Farmworker Dies After Fleeing a Federal Raid in Southern California
During a chaotic raid in Ventura County on Thursday, the worker fell from a greenhouse at a cannabis farm, suffered spinal and skull injuries, and died on Friday.Read More
Judge Blocks Trump Administration Tactics in L.A. Immigration Raids
A federal judge temporarily halted the administration from making indiscriminate arrests based on race and denying detainees access to lawyers, in a lawsuit that could have national repercussions.Read More
After Texas Disaster, Trump Shifts His Tone on FEMA
Earlier this year, President Trump suggested he wanted to shutter the agency. Now, he says his aides “fixed it up in no time.”Read More
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.Read More
Energy Department to Gut Funding for Solar and Wind Projects
Stripping hundreds of millions of dollars from renewable energy and efficiency initiatives is part of a broader move to undo efforts to wean the United States off fossil fuels.Read More
Air India Plane Crash Report Says Fuel to Engines Was Cut Off
The focus on the fuel switches on Air India Flight 171 raised questions about the pilots’ actions.Read More
Immigration Arrests in Los Angeles Spike Amid Aggressive Enforcement
Nearly 3,000 people have been arrested since the beginning of June, more than three times the number in previous months this year.Read More
David Gergen, Washington Veteran Who Advised Four Presidents, Dies at 83
After serving in the government, he became a prominent political commentator. “Centrism doesn’t mean splitting the difference,” he said in 2020.Read More
Before the Central Texas Floods, the Owners of Camp Mystic Were a Fixture
For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past childhood still describe with awe.Read More
Pam Bondi and FBI’s Dan Bongino Clash Over Handling of Epstein Case
An irate attorney general is said to have confronted the deputy director of the F.B.I. at a tense White House meeting earlier in the week.Read More