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    "parsed_content": "Epstein FilesFeb. 9, 2026, 12:02 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Michael GoldReporting from the CapitolVideoGhislaine Maxwell Refuses to Answer Questions From CongressGhislaine Maxwell, longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender, declined to answer questions during a virtual deposition in front of the House Oversight Committee.CreditCredit...Joe Schildhorn\/Patrick McMullan, via Getty ImagesGhislaine Maxwell, the longtime companion of Jeffrey Epstein who is serving a federal prison sentence on sex-trafficking charges, refused on Monday to answer questions during a deposition before the House Oversight Committee.Representative James R. Comer of Kentucky, the committee\u2019s Republican chairman, said that Ms. Maxwell, who appeared virtually from a prison in Texas, invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in response to every question asked.\u201cIt was very disappointing,\u201d Mr. Comer said. \u201cWe had many questions to ask about the crimes she and Epstein committed, as well as questions about potential co-conspirators.\u201dHe also said that Ms. Maxwell\u2019s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, told lawmakers in his opening statement that Ms. Maxwell \u201cwould answer questions if she were granted clemency\u201d by President Trump.Democrats in the deposition condemned that stance.\u201cShe is campaigning over and over again to get that pardon from President Trump, and this president has not ruled it out,\u201d said Representative Suhas Subramanyam of Virginia. \u201cAnd so that is why she is continuing to not cooperate with our investigation.\u201dIn a copy of his statement posted on social media, Mr. Markus said that \u201cMs. Maxwell is prepared to speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump.\u201dHe also said that Ms. Maxwell could clear both Mr. Trump and former President Bill Clinton, both of whom have documented ties to Mr. Epstein, from any accusations of wrongdoing. Democrats dismissed that assertion as part of Ms. Maxwell\u2019s effort to get clemency.Lawmakers had sought to depose Ms. Maxwell for months as part of the panel\u2019s inquiry into the federal government\u2019s investigations of Mr. Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in prison while facing accusations of sex trafficking of girls as young as 14, and Ms. Maxwell.Mr. Comer first requested to depose Ms. Maxwell in July, as a political firestorm was erupting over the Trump administration\u2019s backtracking on a promise to release all of the Justice Department\u2019s investigative material on Mr. Epstein.As the backlash grew, House Democrats teamed with a handful of Republicans to force the Oversight Committee to subpoena the department and the Epstein estate for troves of records. The panel also requested depositions for current and former government officials and Ms. Maxwell.In the months since that initial request, Ms. Maxwell has come under increasing scrutiny, particularly after she was moved to a minimum-security prison following an interview by Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general. Democrats have demanded to visit her there, citing whistle-blower accusations that she is receiving preferential treatment.Monday\u2019s deposition took place as the Justice Department also began to make the unredacted versions of its investigative material into Mr. Epstein available to members of Congress. The department finished the release of the files last month.After viewing the files, Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, criticized the department for not yet sending to Congress a required document explaining the reasons for its redactions.\u201cI think that the Department of Justice has been in a cover-up mode for many months and has been trying to sweep the entire thing under the rug,\u201d Mr. Raskin told reporters. He also called for more investigation, adding that \u201cthere\u2019s no way you run a billion-dollar international child sex trafficking ring with just two people committing crimes.\u201dAfter viewing some redacted documents, the two lawmakers who led congressional efforts to pass a resolution that eventually compelled the department to release the Epstein files told reporters that they saw the names and photos of six men who they believe were implicated in Mr. Epstein\u2019s charges on sex trafficking.Representative Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, and Representative Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, said during a news conference next to a Justice Department building in Washington that those people appear in a photo list of 20 individuals, which resembled \u201cmug shots.\u201d They also criticized the department for redacting those people\u2019s identities in the troves of documents that have been released so far.\u201cThere is no reason in our legislation that allows them to redact the names of those men,\u201d Mr. Massie told reporters.Mr. Khanna and Mr. Massie added that many documents they viewed on Monday were still redacted, which they said would mean that the files the Justice Department lawyers reviewed for release had already been redacted by either the F.B.I. or a grand jury. The resolution requires that such files to be released.Over the weekend, lawmakers began calling for the commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, to resign or be fired after documents released by the Justice Department showed that he planned a visit to Epstein\u2019s private island in 2012.Mr. Lutnick had claimed in a podcast interview last year that he stopped associating with Mr. Epstein in 2005. He told The New York Times on Friday that he \u201cspent zero time\u201d with Mr. Epstein but declined to comment about the island visit.Senator Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California, on Monday called on Mr. Lutnick to resign, accusing him of lying about his ties to Mr. Epstein. Mr. Massie, a frequent critic of the Trump administration, also said that Mr. Lutnick should step down.Asked whether the Oversight Committee would ask Mr. Lutnick to testify, Mr. Comer, its chairman, did not rule out issuing a subpoena.\u201cWe\u2019re interested in talking to anyone that might have any information that would help us get justice for the survivorship,\u201d he told reporters.Even after the release of the files, the panel has continued its investigation, which also included a review of thousands of pages obtained from Mr. Epstein\u2019s estate. The committee is scheduled to hear testimony from the executors of the estate this month.The committee will also depose Hillary Clinton and Mr. Clinton. After a bitter back-and-forth with Mr. Comer, the Clintons agreed to be deposed on camera this month, though they have continued to request that they be allowed to do so at public hearings.A review by The New York Times of documents released by the Justice Department found very little related to Mrs. Clinton and limited new information about Mr. Clinton\u2019s interactions with Mr. Epstein.But the documents revealed that Ms. Maxwell played a substantial role in supporting the creation of the Clinton Global Initiative, one of Mr. Clinton\u2019s signature post-White House efforts.Minho Kim contributed reporting.Show moreFeb. 9, 2026, 6:56 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Minho KimReporting from WashingtonRepresentative Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, and Representative Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, criticized the Justice Department for redacting the identities of six men in publicly released files on Jeffrey Epstein, saying they believed the men \u2014 one of them a high-ranking official of a foreign country \u2014 were implicated in sex trafficking charges. The lawmakers, who had led congressional efforts to compel the release of the files, were among the small group who reviewed the unredacted files on Monday. In a news conference outside the Justice Department, they said the six appeared in a compilation of \u201cmug shot\"-style photos of 20 individuals, and that they might release the names themselves. \u201cThere is no reason in our legislation that allows them to redact the names of those men,\u201d Massie said. They also said redactions remained in many of the documents, calling that an indication that they had been redacted by the F.B.I. or a grand jury prior to the Justice Department\u2019s process of releasing the files. Feb. 9, 2026, 4:20 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Minho KimReporting from WashingtonRepresentative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said that redacted parts of the Epstein files that he viewed on Monday appeared to contradict President Trump\u2019s previous statements that the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had been barred from the president\u2019s Mar-a-Lago complex in Florida after allegations of sexual misconduct were raised. In a news conference, Raskin said he saw redacted pages in which Epstein\u2019s lawyers quoted Trump as saying that Epstein was a guest at Mar-a-Lago and that he \u201chad never been asked to leave.\u201d\u201cThat was redacted for some indeterminate, inscrutable reason,\u201d Raskin said. Two other representatives, Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, and Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, are scheduled to hold a briefing on what they saw in the files later today.ImageCredit...Scott McIntyre for The New York TimesFeb. 