“After Decarlos Brown Jr. was arrested for the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee aboard a North Carolina commuter train, he was quickly sent to a state mental hospital for an evaluation. It was a sharp contrast from a January misdemeanor arrest, where it took more than six months for a court to order a mental evaluation after Brown told officers that he had been given a human-made substance that controlled when he ate, talked or walked. The Justice Department on Tuesday charged Brown, 34, with causing death on a mass transportation system last month when he allegedly killed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska in what has become the latest flashpoint for the White House’s efforts to paint Democratic-led cities as havens for violent criminals.” (09/10/25)
“When it comes to pesticides, the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, Commission has a serious problem: The Commission’s newly released strategy for addressing childhood chronic disease is better for the pesticide industry than for people. Ignoring growing public calls for action, the strategy lays out a milquetoast approach that would protect industry profits at the expense of children’s health. Back in May, a first report from the MAHA Commission correctly identified exposure to pesticides and other toxic chemicals as one driver of the childhood chronic disease epidemic. The US currently uses over a billion pounds of pesticides annually on our crops, about one-third of which is chemicals that have been banned in other countries. Many have been linked to serious health problems from cancer to infertility to birth defects.” (09/10/25)
“The United States is set to increase its manufacturing of amoxicillin — a widely used prescription antibiotic that recently faced a national shortage — after Walmart and medical supply and distribution company McKesson inked a deal with the nation’s lone manufacturer of the drug. ‘We are thrilled to work with Walmart and McKesson to bring domestically manufactured antibiotics directly to American families,’ Patrick Cashman, president of USAntibiotics, said in a press release of the announcement on Monday. ‘We extend our deepest gratitude to Walmart and McKesson for their leadership in supporting U.S. manufacturing of critical generic medicines. This collaboration represents more than a business relationship — it’s a commitment to America’s health security.’ USAntibiotics is located in Bristol, Tennessee, and expects to produce ‘enough amoxicillin products to meet 100 percent of the nation’s demand for these essential medications’ under the deal.” (09/10/25)
“The polls say Mayor Eric Adams is a sure-fire loser in November and wall-to-wall reports have him dropping out of the race or leaving City Hall early to take a job in the Trump administration. He tells me neither is true and that he has never spoken to the president about a job. My impression after a fast-paced interview with him Monday is that quitting and defeat truly are far from his mind. ‘I will finish my term,’ he said emphatically, and insists he still has a chance at re-election. ‘I feel strong and I’m not giving up,’ he added. ‘It’s too early to throw in the towel.’ He barely flinched when I asked what he would do differently if he could rewind the clock to 2022, when he took office.” (09/09/25)
“The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks. By then, surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family in rural China, snared in an intricate network based on U.S. technology that spies on them and predicts what they’ll do. Their train tickets, hotel bookings, purchases, text messages and phone calls are forwarded to the government. Their house is ringed with more than a dozen cameras. They’ve tried to go to Beijing 20 times in the past few years, but masked men show up and grab them, often before they depart. … the Yangs say they are not criminals.” (09/09/25)
“Donald Trump had successfully pushed the Jeffrey Epstein scandal out of front-page coverage in the mainstream media through his signature strategy of doing a dozen insane and/or illegal things per day …. But yet again the scandal has come roaring back, thanks once more to The Wall Street Journal (one of the few papers, remarkably, that has consistently stood up to Trump). He already sued the Journal and Rupert Murdoch for $10 billion for reporting that he had written a grotesque birthday note to Epstein (as part of a 50th birthday compilation book) back in 2003. Now the Epstein estate has turned over a copy of the book to the House Oversight Committee, and the Journal was first to publish the note, along with other parts of it.” (09/10/25)
“Multiple Russian drones crossed into Poland in what European officials described Wednesday as a deliberate provocation, causing NATO to send fighter jets to shoot them down. A NATO spokesman said it was the first time the alliance confronted a potential threat in its airspace. The incursion, which occurred during a wave of strikes by the Kremlin on Ukraine, and the NATO response swiftly raised fears that the war could spill over — a fear that has been growing in Europe as Russia steps up its attacks and peace efforts go nowhere. Russia’s Defense Ministry said it did not target Poland, while Belarus, a close ally of Moscow, said it tracked some drones that ‘lost their course’ because they were jammed. However, several European leaders said they believed the incursion amounted to an intentional expansion of Russia’s assault against Ukraine.” (09/10/25)
“Why doesn’t Hermes just produce more bags and then everyone can have a Birkin? That’s basically the argument of people pressing President Donald Trump to declare a housing emergency. The fact is there’s plenty of housing, just not in the most desirable neighborhoods. Population growth is slowing, deportations are increasing and new home construction already outpaces family creation. The shortage is a myth created by activists so they can force residential living patterns to conform to DEI dogma. A simple calculation proves it. The Census Bureau collects annual data on both the number of households and the available housing stock. The latest data shows 131.3 million households and 146.5 million housing units, an excess supply of over 15 million units. Activists cannot deny the excess so instead, they argue that it is not enough.” (09/10/25)
“US President Donald Trump’s administration is considering launching military strikes on Venezuela, according to new reporting from independent journalist Ken Klippenstein. Military sources on Tuesday told Klippenstein that the Trump administration is mulling an attack against Venezuela unless it cracks down on drug cartels that it claims are shipping fentanyl into the United States. Contrary to the administration’s claims, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration and other agencies, Venezuela plays virtually no role in fentanyl manufacturing and trafficking. Klippenstein’s sources said the attack was likely to involve ‘shooting down Venezuelan military aircraft or by bombing Venezuelan military airfield,’ and that the US Air Force has been rehearsing for such a mission in recent weeks. Such an attack would mark a dramatic escalation in the Trump administration’s hostilities toward Venezuela, which escalated last week when the administration bombed a boat off the Venezuelan coast that it alleged was carrying drug traffickers.” (09/10/25)
“A jury was selected Wednesday in the trial of a man charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump while he played golf last year in South Florida. The panel of 12 jurors and four alternates was sworn in on the third day of jury selection at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida. The jury has four white men, one Black man, six white women, and one Black woman. The alternates are two white men and two white women. Ryan Routh’s trial begins nearly a year after prosecutors say a U.S. Secret Service agent thwarted Routh’s attempt to shoot the Republican presidential nominee. Routh, 59, has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate, assaulting a federal officer and several firearm violations. Routh is representing himself after U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon agreed to let him dismiss his court-appointed attorneys.” (09/10/25)
