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5 hours ago | nytimes.com | Lydia DePillis |Ernesto Londono

Many industries have become dependent on immigrant labor. Some workplace raids have been met with protest. The streets of Los Angeles rang with the sound of flash-bang grenades on Friday, as camouflage-clad federal agents rolled through the garment district in search of workers who they suspected of being undocumented immigrants. They were met with protesters, who chanted and threw eggs before being dispersed with pepper spray and nonlethal bullets.

6 hours ago | nytimes.com | Heather Knight |Campbell Robertson

Marching bands, floats and revelers festooned in rainbows and sparkles are expected to fill the streets of Washington on Saturday for one of the world's largest L.G.B.T.Q. festivals. The city holds a local Pride parade annually. But this year's event will be much bigger, as Washington hosts the WorldPride Parade, which attracts visitors from around the world. Sydney hosted it last time, and Amsterdam is up next. This year's location was decided before the 2024 election that brought Donald J.

6 hours ago | nytimes.com | Leo Dominguez |Amy Harmon |Heather Knight

The president's moves affecting L.G.B.T.Q. people were on the minds of attendees, but there was no stopping the party. The beats from D.J.s thrummed. Brass bands boomed. Bars and restaurants bustled. Sequins, feathers and fans that opened with a thwack were everywhere. And to organizers' relief, a cold morning rain ceased just in time for Saturday's WorldPride parade in Washington, D.C., making way for a sticky heat that seemed to rise off every surface. Soon, the air smelled like sunscreen.

12 hours ago | nytimes.com | Alex Williams

With Paul Williams, he wrote enduring 1970s soft-rock classics like "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainy Days and Mondays." Roger Nichols, a California songwriter and musician who, with his pop-alchemist partner Paul Williams, wrote an advertising jingle for a bank that turned into "We've Only Just Begun," a milestone hit for the Carpenters and a timeless wedding weeper, died on May 17 at his home in Bend, Ore. He was 84. His death, from pneumonia, was confirmed by his daughter Caroline Nichols.

14 hours ago | nytimes.com | Heather Knight |Campbell Robertson

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the man at the center of a political and legal maelstrom after he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, was flown back to the United States on Friday to face charges of transporting undocumented migrants. The stunning move by the Trump administration, after months of fighting any effort to return him, could end the most high-profile court battle over President Trump's authority to rapidly seize and deport immigrants.