President Donald Trump has never been a fan of wind farms, delivering a “haymaker” to the clean energy industry this week by ordering a pause on the construction of five East Coast offshore projects slated to power nearly 2.7 million homes. He thinks wind farms are “ugly,” has frequently invoked potential harms to wildlife and remains “apoplectic” about his failure to stop construction of one off the coast of his Scottish golf course, said The New York Times. And administration officials argue that the five wind farms are “national security risks” but offer little evidence.

What did the commentators say?
The wind pause is a “blow to America’s energy future,” The Washington Post said in an editorial. Halting the projects will particularly “set back the cause of generating enough energy to meet the demands of the AI boom.” The White House cited national security concerns, suggesting wind turbine blades “could interfere with radar,” but those worries were “not significant obstacles during the permitting process.” The process must be reformed to make it more difficult to block “projects the economy desperately needs.”

Trump is making Americans pay more for electricity because he’s “angry at windmills,” Dean Baker said in his newsletter. It’s true that, as Trump often says, windmills kill birds, which is the “case with any structure.” But “wind energy is cheap” and costs less to produce than coal — about the same as natural gas — all while avoiding greenhouse gases.

What next?
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul warned that Trump’s decision will make it difficult for her state to “reduce emissions” while also “fending off grid reliability concerns and spiking utility rates,” said Spectrum News. She was part of a larger group of Democratic governors from northeast states who plotted a “strategy” to save the wind farms from the president’s authority, said The New York Times. 

A federal lawsuit challenging the decision is likely, but negotiations with the White House are also possible. The governors, said Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, will be “exercising our rights and doing everything we can to keep these projects going.”

Many Americans are not leaving the house without their passports, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to conduct raids across American cities. Reports of citizens being detained have created a culture of fear, leading them to carry identifying documents wherever they go.

What citizens are being detained?
At least 170 American citizens have been detained by ICE during its raids, according to a ProPublica investigation. Reports indicate that the majority of people choosing to do this are people of color, including many Latino U.S. citizens.

Walter Cruz Perez, who lives in a New Orleans suburb, has been a U.S. citizen since 2022 and “used to never think twice about only carrying his driver’s license,” said The Guardian. But since the ICE raids in New Orleans ramped up, he’s in the “habit of putting his passport in his cell phone case.” Those in his community “see on the news that people don’t have the chance to identify themselves,” he said.

What can ICE ask for?
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security “vehemently denies that American citizens have been detained, even inadvertently, during its immigrant sweeps,” said Arizona State University’s Cronkite News, with the department calling ICE raids “highly targeted.” Despite this, experts continue to push clarity on what ICE agents can and cannot do when stopping someone.

There’s “no legal requirement that U.S. citizens carry papers or have proof of their citizenship on them,” Bree Bernwanger, a senior attorney at ACLU NorCal, said to KQED-FM. Still, many legal experts say carrying your passport, even if you are an American citizen, is probably a good idea. 

It’s “better to carry your passport — that’s the best,” said attorney Layla Suleiman González in a translated interview with Telemundo Chicago. Even if you are stopped by ICE, you “don’t have to answer their questions, you don’t have to say where you are from, you don’t have to say whether you are a citizen or not. You don’t have to talk to them.”

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The following eateries know how to transport. Some bring the flavors of far-flung locales; others welcome with homey dishes in nourishing settings. Here’s where to eat this season.

Kabawa, New York City
The Caribbean gets short shrift in fine-dining restaurants across the U.S. That has been shifting over the last few years, and Kabawa is a luminous addition to the sea change. Duck sausage is “jerked” with Jamaican spicings. A fillet of black bass is sauced with a Trinidad-evoking curry. Chef Paul Carmichael is at the helm and island-hops for inspiration, snatching influences from countries including Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad for Kabawa’s prix-fixe menu.

Lem’s, Chicago
“Once you have tried Lem’s, you can’t help but develop a particular craving for it whenever you want barbecue,” said Chicago magazine. Because “nowhere else in town does it quite as well.” The city’s oldest Black-owned barbecue business, Lem’s specializes in rib tips and hot links. Who said you need to be in the South to eat good ’cue?

Rice and Sambal, Philadelphia
Put yourself in the kitchen’s hands at Rice and Sambal, and you will experience the wide-ranging flavors of great Indonesian cooking. Come for brunch on Sundays to have an omelet with shallot, tomato and sweet soy sauce or the coconut-jam-slicked srikaya toast topped with, yes, chocolate sprinkles. For dinner, the menu is set, at either five courses on Thursdays and Fridays or the blowout Liwetan feast served in a communal bamboo basket on Saturdays.