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Lawsuit challenges US policy barring visas for social media researchers

March 9, 2026 8:23 PM UTC / Reuters

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• Visa ban targets figures studying online disinformation
• US says it fights censorship of conservative speech
• Advocacy group files its suit in Washington, D.C.

March 9 (Reuters) – A group of technology researchers filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging that ​U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has adopted an unconstitutional policy that targets foreign nationals who study ‌disinformation and hate speech on social media for visa denials and deportation.

The San Francisco-based Coalition for Independent Technology Research in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington argues that the administration’s policy unlawfully chills the work of non-citizen researchers in the United ​States.

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The group said the U.S. State Department, while claiming it is fighting online censorship that Trump’s ​allies have argued has affected conservative speech on social media, is engaged in a “brazen ⁠and far-reaching campaign of censorship” targeting researchers and anti-disinformation advocates.

The lawsuit asks a judge to block the policy ​on the grounds that it violates the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment protections for free speech, Fifth Amendment promise ​of due process as well as requirements under a federal law called the Administrative Procedure Act.

“The Trump administration is using the threat of detention and deportation to suppress speech it disfavors,” Carrie DeCell, a lawyer for the coalition at the Knight First ​Amendment Institute at Columbia University, said in a statement.

A State Department spokesperson said in a statement that the ​United States “is under no obligation to admit or suffer the presence of individuals who subvert our laws and deny our ‌citizens their ⁠constitutional rights.”

The administration has made free speech, particularly what it sees as the stifling of conservative voices online, a focus of its foreign policy, including in Brazil and in Europe.

In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a visa ban on foreign nationals “complicit in censoring Americans.” Rubio said some foreign officials have engaged in “flagrant censorship ​actions against U.S. tech ​companies and U.S. citizens and ⁠residents when they have no authority to do so.”

In December, the State Department imposed visa bans on five Europeans, including a former European Union commissioner and anti-disinformation activists ​who Rubio called “leading figures of the global censorship-industrial complex.”

The department did so after ​EU tech regulators ⁠that month fined Elon Musk’s social media company X 120 million euros ($140 million) in the first sanction imposed under the EU’s landmark Digital Services Act, which is intended to combat hateful speech, misinformation and disinformation.

Among the five hit by ⁠the visa ​ban were Imran Ahmed, the British CEO of the U.S.-based Center ​for Countering Digital Hate, and Clare Melford, co-founder of the Global Disinformation Index. Their groups are members of the Coalition for Independent ​Technology Research, the lawsuit said.

Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Additional reporting by Humeyra Pamuk; Editing by Will Dunham

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Explainer: Anthropic’s case against the government: what the AI company says happened

By Akash Sriram
March 9, 2026 8:27 PM UTC Updated 3 hours ago

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March 9 – Anthropic sued the U.S. government on Monday, escalating a dispute the AI company frames as retaliation for refusing to remove safety limits on its Claude model.

The Amazon-backed company said it was willing to work with the military. Just not on any terms.

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It has also ​filed a related case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit challenging a separate legal authority the government ‌invoked.

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The following account is based on allegations made by Anthropic in its lawsuit.

WHAT ANTHROPIC SAYS THE DISPUTE IS ABOUT

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Anthropic said it spent years building Claude into the government’s most widely deployed frontier AI model, including on classified military networks, developing a specialized “Claude Gov” version and loosening many of its standard restrictions to accommodate national security work.

The conflict began ​in the fall of 2025 during negotiations over the Pentagon’s GenAI.mil platform, when the Department of Defense demanded Anthropic abandon its usage ​policy entirely and allow Claude to be used for, in the government’s words, “all lawful uses”.

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Anthropic said it largely agreed, ⁠except on two points it considered non-negotiable: it would not allow Claude to be used for lethal autonomous warfare without human oversight or for mass ​surveillance of Americans.

The company says Claude has not been tested for those uses and cannot perform them safely. It said it also offered to help ​transition the work to another provider if no agreement could be reached.

Pentagon officials have offered a different account of how the dispute began. The department’s chief technology officer said publicly that tensions escalated after a U.S. raid in Venezuela, when an Anthropic executive called a counterpart at Palantir to ask whether Claude had been used in the operation.

That ​account does not appear in Anthropic’s complaint.

