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Trump was photographed walking into Trump Tower — a property he could be forced to surrender depending on the trial’s outcome — in Midtown at around 8 p.m. after campaigning for his 2024 presidential bid in Iowa earlier in the day. New York Post

The Covid Cover-up . . . James B. Meigs Health authorities and policymakers squandered public trust by lying to the American people. In July 2020, Anthony Fauci got into a heated exchange with Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul during a Senate committee hearing. At the time, the question of whether the Covid-19 virus might have leaked from a Wuhan, China, laboratory was considered a conspiracy theory by most health officials and media outlets. But a few independent scientists and reporters kept investigating the possibility. A particularly troubling question was whether the U.S. government might have funded “gain-of-function” research that had made a naturally occurring virus more infectious. Fauci had supported such research in the past. And, as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a key branch of the Bethesda, Maryland-based National Institutes of Health, he was involved in distributing millions of dollars in grants to virus researchers around the world. In a hearing several months earlier, Fauci had denied that the NIH ever funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. City Journal

Supreme Court cases in new term pose a multi-front challenge to the unaccountable administrative state . . . The Supreme Court can look forward to a slower pace this term after consecutive blockbuster terms, but that’s not to say that it won’t hear cases with significant impacts. The major cases the court has agreed to hear so far do not include headline-grabbing social issues like affirmative action and abortion, but will grapple with core issues of the constitutional balance of power and the future of the administrative state.  We only know a fraction of the term’s cases so far. The justices will continue to add more cases to hear on the merits. Fox News

Rep. Matt Gaetz Announces Plans To Oust Speaker McCarthy

. . . Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz announced his plan Sunday to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from leadership on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Gaetz told CNN’s Jake Tapper he will file a motion this week to remove McCarthy from his seat over a lack of trust. The motion would force a House vote on whether to vacate McCarthy’s seat. Daily Caller

Biden Needs Censorship Regime To Hide His Lies  . . . By Miranda Devine. Joe Biden holds these lies to be self-evident, that “the border is closed,” that his son “has done nothing wrong,” that gas prices have fallen during his presidency, that “take-home pay has gone up” and that he, “Honest Joe,” was the “poorest man in Congress.”

Not a joke. He gives you his “word as a Biden.” Those are just a small sample of the lies the president tells on a daily basis. It’s hard to tell where reality and fantasy diverge in his mind, which has to have a debilitating effect on those closest to him, but more crucially on the entire country. New York Post

Former Harris adviser Laphonza Butler named to Feinstein Senate seat . . . Laphonza Butler, a former adviser to Vice President Harris who currently serves as president of EMILY’s List, was named to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat in California that was held by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who died at the age of 90 on Friday.  California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) made the announcement late Sunday evening, after a weekend full of anticipation ahead of the decision. Newsom had pledged previously to select a Black woman to fill Feinstein’s seat, should it ever become open, and Butler’s appointment fills that pledge. The Hill

Ramaswamy campaign asks RNC to slash the number of GOP presidential candidates on the next debate stage . . . Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign reportedly asked the Republican National Committee to significantly limit the number of GOP presidential candidates on stage for the party's next presidential primary debate.

In a letter to RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and Committee on Arrangements co-Chairs David Bossie and Anne Hathaway, Vivek 2024 CEO Ben Yoho requested that the RNC restrict the next debate stage to the four Republican candidates polling the highest nationally, after former President Donald Trump, according to The Hill. The campaign also asked the RNC to increase the donor threshold to 100,000.  Fox News

Iran official admits country’s role in terror bombing that killed 241 US military members: report . . . The Islamic Republic of Iran’s representative in Lebanon issued the first public announcement of the Iranian regime’s role in the mass murder of American military and diplomatic personnel in the early 1980s in Beirut. Iran and its chief strategic ally, the U.S.-designated terrorist movement Hezbollah, in Lebanon have been blamed for bombing the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in 1983 in which 63 people, including 17 Americans, were murdered, and dual suicide truck bombers blew up the barracks of American and French members of a multinational force in Lebanon in 1983, in which 220 U.S. Marines, 18 U.S. Navy sailors and 3 U.S. Army soldiers lost their lives. Fifty-eight French troops were also murdered in the terrorist attack. Fox News

Leaked U.S. strategy on Ukraine sees corruption as the real threat . . . Biden administration officials are far more worried about corruption in Ukraine than they publicly admit, a confidential U.S. strategy document obtained by POLITICO suggests. The “sensitive but unclassified” version of the long-term U.S. plan lays out numerous steps Washington is taking to help Kyiv root out malfeasance and otherwise reform an array of Ukrainian sectors. It stresses that corruption could cause Western allies to abandon Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion, and that Kyiv cannot put off the anti-graft effort. Politico

