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Isaias; Ukraine-Russia; Trump on Iran; ICE shooting : NPR

Isaias; Ukraine-Russia; Trump on Iran; ICE shooting : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories Hurricane Isaias is set to make landfall on the northern Gulf Coast as early as tonight, marking the first hurricane of the Atlantic season. The National Hurricane Center warns of potentially dangerous winds over 100 miles per hour and life-threatening storm surges of five to seven feet. People along the coastlines of Mississippi, Alabama and northwest Florida are preparing for impact. Brian Brunick (C) and other residents fill sandbags that were provided by the city of Orange Beach as they prepare for the possible arrival of Hurricane Isaias on Oct. 8, 2026, in Orange Beach, Alabama. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption i Joe Raedle/Getty Images 🎧 Highways are busy with both people fleeing the region and emergency crews deploying to the coast, NPR’s Debbie Elliot tells Up First. States are pre-staging personnel and emergency supplies — such as generators, food …

ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests

ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests

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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on the scene of a shooting in upper Manhattan on Thursday has repeatedly been accused in federal court of unlawful arrests and using force during arrests in New York and Minneapolis, a WIRED investigation finds. On Thursday afternoon, ICE agents shot a man, identified by city authorities as Oscar Belgal, in Manhattan’s Marble Hill neighborhood, near the Bronx. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said agents surrounded the man’s car, in which a 5-year-old child was sitting, before firing multiple rounds—as many as seven, witnesses told local media. Belgal, the New York Police Department said, was hospitalized after reportedly being shot in the neck. The child appeared unharmed. Footage from the scene shows a man in a high-visibility yellow construction vest brandishing a modified AR-15-style rifle with a pistol grip, sling, and holographic sights. That man, according to court documents, social media posts, and publicly available personal information reviewed by WIRED, is Brenden Cuni—an ICE supervisor with the agency’s National Fugitive Operations team who has been involved in several arrests in the …

ICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter Fraud

ICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter Fraud

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As the Trump administration has carried out a nonstop effort to undermine the midterm elections this year, the Department of Homeland Security appears to have looked into whether it could use a Palantir-supported tool to track people it believes have voted illegally. The revelation is found in a tranche of documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request and published this week by Democracy Forward, a legal advocacy group. As well as revealing that DHS officials have investigated over 150 nonprofit groups in search of evidence they’re helping noncitizens register to vote, the documents show how Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now central to federal voter fraud investigations. More specifically, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)—one of ICE’s two major components—is spearheading the effort to uncover voter fraud, with its Innovation Lab (known internally as iLab) developing tools for agents. ICE, it seems, wants to build “a system that is going to get good at determining how to find people to investigate and potentially bring action against,” Chinmayi Sharma, an associate professor at Fordham Law School …

ICE raids hit spending and jobs in U.S. cities, studies show

ICE raids hit spending and jobs in U.S. cities, studies show

Published by Sam Flores

Protestors march during a “Nationwide Shutdown” demonstration against ICE enforcement on Jan. 30, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Stephen Maturen | Getty Images MINNEAPOLIS — Operation Metro Surge has been over for months. The same can’t be said for the crisis facing Daniel Hernandez’s Colonial Market grocery stores. After Hernandez’s parking lot became a well-known hangout spot for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, the lines that Hernandez grew accustomed to seeing each morning at his stores disappeared. The rebound in traffic Hernandez hoped to see after the end of the surge never materialized. “We’re barely — literally barely — surviving,” Hernandez told CNBC in an interview inside one of his stores, where Spanish-language music played through speakers and piñatas dangled from the ceiling. “The damage has been done.” Daniel Hernandez inside Colonial Market, his Minneapolis grocery store. Alex Harring | CNBC This summer, Hernandez shuttered Colonial Market’s location on Lake Street, the heart of Minneapolis’ Hispanic business community. Hernandez had spent savings and borrowed money against his house to open the store two years prior. He …

