Federal prosecutor who withdrew from dismissed bribery case against Indian billionaire Adani fired, sources say

September 10, 2026 / 10:15 AM EDT / CBS News

A federal prosecutor who withdrew from the criminal case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani shortly after senior Justice Department officials moved to dismiss the charges has been fired, several sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

Andrew Tyler, an acting assistant chief in the fraud section of the Criminal Division, was removed on Tuesday over allegations of ethical violations, two of the sources said, without providing further details.

He couldn’t be immediately reached for comment, though a person who previously worked with him described him as a dedicated employee who had worked at the Justice Department for most of his career.

His Linkedin profile shows he started as an intern in the tax and criminal divisions. After a brief stint as a law clerk in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia, he returned to the Justice Department, where he started as a clerk before becoming a trial attorney and eventually an assistant chief.

His termination was first reported by NBC News.

Adani and other executives at his renewable energy company were indicted at the end of the Biden administration in a wide-ranging foreign bribery and securities fraud scheme which alleged they paid off Indian government officials to obtain lucrative solar energy supply contracts.

In May, Trent McCotter, who is now the acting deputy attorney general, ordered the case to be dismissed. The decision came after Adani’s attorneys at Sullivan & Cromwell including Bob Giuffra met with department officials about the case.

In one meeting at the Justice Department about the Adani case, Giuffra made a presentation that disputed evidence of the alleged bribery scheme, according to sources familiar with the matter and records reviewed by CBS News. One slide claimed that one of Adani’s companies is “powering India’s progress,” and another slide said the Trump administration “would not have brought the case.”

Giuffra also said at the meeting that if prosecutors were to drop the charges, Adani would be willing to invest $10 billion in the American economy, sources told CBS News.

The motion to dismiss the case was only signed by politically appointed Justice Department officials, and not by the career prosecutors involved in the case.

Shortly afterwards, Tyler and one of his co-counsels, Shy Jackson, filed motions to withdraw from the case — an act that was widely viewed as a quiet form of protest.

U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis, in the Eastern District of New York, initially refused to drop the charges. He said the Justice Department had not provided an adequate factual basis for doing so.

He demanded more information from the Justice Department, and also asked Adani to submit a sworn statement answering questions about whether there was a quid pro quo. Adani denied the existence of one.

Garaufis ultimately agreed to drop the charges against Adani and several of his co-defendants last month, but he has steadfastly refused to drop the charges against the remaining defendants on the grounds that the Justice Department has provided “no new reasons to dismiss counts one and five, and no additional facts to support the reasons given for the requested dismissal.”

Judge Garaufis also accused McCotter of improperly interfering in the case, saying he had “eschewed the professional opinions of innumerable officials from various federal offices and replaced them with his singular judgment.”

Tyler is the second federal prosecutor to be fired this month amid disagreements with senior department officials over a high-profile criminal case.

Earlier this month, the department fired Matthew Evans, a prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating ICE officer Christian Castro over the shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant earlier this year.

His firing came shortly after ProPublica reported that Evans told attorneys for the man who was shot, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, and other victims to prepare for Castro to only be charged with making false statements. That would result in lesser penalties than criminal charges that Castro had violated people’s constitutional rights under color of law.

Several sources told CBS News that Evans is now under investigation.

Nicole Sganga contributed to this report.

How Trump created a bizarre and risky midterm scenario for the GOP

2026-09-10T15:00:29.141Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/10/politics/trump-midterm-strategy

America no longer seems to believe that he, alone, can fix it.

At his 2016 convention, Donald Trump billed himself as the unique force who could end America’s troubles.

A decade later, at a midterm Republican pseudo-convention on Wednesday night, he sweetened the offer, with a pitchman’s promise of a $5,000 jackpot for every voter.

But polls reflect a wide gap between the president’s pledges and how voters view his performance. He’s therefore taking a huge risk by making the midterm elections all about himself.

“Let us finish the job we began with the greatest two years in the history of the presidency,” he said onstage in Texas.

But there isn’t much ticked off from the updated fix-it list unveiled in Trump’s second inaugural address, in 2025, when he promised to “rapidly bring down costs and prices” and that his new term would be remembered by “the wars we never get into.”

Americans are still angry about the prices of food, housing and healthcare. Gasoline costs are spiking because of a war in Iran he’s claimed multiple times to have won, but that now he says won’t end until after the November 3 midterms.