9, 2026, 12:56 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Michael GoldCongressional reporterSenator Adam Schiff, Democrat of California, became the latest member of Congress to call on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to resign, accusing him of lying about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.Lutnick claimed in a podcast interview last year that he stopped associating with Epstein in 2005. But documents released by the the Justice Department showed that Lutnick planned a visit to Epstein\u2019s private island in 2012, years later.Separately, Representative James R. Comer, Republican of Kentucky and the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, did not rule out issuing a subpoena to Lutnick as part of the panel\u2019s investigation into Epstein. \u201cWe\u2019re interested in talking to anyone that might have any information that would help us get justice for the survivorship,\u201d he told reporters.Feb. 9, 2026, 10:49 a.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Michael GoldCongressional reporterRepresentative Suhas Subramanyam of Virginia, one of the Democrats on the Oversight Committee, condemned Ghislaine Maxwell\u2019s pursuit of clemency during her deposition, but also faulted President Trump for not shutting down the idea. \u201cShe is campaigning over and over again to get that pardon from President Trump, and this president has not ruled it out,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd so that is why she is continuing to not cooperate with our investigation.\u201dImageCredit...Eric Lee for The New York TimesFeb. 9, 2026, 10:36 a.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Michael GoldCongressional reporterGhislaine Maxwell, the longtime companion of Jeffrey Epstein who is currently serving a federal prison sentence on sex-trafficking charges, invoked her Fifth Amendment right in response to every question asked during a deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, according to Representative James R. Comer of Kentucky, the committee\u2019s chairman. Comer said a lawyer for Maxwell, who appeared virtually from a prison in Texas, told lawmakers in his opening statement that Maxwell \u201cwould answer questions if she were granted clemency.\u201dLoad 2 more postsMore Administration NewsFeb. 9, 2026, 11:10 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Chris CameronReporting from WashingtonImageA family from Honduras at a park in northern Illinois in 2023. The Temporary Protected Status program allows people from countries facing war or other instability to temporarily live and work in the United States.Credit...Sebastian Hidalgo for The New York TimesA federal appeals court allowed President Trump on Monday to move forward with ending deportation protections for more than 60,000 migrants from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua, a victory for his administration\u2019s push to curtail a program for migrants fleeing crisis at home.Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, has moved to end the Temporary Protected Status program for hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing instability and war in their home countries.In lawsuits challenging those policies, many district court judges have ruled against the Trump administration, finding that the termination of the deportation protections was preordained and driven by an intent to end T.P.S. But in a similar case last year, the Supreme Court allowed deportation protections to expire for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants.Judge Trina L. Thompson of the Northern District of California, who had overseen the court case for Nepalese, Honduran and Nicaraguan migrants, wrote in a withering order last year that Ms. Noem had perpetuated xenophobic stereotypes and racist conspiracy theories in her drive to suspend their T.P.S. protections.But a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stayed Judge Thompson\u2019s ruling at the request of the Trump administration, pointing to the Supreme Court\u2019s rulings in the Venezuelan case.The Ninth Circuit panel wrote in an unsigned ruling that there was significant evidence supporting the Trump administration\u2019s position \u2014 reasoning that Ms. Noem\u2019s decision to terminate the programs may not be subject to judicial review, and that \u201cthe government can likely show that the administrative record adequately supports the secretary\u2019s action.\u201d\u201cWe are not writing on a blank slate,\u201d the judges wrote. The Supreme Court orders, which were unsigned, \u201ccontained no reasoning, so they do not inform our analysis of the legal issues in this case,\u201d the judges wrote, but \u201cwe have been admonished that the court\u2019s stay orders must inform\u201d the rulings in their own cases.Some 50,000 Hondurans, 7,000 Nepalis and 3,000 Nicaraguans are covered under Temporary Protected Status, according to the Congressional Research Service. The decades-old program allows people from countries facing armed conflict, natural disasters and other catastrophes to temporarily live and work in the United States. Its protections for migrants from some countries have been renewed for years as turmoil in their nations continues.The program has been a high-profile target of Mr. Trump\u2019s administration\u2019s deportation efforts. In total, the government has moved to eliminate the program for more than one million people from eight countries, arguing that the programs were originally aimed at providing temporary relief and have expanded beyond their original scope.Show moreFeb. 9, 2026, 9:42 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Eric SchmittNational security reporterImageGen. Francis L. Donovan, a Marine, took charge of U.S. military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean last week.Credit...Tom Brenner\/Getty ImagesA U.S. military boat strike, the third this year, blew up a vessel suspected of carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing two people and leaving a lone survivor, the Pentagon\u2019s Southern Command said.Southern Command, or Southcom, said that it had notified the U.S. Coast Guard to begin search-and-rescue operations.The strike was the second authorized by Gen. Francis L. Donovan, a Marine who became Southcom\u2019s new leader last week, overseeing U.S. military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was the 38th strike announced by the Trump administration in a campaign against drug trafficking from Latin America, particularly Venezuela and Colombia, which began in early September. The campaign began with strikes in the Caribbean but has most often targeted vessels in the eastern Pacific, according to a tracker maintained by The New York Times. The strikes have now claimed 130 lives.Since the campaign started, only two other people are known to have survived a U.S. military airstrike; they were eventually rescued. A third person survived a strike on Jan. 23, but was never found and is presumed dead.An 11-second video clip accompanying Southcom\u2019s announcement on Monday showed the boat traveling across the water when two explosions set it on fire. The announcement said that unspecified intelligence had determined that the boat was \u201cengaged in narco-trafficking operations\u201d and that it was following a known drug-smuggling route.A broad range of legal specialists on the use of lethal force have said that the U.S. strikes are illegal, extrajudicial killings because the military cannot deliberately target civilians who do not pose an imminent threat of violence, even if they are suspected of engaging in criminal acts.Show moreFeb. 9, 2026, 9:20 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Chris Cameron and Vjosa IsaiChris Cameron reported from Washington and Vjosa Isai from Toronto.ImageThe Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Detroit to Windsor, Ontario is expected to open early this year.Credit...Ian Willms for The New York TimesPresident Trump threatened on Monday to block the opening of a new bridge between the United States and Canada if Canadian officials did not address a long and growing list of grievances, escalating diplomatic tensions between the two countries.Amid a trade war and a deepening rift between the United States and its northern neighbor, Mr. Trump said that he would \u201cnot allow\u201d the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, scheduled to open early this year for traffic between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, \u201cuntil the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve.\u201dThe Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the nation\u2019s largest business lobbying group, denounced the president\u2019s threat in a statement, writing that \u201cwhether this proves real or simply threatened to keep uncertainty high \u2014 blocking or barricading bridges is a self-defeating move.\u201dIt was not immediately clear how Mr. Trump would block the opening of the bridge. Its construction was paid for by Canada, and a public-private arrangement , under which Canada and Michigan would jointly operate the crossing, gives Michigan part ownership.One possible avenue would be for Mr. Trump to declare an emergency. Under the law, Customs and Border Protection can temporarily close a port of entry \u201cwhen necessary to respond to a specific threat to human life or national interests.