Farmworker Dies After Falling During ICE Raid at Cannabis Farm
Jaime Alanis, a 57-year-old farmworker, died Saturday from injuries sustained after falling 30 feet from a greenhouse roof during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid at a California cannabis facility. Alanis becomes the first person to die in one of President Donald Trump‘s administration’s anti-immigration operations since he took office in January. Newsweek reached […]
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Camarillo ICE Raid Critically Injured Cannabis Farm Workers, Citizens Missing: Union
By Gabe Whisnant is a Breaking News Editor at Newsweek based in North Carolina. Prior to joining Newsweek in 2023, he directed daily publications in North and South Carolina. As an executive editor, Gabe led award-winning coverage of Charleston church shooter Dylan Roof’s capture in 2015, along with coverage of the Alex Murdaugh double murder […]
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Pregnant Wife Says ICE Agents Beat Her Husband During Workplace Raid
A 7-month pregnant woman has told Newsweek immigration agents beat her Venezuelan husband after he tried to evade detention. Carla Rodríguez said 21-year-old Reinel Fernando Acosta Rodríguez was beaten as he tried to flee from agents at the Illinois warehouse where he worked last month. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has denied the claims, […]
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ICE Agents Urinate on School Playground During Raid, Video Appears to Show
By Billal Rahman is an immigration reporter based in London, U.K. He specializes in immigration policy and border security. He has uncovered allegations of misconduct among border agents under investigation and exposed claims of abuse at ICE-run detention centers in the U.S. He joined Newsweek in 2024 from The Independent. He has covered the British […]
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Iran Escalates Crackdown on Accused Israeli Spies With Mass Raid
At least two people have been killed and more than 50 more arrested in a security raid by Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), which said it targeted Israeli-linked “terrorists,” Iran’s state-run media reported. Why It Matters The arrests are a sign of the uncertainty felt by Iran’s security establishment after the Israeli and U.S. […]
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China Reacts to Ukraine’s Raid on Russian Bomber Bases
By John Feng is Newsweek’s contributing editor for Asia based in Taichung, Taiwan. His focus is on East Asian politics. He has covered foreign policy and defense matters, especially in relation to U.S.-China ties and cross-strait relations between China and Taiwan. John joined Newsweek in 2020 after reporting in Central Europe and the United Kingdom. […]
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Map Shows Russian Air Bases Hit in ‘Pearl Harbor’ Drone Raid
Coordinated, long-range strikes on multiple Russian airbases thousands of miles from Ukraine took out more than a third of Russia’s strategic cruise missile carriers, according to Kyiv, dealing a stinging blow to Moscow ahead of renewed peace talks. Ukraine on Sunday launched 117 individually-operated drones at four airbases across Russia, officials said, in an attack […]
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