Hours after Trump made his midterm case in Dallas, average gas prices shot up to $4.28, according to AAA — the highest level since June 2.

If Trump won a mandate on the economy and national security in 2024, he’s now close to squandering it.

This created a bizarre core campaign dynamic — which Trump cemented Wednesday night.

The not particularly trusted out-of-power party is desperate to divert attention from its own liabilities toward the unpopular record of the president. And, amazingly, the deeply disliked incumbent is doing all he can to help them.

“I’m asking you to pretend that I’m on the ballot,” Trump said Wednesday night.

Democrats won’t need to be asked twice to tell voters about a president with an approval rating in the 30s who is underwater in polls on almost every major issue.

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In pictures: The first-ever Republican midterm convention

President Donald Trump takes the stage at the first-ever Republican midterm convention at the American Airlines Center in Dallas on Wednesday, September 9. (Tristen Rouse/CNN)

Only this president would dare to hold a two-day “Trumpapalooza” with himself as keynote speaker on both nights.

After Trump on Wednesday blasted Democrats as radical far-left socialists and communists, GOP strategists might prefer he now step back to allow candidates to localize their races and try to disqualify their individual opponents.

But he’s determined to be the issue in every ZIP code.

“I am going to visit,” he said Wednesday, previewing a relentless tour of election hotspots.

Of course, anyone who thought the president might take a back seat must have slept through the last decade.

The 2026 election was always going to be all about Trump. Love him or hate him, almost everything in US and global politics has revolved around him since he descended his golden escalator in summer 2015.

Trump won two presidential elections because — not in spite — of the fact that he made it all about himself. His outsider persona, self-created image as the ultimate winner, and often-coarse manner rewrote the rules of politics. And he listened to economic angst of citizens who felt disenfranchised and disrespected by a globalized economy and leaders they saw as contemptuous elites.

Now that the president seems to care less about such matters, his hunger for the spotlight is making it almost comically easy for Democrats to make the case against the GOP.

“Donald Trump is hoping that a flashy primetime event will make you forget that, well, his trade war is killing costs for families at the grocery store, his war in Iran is killing ranchers and farmers and their way of life, and his war on people — on the working people, the working families of this country — are raising the costs of healthcare and housing,” Illinois Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker said in Texas on Wednesday.

These stark comparisons explain why some vulnerable Republicans have stayed away from Trump’s Texas party — although many candidates from swing House races and key Senate contests are there.

It may not make much difference either way.

After a decade of Trump’s dominance over a Republican Party he transformed, there is no non-Trump platform for candidates to run on. And he’s already driven out most MAGA heretics.

But the president could be doing more to help his own side.

Some conservatives are frustrated the billionaire president hasn’t shown more empathy to Americans who view his economic “golden age” as a mirage. It’s not a great look that as he piles up personal wealth in office, he’s mocking the key election issue of affordability.

All presidents lose touch after a few years in the West Wing. And Trump has made that cage more gilded than ever with his taste for gold trinkets and marble legacy projects.

Trump on Wednesday argued he’d slashed crime, stopped illegal immigration, crushed the fentanyl trade, enriched Americans with tax cuts and lowered healthcare costs. There’s some truth in this — although his methods may be driving away more moderate voters. And his claim to have rapidly cut prices is not accurate.

But has he lost his political touch?

His refusal to understand public fury — across party lines — over AI data centers seems like the kind of issue the 2016 version of Trump might intuit spells political danger.

It’s usually a losing strategy when politicians try to talk voters out the reality of their daily lives.

In this sense, his $5000 “dividend” seems more like an attempt to distract than to highlight his own success. (The payment, which Trump promised to every American adult if Republicans retain their House and Senate majorities in November, would probably struggle to make it through Congress. It would also likely add $1 trillion or more to the national debt.)

New CNN polling from the tight Maine and Michigan Senate races — which could decide who runs the chamber next year — makes the point. About two-thirds of likely voters in each state disapprove of Trump’s performance, and voters who are angry or dissatisfied far outnumber those who are satisfied and enthusiastic. The economy and cost of living are easily the top issue in each state. When asked the classic question that can doom incumbents, voters say by a more than 2:1 margin that they are financially worse off than they were two years ago.

Other polling proves that voters unequivocally dislike what Trump sees as his triumphs. They hate his tariffs and his war in Iran, and while he was partly elected over a promise to secure the southern border, he’s driven away many independents with his Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdowns on undocumented migrants.

