Many communities in Charlotte, North Carolina, were reeling after federal Customs and Border Protection teams descended on the city at the weekend and arrested at least 81 people – while normally-thriving immigrant enclaves and business districts came to a standstill. Federal agents were deployed in what the Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency of Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), calls Operation Charlotte’s Web, sparking protests.

Members of a church in east Charlotte, North Carolina, fled to nearby woods on Saturday after masked federal agents arrived and detained one congregant, according to a report from The Charlotte Observer, amid the ongoing immigration crackdown taking place in the city. “We thought church was safe and nothing [was] gonna happen,” a 15-year-old witness told the newspaper. “But it did happen.” Newsweek contacted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) outside of regular working hours for comment on the operation in Charlotte.

Screaming and whistles filled a wooded stretch of Charlotte, North Carolina, on Sunday as protesters surrounded federal agents carrying out Operation Charlotte’s Web, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) mission aimed at arresting people with criminal immigration warrants. DHS said Friday it had "surged law-enforcement resources" into the city to capture "criminal illegal aliens terrorizing Americans." Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the effort was meant to "remove public-safety threats and restore order."

A group of 17 Air Force veterans who were kicked out of the military as part of the Trump administration’s transgender ban are suing the U.S. government for rescinding their pensions and health care benefits after they were forced to retire early.

Seventeen transgender Air Force members are suing the Trump administration for allegedly denying them early retirement benefits, according to new court filings submitted Monday.

A group of 17 transgender US air force members has sued the Trump administration for denying them early retirement pensions and benefits.

Bananas and coffee weren’t the only food products that were granted tariff exemptions over the weekend. A broad array of products was taken off the tariff list by the Trump administration. President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday night that rolled back tariffs on dozens of different food products, going far beyond just the coffee and banana tariffs that administration officials teased last week. The goods include citrus products, teas, certain cooking spices, pineapples, coconut water, and more...

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order allowing a range of food products, including coffee, bananas and beef, to escape his sweeping tariffs. The move comes as his administration faces mounting pressure over rising prices. While Trump previously downplayed concerns about the cost of living, he has focused on the issue since his Republican Party's poor performance in last week's elections. The dozens of products included on the White House's list of exemptions range from avocados and tomatoes to coconuts and mangoes...

President Donald Trump on Friday exempted key agricultural imports like coffee, cocoa, bananas and certain beef products from his higher tariff rates. The move comes as Trump faces political blowback for high prices at U.S. grocery stores. Some distributors of beef, coffee, chocolate and other common food items have raised prices as Trump’s tariffs took hold this year, adding to pressure on household budgets created by decades-high inflation in recent years...

Tariffs are the most flexible, peaceful, and effective policy instrument to regulate importation. That’s the economic, diplomatic, and common-sense context as the Supreme Court considers whether presidents have the authority to use tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The plaintiffs assert IEEPA can’t be stretched to include tariffs because, although IEEPA empowers the president to “regulate … importation” of property in an emergency, it makes no mention of the word “tariffs.”...

Former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers holds a considerable lead over several Democratic candidates in Michigan’s open 2026 Senate race, according to new polling. The survey, conducted on behalf of the Republican group Sentinel Action Fund and first shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation, finds that voters would choose Rogers over the three Democratic primary candidates in head-to-head matchups. Michigan voters also prefer Republicans on immigration, crime and the economy, giving the GOP several “tactical advantages” in the battleground state, according to the polling memo...

Instead of waging a bloody battle that could ignite a clash between nuclear-armed states, China may be betting it can conquer Taiwan without firing a shot — by choking off the island’s fuel and electricity until its government capitulates. China’s campaign wouldn’t start with missiles but with paperwork and patrol boats — "routine" inspections, new customs rules and cyber intrusions designed to quietly strangle Taiwan’s imports while giving Beijing plausible deniability, according to a new report by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)...