Trump Shifts Deportation Focus, Pausing Raids on Farms, Hotels and Eateries

The abrupt pivot on an issue at the heart of Mr. Trump’s presidency suggested his broad immigration crackdown was hurting industries and constituencies he does not want to lose.Restaurant employees in Kennett, Mo., after seeing a co-worker during a video meeting from where she was held in immigratio

H Hamed Aleaziz and Zolan Kanno-Youngs

Marines, in a Rare Move, Briefly Detain Man in Los Angeles

The man, who said he was a veteran, was soon released. But the incident calls attention to the operation of troops in a police-like domestic function.Marcos Leao, 27, was detained by Marines who were protecting a federal building in the Westwood section of Los Angeles on Friday.

R Rachel Parsons, Eric Schmitt and Richard Fausset

Kennedy’s New Vaccine Advisers Helped Lawyers Raise Doubts About Their Safety

Three of the health secretary’s picks to replace fired members of an influential panel that sets U.S. vaccine policies have filed statements in court flagging concerns about vaccines.Mr. Kennedy said the new vaccine panelists would “exercise independent judgment” and “review safety and efficacy data

C Christina Jewett and Sheryl Gay Stolberg

National Parks Are Told to Delete Content That ‘Disparages Americans’

Internal documents reviewed by The New York Times say that “negative” information at parks and other national site must be removed or covered by Sept. 17.The Big Hole National Battlefield in Montana. Members of the public are being asked to flag “negative” information and content at parks.

L Lisa Friedman

Andrew Cuomo’s Campaign Adviser Led Chinese State Oil Company

Larry He, who served as Mr. Cuomo’s Asian outreach director, held senior posts at a multibillion-dollar firm owned by China but omitted the experience from his résumé.Larry He, the chief of staff for State Assemblyman William Colton and an adviser to Andrew M. Cuomo, once worked for a state-owned fi

J Jay Root, Michael Forsythe and Bianca Pallaro

Air India’s New Owners Were Trying to Revamp Carrier Before Crash

Management installed by the Tata Group had spent three years struggling to undo a reputation for shoddy operations earned during decades of state ownership.Air India planes in Bombay, India, in 2005. The Tata Group bought the airline for $350 million in 2022.

A Alex Travelli

Trump Era Tests Ties in German City Long Home to American Troops

While the German government frets over the sudden chill in relations with the United States, residents around American bases hope that ties are too tight to cut easily.A U.S. military honor guard carrying American and German flags leading the procession at a memorial ceremony in May in Kaiserslauter

C Clay Risen

Death Toll Rises to 11 in San Antonio Flooding

Several people were missing on Friday as search efforts continued a day after flash flooding overwhelmed the area.Multiple vehicles were damaged in flooding after heavy rains hit San Antonio on Thursday.

A Aishvarya Kavi and Amy Graff

Meta Is Building a Superintelligence Lab. What Is That?

Mark Zuckerberg has reorganized his company’s ambitions around a hypothetical future that is suddenly the talk of Silicon Valley.Mark Zuckerberg’s new A.I. lab aims to hire some of the top A.I. researchers in the world.

C Cade Metz

Harris Yulin, Actor Who Perpetually Played the Bad Guy, Dies at 87

As an award-winning actor and director, he appeared in scores of stage plays, movies and TV shows over six decades, most often as unsavory characters.Harris Yulin, 2003. “I’m not that high-profile,” he once said. But to audiences, he was quickly recognizable from hundreds of parts.

S Sam Roberts

At Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s Trial, Talk of Baby Oil, Guns and a Guest: Kanye West

The rapper formerly known as Kanye West, one of the few celebrities to publicly defend Mr. Combs, was denied access to the courtroom and briefly watched on closed-circuit video.On Friday Ye, the musician formerly known as Kanye West, briefly visited the courthouse where Sean Combs is facing charges

B Ben Sisario, Julia Jacobs and Olivia Bensimon

Foday Musa Suso, 75, Dies; Ambitious Ambassador for West African Music

A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition.The kora player Foday Musa Suso in performance with the composer Philip Glass in Brooklyn in 2015. He traced his lineage back directly to Jeli Madi Wl

G Giovanni Russonello