The Whipple Federal Building has become both a staging ground for immigration agents and a hub for demonstrations against the crackdown in the Twin Cities.
Becca Good attended a memorial for Renee Good, offering words of compassion and resilience to the crowd gathered in a snow-covered Minneapolis park.
During the investigation, the man was found to have child sex abuse materials on his phone, federal prosecutors said.
Jim Stolley, the chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota, has left as government prosecutors grapple with a crush of cases.
Gun permit applications have surged in Minnesota since ICE raids began across the state in December. After weeks of protests and violent confrontations that led to the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens, we traveled to Minneapolis to speak to some of the new gun owners choosing to exercise their right to bear arms.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Ms. Good’s vehicle, but Trump administration leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have departed, leaving the Minnesota U.S. attorney’s office in turmoil.
A Border Patrol agent shot Marimar Martinez five times. Video from the October incident in Chicago could now be released as early as Monday.
It is a pattern that has played out in other cities where the administration has conducted immigration surges and taken a muscular stance against those accused of impeding federal officers.
The laws aim to force oil companies to help pay for damage from global warming. Industry is gearing up for state-by-state battles.
Sheriff Dawanna Witt of Hennepin County says she thinks she could help end the crackdown by allowing some measure of cooperation with ICE. She also knows that could cost her re-election.
The White House seems to be mining the Coolidge era for inspiration. But America is not the country it was in 1924.
The Trump administration has criticized state and local “sanctuary” policies during its Minnesota immigration crackdown. The reality on the ground is complicated.
The monitoring of law enforcement has a long history, dating back to the 1960s, when leftist groups like the Black Panthers began police patrols.
How does the recently revamped Living In series uncover the best-kept secrets of America’s ever-changing towns and neighborhoods?
The Trump administration announced that its deployment of immigration agents in the Twin Cities was diminishing, but many agents remain.
With eight days until a deadline to keep the Department of Homeland Security running, bipartisan talks on reining in federal immigration agents’ tactics appeared to sputter before they had even gotten underway.
Readers suggest steps to take in response to federal actions that have terrorized some communities. Also: When the president is rude; imperfect marriages.
Immigrants apprehended in Minnesota are being sent to a gigantic West Texas detention center where lawyers and detainees say conditions are deplorable, then released in El Paso to find their way home.
Joseph Yracheta was in charge of a repository that compiled and protected tribal health data. Then its funding was cut.
Democrats say they will not support a spending bill to keep the Homeland Security Department running without new restrictions on federal agents.
¿Qué significa para la humanidad estar disminuyendo? ¿Podrá eso resolver el cambio climático o las alteraciones que trajo consigo la IA?
Plus, Savannah Guthrie makes a plea to her mother’s abductor.
Remarks by a prosecutor opened a revealing window onto how the courts in the state are buckling under the weight of a deluge of cases arising from the Trump administration’s campaign.
Calling dibs on the parking spot you shoveled after a blizzard tends to be a respected tradition in northern cities, but a spate of confrontations is a reminder of just how precious a spot can be.
I covered the Minnesota church protest. Press credentials didn’t protect me.
Unos 2000 agentes y parte del personal se quedarán en la ciudad, donde las muertes a manos de agentes federales de dos personas que protestaban contra la represión migratoria han generado indignación.
It’s often assumed that lower birthrates could help slow climate change and A.I. disruption. The reality is more complex.
Tom Homan, the White House border czar, said that 700 immigration agents will be moved out of Minnesota. About 2,000 agents and officers will stay behind to enforce the administration’s immigration crackdown.
A Detroit Tigers pitcher, he was famous for his ample waistline — and for his three complete-game wins in defeating the Cardinals, making him the Series’ M.V.P.
The lawsuit is challenging a Trump administration policy allowing federal agents near locations such as schools, churches and hospitals.
Sixteen elected treasury officials, all Democrats, wrote to President Trump to say ICE crackdowns are bad for business and tax revenues: “People must feel safe to go to work.”
About 2,000 personnel will be left in the city, where the killings of two protesters against President Trump’s immigration crackdown by federal officers have generated outrage.
A moderate Democrat from Indiana for 34 years, he led the House Foreign Affairs and Intelligence committees and helped investigate the Iran-contra scandal and the Sept. 11 attacks.
School communities are central to organizing against federal harassment.
Plus, a fitting tribute to Catherine O’Hara.
“It’s like living in fear all the time,” a teenager said about the federal raids that have shattered families.
