Liam was detained last month near Minneapolis during an immigration enforcement operation in which his father was also taken into custody by federal agents.

High-profile abductions, like those of Patty Hearst and J. Paul Getty III, have captured the nation’s attention, but experts say kidnappings by strangers are exceedingly rare.

Problems with homelessness and open-air drug use have been widely broadcast, but many visitors this week said they found the city surprisingly pleasant.

Our sports correspondent Tariq Panja talks with Katrin Bennhold about the security at the Olympics in Italy, including the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who the U.S. says are there only in an advisory role.

Erik Duran was convicted of second-degree manslaughter, making him the first New York City police officer to be found guilty of killing a civilian while on duty in a decade.

Bard College’s president, Leon Botstein, said his school needed cash. But a rare watch and a Caribbean visit show how his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein sometimes veered into the personal.

The president’s decision to exclude Democratic governors from an annual meeting later this month breaks a longstanding tradition.

Dozens of men appear to be caught up in a political standoff between the Trump administration and Cuba.

Nathan Smith, whose stage name is DJ Young Slade, was reported missing on Tuesday after running out of his home in a community north of Atlanta.

Mr. Karp resigned as chairman of the elite law firm after senior partners met to decide his future.

Also, mass market paperbacks are heading toward extinction. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

Before the event, protesters marched in Milan in opposition to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, whose personnel are in Italy to advise local officials in securing the Winter Games.

The tenure of a presidential council that has been running Haiti expires on Saturday. It’s unclear what will come next.

Cory Doctorow and Tim Wu explain why the internet failed to live up to its early promise.

The White House seems to be mining the Coolidge era for inspiration. But America is not the country it was in 1924.

An eccentric watch heiress wants to revoke her grandfather’s donation of Jean Cocteau artworks after the museum built to display them was overwhelmed by a freakish storm.

Women hoping to visit their loved ones at New York prisons are being turned away after scanners pick up what they say are menstrual products. Some have had their visitation rights suspended.