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THIS DAY IN HISTORY September 22 1862 Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation The preliminary version of the historic proclamation sets a date for the freedom of more than 3 million people enslaved in the United States and recasts the Civil War as a fight against slavery. read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 1990s 1993 Train derails in Alabama swamp African History 1828 Shaka Zulu assassinated American Revolution 1776 Nathan Hale is executed by the British for spying Arts & Entertainment 1985 The first Farm Aid concert is held in Champaign, Illinois 1994 “Friends” debuts Crime 1933 The Barker clan kills an officer in their fruitless robbery 1980 Midtown Stabber kills his first victim Early 20th Century U.S. 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre of 1906 begins Inventions & Science 1953 The famous “four-level” opens in Los Angeles Middle Eastern History 1980 Iran-Iraq War begins U.S. Presidents 1975 President Ford survives second assassination attempt 1961 President Kennedy signs Peace Corps legislation Vietnam War 1971 Captain Ernest Medina is acquitted of all My Lai Massacre charges World War I 1914 U-boat devastates British squadron World War II 1945 General Patton questions necessity of Germany’s “denazification”

1 fun thing: Toddler raves DJ Lenny Pearce has appropriate props for the song "Five Little Ducks." Photo: Trey Karson Picture this: A concert venue filled with glow sticks, dance beats — and tiny hands in the air. That's a "Toddler Rave," and it's Australian DJ Lenny Pearce's show about to tour the U.S., Axios' Carly Mallenbaum writes. Pearce has built a following by turning songs like "The Wheels on the Bus" into EDM bangers, and those tracks into an interactive show that caters both to little ones and to their raver parents.

💊 Big midterm target: Health care companies Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios The willingness to confront powerful health care interests is becoming a litmus test for candidates in congressional battleground races, Axios' Adriel Bettelheim and Caitlin Owens write. Why it matters: Anxiety over health care costs is driving a new brand of populism as Republicans and Democrats try to outdo each other with tough messages about taking on drug companies, insurers and pharmacy benefit managers. Among the big races focused on cost and coverage: 🧤 1. Michigan: This is easily the nation's largest bellwether for the popularity — or toxicity — of Medicare for All. Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, a former public health official, is backing "Medicare for All" and steps like canceling medical debt, cracking down on hospital mergers and expanding Medicare drug price negotiations. His opponent, Republican Mike Rogers, is calling for penalties on health insurers found to have excessive denials or delays. 🌽 2. Iowa: Both candidates have embraced populist anti-industry messaging. In her first ad of the campaign, Republican Ashley Hinson declared that "health care companies are ripping you off." Democrat Josh Turek, who was born with spina bifida, has made affordability the defining theme of the campaign and has vowed to "take on" Big Pharma and pharmacy benefit managers. 🗳️ Go deeper: 6 more races to watch.

📸 Pic du jour Photo: @MargoMartin47 via X President Trump and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani — facing the East River — take questions from reporters after a friendly meeting in Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side yesterday. Trump said he wants Mamdani "to be a great mayor" and that he has "great potential." More from the meeting. Image: TRUMP TV/YouTube This "Simpsons" frame is from a montage that kicked off the White House's TRUMP TV YouTube channel, which was months in the making but was rushed to air last night amid the press-access fight. The channel, which'll have some theme days, promises: "All the top hits, wins, + more. Streaming 24/7 on your phone or tv."

🔨 Trump's executive sledgehammer Photo illustration: Maura Losch/Axios. Photo: Getty Images What do a White House ban on journalists, a 250-foot arch near the nation's capital and Greenland have in common? President Trump says he needs all of them for national security purposes, Axios' Avery Lotz writes. Why it matters: National security concerns have long fueled the expansion of presidential authority. But Trump has leaned on it for an unusually broad set of priorities — clearing obstacles that would otherwise slow him down. Photo: Jon Elswick/AP 🔎 Zoom in: On the morning that the three outlets banned from the White House (CNN, MS NOW and Politico) sued the administration, Trump posted that "FAKE NEWS" is "a threat to our National Security." He pitched his proposed "triumphal arch" as a dual-use facility housing snipers, drones and ammunition storage "for National Security purposes." Trump used the same reasoning for his White House ballroom. He touts a drone port on the roof and a huge underground military bunker. 📺 State of play: The other major television networks that make up the White House television pool — CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox News — suspended their participation over CNN's ban. The New York Times said it wouldn't "publish or distribute any images taken as part of the White House still photography pool today." The Washington Post said it wouldn't "publish any photographs of today's presidential events ... until midnight Eastern Time, joining a collective effort with photographers in other newsrooms covering the White House." NPR said it won't use audio from White House events until further notice. The White House argued in a statement titled "White House Access Is a Privilege — Not a Right" that "no President is required to host a hostile operation on the grounds." Keep reading ... How the pool works.

