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He did pay for it, vicariously, through the slain sacrifice. Sin was transferred when the penitent laid his hand upon the sacrifice and confessed. The animal was slain in the sinner's place. The blood then atoned for the sinner. 21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send [him] away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: 22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.   27 And the bullock [for] the sin offering, and the goat [for] the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy [place], shall [one] carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung. [Underlining is mine]

Prolific storms soak the Southwest Flooding is seen in the Crownpoint District of New Mexico on Tuesday. (Navajo Police Department) Unusually potent storms triggered deadly flash floods across the normally arid Southwest this week. The storms dropped more than a month’s worth of rain in just a few hours north of Phoenix on Wednesday afternoon and caused flash flooding that killed three people in New Mexico. Officials also reported inundated roads and stranded vehicles, with multiple drivers rescued in parts of Arizona. Meteorologists say the heavy rain threat will gradually diminish across the rest of the Southwest today, but anticipated downpours across the Midwest and Great Lakes region could trigger flash flooding through the weekend. Today’s threat stretches from Minneapolis and Milwaukee to Des Moines, shifting Saturday toward Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland. + Read more: Latest on flash flooding in the Southwest + Video: ‘Muddy puddle’ befuddles a Waymo self-driving vehicle after Arizona storm + Stay ahead: Get your local forecast from the CNN Weather app

A measles surge meets vaccine skepticism As vaccination rates decline nationally and measles cases rise globally, experts warn the US measles death toll could climb this year and beyond. Medical professionals stress that vaccines are highly safe and effective, and serious vaccine injuries are extremely rare. But Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to cast doubt on their safety and effectiveness. On Thursday, he received a standing ovation at a conference hosted by the anti-vaccine advocacy group Children’s Health Defense, where he delivered the keynote address. Amid the worst US measles outbreak in decades — driven largely by unvaccinated people — Kennedy said he would not restrict access to vaccines but spoke critically about them and vowed to fight for those who share his views. + Read more: Kennedy tells anti-vaccine group that he’ll ‘stay in this fight’ + Plus: How common are measles deaths in the US as vaccination rates fall?

Does anyone know if Dr. Gulley affirms that Christ was a 1/3rd of "God", could have sinned, lost His salvation, been eternally smitten by "Father God" causing Christ to eternally cease to exist (i.e. become as if He never existed in the 1st place)?

Senators from both parties voice criticism about Pentagon briefing on US defense strategy Lawmakers said they were left deeply unsettled Thursday after the Pentagon's top policy adviser, Defense Undersecretary Elbridge Colby, failed to provide an expected update on the Trump administration’s National Defense Strategy at a classified briefing. Read more. Why this matters: Tensions are mounting between the Pentagon and Congress over the flow of information to lawmakers about the U.S. military’s priorities. Both Democrats and Republicans accused Colby of being frustratingly opaque. They also say they were unsatisfied with Colby’s answers to questions ranging from inquiries about the Iran war to growing concerns that Trump could deploy troops to polling places during November’s midterm congressional elections.

Millions of people have crossed into the United States over the past decade. But what happened after the border? Data obtained exclusively by The Associated Press paints a picture of who these migrants are and where they went. Cincinnati, for example, saw a large number of arrivals from West Africa, Uzbekistan and India. The suburbs south of Salt Lake City were listed as destinations for many Venezuelans. Chinese migrants were most often listed as heading to major metro areas. Explore our interactive map and look up your own zip code here. Why this matters: It provides both a sweeping and an unusually granular look at how the immigration surge — one that peaked during President Joe Biden’s administration and was a major reason voters returned his predecessor, Donald Trump, to the White House — is playing out today. AP’s analysis is based on federal records giving the self-reported destinations of 4.5 million migrants released in the United States after crossing the Mexican border — both legally and illegally — between October 2018 and July 2025. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ How AP obtained and analyzed data on 4.5 million migrants Many Venezuelan immigrants shun Florida and turn to smaller cities in Utah, elsewhere African asylum seekers find home in unlikely new American melting pots PHOTO ESSAY: A small town on Cincinnati’s outskirts is among those transformed by immigration surge

