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Jeffries issued a statement in response to Trump’s social media comments, saying that insurance premiums are skyrocketing and millions of Americans are losing coverage. He also warned that hospitals, nursing homes and community-based health clinics are closing throughout the country.
“House Democrats will not support a partisan Republican spending bill that continues to gut the healthcare of the American people. That’s what this shutdown fight is all about, Mr. President,” Jeffries said.
effries temporarily distanced himself from his New York colleague, saying in a statement immediately after Schumer’s vote that House Democrats “will not be complicit.” The majority of Senate Democrats also voted against the GOP spending legislation.
This time, though, Schumer is in lockstep with Jeffries and in messaging within his caucus. In Democrats’ closed-door lunch Wednesday, he shared polling that he said suggested most Americans would blame Trump, not Democrats, for a shutdown.
“I did what I thought was right” in March, Schumer said. “It’s a different situation now than then.” https://apnews.com/article/congress-government-shutdown-trump-schumer-health-care-55d72ec2cdfd6b0c9f6dcc61696dbbc6 Jeffries won. now let’s see NY .
More than 50 people have faced federal charges in Washington, D.C., since President Donald Trump’s emergency law-and-order surge began last month. Already, prosecutors have dropped at least 11 of those cases, an unusually high collapse rate that judges say is wasting court resources.
The dismissals highlight the risks of Trump’s emergency surge strategy: an unprecedented flood of arrests that has produced headline-grabbing numbers but faltered under judicial scrutiny, with some of the most serious cases — from assaults on federal agents to gun charges — unraveling before they ever reach trial. https://apnews.com/article/trump-surge-washington-dc-prosecutions-magistrate-judge-dddf76de9eae16ff4b4e3382bb953c9b
Trump will be received at Windsor Castle just after the capital city saw far-right, anti-immigration protests turn violent over the weekend.
…more than 110,000 people took to the city’s streets,” CNN’s Catherine Nicholls reported. “The Unite the Kingdom protest was organized by far-right political activist Tommy Robinson. Counter-protesters also flocked to the British capital.”
Although Mr Robinson’s usual crowd of hooligans out for a scrap showed up (26 police officers were injured), they were outnumbered by the kind of people you might see at a music festival or at the supermarket.”
To some, it’s a sign of political symmetry across the Atlantic.
Trump himself is deeply unpopular in the UK, The Economist writes, but his politics—which feature opposition to immigration, strident disdain for the left and a widely touted mythos of national decline, steeped in grievance until pungent—have taken hold there. “As in America, distrust of government now pervades British politics,” the magazine writes.
“As large numbers of Britons experience severe economic pressure and crumbling infrastructure, attention has focused on asylum seekers arriving on British shores in small boats,” Lothian-McLean writes. “[A] British form of Trumpism is taking root. Last summer, anti-migrant riots erupted across the country as far-right groups capitalized on misinformation about the identity of a child murderer. Since then there have been alarmingly frequent protests at temporary accommodation sites that house asylum applicants.” https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17580579701043f52fc01b2ea/raw?utm_medium=email&utm_source=cnn_Fareed%27s+Global+Briefing%2C+Sept.+16%2C+2025&bt_ee=sAoZJb9JsQ1vdPtTd2NxfAk0m02XLDoleP87IOzFLSfikyBJa1s9hXjZQtp8r%2FDo&bt_ts=1758057970106
“I had enough of his hatred,” Robinson wrote to his roommate in a text message, according to the court filing. “Some hate can’t be negotiated out.”
Officials did not detail what specific commentary or actions from Kirk they believe Robinson opposed. Kirk had mocked diversity initiatives and transgender identity and denounced affirmative action, among other hot-button positions, outraging critics even as he built an enormous and energized following. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/16/kirk-shooting-suspect-tyler-robinson/?utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere_trending_now&utm_medium=email&utm_source=alert&location=alert
(A plurality of Britons — 44 percent — told pollsters they wished the American president would stay away, vs. 40 percent who wanted this week’s meetings to proceed.)