But it’s not clear the president really cares about what irks persuadable voters.

His social media feed in recent days — a window into his off-script preoccupations — features a bizarre hinterland of topics that don’t include the price of groceries.

He is fixated on changing the names of lakes and oceans on maps. He claimed, “The Moon is Ours” and unveiled an idea for the dress uniform for his Space Force command that had rather dark historic echoes. His grand building projects similarly speak of a presidency focused on building a personal legacy, rather than addressing the economic problems that plague Americans.

But there’s one reason hogging the limelight that may make some sense.

Trump has historically reached voters other politicians haven’t, and shattered the Democrats’ core coalition among the white working class in Rust Belt states.

Can he conjure up the magic by posing one last time as the scourge of elites, the traditional media, and the social and cultural shifts that his base hates?

It might not save the GOP’s hold on one or both chambers, but perhaps it may mitigate their losses.

The Republican Party made its choice long ago. It rode to power on Trump’s movement and cannot credibly sever itself from him now.

“In actuality I really am running. We don’t really know it, but we are. I mean, we’re running together,” he said Wednesday night.

The only path is still the same: All Trump, all the time.

特朗普称美伊战争将在中期选举后结束 胡塞武装占领也门重要港市危及能源供应航线

2026年9月10日 22:30 / 联合早报

• 特朗普预测美伊战争将在11月中期选举后立即结束，称伊朗撑不下去；但多名美国官员据报私下警告冲突或延续至下任总统就职。 – 胡塞武装占领也门港口城市摩卡并扩大控制范围，威胁红海航线；沙特自霍尔木兹海峡关闭以来一直依赖该航线运出石油。 – 巴基斯坦向伊朗转达沙特要求约束胡塞武装的警告；伊朗高官证实收到信息，但回应称伊朗并不控制胡塞武装。 – 伊朗一名高级官员透露已准备好应付更激烈战争，称有足够导弹储备应对长期冲突；以色列总理则称伊朗政权快被推翻。

美国总统特朗普周三（9月9日）称，一旦美伊战争结束，油价便会跟着下跌。 （法新社）

（华盛顿/德黑兰综合电）美国总统特朗普周三（9月9日）称，他预测与伊朗的战争将在11月美国中期选举后立即结束。不过几个小时后，也门军方消息人士透露，伊朗支持的胡塞武装组织周四占领具有战略意义的也门港口城市摩卡（Mocha），对全球能源供应构成新的威胁。

四名也门政府军消息人士称，胡塞武装在曼德海峡进一步扩大控制范围，并攻击红海南部的哈尼什群岛。自美伊战争爆发导致霍尔木兹海峡关闭以来，全球最大石油出口国沙特阿拉伯一直依赖红海航线运出石油。

此前，沙特主导的多国联军发言人马利基周三发声明说，胡塞武装当天以弹道导弹和无人机，袭击沙特南部的城市艾卜哈（Abha）、海米斯穆谢特（Khamis Mushait）和贾赞（Jazan）。马利基称，联军将回应这些袭击，以保护沙特的主权、国家资产及平民安全。

三国要求伊朗约束胡塞武装 若受袭或触动安全机制

路透社周三报道，沙特、巴基斯坦和伊朗的消息人士透露，巴基斯坦向伊朗转达沙特的警告，要伊朗约束胡塞武装，防止危机进一步恶化。

一名伊朗高官证实，巴基斯坦已在周二向伊朗转达信息。不过，德黑兰的回应是“伊朗并不控制胡塞武装”。

两名伊朗消息人士说，伊朗上周指示胡塞武装袭击沙特，并承诺提供额外资金和武器。伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队还派出几名指挥官到也门协调这些袭击行动。

上月，巴基斯坦与沙特和土耳其签署防务协定，核心条款是任何一国遭攻击，将被视为对三国的攻击。因此，巴基斯坦向伊朗转达的警告具有重要意义。巴基斯坦国防部长阿西夫星期三说，如果袭击波及沙特领土，可能触发涉及利雅得、安卡拉和伊斯兰堡的联合安全机制。