September 18, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. Let’s look at some art. The National Gallery Destiny’s child The exhibition of the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum was the talk of London when I got to town. Lots of people were still jamming into the Tate Modern to see the Frida Kahlo show. Had I seen the bloody Anish Kapoor installation at the Hayward? Nope. My target was the National Gallery, where I wanted to visit a towering portrait of an 18th-century French nobleman, “Le Comte de Vaudreuil,” painted in 1758 by François-Hubert Drouais. That’s it, above the headline. ☝️ Even in this museum crowded with portraits of the wealthy, the Vaudreuil portrait stands out: imperious, childlike, pompous, vain. I don’t know what it’s like to have some kid dressed in sunglasses and Ralph Lauren Purple Label show up on my doorstep looking to pick my daughter up for a date. But I stare at this wigged broheim with some fast-running combination of fascination, worry, contempt and curiosity — and feel as if I might. In a museum, those are excellent things to feel. They’re a reminder of the power of art. Look at the guy yourself for a moment, with his teenage hauteur! Observe his rosebud lips and apple-hued cheeks, his doe eyes, perfect grooming and shining velvet clothes stitched with gold. Check out those red-heeled Louboutin-style slippers while you’re at it: talons rouges, uniform of the royal court. He’s pointing at a map of the Caribbean, not so much to show you something as to declare it is what he owns. The National Gallery Who is this character? Beyond his title, the count has a mouthful of a name: Joseph Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud. He was born in 1740 on the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), the son of the governor, whose family wealth derived from vast sugar plantations worked by laborers held in slavery. That wealth brought the count to Paris, bought him his clothes, bought him his Drouais portrait and eventually allowed him to amass one of the great art collections in France. He’s 18 here, new to Europe. Something about his portrait reminds me of the work of the photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield, who has spent decades documenting the lives and milieu of the wealthy. Greenfield has a particularly great eye for rich young people like Vaudreuil, scions who present themselves as people in full. She captures the essential falsity of that notion while allowing her subjects to maintain their self-confidence, their sense of self-worth. Drouais, too. Meredith Martin and Hannah Williams, art historians who’ve been studying art in 18th-century France for years, and who’ve written movingly about Vaudreuil’s portrait, suggest that getting the artist to paint it was savvy. In 1757, Drouais was well on his way to becoming the leading portraitist of Parisian high society. If you wanted to make a statement about your place in it, he’d be your guy. Martin told me the scale of the painting alone — it’s more than seven feet tall and just over five feet wide — is of the type “usually reserved only for royalty.” Certainly Drouais gave Vaudreuil the royal treatment. His pose is nearly casual, free of the military stiffness that you might expect from someone with a heap of armor at his feet (look to the right of the count’s left foot). “He’s relaxed,” Martin told me. “There’s something brash about how he’s thrown his hat and gloves down on the chair.” The National Gallery The setting is definitely grand: a map room of the sort that Martin said would be rare even in the grandest of Parisian homes, with beautifully patterned wood floors and gold leaf everywhere. And take a close look at how the count inhabits the space, at how he’s pulling the map from the wall and stabbing his forefinger at the place where his father’s plantations lie: This is where it’s at. Look at the guy again. Behind Vaudreuil is another map: continental Europe, theater of the Seven Years’ War, where the count had been a short-lived junior officer. Remember the pile of armor? The painting seems to say: Forget about Europe, about wars on horseback. That’s the past. Look to the Caribbean instead, to the riches waiting there. The French Revolution sent Vaudreuil packing in 1789. Two years later, revolution in Haiti took his family’s holdings. I walked out into the London afternoon feeling pretty grand. Related: The white manager on Vaudreuil’s plantations had a child with an enslaved worker there. That son is depicted in another painting in a London museum. Martin and Williams tracked down one of his descendants, Madeleine Le Cesne, a poet and scholar from Louisiana. Then they shot a short film about both paintings with her. Watch. FREE TO READ They tore down a mansion and put up a parking lot. That’s the $25 million plan, anyway. Republicans have found themselves pouring money into districts and states that President Trump won easily in 2024. In some of those races, strategists wonder if it’s too late. Photos captured through the windows of Air Force One show Trump reviewing a poster with the title “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED.” What does it mean? Your pick: The most clicked story in The Morning yesterday was about new words in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. THE LATEST NEWS Politics Trump is considering business deals with Russia to entice Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine. Trump withdrew his nomination of a former Oklahoma state trooper to lead ICE. He did not explain the decision. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told members of the anti-vaccine group he founded that they had a “friend at the White House.” A Republican congresswoman from Florida released an ad directly attacking Trump’s immigration crackdown, saying Hispanic voters “feel betrayed.” The streamer Hasan Piker said in an interview that the United States had caused more terror than Al Qaeda. It’s yet another headache for Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, who campaigned with Piker during the primary. The Trump administration is moving forward with selling F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, despite intelligence warnings of Chinese espionage risks. Attorney General Todd Blanche is upending Justice Department norms and wading into partisan politics. He has repeatedly participated in campaign events recently. Around the World Magdalena Andersson, who is likely to be Sweden’s next prime minister. Jonas Ekstromer/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Sweden’s center-left political parties won parliamentary elections this week, making the country one of the first in Europe to stop the far right’s march to power. After deadly floods in Nepal, experts are worried the region is unprepared for future climate disasters. Before the war in Iran, China imported and stockpiled huge amounts of foreign oil. Its strategy is paying off. The Iran-backed Houthis are expanding their offensive in Yemen. Japan raised interest rates after pressure from the United States. Artificial Intelligence Internal documents show Microsoft and OpenAI employees worried that using news articles to train artificial intelligence was a form of theft. Human scientists are teaching A.I. bots to work as “scientists” in virtual labs, researching potential drugs and running experiments without having to eat or sleep. Initial results are promising. Other Big Stories Alabama executed an inmate by lethal injection, months after the Supreme Court blocked the state from executing him with nitrogen gas. Scientists reported that they had found a gene-editing defense in nature, in viruses themselves. It seems to be the evolutionary ancestor of CRISPR gene editing. OPINIONS The New York Times turns 175 today. A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher, writes about what it means to be the paper of record when the future of America’s free press is uncertain. The organ donation system in the United States should be trustworthy. It is not, argues the founder of a nonprofit focused on reform. Introducing the Shows tab. A new place to find and follow podcasts in audio and video. Explore Shows in The Times app. TODAY’S NUMBER Paola Chapdelaine for The New York Times 40 — That’s how many life-size buffalo puppets will stampede through New York this weekend as part of a public art spectacle. Amir Nizar Zuabi, the artist behind the event, explains why. 🦬 SPORTS M.L.B.: The Los Angeles Dodgers’ owner, Mark Walter, faces a class-action lawsuit that accuses him of insurance fraud and hiding an investigation from insurance policyholders. Fitness: A Hyrox athlete who continued competing despite defecating on herself has apologized. N.F.L.: Josh Allen passed for three touchdowns and ran for two to power the Buffalo Bills to a 41-31 win over the Detroit Lions in the Bills’ new Highmark Stadium. RECIPE OF THE DAY Bryan Gardner for The New York Times I dig this Kay Chun recipe for eggplant dal, a silkier version of the Indian creamed lentil dish known as masoor dal. It’s simple stuff, terrific to cook at the end of a long week. You just toast cumin seeds, coriander, garlic, ginger and fresh chiles in oil and butter, then simmer them with lentils and eggplant to magic a rich, perfumed stew. Basmati rice on the side, please. THE SPACESHIP Jake Michaels for The New York Times The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens in Los Angeles next week. Michael Kimmelman, The Times’s architecture critic, calls it “a weird kind of wonderful and an instant city landmark.” It’s a vanity museum devoted to the idiosyncratic art collection of its founder, the “Star Wars” director George Lucas, a cathedral of work made by his kindred spirits — in Michael’s words, “fellow populists, visual virtuosos and storytellers.” That may not be for you. But the building, wow. Take a look at the photographs. More on culture The psychedelic pop artist (and businessman) Peter Max died this week at 88. Jason Farago, our art critic, took the measure of his work, “a benign and still enduring fantasy of individual expression at corporate scale.” Max saw America shining. The face of London in the 1960s, Twiggy, is living her best life at nearly 77. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS Courtesy of the brands Consider a purse that looks like a log cabin — or one that resembles a robot. I like the pomegranate shoulder bag, myself. Read this story about a school superintendent in Joplin, Mo. After a deadly tornado, his experience shows how local officials are carrying undue burdens as disasters become more common. Do your family’s laundry this weekend without turning into a grumpus. The washerfolk at Wirecutter, with thousands of loads in their rearview mirrors, have great tips and hacks. Take our news quiz. Deploy these phrases to help defuse arguments with your loved ones. One of them is definitely not “calm down.” (Read the comments for more.) Catherine Pearson Reporter What phrases would you add to this list? I'll add one: My wise and wonderful 99-year-old nana has long recommended saying something like, "huh, you might be right!" when a marital spat is brewing. I've tried it — with pretty decent success. (And it works with kids, too.) 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THIS DAY IN HISTORY September 18 1793 George Washington lays the Capitol cornerstone George Washington lays the cornerstone to the United States Capitol building, the home of the legislative branch of American government. read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT 1980s 1987 Hundreds are accidentally poisoned in Brazil Arts & Entertainment 1970 Jimi Hendrix found dead 1987 “Fatal Attraction” opens in the U.S. 1974 Doris Day wins malpractice lawsuit Games This Week in History Quiz Test your knowledge of major events that occurred this week in history. play now Asian History 1976 One million people attend funeral of Mao Zedong Civil War 1862 Union General George B. McClellan lets Confederates retreat from Antietam Cold War 1960 Fidel Castro arrives in New York Colonial America 1634 Anne Hutchinson arrives in America Crime 1975 Patty Hearst captured by police 1959 Serial killer Harvey Glatman is executed Inventions & Science 1981 Canada mall sets parking-lot record Mysteries & Folklore 1973 Future President Jimmy Carter files report on UFO sighting

