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Gavin Newsom clearly has no love left for Donald Trump.

The Democrat compared the president to an “invasive species” in an interview with CBS News that aired Sunday.

“He is an invasive species to the country, to the world,” Newsom, who is often at odds with Trump, said. “He’s a wrecking ball, not just the symbolism and the essence of it [demolition of the White House] East Wing, but he is destroying alliances, truth, trust, tradition, institutions.

The governor said the state does not need such a military-style operation and pointed to California’s ongoing cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to remove dangerous criminals from the state prison system.

“That’s not what this thing is about and everybody knows it,” Newsom said. “You don’t just come into the carwash and tell me this is about a worst-to-worst-case scenario.”

Donald Trump is constantly urging expectant mothers and new parents not to use Tylenol, and repeating the administration’s unsupported claims that the painkiller causes autism.

“Pregnant women, do not use Tylenol unless absolutely necessary, do not give Tylenol to your young child for virtually any reason,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday.

The post also repeated many of the president’s scientifically unsupported claims that parents should immediately delay giving their children full doses of recommended vaccines.

Last month, we reported on why the administration’s claims about Tylenol and autism are wrong.

A Republican senator has increased his opposition to the Trump administration War on alleged drug traffickers In the Caribbean Sea, which he is pursuing without congressional authorization.

Senator Rand Paul was on Fox News Sunday, where he described military operations as “extrajudicial killings” against ships in the area, a term meaning he believes the entire effort is illegal in the absence of a congressional mandate. He also called them “wrong”.

“I would call these extrajudicial killings. It’s like what China does, what Iran does to drug dealers,” the senator claimed. “They summarily hang people without presenting any evidence to the public. So this is wrong.”

Paul reported that the Trump administration was changing the terms of engagement for narco-traffickers, without constitutionally required approval from the legislative branch. What had previously been a law enforcement matter – where lethal attacks on ships without warning would be completely prohibited – the White House was now treating the situation as a military matter, where the senator said people are often killed without due process of trial and punishment.

john bowden Report from Washington.

ahead of a Controversial August summit Between Trump and Putin in Alaska, the State Department’s internal intelligence agency took a more ambivalent stance on the question than other areas of the administration, warning the President about Putin’s reluctance to end the conflict in assessments and presidential briefings, wall street journal reports,

“We stood firm,” said John Williams, who resigned as director earlier this year. state DepartmentRussia-Eurasia analysis at the intelligence bureau, told the newspaper. “We didn’t see that [Putin] There was encouragement to negotiate to end the war.

“In the intelligence community, diverse viewpoints are not normal – they are essential,” the administration office said. director of national intelligence said in a statement in response to the reporting. “That debate is how we ensure that our decision makers have the most accurate picture possible to protect the safety and freedom of the American people.”

More details in our full story.

Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, a former hedge fund manager with a guess Net worth around $600 millionclaimed on Sunday that he could relate to farmers worried about Trump’s tariffs because he, too, is a farmer.

“If you don’t know, I’m actually a soybean farmer, so I’ve felt this pain,” Besant. told ABC News on Sunday.

Besant Allegedly Owns $25 million worth of farmland in North Dakota, which it rents to growers.

Besant said in her ABC interview that a soon-to-be-announced trade agreement with China would provide relief, although she declined to “get ahead of the President” and actually disclose it.

According to Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, Donald Trump is actually happy that the government is shut down.

“One of the reasons President Trump is refusing to negotiate is he likes the fact that the government is shut down because he thinks he can exercise powers like gender,” Murphy told CNN on Sunday. “He can open up the parts of the government he wants. He can pay off employees who are loyal to him. This is a leader who is trying to move our government much closer to a democracy than to a totalitarian state.”

Murphy, who serves on the Appropriations Committee, pointed to recent Private donation of $130 millionFrom reportedly being a top donor to the Trump campaign, to funding US troops during the shutdown as an example of Trump’s increasingly individualistic style, which has often included taking major steps without consulting Congress.

“This is part of what happens in authoritarian states – the leader, the regime simply decides which things get funded and which not, often in coordination with their oligarch friends.”

Analysts within the Trump administration this summer reportedly had conflicting opinions on whether Russian President Vladimir Putin really wanted to end the war in Ukraine, as the president was willing to meet with him about it. a summit in alaska,

The Central Intelligence Agency’s outlook was relatively optimistic, wall street journal reportsWhile the State Department’s internal intelligence team was more suspicious.

As the year goes on, it looks like the latter party may be right, or at least more in line with the president’s current thinking.

Trump has Accepted This month, Russia’s major oil companies tried to force Putin to step down and the White House canceled a meeting Trump had claimed would take place with the Russian leader in Budapest in the coming weeks.

Donald Trump may be in Asia, but that hasn’t stopped the president from returning to his oft-rejected and false claim that the 2020 US presidential election was rigged and that he was the true winner.

In a Truth Social post on Sunday, the President compared the 2020 election to recent elections nba gambling scandal And he appears to have called on federal authorities to prosecute.

“The 2020 presidential election is a bigger scam than rigging and theft,” Trump wrote. “Look what happened to our country when a crooked idiot became our “President”!” Now we know everything. I hope the DOJ will pursue this with the same zeal as the biggest scandal in American history!”

In the post, he also claimed, without evidence, that California’s effort to pass redistricting ballots to counter a Trump-led GOP effort to add more seats to Texas was “completely dishonest”, with “millions of ballots being ‘sent’.”

The US president, who was in Malaysia on Sunday, used the threat of higher tariffs against both countries to force them to agree to end a century-old dispute that has left dozens dead and hundreds of thousands displaced.

President Trump announced that both sides had agreed to end all hostilities and that the “peace deal” would save millions of lives.

At least 18 Cambodian prisoners of war will be released after this ceasefire Expansion. The agreement orders both sides to begin removing heavy weapons from the border.

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The President is facing sharp criticism from members of both parties over its continued use. military attacks against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.

“I would call them extrajudicial killings. It’s similar to what China and Iran do,” Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky told Fox News on Sunday. “They summarily execute people without presenting any evidence to the public. This is wrong.”

Arizona’s Democrat Senator Ruben Gallego had a similar argument.

“This is murder. It’s that simple. If the president feels they are doing something illegally, he should use the Coast Guard,” he told meet the Press“This is murder. This is sanctioned murder.”