A 2020 remodel in Columbus, Ohio., a 1935 farmhouse in Mentone, Ala., and a 1930 bungalow in Houston.
Brian O’Hara, who took over a troubled police force and has spent years rebuilding community trust, fears the long-term damage wrought by federal agents.
Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain.
Una propuesta contenida en un artículo de una revista jurídica de 1987 podría subsanar una laguna que hace prácticamente imposible demandar a funcionarios federales por violar la Constitución.
Dicen que hay que vivir cada día como si fuera el último, y ese era justamente el plan de Brian.
The anchorman, who was arrested over a protest in Minnesota, told an audience in Manhattan, “I’m not going to let them turn me around,” and sang lines from a civil rights era freedom song.
It’s not just blue America where people are readying themselves for disaster.
In the weeks since ICE agents began conducting operations across the city, Westminster Presbyterian has given its members a place to protest on their own terms.
Luke Ganger and Brent Ganger called their sister, Renee Good, “unapologetically hopeful” during a public forum on the use of force by federal agents at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. Ms. Good was fatally shot by a federal agent in Minneapolis in January.
People often misunderstand nonviolent protest. It is not merely eschewing violence.
The author and Jesuit priest discusses human dignity, political divides and how he sees the role of the Catholic Church.
Technological advances and an erosion of trust have transformed the way news unfolds online, distorting shared reality.
We all talk about the president. Yet the presidency as a national force is disappearing, Julia Azari argues.
President Trump and the White House regularly circulate imagery that has been manipulated by A.I. But the photo of Nekima Levy Armstrong was different.
Nick Shirley had struggled to expand his reach. With a new approach after a missionary trip, he caused a sensation with a video about possible fraud.
What if you really did live every day as if it were your last? That was Brian’s plan.
The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, ordered all immigration officers in Minneapolis to wear body cameras. The move comes after fatal shootings where federal accounts conflicted with local officials and witness videos.
The change comes as the federal government has provided accounts of fatal shootings that have sometimes conflicted with local officials and witness videos.
Un memo interno cambió el criterio que evaluaba si una persona estaba en riesgo de no presentarse a una audiencia judicial. Ahora se enfoca en evaluar si una persona está en riesgo de abandonar el lugar de los hechos.
More than 1,500 active-duty troops had been on standby to deploy to Minnesota, but were quietly taken off heightened alert over the weekend.
Many Americans are growing both exhausted and frightened by Trump’s scorched-earth, hyperpartisan, fire-ready-aim approach to the presidency.
In a shaky job market, Silicon Valley workers feel they lack the leverage needed to make their political views known.
In Springfield, which was thrust into the spotlight by President Trump during the 2024 campaign, hundreds of people turned out to back Haitians living in the city.
Nine defendants have been taken into custody in a federal prosecution that includes the journalist Don Lemon and has alarmed First Amendment advocates.
Immigration raids have scared off customers and workers, a pattern repeated in other cities where federal officials have arrived in force.
Scammers on the phone had threatened to kill Wiliam J. Brock if he didn’t hand over $12,000 just as Lo-Letha Toland-Hall, an Uber driver, came to his house to pick up a package.
The Minnesota Democrat discussed the battle between his city and the federal government with Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
President Trump’s border czar said he was seeking a deal with officials in Minnesota that would include expanding agents’ access to jails.
The Minnesota-based retail chain has avoided criticizing anyone, even after federal agents detained two employees at a local store. Its new C.E.O. faces pressure to do more.
A proposal in a 1987 law review article could address a gap that makes it all but impossible to sue federal officials for violating the Constitution.
In Minneapolis and St. Paul, business owners work to lift up a community that has been roiled by the presence of thousands of immigration agents.
El director de la escuela dijo que los llevó ante las autoridades a pedido de su madre detenida. La semana pasada, otro menor del mismo colegio, Liam Conejo Ramos, también fue detenido por agentes de inmigración.
Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who was detained with his father by federal agents, is back home in Minnesota with his father. A federal judge demanded their release from an immigration detention center in Texas, where they were being held.
He was chastised for remarks ridiculing the pardons of two congressional campaign aides who had been convicted in a bribery plot.
Jim Pattison Developments said the sale of an industrial building, which was planned to become an Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility, would not go forward.
A federal judge had demanded that the boy and his father be set free in a fiery opinion on Saturday.
The White House border czar wants to focus more on getting immigrants already in jails. He’ll have to persuade Democrats to do it.