🇻🇪 Scoop: Trump plans Venezuela sit-down President Trump is planning a first-ever meeting with Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, as early as Tuesday, sources familiar with the discussions tell Axios' Marc Caputo. Why it matters: The potential meeting showcases the close relations between the nations under Trump. But it's also fraught with political risks that stretch from Miami to Caracas. 👀 Behind the scenes: Trump is already planning to meet with Gulf leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York next week to discuss the Iran war, and those who know his thinking say he wants to make time for a sideline sit-down with Rodríguez, sources said. A Trump adviser told Axios: "Iran is tough, but Venezuela is without a doubt the president's top success and Delcy is a key to that. Unless something goes really wrong, the president wants to make time." A senior administration official cautioned: "Nothing is finalized. This is up to the president."

Inside the scramble for trusted AI cops Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Stock: Getty Images A host of industry players, policy wonks and businesses are grappling with the question of how to regulate AI in a trustworthy manner. Inside the White House, it's mostly business as usual, Axios' Maria Curi reports. Why it matters: The industry's mad dash stems from an ad hoc regulatory apparatus. But swift action from Washington is unlikely. 🎨 The big picture: An ecosystem of safety and benchmarking groups already exists. But some White House officials and AI execs see them as too closely tied to top AI companies. Other options include businesses and startups that already do evaluations.

🤷 Stumping Wall Street Data: Financial Modeling Prep. Chart: Axios/Emily Peck JPMorgan analysts offered an unusually blunt assessment of the oil market: They have no idea what happens next. "For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don't have a baseline view. We simply don't know how to model the endgame." Why it matters: Market watchers have come to grips with the likelihood that the status of the Strait of Hormuz — and the number of barrels getting through — will be messy for months to come, Axios' Ben Geman writes.

