Sam Altman, the embattled CEO of the AI technology company OpenAI, vacillates between warning of a labor market doom loop due to the technology his company developed and promising a new golden era for humanity just around the corner. In an essay posted to his X account this July, he claimed that “by safely stewarding AGI [artificial general intelligence] into the world, we can enter a new…
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Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi, whose arrest by masked and hooded ICE agents when he arrived for his naturalization interview to become a U.S. citizen made national headlines last year, is facing a new deportation threat after a three-judge panel overturned a lower court ruling that had freed him from ICE custody. Mahdawi was involved in pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University…
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An examination of cases in which people were arrested for supposedly assaulting an immigration agent finds that nearly half of those charges were either dropped or resulted in no conviction — suggesting that federal law enforcement has engaged in widespread misconduct in carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The New York Times report, published on July 18…
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A man with advanced kidney disease who once worried he could be the fourth person to die at the largest immigrant jail in the Northeast says he was surprised and relieved to be released last month. As Truthout previously reported, Izzy Aly was arrested in December at the Philadelphia International Airport as he flew home to Florida from a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services-approved…
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New guidance distributed to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents across the country in recent days said that the FBI will no longer investigate confrontations that officers have with protesters or people who are subjected to immigration enforcement — leaving the agency to investigate its own violent encounters with the public following at least two recent killings by ICE agents.
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An employee of The GEO Group, the private-prison company that operates the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Aurora, has been arrested in connection with a shooting of a woman outside the facility Thursday night, Aurora police said. Brandon Booth, 42, was arrested on suspicion of charges that include attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault and felony…
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