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The Anthropic Chief, meanwhile, is warning that AI could be capable of leading a swarm that could take over the entire internet within the next six to 12 months. The Justice Department says an Afghan woman has been deported from the US after she conceded to being what they've labeled an alien terrorist. The deportation marks the first time the government has brought a case before the alien terrorist removal court. Impares Ava Burger has more on our story. In July, US authorities arrested 47-year-old Nazira Hajizada in Texas for allegedly supporting an ISIS-inspired terrorist plot. Hajizada came to the US in 2018 as a legal permanent resident. Last year, her son and son-in-law were convicted of plotting an attack on Election Day, 2024. US authorities say Hajizada worked to quote, radicalize her family. Instead of bringing charges against her for the first time ever, the Justice Department brought her to the alien terrorist removal court,

created in 1996. Hajizada waved her rights to challenge the tension and agreed to the deportation. Her attorneys say they were unable to see classified evidence in the case and they are, quote, confident a judge will find the court unconstitutional. Ava Burger and PR News. Civil rights advocates across the country are speaking out this weekend against the Trump administration's new proposal for unprecedented changes to the next US census. The plan would reshape voting maps and how federal funding is distributed across the country. MPR's Hansela Wong reports. According to the 14th Amendment, the quote, whole number of persons in each state must be included in the census numbers used to determine each state's share of congressional seats and electoral college votes for a decade. But the Trump administration's proposal argues that Constitution's framers did not intend for the word persons to include people living in the states who do not have US citizenship or green card. Trump officials are also proposing cutting questions about race and ethnicity because they see a quote, reduce need for that information,

which is used for civil rights enforcement. Erica Bernal Martinez leads a national association of Latino elected and appointed officials' educational fund. This proposed role is not an administrative technicality. It is an attempt to make Latinos and other communities disappear in the 2030 census. The public can comment on the proposal through October 13th, Hansela Wong and PR News. And you're listening to NPR News. Houthi Rebels supported by Iran are continuing their push. Along Yemen's Red Sea Coast, thousands of civilians are leaving the area ahead of the troop movements. The United Nations is warning that escalated fighting could lead to a humanitarian crisis and return that country to civil war. The advance also threatens a key global shipping route. A British museum has removed an ancient Egyptian mummy from public display in order, it says, to respect the wishes of the dead. Fiki Barker reports from London. The high status Egyptian woman named Asru had been on display in Manchester Museum since 1825, when its layered linen wrappings were peeled away,

revealing the mummified body beneath. But now the 2500 year old remains have been moved into storage with museum managers, saying the removal, quote, aligns most closely with what we understand about her own wishes. The Pitt Rivers Anthropological Museum in Oxford removed all human remains from its displays six years ago. And this week it announced its returning the bones of dozens of indigenous Naga people to their ancestral homes in India and Myanmar. For NPR News, I'm Fiki Barker in London. The movie Woman Unknown won the Golden Lion this weekend at the 83rd Venice Film Festival. The drama is about a woman in Denmark after the Nazi occupation, Matilda herself won best actress for her role in the film, John Malkovich won best actor for his role in Wild Horse Nine and possible love won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.

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