Senior Justice Department officials and federal prosecutors in Manhattan have held talks about dropping the corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams, the New York Times reported on Wednesday,

Corey Amundson, the U.S. Justice Department's senior career official in charge of overseeing public corruption and other politically sensitive investigations, resigned on Monday after the Trump administration tried to reassign him to a new role working on immigration issues,

The new Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, announced that she was on hand in the city to witness the arrest of an unauthorized immigrant connected to criminal activity.

Democratic and Republican leaders alike voiced concern about the pause in federal dollars “creating chaos” and “jeopardizing the financial stability” of their states.

Federal law enforcement and ICE agents have arrested nearly 600 undocumented migrants wanted for outstanding crimes in sanctuary cities, including some from New York.

According to the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, around 412,000 undocumented immigrants resided in the city as of 2022. Approximately 229,000 migrants arrived in the city beginning in that year, though fewer than 51,000 still reside in city-supported shelter.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders cracking down on campus antisemitism and stripping federal funds from K-12 schools that teach critical race theory.

Civil rights groups and legal scholars said the new measure would violate constitutional free speech rights and would likely draw legal challenges.

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The measure quickly passed the new Republican-controlled Congress with some Democratic support even though immigrants rights advocates said it could lead to roundups of people for offenses as

# If the American system needed a shake-up, it might be at hand. # The list of changes Trump and his many devoted associates have instituted is, and is certainly meant to be, mind-blowing. And the list is growing. The president clearly sees himself as a transformational change – and retribution – agent.