US federal agency under the Department of Homeland Security that enforces border security, customs laws, and trade compliance, including tariff collection.
Badri Adan sued Delta on October 15, alleging it refused to reinstate him after CBP issued the seal that was the stated reason for his exit. The complaint places the seal 56 days after Delta's own deadline and alleges race and Somali heritage played a role in a manager's delay.
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A BBC trace of a $30 toy from a Dongguan factory to a US shelf puts the factory's price at $6 and its profit at 18 to 60 cents. China supplied 78.3% of US toy imports in 2024, so a margin that thin sits at the front of a concentrated chain.
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Judge Jennifer Rochon gave Trump's administration a 14-day order to cancel the remaining ads in a $20 million taxpayer-funded campaign. CNBC reported that roughly $19 million was spent before the order. That leaves about $1 million for it to stop.
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TSA ordered chairs out of checkpoint document stations on September 25 without telling the officers' union, AFGE officials say. The union now has a public campaign to restore them, on top of existing fights with the agency over its contract and pay.
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Customs and Border Protection indefinitely suspends the $800 de minimis exemption on Oct. 22, requiring extra data and a bond for mailed medicines. Americans buying cheaper prescriptions from Canada by mail could face delays or refusals as the midterms approach, Fortune reported.
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Customs and Border Protection accessed more than 80,000 Flock cameras in a 2025 pilot, one police department's without its knowledge. The cities and campuses that pay for the cameras are left answerable for searches they may never see.
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Judge Kathleen Cardone halted border-wall building across Texas's 500-mile Big Bend region, one part of the administration's $46 billion programme. Contractors there now wait on a merits ruling, and upriver and downriver of the park they also wait on landowners who have not granted access.
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Lisa Riley lost 16 pounds to a fake US Esta site and has had scam calls and texts every week in the 17 months since. For anyone booking US travel, the fee is the small part of the loss, because details typed into a lookalike site are sold on and reused.
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Four ICE observers allege in a partly unsealed filing that a DHS agent logged at least six observers in ICM, the case system Palantir built for ICE. Drawn largely from government documents, it traces how a plate lookup and a disputed photo match became a federal case record in one afternoon.
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Homeland Security plans to have Google's AI propose redactions on 100,000 to 140,000 FOIA requests by the end of September. Officers will review the suggestions, but the plan's stated payoff is faster processing, a measure that cannot show text blacked out in error.
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A 25-page OTMP report names about 40 countries and specific industrial districts as transshipment routes. The follow-through will land on documentation, not duty rates.
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More than $100 billion in tariff money has gone back to importers, adding an estimated 0.2 point to third-quarter GDP. It does not repeat, and much of it is already promised to someone else.
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Deaths were found inside the advertised range of nearly two-thirds of the roughly 600 towers mapped, and more than 110 of them sit within range of Anduril's autonomous systems installed since 2021.
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MIT Technology Review's 15-month investigation had to assemble its own dataset from other groups' records and sheriff reports in 17 Texas counties. Some of those counties charged between $300 and $1,300 to fill a request.
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MIT Technology Review found more than 110 deaths inside the advertised range of Anduril's border towers since 2021. Tower footage is generally overwritten after 30 days, so no one can now say which stage of the alert chain failed.
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MIT Technology Review's 15-month investigation into US border surveillance puts the failure downstream of the cameras, at the step where a detection was supposed to turn into an agent arriving.
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Reporters covered nearly 600 of the 800 towers the government says are operating, and they had to assemble the map themselves from outside sources. Death records follow no shared protocol, so their count of more than 1,050 deaths nearby is a floor.
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The investigation found deaths inside the advertised range of nearly two-thirds of the towers it analysed, and most of them were not in blind spots. In the New Mexico case it follows closely, landfill workers made the call to Border Patrol.
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Panel installation is under way on the 47 miles Customs and Border Protection calls Big Bend 1, the first construction in a region organised against it. The agency says it is now putting up 12 miles a week.
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February's 6-3 Supreme Court ruling left the federal government owing importers somewhere between $166 billion and $175 billion in voided tariffs. The companies collecting it are now deciding whether the money is theirs to keep.
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