\u201d Mr. Trump has often invoked emergency statutes for events and circumstances that are largely considered routine to make use of the expanded authority that doing so grants him.The nearby Ambassador Bridge, one of the busiest border crossings on the continent, has been privately owned for decades by a Detroit trucking industry billionaire and his family, the Morouns. The family had previously called on Mr. Trump to halt the construction of the Gordie Howe bridge \u2014 which would, once opened, compete for the more than $300 million in daily cross-border trade over the Ambassador Bridge.Mr. Trump also suggested in his social media post on Monday that the United States might seek to acquire \u201cat least one half\u201d of the new bridge and to get a cut of the revenue from bridge tolls.In his first term, Mr. Trump had promoted the project in a joint statement with Canadian officials as a symbol of the countries\u2019 deep economic partnership and as \u201ca vital economic link between our two countries.\u201dBut the president\u2019s threat to block the bridge\u2019s opening is in keeping with a larger pressure campaign to force the Canadian government to capitulate to his demands. In addition to threatening to annex Canada as the 51st state, Mr. Trump has waged an expansive trade war against his northern neighbor, levying tariffs and threatening other economic sanctions.It is possible that Mr. Trump may not follow through on his threat to block the bridge, or that he may take a less severe action to avoid the most serious economic repercussions. Mr. Trump has previously delayed or walked back implementing tariffs that had the potential to disrupt American trade and cripple domestic industries.Mr. Trump made a similarly alarming statement last month that appeared to threaten to ground all Canadian-built aircraft currently flying in the United States over a regulatory dispute, but air industry regulators quickly clarified that his statement was meant to apply only to new aircraft certifications and that air travel would not be disrupted by the president\u2019s threat.Mr. Trump\u2019s attacks against Canada increased in intensity after remarks last month by the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in which he urged leaders of middle-sized nations to band together to resist Trump\u2019s America First doctrine and his efforts to dismantle the post-World War II international order.Mr. Carney\u2019s office declined to comment on Mr. Trump\u2019s threat to block the bridge\u2019s opening. Stacey LaRouche, a spokeswoman for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, downplayed the president\u2019s threat, saying in a statement that the bridge was \u201cgoing to open one way or another, and the governor looks forward to attending the ribbon cutting.\u201dDrew Dilkens, the mayor of Windsor, said on Monday evening that he was stunned but not surprised by the president\u2019s threat.\u201cThis is crazy stuff,\u201d said Mr. Dilkens. He added that the bridge\u2019s delayed opening last fall had raised concerns of Trump administration involvement.Mr. Trump\u2019s aggressive stance against Canada since returning to office has infuriated its government, enraged its citizens and significantly harmed economic ties between the two countries. Canadians, who have historically formed a large share of international tourists in the United States, are boycotting U.S. travel destinations and imported U.S. products. In his meandering social media post, Mr. Trump complained, among other grievances, that \u201cOntario won\u2019t even put U.S. spirits, beverages, and other alcoholic products, on their shelves.\u201dMr. Trump\u2019s post on Monday also repeated an unfounded claim that if Canada aligned itself with China, \u201cthe first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup.\u201d Mr. Trump has previously claimed that China seeks to \u201cend ice hockey\u201d in Canada, without elaborating on what he meant.The auto manufacturing industries in the two countries are linked by the Ambassador Bridge, where auto parts go back and forth across the border daily.Manuel Moroun, who bought the Ambassador Bridge in 1979, had battled with the Canadian government to prevent it from building a second bridge. The Moroun family had also attempted to force the Canadian government to authorize an expansion that would add more lanes to the Ambassador Bridge.Major construction on the Gordie Howe International Bridge is complete, and engineers have been in the testing phase for months, according to the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority, a government-funded corporation that is managing the bridge\u2019s construction and future operation. The authority did not respond to a request for comment.A highway expansion leading to the new bridge, which cost the Canadian government more than a billion U.S. dollars, was completed a decade ago.The bridge is named after Gordie Howe, the Canadian hockey legend who played largely for the Detroit Red Wings and often went \u201celbows up\u201d on opponents. The phrase has become a rallying cry for Canadians opposing aggressive actions by the United States in Mr. Trump\u2019s second term.Ian Austen contributed reporting from Winnipeg, Manitoba.Show moreFeb. 9, 2026, 7:52 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Danny Hakim and Richard FaussetImageFederal agents searched the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center in Georgia last month.Credit...Nicole Craine for The New York TimesBefore federal agents seized hundreds of thousands of ballots from an elections office outside Atlanta late last month, a state judge had made clear that he was preparing to release copies of them. That would have allowed members of the public to seek access to the ballots, from the 2020 presidential election, and draw their own conclusions.But the federal seizure meant that the Trump administration had sole control of the Georgia ballots, at least for now, raising fears that an openly partisan Justice Department seeded with election deniers could manipulate them.On Monday, the judge, Robert C.I. McBurney of Fulton Superior Court, who has presided for years over litigation brought by Trump allies pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, dismissed one of three civil cases related to the Fulton County ballots and paused another.The judge, himself a former federal prosecutor, issued terse rulings that made his frustration with the F.B.I. seizure clear.\u201cWe are left to hope that the bureau and the Department of Justice handle the ballots and related records with the care required to preserve and protect their integrity,\u201d he wrote in one of the rulings.In the other, he noted that the ballots \u201cwere, until recently, here in Fulton County. Now, however, they are somewhere else. Where exactly the court cannot say.\u201d He suggested that the plaintiffs might look for them not in Atlanta but in Missouri, pointing to an oddity of the election office raid \u2014 the fact that the search warrant was signed by the United States attorney in the Eastern District of Missouri instead of local federal prosecutors.Another unusual facet of the seizure is that Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was present during the raid on the Fulton election office, met with F.B.I. agents who took part and put them on the phone with President Trump.Judge McBurney was originally appointed to the court in 2012 by Gov. Nathan Deal, a Republican. The case that he dismissed on Monday was brought by Garland Favorito, who has for years advanced unfounded claims of fraud in the 2020 election.Mr. Favorito, who has been supportive of the federal raid, said in a text message to The New York Times that the case was \u201clegally moot since the F.B.I. has the ballots.\u201dThe judge also stayed a separate case seeking the 2020 ballots, brought by Fulton County against Georgia\u2019s State Board of Elections, which is led by Trump allies. Another case involving Mr. Favorito, which was filed shortly after the 2020 election, remains active.In a ruling in December, the judge had said that the state election board had the right to obtain copies of the ballots from Fulton County, which encompasses most of Atlanta, and had scheduled a hearing to work out the costs. Had the copies been produced, members of the public could have filed open records requests to see them.State Representative Saira Draper, an Atlanta-area Democrat, has been an outspoken critic of the F.B.I. seizure of the ballots, which took place on Jan. 28. In an interview on Monday, Ms. Draper said that federal agents should have taken copies of the ballots, not the ballots themselves. That way, members of the public could still have had access to them, she said, and could have been able to check against any allegations that federal officials might make about the county\u2019s 2020 election results.\u201cNow that they have the source of truth,\u201d she said of the Justice Department, \u201cthey can manipulate it in any way.\u201dMr. Trump\u2019s loss in the 2020 election was affirmed in subsequent recounts, and the process was defended by the state\u2019s Republican leadership, including Gov. Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger, the secretary of state.Fulton County officials have sued the Justice Department and are seeking the return of the ballots. A federal judge has ordered that documents related to Fulton County\u2019s challenge of the ballot seizure be unsealed on Tuesday, at the county\u2019s request, including the search warrant affidavit. Democrats have said they see little reason to trust the Justice Department, which is acting on the orders of a president who continues to insist without evidence that the 2020 election was stolen from him. A number of Justice Department officials who have raised questions about the 2020 election were directly involved in the Trump administration\u2019s effort to obtain the Atlanta ballots.Harmeet K. Dhillon, who runs the department\u2019s civil rights division, was the co-chairwoman in 2020 of a group, Lawyers for Trump, that challenged the election results. She has been a driving force behind the effort to seize the county\u2019s ballots and wrote a letter to Fulton County officials last year demanding that they be turned over.Another letter demanding the ballots was from Ed Martin, an election denier who now reviews pardons but previously led an effort to weaponize the department against the president\u2019s perceived political enemies.Last week, Mr. Trump issued a call to \u201cnationalize\u201d elections, despite the Constitution conferring considerable authority over elections to the states.Show moreFeb. 9, 2026, 7:38 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Ann E. MarimowAnn E. Marimow covers the Supreme Court.ImageThe government\u2019s attempt to dismiss the indictment against Stephen K. Bannon would have limited practical effect, but would effectively wipe out his conviction.Credit...Loren Elliott for The New York TimesThe Trump administration signaled on Monday that it would abandon its efforts to uphold the criminal conviction of President Trump\u2019s longtime adviser, Stephen K. Bannon.Mr. Bannon has already served four months in prison as a result of his 2022 conviction for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify to the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.An appeals court upheld his conviction, and Mr. Bannon had appealed to the Supreme Court. But on Monday, D. John Sauer, the solicitor general, told the justices that the Trump administration had determined \u201cin its prosecutorial discretion that dismissal of this criminal case is in the interests of justice.\u201d He asked the justices to send the case back to the lower court to be dismissed.The practical effect of the move is limited, but the government\u2019s dismissal of the indictment against him would effectively wipe out the conviction. It follows a pattern of Mr. Trump using the Justice Department to punish his perceived enemies and protect his friends, including by repeatedly granting clemency to allies and supporters and pardoning rioters charged in connection with Jan. 6.In a statement, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Mr. Bannon\u2019s conviction was the result of an \u201cimproper\u201d House subpoena and should be vacated.\u201cThis department will continue to undo the prior administration\u2019s weaponization of the justice system,\u201d he said.Mr. Bannon\u2019s lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.Sign up for the Docket newsletter. Adam Liptak helps you make sense of legal developments in a turbulent time. Get it sent to your inbox.Other key Trump aides cooperated with the committee, responding to subpoenas, providing documents or testifying, even though the president opposed its work. When Mr. Bannon defied a subpoena, the House voted to hold him in contempt and referred the matter to the Justice Department for prosecution.Mr. Bannon pleaded not guilty but was convicted by a jury after a trial in Federal District Court in Washington in July 2022. On appeal, Mr. Bannon asserted that his lawyers had advised him to ignore the committee\u2019s subpoena \u2014 a tactic known as an advice of counsel defense. Mr. Bannon also claimed that Mr. Trump himself had ordered him to defy demands from the committee.Mr. Bannon was separately indicted during Mr. Trump\u2019s first term, charged with misusing money he helped raise for a group backing Mr. Trump\u2019s border wall. Mr. Trump pardoned Mr. Bannon in that case in 2021, before it went to trial.Mr. Bannon, who served as the 2016 Trump campaign\u2019s chief architect, was initially brought into the White House after Mr. Trump\u2019s victory to work as a strategist and senior counselor. He soon returned to Breitbart News, the right-wing media platform he founded, and now hosts the podcast \u201cWar Room.\u201dIn addition to Mr. Bannon, the Trump adviser Peter Navarro served four months in federal prison for similarly refusing to testify as part of a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 attack.Devlin Barrett contributed reporting.Show moreFeb. 9, 2026, 6:26 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Laurel RosenhallReporting from SacramentoImageA Customs and Border Protection agent in Oakland, Calif., in October. A judge ruled on Monday that California\u2019s mask ban for federal officers was unconstitutional. Credit...Justin Sullivan\/Getty ImagesA federal judge on Monday struck down California\u2019s law prohibiting federal law enforcement agents from wearing face masks but upheld a companion measure requiring them to display identification. The split ruling allowed California Democrats and the Trump administration each to claim a partial win.Judge Christina A. Snyder of U.S. District Court in Los Angeles issued a preliminary injunction blocking the mask law. She ruled that it was unconstitutional because it exempted state law enforcement officers, making it discriminatory. \u201cThe act treats federal law enforcement officers differently than similarly situated state law enforcement officers,\u201d wrote Judge Snyder, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton. Attorney General Pam Bondi, whose Justice Department had challenged the California law, issued a triumphant statement on social media. \u201cWe will continue fighting and winning in court for President Trump\u2019s law-and-order agenda \u2014 and we will ALWAYS have the backs of our great federal law enforcement officers,\u201d she wrote.However, the judge rejected the Trump administration\u2019s argument that California\u2019s mask ban amounted to an unconstitutional regulation of the federal government. She suggested that the ban would be lawful if it applied to all officers, and she ruled that the state could enforce a separate law that requires all law enforcement officers to display visible identification.State Senator Scott Wiener, a Democrat who wrote the mask law, responded to the ruling by swiftly drafting a new bill to include state officers in the ban. \u201cI will do everything in my power to expedite passage of this adjustment,\u201d Mr. Wiener said in a statement. \u201cWe will unmask these thugs and hold them accountable.\u201dMr. Wiener said he had excluded state officers from the mask law at the request of Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s office. Aides to the governor disputed that account, saying that Mr. Wiener had rejected amendments proposed by the governor\u2019s office. The governor lauded the judge\u2019s ruling on the identification requirement, calling it \u201ca clear win for the rule of law.\u201d\u201cNo badge and no name mean no accountability,\u201d Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, said in a statement. \u201cCalifornia will keep standing up for civil rights and our democracy.\u201dMr. Newsom signed legislation in September that made California the first state in the nation to prohibit law enforcement officers from covering their faces; it took effect on Jan. 1. Federal agents began wearing masks more regularly during immigration raids last year in large part to avoid being identified by activists.The Trump administration argued in court that the law was unconstitutional because states could not regulate federal agencies. It also said that California\u2019s law was discriminatory because it applied to local and federal officers, but not to those employed by the state.The federal government contended that its agents needed to be able to protect their identity from protesters who threatened to harass or harm them and their families.\u201cDenying federal agencies and officers that choice would chill federal law enforcement and deter applicants for law enforcement positions,\u201d the Justice Department wrote in its lawsuit.It cited examples of harassment and violence against immigration authorities. Among them were cases involving a man who was arrested on suspicion of posting an ICE lawyer\u2019s personal information online; three women who were accused of following an ICE agent to his home and posting his address on Instagram; and a gunman who fired shots at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement center in Dallas, killing two immigrant detainees.In her ruling on Monday, Judge Snyder rejected that part of the government\u2019s argument and said that federal agents could perform their duties without masks. She wrote that federal officers, like many other public figures, face risks but that \u201cthese harms are the result of criminal behavior.