“National labor unions are pushing AI regulations as a top policy priority amid polls showing growing and bipartisan majorities fear the technology’s potential impacts. Those include AI-fueled layoffs, youth suicides allegedly linked to AI chatbots and increasing use of high-tech surveillance technologies in workplaces. Layoffs have been particularly acute in California and other tech hubs as giants like Amazon and Meta shed staff to compete for AI dominance.
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Newsom has defended his AI stance as striking a balance between curbing safety concerns associated with technology and promoting its innovation to boost California’s budget, which is heavily reliant on tax income from Silicon Valley and the ultra-rich. In 2025, he signed an internationally-watched AI safety bill from Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener among a slate of other rules for chatbots and AI-generated deepfakes, despite vetoing a labor priority.
The California Labor Fed began unveiling its latest AI agenda this week. Proposed measures include SB 951, which would require employers laying off workers due to AI to give advance notice, as well as SB 947, which would again attempt to require human oversight over algorithms used to make discipline or firing decisions.
Gonzalez also vowed to continue work on a bill introduced in 2025, AB 1331, which would ban the use of surveillance tools in bathrooms and public spaces in the workplace. She said the rest of the bills will largely fall under addressing surveillance issues, safety concerns related to AI and combatting joblessness.”
“Raguse, who was in the courtroom, reported that Le said it was like “pulling teeth” to get the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Justice Department to follow court orders.
DHS, which oversees ICE, and the Justice Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Le could not be reached for comment.
She made the remarks after U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell ordered the government to explain why it had not followed court orders in immigration proceedings, including not releasing several immigrant detainees he had ordered be let out.
Blackwell said in an order this week that the government’s “failures” were “alarming” because the government’s “persistent noncompliance with orders in this District was extensively detailed just last week,” pointing to a decision from Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz, a George W. Bush appointee. Schiltz wrote that his “patience is at an end” and that the government had failed to comply with “dozens of court orders.”
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Multiple lawyers at the U.S. attorney’s office have departed over ethical concerns in recent weeks, people familiar with the matter told NBC News. Trump administration officials have been trying to surge resources into the district to fill the gaps.”
“CBP agents shot the Chicago woman and U.S. citizen five times last October after her vehicle was involved in a collision with an SUV with Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum.
The federal government charged Marimar with ramming border patrol agents.
Those charges were later dropped. Marimar was one of many, calling the administration’s narratives into question on Tuesday.
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Martinez followed the agents for several blocks before the vehicles collided, resulting in minor dents and scrapes on both vehicles.
According to testimony and documents from Martinez’s now-dropped assault case, she stopped her vehicle directly after the collision and the agents’ SUV came to a halt just ahead of Martinez. She then accelerated away, testifying in court that she swerved left to avoid hitting the agents, who were exiting their vehicle.
That’s when the agents opened fire, ultimately striking Martinez five times in the arm, chest and both legs. Only one of the three agents had a body camera activated at the time.
While the body camera footage hasn’t been released publicly, lawyers for Martinez have said in court that it shows an officer shouting “do something b–.”
The agent who shot her allegedly said in a group text to friends: “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys.””
A lot of the people who had relations with underaged women through Epstein aren’t psychologically pedophiles where they are attracted to children instead of adults. They are powerful people who think they can do whatever they want and get away with it.
“The classified assessment, compiled by Vietnam’s Ministry of Defence in August 2024 and titled ‘The 2nd US Invasion plan,’ was made public on Tuesday by Project88.
It reveals that Hanoi’s defence establishment was privately preparing for a possible ‘war of aggression’ even as the two countries upgraded their relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in 2023.
The partnership, announced during former US President Joe Biden’s visit to Hanoi in September that year, marked the highest level of diplomatic ties since relations were normalised in 1995.
But the leaked document suggests Vietnamese military planners were treating the United States as a hostile ‘belligerent’ power and remained deeply suspicious of Washington’s intentions.
Far from considering the US to be a strategic partner on par with China, Hanoi considers it a rogue state that is preoccupied with regime change and which might invade Vietnam if the country refuses to join its anti-China coalition.
According to Project88, the assessment warns that the US could seek to undermine Communist Party rule through support for a so-called ‘colour revolution’ – similar to pro-democracy uprisings in post-Soviet states – and could exploit Vietnam’s long coastline and maritime geography in future conflict.
Project88 quoted the document as stating: ‘While there is currently little risk of a war against Vietnam, due to the US’s belligerent nature, we need to be vigilant to prevent the US and its allies from ‘creating a pretext’ to launch a war of aggression against our country.
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‘Hanoi sees Washington as an existential threat and has no intention of joining its anti-China alliance,’ Swanton wrote.
‘In this respect the plan upends over a decade of US policy, which has sought to court Vietnam into such an alliance, while turning a blind eye to human rights abuses in service of this goal.'”
Trump is personally involving himself in the investigation of the 2020 election. The investigation itself seems driven by Trump’s false beliefs, or lies, that the election was stolen from him. This could be an attempt to undemocratically steal the 2026 midterms, ironically using false claims of election malfeasance to commit election malfeasance.
In two small focus groups of law enforcement, one of Harris voters and one of Trump voters, the Harris voters in stark and thoughtful terms explain how ICE and Border Patrol are acting unprofessionally and unjustly. The Trump voters seemed to have a lower desire to talk and were more defensive of ICE, but didn’t fully support all the shots fired either.