Category: Americas
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A Justice Department legal opinion says states that do not report undocumented residents could lose federal money for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Supplemental Security Income. The constitutional question it runs into is nearly forty years old.
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Tyson shut its beef plant at Joslin, Illinois with effect the same day, ending about 2,500 jobs in a village of 56 people. The company blames a historic cattle shortage. The dates on the closure letter tell you something the statement does not.
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A third consecutive weekly deportation flight landed at Cap-Haïtien on Thursday. It lands there because Port-au-Prince is considered too dangerous for the aircraft. The same judgement does not appear to apply to the people on board.
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Lianyong Wei was found unresponsive in a Saipan lockup on 23 August, a day after being taken into immigration custody. He was the 57th person to die in ICE or Border Patrol custody since March 2025. The Chinese government is asking questions almost nobody else is.
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Explosions at an army barracks near La Paz killed somewhere between two and fifteen people and injured about sixty. The defence ministry and the local health director are giving different figures, and the material that detonated was fireworks.
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The US president says he does not believe Russia intends to attack NATO territory, and is sending Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to Moscow with a proposal to end the war, then to Kyiv. An assessment of intent is the hardest kind of claim to check.
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Buenos Aires has opened sanction proceedings against 45 people and companies over oil work around the Falkland Islands. The firms involved mostly do not trade in Argentina — which is why the interesting part is the shareholders, directors and suppliers.
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Uruguay declared a nationwide health emergency on Friday after highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza was confirmed in backyard birds in Colonia. One flock triggered a country-wide response — and the reason is in how the virus travels, not in how bad this outbreak is yet.
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The US added nearly 5 GW of land-based wind in the second quarter while the pipeline behind it shrank. Those measure different years — and the number worth watching is the one nobody reports.
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The Commerce Secretary says data centres don’t use water. That is true of some designs and false as a general claim — and an EPA proposal would remove the public’s right to comment on their air pollution.