Trump says he ‘can’t consider’ Kimmel again on ABC
Good morning and welcome to our protection of US politics as Donald Trump has made clear his displeasure on the return of late-night talkshow host Jimmy Kimmel.
Earlier than Tuesday’s broadcast, Trump opined on his Reality Social on-line platform that he “can’t consider” ABC gave Kimmel again his present, and hinted at additional motion towards the community.
“Why would they need somebody again who does so poorly, who’s not humorous, and who places the Community in jeopardy by enjoying 99% constructive Democrat GARBAGE,” Trump wrote.
“He’s yet one more arm of the DNC (Democratic Nationwide Committee) and, to the very best of my information, that might be a significant unlawful Marketing campaign Contribution. I believe we’re going to check ABC out on this.”
He added: “Let’s see how we do. Final time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million {Dollars}. This one sounds much more profitable,” seemingly referring to the settlement he reached with ABC Information final 12 months in a defamation lawsuit.
In his present final night time – the primary since his suspension over feedback concerning the taking pictures of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk – Kimmel known as authorities threats to silence comedians “anti-American”.
Kimmel stated he had not supposed to make gentle of Kirk’s homicide and he understood his feedback might have been seen as “ill-timed or unclear”.
Later within the monologue, Kimmel hit out towards Trump, saying that the president “did his finest to cancel me” however that “as a substitute, he pressured hundreds of thousands of individuals to observe the present.”
Kimmel added that “the president of the US made it very clear he needs to see me and the a whole bunch of people that work right here fired from our jobs. Our chief celebrates Individuals dropping their livelihoods as a result of he can’t take a joke.”
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Donald Trump has stated he believes Ukraine can regain all of the land that it has misplaced for the reason that 2022 Russian invasion in one of many strongest statements of assist he has given Kyiv. Writing on Reality Social after assembly Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the UN on Tuesday, the US president stated “Ukraine, with the assist of the European Union, is able to combat and WIN all of Ukraine again in its unique type”.
Trump launched a full-on assault on the UN throughout his normal meeting speech, describing it as a feckless, corrupt and pernicious world pressure that ought to comply with the instance of his personal management. In an inflammatory speech on the eightieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, Trump known as for international locations to shut their borders and expel foreigners, accused the UN of main a “globalist migration agenda”, and informed nationwide leaders that the world physique was “funding an assault in your international locations”.
In the meantime, Trump was accused by a UK cupboard minister of “misreading” London after the US president claimed the town needs to “go to sharia legislation”. The president renewed his feud with London mayor Sadiq Khan, calling him a “horrible, horrible mayor”. The British work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden dismissed the president’s assault and stated Trump had had “a beef” with Khan for years.
The Secret Service stated it had uncovered and dismantled a covert, hi-tech operation within the New York space, which had the potential to disrupt mobile networks. Authorities revealed that the hidden communications system included over 100,000 SIM playing cards and 300 servers.
The person accused of attempting to assassinate Trump on his West Palm Seaside golf course two months earlier than Trump clinched his second presidency within the 2024 White Home election has been discovered responsible by a jury in Fort Pierce, Florida. Ryan Routh – who now faces as much as life in jail at a later sentencing listening to – reportedly tried to make use of a pen to stab himself within the neck because the responsible verdict was learn in court docket. Officers rapidly swarmed him and dragged him out of the courthouse.
After promising to satisfy with Senate minority chief, Chuck Schumer, and Home minority chief, Hakeem Jeffries, on Thursday, Trump shared in a social media submit that he would now not meet with the highest Democratic lawmakers. The negotiations had been supposed to safe a authorities funding measure, earlier than it expires on the finish of this month.
Protection secretary Pete Hegseth determined to shut a protection division advisory committee devoted to recruiting and retaining girls within the navy. In a social media submit saying the closure of the protection advisory committee on girls within the companies a Pentagon spokesperson wrote: “The Committee is targeted on advancing a divisive feminist agenda that hurts fight readiness, whereas Secretary Hegseth has centered on advancing uniform, sex-neutral requirements throughout the Division.”
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DHS secretary confirms taking pictures at Dallas Ice facility, studies ‘a number of accidents and fatalities’
There was a taking pictures at an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention facility in Dallas, in keeping with an announcement from Kristi Noem – the secretary of the Division of Homeland Safety.
“Particulars are nonetheless rising however we are able to verify there have been a number of accidents and fatalities,” Noem stated. “The shooter is deceased by a self-inflicted gun shot wound.”
Noem added that the motive of the taking pictures is presently unknown.
