Daily Briefing: Saturday, October 24, 2026

Immigrants who entered the country illegally have no right to seek bond while held in deportation proceedings, even after years in the United States, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday in a 10-7 decision, The Texas Tribune reported. The case began with three men stopped by Texas state troopers between November 2025 and February 2026 and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Judge Cory Wilson wrote that detained immigrants who want to be free “can do so at any moment by agreeing to leave the country.”

Shandra Carter resigned Friday as executive director of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, which runs the state’s five youth prisons, The Texas Tribune reported. Deputy Executive Director Sean Grove will lead the agency on an interim basis while the board plans an executive search, Board Chair Manny Ramirez said. The resignation came just over two months after the agency put every youth prison under an extended lockdown following an assault on a juvenile correctional officer in August.

Attorney General Ken Paxton sued OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, alleging the company marketed ChatGPT as safe and reliable while failing to protect Texans, children among them, from its harms, according to the attorney general’s office.

Gilead Sciences will pay Texas $45 million to settle the state’s claims that it offered providers illegal incentives, including “free nurses” and reimbursement support services, that steered prescriptions billed to Texas Medicaid, the attorney general’s office said. The state sued the company in October 2023 under the Texas Health Care Program Fraud Prevention Act.

Lululemon USA signed an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance with the state that requires it to keep enforcing chemical safety rules across its supply chain for three years, including independent laboratory testing or valid third-party certification from its vendors, the attorney general’s office said. The office opened its investigation in April over whether the company misled consumers about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as “forever chemicals.”

Chiefs of Siksika Nation and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, joined by Opposition Leader Naheed Nenshi, asked the provincial government to drop its appeal of the May court ruling that quashed the citizen petition for a separation referendum, CBC News reported. Justice Minister Mickey Amery said the government will keep the appeal because it believes the “decision contained errors of law.” Mitch Sylvestre, who led the petition drive, is pursuing his own appeal.

Police Scotland said it has “not identified any criminality” after assessing a complaint about the finances of Yes Scotland, the campaign group founded by former First Minister Alex Salmond ahead of the 2014 independence referendum, BBC News reported. A Sunday newspaper had published an activist’s claim in July that it was not known how more than 1.5 million pounds in income was spent.