FROM ULTIMATUM TO ALL-OUT BAN

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on February 24, ​presenting an ultimatum: comply within four days or face one of two punishments – compulsion under the Defense Production Act, or expulsion from the defense supply chain as a ‘national ‌security risk’.

Amodei ⁠rejected the demand publicly on February 26. The next day, before a 5:01 p.m. Eastern deadline had expired, President Donald Trump posted a directive on Truth Social ordering every federal agency to immediately cease all use of Anthropic’s technology.

In the social media post, the president characterized Anthropic as a “RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY”.

Hours later, Hegseth announced on X that Anthropic was a “Supply-Chain Risk to National Security” and that no military contractor or supplier could do commercial business ​with the company.

Agencies fell in line quickly. ​The General Services Administration terminated ⁠Anthropic’s government-wide contract. Treasury, State, and the Federal Housing Finance Agency publicly cut ties. The Anthropic complaint alleges the Pentagon launched a major air attack on Iran using Anthropic’s tools hours after the ban.

White House spokeswoman Liz ​Huston said the administration would not allow a company to “jeopardize our national security by dictating how the greatest ​and most powerful military ⁠in the world operates,” adding that U.S. forces would “never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech leaders” and would follow the Constitution, “not any woke AI company’s terms of service”.

WHY ANTHROPIC DECIDED TO SUE

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Anthropic argues the supply chain designation has no factual basis. The company points to its FedRAMP authorization, ⁠active security ​clearances, and years of government praise, including from Hegseth, who called Claude’s capabilities “exquisite” at the ​February 24 meeting.

Two senior Pentagon officials subsequently told reporters there was “no evidence of supply-chain risk” and that the designation was “ideologically driven”.

Anthropic raises five legal claims, arguing the actions violated the Administrative ​Procedure Act, the First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, the president’s statutory authority, and the APA’s prohibition on unauthorized agency sanctions.

Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru

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Trump DOJ improperly installed New Jersey prosecutors, judge rules

By David Thomas
March 9, 2026 10:36 PM UTC Updated 51 mins ago

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March 9 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration overstepped its authority by installing three prosecutors to lead New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney’s office without winning U.S. Senate confirmation, a federal judge ruled on Monday, warning that thousands of federal criminal cases could be dismissed as a result.

U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann in his ruling disqualified the trio of attorneys — Philip Lamparello, Jordan Fox and Ari Fontecchio — from overseeing two ongoing criminal cases.

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If the Justice Department continued to unilaterally delegate the authority of New Jersey’s U.S. Attorney ⁠to unconfirmed lawyers, Brann said, he could dismiss the criminal cases they are overseeing

Rep. Kevin Kiley leaves GOP, further shrinking Speaker Johnson’s majority

March 9, 2026 at 4:37 p.m. EDT / The Washington Post

During a news conference, Kiley said he will continue to caucus with House Republicans “for the remainder of this term” but pledged to be “an independent voice.”

Rep. Kevin Kiley (California) attributed his decision to California’s redistricting efforts, which resulted in his district becoming more blue. (Nell Redmond/AP)

By Mariana Alfaro

Rep. Kevin Kiley (California) said Monday that he is immediately changing his party affiliation on the House’s official roster from Republican to independent, further complicating the ability of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) to manage the Republican Conference. Last week, Kiley said he would seek reelection as an independent.

During a news conference, Kiley said he will continue to caucus with House Republicans “for the remainder of this term” but pledged to be “an independent voice.” It remains to be seen what practical effect his move will have, but it narrows the number of registered Republicans in the chamber to 217. Democrats hold 214 seats, and there are three vacancies. Kiley will be the only independent.

The two-term congressman attributed his decision to redistricting efforts in California, which resulted in his district becoming more blue. Because of redistricting, Rep. Ami Bera (D), who currently represents California’s 6th District, will run for reelection in the 3rd District against Kiley.

“I reached a decision that, since gerrymandering seeks to elevate partisanship above everything else in our politics and governance, seeks to make it the sum and substance of our politics, then the best way to counter gerrymandering and its insidious impacts on democracy is simply to take partisanship out of the equation,” Kiley said.

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Kiley, a moderate, has occasionally broken with Johnson on key matters, making him an unreliable vote for a speaker struggling with a razor-thin majority.