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High Democrats say that Individuals will blame Trump and Republican lawmakers for looming shutdown
With no quick time period spending invoice locked in by members of Congress, and authorities funding set to lapse on 30 September, a shutdown looms.
At this time, prime Democratic lawmakers continued in charge their colleagues throughout the aisle.
In an announcement, Senate minority chief Chuck Schumer and Home minority chief Hakeem Jeffries stated Donald Trump and GOP members of Congress “proceed to march this nation towards a painful Republican shutdown, whereas exacerbating the healthcare disaster that they’ve unleashed in America.”
They added that the American folks will maintain the president and “Republican sycophants” accountable.
On Tuesday, Trump stated that he would now not meet with Schumer and Jeffries to debate their requires extra healthcare provisions in a funding extension to maintain authorities companies working for the subsequent a number of weeks. A transfer that the highest Democratic lawmakers known as “an unhinged mood tantrum”, of their assertion in the present day.
Trump stated that no assembly “might presumably be productive,” in a submit on Reality Social. He stated that Democrats wanted to “get severe” about the way forward for the nation, whereas including that the “ball is their court docket” with regards to avoiding a shutdown.
“They have to do their job! In any other case, it’s going to simply be one other lengthy and brutal slog via their radicalized quicksand,” the president wrote.
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Almost 100 medical doctors who’ve practiced on the US Division of Veterans of Affairs (VA) issued a mass letter on Wednesday elevating “pressing considerations” about Trump administration insurance policies that they stated will “negatively have an effect on the lives of all veterans”.
The letter despatched to congressional leaders, VA secretary Doug Collins and the company’s inspector normal marks the primary time VA physicians have spoken collectively about staffing cuts and aggressive privatization strikes on the nation’s largest built-in healthcare system.
“We’ve got witnessed these ongoing harms and might present proof and testimony of their impacts,” stated the letter, which was signed by roughly 170 physicians, psychologists and different well being staff in all.
If the pattern continues, these present and former staffers stated, VA “amenities could also be pressured to shut, and veterans could also be pressured into costlier, usually overburdened neighborhood well being techniques ill-equipped to satisfy their specialised wants”.
Attorneys say the letter is protected below federal whistleblower legislation.
The letter raises considerations that widespread workers cuts are being made with out clear goals or assessments of their affect on veterans’ entry to healthcare. It additionally says fast development within the outsourcing of veterans healthcare to personal medical doctors “threatens to divert assets” from the VA’s high-quality direct care.
Company officers assert these modifications are geared toward lowering forms and won’t undermine medical companies for veterans. Collins, the VA secretary, has stated he’s merely “giving veterans extra selections for high quality, well timed healthcare, whether or not at VA amenities or with medical doctors locally”.
The Guardian has requested the VA for a response to the medical doctors’ letter and can add it to this story when the company supplies a reply.
Sixty-nine energetic VA physicians signed the letter, organizers stated, joined by about 100 others – together with former VA physicians in addition to present and former VA researchers, psychologists, bodily and occupational therapists. Many selected to signal anonymously out of concern for retaliation.
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Donald Trump doesn’t have any public occasions in the present day, per his official schedule.
The president is about to obtain his intelligence briefing at 1pm EST, and can host a dinner within the Rose Backyard on the White Home at 7pm, which is closed to press.
If we get phrase that he’s going to deal with reporters at any level, we’ll deliver you the most recent right here.
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Colombia’s president requires felony investigation towards Trump over Caribbean strikes
Colombian president Gustavo Petro on Tuesday known as for a felony investigation towards US president Donald Trump and different officers concerned on this month’s lethal strikes on boats within the Caribbean that the White Home has stated have been transporting medicine.
Petro repudiated the three assaults in his speech on the annual assembly of the UN normal meeting throughout which he additionally accused Trump of criminalising poverty and migration, AP reported.
“Felony proceedings have to be opened towards these officers, who’re from the US, even when it consists of the highest-ranking official who gave the order: president Trump,” Petro stated of the strikes, including that boat passengers weren’t members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang as claimed by the Trump administration after the primary assault.
If the boats have been carrying medicine as alleged by the US authorities, Petro stated, their passengers “weren’t drug traffickers; they have been merely poor younger folks from Latin America who had no different possibility.”
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A whole lot of federal staff who misplaced their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being requested to return to work.
The Normal Companies Administration (GSA) has given the staff – who managed authorities workspaces – till the tip of the week to just accept or decline reinstatement, in keeping with an inner memo obtained by the Related Press.
Those that settle for should report for obligation on 6 October after what quantities to a seven-month paid trip, throughout which era the GSA in some instances racked up excessive prices – handed alongside to taxpayers – to remain in dozens of properties whose leases it had slated for termination or have been allowed to run out.