\u201d\u201cA rule that prohibits law enforcement officers from wearing masks or requires them to have visible identification does not facilitate or enable criminals to harm law enforcement officers,\u201d the judge added.In a footnote, she suggested that the state\u2019s mask ban would pass constitutional muster if the law were amended to apply the same rules to federal, state and local agents.The Trump administration\u2019s lawsuit also challenged a California law that required agents working in the state to wear visible identification, such as a name or a badge number. Judge Snyder said that the identification law treated all officers similarly, and she rejected the administration\u2019s claim that it was unconstitutional.Supporters of the laws had argued that unidentifiable masked agents defied the democratic principles of a free and open government that is accountable to the public. They said that California\u2019s prohibition on masks was constitutional because state and local governments could require federal agencies to follow general laws, such as speed limits.Federal agents have been enforcing immigration laws for many years without covering their faces, the state argued, so the new law does not impede them from performing their core functions. California had also maintained that \u201cthe needless concealment\u201d of officers\u2019 identities made it difficult to hold those who break the law accountable.Show moreFeb. 9, 2026, 6:19 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Chris CameronReporting from WashingtonPresident Trump escalated tensions with Canada with a social media post threatening to block the opening of a new bridge near Detroit if Ottawa did not capitulate to a long and growing list of demands that Trump has made amid trade and economic negotiations. Trump made a similar threat last month that quickly turned out to be not as serious as it first seemed \u2014 the president had appeared to threaten to ground Canadian-built aircraft flying in the United States over a regulatory dispute, but air industry regulators quickly clarified that air travel would not be disrupted. Trump\u2019s threatening rhetoric toward Canada has escalated in intensity after remarks last month by the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, urging leaders of smaller nations to band together to resist Trump\u2019s America First doctrine and his efforts to dismantle the post-World War II international order.ImageCredit...Ian Willms for The New York TimesFeb. 9, 2026, 4:19 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Michael GrynbaumMedia reporterDan Bongino, the right-wing pundit who became President Trump\u2019s No. 2 official at the F.B.I. before stepping down in December after a rocky tenure, is set to return to Fox News as a paid contributor, the network said on Monday. Bongino, who has also restarted his popular right-wing podcast, hosted a Saturday evening program on Fox News before leaving the network in April 2023.His return is set to be announced on Monday\u2019s 9 p.m. episode of \u201cHannity.\u201d Bongino expressed regret at times for taking the F.B.I. job. A few weeks after he started, he complained on \u201cFox & Friends\u201d about missing the trappings of his former life as a media personality. \u201cI gave up everything for this,\u201d Bongino said at the time.ImageCredit...Loren Elliott for The New York TimesFeb. 9, 2026, 4:07 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Ann MarimowThe Justice Department is seeking to abandon the criminal case against President Trump\u2019s longtime adviser, Stephen K. Bannon, according to a new court filing. Bannon has already served four months in prison in the case, on contempt of Congress charges after he refused to give testimony to the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.Bannon\u2019s conviction was upheld by an appeals court, and he had appealed to the Supreme Court. D. John Sauer, the solicitor general, asked the justices to send the case back to the lower court for dismissal, saying the Trump administration had determined that dismissal was \u201cin the interests of justice.\u201dImageCredit...Loren Elliott for The New York TimesFeb. 9, 2026, 4:03 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Michael GoldCongressional reporterSenator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and the majority leader, said that he \u201cwould expect\u201d Republicans to put forth a \u201ccounterproposal\u201d to respond to Democrats\u2019 demand that new guardrails be placed on immigration enforcement operations as a condition of funding the Department of Homeland Security.Democrats sent text for the spending bill over the weekend that included their demands.Thune also said that he would be open to a stopgap spending measure to fund the department if no deal is reached by Friday. But he acknowledged that such a measure would not pass without support from Democrats, adding that its success would depend on \u201chow well the negotiations are going and whether it looks like there\u2019s going to be a pathway.\u201dImageCredit...Tierney L. Cross\/The New York TimesFeb. 9, 2026, 3:31 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Teddy RosenbluthImageCredit...Eric Lee\/The New York TimesDr. Mehmet Oz has urged Americans to get vaccinated against measles, one of the strongest endorsements of the vaccine yet from a top health official in the Trump administration, which has repeatedly undermined confidence in vaccine safety.Dr. Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services director, told CNN on Sunday that there was a simple solution to the raging measles outbreak in South Carolina, which has infected more than 900 people and become the largest U.S. outbreak in recent history.\u201cTake the vaccine, please,\u201d Dr. Oz said. He also pledged that there \u201cwill never be a barrier to Americans getting access to the measles vaccine.\u201dDr. Oz\u2019s comments are far more urgent than those from his boss, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose comments about the measles vaccine are often contradictory. He has said that the vaccine \u201cis crucial to avoiding potentially deadly disease,\u201d but he also has raised safety concerns and said getting vaccinated is a personal choice. The measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is considered very safe and about 97 percent effective in preventing infection.Dr. Oz\u2019s statements come as the country struggles to contain the highly contagious virus, which infected thousands of people in 2025 and appears to be following a similar trajectory this year. The United States is now at risk of losing its elimination status, a designation given to countries that have not had continuous spread of measles for more than a year. Measles has been eliminated in the United States since 2000.Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota, likened Dr. Oz\u2019s comments to taking a garden hose to a forest fire.\u201cWhen you cast those kinds of doubts about vaccine safety and effectiveness, one interview on one news show is not going to move the needle,\u201d he said.Dr. Osterholm argued that Mr. Kennedy began sowing distrust in the vaccine soon after he was confirmed last February. As measles spread through West Texas, he appeared on national television, encouraging vaccination and then, almost in the same breath, raising questions about its safety.\u201cWe don\u2019t know the risks of many of these products because they\u2019re not safety-tested,\u201d Mr. Kennedy said last April.As the outbreak swelled and crossed state borders, he spoke of \u201cmiraculous\u201d alternative remedies and promised to explore potential new treatments for the disease, a move public health experts said signaled to Americans that vaccines weren\u2019t necessary.Mr. Kennedy and other top health officials have taken other actions that experts believe could negatively affect M.M.R. vaccination rates, which have been declining for years. In November, Mr. Kennedy instructed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism, despite the fact that large-scale studies have found no link between the shot and autism. And one of his appointees, who leads the federal panel that recommends vaccines for Americans, said last month that shots against measles should be optional.Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, said the department\u2019s leadership had consistently emphasized that the vaccine was the best way to prevent the spread of measles. During the interview with the CNN anchor Dana Bash, Dr. Oz also defended Mr. Kennedy\u2019s track record.\u201cWe\u2019ve advocated for measles vaccines all along,\u201d he said. \u201cSecretary Kennedy\u2019s been at the very front of this.\u201d\u201cOh, come on,\u201d Ms. Bash responded.Show moreFeb. 