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As part of the Washington takeover, federal authorities have set up checkpoints across the city, where they have asked people about their immigration status and detained them. According to the White House, of the 1,170 people arrested since the takeover began, at least 319 were related to immigration issues.
The American Immigration Council, a nonprofit that advocates for immigrants’ rights, has called the Washington deployment a “Backdoor for Immigration Enforcement” and noted the administration has used its takeover to force the district’s police to cooperate with immigration enforcement in an unprecedented way. https://apnews.com/article/trump-crime-apnorc-poll-dc-9d9f35f2e62aba108db47556a3f3ebfc
President Donald Trump has audaciously claimed virtually unlimited power to bypass Congress and impose sweeping taxes on foreign products.
Now a federal appeals court has thrown a roadblock in his path.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Friday that Trump went too far when he declared national emergencies to justify imposing sweeping import taxes on almost every country on earth. The ruling largely upheld a May decision by a specialized federal trade court in New York. But the 7-4 appeals court decision tossed out a part of that ruling striking down the tariffs immediately, allowing his administration time to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The ruling was a big setback for Trump, whose erratic trade policies have rocked financial markets, paralyzed businesses with uncertainty and raised fears of higher prices and slower economic growth. https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-court-ruling-trade-1c5a02ad38597c3629eff5977490813a
“It is still not illegal to be homeless,” Bowser said. “You cannot have camps, you cannot have tents, but it is not illegal to be homeless.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/29/trump-dc-homeless-encampments-cleared/?utm_campaign=wp_evening_edition&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F447341a%2F68b214da00d7a3268d8b9ba9%2F598b051fae7e8a68162a1429%2F24%2F43%2F68b214da00d7a3268d8b9ba9
At 77 years old, Geoffrey Hinton has a new calling in life. Like a modern-day prophet, the Nobel Prize winner is raising alarms about the dangers of uncontrolled and unregulated artificial intelligence.
Frequently dubbed the “Godfather of AI,” Hinton is known for his pioneering work on deep learning and neural networks which helped lay the foundation for the AI technology often used today. Feeling “somewhat responsible,” he began speaking publicly about his concerns in 2023 after he left his job at Google, where he worked for more than a decade.
“We’re not going to actually tell what comes from our own brain versus what comes from AI. It’s all going to be embedded within ourselves. And it’s going to make ourselves more intelligent,” Kurzweil said.
In his latest book, “The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI,” Kurzweil doubles down on his earlier predictions. He believes that by 2045 we will have “multiplied our own intelligence a millionfold.”
“Yes,” he eventually conceded when asked if he considers AI to be his religion. It informs his sense of purpose.
“In the ancient world, apocalyptic is not negative,” explains Domenico Agostini, a professor at the University of Naples L’Orientale who studies ancient apocalyptic literature. “We’ve completely changed the semantics of this word.”
The term “apocalypse” comes from the Greek word “apokalypsis,” meaning “revelation.” Although often associated today with the end of the world, apocalypses in ancient Jewish and Christian thought were a source of encouragement in times of hardship or persecution.
“God is promising a new world,” said Professor Robert Geraci, who studies religion and technology at Knox College. “In order to occupy that new world, you have to have a glorious new body that triumphs over the evil we all experience.”
Geraci first noticed apocalyptic language being used to describe AI’s potential in the early 2000s. Kurzweil and other theorists eventually inspired him to write his 2010 book, “Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality.”
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Indeed, the vast majority of Americans, 81%, see crime as a “major problem” in large cities — a concern Trump has seized on as he has deployed the National Guard to the District of Columbia and threatened to expand that model to cities across the country. Despite that perception, data shows that violent crime in D.C. is at a 30-year low. But Trump’s approach appears to be helping him, at least for the moment: His overall approval rating has increased slightly, from 40% in July to 45% now. https://apnews.com/article/trump-crime-poll-approval-dc-national-guard-5c5d503600cd443e639ab37dc6ddc0dc
“Our health care system is now solidly anti-children and anti-science. The data are clear: young children–especially infants–remain highly vulnerable to severe illness and hospitalization from Covid-19. By restricting access to safe, evidence-based vaccines, federal leaders are choosing ideology over science,” Fatima Khan, co-founder of the nonprofit grassroots group Protect Their Future, which advocates for vaccine access for kids, told CNN. “Denying children a critical tool to prevent avoidable tragedies will be a lasting stain on every policymaker who allowed it to happen.” https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/health/covid-vaccines-fda?utm_source=cnn_In+Case+You+Missed+It+-+ICYMI&bt_ts=1756336722935&bt_ee=uoF6HAoDjqUUbEm9r3T%2ByMD0sqX1lo0lxsSHvwbpi8Twp4UBMccw%2F%2By3SEnUe1cO&utm_medium=email&bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiAiYmIzNzMzNmUtZTFlNy00NzM3LWFlZmMtZGMxNGZjN2ZmMTY4In0%3D
Trump declared a crime emergency this month, giving federal law enforcement agencies and National Guard members unprecedented authority to patrol the nation’s capital, while also enlisting the District’s 3,100-member police force to assist with immigration enforcement. More than 1,000 arrests have followed, according to the White House. Meanwhile, D.C.’s top prosecutor, Jeanine Pirro, ordered her staff to file the stiffest possible charges in every case.
