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Immigration and Customs Enforcement recruits train with firearms at a training center at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Ga., Aug. 21, 2025. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement official who resigned this month from his job instructing new recruits plans to speak out on Monday, Feb. 23, as a whistle-blower, describing what he says is a “deficient, defective and broken” training program with a pared-back curriculum as the Trump administration races to expand the agency. (Audra Melton/The New York Times)

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Training for New ICE Agents Is ‘Deficient’ and ‘Broken,’ Whistleblower Says

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US Says It Struck Vessel in Caribbean, Killing Three Men

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev arrive for a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China September 3, 2025. Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Pool via REUTERS

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US Meeting Russian and Chinese Delegations for Nuclear Arms Control Talks, Official Says

The Merced County Sheriff's Office is searching for Richard Daly, 70, after he disappeared following a float on the Merced River, officials said. (Merced County SO)

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Merced County Authorities Search for 70-Year-Old Missing Man After River Float

An empty street after a wave of blockades and attacks on businesses by members of organized crime following a military operation in which Mexican officials said cartel boss Nemesio Oseguera, "El Mencho," was killed, at a tourist area, in Zapopan, Mexico, February 22, 2026. (Reuters/Gabriel Trujillo)

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Key Events in Mexican Operation to Capture Cartel Leader ‘El Mencho’

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), who is scheduled to deliver the Democratic Party’s Spanish-language rebuttal to President Trump’s State of the Union address, speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on May 14, 2025. The son of Mexican immigrants and the first Latino senator from California, Padilla drew national headlines last year when federal agents forced him to the floor and handcuffed him after he tried to question Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, at a news conference. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)

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California’s Sen. Padilla to Deliver Spanish Rebuttal to Trump on Economy and Immigration

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