9, 2026, 2:40 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Sheryl Gay StolbergImageSenator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana at the Capitol last week. He is facing a primary challenge this year. Credit...Eric Lee for The New York TimesA leader of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s Make America Healthy Again movement said Monday that his group would spend $1 million to help a congresswoman in Louisiana defeat Senator Bill Cassidy, the chairman of the Senate Health Committee, in a Republican primary this year.Tony Lyons, a close ally of Mr. Kennedy\u2019s who is co-chairman of the MAHA PAC, made the comment about Representative Julia Letlow during an event at the Heritage Foundation in Washington that also featured Mr. Kennedy. Ms. Letlow, who has been in Congress since 2021, recently announced her candidacy and has been endorsed by President Trump.Mr. Cassidy, a doctor and fierce advocate of vaccination, delivered the pivotal vote that assured Mr. Kennedy\u2019s confirmation last year, but has frequently been at odds with the secretary. Mr. Lyons said his group believes that over the long run, Ms. Letlow would have a bigger impact on public health than Mr. Cassidy.Feb. 9, 2026, 2:11 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Patrick McGeehanPatrick McGeehan covers the infrastructure of New York City and the surrounding area.ImageA construction site for the Gateway mass transit project near Hudson Yards in Manhattan in February.Credit...Graham Dickie for The New York TimesAs dozens of newly laid-off union members exhorted President Trump to restore funding to the $16 billion Gateway rail tunnel project on Monday, a federal judge ruled that the flow of money would not have to be restarted before Thursday evening.Judge Jeannette Vargas of Federal District Court in Manhattan had ordered the federal Department of Transportation on Friday night to end a four-month suspension of funding for the tunnel, which would connect New York City and New Jersey at the middle of the busy Northeast Corridor rail route.On Monday, Judge Vargas denied the federal government\u2019s request for a stay of that order, but issued a temporary stay until 5 p.m. Thursday to give the government time to file an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.That decision could leave most of the work on Gateway, which Democratic officials say is the most important infrastructure project in the nation, at a standstill for at least three more days. The Gateway Development Commission, which manages the tunnel project, laid off about 1,000 workers on Friday after it exhausted a bank line of credit it had used to cover expenses, said Thomas Prendergast, the commission\u2019s chief executive.The Laborers\u2019 Union, which represents many of those workers, bused dozens of them to an idle work site in North Bergen, N.J., on Monday morning. There, a massive tunnel-boring machine lay in pieces near the rock wall that would serve as the western mouth of the tunnel.\u201cRelease the funds now!\u201d the workers chanted as union leaders and two Democratic elected officials \u2014 Senator Chuck Schumer of New York and Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey \u2014 stood on a makeshift stage and blamed Mr. Trump for the layoffs.Manuel Amador Jr., business manager for Local 472 of the Laborers\u2019 Union, called the matter a \u201cvendetta\u201d and said that \u201cworking people should never be pawns\u201d in a political chess match.Ms. Sherrill, who called herself a \u201ctunnel-obsessed\u201d governor, said, \u201cAll of you know that this is a special job; this is a generational job.\u201dShe added, \u201cI will not rest until you guys are back at work.\u201dMr. Schumer, the Senate minority leader and a longtime champion of the Gateway project, said the chants \u201ccame from the right people\u201d because many of the construction workers probably had supported Mr. Trump. He said he believed the workers\u2019 anger would have \u201cmore effect against Trump than just about anything else.\u201dMr. Schumer declined to discuss details of his conversations with Mr. Trump, which reportedly involved demands that Mr. Schumer support the renaming of Washington Dulles International Airport and Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan after the president in exchange for restoration of Gateway\u2019s funding.Mr. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday that Mr. Schumer had been the one who suggested renaming Penn Station after the president. On social media, Mr. Schumer called that claim an \u201cabsolute lie.\u201dMr. Schumer has repeatedly said that Mr. Trump alone has the power to restore the funding to Gateway and end the costly pause in construction.Last week, Mr. Prendergast said that the longer the work was delayed, the more it would cost to restart it. He said more than $1 billion had already been spent on the project, including on the fabrication of two boring machines in Germany.He declined on Monday to discuss the effects of the shutdown or when it might end. Molly Beckhardt, a spokeswoman for the development commission, said that \u201cconstruction will remain suspended until federal funding disbursements resume.\u201d She added that the commission was continuing \u201cto pursue all avenues to regain access to this urgent project.\u201dThe development commission also sued the federal government over the funding suspension in a federal claims court in Washington last week.Show moreFeb. 9, 2026, 1:08 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Charlie SavageCharlie Savage writes about national security and legal policy. He reported from Washington.ImageF.B.I. agents searched the home of a Washington Post reporter last month as part of an investigation into a government contractor\u2019s handling of classified material.Credit...Michael A. McCoy for The New York TimesA press freedom organization has filed a disciplinary complaint with the Virginia State Bar against a federal prosecutor who applied for a warrant last month to search the home of a Washington Post reporter as part of a leak investigation.The group, Freedom of the Press Foundation, cited the failure of the prosecutor, Gordon D. Kromberg, to alert the magistrate judge who approved the search about the Privacy Protection Act of 1980, which limits searches for journalistic work product.\u201cThe omission could not have been a mere oversight \u2014 the warrant in question was, predictably, a subject of national news, given that raids of journalists\u2019 homes during investigations of alleged leaks by government personnel are, according to experts, unprecedented,\u201d Seth Stern, the foundation\u2019s chief of advocacy, wrote in the complaint.Mr. Kromberg did not respond to a request for comment.A department spokeswoman, Natalie Baldassarre, said: \u201cEvery day, the Justice Department\u2019s attorneys are going into court and vigorously defending the executive branch with integrity. Any assertion that our attorneys have engaged in professional misconduct is baseless and unfounded.\u201dThe letter cited comments by three law professors who specialize in legal ethics, quoted in a New York Times article that was published on Thursday. They had said that if Mr. Kromberg knew about the 1980 law, he was obliged by Virginia\u2019s rules of professional conduct to disclose the existence of adverse authority in the application materials he submitted so the judge could evaluate how it applied.The Privacy Protection Act says \u201cit shall be unlawful\u201d for the government to search for and seize journalistic work product unless the reporter is personally suspected of committing a crime to which the materials relate.The statute also says the act of possessing the material itself cannot be that criminal offense by the reporter, but it lists two exceptions: a law against child sexual abuse imagery or the Espionage Act, which criminalizes the unauthorized retention and dissemination of national security information.In the search of the home of the Post reporter, Hannah Natanson, the Justice Department was conducting an Espionage Act investigation into Aurelio Perez-Lugones, a government contractor accused of leaking classified information to her. The warrant was approved by William B. Porter, a magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Virginia.Lawyers for The Post and Ms. Natanson have filed a lawsuit demanding the return of her devices and data. They are arguing that the Privacy Protection Act makes it illegal, at a minimum, for the government to review her reporting work product that is unrelated to the investigation of Mr. Perez-Lugones. (Ms. Natanson, who covers the federal bureaucracy, wrote in December that 1,169 officials across the executive branch had reached out to her during the first year of President Trump\u2019s second term.)Another legal issue related to the search and the Privacy Protection Act is an untested First Amendment question: whether ordinary news-gathering activity can constitutionally be turned into a criminal offense by a statute.Congress enacted the Espionage Act in 1917. It has been used against spies for generations, and especially in the 21st century, prosecutors have also applied it to officials and contractors with security clearances who leak classified information.But in part because applying it to journalism would raise First Amendment issues \u2014 that part of the Constitution says Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of the press \u2014 the government has never charged traditional reporters with violating it for ordinary news gathering activity.