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The justices agreed Thursday to hear Rhoney v. Barbosa da Cunha, deciding whether illegal immigrants arrested inside the US can be held without any bond hearing while removal proceedings play out. Nine federal appeals courts have ruled against the administration's reading of the statute; the 5th and 8th Circuits sided with it. The ACLU warns the government's interpretation could sweep millions into mandatory detention.
The president hit a Texas factory floor and then a standing-room-only Choctaw Nation Event Center in Durant, Oklahoma, Thursday, endorsing GOP gubernatorial nominee Mike Mazzei and hammering Biden-era immigration numbers. His campaign claims 300,000 people applied for rally tickets, a figure Democrats dispute. It's the first leg of a multi-state push into November.
Initial jobless claims fell to 197,000 for the week ending September 26, under 200,000 for a third straight week, with continuing claims down to 1.701 million. Economists expect roughly 90,000 jobs added in September and the unemployment rate holding at 4.1%. Analysts say the real market risk is a print that runs too hot and revives rate-hike talk.
Prosecutors say Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy, 51, of Richland, Washington, used his electrical engineering expertise to try to upgrade Houthi mobile communications and source drone parts and explosive chemicals. He allegedly traveled to Yemen in 2025 on an official passport and advised an undercover FBI source posing as a Houthi representative. He faces up to 20 years; his first court appearance is today.
A co-pilot allegedly stabbed the captain aboard a UAE-to-Israel FlyDubai flight, forcing a diversion to Saudi Arabia, and investigators are probing an Iranian link. Asked what happens if Tehran was behind it, Trump said: "Oh, they'll be hit very hard. Don't worry." Treasury also sanctioned Russia's A7 shadow-banking network for helping Iran evade sanctions, as the USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group heads to the region.
What began as a September 18 protest over overcrowded classrooms at a Créteil high school has metastasized into nationwide urban violence, with at least 1,949 arrests and more than 305 police and gendarmes injured. Over 350 high schools and some 30 university campuses were disrupted Thursday alone; a Marseille principal was doused with gasoline and a Nantes lyceum was set ablaze. The government blames hard-left La France Insoumise for stoking it; roughly 90% of detainees are minors.
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer urged European nations Wednesday to release emergency diesel stocks to cool record fuel prices, with the EU Commission, France, Italy, Ireland and Britain holding a call on whether to do it. The squeeze got worse after Chinese refiners suspended oil product exports for October to protect domestic stocks. Analysts say the global diesel shortage is unlikely to ease before next year.
A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 40 on Wednesday carrying NASA's Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA's Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov, and the Dragon capsule docked at the ISS. The crew's docket includes spacewalks, stem cell work aimed at terrestrial disease, and research on how long-duration microgravity alters blood flow. A Canadian experiment will track astronaut mental health on extended missions.
A sweeping new review of ultra-processed foods found that eating roughly two slices of deli meat daily was associated with substantially elevated dementia and Alzheimer's risk. Researchers called the signal compelling, though it's an association study, not proof of causation. The finding lands amid broader scrutiny of processed-food additives and preservatives.
Fraud rings are enrolling fake students at colleges using stolen identities, collecting Pell Grants and loan disbursements, then vanishing before anyone notices nobody attended class. Tells include duplicate applications, strange enrollment patterns and suspicious account changes right before funds drop. The Trump administration has made it a centerpiece of its student-aid fraud crackdown.
