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In recent days, we’ve started to hear talk of a possible explanation for the cascade of government leaks that have so inflamed President Trump since his inauguration. There have been leaks of his executive orders before they are issued, of classified conversations with foreign leaders and about White House infighting.
The source, we are told, may be something that could define this new presidency as much as the president himself.
It’s called the deep state.
On today’s episode:
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Let’s turn it over to Thomas Fuller, our San Francisco bureau chief, for today’s introduction.
They look nothing like each other and their policies could hardly be more different. But it’s not surprising that Kevin McCarthy, Republican congressman from Bakersfield, and Kevin McCarty, Democratic State Assembly member from Sacramento, sometimes get mixed up.
Mail goes to the wrong office. Public introductions get flubbed. Emphatic comments on social media are misdirected.
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Here’s what you need to know:
• The Trump administration detailed plans to deport millions of immigrants, releasing expansive new rules that allow rapid deportations and the expulsion of undocumented immigrants who have committed even minor offenses. Here’s how deportation works.
The shift in enforcement faces resistance from many states and dozens of so-called sanctuary cities.
The new rules will be high on the agenda as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the head of Homeland Security, John Kelly, visit Mexico this week.
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BUFFALO — Newcomers have filled up hundreds of empty homes and apartments, and poured money and energy into destitute neighborhoods. Former churches have been reborn as mosques and refugee health centers, or found new congregants to fill pews and collection plates. Students have restocked classrooms at public schools where enrollment had been in a decades-long downward spiral. Storefront “For Rent” signs have given way to “Grand Openings.”
ATLANTA — The brick, adorned with a threatening message, crashed through the window of a prominent contractor’s dining room here in September 2015, apparently sometime between dusk and dawn. For some time, news of the incident failed to reverberate much beyond the home itself.
The same went for the dead rodents that had been simultaneously placed on the doorstep of the contractor, Elvin R. Mitchell Jr., and the message: “ER, keep your mouth shut!!! Shut up.”
Milo Yiannopoulos, the conservative polemicist whose endorsement of pedophilia instigated outrage over the weekend, resigned on Tuesday from Breitbart News, the hard-right news and opinion website where he was an editor.
“I would be wrong to allow my poor choice of words to detract from my colleagues’ important reporting, so today I am resigning from Breitbart, effective immediately,’’ Mr. Yiannopoulos said in an announcement.
“This decision is mine alone,’’ he said.
“Who was at J.F.K.?”
Brad Lander, a New York City councilman, shouted into the crowd at a community organizing meeting in Brooklyn, where 1,000 people squeezed into a synagogue on a recent weeknight to strategize against President Trump. Outside, activists became bouncers, turning away a line of people from the overstuffed site. Inside, hands shot up in answer and a cheer went up from those who had swarmed the airport to protest Mr. Trump’s executive order banning travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
Since Election Day, for-profit college companies have been on a hot streak. DeVry Education Group’s stock has leapt more than 40 percent. Strayer’s jumped 35 percent and Grand Canyon Education’s more than 28 percent.
You do not need an M.B.A. to figure out why. Top officials in Washington who spearheaded a relentless crackdown on the multibillion-dollar industry have been replaced by others who have profited from it.
IOWA FALLS, Iowa — Republicans home for the congressional recess have been greeted with an earful at town hall-style meetings. Many lawmakers have no such meetings scheduled — sparing them the possibility of a YouTube moment — but opening them up to criticism that they are ducking their constituents.
A number of other Republicans will be hearing from constituents on Tuesday, and reporters for The New York Times will be there to gauge the sentiment. Come for the stories, stay for the videos.
