U.S. deports Afghan woman under never-used terrorism court.
Today's events
Terrorism removal court.
The Justice Department removed an Afghan national who backed her son's ISIS-inspired Election Day shooting plot — the first case ever heard by a removal court Congress created decades ago and no administration had used.1Sep 11 · DOJ$100 million for Micronesia.
The deputy secretary of state pledged over $100 million for typhoon recovery in Micronesia, signed an agreement returning the Peace Corps to the Solomon Islands after 26 years, and announced a wharf study in Kiribati.2Sep 11 · StateVenezuela oil licenses.
Treasury published four Venezuela general licenses in the Federal Register, authorizing listed companies' oil and gas operations plus port and airport activity, with payments to blocked persons routed into a Treasury-designated deposit fund.3Sep 11 · TreasuryEcuador's territorial waters.
In Quito, the secretary of state said U.S. and Ecuadorian forces now run joint drug-interdiction operations inside Ecuador's territorial waters, boarding or sinking vessels case by case under Ecuadorian law.4Sep 10 · StateGitLab and JFrog flaws.
CISA added four actively exploited vulnerabilities to its catalog in a single day — two in JFrog Artifactory, one in ConnectWise ScreenConnect, one in GitLab — and told federal agencies to prioritize patching.5Sep 11 · CISABank vendor rules.
Four federal bank regulators proposed guidance to replace existing third-party risk rules for banks and credit unions, and separately raised the asset ceiling for an 18-month exam cycle from $3 billion to $6 billion.6Sep 10–11 · FedDjibouti joins moon accords.
Djibouti will sign the Artemis Accords on Monday at NASA headquarters, becoming the 72nd country to adopt the U.S.-led principles for civil exploration of the Moon and Mars.7Sep 10 · NASANuclear labs' outside work.
The eight sites of the nuclear weapons agency billed nearly $15 billion in reimbursable work for other agencies over six years, mostly defense-related, while growing stockpile-modernization work raises questions about remaining capacity.8Sep 10 · GAOTuition lawsuits completed.
The Justice Department sued Hawaii, the District of Columbia, Arkansas and Utah over in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, its final four complaints in a 25-suit campaign against every state with such a law.9Sep 10 · DOJ
This week
Eight tankers in four days.
Central Command destroyed or disabled three Iranian crude carriers on September 5 after Revolutionary Guard ballistic missiles missed a U.S. carrier and a destroyer (September 6 daily).1 Five more went down on September 8 after another missile attempt against an American warship: four in the Gulf of Oman, one near Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil export terminal. Crews were ordered to abandon ship first.2Sep 5–8 · CENTCOMIran’s airlines grounded.
State sanctioned 36 entities and individuals on September 8, designating the remainder of Iran’s active airlines plus third-country firms that procured aircraft and cargo services for Mahan Air (September 9 daily).3 Treasury then suspended three Iran general licenses and one licensing policy indefinitely,4 and State and Treasury blacklisted Kata’ib Hizballah, Hizballah and commercial networks in Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Türkiye and Lebanon.5 Firms have until September 19 to wind down barred transactions.6Sep 8–10 · State/TreasuryCanadian goods barred.
Five proclamations signed September 9 exclude certain Canadian alcohol, dairy and motor-vehicle products from importation beginning September 29, and revise the July duty lists from September 15.7 The authority is Section 338 of the 1930 Tariff Act, which bars entry outright rather than taxing it. Trump also ordered $50 billion of Canadian goods stripped from federal purchasing schedules; the trade representative said Canada had walked away from a near-final deal (September 9 and 10 dailies).8Sep 9 · WH/USTRModel distillation advisory.
The National Security Agency, CISA and the FBI said on September 8 that six Chinese companies — DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI — extracted billions of tokens across millions of requests from U.S. frontier models including Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok, likely with Chinese government awareness (September 9 daily). The joint advisory names commercial firms rather than state hacking units.9Sep 8 · NSA/CISA/FBIEnergy powers split two ways.
Executive Order 14427, signed September 8, gave the Interior Secretary emergency production authority over energy alongside the Energy Secretary, with the National Energy Dominance Council resolving disputes between them.10 Trump signed a separate production determination on recoverable critical minerals the next day,11 and Interior proposed pre-set criteria to fast-track drilling permits in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve.12 Gasoline averaged $4.07 nationally and $5.21 on the West Coast in the energy agency’s September 4 reading (September 6 daily).13Sep 8–9 · WHAndean tour outcomes.