Last month, for example, Kiley was among six Republicans who voted with Democrats to end President Donald Trump’s stepped-up tariffs on Canada, rebuking the president in the first of what could be several congressional challenges to his trade policies.

Spokespeople for Johnson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Kiley’s decision.

Speaking to reporters Monday, Kiley noted that he did not give House GOP leaders a heads-up before ending his party membership.

Though he will be identified as an independent from California, Kiley said he will continue caucusing with Republicans because of “administrative purposes.” Committee assignments in the House run through party leadership. To remain in his committees, Kiley must be attached to one of the two parties.

Kiley told reporters, however, that his new designation “reflects the way that I have always approached my role as a representative.”

“I’ve always said I’ll be an independent voice for our district,” he said.

Raw oysters and clams recalled in 9 U.S. states over possible norovirus contamination

March 9, 2026 / 4:32 PM EDT / CBS News

Federal officials on Monday issued a recall for clams and raw oysters distributed in at least nine states due to concerns that they may be contaminated with norovirus, a contagious infection commonly known as the “stomach flu.”

According to a notice from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the recalled clams were harvested by the Lummi Indian Business Council and were distributed to restaurants and food retailers in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Nevada, New York, Oregon and Washington. Other states also may have received the clams.

The oysters, which were harvested by Drayton Harbor Oyster Company, were distributed to consumers in Washington. Both products were harvested between February 13 and March 3 in Drayton Harbor, Washington.

“The FDA is issuing this alert advising restaurants and food retailers not to serve or sell and consumers not to eat certain raw oysters harvested by Drayton Harbor Oyster Company, and Manila clams harvested by Lummi Indian Business Council….” the FDA said.

Products may “look, smell and taste normal”

The FDA warns that food containing norovirus may “look, smell and taste normal” but can cause serious illness if consumed.

Common norovirus symptoms include diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach pain. The illness, which causes inflammation of the stomach or intestines, can be more severe for people who are immunocompromised. It typically takes 12 to 48 hours for someone to start developing symptoms of norovirus and up to three days to recover.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, norovirus is highly contagious and can spread through direct contact with an infected person or through contaminated food, water and objects.

Consumers who are experiencing norovirus symptoms should contact their health care provider, the FDA said Monday.

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The judge said ICE processing center conditions violate the Fifth Amendment and due process protection under the US Constitution

By Breanne Deppisch | Fox News

Published March 9, 2026 6:27pm EDT

The Department of Homeland Security on Monday blasted a federal judge’s order requiring it to immediately improve conditions at its ICE processing facility in Baltimore — including reducing the number of detainees held there at one time, and improving access to food, hygiene, and medical care — telling Fox News Digital that the court’s determination of any “subprime” conditions or overcrowding are “false.”

“Illegal aliens in custody are provided food, water, blankets, and hygiene products,” a spokesperson for DHS said Monday, alleging that ICE “has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens,” including access to “comprehensive” medical care.

The characterization comes hours after a federal judge in Maryland issued a preliminary injunction Monday ordering ICE to either drastically improve conditions at its Baltimore processing center or find a new facility to “humanely” and legally hold the migrants before transferring them to a longer-term detention center.

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BIDEN-APPOINTED FEDERAL JUDGE RULES TRUMP’S ‘THIRD COUNTRY’ DEPORTATION POLICY IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

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U.S. District Judge Julie Rubin, a Biden appointee, sided with plaintiffs Monday in ruling that Baltimore’s holding center conditions are “unhygienic, unsanitary,” and ultimately, unconstitutional.

Rubin used a 67-page preliminary injunction to carefully tick through a long list of egregious conditions alleged by lawyers for plaintiffs over the last 10 months, including allegations of squalid, unsanitary holding, severe overcrowding, and a lack of medical screening, access to medical care, and necessary treatment — which the judge noted could lead to liability issues, or “in the worst-case scenario, fatalities.”

“The debated issue here is not defendants’ legitimate governmental interest; it is that defendants apparently dispense with even rudimentary decent, humane treatment of civil detainees, and so too their constitutional rights as a result,” Rubin said in the preliminary injunction, which applies to all current and future detainees at the holding facility operated by Baltimore’s ICE Field Office.