🤖 Trillion-dollar AI safety paradox Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Stock: Getty Images The race for AI supremacy between labs, companies and countries may be impossible to reconcile with the push for AI safety, industry insiders tell Axios' Madison Mills. Why it matters: The top AI companies are proposing more independent oversight as they seek to engineer an AI slowdown. But trillions of dollars in incentives to keep pushing the frontier — and the money required for such scaling — will always loom larger. 💸 Follow the money: The incentive for speed is a lot more lucrative than the push to slow down in favor of safety. Keep reading ...

AI's red phone Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios. Stock: Getty Images A distinctly Cold War calculus is looming over this week's Trump-Xi summit in Washington, as the U.S. and China weigh an emergency "red phone" for the day AI goes haywire, Axios' Zachary Basu writes. Why it matters: U.S.-China relations are so brittle that an AI hotline — not a trade pact, strategic slowdown or diplomatic reset — could emerge as the summit's most meaningful outcome. 🖼️ The big picture: President Trump has spent the past week lashing out at AI "doomers" and boiling the race down to a single imperative: beat China. Trump has called AI-catastrophe fears a "HOAX" and vowed the U.S. would "not in any way hinder or stifle" AI as it fights to preserve its lead over Beijing. America's leading AI labs largely share Trump's urgency about China, but not his conclusion: Many argue the intensity of the race is precisely why global safeguards are needed. At the same time, China is every bit as determined to win the AI race, but its leader Xi Jinping — who lands in Washington tomorrow for his first state visit since 2015 — is balancing two competing fears: Falling behind: Xi has no interest in a safety regime that freezes the race with America still ahead. Beijing is pushing cheap, capable open-source models around the world while portraying U.S. chip controls and calls for restraint as a calculated effort to keep China down. Losing control: Xi wants AI powerful enough to transform China's economy, but never so powerful that it slips beyond the control of the Communist Party. Beijing focuses less on Silicon Valley-style extinction scenarios than on nearer-term dangers, like cyberattacks, malicious use and disruptions to critical infrastructure. 🔬 Zoom in: That narrow overlap is why Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pitched Chinese officials this weekend on a "notification mechanism" for AI incidents with national-security implications. The Cold War precedent is the hotline Washington and Moscow established after the Cuban Missile Crisis — a direct channel designed to keep accidents and ambiguity from escalating into nuclear Armageddon. Trump and Xi are expected to discuss shared AI risks when they meet at the White House on Thursday. 🥊 Reality check: So far, nobody has publicly defined what would make the red phone ring. In an AI catastrophe — say, a frontier model launches a major cyberattack on critical infrastructure — the first alarm may sound inside a private company rather than a military command center.

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UN General Assembly The United Nations opens the high-level General Debate of its 81st General Assembly in New York City today, with speeches from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and President Donald Trump. Artificial intelligence headlines the agenda for the first time, with the Security Council holding a high-level meeting on the issue tomorrow. The conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran will also be focal points. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will speak tomorrow, seeking support as Russia's invasion enters its fifth year; Russian President Vladimir Putin is absent for the 11th straight year. On Thursday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will speak via prerecorded video after the US denied him a visa for the second consecutive year. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak later that day, with his remarks expected to address Israel's actions in Gaza and Iran. See full speaker schedule here. The gathering is Guterres’ last as secretary-general. Costa Rican diplomat Rebeca Grynspan has a narrow lead after three informal polls to succeed him and would become the UN’s first female secretary-general if selected.

