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Nurses, pro-Palestinian activists and social and climate justice groups applied pressure on the city government as part of a nationwide campaign known as Purge Palantir to stop the company from contracting with government agencies, universities and corporations.

The US justice department has dropped legal proceedings against four law firms that stood up to retaliatory executive actions by Donald Trump for representing clients or causes the president did not like.

A Minnesota state prosecutor announced an investigation Monday that may lead to charges against federal officers, including Greg Bovino, for misconduct during an immigration enforcement crackdown.

Volunteers in the small fleet of three vans – which are named for the second world war Liberty ships that delivered supplies to Allied forces – offer moral and legal support, stand in visible solidarity with families and document ICE operations so people can see the human impact of the military-style raids that have become a daily part of American life.

Fast food workers in California are demanding employers sign a pledge reaffirming workers’ rights amid Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids at workplaces across the US.

But since 1997, Hartman has also been reporting on school shootings, which have become a horrifyingly common feature of American life. (CNN reports that there were at least 78 in 2025, though there is no universal definition of a school shooting, which means that numbers vary depending on the source. Other reports suggest a much higher figure.)

Rob Bonta, California’s attorney general, said his office will investigate a possible merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery, hours after Netflix backed away from a planned takeover.

Bills introduced in recent weeks in the legislatures of at least four Democratic-led states would impose long-term consequences on new ICE employees by rendering them ineligible for jobs in law enforcement, public education, and, in their most expansive form, the entire state civil service.

We’ve seen it happen in vivid, documented detail — and the story starts with Anthropic itself. Dario Amodei and several of his colleagues founded Anthropic in 2021 after leaving OpenAI over concerns about the company’s approach to safety and the pace of AI development. That departure wasn’t an anomaly. It was the first chapter of a pattern that has only accelerated since. When OpenAI’s direction drifted further from its founding safety principles, the departures didn’t trickle — they cascaded. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s co-founder and chief scientist, left in May 2024. Jan Leike, who co-led the Superalignment team, followed days later, writing publicly that safety had “taken a backseat to shiny products.” By August 2024, Fortune reported that nearly half of OpenAI’s AGI safety researchers had quietly resigned. Researcher Daniel Kokotajlo walked away from $1.7 million in equity — the vast majority of his family’s net worth — because he’d lost confidence the company would behave responsibly. Most recently, just weeks ago, OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig quit in a New York Times op-ed over the company’s move toward advertising, warning that ChatGPT’s archive of intimate user conversations created manipulation risks that “we don’t have the tools to understand, let alone prevent.”

Chief executive Dario Amodei said in a statement that the threats from the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, would not change the company’s position, and that he hoped Hegseth would “reconsider”.