Good morning. Today is one of those days that shows just how turbulent and consequential our times are. Donald Trump is set to address the United Nations, but already the news cycle is on fire: world health agencies are publicly rejecting his false claims linking Tylenol to autism and warning families not to follow them, the Secret Service has dismantled a massive covert telecom network in New York designed to disrupt emergency communications during the UN General Assembly, and even as Jimmy Kimmel returns to the air, Sinclair Broadcasting is refusing to carry his show across dozens of ABC affiliates.
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With that, here’s what you missed:
he Secret Service dismantled a covert telecommunications network spread across five locations in the New York area, seizing more than 300 SIM servers, 100,000 SIM cards, illegal firearms, drugs, and electronic equipment.Officials said the network allowed anonymous, encrypted communication between criminal enterprises and potential threat actors, and could disable cellphone towers, block emergency services, or launch denial-of-service attacks on police and EMS communications. The system was also used to transmit assassination threats against senior U.S. officials.
Authorities are investigating whether the network was designed to disrupt the United Nations General Assembly and interfere with government and emergency communications during the gathering of world leaders. Secret Service officials stressed the devices no longer pose a threat, and agents are combing through the SIM data to identify those responsible. The discovery followed a surge in telecommunications-related threats to U.S. officials earlier this year.
Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns 38 ABC affiliates, announced it will continue to preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live! despite Disney bringing the show back, instead airing local news to push coordinated conservative messaging, while demanding Kimmel apologize and donate to Turning Point USA after his comments about Charlie Kirk.
The World Health Organization rejected President Trump’s claims linking Tylenol use in pregnancy and vaccines to autism, stressing that evidence for such a link is “inconsistent” and reaffirming that vaccines are proven to save lives and do not cause autism.
The UK’s Health Ministry urged citizens to ignore President Trump’s false claims linking Tylenol (paracetamol) use in pregnancy to autism, citing a major 2024 Swedish study and reaffirming its safety, while health groups and autism advocates condemned Trump’s remarks as dangerous and demeaning.
Former CDC official Debra Houry and other experts refuted Trump’s Tylenol-autism claims, citing multiple studies — including a 2024 Swedish study of 2.4 million births — that found no link between prenatal acetaminophen use and autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability, warning that such fearmongering could harm pregnant women’s care.
President Trump signed an executive order designating “antifa” as a domestic terrorist organization, following through on a pledge made after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, despite antifa being a loose activist movement rather than a formal group.
Ahead of his UN General Assembly address, the White House criticized countries recognizing Palestinian statehood, with Trump’s press secretary calling it “a reward to Hamas” and suggesting the president would expand on that view in his speech.
Trump is set to meet with Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries this week to negotiate healthcare spending and a bill to keep the government funded.
CNN found that over 100 U.S. citizen children have been left stranded without parents this year amid the Trump administration’s escalated immigration crackdown, with parents deported in raids or routine ICE check-ins, often without time to arrange care; experts warn this new wave of family separations is causing lasting trauma and destabilizing children’s lives.
Lindsey Halligan, a former Florida insurance lawyer and Trump aide, was sworn in as interim U.S. attorney, replacing Erik Siebert, who resigned under administration pressure after overseeing investigations into New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI director James Comey.
A new issue brief from Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology warns that the U.S. government’s DNA collection program, initially expanded through immigration powers, is now extending to U.S. citizens with little oversight, raising concerns about mass genetic surveillance and its use in future policing and prosecutions.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris offered a lukewarm endorsement of New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, saying on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, “I endorse the Democrat in the race,” while emphasizing the party’s “big tent” and highlighting other Democratic candidates nationwide — a cautious stance that reflects divisions in the party as Mamdani’s progressive win reshapes the conversation.
Hungary defied President Trump’s demand that NATO allies stop buying Russian oil, with Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó insisting the country cannot ensure safe energy supplies without Russian imports, dismissing EU pressure as “fanatics,” even as Trump threatened sanctions and European leaders, including Finland’s president and Poland’s foreign minister, urged Budapest to change course.
Mysterious drone swarms forced the closure of Copenhagen and Oslo airports in what Danish officials called the “most serious attack” on national infrastructure to date, as NATO leaders at the UN condemned escalating Russian incursions into European airspace and vowed to defend against hybrid threats, while EU states discussed a potential “drone wall” along the eastern border.
Chad Mizelle, chief of staff at the Department of Justice and close ally of Trump aide Stephen Miller, will step down in the coming weeks to return to his family in Tampa but pledged to keep supporting the administration and targeting left-wing groups.
Gunmen killed three transgender women on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, in a targeted attack that has sparked outrage and protests from the country’s transgender community, which vowed nationwide demonstrations if the perpetrators are not swiftly arrested; rights groups say the killings reflect a broader pattern of systemic violence despite legal protections.
The International Criminal Court has accused former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte of involvement in at least 76 killings linked to his war on drugs, alleging he authorized violence including murder against alleged drug dealers and users while serving as both Davao City mayor and later as president; Duterte, already under arrest and held in the Netherlands, faces crimes against humanity charges that his lawyers are contesting.
See you this afternoon.
— Aaron
