A briefing by the health justice charity Medact said the highly interoperable nature of Palantir's software could enable data-driven state abuses of power, including US-style ICE raids. The report, released on Thursday and backed by doctors, lawyers, patients and human rights groups from the No Palantir in the NHS campaign and sent to hospital trusts and integrated care boards nationwide, was shared with the Guardian and BMJ.
That's a phrase that often companies hide behind to try to defer their responsibilities for the actions that they're taking. I certainly don't buy that. Goldman Sachs and its partner, Dalfen Industrial, sold the facility to the federal government last month for $129.3 million, more than double its official value listed on tax records.
On Friday, two far-right judges greenlit the Trump administration's radical reinterpretation of federal law that would sweep millions more immigrants into mandatory detention, potentially expanding the mass deportation machinery in new and horrifying ways. Their 2-1 decision for the 5 th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals would transform the entire United States into a permanent border zone where unauthorized immigrants can be jailed indefinitely without bond, even years after they arrived.
According to the White House's own numbers, as reported by WUSA9, the immediate priority of the newly federalized law-enforcement presence in D.C. has been going after undocumented immigrants: In the first week of President Donald Trump's federal takeover of D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department, 383 people were arrested, according to the White House ... Numbers from the White House show immigration arrests are driving the surge. Officers made nearly three times as many arrests for immigration violations as firearm possession. Two arrests were related to homicides.
Polls show the so-called 'big, beautiful' budget bill championed by President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress is becoming deeply unpopular as more people learn about the deadly consequences of... proposals to slash the health care safety net.
The DEA's Rocky Mountain Division announced a raid led to the arrest of 114 immigrants at an underground nightclub, marking one of the largest single-day deportations since Trump's administration began.