She sided with plaintiffs in ruling that the conditions in Baltimore are “unlawfully punitive” and reflect a “deliberate indifference to the health, safety, and medical needs” on behalf of the government, in violation of the Fifth Amendment and due process protections granted under the U.S. Constitution.

Rubin also rejected the notion that ICE detainees and illegal immigrants are not entitled to due process, citing the Supreme Court precedent under Zadvydas v. Davis, which holds that such protections apply to “all ‘persons’” within the U.S. “including [noncitizens], whether their presence here is lawful, unlawful, temporary, or permanent.”

A DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital that migrants detained at the ICE holding center in Baltimore are granted “comprehensive” health care, including “medical, dental, and mental health services as available, and access to medical appointments and 24-hour emergency care,” and rejected claims made by plaintiffs and the judge.

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“This is the best healthcare tha[t] many aliens have received in their entire lives,” the spokesperson added.

Rubin, in the court order, does not appear to back that contention.

‘BLANKIES,’ ICE TACTICS AND LUXURY JETS: TOP MOMENTS FROM NOEM’S HOUSE TESTIMONY

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“This is not a case of a prisoner lacking access to a clean toilet for a period of days, nor is it a case where a pretrial detainee cannot shower and is not provided with hygiene items …” Rubin said in the preliminary injunction, which comes after one year of status hearings, amended complaints, and declarations provided to the court from Trump administration officials and others.

“Rather, the conditions here are compounded: civilly detained people are stuffed into unclean cells by the dozens, without basic hygiene essentials, while exposed to a virtually open unclean toilet (and those detained making use of same),” Rubin said.

“These conditions woefully fail to comport with ‘contemporary standards of decency,” she continued.

DHS also rejected claims of inadequate medical care, including complaints from plaintiffs’ lawyers and cited by the court in which individuals with serious medical conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, HIV, leukemia, and broken bones were denied medications or medical attention.

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Government records cited by the judge show that between February and September 2025, just eight out of 3,250 detainees held at the Baltimore ICE facility had been transported to a hospital for medical needs.

Rubin is not the first federal judge to order U.S. immigration officials to immediately improve conditions at ICE processing centers or “holding” centers across the country during Trump’s second presidential term.

FEDERAL JUDGES IN NEW YORK AND TEXAS BLOCK TRUMP DEPORTATIONS AFTER SCOTUS RULING

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In August, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan issued an emergency order requiring ICE to swiftly address allegations of filthy, overcrowded cells and prolonged stays at an ICE processing facility in New York City. The following month, he slapped ICE with a more lasting preliminary injunction seeking to codify those changes.

And in Minnesota, a federal judge last month issued a temporary restraining order requiring ICE to grant detainees at its Whipple Federal Building holding center access to counsel, attorney-client visits, and a 72-hour notice period before transferring detainees out of the state.

The administration has not yet indicated whether it will appeal the judge’s ruling. Still, DHS officials sharply rejected the allegations of improper treatment, telling Fox News Digital that being in detention “is a choice.”

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“We encourage all illegal aliens to take control of their departure with the CBP Home App,” they said, noting that the U.S. “is offering illegal aliens $2,600 and a free flight to self-deport,” as former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem noted during congressional testimony last week.

“If not, you will be arrested and deported without a chance to return,” they added.

Breanne Deppisch is a national politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering the Trump administration, with a focus on the Justice Department, FBI and other national news. She previously covered national politics at the Washington Examiner and The Washington Post, with additional bylines in Politico Magazine, the Colorado Gazette and others. You can send tips to Breanne at Breanne.Deppisch@fox.com, or follow her on X at @breanne_dep.

Alexander brothers found guilty on all charges in sex trafficking trial

2026-03-09T17:58:00-0400 / CBS News

Jurors in New York City have found the Alexander brothers guilty on all counts in their federal trial on sex trafficking charges.

The verdict Monday capped four weeks of testimony from women who accused the three wealthy brothers — Tal, 39, and 38-year-old twins Oren and Alon — of sexually assaulting them. The brothers were accused of teaming up to drug and rape dozens of women and girls over more than a decade, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Jones referenced the distressing accounts of 11 victims during the trial.

The brothers faced 10 counts including conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and multiple charges of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion.

