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Five days after an ICE agent fatally shot activist Renee Good, tensions were running high in the Minneapolis neighborhood where she was killed. As federal immigration agents surrounded and questioned a man whose car they had stopped, people emerged from their homes onto the snow-lined sidewalks and street. They shouted obscenities, told the agents to leave and filmed what was happening on their phones. A crew from FRONTLINE and ProPublica was filming, too.

This story is part of a collaborative investigation from ProPublica and FRONTLINE that includes a documentary, “Caught in the Crackdown,” which premieres April 14 at 10 p.m. EDT/9 p.m. CDT on PBS stations (check local listings) and will be available to stream on YouTube, the PBS App and FRONTLINE’s website. It will also be available on PBS Documentaries on Prime Video.

Documentaries Articles Podcasts Watch the Trailer Caught in the Crackdown Premieres April 14, 2026 Tracing the violence, protests and arrests stemming from federal immigration sweeps across the United States FRONTLINE and ProPublica trace the violence, protests and arrests stemming from federal immigration sweeps across the United States. The documentary examines the tactics, legal cases and impact — from Los Angeles to Chicago to Minneapolis.

In the weeks since the U.S. and Israel began bombarding Iran, President Donald Trump has repeatedly justified the strikes by claiming Iran had posed an imminent nuclear threat.

In the nearly five years since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, there’s been a dramatic increase in attacks within neighboring Pakistan by the militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, commonly called the Pakistani Taliban or TTP.

Before Robert S. Mueller III led the FBI in the 9/11 era or investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election as special counsel, the U.S. Marine and Vietnam veteran tried his hand working as a lawyer in the private sector. Mueller took a job at a prestigious, high-paying law firm in the 1990s — and he hated it.

“We’d hear the shooting and the explosions,” Sally Mars recalled. “I remember that a missile hit very close to our house. And my mom, she threw herself on top of us, me and my brothers.” Sally Mars was a six-year-old Iraqi girl, living in Baghdad, when the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq began 23 years ago this week. She recounted her experiences in the 2020 FRONTLINE documentary Once Upon a Time in Iraq. At the start of the war in March 2003, President George W.

Ali Larijani, who was killed in airstrikes this week, was one of the most powerful leaders in Iran and seen as a central figure in the country’s response to the U.S.-Israeli attacks that began on Feb. 28, 2026. He was secretary of the Supreme National Security Council in charge of Iran’s nuclear policy — appointed to the role following the 12-day war with the U.S. and Israel in 2025. This was Larijani’s last on-camera interview with an American news outlet before he was killed.

It’s been estimated that tens of thousands of people are being held in solitary confinement on a daily basis across the United States — some in the criminal justice system and others in immigration detention. Amid renewed debate about the controversial practice, Solitary Nation, an archival FRONTLINE documentary that’s newly available on YouTube, offers a visceral portrait of what life can be like for people held in isolation in prisons.

In March 2020, the World Health Organization’s director-general declared COVID-19 a pandemic, saying the agency was “deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction.” Since the virus emerged six years ago, the disease has taken the lives of more than 7 million people, according to data tracked by KFF, a health research organization.