The US Supreme Court has ruled the Trump administration can resume deporting immigrants to “third countries”, or countries other than their homeland, without giving them any opportunity to contest their removals.
The six-justice conservative majority of the high court temporarily lifted a decision by a lower court that required the administration to provide immigrants sufficient notice and the opportunity to claim fear of torture or persecution in the countries where they were being sent.
Administration's Other Legal Battles
The administration has asked the justices to allow it to deny gender-affirming care to transgender people in federal prisons. The solicitor general, D John Sauer, wrote that gender-reassignment surgeries, hormone therapy and social accommodations such as undergarments, makeup, padding and wigs “could no longer be justified.”
The union representing more than 8,000 workers at the Environmental Protection Agency has filed a lawsuit against the EPA and the agency’s administrator, Lee Zeldin, alleging it illegally terminated a collective bargaining agreement.
President Trump has agreed to stop fighting the disbursement of E Jean Carroll’s $5m verdict in her 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against him, a procedural development as the funds had already been distributed to her.
Trump Announces AI Deal and Other Developments
Donald Trump announced 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 after a White House lunch with top tech executives.
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. Trump also signed an executive order renaming artificial intelligence to “superintelligence”, similar to a declaration he made at the UN last week.
Less than 24 hours after OpenAI said it would scrap the launch of a model over safety concerns, the company debuted a whole new suite of artificial intelligence tools, including “dots”, agents it said were “more ambitious” than ChatGPT and a “whole new way to work with AI.”
More than a century after her screen debut and decades after she was laid to rest, the actor Greta Garbo has been reanimated by AI for a Swedish advert. Peter Bradshaw has given it a damning one-star review.
Senate and Other Political News
The US Senate 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.
A passenger jet travelling from Dubai made an emergency landing, briefly raising concerns about a possible hijacking and prompting Israel to scramble warplanes. Reports said the incident stemmed from a feud between the plane’s two pilots, and everyone onboard was safe.
The New York City mayor has debuted a sweeping plan to combat antisemitism. The strategy includes increased security funding for synagogues and an increased focus on incorporating Jewish history into public school education. The plan is seen as a move to assuage critics who see his steadfast denunciations of Israel as antisemitic.
Jenan Matari, a Palestinian-American author, and Nora Lester Murad, a Jewish-American writer, are taking legal action after public library officials scrapped their Read Palestine Week book talks.
Cornell Case and Other Notable Stories
Excerpts of text messages reportedly exchanged by a defendant in the Cornell University gang-rape case and the woman who claimed she was assaulted were published by CBS News on Tuesday, a day after New York prosecutors said they were reopening a criminal investigation.
Two of the alleged perpetrators were subsequently expelled after an internal investigation by Cornell – while the other five were allowed to resume their studies at the Ivy League institution after writing an essay, attending a workshop, or serving a short suspension. None were ever arrested or charged.
In other news, Lindsay Clancy returns to court as lawyer asks judge to find her not guilty. The office of the Plymouth county district attorney again chose to not disclose whether it plans to try Clancy again. A team of skydivers dropped in to help survivors of a plane crash in Wisconsin, using their training as paramedics to treat victims before ground crews arrived. A Brazilian news site has said it will not cover upcoming elections after threats. The independent Tapajós de Fato said decision was made to protect journalists and their families. The nor’easter storm that pummeled New England looks to have exposed large segments of a 19th-century schooner shipwrecked in the so-called graveyard of the Atlantic. No 8 seeds Liberty sprung a historic WNBA playoff upset to take down No 1 seeds Lynx. New York now await the winner of the Atlanta-Washington series.
In the early 2000s, a group of police officers known as the “riders” were exposed for offenses such as planting evidence, falsifying reports and using excessive force against primarily young Black men. As part of a settlement of these cases, OPD was put on a federal court-ordered reform program, which has now ended.
Experts share what you need to know about GLP-1-related hair loss as the side-effect gets more attention from researchers.
In the latest in our ICE investigation, José Olivares examines the cases of three men who became casualties in the latest phase of Trump’s anti-immigration campaign.
It is often assumed straight men are not interested in romantic fiction – but, as Amandas Ong discovers, many are sharing their passion in forums online.
Antarctica’s winter sea ice has peaked at its third-lowest level on record, scientists have confirmed. The four lowest years on record for the continent’s sea ice – a vital component of the planet’s climate and critical for marine life – have all occurred in the last four years.
The 550lb bear made famous after he took up residence under an Altadena home in November 2025 is wandering the same Los Angeles neighborhood again.