Press Pool Protest ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox yesterday suspended TV coverage of presidential events in response to President Donald Trump barring CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House over reporting he characterized as fake news. The move came shortly after CNN, MS NOW, and Politico filed a lawsuit against Trump, arguing his decision violates the First Amendment. The three banned outlets are members of the White House press pool, alongside ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, and others. The pool was established in 1937 and has covered every president's daily activities since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Outlets rotate traveling with the president, sharing footage, photos, and quotes with one another. The White House Correspondents' Association has historically selected the pool, but the Trump administration began exerting greater control last year, restricting wire services such as the Associated Press and adding startup media outlets. Last night, the White House launched a 24/7 streaming platform called "Trump TV" to broadcast real-time updates and highlights from major events.

A senator’s sister just filled his seat. How does that work? Not all Senate seats are won at the ballot box. Here's who fills them and how long they serve in the Senate. https://usafacts.org/articles/the-viz-lab/a-senators-sister-just-filled-his-seat-how-does-that-work/? Is Congress representative of the American people? Congress is older, more educated, and made up of a higher share of men than the US population. https://usafacts.org/articles/is-congress-representative-of-the-american-people/? One last fact Jobs grew in 26 states and Washington, DC, in July. Maryland gained the most jobs, 11,700. Wyoming gained a little over 100, the fewest of any state. Meanwhile, New Jersey lost the most jobs compared to the month prior: 25,600.

🧡 Parting shot: Vineyard in gold Photo: Laine Hern Axios' own Laine Hern sent us this shot of the Aquinnah Cliffs on Martha's Vineyard from her recent trip.

Rings Before Marriage in Hellenistic Jerusalem? A recent ‘Atiqot article draws attention to a small number of remarkable finds from Hellenistic Jerusalem: four gold ornaments and three bronze earrings recovered from Building 110 in the Givati Parking Lot excavations. Dating to the late third and early second centuries BCE, these objects show some aspect of domestic life in Jerusalem during a period of increased interaction with the wider Hellenistic world. https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/rings-before-marriage-in-hellenistic-jerusalem/?

Prostate Cancer Symptoms There are no warning signs of early prostate cancer. You can’t feel the growing tumor pushing against anything else, so there’s no pain. You can have the disease for years and not know it. That’s why regular prostate cancer screenings are so important. https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/understanding-prostate-cancer-symptoms? Prostate Cancer and Erectile Dysfunction Erectile dysfunction, also called impotence, is the inability to develop or sustain an erection satisfactory for sexual intercourse. https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/impotence-prostate-cancer? The Prostate Cancer Test More Men Should Ask About Pre-biopsy MRIs can help doctors diagnose and treat prostate cancer more accurately. Here’s when you should get one. https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20251215/prostate-cancer-mri-test-men-ask-about? What to Know About Supplements and Prostate Health The prostate is a small gland located beneath the bladder and in front of the rectum. It's a male reproductive organ that produces semen and plays an essential role in the urinary system. https://www.webmd.com/men/what-to-know-about-supplements-and-prostate-health? Advances in Treatment for Prostate Cancer Medically Reviewed by Jabeen Begum, MD on March 05, 2025 https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/ss/cm/slideshow-advances-treatment-prostate-cancer? Can I Prevent BPH? Men with BPH have a larger-than-normal prostate. Some 9 in 10 men will have it by the time they’re in their 80s. Even with those chances, you still might ask: Are there things I can do to prevent it? https://www.webmd.com/men/prostate-enlargement-bph/can-i-prevent-bph? Prostate Cancer: When to Go to the Emergency Room Most prostate cancers are slow-growing and don’t spread beyond your prostate gland, which makes them easier to treat. Some can be aggressive and spread through your body. No matter which type you have, it’s important to know the symptoms that signal a problem your doctor needs to know about -- and which symptoms mean it’s time to head to the emergency room. https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/prostate-cancer-emergency-room? Slideshow: A Visual Guide to Enlarged Prostate (BPH) Medically Reviewed by Melinda Ratini, MS, DO on January 13, 2026 https://www.webmd.com/men/prostate-enlargement-bph/ss/cm/slideshow-bph-overview? Are There Health Benefits of a Prostate Massage? It's a way to empty fluids from your prostate ducts. This therapy might offer some health benefits, or your doctor might use it to diagnose a problem. But it’s not something doctors usually recommend or use for testing or treatment. https://www.webmd.com/men/prostate-massage? Prostate Cancer Pain: A Guide for You and Your Family Having cancer does not always mean having pain. For those with pain, there are many different kinds of medicines, different ways to receive the medicine, and non-drug methods that can relieve the pain you may have. You should not accept pain as a normal part of having cancer. When you are free of pain, you can sleep and eat better, enjoy the company of family and friends, and continue with your work and hobbies. https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/prostate-cancer-pain-guide? Things That May Slow Prostate Cancer Progression It’s early yet, but some research shows a healthy diet and regular exercise can slow the progress of prostate cancer. More studies are under way. In the meantime, cut back on sugar. Eat leaner meats and lots of colorful fruits and veggies. Stay away from fatty dairy products. When you hit the gym, do both cardio and weights. https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/ss/slideshow-prostate-cancer-slow-progression? A Healthy Sex Life After Prostate Cancer While most men will face some issues in the bedroom after prostate cancer treatment, these problems are often temporary or treatable. https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/sex-life-after-prostate-cancer? Health Tips for Men in Their 60s and Up Written by Gina Shaw Medically Reviewed by Nayana Ambardekar, MD on November 20, 2022 https://www.webmd.com/men/simple-health-steps-men-60s-up?

