Trump rejects global entity for AI oversight - POLITICO

On Monday, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, 22 nations adopted a declaration that artificial intelligence “must remain under human direction, oversight and control” and suggested creating a global supervisory regime. Finnish President Alexander Stubb, one of the organizers of the document, told POLITICO that he thinks “it will be in the interest of both China and the United States to have some kind of guardrails.”…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/22/trump-rejects-global-entity-ai-oversight-01087546

The implications of Trump loyalists and election deniers winning GOP primaries | PBS News

In Arizona, three prominent election deniers won Republican primaries for governor, secretary of state and attorney general. If they win in November, they’ll play key roles in overseeing elections and defending voting laws. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Stephen Richer, the elections recorder in Maricopa County from 2021 to 2025…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-implications-of-trump-loyalists-and-election-deniers-winning-gop-primaries

'Answer our questions!': Sen. Whitehouse tells Blanche this DOJ is the ' most troubled in history ‘

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcamg4eHKRY

 

Six-hour polygraphs, forced reassignments: inside homeland security’s campaign of fear

The ruthless gutting and reforming of the Department of Homeland Security has traumatized both workers and the most vulnerable immigrants…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/11/inside-homeland-security-campaign-of-fear

 

Michigan House bill could reduce state oversight of youth employment

This would allow a student under age 16 to continue working despite poor academic standing like chronic absenteeism or tardiness, or disciplinary issues. 

The proposal amounts to a loosening of child labor restrictions, Kuhnen said, arguing that would place the state’s children at risk...

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2026-06-13/michigan-house-bill-could-reduce-state-oversight-of-youth-employment

 

Child labor violations rise in US – as Republicans still roll back protections

"If federal standards are eroded, then they have nothing in place to protect minors from hazardous work, exploitative conditions, being over-scheduled, all these types of violations that we're already seeing in across the country," said Mast...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/22/child-labor-protections-republicans

 

Inside Congress Live

The subpoena comes after Bondi sparred with lawmakers during a House Judiciary Committee hearing last month, repeatedly declining to answer questions about her handling of the documents and instead hurling insults at lawmakers who challenged her...

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/17/congress/pam-bondi-house-oversight-subpoena-00831865 

 

Top US banks weigh suing federal regulator over crypto banking rules

…banks say giving these firms the OCC's stamp of approval means letting firms loose into the US financial system without the same rigorous supervision and controls required of fully fledged banks…

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/09/bank-policy-institute-regulator-lawsuit

 

‘Incredibly dangerous’: court records reveal gutting of DHS oversight

The Trump administration has so radically transformed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) independent watchdog teams that thousands of cases related to conditions in immigration detention, deaths in custody and officers' use of force are not being investigated, according to court records reviewed by the Guardian. 

Hundreds of pages of court filings in a key legal battle in federal court serve to contradict the Trump administration's repeated claims that the DHS watchdogs are performing "all required functions". The allegations of failings within the shrunken oversight offices at the DHS, tasked by Congress with investigating civil rights and related concerns, come as the department grapples with public criticism of killings by immigration agents, escalating arrest tactics and plans to increase immigrant detention…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/dhs-oversight-court-record-review

 

Northwest Detention Center DENIED my right to conduct oversight

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P59KkPHJxcM

 

After former Prince Andrew’s arrest due to Epstein connections, members of Congress call for more - POLITICO

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who drew President Donald Trump's ire amid his successful push to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act in Congress last year, urged federal officials to follow the example of their British counterparts. 

 "Prince Andrew was just arrested," he wrote on X on Thursday. "This was the metric I established for success of the Epstein Files Transparency Act that [Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.)] and I got passed. Now we need JUSTICE in the United States. It's time for [Attorney General Pam Bondi] and [FBI Director Kash Patel] to act!"

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/19/prince-andrew-arrest-congress-oversight-00788793 

 

Sen. Jack Reed CALLS OUT Scott Bessent For 'Childish' Senate Conduct

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD2PeTne6Ek

 

DHS watchdog investigating use of force by ICE - POLITICO

The Trump administration has signaled a willingness to soften its approach to immigration enforcement in recent weeks, with Democrats threatening to impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and withhold funding for the department over its aggressive tactics...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/03/dhs-investigation-use-of-force-ice-00761953 

 

Judge says Trump administration must let lawmakers make unannounced visits to ICE detention facilities - POLITICO

The Department of Homeland Security had implemented a one-week notice for lawmakers' visits…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/02/ice-detention-congress-visit-00759990 

 

The U.S. couldn’t track billions in Iraq. Now, it’s controlling Venezuela’s oil cash. - POLITICO

Unanswered questions and a lack of oversight hang over the U.S.'s use of Venezuela's oil funds, according to former U.S. officials…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/22/the-u-s-couldnt-track-billions-in-iraq-now-its-controlling-venezuelas-oil-cash-00739251 

 

🚨 Congress BLINDSIDES Trump with EMERGENCY MOTION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jORdzg4220c

 

Senate committee vows ‘vigorous oversight’ of killing of boat strike survivors - The Washington Post

The head of the Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee has pledged "vigorous oversight" after a Washington Post report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken order to kill all crew members during the first U.S. strike against suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean earlier this year...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/29/hegseth-caribbean-strikes-kill-order-reaction/

M.I.T. rejected the #trump compact and it’s bigger news than it seems

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8qWPX_G6KCU

I don’t think it’s a big ask that the EPA Administrator take congressional oversight seriously

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5zBzS69u0pk

Democrats blast state department for lack of ‘basic oversight’ of controversial Gaza food organization

Senior Democratic senators have called on the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, to reveal details behind the financing and oversight of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) amid concerns over rising death tolls near aid sites, the group's apparent coordination with the Israeli army and its reported use of private military contractors linked to intelligence operations…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/03/us-democrats-gaza-humanitarian-foundation-letter