Rubio signed a critical-minerals and rare-earths supply framework and a civil nuclear memorandum with Colombia on September 8, committing both governments to finance projects within six months (September 9 daily).14 In Quito two days later he said U.S. and Ecuadorian forces now run joint drug-interdiction operations inside Ecuador’s territorial waters, boarding or sinking vessels under Ecuadorian law.15 Treasury separately published four Venezuela general licenses authorizing listed companies’ oil and gas operations.16Sep 8–11 · State/Treasury
Allied Governments
Submarine safeguards.
Britain, speaking for Australia and the United States at the atomic agency's board in Vienna, rejected China's claim that Australia's nuclear-powered submarine program breaches non-proliferation rules.aSep 11 · UK FCDOSudan sanctions rollover.
The Security Council extended the Sudan sanctions regime only to October 9, a short technical rollover; Britain thanked the United States, the penholder, for pressing to update the measures.bSep 11 · UK FCDOBritain and Poland.
Britain published the text of its security and defence partnership treaty with Poland, which was presented to Parliament in June, with a correction slip embedded.cSep 11 · UK FCDO
Voices
“She came to our country, betrayed it, and has now lost the right to live here and enjoy our democratic freedoms.”
FBI Director Kash Patel · Sep 111
“We're going to choose on the side of leaders that are going to be serious about taking these groups on and eliminating them once and for all.”
Sec. of State Marco Rubio, Quito · Sep 104
“Any monetary payment to a blocked person, excluding payments for local taxes, permits, or fees, is made into the Foreign Government Deposit Funds.”
Venezuela General License No. 50A · Sep 113
“These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise.”
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog · Sep 115
“No more placing illegal aliens over American citizens on this Department of Justice's watch.”
Associate AG Stanley E. Woodward Jr., DOJ · Sep 109
“The proposed guidance reflects the agencies' supervisory experience and lessons learned from examining financial institutions' third-party risk management practices.”
Federal Reserve, FDIC, NCUA and OCC · Sep 116
Sources
- U.S. Dept. of Justice, “Department of Justice Removes Alien Terrorist in First Use of United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court,” Sept. 11, 2026. justice.gov/opa/pr/…/alien-terrorist-removal-court
- U.S. Dept. of State, “Strengthening U.S. Ties with the Pacific: Deputy Secretary Landau Engages Partners in Federated States of Micronesia, Solomon Islands, and Kiribati,” Sept. 11, 2026. state.gov/releases/…/pacific-landau-fsm-solomons-kiribati
- Federal Register, “Publication of Venezuela Sanctions Regulations Web General Licenses 50A and 51A” (Office of Foreign Assets Control), Sept. 11, 2026. federalregister.gov/…/venezuela-general-licenses-50a-51a
- U.S. Dept. of State, “Secretary of State Marco Rubio Remarks to Press,” U.S. Embassy Quito, Sept. 10, 2026. state.gov/releases/…/rubio-remarks-to-press-quito
- CISA, “CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog” (JFrog Artifactory, ConnectWise ScreenConnect), Sept. 11, 2026. cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/…/three-known-exploited-vulnerabilities
- Federal Reserve Board, “Agencies seek comment on proposed third-party risk management guidance and issue statement on community bank engagement with core service providers,” Sept. 11, 2026. federalreserve.gov/newsevents/…/bcreg20260911a
- NASA, “NASA Invites Media to Djibouti Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony,” Sept. 10, 2026. nasa.gov/news-release/…/djibouti-artemis-accords
- U.S. Government Accountability Office, “Nuclear Security Enterprise: Strategic Partnership Projects Can Support Mission, Operations, and Research” (GAO-26-108229), Sept. 10, 2026. gao.gov/products/gao-26-108229
- U.S. Dept. of Justice, “The Department of Justice Files Complaints Against Hawaii, DC, Arkansas, and Utah Over Preferential Treatment for Illegal Aliens,” Sept. 10, 2026. justice.gov/opa/pr/…/in-state-tuition-complaints
- UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, “UK Right of Reply on behalf of AUKUS partners, IAEA September 2026,” Sept. 11, 2026. gov.uk/government/speeches/…/aukus-partners-iaea-september-2026
- UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, “The United Kingdom has long supported strengthening the UN sanctions regime: UK Explanation of Vote at the UN Security Council,” Sept. 11, 2026. gov.uk/government/speeches/…/un-sanctions-regime-explanation-of-vote
- UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, “International treaty: UK/Poland: Treaty on Security and Defence Partnership [CS Poland No.1/2026],” Sept. 11, 2026. gov.uk/government/publications/…/uk-poland-security-defence-partnership