They had pleaded not guilty to the charges, which were brought against them in waves following their arrest in December 2024 in Miami, where they lived. The trial took place in New York City, one of several locations where victims said they were assaulted.

Prior to the arrests, Oren and Tal Alexander were known for their luxury real estate business, which earned them the nickname “The A Team” as they brokered high-end properties in New York, Miami and Los Angeles. Alon graduated from law school and went on to hold an executive position at their family’s private security firm.

Oren Alexander shook his head softly as the forewoman read out the guilty verdict. Tal Alexander also put his head down. Their parents were present and faced forward in court, while at one point a family friend rubbed their mother’s back.

Sentencing has been scheduled for Aug. 6.

Prosecutors said during the trial that the three brothers used their money, power and status to lure and then take advantage of the women they assaulted, including, they alleged, two teenage girls. An indictment accused them of drugging victims and sexually abusing them once they were incapacitated, in some cases taking video or photos.

The brothers’ defense lawyers argued that the encounters were consensual and that their sometimes “obnoxious” or inappropriate banter “doesn’t constitute a crime.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Small businesses mount legal challenge to Trump latest global tariffs

March 9, 2026 8:42 PM UTC / Reuters

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NEW YORK, March 9 (Reuters) – Two small businesses on Monday sued the Trump administration over its latest round of tariffs, ​saying that the president cannot simply use a different law ‌to reimpose a global 10-percent tax on imported goods after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the administration’s previous tariffs.

The lawsuit, filed by spice ​importer Burlap & Barrel, Inc. and toy company Basic Fun ​Inc., mirrors arguments made last week by a coalition of ⁠24 U.S. states, saying that Republican President Donald Trump is imposing ​the new tariffs based on a misreading of an archaic trade ​law that was meant to address historical monetary concerns rather than routine trade deficits.

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Ethan Frisch, co-founder of Burlap & Barrel, said in a statement that the ​tariffs mostly hurt small U.S. importers like his company and ​American consumers, rather than foreign governments.

“Sudden global tariffs make it harder for us ‌to ⁠operate, harder for our partners to sell their crops, and more expensive for American families,” Frisch said. “We joined this case because trade policy shouldn’t be made by inventing an economic crisis.”

The ​lawsuit, filed by ​the legal nonprofit ⁠Liberty Justice Center, is the first private lawsuit to challenge the new tariffs.

Trump has made tariffs ​a central pillar of his foreign policy, using ​them as ⁠leverage to negotiate trade deals around the globe. But the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on February 20 that most of Trump’s tariffs ⁠were ​illegal, invalidating tariffs that he had imposed ​under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a law that had previously never been ​used to impose tariffs.

Reporting by Dietrich Knauth; Editing by Aurora Ellis

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宁德时代2025年净利同比增逾42% | 联合早报

发布/2026年3月10日 07:25

中国A股上市公司宁德时代2025年实现归属于上市公司股东的净利润约722.01亿元（人民币，下同，约133亿新元），同比增长42.28%。

据中新社报道，宁德时代星期一（3月9日）发布公告称，2025年实现营业收入约4237.02亿元，同比增长17.04%；实现归属于上市公司股东的扣除非经常性损益的净利润约645.08亿元，同比增长43.37%。

其中，2025年第四季度，宁德时代实现营业收入约1406.3亿元，实现归属于上市公司股东的净利润约231.67亿元。

关于2025年的经营情况，宁德时代方面表示，2025年，公司实现动力电池销量541GWh（吉瓦时），同比增长41.85%，全球市占率达历史新高；实现储能电池销量121GWh，同比增长29.13%。除上述业务外，公司将电动化延伸至低空、船舶、数据中心等更广阔领域，快速拓展换电网络及服务，完善产业生态并延伸价值链条。

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Supreme Court to hear dispute over disposal of Air Force munitions on Guam

March 9, 2026 at 4:21 p.m. EDT / The Washington Post

Environmentalists and the Trump administration are squaring off over the Air Force’s disposal of hazardous munitions that activists say threatens the island’s main water supply.

The entrance of Andersen Air Force Base on the island of Guam, shown in 2017. (Erik De Castro/Reuters)

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By Justin Jouvenal

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to wade into a dispute between environmentalists and the Trump administration over the Air Force’s disposal of hazardous munitions on a Guam beach that activists say threatens the island’s main water supply.