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Reality Bites View in browser President Trump is going through a rough patch—in foreign relations, in the economy, in the courts, and in election outlook—and he believes that he has found the culprits: CNN, MS NOW, and Politico. On Friday, Trump said he was banning the three outlets from the White House “as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS” and warned that more bans could come. When he feels beleaguered, he tends to lash out at familiar enemies, especially reporters. The idea that negative coverage is to blame for his predicament is perversely flattering. But Trump’s true scourge is reality, not how the news is covering it. Although the decision is part of a gradually intensifying attack on free speech, as I noted last month, it has drawn particular pushback. This morning, five major TV networks (including Fox News) agreed to suspend pool coverage of the president and White House events after CNN was blocked from its previously assigned spot in a pool rotation today. The three banned outlets also sued over their exclusion. How such a suit will fare is unclear; Trump banned the Associated Press from the White House press pool last year after it refused to adopt his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, and a lawsuit challenging the ban is still pending. After Trump committed a Kinsley gaffe on Friday by calling his move “the ban on the free press,” he tried to clean up his spin this morning. “The White House is not instituting an assault on the Free Press, something which I cherish. It is instituting an assault on the FAKE NEWS,” he wrote, claiming that it “is a threat to our National Security, and must be stopped, NOW!” This is nonsense. Trump has every right to hate the way he’s covered, but if the government has the power to decide what is fake and what is true, then the press is not free. Trump’s post demonstrates his talismanic belief in the power of news coverage. The president himself has been obsessed with attention—how to get it and how to shape it—for his entire life, and he is a relic from an era when the media were so dominant, and had such control over the means of reaching an audience, that they seemed to shape reality. They are much diminished today, occupying a strange, unstable role: strong enough to be blamed for both Trump’s rise and his downfall, yet weak enough that they can be threatened with relative impunity. Though Trump’s attacks on free speech are unlike any in living memory, his is not the first administration to believe that its problems are about messaging and coverage. In 2012, Barack Obama said that the biggest mistake of his first term “was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right,” because “the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people.” A decade later, Joe Biden’s administration was convinced that negative coverage of inflation and Biden’s age were bigger problems than inflation or the president’s evident frailty. Now Trump is making the same misjudgment. He is not unpopular because of Politico, an outlet that focuses largely on Washington machinations, or because of MS NOW or CNN, two cable channels that—as he is fond of pointing out—have relatively small audiences for television. The media cannot be “failing” and all-powerful at the same time. Trump is unpopular because (to name a few big reasons) he is losing a war of choice to Iran, making inflation worse without seeming to care how voters feel, overreaching with draconian immigration enforcement, and focusing on vanity projects that don’t matter to voters. Ironically, Trump is committing the same error as many liberal critics of the press, who seem to believe that popular support for the president would have collapsed long ago if the media had used harsher words to describe him. But the idea that tougher coverage would have stopped him is fantasy. Although the press has made many mistakes in how it has reported on the president, including giving him hours of uninterrupted TV air time in 2016, downplaying bigoted remarks, and “sanewashing” some statements, Trump has also received more intensive investigation and negative coverage than any president in American history. Some of that coverage has surely been hackish partisanship—which is protected by the First Amendment too—but much of it has been earned. Newspapers, magazines, wire services, and TV networks have turned out a series of scoops about the chaos inside the administration, Trump’s policy errors, and the pervasive corruption around him. In late 2023, The Atlantic published a set of prescient essays considering what would happen if Trump won back the White House. Voters had even lived through one Trump presidency already. They had access to the relevant information before they voted him in again. Believing that Americans might have chosen differently if only The New York Times had abandoned its obtuse headline conventions is comforting to some Trump critics, because it puts the blame on the press rather than acknowledging that a majority of those who voted wanted Trump. By the same token, Trump would rather blame news outlets he does not like than confront the reality that some of those same voters are rejecting him because of his choices. The president faces an additional risk in trying to ban these three outlets. He detests adversarial coverage, but he desperately desires attention. This afternoon, Trump spoke with reporters outside the White House. Usually, his comments are captured by the boom mics from the pool TV team, but without their presence today, he was inaudible. Censorship can silence anyone, it turns out—even the censor. Related: Trump’s attacks on the media are self-defeating. The pinball president