Such disdain perhaps explains why the Trump visit will be a remarkably cloistered affair, almost entirely confined to Chequers and Windsor, far from the protests expected in central London.
A world embroiled in the Cold War may have been glued to a Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, but this week’s presidential carriage ride will largely go unnoticed unless it makes it into enough Instagram and TikTok feeds.
But nothing has disrupted the norms of diplomatic gatherings more than Trump himself. The president routinely reverses his own positions after the fact, draining communiqués and statements of their value as reflecting fixed, reliable positions. A Washington Post analysis in August showed that Trump had flipped his public stands on the Ukraine war 19 times and counting.
“In the past when you had these big negotiations, the sherpas would have already worked out things out and drafted a communiqué you could rely on,” said Kathleen Burk, emeritus professor of modern and contemporary history at University College London, referring to the advisers who prepare summits.
“These sorts of occasions have changed,” Burk said, “because now there is only one man that matters. Not even one country that matters, but one very unpredictable man.” https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=598b051fae7e8a68162a1429&s=68ca3377ade2b538187c07ec&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=wp_todays_worldview&linknum=5&linktot=53
“We have mosquito control programs around the country, but we’re essentially doing nothing about kissing bugs,” he said.
In the meantime, he said, people aiming to keep the insects away can better seal their homes, use window screens and spray for bugs. However, he has not found any particular spray specifically approved to target kissing bugs in the US.
And in Florida, where he works and where about 30% of kissing bugs seem to be positive for the parasites, Beatty said,
If it’s caught early, the disease can be cured with benznidazole or nifurtimox, medicines that kill the parasite. But the drugs become less effective the longer a person has been infected, and most people remain unaware of the disease. Many doctors don’t think to look for it in patients in the US, the new report noted.
In fact, some people who are infected find out some time later, when they donate blood, since the US has been testing its blood supply for Chagas since 2007.
According to the CDC, about 20% to 30% of people who’ve been infected develop more serious problems like long-term digestive and nervous system conditions, heart failure, stroke or death.
Early symptoms can include fever, body aches, headaches, rash, vomiting and tiredness. They may last weeks or even months after initial infection.
Chagas largely spreads when triatomine bugs, commonly known as kissing bugs, bite a human while they’re sleeping. The bug defecates in that bite or on a person’s face, and the person unwittingly wipes the feces into their eyes, nose or mouth. The feces can carry a parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, that causes the disease. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/health/kissing-bug-chagas-endemic-us
While most Americans’ household income remained steady or fell because of inflation last year, the wealthiest 10 percent of households saw their incomes rise. https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=598b051fae7e8a68162a1429&s=68c7e3fc3588d4539ac6fcab&utm_campaign=wp_power_up&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&linknum=5&linktot=56
Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday condemned “dangerous” comments by Elon Musk after the X and Tesla owner told an anti-immigration rally that violence is coming to Britain and they must fight or die. But the U.K. government resisted opposition calls to sanction Musk for the remarks.
Starmer denounced violence on the fringes of Saturday’s 100,000 or more-strong “Unite the Kingdom” demonstration in London organized by far-right campaigner Tommy Robinson. https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-britain-migrants-protest-b1f272511ff0c5bc6a8d7bf308063343
A self-described “happy digital warrior,” Kirk blitzed young Americans with his conservative message by meeting them on social media, mastering algorithms that reward posts that elicit passionate reactions and conflict. His posts promoted traditional family structures, mocked diversity initiatives and labeled trans identity a “mental delusion.” He embraced messages that energized the right in the Trump era, challenging the results of the 2020 election, questioning masking and vaccine guidance during the pandemic, and criticizing affirmative action.
Kirk presented these views calmly and with a smile — which his admirers said was central to his appeal and his detractors said masked the extreme nature of his message. That put him at the vanguard of a generation of political influencers who built their audiences in the Trump era by fighting the culture wars online, using provocative language that captured attention. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/13/charlie-kirk-turning-point-politics-debates/?utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere_trending_now&utm_medium=email&utm_source=alert&location=alert
Trump said Sunday that Russia has proven to be “pretty good at avoiding sanctions.”