(In the first Trump term, the Justice Department took the unprecedented step of charging the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Espionage Act. While Mr. Assange is not a traditional reporter, his charged actions \u2014 soliciting and publishing classified information \u2014 mirror investigative reporting activities. Mr. Assange struck a plea deal, so the constitutionality of the charges was never tested.)There is only one known precedent of the government getting a search warrant for reporting materials as part of an Espionage Act leak investigation. In 2010, the Justice Department sought a warrant to read emails in the Google account of James Rosen, then a Fox News reporter, who had written about North Korea\u2019s plans for a nuclear test.In that investigation, the prosecutor submitted an F.B.I. agent\u2019s affidavit that \u2014 unlike the materials Mr. Kromberg submitted last month \u2014 flagged the Privacy Protection Act and discussed it extensively.The 2010 materials argued that searching Mr. Rosen\u2019s email account fell within the act\u2019s exception for when a reporter is suspected of a crime. The department presented facts to the judge that it said were sufficient to show probable cause that Mr. Rosen had violated the Espionage Act along with his source.Still, the 2010 application did not raise the untested First Amendment issues of treating traditional news gathering as a criminal offense.The judge issued a warrant approving the search. But in 2013, when the search and application materials came to light, they were treated as a scandal across party lines.Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. issued a rule barring investigators from portraying reporters as criminals to circumvent the Privacy Protection Act\u2019s ban unless they intended to bring charges. Last year, however, Attorney General Pam Bondi rescinded that rule.Show moreFeb. 9, 2026, 12:57 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Tony RommEconomic policy reporterThe federal government is set to release its latest monthly hiring numbers this week. Ahead of that, Kevin Hassett, the White House national economic director, appeared to try to downplay the significance of any poor showing in the data.In an appearance on CNBC on Monday, Hassett said that a set of forces \u2014 rising economic growth, wider adoption of artificial intelligence and broader changes wrought by President Trump\u2019s immigration policies \u2014 together could yield \u201cslightly smaller job numbers.\u201dHassett added that \u201cone shouldn\u2019t panic if you see a sequence of numbers that are lower than you\u2019re used to, \u200bbecause, again, population growth is \u200bgoing down and productivity growth is skyrocketing,\u201d explaining that it was \u201can unusual \u200bset of circumstances.\u201dFeb. 9, 2026, 12:56 p.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Valerie HopkinsInternational reporterVice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, have arrived in the capital of Armenia, a small country in the Caucasus region, as Washington seeks to move forward a U.S.-brokered peace agreement with its neighbor Azerbaijan.Six months ago, the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to a deal brokered by the White House creating the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity, known as TRIPP, which would be a 27-mile transport corridor that would run across southern Armenia to Azerbaijan\u2019s exclave of Nakhchivan and continue to Turkey. They also agreed to reaffirm their commitment to signing a treaty that would end the four decades of war between the two countries.Feb. 9, 2026, 8:23 a.m. ETFeb. 9, 2026Laura ChungImageBad Bunny, the singer and rapper, performed in Spanish during the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday.Credit...Doug Mills\/The New York TimesPresident Trump denounced Bad Bunny over his Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday, complaining that \u201cnobody understands a word this guy is saying\u201d after the largely Spanish-language performance.Benito Antonio Mart\u00ednez Ocasio, the Puerto Rican superstar musician better known as Bad Bunny, has been an outspoken critic of the Trump administration. Just days ago at the Grammy Awards, he declared \u201cICE out\u201d \u2014 referring to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who have been the face of Mr. Trump\u2019s aggressive immigration crackdown \u2014 while accepting an award.At Sunday\u2019s game at Levi\u2019s Stadium in Santa Clara, Ca., Bad Bunny delivered a star-studded show, which included a real wedding and appearances by the pop singers Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin.Near the end of the 13-minute performance, Bad Bunny delivered a message in English: \u201cGod bless America,\u201d and went on to name countries across North and South America. He held a football imprinted with the English words \u201cTogether, We Are America\u201d and said in Spanish, \u201cWe\u2019re still here.\u201dThe New York Times described the show as \u201ca kaleidoscopic blast of merriment \u2014 a showcase of some of the most ecstatic and celebratory aspects of Latin culture.\u201d But the performance, which came at a tense moment in American politics, prompted Mr. Trump\u2019s ire.In a long post on Truth Social, Mr. Trump said the show was \u201cabsolutely terrible,\u201d adding that it \u201cdoesn\u2019t represent our standards.\u201d He called the show \u201can affront to the Greatness of America\u201d and a \u201cslap in the face\u201d to the country.While the president suggested that Bad Bunny\u2019s lyrics were unintelligible to most, Spanish is by far the most common language spoken in U.S. homes besides English, with more than 40 million speakers.Mr. Trump has frequently used hateful stereotypes or made false generalizations about immigrants, particularly from Spanish-speaking countries like Mexico. Bad Bunny, an American citizen, was born in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory. Weeks before the game, Mr. Trump called Bad Bunny a \u201cterrible choice\u201d for the halftime show. \u201cAll it does is sow hatred,\u201d he said.While campaigning in 2023, Mr. Trump said undocumented migrants were \u201cpoisoning the blood of our country.\u201d And since his return to office last year, the president has overseen a sweeping immigration crackdown, which has drawn public outrage over its tactics and the deaths of U.S. citizens as his administration has deported more than 600,000 people.The president and his supporters have long invoked language as an important front in that cultural war. In 2024, Mr. Trump denounced newly arrived migrants for speaking languages that \u201cnobody has ever heard of,\u201d which he called \u201ca very horrible thing.\u201dIn March, he signed a largely symbolic executive order declaring English to be the national language. The president\u2019s supporters called it a common-sense assertion of fact; critics said it mostly served to belittle those who grew up speaking other languages.On Sunday night, Turning Point USA, the conservative activist group, streamed an alternative halftime performance that targeted a right-wing audience. Kid Rock headlined the show, playing two songs before it concluded with a video tribute to Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, who was killed last year.Aaron Boxerman contributed reporting.Show moreFeb. 8, 2026, 12:13 p.m. ETFeb. 8, 2026Michael GoldReporting from WashingtonImageCongress is at odds over how to fund the Department of Homeland Security before a Friday deadline.Credit...Eric Lee for The New York TimesAs a Friday deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security approaches, Democrats and Republicans appeared no closer on Sunday to a deal to keep the department running.\u201cIf I had to say now, I probably would expect there is a shutdown,\u201d said Senator John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, on Fox News\u2019s \u201cSunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.\u201dIn the wake of federal immigration officers\u2019 killings of two American citizens in Minnesota last month, Democrats have demanded a host of new restrictions on immigration enforcement operations as a condition for a new spending bill.They include barring immigration officers from wearing masks, requiring them to show visible identification and mandating the use of judicial warrants when they enter private property to make arrests.\u201cDramatic changes are necessary to the manner in which the Department of Homeland Security officers are conducting themselves before any funding bill should move forward,\u201d said Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union.\u201dRepublican leaders have rejected those proposals as an unrealistic wish list, calling the new restrictions overly burdensome to an immigration crackdown that they generally support.\u201cThey are threatening the safety and security of our agents so that they can\u2019t do their job,\u201d Senator Bill Hagerty, Republican of Tennessee, said on \u201cFox News Sunday.\u201d \u201cThis is something we need to look at carefully. The request that we should put ICE agents in harm\u2019s way is absolutely intolerable.\u201dMr. Jeffries said Democrats had not heard a response to their proposals from the White House or Republican leaders in Congress. \u201cThe ball is in the court right now of the Republicans,\u201d he said.A spokesman for Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and the majority leader, said on Saturday that the party had not received any legislative text.Though Congress passed a stopgap spending bill last week, if no deal passes both chambers, the department and the agencies it oversees will shut down on Saturday.Mr. Thune said last week that he could put forth another stopgap measure as soon as Monday if there continued to be no progress in the negotiations. But a temporary spending bill would require the support of at least seven Democratic senators to move forward.If no deal can be reached before the deadline, a shutdown would affect the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and the Transportation Security Administration. Many of those agencies would continue operating in some capacity, but their employees would have to go without pay.Some Democrats have suggested funding those agencies separately while they continue to negotiate limits on federal immigration agencies, including Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.Show moreFeb. 