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Presidential Power to Be Tested as Justices Weigh Trump’s Firing of Officials

At stake in the Supreme Court decision is President Trump’s desire to shrink federal agencies and Congress’s power to restrain the president from doing so.

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For Landmark Test of Executive Power, Echoes of a 1930s Supreme Court Battle

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s efforts to dismiss a Federal Trade Commission leader offer parallels to the current fight over President Trump’s actions.

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Superpower Competition: The Missing Chapter in Trump’s Security Strategy

President Trump is shifting from discussion of the long-lasting competition among the world’s biggest economies and nuclear powers.

5 min read

This Prison Rehabilitated Inmates. Until ICE Paid to Fill It With Immigrants.

Over two decades, a minimum-security prison aimed at helping inmates prepare to leave prison was a point of civic pride. Now it’s a detention center for ICE.

6 min read

Criminals Are Using a Cryptocurrency to Launder Money and Evade Sanctions

Through layers of intermediaries, stablecoins can be moved, swapped and mixed into pools of other funds in ways that are difficult to trace, experts say.

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How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration

Former President Biden and his top advisers rejected recommendations that could have eased the border crisis that helped return Donald Trump to the White House.

15 min read

Why We Did This Story

Peter Wallsten

Peter Wallsten

Accountability and Enterprise Editor, Washington

Anger over skyrocketing illegal migration helped return Donald Trump to the presidency. New reporting by The Times’s Christopher Flavelle found that President Joe Biden and advisers repeatedly rebuffed recommendations to stem that migration.

Peter Wallsten

Peter Wallsten

Accountability and Enterprise Editor, Washington

Readers often ask how we choose what to investigate. We wanted to give people a fuller picture of decisions that contributed to the border crisis under Biden that helped lay the groundwork for Trump’s actions today.

Peter Wallsten

Peter Wallsten

Accountability and Enterprise Editor, Washington

The Times has reported on Trump’s crackdown, the impact on communities and the causes of illegal migration. Now, some Biden administration officials are speaking openly about how policy failures helped get America to this point.

Peter Wallsten

Peter Wallsten

Accountability and Enterprise Editor, Washington

Biden declined our request for an interview. Some of his aides defended their decisions, noting that the economy and Covid were their priorities and blaming Republicans for blocking critical legislation.

Peter Wallsten

Peter Wallsten

Accountability and Enterprise Editor, Washington

Times reporters are covering Trump’s crackdown in Chicago, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York and other cities. Our reporting on Biden and Trump aims to hold leaders and officials to account for their decisions and give readers insight into policy affecting their lives.

A Small Illinois City Is at the Center of a Seismic Shift in Abortion Access

Carbondale, Ill., a liberal enclave within driving distance of 10 states with abortion bans, has become a hub for the procedure.

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Nurse Emmelie Barker prepares a sonogram room at the Alamo Women’s Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois.

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The Married Scientists Torn Apart by a Covid Bioweapon Theory

In 2020, a Chinese virologist fled to the U.S., aided by Trump allies who sought to promote her unproven theories about Covid-19. Her husband can’t find her.

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The Show-Stealing Dogs of the Big Apple CircusJuan Quiroz and his furry co-stars practice their tricks, as the circus returns.

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