But there are emerging signs that not all of the arrests will stand up to scrutiny in court.
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Before prosecutors failed to indict Dunn, a grand jury on three separate occasions this month refused to indict a D.C. woman who was accused of assaulting an FBI agent, another extraordinary rejection of the prosecution’s case. Days later, a federal magistrate judge said an arrest in Northeast Washington was preceded by the “most illegal search I’ve seen in my life” and described another arrest as lacking “basic human dignity.”
While judges are known to criticize prosecutors from time to time, grand jurors only in rare cases refuse to issue an indictment, which requires them to find only probable cause that a crime was committed, the lowest evidentiary bar in the legal system. Instances of failed indictments have begun to crop up more since Trump took office this year. Grand jurors in Los Angeles have rejected indictments of people who were arrested for protesting the administration’s immigration enforcement actions, according to the Los Angeles Times. Trump declared a crime emergency this month, giving federal law enforcement agencies and National Guard members unprecedented authority to patrol the nation’s capital, while also enlisting the District’s 3,100-member police force to assist with immigration enforcement. More than 1,000 arrests have followed, according to the White House. Meanwhile, D.C.’s top prosecutor, Jeanine Pirro, ordered her staff to file the stiffest possible charges in every case.
But there are emerging signs that not all of the arrests will stand up to scrutiny in court.
Before prosecutors failed to indict Dunn, a grand jury on three separate occasions this month refused to indict a D.C. woman who was accused of assaulting an FBI agent, another extraordinary rejection of the prosecution’s case. Days later, a federal magistrate judge said an arrest in Northeast Washington was preceded by the “most illegal search I’ve seen in my life” and described another arrest as lacking “basic human dignity.”
While judges are known to criticize prosecutors from time to time, grand jurors only in rare cases refuse to issue an indictment, which requires them to find only probable cause that a crime was committed, the lowest evidentiary bar in the legal system. Instances of failed indictments have begun to crop up more since Trump took office this year. Grand jurors in Los Angeles have rejected indictments of people who were arrested for protesting the administration’s immigration enforcement actions, according to the Los Angeles Times. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/27/trump-crime-surge-court-cases/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert
A conservative election researcher whose faulty findings on voter data were cited by President Donald Trump as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss has been appointed to an election integrity role at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. https://apnews.com/article/heather-honey-trump-election-integrity-homeland-security-e00b0dd4df548d317ce2186a3249f6f0
Abrego is an undocumented immigrant who came to the United States as a teenager; his family said they were fleeing threats from gangs. A judge agreed he could face serious harm if he were ever sent back to El Salvador. He settled in Maryland, is married to a U.S. citizen and has three kids. In March he was arrested and airlifted to a notorious Salvadoran gulag, alongside dozens of Venezuelans.
The courts immediately stepped in to review this unusual, fast-paced deportation. That’s when a government lawyer acknowledged that officials had made a mistake by sending Abrego back to El Salvador.
Yet the administration dug in its heels: Abrego will “never go free” in the United States, Trump officials have said.
It took months and a Supreme Court ruling to bring him back. “The government has cited no basis in law for Abrego Garcia’s warrantless arrest, his removal to El Salvador, or his confinement in a Salvadoran prison,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in an opinion.
Before he returned to U.S. soil, the government indicted him in relation to a traffic stop several years ago. A court ruled last week to release him from jail in that case because the government failed to prove he was a flight risk.
“His freedom lasted less than 72 hours,” The Washington Post reported Monday. “Officers took Abrego into custody after he arrived at a required check-in with ICE in Baltimore.”
Now his deportation battle begins again, but this time, hundreds of supporters showed up Monday to hear him speak. https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=598b051fae7e8a68162a1429&s=68ae1189fc6ee61e4a9769c0&utm_campaign=wp_the_5_minute_fix&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&linknum=5&linktot=49
According to the CDC, people are at greater risk if they travel to areas with animal infestations and spend time among livestock, sleep outdoors and have an open wound.
Symptoms can also include painful, unexplained wounds or sores that do not heal. One telltale sign is seeing maggots around open sores. Another is a foul-smelling odor from the affected part of the body. Female flies lay eggs in an open wound or in the nose, eyes or mouth of an animal or person, which quickly grow into larvae that eat the flesh.
The screwworm part of the name comes from those maggots, which can get up to two-thirds of an inch long and look like they are screwing themselves into the flesh.
Symptoms can also include painful, unexplained wounds or sores that do not heal. One telltale sign is seeing maggots around open sores. Another is a foul-smelling odor from the affected part of the body.
How is it treated?
Doctors have to remove the larvae, sometimes through surgery.
Do not try to remove or dispose of the maggots yourself, the CDC says.
How is it treated?
Doctors have to remove the larvae, sometimes through surgery.
Do not try to remove or dispose of the maggots yourself, the CDC says.
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