“Finally, the end result was the company was left damaged and understaffed,” stated Chad Becker, a former GSA actual property official. “They didn’t have the folks they wanted to hold out primary capabilities.”
Becker, who represents house owners with authorities leases at Arco Actual Property Options, stated GSA has been in a “triage mode” for months. He stated the sudden reversal of the downsizing displays how Musk and his Division of Authorities Effectivity had gone too far, too quick.
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Kremlin says Putin admires Trump’s efforts to finish Ukraine struggle
The Kremlin on Wednesday disregarded a remark by US president Donald Trump describing Russia as a “paper tiger”, and stated president Vladimir Putin valued his efforts to resolve the Ukraine battle.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated that Russia was a bear, not a tiger, and “there isn’t any such factor as a paper bear”.
Trump stated on Tuesday that he believed Ukraine might retake the entire territory captured by Russia and that Kyiv ought to act now, with Moscow going through “large” financial issues, Reuters reported. His feedback marked a sudden and placing rhetorical shift in Ukraine’s favour.
Peskov, responding in a radio interview to Trump’s feedback, stated the Russian military was advancing in Ukraine and the dynamics on the frontline have been apparent.
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Trump to satisfy Australian prime minister in October in Washington
President Donald Trump will meet Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese on 20 October in Washington, the White Home and Albanese stated on Tuesday, the primary summit between the safety allies since Trump’s second election.
The 2 leaders have a lot to debate, together with the multi-billion greenback Aukus venture, additionally involving Britain, to supply Australia with nuclear-powered assault submarines to counter China’s ambitions within the Indo-Pacific. The venture is now below Pentagon assessment.
“Australia and the US are nice companions. I count on it to be very constructive,” Albanese informed reporters in New York on Tuesday, confirming the assembly.
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The US Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, pushed again arduous towards claims the central financial institution permits politics to drive choices, within the midst of a unprecedented battle over its independence.
Donald Trump, who’s looking for to extend his administration’s management over the Fed, has branded Powell “a really political man” after he declined to bow to the president’s public calls for for drastically decrease rates of interest.
The White Home has launched an unprecedented marketing campaign to overtake the Fed’s rate-setting board of governors, putting in an administration official and attempting to fireside a Biden appointee over unconfirmed claims of mortgage fraud.
However on Tuesday, Powell, who is usually diplomatic when talking publicly, roundly dismissed one of many frequent allegations made by Trump and his allies: that the Fed is in some way political when making key choices concerning the world’s largest financial system.
“Many individuals don’t consider” the Fed is just permitting financial knowledge to drive its choices, Powell acknowledged at an occasion in Rhode Island. “However the fact is, principally people who find themselves calling us political, it’s only a low-cost shot.”
He didn’t point out Trump by title. However the president has change into essentially the most distinguished critic of the Fed and Powell since returning to workplace.
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Pete Hegseth, the US protection secretary, ended an advisory committee on girls within the armed companies Tuesday, saying it was placing forth a “divisive feminist agenda”.
“The Committee is targeted on advancing a divisive feminist agenda that hurts fight readiness, whereas Secretary Hegseth has centered on advancing uniform, sex-neutral requirements throughout the Division,” stated Kingsley Wilson, press secretary for the Pentagon.
The protection advisory committee on girls within the companies began in 1951 and gathered data to supply suggestions to the protection secretary on points associated to girls within the navy.
Of these suggestions, “the bulk … have been both absolutely or partially applied”, an internet site for the committee says. “The Committee’s suggestions have been instrumental in effecting modifications to legislation and insurance policies pertaining to the service of girls within the US navy.”
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Donald Trump on Tuesday stated he wouldn’t meet with prime congressional Democrats to debate their calls for for maintaining the federal authorities open, prompting Senate minority chief Chuck Schumer to accuse the president of “working away from the negotiating desk earlier than he even will get there”.
Congress is up towards a 30 September deadline to authorize extra funding or spark a shutdown that might see many federal companies shut their doorways and furlough staff. Whereas Republicans have proposed persevering with funding via 21 November to permit passage of laws authorizing spending for the remainder of the fiscal 12 months, Democrats have seized on the deadline to demand their healthcare priorities be addressed.
Schumer collectively together with his Home counterpart, minority chief Hakeem Jeffries, had known as for a gathering with Trump to debate the deadlock, and on Tuesday morning introduced the president had agreed to take a seat down.
“Within the assembly, we’ll emphasize the significance of addressing rising prices, together with the Republican healthcare disaster. It’s previous time to satisfy and work to keep away from a Republican-caused shutdown,” they stated in a joint assertion.
