Jeff Arnold

Jeff Arnold is an award-winning multi-media reporter and editor with more than 20 years of experience in some of the country's largest media markets.
He is a regular collaborator with digital partners, as well as radio and television. He has the proven ability to cultivate sources, build relationships with external and internal partners, and manage important beats in highly competitive news environments.
He is a tireless worker, who tackles every assignment with vigor and who pays attention to the kind of details that spell the difference between making a story good and great. He approaches each story with care and integrity, anxious to learn from every reporting experience.

NewsNation •

Teen soccer player’s ICE detention rattles rural Noel, Missouri

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include information about Rodrigo Gonzalez’s immigration hearing in Missouri. (NewsNation) — Rodrigo Gonzalez Carbajal was nearly home from a high school soccer game when his car was pulled over in front of his family home in rural Missouri. He was arrested by a local marshal, accused of exceeding the posted speed limit by 5 mph. Since that Tuesday night in late September, the 19-year-old Mexican asylum-seeker, who has a pending immigration cou...
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Cartels rely on trains to run multibillion-dollar human smuggling rings

(NewsNation) — Mexican drug cartels have long relied on freight trains traveling along the U.S.-Mexico border in human smuggling operations that brazenly move migrants illegally from place to place and annually generate billions of dollars for transnational criminal organizations. Mexican cartels and operatives known as “coyotes” were making at least $13 billion every year by 2021, according to The New York Times, which reported in 2022 that more than 5,000 people were arrested in 2021 and ch...
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Social media users critical of immigration crackdown targeted by DHS subpoenas

(NewsNation) — The Department of Homeland Security has been filing administrative subpoenas with popular social media platforms for several months now, demanding otherwise protected personal information of users it insists have been critical of the agency, especially in social posts involving federal immigration enforcement operations around the United States. The federal agency’s efforts to publicly identify certain posters are raising concerns among First Amendment advocates and civil liber...
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Corey Lewandowski subject of Democrats’ probe into DHS contracts

NewsNation) — Three Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are seeking an internal investigation into what they call “outsized and undue influence” over the Department of Homeland Security by Corey Lewandowski, a special government employee and longtime ally of President Donald Trump. In a letter addressed to the DHS secretary, Reps. Robert Garcia, D-Calif.; Rick Larsen, D-Wash.; and Bennie G. Thompson, D-Miss.; accused Lewandowski of having alleged “unauthorized involvement in DHS contra...
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DHS claims about ‘domestic terrorists’ don’t always line up with evidence in court

(NewsNation) — Some criminal cases involving people characterized by the Department of Homeland Security as “transnational gang members” and “domestic terrorists” out to harm federal immigration agents are being dismissed or reframed differently than what the agency stated. In Chicago, charges were dropped against a woman deemed a domestic terrorist. Two Venezuelan men were arrested in Portland, Oregon, and labeled gang members, a designation prosecutors are no longer using in court. Addit...
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Springfield, Ohio, could be ICE’s next target, leaving Haitians on edge

(NewsNation) — The community thrust into the national spotlight during the 2024 presidential campaign over false claims about Haitians eating neighbors’ pets is now bracing to be the next city on the Trump administration’s list for immigration enforcement. The continued spotlight on Springfield, Ohio — home to one of the Midwest’s largest populations of Haitian refugees — remains difficult for residents, who are now refusing to leave their homes due to rumors of impending immigration enforc...
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Missouri parents stuck in Nigeria ask Trump to lift adoption visa ban

(NewsNation) — A Missouri couple who have been in Nigeria for more than 10 months is petitioning President Donald Trump to lift visa restrictions preventing them from bringing their adopted child back to the United States to continue living as a family. Kaylee and James Wilson told NewsNation they are no strangers to international adoptions. They adopted their first child, a daughter from Ghana, in 2016, before adding another daughter, who is deaf and unable to speak and was rescued from the...
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Whistle-blowing, text alerts warn Chicagoans of ICE presence

CHICAGO (NewsNation) — Some residents in Chicago’s largely Latino neighborhoods have become literal whistleblowers as advocates try to put residents on alert that federal immigration enforcement officers, who have arrived by the hundreds this month, may be closing in. More than 250 people have been arrested by federal officers since “Operation Midway Blitz” began last week in Chicago, officials told NewsNation. “President Trump has been clear: if politicians will not put the safety of thei...
Chicago, IL Patch •

