The Supreme Court allowed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday, September 25, 2026, to use the SAVE programme — Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements — to check the citizenship of voters on state rolls, Al Jazeera reported. The emergency order stands until a final ruling and lets states adopt the system, which is voluntary, according to the Associated Press.
A U.S. appeals court in Washington upheld the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic on Friday, 25 September 2026, keeping the Department of Defense’s finding that the artificial intelligence (AI) company poses a national security risk, CNBC reports. In a 2-1 ruling, the court rejected Anthropic’s challenge and found the Department of Defense had ample support for treating the use of Claude as a threat, The Hill reports.