s said he would abide by their rulings — but also appeal them — he kept up the effort to undermine the authority of the … Read more