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From Commonweal , by Heidi Schlumpt:   Immigration & the American Bishops Meeting in November Trump’s assault on migrants will likely be a major topic. At least five U.S. Catholic bishops made public appearances last week to denounce the Trump administration’s immigration-enforcement operation, which has resulted in record numbers of people detained over the summer. A few others, and the U.S. bishops’ conference, released statements for the Vatican’s 112th World Day of Migrants and Refugees on Sunday, September 27. Bishop Michael Pham of San Diego, who gained attention last year for showing up at his local courthouse to accompany migrants and asylum-seekers, urged the administration to stop detaining families and children, including unaccompanied children, and to cease family separation.  Two days earlier, Pham and Auxiliary Bishop Felipe Pulido led an interreligious procession of more than four thousand people around San Diego’s Balboa Park to proclaim “All are sacred” o...

  How Are AI Tools Used in News Consumption? by Felix Richter, Sep 28, 2026 According to the Reuters Institute‘s latest Digital News Report, 10 percent of the more than 90,000 respondents surveyed globally use AI chatbots for news on a weekly basis, with the uptake significantly higher among younger people and heavy news consumer, i.e. those that access news 10+ times a day. But how do people who use AI chatbots for news consumption actually use these increasingly popular tools? The most common use case, named by 42 percent of AI news consumers, is to ask a follow-up question about a news story, be it to better understand or to get additional context. 35 percent of users asked chatbots to give them the latest news, which is arguably more threatening to publishers, as these users likely use AI tools, not publisher websites, as their entry point for news consumption. This also explains why some publishers have started to optimize content for visibility in AI chatbots, as clickthrough...