Mike'd Up: How A Chicagoan's Ditka-Inspired Bachelor Party Went Viral

Having the whole thing go viral thanks to an homage to the groom-to-be’s beloved Chicago Bears was never the plan. But when 19 Mike Ditka lookalikes showed up in Atlanta for Sunday’s Bears-Falcons game as part of Jake Mazanke’s bachelor party, not only did the NFL and Bears take notice of the photo of Mazanke and his friends all dressed like the coach who led the Bears to the 1985 Super Bowl championship, but so did the rest of the social media world. For Mazanke, a 28-year-old St. Charles nati
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Mickey And The Columbos: How Chicago Grew Mike Krzyzewski Into Coach K

For Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, the homegrown Hall of Famer, the road to everything he has ever known is rooted in Chicago. The path has taken him from his working-class Polish neighborhood on the city's near northwest side to college basketball’s mountaintop. But before any of the game plans for any of his 1,202 victories were hatched, before any of his five NCAA titles were captured, and before any of his 42 Blue Devils teams were constructed, the lessons — both taught and learned —...
The New York Times •

In a Time of Need, We Turn to Sister Jean

CHICAGO — The emails from Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt arrived as they always do after a game, one for each member of the Loyola-Chicago men’s basketball team. The Ramblers’ hopes for an N.C.A.A. tournament berth had been dashed by a 1-point loss to Valparaiso in overtime in the quarterfinals of last month’s Missouri Valley Conference tournament.Now Sister Jean, the team’s 100-year-old chaplain, had to help the players say goodbye to their season.She wrote that she knew that they had given their...

How Cassius Winston Greets His Late Brother Before Every Michigan State Game

Time and his teammates have helped him heal. The process requires daily attention. Winston has learned to direct his sadness toward something positive. Some days are easier than others, but the process has allowed him to look at his life, basketball and his relationship with his late brother in a completely new way. And in the moments when he needs reminding that he isn’t alone, Winston, who graduated from Michigan State in three years with a bachelor’s degree in advertising management and is pu

For Daniel Carcillo, the Fight Against the N.H.L. Goes On

CHICAGO — Daniel Carcillo was known as Car Bomb during his N.H.L. career because he played — and lived — with reckless abandon. In nine seasons with five N.H.L. teams, he accumulated nine suspensions, about 100 fights, 1,233 penalty minutes and myriad fines. He won two Stanley Cups with the Chicago Blackhawks. He also had seven diagnosed concussions, according to his doctor. He seemed to be more of a cautionary tale than a change agent. But he has become one of the loudest critics of the N.H.L

Aaron Judge Stays Focused and Consistent for the Yankees

Fowler was to be inserted into Thursday night’s lineup against Chicago in right field with Judge moving to designated hitter. Girardi said on Thursday that he could keep Judge in that role this weekend against the Houston Astros. Regardless of position, Judge’s mentality remains the same. “It’s just about taking care of your job,” Judge said. He added: “With the lineup we’ve got, people are being productive, they’re getting the job done, they’re hitting the ball well. For me, I’ve just got to

The Nun in Loyola-Chicago’s Huddle Has a Few Things to Say

The connection between Sister Jean and Moser, 49, dates to 2011, when Moser, a career assistant, was hired to revitalize Loyola’s program. On his first day, he arrived at his new office and found a manila folder on his desk. Inside it was a scouting report, compiled by Sister Jean, detailing the strengths and weaknesses of each player he had inherited. The scouting reports haven’t stopped. Day after day, season after season, Sister Jean pores over box scores of Loyola’s upcoming opponents, weig

Handed Life’s Twists, Notre Dame Quarterback Turns It Around

That journey, now in its eighth month, has thrown Kizer and his girlfriend, Elli Thatcher, on a topsy-turvy ride they could not have imagined when they began dating in 2014, 10 months before the diagnosis. Like Kizer, Thatcher, a pre-med student at Ohio State, is in her second year of college and calls Toledo, Ohio, home. Although they went to different high schools, the quarterback and Thatcher began dating before heading to college, Kizer in South Bend and Thatcher in Columbus. For years, Th
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