Claude helping build its next version Chart: Anthropic Claude is helping Anthropic develop the next, more intelligent version of itself, the AI lab announced: "Claude is not operating fully autonomously for any measured subset of AI R&D work," Anthropic said. "Claude 'leads' 26% of Anthropic's AI R&D work." Why it matters: The announcement was unclear about how close the company believes it is to achieving recursive self-improvement (RSI, when AI builds itself). But the pace at which Claude is increasingly contributing to research and development is escalating, AP notes: The portion of work Claude "leads," or does in large part while remaining under human supervision, was zero in February. Six months later, in August, it was 26%. Read the announcement.

🐊 Fear and loathing in Trump's backyard Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios Axios' Marc Caputo, a Miami Herald alumnus, writes from his Miami home: Staring into the camera, Rep. Maria Salazar cut a new campaign ad that told President Trump what so many of her fellow Hispanic Republicans in Miami are saying: The immigration crackdown has gone too far. Why it matters: The anger at Trump over heavy-handed immigration enforcement is palpable in Miami-Dade County, and there's mounting political worry among Republicans across the state that it could cost the GOP in the midterm elections. 🔎 Zoom in: A bellwether, Miami-Dade is Florida's most populous county, which Trump flipped to the Republican column in 2020 and 2024 thanks to strong Latino support, especially among Cuban Americans. "Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far," Salazar says in her ad. "The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today." Trump carried her district by 15 points two years ago. Today, she's tied in polls with newscaster Eliot Rodriguez, a fellow Cuban American, who said her new ad was a sign of desperation. A Trump adviser told Axios: "I'm getting the Trumpiest Cubans sending me videos from Miami of guys getting busted at places like the gas station, for no apparent reason." A GOP pollster from Miami said: "Support is just evaporating. The economy sucks and ICE is just out of control. People feel they didn't sign up for this." Keep reading.

"Most contentious interview" In the new episode of "The Axios Show," out this morning, left-wing streamer Hasan Piker said he "absolutely" wants to campaign for New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez if she runs for president in 2028 and said he has talked with AOC and her team. Why it matters: Piker, who has millions of followers online, has been a high-profile campaign surrogate this year for a new generation of left-wing candidates, and wants to do the same in 2028. In an hourlong interview with Axios' Alex Thompson that Piker later described as his "most contentious" ever, the Twitch star defended his stances that some Democrats are recoiling from: China: Piker traveled to China last year and has said that the country is the closest government model he would like to see adopted in the U.S. He also thinks that "trajectory-wise, I worry that a Chinese child might have better conditions in the next decade or next two decades than an American one. And I think that should worry every American citizen." Asked about his past praise of Mao Zedong, Piker said: "He's a great man of history. Of course, there were a lot of excesses." When asked to clarify what he meant by "excesses," Piker said: "Deaths borne out of mismanagement and famine." Political violence: Axios asked Piker about several of his past statements about killing or harming political opponents, and he said they amounted to "three or four choice quotes." He said he consistently says that the "appropriate way to deal with political problems, even violent ones, is to advocate, organize, and create a response that is borne out of labor militancy, work stoppages and the like, to apply political pressure that way." Talking with a friend on his stream, Piker once said of landlords who don't rent their properties: "Kill those motherf*ckers and murder those motherf*ckers in the streets. Let the streets soak in their f*cking red capitalist blood, dude." He told Axios that "we were messing around. It wasn't a serious call to violence." Piker — a frequent and aggressive critic of Israel's government — said he believes "Zionism is fascism" and that it was equivalent to neo-Nazism. Asked about the potential danger of his rhetoric, Piker said: "I'm not worried that [my followers are] going to be violent against Zionists. No, I'm not." Watch the full interview ...

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Fiji's HIV Emergency Fiji declared a national HIV emergency this week, finding one in 60 residents has the bloodborne virus, up from one in 167 five years ago. The government partly attributes the spike to expanded testing efforts, with only 39% of infected individuals aware they are HIV positive. Experts say infections likely also began rising around 2019, as Fiji became a "superhighway" for drugs from Latin America and Asia to lucrative markets in Australia and New Zealand (watch documentary). This has increased drug use in Fiji too, primarily among sex workers. More than half of the cases with known modes of transmission were traced to sex, while over 42% were tied to injecting drugs. Only 22% of infected people are receiving treatment, compared with 78% globally. Fiji is working with Australia, New Zealand, India, and NGOs to provide free antiretrovirals, which studies show reduce HIV to undetectable levels in 90% of patients and lower the risk of AIDS. Watch how here.