另一方面，特朗普周三离开华盛顿前往达拉斯参加共和党的中期选举集会前，对记者说：“我认为选举一过，战争就会立即停止，因为他们（伊朗）撑不下去了”。

特朗普也称，一旦战争结束，油价便会跟着下跌。他指伊朗要延长战争并借此破坏共和党的选情，“为的是令我们选出一群软弱无能的人，对他们置之不理，任由他们拥有核武器”。

针对美国会否恢复与伊朗的谈判，特朗普称，外交谈判虽有可能，但如今并非是首选方案。

美媒：战事或延续至下任总统就职

不过，《华尔街日报》周三报道，多名美国官员透露，副总统万斯和国务卿鲁比奥等高层已私下向特朗普发出警告，指与伊朗的冲突可能会持续至他的总统任期结束。他们认为，伊方会继续顶住美国的压力，从而可能导致这场战争延长至2029年1月的总统就职日之后。白宫没有对报道置评。

彭博社报道，伊朗一名高级官员透露，伊朗已准备好应付更激烈的战争，并警告如果美国继续攻击伊朗的领土和基础设施，伊朗将升级反击行动。

这名高官称，伊方不会退缩。虽然经济压力可能日益加剧，但伊朗领导层认为，与美国的这场战争已经构成了生存威胁，这使他们别无选择，只能继续对抗。

官员还说，自今年4月战争最激烈的阶段结束以来，伊朗一直在重建军力，并拥有足以应对长期冲突的导弹储备。

以色列总理内坦亚胡周三则称，伊朗正处于崩溃边缘，伊朗政权就快被推翻了。

内坦亚胡当天与防长卡茨一同视察驻叙利亚南部的以军部队时说：“（我们）仍有工作要做，首要任务是推翻伊朗的恐怖政权。这已近在咫尺。”

特朗普称美伊战争将在中期选举后结束 胡塞武装占领也门重要港市危及能源供应航线

2026年9月10日 22:30 / 联合早报 蔡添成

• 特朗普预测美伊战争将在11月中期选举后立即结束，称伊朗撑不下去；但多名美国官员据报私下警告冲突或延续至下任总统就职。 – 胡塞武装占领也门港口城市摩卡并扩大控制范围，威胁红海航线；沙特自霍尔木兹海峡关闭以来一直依赖该航线运出石油。 – 巴基斯坦向伊朗转达沙特要求约束胡塞武装的警告；伊朗高官证实收到信息，但回应称伊朗并不控制胡塞武装。 – 伊朗一名高级官员透露已准备好应付更激烈战争，称有足够导弹储备应对长期冲突；以色列总理则称伊朗政权快被推翻。

美国总统特朗普周三（9月9日）称，一旦美伊战争结束，油价便会跟着下跌。 （法新社）

（华盛顿/德黑兰综合电）美国总统特朗普周三（9月9日）称，他预测与伊朗的战争将在11月美国中期选举后立即结束。不过几个小时后，也门军方消息人士透露，伊朗支持的胡塞武装组织周四占领具有战略意义的也门港口城市摩卡（Mocha），对全球能源供应构成新的威胁。

四名也门政府军消息人士称，胡塞武装在曼德海峡进一步扩大控制范围，并攻击红海南部的哈尼什群岛。自美伊战争爆发导致霍尔木兹海峡关闭以来，全球最大石油出口国沙特阿拉伯一直依赖红海航线运出石油。

此前，沙特主导的多国联军发言人马利基周三发声明说，胡塞武装当天以弹道导弹和无人机，袭击沙特南部的城市艾卜哈（Abha）、海米斯穆谢特（Khamis Mushait）和贾赞（Jazan）。马利基称，联军将回应这些袭击，以保护沙特的主权、国家资产及平民安全。

三国要求伊朗约束胡塞武装 若受袭或触动安全机制

路透社周三报道，沙特、巴基斯坦和伊朗的消息人士透露，巴基斯坦向伊朗转达沙特的警告，要伊朗约束胡塞武装，防止危机进一步恶化。

一名伊朗高官证实，巴基斯坦已在周二向伊朗转达信息。不过，德黑兰的回应是“伊朗并不控制胡塞武装”。

两名伊朗消息人士说，伊朗上周指示胡塞武装袭击沙特，并承诺提供额外资金和武器。伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队还派出几名指挥官到也门协调这些袭击行动。

上月，巴基斯坦与沙特和土耳其签署防务协定，核心条款是任何一国遭攻击，将被视为对三国的攻击。因此，巴基斯坦向伊朗转达的警告具有重要意义。巴基斯坦国防部长阿西夫星期三说，如果袭击波及沙特领土，可能触发涉及利雅得、安卡拉和伊斯兰堡的联合安全机制。

