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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Kurt Streeter
Fear and confusion grip a community of Asian refugees as the Trump administration cracks down on immigration. Since the missing men are stateless, it's not clear where they'll end up. The news of deportations arrived as a trickle. A member of the Bhutanese community in Texas was taken away. Another picked up in Idaho. Then, one in Georgia.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Kurt Streeter |Brittany Greeson
Then they briefly paused, their faces looking doleful and chagrined. Late last week, despite it being the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when conversations turned to politics, the mood in Dearborn and other Arab enclaves felt even more dour. Mahmoud Khalil, an immigrant of Palestinian descent who led student protests of Israel at Columbia University, was put in federal detention on March 8.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Julie Bosman |Jack Healy |Juliet Macur |Christina Morales |Jenna Russell |Isabelle Taft | +3 more
Sixty-four people were inside the American Airlines regional jet carving a path through the evening sky from Wichita, Kan., to Washington D.C., on Jan. 29. A four-person flight crew. A lawyer eager to celebrate her 33rd birthday, seven hunting buddies and a Kansas farming couple visiting their daughter. Twenty-eight people returning from an elite figure skating camp, including skaters, their parents and coaches.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Kurt Streeter
Amer Ghalib has made a lot of national news as the leader of a small, Midwestern city. His election in 2021 as mayor of Hamtramck, Mich., was itself a headline. Mr. Ghalib, who is from Yemen, became the first Arab American and first Muslim to govern the city. And he was working with what was believed to be the first all-Muslim City Council in the country.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
spokesman.com | Kurt Streeter
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — The billboards featured a foreboding message. Taxpayer money, it said, was footing the bill for a nonprofit to traffic Somali refugees — and officials in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, had been hiding the facts for months. When the City Council president, Emily Berge, saw the false accusations plastered in October above a thoroughfare in this river-crossed Midwestern city, her heart sank. “I was shocked such claims would be made,” Berge said.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Kurt Streeter
The billboards featured a foreboding message. Taxpayer money, it said, was footing the bill for a nonprofit to traffic Somali refugees - and officials in Eau Claire, Wis., had been hiding the facts for months. When the City Council president, Emily Berge, saw the false accusations plastered last October above a thoroughfare in this river-crossed Midwestern city, her heart sank. "I was shocked such claims would be made," Ms. Berge said.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Kurt Streeter
The presentation to law enforcement officers had an eye-opening title: "Remorse to Redemption: Lessons Learned."Part of the talk was to be given by Kim Potter, a white former Minneapolis-area police officer who was convicted of manslaughter in the high-profile killing of Daunte Wright, an unarmed Black driver, during a traffic stop in 2021. Ms. Potter served 16 months in prison and testified that she had mistaken her handgun for a Taser when she fatally shot Mr. Wright, who was 20.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
espn.com.au | Kurt Streeter
NEW YORK -- Frances Tiafoe returned to the US Open quarterfinals for the third straight year, beating Alexei Popyrin 6-4, 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-3 on Sunday night. The No. 20 seed will attempt to match the best Grand Slam result of his career when he faces No. 9 Grigor Dimitrov on Tuesday for a berth in the semifinals. Tiafoe lost to eventual champion Carlos Alcaraz in that round in 2022 and was eliminated last year in the quarterfinals by Ben Shelton. Editor's PicksDimitrov def.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
espn.com | Kurt Streeter
There was a time, in the middle of this summer, when Nick Kyrgios was poised to put his vibrant hip-hop stamp on men's pro tennis. At Wimbledon, during the All England Club's first scorching week, talent and luck seemed to align themselves for the tall, 20-year-old Aussie, he of the tinted Mohawk and the lashing serve and the cocksure strut. Wimbledon was where Kyrgios had announced himself to the world the year before, with his stunning Centre Court upset against Rafael Nadal.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Emily Cochrane |Shawn Hubler |Rick Rojas |Kurt Streeter |Amy Qin
[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora] Antes del sábado, cuando Butler, Pensilvania, se convirtió en el más reciente escenario que ha sido conmocionado por la furia política del país, el alcalde Bob Dandoy consideraba su ciudad como un lugar que había aprendido a trabajar más allá de las líneas partidistas. Como demócrata en un bastión republicano, había hecho campaña basándose en el consenso.