AI Model Misbehavior OpenAI disclosed six new cases of concerning behavior by its AI models, including systems that hid mistakes, fabricated data, and took unauthorized actions. The company responded with a new framework for investigating and publicly reporting such incidents. The incidents occurred during training or evaluation, not customer deployments, over the past six months. In one case, a model wrote hidden instructions reminding itself to conceal errors; another inserted "jailbreak-like" commands into its own notes. Under the new framework, employees can flag concerning behavior, which is routed into one of three investigation tracks. The move follows OpenAI's report on a July incident involving Hugging Face in which models circumvented safeguards and accessed third-party systems (see a database of reported AI incidents). The announcement follows public calls for a slowdown in AI development: A recent poll found 63% of Americans believe advanced AI poses at least a moderate risk of eventually causing human extinction (watch how that could play out).

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Postal Service chief says work stopped on computer system key to Trump effort to limit mail voting WASHINGTON (AP) — The top official at the U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that the agency has stopped work on developing a controversial computer system that was central to President Donald Trump’s effort to limit mail voting after the Supreme Court rejected his executive order this week. https://apnews.com/article/trump-mail-ballot-us-postal-service-995f98147fbb49fb71696be824abff95?

Trial or Error View in browser If Democrats win control of the House in November, they will face a dilemma: Should they attempt a record third impeachment of Donald Trump? The president and his allies have warned that this would be a Democratic majority’s first move. “I’m going to be impeached. They’re going to impeach me,” Trump said last month at a rally in South Carolina. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has been noncommittal. “We haven’t ruled anything in, and we haven’t ruled anything out in terms of impeachment,” the would-be speaker told ABC’s This Week on Sunday. But Representative Jamie Raskin, the lead manager of Trump’s second impeachment, seemed more open. Earlier this month, on Meet the Press, he said that Trump had “undoubtedly” committed impeachable offenses. “We understand it’s not a panacea. It is a tool in the toolbox,” he said. “We will not hesitate to use it if we need to use it.” Realistically, House Democrats may have a hard time resisting impeachment. Their voters are in a punchy mood. A new CBS News / YouGov poll found that opposition to Trump is the top motivation for Democratic voters in the midterms, and the political consultant Sarah Longwell recently wrote in The Atlantic that the most important priority for Democratic voters is not left-versus-right ideology but a willingness to fight Trump tooth and nail. Jeffries has already faced criticism for being too passive a leader, as well as for meeting with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and he may struggle to ignore a groundswell of support for impeachment. As a constitutional matter, the case for impeaching the president is solid. Trump has usurped congressional powers, started an unauthorized war or two, defied courts, and used his position for outrageous personal and family enrichment. In 2019, my colleague Yoni Appelbaum made the intellectual case for impeachment as a useful democratic process. The political case for impeaching Trump is shakier. Regardless of the results in November, Democrats are unlikely to get enough votes in the Senate to convict and remove him, meaning that a third impeachment would hit the same dead end as the first two. An impeachment can still be effective as a way of damaging a president, but Trump is already deeply unpopular and will never face voters again, so the upside is limited, and an impeachment might give him a way to rally his remaining base around him—which would only strengthen his power and resolve. But what if House Democrats impeached Trump’s Cabinet members instead? The power to impeach secretaries and other executive-branch officers is explicit in the Constitution but perhaps not well known, because it’s been used only twice in history. One reason such proceedings are rare is that a president usually fires a Cabinet member or forces them to resign before they can be impeached, but Trump has shown serious reluctance to fire aides because of public pressure. The congressional scholar Norm Ornstein has argued that if Trump won’t rein them in, Democrats should. On Tuesday, outgoing Representative Thomas Massie, a Republican, brought new attention to the possibility by moving to impeach Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. GOP leadership promptly shut down all voting until after the election. In 1876, Secretary of War William Belknap was impeached for