另一方面，特朗普周三离开华盛顿前往达拉斯参加共和党的中期选举集会前，对记者说：“我认为选举一过，战争就会立即停止，因为他们（伊朗）撑不下去了”。

特朗普也称，一旦战争结束，油价便会跟着下跌。他指伊朗要延长战争并借此破坏共和党的选情，“为的是令我们选出一群软弱无能的人，对他们置之不理，任由他们拥有核武器”。

针对美国会否恢复与伊朗的谈判，特朗普称，外交谈判虽有可能，但如今并非是首选方案。

美媒：战事或延续至下任总统就职

不过，《华尔街日报》周三报道，多名美国官员透露，副总统万斯和国务卿鲁比奥等高层已私下向特朗普发出警告，指与伊朗的冲突可能会持续至他的总统任期结束。他们认为，伊方会继续顶住美国的压力，从而可能导致这场战争延长至2029年1月的总统就职日之后。白宫没有对报道置评。

彭博社报道，伊朗一名高级官员透露，伊朗已准备好应付更激烈的战争，并警告如果美国继续攻击伊朗的领土和基础设施，伊朗将升级反击行动。

这名高官称，伊方不会退缩。虽然经济压力可能日益加剧，但伊朗领导层认为，与美国的这场战争已经构成了生存威胁，这使他们别无选择，只能继续对抗。

官员还说，自今年4月战争最激烈的阶段结束以来，伊朗一直在重建军力，并拥有足以应对长期冲突的导弹储备。

以色列总理内坦亚胡周三则称，伊朗正处于崩溃边缘，伊朗政权就快被推翻了。

内坦亚胡当天与防长卡茨一同视察驻叙利亚南部的以军部队时说：“（我们）仍有工作要做，首要任务是推翻伊朗的恐怖政权。这已近在咫尺。”

Supreme Court blocks Missouri from using new map favoring GOP in midterm elections

2026-09-10 11:16 AM EDT / CBS News

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The Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily blocked Missouri from using a newly drawn congressional map that favors Republicans in this year’s midterm elections.

In an unsigned order with no noted dissents, the Supreme Court said that Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins must use a 2022 congressional map in the November elections, not a new congressional map that would favor Republicans and could eliminate a seat held by Democrats.

Missouri currently has six Republicans and two Democrats in its U.S. House delegation, and the new map targets one of the Democratic seats, which could result in a 7-1 split favoring Republicans. The proposed map targeted the seat of longtime Rep. Emanuel Cleaver.

The decision, for now, blocks a lower court decision by Missouri U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark, who said Tuesday that the new map must be used. Late Thursday, Clark refused to stay his order, and a panel of judges on the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals is currently overseeing an appeal of his order.

The justices did not say why they blocked the new map.

Minutes before the high court’s order, lawyers for Hoskins and Missouri said in a filing with the court that it would be “extraordinarily burdensome” to change the congressional map after the state’s August primary elections were held using the new, Republican-created map. The state said that the legal challenge was “seeking to destabilize” the state’s midterm elections, and risked the “disenfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of voters.”

Earlier this week, Justice Brett Kavanaugh rejected an appeal from Hoskins, and sided with Missouri’s Supreme Court, which said last week that the new districts cannot be used in the November midterms.

The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of challengers to the new map, ordering the statewide vote they requested. Missouri’s highest court said a petition circulated by a group called People Not Politicians that demanded a statewide vote before the congressional map was implemented superseded the new map.

The new map was enacted by Missouri Republicans last year as part of a nationwide redistricting effort undertaken by President Trump and Republicans to hold the slim GOP House majority in Congress. Similar redistricting efforts were undertaken in Texas and North Carolina by Republicans, and in California by Democrats. A voter-approved ballot initiative to redraw Virginia’s map to be more favorable to Democrats was rebuffed by the state’s Supreme Court.

