Khalil appears in appeals court as Trump admin. continues efforts to deport him

NEW YORK (AP) — Mahmoud Khalil appeared in a federal appeals court in Philadelphia as he battles a deportation case linked to his pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia University. The Tuesday hearing before the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals comes as the government seeks to overturn a lower court order granting Khalil’s release from a Louisiana immigration court in June. Khalil’s attorneys have asked the three-judge panel to affirm the district court’s ruling, preventing federal authorities from detaining him again. An attorney for the government argues the case should be left to the immigration judge in Louisiana. Khalil has vowed to continue speaking out for Palestinian rights.

OpenAI launches web browser to compete with Google Chrome

(AP) — OpenAI says it is introducing its own web browser, called Atlas, entering direct competition with Google as more users rely on AI for answers. OpenAI’s browser faces a challenge against Google’s Chrome, which has about 3 billion users and AI features from Google’s Gemini technology. Chrome’s success could also guide OpenAI, as it did when it overtook Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. OpenAI said Atlas launches Tuesday on Apple laptops and will later come to Microsoft’s Windows, Apple’s iOS phone operating system and Google’s Android phone system.

Man charged with stalking, accused of sending Wisconsin’s chief justice intimidating emails

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man faces a stalking charge after he allegedly sent the state Supreme Court’s liberal chief justice a series of intimidating emails. Prosecutors in Madison charged 37-year-old Ryan Thornton of Racine with felony stalking on Monday. He faces up to 3 1/2 years in prison if he’s convicted. According to a criminal complaint, Thornton sent Chief Justice Jill Karofsky nine emails between Aug. 2 and Oct. 1 in which he suggested she was manipulative, told her to “eject” herself from office and asked for her home address so he could make it public. Thornton told investigators in a jailhouse interview that they better call President Donald Trump and Karofsky should run for the hills. His attorney declined to comment.

Trump administration pledges to speed some student loan forgiveness after lawsuit

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration has agreed to resume student loan forgiveness for an estimated 2.5 million borrowers who are enrolled in certain in certain federal repayment plans following a lawsuit from the American Federation of Teachers. Under the agreement reached Friday between the teachers union and the administration, the Education Department will provide loan forgiveness for those eligible in certain repayment plans that offer lower monthly payments based on a borrower’s earnings. The government had stopped providing forgiveness under those plans based on its interpretation of a different court decision.