Hours later, Trump wrote on Reality Social that he wouldn’t be assembly with the Democrats.
“After reviewing the small print of the unserious and ridiculous calls for being made by the Minority Radical Left Democrats in return for his or her Votes to maintain our thriving Nation open, I’ve determined that no assembly with their Congressional Leaders might presumably be productive,” the president stated.
He dangled the opportunity of future talks with the Democrats “in the event that they get severe about the way forward for our Nation”.
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World well being companies and regulators have dismissed unscientific recommendation from Donald Trump that made an unproven hyperlink between autism and the usage of on a regular basis painkillers and vaccines.
In an indication of how apprehensive overseas governments are concerning the US president’s feedback, the well being secretary of the UK, which is one the US’s closest allies, informed the British public they need to not “pay any consideration in any way to what Donald Trump says about medication”.
On Monday, Trump informed pregnant girls to keep away from taking acetaminophen, which is bought within the US as Tylenol and recognized internationally as paracetamol, including that those that couldn’t “robust it out” ought to restrict their consumption.
He additionally stated, in feedback that danger exposing kids to deadly ailments, that folks of younger kids ought to delay or keep away from some vaccines. “Don’t allow them to pump your child up with the most important pile of stuff you’ve ever seen in your life,” he stated.
The World Well being Group stated on Tuesday that questioning the worth of lifesaving vaccines was misguided and that evidence linking paracetamol use in being pregnant and autism was “inconsistent”.
“We all know that vaccines don’t trigger autism,” stated the WHO spokesperson Tarik Jašarević. “Vaccines, as I stated, save numerous lives. So that is one thing that science has confirmed, and this stuff shouldn’t be actually questioned.”
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Donald Trump has stated he believes Ukraine can regain all of the land that it has misplaced for the reason that 2022 Russian invasion in one of many strongest statements of assist he has given Kyiv.
The US president delivered his upbeat evaluation by claiming Russia was in large financial bother in a submit on Reality Social after assembly the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in New York.
He wrote: “After attending to know and absolutely perceive the Ukraine/Russia Navy and Financial scenario and, after seeing the Financial bother it’s inflicting Russia, I believe Ukraine, with the assist of the European Union, is able to combat and WIN all of Ukraine again in its unique type.
“With time, endurance, and the monetary assist of Europe and, particularly, Nato, the unique Borders from the place this Struggle began, could be very a lot an possibility. Why not?”
Trump added: “Russia has been combating aimlessly for 3 and a half years, a struggle that ought to have taken a Actual Navy Energy lower than per week to win.”
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Late-night hosts credit score Disney boycott for getting Kimmel again on air
Rachel Leingang
Late-night tv hosts credited individuals who boycotted Disney for getting Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night TV present again on the air after the company had indefinitely suspended Kimmel amid stress from the Trump administration.
“We obtained phrase that our lengthy nationwide late-nightmare is over,” Stephen Colbert stated throughout his present on Monday night time.
“As soon as extra, I’m the one martyr in late night time, except … CBS, you wish to announce something?” Colbert joked, referencing CBS’s resolution to cancel his present earlier this 12 months. “Nonetheless no? As a result of the cash factor, I forgot.”
Protests towards Disney’s suspension of Kimmel and canceled subscriptions to Disney merchandise mounted as concern over free speech rights grew. Excessive-profile folks joined within the calls to boycott. Democratic New York Metropolis mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani stated he wouldn’t do a city corridor on an area ABC channel, reversing course after Kimmel’s reinstatement.
Some Republicans, together with Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, additionally spoke out towards the Federal Communications Fee’s chair pressuring Disney.
“Right here’s why Disney folded after Kimmel was suspended: Google searches for cancel Disney+ and cancel Hulu spiked,” Colbert stated, “which explains why the opposite trending search was ‘how you can entertain my little one with out Bluey’. So Disney put Kimmel again on since you, the American folks, have been upset.”
Comic Jon Stewart credited the boycott marketing campaign with “pretending that you just have been going to cancel Hulu whereas secretly racing via 4 seasons of Solely Murders within the Constructing” on his present on Monday night time.
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Democrat Adelita Grijalva wins particular election for southern Arizona congressional seat
Rachel Leingang
Adelita Grijalva, the daughter of the late progressive congressman Raúl Grijalva, gained a particular election on Tuesday to fill the seat left open when her father died earlier this 12 months.
Grijalva confronted Republican challenger Daniel Butierez within the closely blue seventh district in Arizona, which covers the southern elements of the state and the borderland areas.
