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People flee, cough, and cover their faces as the neighborhood fills with tear gas deployed by federal agents on the southeast side of Chicago on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 15, 2025
Military tactics by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Chicago fuel backlash
Agents trained to spot illegal border crossings, who normally police the frontier, are being sent into densely populated neighborhoods deep inside the country.
Eduardo Santoyo stands by his family's tamales stand in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago on Saturday. Santoyo's mother, Maria, was tending their business on Friday morning when she was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 13, 2025
Snatched: How ICE raids are shattering Chicago's immigrant world
Families are left to pick up the pieces as immigration agents swoop in without warning, often in broad daylight, snatch unsuspecting residents and drive off.
A federal agent chases a man in a shopping center parking lot in Chicago on Saturday, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered increased federal law enforcement presence to assist in crime prevention.
WORLD
Oct 12, 2025
U.S. appeals court says national guard sent to Illinois can stay, but not deploy
The decision largely upholds a lower court's halt on the mobilization by U.S. President Donald Trump as part of his mass deportation campaign.
A teacher hands out a "defend your rights" flyer to a parent outside Nash Elementary School, amid U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's increased presence in the Chicago area on Sept. 4.
WORLD
Oct 11, 2025
Chicago ICE raids and national guard troops prompt new school leaflets: ‘Know your rights’
U.S. President Donald Trump's deportation drive has induced fear in immigrant communities and protectiveness from educators.
National guard members at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Broadview facility in Chicago on Thursday
WORLD / Politics
Oct 10, 2025
U.S. judge blocks Trump's deployment of national guard in Illinois
U.S. District Judge April Perry said that permitting guard troops in the state would only "add fuel to the fire."
Members of the Texas National Guard guard an entry point at their temporary barracks at a U.S. Army Reserve center in Elwood, a suburb south of Chicago, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Oct 9, 2025
Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment
Neither Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson nor Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has been accused of criminal wrongdoing.
A demonstrator wrapped in a U.S. flag stands amid smoke during a protest at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 8, 2025
Trump's Insurrection Act threat escalates showdown with Democratic cities
President Donald Trump again left open the possibility of using the Insurrection Act to sidestep any court rulings blocking the dispatch of guard troops into Democratic-led cities.
An armored vehicle carrying members of a Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Response Team pulls up by a crowd of protesters outside of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 7, 2025
Illinois sues to halt Trump’s deployment of national guard, but troops on the way
The case is the latest flashpoint in a growing number of court battles over Trump's authority to deploy military forces domestically.
Law enforcement officers stand guard outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters, after U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut on Sunday temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from sending any National Guard troops to police Portland, in south Portland, Oregon, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 7, 2025
Trump says may invoke Insurrection Act to deploy more troops in U.S.
The U.S. president openly mulled use of the Insurrection Act after a federal judge in Oregon temporarily halted a National Guard deployment in Portland.
Federal law enforcement officers line up in the Brighton Park neighborhood in Chicago on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 6, 2025
Trump administration brands U.S. cities war zones
An escalating political crisis across the country is pitting Trump's anti-crime and migration crackdown against Democrats who accuse him of an authoritarian power grab.
JB Pritzker
WORLD / Politics
Oct 5, 2025
Illinois governor says Trump to send National Guard to state over his objection
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said President Donald Trump plans to call up 300 members of the state’s national guard, defying local political opposition.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House on Monday. Trump has said he is creating a "task force” to crack down on crime in Memphis, Tennessee.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 16, 2025
Trump sends troops to Memphis and says Chicago is ‘probably next’
Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is backing the president’s move.
Police and first responders work at a cordoned-off area after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a man as officers attempted to detain him, according to the Department of Homeland Security, in Franklin Park village, northwest of Chicago, on Friday.
WORLD
Sep 13, 2025
ICE officer kills man in Chicago suburb during arrest attempt
ICE officers were conducting a vehicle stop to arrest Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez when he drove his car at the officers, DHS said in a statement.
