As the sun rose on Friday morning, Antonio, 51, was gathering his things and saying his goodbyes at a large migrant shelter on the outskirts of Tijuana. Since 2020, Title 42, a public health measure implemented during the pandemic, has allowed border authorities to swiftly expel migrants who crossed into the United States illegally. A […]

The News The governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, vetoed a ban on abortion that was passed by the state’s Republican-led legislature. The bill prohibited abortion past 12 weeks, with some exceptions for rape, incest or to preserve the life and health of the mother. The veto by Mr. Cooper, a Democrat, sets him up […]

A century ago, before it was called sparkling water or club soda, and before it was sold as LaCroix and Spindrift, it was called seltzer. No plastic bottles or aluminum cans magically appeared on grocery shelves. Instead, factories across New York City pumped fizzy water into heavy siphon bottles that were distributed by deliverymen. Nearly […]

SAN DIEGO — In the vast migrant camp that sprung up this week on a patch of U.S. soil between Tijuana and San Diego, a striking system of order has emerged, even as anxiety and uncertainty swell. The Africans in the camp — from Ghana, Somalia, Kenya, Guinea, Nigeria — have one leader, a tall […]

Before P-22 died in December, I’ll admit I was only vaguely aware that there was a mountain lion living in Griffith Park. I had heard the name and was familiar with some of the many perils that pumas in the Los Angeles area were facing — shrinking territory and an attendant lack of genetic diversity, […]

Among the tools the Biden administration is using to alleviate crowding at the U.S.-Mexico border is a new mobile app that migrants must use before entering the United States to secure an appointment with the Border Patrol to submit an asylum application. But migrants have faced difficulties securing appointments through the app, called CBP One, […]

With the end of Title 42, the Covid-era policy that allowed for the swift expulsion of migrants arriving in the United States, federal border agents were set to return on Friday to the prepandemic rules for enforcing immigration law, known as Title 8. This measure covers a broad range of immigration law, including on asylum, […]

A day after Representative George Santos was charged in a 13-count federal indictment, the embattled first-term congressman of New York appeared in court again on Thursday for a hearing that had a far different outcome. Mr. Santos and Brazilian prosecutors on Thursday agreed to resolve a criminal charge that involved a pair of shoes and […]

WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Thursday were poised to push through a sweeping bill that would crack down on unlawful migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, blowing past solid Democratic opposition in a move timed to spotlight their hard-line stance on immigration in the face of a potential border surge. Republicans, who only narrowly avoided an […]

E. Jean Carroll is weighing whether to file a new defamation lawsuit against former President Donald J. Trump in the wake of his diatribe against her during a CNN town hall Wednesday night, when he said her claim of a decades-old sexual assault was “fake” and a “made-up story,” her lawyer said on Thursday. Mr. […]