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Democratic lawmakers are calling for Congress to strengthen protections after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume deporting immigrants to countries where they may face danger, persecution or torture. The ruling did not address the legality of these deportations on the merits, and a hearing is scheduled for December. The administration says third-country removals are necessary when immigrants' home countries refuse to accept them.
Lawmakers say ‘ Congress must step in’ after supreme court ruled to allow Trump officials to resume deporting people where their lives could be in dangerDemocratic lawmakers have called for more formalized steps to prevent the US government from deporting people to countries where their lives would be in danger or they could be subject to torture.on Tuesday lifted restrictions on the deportations of immigrants to countries that are not their own, while agreeing to hear the issue on its merits in December.
Taxpayers shouldn’t fund tearing people from the only home they’ve ever known, nor should our legal system fast-track these unilateral deportations. After the ruling, Democratic lawmakers pushed for the tightening of protections to prevent such deportations where lives could be at risk and to uphold due process.
“Congress must step in. No one should be shipped off to a country that is not their own without basic due process and a meaningful opportunity to raise legitimate fears for their safety,” House Democrat Lois Frankel said on X. The Trump administration has defended third-country deportations as necessary since the home nations of some of those who are targeted for removal sometimes refuse to accept them.
Trump announced that the heads of the largest US tech and AI companies had signed on to a “morally binding” agreement to put controls on artificial intelligence. Trump did not give further details on the controls, but he suggested that the deal would allow the companies to largely “self-police” their products and technology. Later, Trump signed an executive order calling for “artificial intelligence” to be renamed “super intelligence”.
Jack Smith faced Senate lawmakers on the judiciary committee for a contentious hearing that saw a number of Republicans accuse the former special prosecutor of perjuryA Republican senator blocked a bipartisan bill that would have prevented Donald Trump from demolishing the Kennedy Center without the approval of Congress.rejected along mostly party lines a Democratic resolution that would have forced the state department to report to Congress on violence in the occupied West Bank , including the killings of nine American citizens by Israeli settlers or security forces over the last few years. JD Vance and health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr spoke at the conclusion of the Make America Healthy Again summit in Washington.
Federal prosecutors have charged a Venezuelan delivery driver shot by ICE agents in Texas this month with one count of assaulting, resisting and impeding a federal officer. Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, 28, was shot by federal immigration officers after a traffic stop in Texas on 20 September.
The charge echoes similar claims federal immigration officers have made about immigrants and anti-ICE protesters, including Minnesota mother Renee Good, “weaponizing their vehicles”Democratic lawmakers call for protections over third country deportations after 'indefensible' supreme court ruling Iranian officials indicated today that they have received an official US response to Tehran’s latest proposal to end the seven-month war, which president Donald Trump had publicly rejected just days earlier. Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi presented the US response to president Masoud Pezeshkian at a Cabinet meeting, government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani told the state-run IRNA news agency.
“We will make every effort to bring the agreement to fruition and will firmly stand up for the rights of the Iranian people,” Pezeshkian said. “The agreement must now be based on a win-win strategy. ”to scrutinize US ally South Korea’s warming ties with China, which he said pose “significant risks” to the United States.
In a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, representative John Moolenaar urged “heightened vigilance” about the relationship, citing deepening leader-level ties, South Korean semiconductor investment in China, and unfair treatment of American firms in South Korea compared with Chinese rivals. Moolenaar described South Korea as “a major American ally,” but warned of “the potential for frictions to develop into a structural shift in Seoul’s alignment” requiring “close monitoring and, as necessary, concerted action”.
Public Citizen, an advocacy group, called on the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission to intervene and block further airing of three ads itwere “designed to boost the image and character of Donald Trump” as part of the Republicans’ campaign for November’s midterm elections.
“Federal law explicitly prohibits using appropriated public funds for government propaganda, self-aggrandizement, or partisan political advertising,” the organization wrote. “Yet, that is exactly the nature of Trump’s recent campaign ads.
” Broadcast stations cannot reject ads from legally qualified political candidates – but Trump is not technically a candidate, although he has urged voters to “Public Citizen strongly urges the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission to direct broadcasters to stop broadcasting these apparently illegal campaign advertisements and calls on individual broadcasters to cease airing the campaign advertisements,” the group wrote in a letter addressed to both agencies.
The US Senate on Tuesday evening rejected along mostly party lines a Democratic resolution that would have forced the state department to report to Congress on violence in the occupiedThe resolution, led by the Maryland Democrat Chris Van Hollen, would have given the state department 30 days to report to Congress on those deaths and on wider human rights conditions in the territory, including Israel’s detention of Palestinian children. Van Hollen was able to force the vote under section 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act, a law that lets senators demand human rights reports on countries receiving US military aid.
