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The Department of Homeland Security says it has deported more than 675,000 immigrants in the first year of Trump's second term. Although the administration claims to be targeting violent criminals, others continue to be caught in the crackdown, including some who are protected from deportation. Liz Landers spoke with a woman who was detained, deported, and then allowed to come back to the U.S.

It's a lesser-known chapter of the Holocaust, the murder of some 500,000 Roma and Sinti people, members of a long-marginalized and often persecuted minority in Europe. One way into that history is through the work of an artist who survived it herself. Jeffrey Brown reports for our Art in Action series, which explores the intersection of art and democracy as part of our CANVAS coverage.

Secrecy surrounding White House security makes details hard to come by, but President Donald Trump's court fight over his $400 million ballroom casts some light on an underground bunker at the site that has had a role in history.

A firefighter whose truck collided with an Air Canada jet last month on a runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York, killing both pilots, heard an air traffic controller warn "stop, stop, stop" but didn't know who it was for, federal investigators said Thursday.

Two groups exchanged gunfire inside a food court Thursday at the Mall of Louisiana, killing one person and wounding five more, police said.

It's the first time in a generation that California has a wide-open contest for the heavily Democratic state's highest office, with more than 50 names on the ballot.

Pope Leo XIV urged the United States and Iran to return to talks to end the war Thursday and condemned capital punishment, in a wide-ranging press conference en route home from his trip to Africa.

More than two dozen members and associates of the Mexican Mafia were arrested Thursday during an early morning crackdown across Southern California, federal authorities said.

Children born after Dec. 31, 2008 will be banned from ever buying cigarettes under the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.

U.S. Air Force divers used an underwater drone on Tuesday to search inside the overturned ship, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a news release. Divers from Japan's coast guard further examined the ship, called the Mariana, but didn't find the other five, it said.

The Trump business behind Truth Social is replacing a former congressman and big supporter of the U.S. president as the leader of the social media platform after a stock collapse that wiped out billions in investor wealth.

Leo's stop, at the end of his four-nation African tour, took on added significance after it emerged that Equatorial Guinea was one of several African nations that have been paid millions of dollars in controversial deals with the Trump administration to receive migrants deported from the U.S. to countries other than their own.

In his testimony to various committees in the Senate and the House over multiple days, Kennedy was tasked with defending President Donald Trump's proposed 2027 budget, which would boost defense spending while cutting more than 12% of funding from the Department of Health and Human Services.

Iranian forces attacked and seized at least two ships in the contested Strait of Hormuz as a standoff over when or whether to return to negotiations continued. The Trump administration said it did not consider the attacks violations of a ceasefire that President Trump extended on Tuesday. White House correspondent Liz Landers reports.

Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has come to a virtual standstill since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran almost two months ago. Around 20% of the world's petrochemical production normally flows through the strait, and the ripple effects of the drastic cut grow daily. To explore the downstream effects and the turbulent time ahead, Geoff Bennett spoke with Karen Young.

In our news wrap Wednesday, Democrats are celebrating a win in Virginia, where voters approved a plan to redraw the state's congressional map in a way that could help them pick up four seats in the midterms, the Supreme Court found that an Army veteran who was injured by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan can sue the contractor who hired the attacker and Democratic Rep. David Scott of Georgia died.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was back testifying on Capitol Hill, giving members of Congress a chance to press him on some of the biggest changes he's making on spending cuts, vaccines and other public health issues. Lisa Desjardins reports.

An immigration officer has been charged with third-degree assault and criminal mischief following an investigation into how he treated a protester in Durango, Colorado, who said the officer put her in a chokehold.

An investigation is underway after four officials, including two Americans, were killed in a car crash in Mexico. It's being called an accident by the local government, but it happened after an operation to destroy drug labs in a mountainous area. It's been widely reported that the two Americans were CIA officers. Amna Nawaz discussed more with John Feeley, a former U.S. ambassador to Panama.

In 2025, the Trump administration dissolved the $40 billion U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. Days later, an exemption for "life-saving humanitarian assistance" was issued. But what that included was not specified and aid for health programs has been drastically reduced. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Uganda where there has been a spike in disease-related deaths since the cut.