Soldier Field in Chicago prior to a game between the Bears and Seahawks
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Sep 10, 2025
Bears to leave Chicago for new stadium in the suburbs
Chief Executive Officer Kevin Warren told fans on Monday — just hours before the Bears’ season opener — that the NFL team plans to build a stadium in Arlington Heights.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle is parked outside the Cook County Courthouse after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered an increased federal law enforcement presence and immigration enforcement actions by the Department of Homeland Security in Chicago on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 9, 2025
Trump administration says it launched 'Operation Midway Blitz' in Chicago
The operation appeared to resemble more typical immigration enforcement rather than troop deployments the U.S. president had authorized in other Democratic-held cities.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (left) and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker at a news conference in Chicago on Tuesday. Pritzker said he has learned details of U.S. President Donald Trump's plans for troop deployments to Chicago from government sources and reporters, not the Trump administration itself.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 3, 2025
'We're going in': Trump to send national guard troops to Chicago
The U.S. president's extraordinary effort to militarize the country's third-largest city is likely to trigger a legal battle.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson in May. Johnson is preparing for the possibility of Trump sending National Guard troops to his city, as his has already done in both Los Angeles and Washington DC.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 31, 2025
Chicago mayor says police will not aid federal troops or agents
The Democratic mayor is preparing Chicago for any U.S. enforcement operation similar to what Trump has already done in Los Angeles and Washington.
Members of the national guard patrol the Washington's Union Station on Aug. 20. U.S. President Donald Trump has said that the U.S. military might deploy to Chicago.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 29, 2025
In Chicago, locals prepare for Trump's possible deployment of national guard
The state attorney general says he is developing a legal strategy to execute if troops arrived and immigrant advocates are stepping up legal training.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is pushing back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, calling them unconstitutional and illegal, and emphasizing that policing should remain under local control.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 28, 2025
Can Illinois’ governor keep the National Guard out of Chicago?
"Don’t come to Chicago,” JB Pritzker warned. "You are neither wanted here nor needed here.” Should Trump take action, he said, "we’ll see you in court.”
People walk on the street near members of the national guard after U.S. President Donald Trump deployed the national guard and ordered an increased presence of federal law enforcement to assist in crime prevention, in Washington on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 25, 2025
Trump clashes with Democrats as he expands national guard plans
Trump this month deployed the national guard to the streets of Washington in a widely criticized show of force.
Takaichi makes history as Japan’s first female prime minister
Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi reacts to applauding lawmakers after being elected prime minister at the Lower House on Tuesday.
Path clears for Takaichi to become PM as LDP and JIP agree to form coalition
Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi (right) reaches out to shake hands with Japan Innovation Party leader Hirofumi Yoshimura after signing a coalition deal Monday evening in Tokyo.
Rare female yakuza walks path to redemption in Japan
Retired yakuza Mako Nishimura sorts fallen leaves during a clean-up activity at the Gifu Gokoku shrine in Gifu Prefecture on Sept. 28.
Takaichi government will likely spend less than expected
Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi at the National Diet Building in Tokyo on Monday
Who is Minoru Kihara, Takaichi’s new 'cool-headed' spokesman?
Minoru Kihara (second from left) attends a Lower House plenary session on Tuesday in Tokyo.
Nakatsu keeps its cool as gentrification looms
Shunsuke Takahashi, owner of the cafe Hood by Vargas, says the Osaka neighborhood of Nakatsu feels brighter and calmer with the influx of new businesses.
How Japan’s greatest psychological horror game came home
Series composer Akira Yamaoka and writer Ryukishi07 were integral figures in helping one of Japan's greatest horror gaming franchises land a Japanese setting.
Japan leads in in-depth AI awareness, new global study finds
In Japan, 55% were “equally concerned and excited” about the rise of AI in daily life, while 28% were “more concerned than excited.”
What does Jimbocho think of its unexpected ‘cool’ status?
Tokyo's Jimbocho neighborhood is a haven for book lovers, its rows of secondhand bookstores spilling over with printed materials.
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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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