The measure drew 24 Democratic sponsors, including Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Tim Kaine of Virginia and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the top Democrat on the foreign relations committee.
“While I was pleased that so many of my Democratic colleagues joined this effort, it’s clear the United States must do more,” Van Hollen said in a statement after the vote. “It is our responsibility to ensure recipients of US taxpayer dollars act in line with our laws and our values – this resolution was an opportunity to shed light on a reality that flies in the face of that principle.
”Robin Jia, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Southern California, said it’s crucial to ensure the leading labs’ intentions are “well-aligned with the broader interest of the American public. ”As the models get better, the consequences of such things are only going to get greater.
Alex Pascal, executive director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, said: The only way to reduce the risks and harms of AI to Americans is through robust legal liability, regulation and fundamentally changing the race dynamics that are driving unsafe decision-making by frontier AI developers whose costs are borne by the American people. Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the heads of the largest US tech and AI companies had signed on to a “morally binding” agreement to put controls on artificial intelligence.
He announced the deal, called the Joint Commitment On Frontier Responsibilities, following a White House luncheon with top tech executives.
“It’s almost like a constitution in a way, and the biggest people in the world signed that, and I signed it as president, and it really is a form of protection,” Trump said. Trump also signed an executive order renaming artificial intelligence to “superintelligence”, similar to a declaration he made at the United Nations last week.
“The Order directs all departments and agencies to use the terms ‘Super Intelligence’ and ‘SI’ in official correspondence, public communications, policy documents, and non-statutory documents within the executive branch and to no longer acknowledge the terms ‘Artificial Intelligence’ or ‘AI’,” the order declared. The agreement, which Trump suggested would allow the companies to perform “tremendous self-policing” of their products and technologies, outlines a vague framework for how AI firms would establish safety standards as they test out new products.
The tech industry has faced increased public scrutiny following a series of incidents where major AI companies inadvertently hacked into outside organizations during safety tests. While lawmakers, AI researchers and even some AI companies have called for more government oversight of artificial intelligence, Trump has broadly rejected calls for more regulation of the technology – citing competition with China and threats to economic growth.
The joint commitment that Trump posted to his Truth Social account on Tuesday appears to carry no enforcement mechanisms or legal implications and is instead a voluntary commitment. Democratic lawmakers have called for more formalized steps to prevent the US government from deporting people to countries where their lives would be in danger or they could be subject to torture.on Tuesday lifted restrictions on the deportations of immigrants to countries that are not their own, while agreeing to hear the issue on its merits in December.
Taxpayers shouldn’t fund tearing people from the only home they’ve ever known, nor should our legal system fast-track these unilateral deportations. After the ruling, Democratic lawmakers pushed for the tightening of protections to prevent such deportations where lives could be at risk and to uphold due process.
“Congress must step in. No one should be shipped off to a country that is not their own without basic due process and a meaningful opportunity to raise legitimate fears for their safety,” House Democrat Lois Frankel said on X. The Trump administration has defended third-country deportations as necessary since the home nations of some of those who are targeted for removal sometimes refuse to accept them.
Trump announced that the heads of the largest US tech and AI companies had signed on to a “morally binding” agreement to put controls on artificial intelligence. Trump did not give further details on the controls, but he suggested that the deal would allow the companies to largely “self-police” their products and technology. Later, Trump signed an executive order calling for “artificial intelligence” to be renamed “super intelligence”.
Jack Smith faced Senate lawmakers on the judiciary committee for a contentious hearing that saw a number of Republicans accuse the former special prosecutor of perjuryA Republican senator blocked a bipartisan bill that would have prevented Donald Trump from demolishing the Kennedy Center without the approval of Congress.rejected along mostly party lines a Democratic resolution that would have forced the state department to report to Congress on violence in the occupied West Bank , including the killings of nine American citizens by Israeli settlers or security forces over the last few years. JD Vance and health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr spoke at the conclusion of the Make America Healthy Again summit in Washington.
Federal prosecutors have charged a Venezuelan delivery driver shot by ICE agents in Texas this month with one count of assaulting, resisting and impeding a federal officer. Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, 28, was shot by federal immigration officers after a traffic stop in Texas on 20 September. The charge echoes similar claims federal immigration officers have made about immigrants and anti-ICE protesters, including Minnesota mother Renee Good, “weaponizing their vehicles”
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