Extinct ice age bovine discovered in Siberian cave

Extinct ice age bovine discovered in Siberian cave

Published by Jenni Sidey

A team working in a Siberian cave recently discovered a previously unknown bovine species that dates back to the last ice age and beyond. This species is related to modern yaks and likely went extinct around 27,000 years ago. A study published today in the journal Current Biology details the findings. The bones allowed an international team of researchers to generate 20 ancient genomes spanning 200,000 years. They then compared these genomes with other bovines and found that they belong to a previously unknown species. They estimate that this species began diverging from modern yaks roughly 400,000 years ago and then became fully separated around 250,000 years ago. “A useful comparison for when this lineage originated is the divergence between brown bears and polar bears, which has also been estimated to have occurred around 400,000 years ago,” Alexandre Gilardet, a study co-author and PhD student at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Sweden, said in a statement. “This age overlaps with a particularly strong warm climatic period, which could have prompted population isolation and, ultimately, speciation.” …

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

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An explosive and newly partially unsealed court filing alleges that the US Department of Homeland Security built up dossiers on ICE observers—including their photos, license plate numbers, and other information—and stored them in a system called the Investigative Case Management database, which was built by Palantir. Palantir did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A spokesperson for DHS calls the case “meritless” and says that “the underlying lawsuit is based on the lie that there is a database of ‘domestic terrorists’ run by DHS.” Plaintiffs allege in the filing, which is heavily based on documents produced by the government and depositions of DHS agents, that agents had a practice of intimidating protesters and observers. They did this, the filing says, by doing drive-bys of the observers’ homes and, in the case of at least one observer, requiring that she be referred to secondary inspection any time she tries to cross the border until at least January 2027. “The government is treating people who exercise their First Amendment rights and seek to hold it accountable …

As ICE readies Louisiana facility for children and families, faith leaders hold vigil

As ICE readies Louisiana facility for children and families, faith leaders hold vigil

Published by Sam Flores

Get RNS’ thoughtful, essential religion reporting every morning. Sign up for free! ALEXANDRIA, La. (RNS and Verite News) — Local community activists and faith leaders from Louisiana and beyond marched and prayed Thursday (Oct. 1) at the fenced-off barracks and trailers at England Airpark, where federal immigration officials are preparing to open a privately-run facility to hold immigrant families and unaccompanied children awaiting deportation.  The 528-bed facility — which sits next to Alexandria International Airport and is expected to open imminently — will be the second detention facility designated for children and families under President Donald Trump.  “We lament the childhood moments that detention will interrupt: a familiar bedtime, a classroom full of friends, a meal around a family table, the freedom to play without fear, graduation, a birthday,” said the Rev. Robin Tanner, president of the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association, who flew in from New Jersey to attend the event and led a prayer in front of the facility. About 40 people attended the vigil.  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) maintains it will …

US Supreme Court agrees to take up Trump’s ICE detention policy | Migration News

US Supreme Court agrees to take up Trump’s ICE detention policy | Migration News

Published by Sam Flores

The case is the latest dispute over US President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown. Published On 1 Oct 20261 Oct 2026 The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case focused on the Trump administration’s policy requiring millions of undocumented immigrants to remain in detention while they fight deportation. The case, accepted on Thursday by the justices, is the latest dispute over US President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown to reach the nation’s highest court. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list At issue is whether migrants already living in the US have a legal right to a hearing where a judge can decide whether they should be released on bond from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention while their deportation cases are pending. In July 2025, the administration introduced new guidance directing federal immigration authorities to detain undocumented immigrants without a bond hearing for the duration of their deportation proceedings, which can last for years. The new policy, which has divided lower courts, reverses a decades-old interpretation that allowed some immigrants in …

There’s still ice leftover from the last ice age

There’s still ice leftover from the last ice age

Published by Jenni Sidey

The last ice age began roughly 120,000 years ago and ended about 11,500 years ago, but plenty of signs of this last period of ice domination still exist all over Earth. The Midwestern United States remains flattened by the last ice age’s towering glaciers, Many new apex predators have replaced woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers—and the ecosystem is still recovering from that switch.  Even some of the ice age’s ice itself still exists on planet Earth, locked inside of an ancient ice cap in Northwestern Tibet. A new analysis of ice fragments from this ice cap surrounded by 98-foot-thick ice extends the planet’s glacial record by over 100,000 years. A study published this week in the journal Science Advances details these oldest ice cores ever recovered from the region. Ice cores are vital climate archives that preserve evidence of past climates within layers of ice like tree rings. They can help scientists understand past climate patterns to better predict what the planet could see in the future..  This new analysis compares ice cores drilled in …