Photos of divers exploring Tyre’s ancient ruins after the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire Divers explore ancient ruins beneath the Mediterranean off Tyre, Lebanon, as visitors return following a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. Submerged walls and harbor structures reflect the city’s Phoenician and Roman past. Read More.

Jury convicts Vermont man of attempted murder in shooting of 3 Palestinian students A jury on Monday convicted a Vermont man of attempted murder in the shootings of three Palestinian college students who were walking near his home, rejecting an insanity defense rooted in his claims that he was acting on orders from U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies. Read More.

Gates Foundation launches coalition to build more representative language data sets for AI The Gates Foundation is convening Anthropic, Google, OpenAI Foundation and dozens of other organizations to help make artificial intelligence more accessible in underrepresented languages. Read More.

Flights disrupted across the US Northeast due to technical problems at a key air traffic center Hundreds of flights were canceled in the U.S. Northeast due to technical problems at a key regional air traffic control center, hitting every major airport in the New York City area for several hours Monday before the federal transportation chief said damaged data lines were fixed and operations were resuming. https://apnews.com/article/faa-flights-laguardia-newark-jfk-airport-85e2321733ff604f7a5e93ce136945b9?

⛈️ El Niño triggers California statewide emergency Homes damaged by flooding on Sept. 8 in Dana Point, Calif., south of Los Angeles. Photo: Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) declared a state of emergency today amid a potentially historic El Niño weather event. Newsom's office says the move "directs state agencies to begin protecting vulnerable communities, prepare roads and critical infrastructure, stage emergency supplies, and help local partners reduce flood, landslide, and coastal risks." 🌊 El Niño — characterized by warmer-than-usual ocean surface temperatures in the Pacific — can drive more potent and more frequent storms and coastal flooding in California. Some coastal California towns have already been dealing with erosion and property damage tied to recent storm activity. Newsom's office noted the climate change link: "A study published in the journal Science last month found El Niño events are now more than 36% stronger than before the industrial era, with this trend accelerating over the last 40 years as the planet warms." Read the announcement.

TV networks band together Photo illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Photos: Getty Images The five major TV networks, which share responsibility for pooled video coverage of President Trump, have ceased that work in solidarity with the three outlets he banned from the White House, Axios' Sara Fischer reports. ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News and CNN said in an unusual joint statement: "The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government. No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting." 📺 By backing CNN, MS NOW and Politico, the TV giants signaled that they're willing to use their combined leverage to pressure the White House into reinstating access. The networks' power is practical and cultural: They collectively manage the pooled video that puts the presidency on television, the medium that made Trump a national celebrity and that he has long closely monitored. 🧑‍⚖️ CNN, MS NOW, and Politico today filed a joint First Amendment lawsuit, arguing that the president and his administration violated their rights by blocking access over the weekend. The lawsuit is a historic show of solidarity amongst the banned outlets. Go deeper. (Disclosure: Sara is a CNN contributor.)