Today as it Happened on Thursday, September 10, 2026:

President Donald Trump said he would give American adults $5,000 each to spend in the United States if Republicans win November’s midterm elections. Trump made the remarks Wednesday while campaigning for Republicans at a midterm convention in Dallas.

Trump has made similar promises before, including proposals to reimburse Americans for tariff costs and DOGE-related cuts, though neither has materialized. He said Republicans would need to win both the House and Senate for the payments to be issued.

With over 260 million U.S. adults, the cost of such a proposal would be over $1 trillion.

Anthropic says it has blocked multiple accounts that used the company’s artificial intelligence models in ways that could support the development of biological weapons.

In a report published Thursday, the AI company known for its Claude model said it considers biological misuse one of the “most serious risks” to artificial intelligence models.

And one private company is benefiting financially from ICE increasingly using GPS ankle monitors to track immigrants awaiting legal proceedings instead of a less expensive smartphone app.

B.I. Incorporated won a contract in September 2025 initially valued at $1.02 billion to provide ankle monitors and other non-detention supervision services for ICE. The agency has so far obligated $228.5 million to the company under the contract.

B.I. Incorporated is part of the GEO Group, a business already profiting from immigration enforcement as the nation’s largest private operator of ICE detention centers.

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