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Missouri’s confusing congressional map dilemma, explained

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美国拟向近百万人发放奥巴马医改退款

2026年9月10日 23:37 / 联合早报

美国总统特朗普星期四（9月10日）宣布，将向近100万名因奥巴马医改“被多收费”的美国人发放每人500美元的退款。从10月起，符合条件的美国人将陆续收到退款支票。 （法新社）

美国总统特朗普星期四（9月10日）宣布，将向近100万名因奥巴马医改“被多收费”的美国人发放每人500美元的退款。从10月起，符合条件的美国人将陆续收到退款支票。 （法新社）

美国白宫星期四说，政府将向近100万美国人退还奥巴马医改的“多收费用”，符合资格者可获得500美元（约633元新币）退款。

白宫星期四（9月10日）发布声明说，美国总统特朗普宣布，将向近100万名因奥巴马医改“被多收费”的美国人发放每人500美元的退款支票。

退款支票将从今年10月起陆续寄出，受惠者分布在30个使用联邦医保交易平台运营相关市场的州，包括阿拉巴马州、佛罗里达州、西弗吉尼亚州、威斯康星州等。

特朗普政府在声明中指责前拜登政府管理奥巴马医保不当，通过医保交易平台收取的“用户费”转嫁给消费者，推高保费，并为运营联邦医保平台筹集了超出实际所需的资金。

白宫说，这些资金后来形成可观的盈余，却没有用于惠及支付较高保费的民众。特朗普政府因此决定，将部分所谓多收费用退还给没有获得保费补贴的民众。

George W. Bush says Americans “don’t pay attention to the lesson of 9/11”

September 10, 2026 / 11:40 AM EDT / CBS News

Former President George W. Bush gave rare remarks on Wednesday as Americans mark25 years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, saying that Americans “don’t pay attention to the lesson of 9/11.”

“Our nation occasionally goes through isolationist periods, where the attitude is, ‘Well, we’ve got too many problems at home. Therefore, who cares about what happens overseas?’” said Bush, who was nine months into his first term when the attacks occurred. “Which really means to me they just don’t pay attention to the lessons of 9/11, because what happens overseas matters to our national security at home.”

Bush spoke about it at his presidential library in Dallas with Condoleezza Rice, who served as national security adviser at the time of the attacks and then went on to become secretary of state.

He said that as people are “struggling against tyranny, it makes sense” for the U.S. to get involved.

“We don’t have to send troops,” Bush said. “We ought to at least stand with them and stand beside them because this is what we went through 250 years ago. And again, it’s a belief that everybody wants to be free and we saw that in Afghanistan.”

Bush launched the war in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks, and then supported the development of a democratic government after years of humanitarian abuses by the Taliban. But the conflict dragged on for 20 years, becoming America’s longest war, until the U.S. withdrew andAfghanistan came under Taliban rulerule again in 2021.

Bush said he disagrees with the view of some Americans who say people there “don’t know the difference” of what it is like to live under freedom.

“Of course they know the difference,” Bush said. “Young girls going to schoolfor the first time in their lives know the difference. Women becoming doctors and professors know the difference between a free society and a tyrannical society. And sadly, these women who begin to realize their full potential no longer have a chance to realize their full potential.”

Bush recalled on Wednesday that he had been visiting an elementary school on Sept. 11, 2001, when his then-chief of staff Andy Card told him about the attacks.

In that moment, “I became a wartime president,” Bush said. “This was a war, and that the job of the president and the country and his team is to rally the nation and to do what’s necessary to protect our people.”

Bush and Rice recalled that on 9/11, “every plane had become a missile,” so there were orders for all planes to land or they could be shot down. Then-Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, they said, was “trying to land planes on a legal pad” and they worried about whether Flight 93 had been shot down by the U.S. military — though that did not turn out to be the case. The plane crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers tried to wrest control from the hijackers.

“There was this horrible moment where the vice president kept trying to get confirmation as to what had happened, and for about 10 minutes, we thought we’d shot down a civilian aircraft,” Rice said. “And that always to me represented just how hard the decisions that you had to take under a lot of pressure.”

Bush said that in the aftermath of the attacks, he “had a sense there was a lot of trauma” but didn’t realize “how bad it was ’till I went there.”

He visited and gave a speech at Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center, on Sept. 14, 2001 — standing amid the wreckage with first responders. He said Wednesday that helping the country returning to normal was his highest priority.

Then-President George W. Bush speaks to rescue workers, firefighters and police officers at the site of the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 14, 2001. Eric Draper / White House / Getty Images / The White House

“I didn’t want us to lose our soul,” Bush said. “I wanted, as we defended our freedoms, I wanted people to remember how precious they are.”

He also also recalled how he visited a mosque shortly after the attacks “because I was deeply concerned about stories of women of color being harassed at shopping centers, particularly in Michigan.”

