Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley opened a probe into two federal district judges who had to retract opinions this summer amid allegations that the rulings were plagued with errors from using artificial intelligence.

The head of the U.N. refugee agency suggested Monday that President Donald Trump's America has carried out deportation practices that violate international law, and criticized a wider "backlash" in some countries against migrants and refugees.

U.S. government lawyers say that detainees at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz" likely include people who have never been in removal proceedings, which is a direct contradiction to what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been saying since it opened in July.

Bad Bunny kicked off the 51st season of "Saturday Night Live" with a few timely jokes about his next high-profile gig: the Super Bowl.

Exports of U.S. distilled spirits fell markedly in the second quarter of 2025 compared to last year, a lobbying group said Monday in a report that sounded the alarm about trade tensions under President Trump.

Democrat Amy McGrath, a retired Marine aviator, on Monday entered the Senate campaign in Kentucky, vowing to be a "bulwark against authoritarianism" in launching a comeback bid after being trounced by Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell in 2020.

The head of a nonpartisan agency tasked with finding a prosecutor to take over the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others is asking for more time after a judge set a two-week deadline for that appointment to be made.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on television advertising in select metro areas around the country, an Associated Press tally found, aimed at recruiting local officers frustrated with their cities' restrictions on immigration enforcement into President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts.

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