Children do not deserve immigration detention.
When a leader sits alone at the top of the power vertical, it is hard for him to escape blame.
Activists criticized the president after he blamed Alex Pretti for carrying a gun in Minneapolis before federal agents killed him. But there is little sign of a lasting rupture.
Several factors converged to force a remarkable shift in the federal government’s aggressive efforts in Minnesota.
Church bells pealed in the Twin Cities to express support for detainees and protesters who oppose federal immigration agents’ aggressive tactics.
The treatment of Liam Conejo Ramos, pictured wearing a blue winter hat and Spider-Man backpack while in the custody of immigration agents, drew outrage across the country.
The order, signed by Mayor Brandon Johnson, instructs police officers to report allegations of unlawful conduct in an effort to prosecute the most aggressive federal immigration actions.
Arresting Don Lemon doesn’t send the message the president wants it to.
Minnesota officials had sought a temporary end to the deployment of 3,000 federal agents, claiming state sovereignty had been violated.
One week after the I.C.U. nurse was shot dead by federal agents, tributes continue to build on the sidewalk where he fell.
Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol field leader, made disparaging remarks in reference to the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, an Orthodox Jew, people with knowledge of the phone call said.
ICE agents can stop anyone they suspect of being undocumented. Now, residents are weighing their rights and their pride against their own safety.
As in the Civil Rights battles of the 1960s, Americans are at a fork and must pick their path.
Amid national protests, the round table convenes to debate what anti-ICE tactics should look like.
Letters from students living in fear.
Organizers are trying to build on the momentum created after the killings of two protesters in Minneapolis this month.
The term, used to describe war, poses dangers when applied to American political unrest.
In Fridley, a Minneapolis suburb, school officials are driving nervous teachers and buying families groceries. At dismissal, the superintendent patrols for federal agents.
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will loan scores of modern and contemporary masterworks in storage to museums in 50 states.
Governor Mikie Sherrill said the state would begin collecting images of federal immigration agents interacting with the public.
Trump parece estar dando marcha atrás en Mineápolis, pero hay una diferencia entre un cambio de opinión y una retirada táctica.
A new report from a police department outside of Chicago sheds light on a rare battery charge brought against an ICE agent after a fight with an activist.
Arrests were continuing, according to residents who have tracked the immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities, but some people observed fewer clashes.
President Trump has offered dueling messages on the crisis in Minneapolis, part of pattern of dialing back his rhetoric only to change again if the political winds are shifting.
The school’s principal said he brought two children to federal custody at the request of their mother, who was detained. Last week, another student, Liam Conejo Ramos, was picked up by immigration agents.
The Trump administration used a federal law prohibiting blockades of abortion clinics and places of worship to charge Mr. Lemon and others in Minnesota.
Demonstrators rallied across the country, leaving school and work and closing businesses in a show of solidarity with Minneapolis.
An internal memo changed the standard from whether people are unlikely to show up for hearings to whether they could leave the scene.
The party was mostly unified on the issue not long ago, but splinters are everywhere now.
For a second week, residents demonstrated against Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s incursion into their city. And Bruce Springsteen made a surprise appearance at a benefit concert.
The red tasseled hats are at the heart of a movement to galvanize opposition to Immigration and Custom Enforcement in Minnesota and beyond.
Don Lemon and three others, including independent journalist Georgia Fort, were arrested on charges that they had violated federal law during the church protest in St. Paul, Minn. this month.
The announcement marked a significant reversal in the department’s approach to Mr. Pretti’s killing.
A video showed a driver with a “Trump 2024” flag mounted to the car’s rear window driving into a girl who was holding a poster.
Ms. Fort was taken into custody by federal agents Friday morning, following a grand jury indictment.
A vocal group of Trump supporters broke with the president when he appeared to backpedal on his immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. Is it a rift, or just a passing mood?
After videos resurfaced showing a confrontation between Mr. Pretti and federal agents 11 days before officers fatally shot him, President Trump again sought to cast blame on him.
The search might also be a harbinger of things to come, signaling the president’s disposition to use the powers of law enforcement to intervene in election matters as the 2026 midterms approach.
To triumph in the modern Republican Party, you need to be able to wrench your soul into alignment with your ambition.
The clash in Minneapolis has revealed a profound cleavage over the meaning of citizenship.
President Trump and top administration officials, in trying to shift blame over two recent shootings, have mounted an array of arguments for the influx of federal agents.