“It became clear to me that this is an ideological struggle, which is what I viewed it as, and we forego one of the most important parts of our ideology, which is the freedom to worship the way you want to worship,” he said. “All of a sudden, the enemy has won a victory, and so that was part of my thinking.”

Bush and Rice also recalled how they had to shift to a “Sept. 12” mentality because “we needed to go on the offense” to prevent another attack.

“People now don’t understand the heaviness of the days after 9/11 in trying to protect the country,” Rice said.

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George W. Bush looks back on 9/11 after 25 years

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美国拟向近百万人发放奥巴马医改退款

2026-09-10 23:37 / 联合早报

美国总统特朗普星期四（9月10日）宣布，将向近100万名因奥巴马医改“被多收费”的美国人发放每人500美元的退款。从10月起，符合条件的美国人将陆续收到退款支票。 （法新社）

美国白宫星期四说，政府将向近100万美国人退还奥巴马医改的“多收费用”，符合资格者可获得500美元（约633元新币）退款。

白宫星期四（9月10日）发布声明说，美国总统特朗普宣布，将向近100万名因奥巴马医改“被多收费”的美国人发放每人500美元的退款支票。

退款支票将从今年10月起陆续寄出，受惠者分布在30个使用联邦医保交易平台运营相关市场的州，包括阿拉巴马州、佛罗里达州、西弗吉尼亚州、威斯康星州等。

特朗普政府在声明中指责前拜登政府管理奥巴马医保不当，通过医保交易平台收取的“用户费”转嫁给消费者，推高保费，并为运营联邦医保平台筹集了超出实际所需的资金。

白宫说，这些资金后来形成可观的盈余，却没有用于惠及支付较高保费的民众。特朗普政府因此决定，将部分所谓多收费用退还给没有获得保费补贴的民众。

The Odds: Can Paxton Turn Things Around?

9:48 AM EDT, Thu September 10, 2026 / By Ainsley Ehlers, CNN

The Odds: Can Paxton Turn Things Around?

In the battle for one of the most competitive Senate races of this cycle, polls show the candidates neck and neck. Can Democrat James Talarico hold power in a state that historically leans GOP in the polls? CNN News Central’s John Berman and Chief Data Analyst Harry Enten break down the numbers on why prediction markets also see a tight race for the open Senate seat.

3:48 • Source: CNN

Trump puts himself back on the ballot: 5 takeaways from GOP midterm convention night one

September 10, 2026 5:03am EDT / Fox News

The president unveiled the tariff-funded proposal at the first-ever GOP midterm convention in Dallas

By Paul Steinhauser Fox News

Published September 10, 2026 5:03am EDT | Updated September 10, 2026 7:58am EDT

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Trump offers Americans $5,000 each if GOP wins midterms

The president is claiming that he will disburse over $1 trillion in payments to citizens if Republicans retain control of Congress.

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DALLAS – Facing a difficult political environment as Republicans fight to hold their congressional majorities, President Donald Trump used his address at the first-ever GOP midterm convention to unveil an unusual offer: a $5,000 dividend for every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate.

With less than two months until the midterm elections — and early voting just weeks away — Trump and Republican leaders on the first night of the two-day convention used their speeches to showcase policy wins and paint Democratic Party politicians as far-left radicals.

Facing energized Democrats and stiff political headwinds, Trump and Republicans are using the gathering at the American Airlines Center in Dallas to motivate the party’s MAGA base and boost turnout in key races that will determine control of Congress.

“I’m asking you to pretend that I’m on the ballot,” the president urged, as he rallied his supporters.

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President Donald Trump speaks on stage on the first day of the 2026 Republican National Convention at the American Airlines Center on Sept. 9, 2026, in Dallas, Texas. Trump headlined the Republican National Committee’s first-ever midterm convention to highlight his administration’s achievements and rally support for GOP candidates ahead of the November elections.(Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Here are five takeaways from night one at what has been described by Republican leaders as a “Trumpapalooza.”

Trump’s offer to Americans

Nearly an hour into his address, Trump unveiled what he described as “the best part of the speech,” direct payments to the Americans funded by tariff revenues if Republicans retain control of Congress.

“If the Republicans win the ​House of Representatives and the United States Senate, ⁠ both of them,” Trump announced, “because of our ​tremendous strength and success economically, I will issue a ​dividend to every ‌adult citizen in the United States of ⁠ America for $5,000.”

The president didn’t reveal any other details, other than to add, “The only caveat I have is ​that the dividend that we’re making must be spent in the ‌United States of America.”

