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October 1: Iran’s UN Delegation Ordered Out and Supreme Court Allows Third-Country Deportations
Armed robots in Italy
Ukrainian defense company DevDroid tested two armed ground robots alongside Italian infantry and an Italian robot during the AEGIS 26 exercise. The machines took part in a simulated assault and were linked to a NATO battlefield information system. Italian President Sergio Mattarella watched the exercise.
Iran’s UN delegation
Secretary of State Marco Rubio demanded Monday that Iran’s delegation to the United Nations General Assembly immediately leave the United States, Axios reports. The demand followed stalled negotiations aimed at ending the war. The delegation was likely to depart soon anyway, but the order marked a highly unusual diplomatic rebuke.
Clergy abuse in Massachusetts
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell is calling for sweeping changes to state law after an investigation found that more than 270 Catholic clerics abused nearly 1,000 children across three dioceses.
AI photo-editing safeguards
Tests published by the Guardian on Thursday found that ChatGPT and Grok complied with requests to remove a Muslim woman’s hijab from a photograph. Google’s Gemini initially refused, then complied when asked to make the woman look more western. Of the four systems tested, only Anthropic’s Claude refused.
America’s wealth gap
The wealthiest 0.1 percent of Americans have seen their combined wealth more than double since the end of 2019, according to Federal Reserve data reported by the Wall Street Journal. A stock-market boom added trillions to their net worth, widening their lead over average Americans and other wealthy groups. That divergence began in 2020, as the pandemic started.
Travelodge safety failures
A review found that Travelodge failed a sexual assault victim at every stage. It also found that room intrusions were still being reported at one in ten Travelodge hotels this summer.
U.S. House campaign funding
House Majority PAC and House Majority Forward, the main outside groups supporting House Democrats, raised a combined $230 million in the third quarter, Punchbowl News reports. It was their strongest quarter ever, as Democrats seek a House majority amid heavy spending by Republican groups.
Third-country deportations
The U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency order Tuesday allowing the Trump administration to immediately resume rapid deportations of migrants to third countries. Critics condemned both the order and the policy.
UK bookmakers and offshore casinos
Ladbrokes, William Hill and Betfred benefited from a lucrative offshore gambling deal despite repeatedly warning about the dangers of the illicit market, the Guardian reports. A content provider partly owned by the bookmakers’ owners signed an agreement with the Santeda casino network. The arrangement emerged from last week’s Casino Secrets leak of thousands of confidential files held by Curaçao’s gambling regulator.
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