A 5 year-old girl is surrounded by her mother and two older sisters at their home in Leominster, MA on September 23, 2025. The girls’ mother, Jeannette, said that immigration agents held her youngest daughter, who has autism, in their driveway to lure the girls’ father outside. Video shows armed agents towering over the girl. “You’re more than welcome to come pick her up,” one tells her father, Edwards Hip Mejia, who had run into the house as agents pursued him. The girl was eventually brought to a police station, where she was later picked up by her grandmother. The mother requested only her middle name be published and her daughter’s name not be used to protect their privacy.
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Artist Michael Townsend poses for a portrait on an escalator at the Providence Place mall in Providence, RI on April 27, 2025. Director Jeremy Workman’s documentary, “Secret Mall Apartment,” looks back on a four year period when Townsend and seven fellow artists lived in Providence Place starting in 2003.
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Marcelo Gomes, 18, who was detained by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in late May, poses for a portrait at his home in Milford, Mass. on June 26, 2025. Gomes, who had an expired visa, spent six days in detention before being released on bond June 5.
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Rye, NH – At home inside a tiny bathroom Dan Brown’s image is reflected in three mirrors, August 19, 2025. Dan Brown released a new book “The Secret of Secrets” which explores how perception of reality changes with near death and out of body experiences.
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Bill May smokes a cigarette while contemplating his future, at his home in Franklin, NH on November 6, 2025. In late August the home was surrounded by federal agents and May was arrested. He was one of two dozen people the DEA would later boast were “high-ranking cartel members.” An investigation found no such a connection existed; instead the roundup in Franklin included locals, suffering from addiction like May, who were casualties of the fentanyl crisis, rather than the kingpins getting rich off it. “Generally speaking, everyone has their negatives,” May said. “I have several. Being part of a cartel is not one of them.” He attributes his addiction to a series of spinal surgeries throughout the 2000s and 2010s that coincided with the height of the opioid-dispensing era, when the nation was saturated with painkiller scripts. “I had never heard of Oxycontin before these surgeries,” he said. Now, fresh from a seven-day detox program, his current plan involves sobriety. “I’ve got to get out of Franklin,” he declared.