A number of companies have found themselves facing questions about their work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement amid the agency’s intense operation in Minnesota.
Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said.
Federal agents began Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities late last year. After the deaths of two U.S. citizens, many residents say they feel overwhelmed.
Many police departments adopted major changes after civilian killings. Now, police chiefs worry ICE is ignoring those lessons and setting back efforts to improve public trust.
Un grupo de manifestantes recurre al ruido nocturno para presionar a los dueños de los hoteles que acogen a los agentes del ICE.
The Border Patrol commander gave agents wide latitude to arrest people as immigration raids began last summer. Similar tactics were later used in other cities.
The Trump administration has called the Minneapolis shooting victims “domestic terrorists.” Our criminal justice reporter Jonah E. Bromwich explains what that term actually means.
In an hourslong hearing, lawmakers heard stories of the use of racial profiling and aggressive tactics against state residents.
About 30 percent of the people ICE detained in Minnesota last year were turned over by local jails and prisons, a New York Times analysis of federal data shows, but that number is a lower share than in 39 other states.
There is rising anxiety among Americans that the presence of an armed federal force in cities is actively making life less safe for people who live there.
The White House border czar Tom Homan said there are plans for a “drawdown” of immigration enforcement’s operation in Minnesota if his agents get access to jails in the state.
Readers discuss Philip Glass’s refusal to allow the performance of his symphony at the Kennedy Center. Also: Real leaders at a time of crisis.
Mientras los funcionarios lanzan acusaciones tras la muerte de Alex Pretti a manos de agentes federales, crece la preocupación por el futuro de la agencia.
Democratic lawmakers called Wednesday for the immediate release of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old detained by federal agents in Minnesota, after visiting him and his father in an immigration holding facility.
“No sleep” protests have used noise and other tactics to target ICE agents at hotels, leaving the owners, often immigrants themselves, caught in the middle.
With about 36 hours to go before a shutdown deadline, the funding legislation stalled while Democrats sought a deal with President Trump to rein in his immigration crackdown.
Ms. Omar was sprayed with liquid from a syringe as she spoke at a town hall and called for the resignation of Kristi Noem, who leads the Homeland Security Department.
Mr. Kazmierczak was arrested after he squirted liquid from a syringe onto Representative Ilhan Omar in Minneapolis as she spoke at an event on Tuesday night.
A dizzying array of rules govern what can be bought with SNAP dollars, confusing grocery stores and consumers.
The deputy, Sean Grayson, was convicted of second-degree murder for killing Ms. Massey in 2024 at her home in Springfield, Ill., after she had called 911.
En una protesta anterior, el enfermero de Minneapolis abatido por agentes federales fue empujado al suelo tras escupir a otros agentes y romper una luz trasera de su vehículo.
En la persecución de migrantes indocumentados, los agentes federales llevan armas de guerra, afinadas y perfeccionadas para matar a corta distancia.
Representative Joaquin Castro said Liam Conejo Ramos appeared lethargic during a visit by lawmakers to the facility where he and his father are being held. The pair was detained in Minnesota.
The Democratic senator, who signaled her bid after Gov. Tim Walz said he wouldn’t run again, talked about moving past political divides in a video announcement.
¿Qué podemos aprender del alejamiento de Canadá de Estados Unidos?
What MAGA sees in the Minneapolis mirror.
Minnesotans have stood up for common decency and our founding principles.
A Wild West frontier ethos has persisted to this day.
The Trump Justice Department has often cast aside normal procedures intended to seek accountability in favor of pushing prosecutors and the F.B.I. to focus on critics of the immigration crackdown.
Crowds are flocking to an annual festival for performances of “A Doll’s House,” a “Macbeth”-inspired witch tale and more featuring puppets big and small.
Tariffs have protected some companies, but more often they’ve hit the parts and materials many factories need to make finished goods.
New discounts can make heat pumps go from a bad investment to a good idea.
Haitians are a vital source of employees for health care providers in many communities. The Trump administration is removing legal status next month for 330,000 of them.
Summer Boismier, a high school English teacher in Oklahoma, lost her teaching license after she protested a book ban. Now she is fighting to return to the classroom.
El presidente de EE. UU. suele fanfarronear en las crisis y negarse a retroceder. Mineápolis puso a prueba los límites de esa estrategia.
As officials point fingers in the wake of Alex Pretti’s death at the hands of federal agents, concerns grow about the agency’s future.