Democrats quickly pounced on the president’s proposal.

“Donald Trump and Republicans are once again offering empty promises to Americans,” Democratic National Committee (DNC) Rapid Response Director Kendall Witmer claimed in a statement to Fox News Digital.

Trump’s ‘tremendous’ economy

Amid persistent inflation, a new surge in fuel prices due to a flare-up in the ongoing war with Iran, and a deepening trade war with neighboring Canada, public opinion polls indicate Trump’s approval ratings on the economy remain underwater.

But the president painted an optimistic picture of better times ahead.

Trump touted, “I’m bringing the prices down, way, way down.” He also said that “oil will be going down as soon as we win the war with Iran,” which he said “is taking place right now.”

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President Donald Trump greets attendees as he walks on stage on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, on Sept. 9, 2026. Trump headlined the Republican National Committee’s first-ever midterm convention as he aimed to highlight his administration’s achievements and rally support for GOP candidates ahead of the November elections.(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Trump also showcased the tax cuts passed last year along party lines by the GOP-controlled Congress.

“The largest tax cuts in the history of country,” he highlighted. “We gave you no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on Social Security.”

He also pointed to “the largest prescription drug price cuts in history… that alone should win the midterms.”

While Trump touted “tremendous economic success,” public opinion polls paint a very different picture, with the president’s approval rating on his handling of the economy well into negative territory. Inflation was a key issue that helped boost Trump and the GOP to sweeping election victories in 2024. But Democrats say affordability has been the issue that fueled their ballot box victories and overperformances since Trump returned to the White House.

The DNC, which remains in debt and decided against holding a similar convention, is more than happy to focus on the economy.

“The only people reaping the benefits of Trump’s economy are himself, his family, and his ultra-rich elite donors. Meanwhile, working families get nothing except sky-high receipts at the grocery store and the pump, unaffordable healthcare premiums, and wages that aren’t keeping up with inflation,” the DNC’s Witmer charged.

‘Crazed lunatics’

Midterm elections are often a referendum on the party in power, but Republicans aim to use the convention to draw a contrast as they spotlight Democrats’ leftward lurch in this year’s primaries and tie the party to far-left and socialist proposals.

“These people are radical left communists,” Trump claimed, as he referred to Democrats.

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“Crazed lunatics and radicals,” he added.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in his speech from the convention podium, argued “the radical left is relentless in their pursuit to remake America, in the image of every socialist hellscape of the last century.”

And Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the number three Republican in the chamber charged that “Democrats north, south, east and west are running on this radical roadmap. They sound like an anti-American hate group.”

Counter programming

Hours before the confab kicked off, Democrats presented their prebuttal.

“Voters can see through the BS that Republicans are spewing,” Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois told reporters at a DNC counterprogramming news conference across the street from the convention hall.

“This bizarre Republican midterm convention here can’t paper over the fact that Republicans have done nothing to earn your vote,” Pritzker said.

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Following Trump’s speech, which lasted nearly two hours, DNC Chair Ken Martin argued, “The biggest liability in American politics right now is Donald Trump — and he just proved it. Republicans now have to spin his disastrous, rambling speech when it’s clear that this bizarre dog-and-pony show is being held to placate Trump’s fragile ego.”

Fetterman draws hard line after surprise appearance

Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, a centrist Democrat known for bashing his party’s left flank, made a surprise pre-recorded video appearance at the GOP convention.

As he introduced Pennsylvania’s other U.S. senator, Republican David McCormick, Fetterman explained his appearance.

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“Why am I here talking to you today? Because. Well, I’m a commonsense Democrat. I’m always going to stand with America. I’m always going to reject the extremes and socialism and that anti-American way of life,” the senator said. “Dave McCormick is the kind of senator that gets the job done, and he’s going to fight for Pennsylvania. I’m proud to count him as my friend right back over my shoulder.”

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Fetterman, who is a strong supporter of Israel, has increasingly railed against fellow Democrats who have criticized Israeli leaders over their ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza. Fetterman has said he has “no plans” to leave the Democratic Party. But he added if Democrats officially became the “anti-Israel party,” count him out.

In a statement released after his appearance, Fetterman emphasized, “I’m a lifelong Democrat who votes overwhelmingly with my party—and should the Senate flip in November, I will still be the 51st vote that I ran on.”

Paul Steinhauser covers the national campaign trail from coast to coast for Fox News