National Guard soldiers at an immigrant processing and detention center in Broadview, Ill., last month. The troops arrived near Chicago and Portland, Ore., in early October but never deployed into the streets because of legal challenges that continue in the courts.
Zohran Mamdani takes office on Jan. 1 with ambitious plans to rethink policing and some officers angry about his past criticisms. Winning them over could be a key to a successful term.
In a television interview, Zohran Mamdani spoke of recognizing “what those officers put on the line every single day, and the importance that we ask them to do that which is impossible.”
High-ranking inmates known as trusties were ordered to do guards’ bidding, former inmates and guards said, and the culture of violence in the jail went straight to the top.
Officials have yet to grasp the magnitude of heat-related deaths, let alone effectively deal with the problem, public health experts and scientists say.
Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people.
Alice Wong in 2024. “One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there,” Ms. Wong said. “Part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.”
The chief executive of a Saudi firm says a Trump-branded project is “just a matter of time.” The Trump Organization’s major foreign partner is also signaling new Saudi deals.
President Trump, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Jerry Inzerillo at a model of the proposed Diriyah development during a state dinner in Saudi Arabia in May.
At a health care town hall in his swing state, Senator Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, test-drove his party’s new political pitch to an audience disappointed in the outcome of the shutdown.
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