Raúl Grijalva held the seat for greater than 20 years, till his demise at 77 in March. His daughter will change into the primary Latina that Arizona has despatched to Congress.
Filling the seat narrows Republicans’ benefit within the Home, the place Trump’s “large, lovely invoice” handed by just one vote.
Adelita Grijalva, a longtime native elected official in southern Arizona, fended off Democratic challengers in a main that attracted nationwide consideration amid an ongoing debate over the way forward for the Democratic get together, and particularly its ageing candidates, as Raúl Grijalva was one in all a number of Democratic lawmakers to die in workplace this 12 months.
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Trump says he ‘can’t consider’ Kimmel again on ABC
Good morning and welcome to our protection of US politics as Donald Trump has made clear his displeasure on the return of late-night talkshow host Jimmy Kimmel.
Earlier than Tuesday’s broadcast, Trump opined on his Reality Social on-line platform that he “can’t consider” ABC gave Kimmel again his present, and hinted at additional motion towards the community.
“Why would they need somebody again who does so poorly, who’s not humorous, and who places the Community in jeopardy by enjoying 99% constructive Democrat GARBAGE,” Trump wrote.
“He’s yet one more arm of the DNC (Democratic Nationwide Committee) and, to the very best of my information, that might be a significant unlawful Marketing campaign Contribution. I believe we’re going to check ABC out on this.”
He added: “Let’s see how we do. Final time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million {Dollars}. This one sounds much more profitable,” seemingly referring to the settlement he reached with ABC Information final 12 months in a defamation lawsuit.
In his present final night time – the primary since his suspension over feedback concerning the taking pictures of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk – Kimmel known as authorities threats to silence comedians “anti-American”.
Kimmel stated he had not supposed to make gentle of Kirk’s homicide and he understood his feedback might have been seen as “ill-timed or unclear”.
Later within the monologue, Kimmel hit out towards Trump, saying that the president “did his finest to cancel me” however that “as a substitute, he pressured hundreds of thousands of individuals to observe the present.”
Kimmel added that “the president of the US made it very clear he needs to see me and the a whole bunch of people that work right here fired from our jobs. Our chief celebrates Individuals dropping their livelihoods as a result of he can’t take a joke.”
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Donald Trump has stated he believes Ukraine can regain all of the land that it has misplaced for the reason that 2022 Russian invasion in one of many strongest statements of assist he has given Kyiv. Writing on Reality Social after assembly Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the UN on Tuesday, the US president stated “Ukraine, with the assist of the European Union, is able to combat and WIN all of Ukraine again in its unique type”.
Trump launched a full-on assault on the UN throughout his normal meeting speech, describing it as a feckless, corrupt and pernicious world pressure that ought to comply with the instance of his personal management. In an inflammatory speech on the eightieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, Trump known as for international locations to shut their borders and expel foreigners, accused the UN of main a “globalist migration agenda”, and informed nationwide leaders that the world physique was “funding an assault in your international locations”.
In the meantime, Trump was accused by a UK cupboard minister of “misreading” London after the US president claimed the town needs to “go to sharia legislation”. The president renewed his feud with London mayor Sadiq Khan, calling him a “horrible, horrible mayor”. The British work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden dismissed the president’s assault and stated Trump had had “a beef” with Khan for years.
The Secret Service stated it had uncovered and dismantled a covert, hi-tech operation within the New York space, which had the potential to disrupt mobile networks. Authorities revealed that the hidden communications system included over 100,000 SIM playing cards and 300 servers.
The person accused of attempting to assassinate Trump on his West Palm Seaside golf course two months earlier than Trump clinched his second presidency within the 2024 White Home election has been discovered responsible by a jury in Fort Pierce, Florida. Ryan Routh – who now faces as much as life in jail at a later sentencing listening to – reportedly tried to make use of a pen to stab himself within the neck because the responsible verdict was learn in court docket. Officers rapidly swarmed him and dragged him out of the courthouse.
After promising to satisfy with Senate minority chief, Chuck Schumer, and Home minority chief, Hakeem Jeffries, on Thursday, Trump shared in a social media submit that he would now not meet with the highest Democratic lawmakers. The negotiations had been supposed to safe a authorities funding measure, earlier than it expires on the finish of this month.
Protection secretary Pete Hegseth determined to shut a protection division advisory committee devoted to recruiting and retaining girls within the navy. In a social media submit saying the closure of the protection advisory committee on girls within the companies a Pentagon spokesperson wrote: “The Committee is targeted on advancing a divisive feminist agenda that hurts fight readiness, whereas Secretary Hegseth has centered on advancing uniform, sex-neutral requirements throughout the Division.”
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