corruption, but he resigned the same day and the Senate subsequently acquitted him; a number of senators doubted they had jurisdiction post-resignation. (This historical example resurfaced during Trump’s second impeachment trial, which occurred after he’d left office.) In 2024, House Republicans impeached Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on vague grounds, but the Senate voted to dismiss the charges as unconstitutional without a trial. A Democratic House could plausibly launch impeachment inquiries into several administration officials, many of which would dovetail with investigations that representatives say they already have planned. In some cases, Democratic representatives have already filed articles of impeachment against Cabinet members, including Hegseth, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, but those have gone nowhere in the GOP-led chamber. A new Democratic majority could change that. The conduct of a few particular individuals makes them likely targets for impeachment efforts. Kennedy has done serious damage to American public health, undermining vaccinations and weakening the CDC. At least one Republican senator has accused him of lying about vaccination rules during his confirmation hearings, when he also falsely characterized a trip he took to Samoa. Hegseth has waged an unauthorized war against Iran, for which he seems to have no realistic game plan; mishandled classified information; possibly violated the Hatch Act by appearing at a fundraiser for a political candidate; and left the armed forces bereft of leadership by firing a slew of qualified generals and admirals. Attorney General Todd Blanche has been instrumental in turning the Justice Department into a partisan tool for persecuting Trump’s political adversaries, and a federal judge rebuked him for his role in Trump’s attempt to set up a $1.8 billion slush fund for political allies. Multiple sources shared with my colleague Sarah Fitzpatrick serious worries about FBI Director Kash Patel’s leadership, including claims of emotional volatility, heavy drinking, and absence from the job. (Patel denied the allegations and sued Fitzpatrick and The Atlantic for defamation, demanding $250 million.) Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, has led a concerted effort to take congressional powers for the White House. As a policy matter, impeachment of some of these officers could be more effective than ordinary investigations would be in halting the egregious actions taken by their offices and departments. It might also have a couple political benefits over impeaching Trump. First, such an effort could escape the Trump vortex: By moving the focus to officials who don’t command the same personal loyalty as Trump, impeachment might allow more emphasis on actual administration actions and policy, instead of on presidential personality. Second, conviction might still be a remote possibility, but GOP senators who are fed up with the White House might be more willing to vote to convict officers than they would be to risk taking on Trump himself. The real question is whether controversial Cabinet secretaries will stick around to see whether Democrats try to target them. A midterm election, especially one that goes poorly for the president’s party, is typically a moment for some secretaries to exit. But Hegseth seems entrenched, continuing to push out rivals; Blanche just won confirmation; and Kennedy and Vought are ideologues pursuing treasured agendas. If neither they nor Trump are willing to change course, then a Congress that has done little for the past two years will have a chance to do something novel: act. Related: How does impeachment work? (From 2017) How Trump broke—and then saved—impeachment (From 2021)

Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) has been named to Newsweek's list of America’s Best Physical Rehabilitation Centers 2026, ranking Number Three among rehabilitation centers in California, United States. This marks the sixth consecutive year Newsweek and Statista have recognized LLUMC. LLUMC East Campus offers a comprehensive range of rehabilitation services for patients recovering from injuries, illnesses, and other complex conditions. Through inpatient and outpatient programs, rehabilitation teams provide patient-centered care that combines advanced therapies, innovative treatments, and research-informed practices to help patients regain function and independence. "Every day, our rehabilitation teams help patients overcome significant challenges and take meaningful steps toward healing and independence," said Darryl VandenBosch, CPA, senior vice president for LLUMC East Campus and Surgical Hospital. "We are grateful for this recognition because it highlights the extraordinary care our team members provide to the patients and families we have the privilege to serve." https://adventist.news/news/newsweek-names-loma-linda-medical-center-a-best-physical-rehabilitation-center-for-sixth-consecutive-year

