A photo showed a boy with an oversized hat and Spider-Man backpack being held next to a vehicle as his father was detained. A Homeland Security spokeswoman said the man had fled and left the child.

Also, Jack Smith defended his decision to prosecute Trump. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

Approval of the package, which would fund a wide swath of government agencies, brings Congress closer to meeting a Jan. 30 funding deadline.

Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, revived a plan created during the first Trump administration to end the testing of chemicals on mammals.

As a strike by health workers stretches into its second week, pay is a major issue in negotiations, even if it’s not discussed much on the picket line.

A planned U.S.-funded study of a hepatitis B vaccine drew widespread condemnation from researchers. Now the host country says it cannot proceed.

The policy has traditionally been aimed at keeping organizations that receive U.S. tax dollars from performing or promoting abortion as a method of family planning.

Negotiators have discussed proposals to check Russian and Chinese influence in the Arctic and transfer sovereignty over pockets of Greenlandic land to the United States, an idea opposed by Denmark.

One of the most influential voices of the seminal magazine The Source, he chronicled rap’s rise and its explosion into the cultural mainstream.

Prosecutors said a Chicago carpenter had offered a bounty for killing Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official. Defense lawyers said he was just sharing a social media post.

In his remarks, the former special counsel repeatedly denied that he had acted out of partisan animus and bemoaned the Trump administration’s efforts to go after the president’s perceived enemies.

The National Weather Service warned of “considerable disruption to transportation and daily life” from Sunday into Monday.

The details of an emergency call made by President Trump’s youngest son to the London police last year emerged during a trial this week.

Ice, sleet and possibly significant snowfall are threatening to snarl travel in much of the eastern U.S. starting on Friday. Here’s what to know.

Advice abounds on how, when and whom to date. What are your best rules for navigating early romance?

Andrew Ross Sorkin, editor at large of DealBook, describes how leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos remain on edge after President Trump, for now, backed down from threats of using tariffs or military force to gain Greenland.

The Justice Department would seek to find other avenues to pursue a case against Mr. Lemon, a senior law enforcement official said.

All the religious trends you’re wrong about.

Alex Honnold again will be ascending without ropes. In an interview he considers the impact on his family if something were to go wrong.

The movies competing for the 98th Academy Awards. The ceremony will air on March 15.

Defections, secret conversations, deal talks that fizzled and a battle for control: The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab is the artificial intelligence industry’s latest drama.

Welcome to the era of the Polymarket sharp.

We heard from 300 people about what they are paying in health insurance premiums after Affordable Care Act subsidies expired.