“They’re wily characters,” he said of the Russians. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-trump-sanctions-tariffs-witkoff-9444ab7b042944090d51a73ae871571a Find nicer word for me.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh says the genius of the American system of government is that no one should have too much power, even as he and other conservatives on the Supreme Court are facing criticism for deferring repeatedly to President Donald Trump. Interesting contextual background info. https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-kavanaugh-starr-trump-dba3cb2ba1350f8ba52c8cb04c2000f1
Last year, the preliminary revisions to jobs data drew an uproar, when government reported that the economy created 818,000 fewer jobs in the year ending in March 2024 — in the biggest fix to federal jobs data in 15 years. Those revisions were later updated again to show 598,000 fewer jobs over the period ending in March 2024. At the height of presidential campaign cycle, Trump jumped on the revisions, to accuse Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Biden of “fraudulently manipulating job statistics” for political purposes.
Jobs numbers are prone to revisions when calibrated with less timely but more exact data from state unemployment offices because initial monthly data is based on surveys of around 121,000 businesses and other employers. That’s only a fraction of the millions of U.S. employers. Large changes to the monthly jobs numbers can happen when the economy is rapidly growing or shrinking, like during the pandemic. During those periods, federal officials often have a harder time estimating the number of businesses that are opening or shutting down. Plus, business response rates to government surveys have consistently fallen over the past decade. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/09/us-jobs-economy/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert
First, the supposed showdown, first reported by Politico, lifts the lid on Trump’s nest-of-vipers political operation. Trump’s second administration has lagged the vicious infighting of his first, since he’s jettisoned anyone who saw themselves as an “adult in the room.” But the Bessent-Pulte bureaucratic cage match shows that Trump’s eight cacophonous months back in power are taking a toll.
It’s obvious that the first duty of Trump’s officials is to cater to his self-image of greatness rather than to the public. Hence the fawning North Korea-style genuflections that Trump requires in Cabinet meetings.
But flattery exacts a price. Trump’s team must tell him what he wants to hear — not what he should hear. Such self-censoring is always dangerous for presidents, who live inside bubbles of deference even in normal times
It’s even more hazardous under Trump, since the president is embarked on the riskiest, most unorthodox economic experiment in generations. His tariff wars have ripped up a global trading system that made the US the world’s mightiest economic power. Now, Trump wants to crush another cornerstone of US financial superiority: the independence of the Federal Reserve.
He’s not just pursuing another long-term obsession — scything interest rates. He could also get his hands on the Fed’s other levers, like regulating banks and bailouts, in a way that could profit him and his rich friends in the event of a major financial shock.. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/politics/bessent-pulte-trump-lutnick-economy-tariffs-analysis?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc&recs_exp=most-read-article-end&tenant_id=popular.en
CNN's Stephen Collinson notes that when Trump does something incendiary like seeming to threaten war on a city, it could be seen as a distraction from the growing perception that the economy is sputtering or the country is turning against his immigration policy. https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175737122841941cdd49de9cd/raw?utm_source=cnn_What+Matters+for+September+8%2C+2025&utm_medium=email&bt_ee=%2FrTdfDUz9D9MD%2FryASh7l%2BJHx0%2FVml9JBZap1ZwTlAbMUTX9UgQmCs1FwKbwkBNo&bt_ts=1757371228422 TOP NEWSLETTER what happened to WDJ or NYT ?
China underscored its growing global strength this week, with a huge military parade and a summit of foreign leaders that drew some leaders of countries—like India and Egypt—that have been friendlier to the US in recent decades. Fareed says the surprising development here is their turn away from the US and toward China. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, hostile rhetoric and ideological demands have alienated some important US friends; Fareed argues this is perhaps the greatest own [Trump’s] goal in modern foreign policy. https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175724827767650366edb52a9/raw?utm_medium=email&utm_source=cnn_Fareed%27s+Global+Briefing%2C+Sept.+7%2C+2025&bt_ee=dqjFeNLHLPNRRh1GRku9l%2FMZ0Kdg2lDHD%2BYqXr6o3E0mbWfUb6ruMkWLLhWu1E5N&bt_ts=1757248277678
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