8, 2026, 8:31 a.m. ETFeb. 8, 2026Motoko RichTariq PanjaHeather Knight and Juliet MacurThe reporters are in Italy covering the Winter Olympics.ImagePolitics inevitably encroaches on the Olympics, despite the International Olympic Committee\u2019s best efforts to cast the Games as an athletic interlude free from conflict.Credit...Vincent Alban\/The New York TimesThe 232 Americans competing at the Winter Games have trained for years, traveled thousands of miles and are ready to give their best on the ice and snow in northern Italy. But politics, perhaps inevitably, is intruding on their Olympic moment.The competition has opened after a year in which the Trump administration denigrated Europe, threatened allies and began an immigration crackdown at home that incited outrage, including in Italy. That opposition has followed the U.S. team as its members compete on the Olympic stage, forcing athletes, coaches and American fans to respond to \u2014 or sidestep \u2014 the backlash.Hunter Hess, a skier from Bend, Ore., told reporters last week that he had \u201cmixed emotions\u201d about representing the United States at these Games. \u201cThere\u2019s obviously a lot going on that I\u2019m not the biggest fan of,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cJust because I\u2019m wearing the flag doesn\u2019t mean I represent everything that\u2019s going on in the U.S.\u201dThe comments drew a furious response from President Trump, who called Mr. Hess \u201ca real Loser\u201d in a post on his social media site, Truth Social, on Sunday. \u201cIf that\u2019s the case, he shouldn\u2019t have tried out for the Team, and it\u2019s too bad he\u2019s on it. Very hard to root for someone like this,\u201d Mr. Trump said.The president\u2019s remarks came two days after the opening ceremony of the Games in Milan on Friday, when jeers and boos rippled through the San Siro stadium as Vice President JD Vance briefly was shown on huge screens while the U.S. team paraded in waving American flags.At first, Phillip DiGuglielmo, who coaches the U.S. figure skater Alysa Liu and was seated in the stands, thought the boos were for the athletes.\u201cIt was supposed to be the pinnacle of my life to see my athlete walk into the stadium, but it turned into a really sad moment for me,\u201d said Mr. DiGuglielmo, whose grandparents immigrated to the United States from Italy. \u201cI felt like, hey, the athletes don\u2019t deserve this.\u201dLater, he learned that the boos were for Mr. Vance. But he said he still worried that some athletes had heard the jeers instead of the applause.ImageJeers and boos could be heard as Vice President JD Vance appeared on huge screens just as the delegation of athletes from the United States paraded onto the stadium floor.Credit...Vincent Alban\/The New York TimesZach Werenski, a defenseman on the U.S. men\u2019s hockey team, was in the stadium but said he saw news of the boos only later on social media. Earlier that day, he had met Mr. Vance. \u201cHe\u2019s a proud American and he wants all the athletes here to show well for our country and that\u2019s our goal,\u201d Mr. Werenski said.Mr. Werenski said he wouldn\u2019t let politics distract him in the rink. \u201cI just try and block all that out,\u201d he said.The International Olympic Committee casts the Games as a neutral ground where athletes can compete \u201cwithout being held back by the politics or divisions of their governments,\u201d Kirsty Coventry, the I.O.C. president, said at the opening ceremony.But the athletes, wearing the colors and emblems of their countries, can\u2019t help but appear as symbols of their nations\u2019 values. That leaves Americans in Italy to contend with the emotions elicited by Trump administration policies.ImageA spectator at a figure skating event in Milan on Saturday held a banner of the United States flag with a message of apology.Credit...Vincent Alban\/The New York TimesLast week, news that investigative agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would join a State Department security team at the Olympics prompted anger from Italians outraged over the actions of federal agents in Minneapolis. At a protest of several hundred people on Friday, some demonstrators carried a large anti-ICE banner that read, \u201cMilan despises you.\u201dThe furor drove the American figure skating, hockey and speedskating federations to hastily rename a hospitality venue for athletes in Milan from \u201cIce House\u201d to \u201cWinter House.\u201dInside the rechristened venue on Saturday, Annie White, the chief marketing officer for U.S. Figure Skating, said she never \u201cthought the surface we skate on would potentially become a polarizing word.\u201dMr. Vance, who traveled to Italy with his wife, Usha Vance, and children, met with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy on Friday but avoided publicly discussing politics on his visit. He and his family attended a figure skating team event in Milan, where Evan Lysacek, a 2010 Olympic champion skater who was traveling with the vice president, said Mr. Vance\u2019s daughter enjoyed the fashion and his two sons \u201cmostly wanted to make sure that America is going to win.\u201dBy Sunday morning, no member of the U.S. team in Italy had spoken publicly in support of the Trump administration. U.S. Olympic committee guidelines stipulate that athletes can advocate social and racial justice, but should avoid partisan politics.Still, many American Olympians have faced questions about what it feels like to represent the United States.\u201cI just stay focused on the fact that there are a lot of really good people at home who I am proud to represent,\u201d Summer Britcher, a luger from New York, said in an interview inside the Olympic Village in Cortina d\u2019Ampezzo.Asked a similar question by a Norwegian journalist at a news conference in Cortina on Saturday, the skier Mikaela Shiffrin, a three-time Olympic medalist, was quiet for a few seconds.Ms. Shiffrin said it was \u201can honor and privilege\u201d to compete for her country but then read from prepared remarks quoting Nelson Mandela, and said she wanted to represent \u201cvalues of inclusivity, values of diversity and kindness.\u201dSome competitors are using their platform to champion their politics. \u201cI know that a lot of people say you\u2019re just an athlete, like, stick to your job, shut up about politics, but politics affect us all,\u201d Amber Glenn, the three-time U.S. national figure skating champion, told reporters on Wednesday.Asked about the Trump administration\u2019s policies toward L.G.B.T.Q. Americans, Ms. Glenn, who is pansexual, said, \u201cIt is something that I will not just be quiet about.\u201dThe skier Lindsey Vonn, a three-time Olympic medalist, was asked by a Canadian journalist on Tuesday about \u201ceverything going on in Minnesota.\u201d She responded that the state is \u201cwhere I grew up, and my heart is incredibly heavy for everyone at home.\u201d She added: \u201cWe are more than what\u2019s happening right now.\u201dImageA protest on Friday in Milan.Credit...Alkis Konstantinidis\/ReutersThe Games\u2019 Italian hosts, no strangers to turbulent politics at home, appear willing to give the athletes the benefit of the doubt. \u201cWe look at the United States with real, great concern,\u201d said Barbara Barile, 57, who attended the opening ceremony in Milan. \u201cWe must distinguish between those who govern and those who are governed.\u201dSkepticism of the United States is not new in Italy. Despite tight connections to the United States, a strain of \u201canti-Americanism has been here for a long time,\u201d said Gregory Alegi, a historian at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome.The Italian political right \u201chas never forgiven the U.S. for defeating Mussolini,\u201d he said, and on the left, \u201cthey\u2019ve never forgiven the U.S. for winning the Cold War.\u201dMs. Meloni\u2019s supporters appreciate her efforts to maintain a close relationship with Mr. Trump. But the recent conduct by ICE agents in Minneapolis has unified Italians against that aspect of the U.S. administration\u2019s policies.At a team figure skating event on Saturday night, plenty of American flags waved from the stands. But some American spectators, anticipating a backlash, came to Italy intent on concealing their national identity.Helen Wehner and her brother Andrew decided not to bring any American flag gear to the Games. Soon after they arrived, Ms. Wehner began to reconsider.\u201cOnce you\u2019re here you see that it\u2019s really about the athletes,\u201d she said. \u201cI want the athletes to see they have some support.\u201dAt a curling event on Friday in Cortina, the Wehners allowed an American volunteer to paint the stars and stripes on their cheeks.Reporting was contributed by Josephine de La Bruy\u00e8re in Milan; Jason Horowitz in Cortina d\u2019Ampezzo, Italy; and Kim Severson in Livigno, Italy.Show more",
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