🍔 Dem food fight The House's last in-session week before the midterms was beset by furious private finger-pointing among House Democrats following several high-profile rebellions. 🔥 There is even chatter among members contrasting the ability of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to control members with that of his top deputy, Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), according to two House Democrats. Why it matters: This dynamic may only worsen if Democrats retake the House, which is set to see an influx of distinctly rebellious and independent lawmakers, particularly on the left. Said one of the two House Democrats, speaking on the condition of anonymity to share details of sensitive private discussions: "People are talking about 'Mom and Dad'.… Dad is soft." ⁉️ "I think people are asking the question: If this is happening in the minority, are you prepared for what will happen in the majority?" said a third House Democrat. ☀️ "There is no daylight between the three of us," Jeffries said at a press conference today with Clark and Democratic Caucus chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.). "We'll address the situation when we address the situation," he added. A Democratic leadership aide told us that everything Jeffries' deputies do is in coordination with him and doesn't represent a break between leaders. Catch up quick: Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) and Jared Golden (D-Maine) yesterday provided Republican leadership with the necessary votes to advance a package of GOP bills, including a Russia sanctions bill strongly opposed by Democratic leaders. ⚡️ It was the second time this month that the pair of centrists defected from leadership on a procedural vote — even after Clark and Jeffries publicly threatened them with punishment the first time. Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-N.J.) said progressives "catch shit" for being "too ideologic and bold on our ideas," and that it's "curious … how there isn't an equally vocal attack" on centrists who break from the party line. Clark, along with Jeffries, engaged Gluesenkamp Perez in a heated discussion on the House floor during the vote in view of an Axios reporter, which sources said was about her defection. — Andrew Solender

🐳 Exclusive: GOP high-water mark House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) is staring at a scary political environment for Republicans and claiming to see something very different: a path to 225 seats. Why it matters: Republican leaders insist they can retain the majority, but only if they drive their voters to the polls by manufacturing the kind of voter enthusiasm Democrats are generating organically. 🏆 "If we make it a contrast election, we win," Scalise told us in an interview today. "We could get to 225. It would be a good night for us if we did, but it's possible," he said. "235 is not," he said. "You're literally doing coin tosses in a couple of seats." Between the lines: Asked if he saw any signs of a blue wave forming or the map expanding, Scalise said: "Not right now. No." ✅ Reality check: Republicans know that history — and many of the indicators heading into November — is working against them. "I know what history says, you know, but history's not on the ballot," Scalise said. 🗳️ Still, Democrats are turning out in primaries — and special elections — as if they're getting free gas cards for showing up. Democrats lead by nearly nine percentage points on the generic ballot. President Trump's approval rating is below 40%, according to the RealClearPolitics average. And Trump is underwater by a whopping 61 percentage points on inflation in a recent poll, an apparent record. 🔎 Zoom in: Republicans are examining the map with a jeweler's loupe and insist the picture isn't as bleak in the pivotal battleground seats. "We're not looking at national polls; we go district by district," Scalise said. That means trench warfare in 35 seats, where Republicans say they have proven winners, plenty of money and new rules to spend it. "We've got 20 [seats] on our side that we're fighting to hold on to that are real competitive, and 15 [seats] that we have a real chance to flip," Scalise said. "These are knock-down, drag-out fights." 🎧 What we're hearing: The White House has long thought of the midterms as a "hate election." Scalise uses the more genteel term "contrast election." But before Republicans can dream about growing their majority, they need to fix their enthusiasm problem — and match the Democratic energy showing up in many of the preelection indicators. The GOP's midterm convention in Dallas last week was the first step. "If we are able to capitalize on that kind of enthusiasm and carry that momentum into November, then we'll have the same turnout as the other side, and we'll hold the majority," Scalise said. 🚌 Now comes the road show: Congressional leaders — and the president — are hitting the campaign trail. In the next two weeks, Scalise will travel to 11 states to campaign for 16 Republicans — incumbents and challengers. The bottom line: The 225-seat scenario is Scalise's high-water mark. At another point in the interview, he suggested the majority could be smaller — closer to the 220–215 split Republicans won in 2024. "This isn't going to be a 10-seat majority, but it could be a six-seat majority." — Hans Nichols