Putin selects former Prigozhin aide to train Ukrainian volunteers
 . . .Russian President Vladimir Putin has selected a former Wagner Group aide to coordinate volunteer soldiers in Ukraine. The Kremlin announced the appointment of Andrei Troshev, a former aide to Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, in a Friday statement. Putin told Troshev, in remarks released by the Kremlin, that his job is to "deal with forming volunteer units that could perform various combat tasks, primarily in the zone of the special military operation," a reference to the war in Ukraine. Fox News

What is next in Ukraine? . . . By Miljan Vešović. After several months of fighting, the first results of the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian army are visible. Ukrainian forces have, for now, liberated several hundred square kilometers of territory. Also, it seems that the first line of Russian defense has been breached in several places. Ukrainian officials, led by President Zelensky, are still lobbying their Western allies for deliveries of increasingly sophisticated weapons. First of all, they are asking for fighter jets and tactical ballistic missiles. Nevertheless, the Ukrainian advance is quite slow and, for now, no major areas have been liberated, nor has a decisive breakthrough of the Russian front been reached. Russian defense lines are multiple and well-fortified. Military experts are also of the opinion that the time for more serious offensive operations is running out. The upcoming (autumn and winter) inclement weather suits the side that is on the defensive. For now, it is the Russian Army. It is possible to conclude that this year's Ukrainian offensive has so far achieved partial, tactical success. However, there is a fine line between partial success and failed expectations. AntenaM

Money

Student loan bills resume for 40 million Americans. How it could shake the economy . . . The pandemic-era pause on federal student loan payments ends Sunday, leaving as many as 40 million Americans on the hook for a new monthly bill. Economists caution that the impact on households and the economy remains largely uncertain, but retailers and lenders are bracing for a hit. “The economy will struggle in the fourth quarter, in meaningful part due to the end of the student loan payment moratorium,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. CNBC

Culture

Men Leaving The Workforce Is Not A Win For Women . . . Axios AM published a piece Sept. 6 dressing up the crisis of men leaving the workforce in record numbers as a win for women’s equality. “Workplace gender gap hits new low,” the newsletter stated. “Women are closing in on men in the workplace, Axios Markets’ Emily Peck writes.” A report from the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution showed that the highest increase of workforce participants after 2020 came from mothers with at least one child under five. Peck promotes this as a positive thing for women’s equality. It represents to her “a ‘level shift’ for working mothers — with potential lifetime consequences in terms of higher earnings and improved career trajectories.” Daily Caller

Americans' cell phones to receive emergency alert test this week . . . Americans around the country will see their phones light up this week following a nationwide test of emergency alert systems. The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Communications Commission are planning to test both the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) on Wednesday, October 4, at 2:20 p.m. Eastern. The test will be conducted in two parts, with one set to go to cell phones and the other to radio and TV stations. FEMA says the alert will have a unique tone and vibration to make the alert accessible to all recipients. Phones should receive the message only one time in the 30 minutes after the test begins on Wednesday. Fox Business

Home wreckers? All the appliances the Biden administration plans to regulate more aggressively . . . The Joe Biden administration continues to use executive authority to regulate popular household appliances at an unprecedented level, with claims that their changes will save consumers money and help slow climate change and its alleged effects on the environment. Though the latest set of restrictions the administration is mandating is for gas powered furnaces, that is only the latest and far from the last.  In December, Energy Secretary Granholm announced that the administration had taken 110 actions on energy efficiency standards in 2022 alone...and are moving forward with rules impacting dozens more appliances.  Just the News

House Republicans seek Jan. 6 treatment for Bowman over fire alarm . . . House Republicans want Rep. Jamaal Bowman, who admitted he pulled a U.S. Capitol building’s fire alarm hours before a possible government shutdown, to get the same justice as the Jan. 6 protesters got for their 2021 breach of the Capitol to obstruct official business. Washington Times

Buffalo Guy Kicking Himself For Not Just Pulling Fire Alarm To Evacuate Congress . . . After years of being jailed with violent criminals, Buffalo Guy was kicking himself today for not simply pulling a fire alarm on January 6th to force Congress to evacuate. "Seriously? I could have just pulled the fire alarm instead of going to all the trouble to dress like a buffalo and charge into the Capitol?" said an aghast Buffalo Guy. "Gosh, do I feel silly." Buffalo Guy, known in some circles as Jacob Chansley, watched yesterday as Representative Jamaal Bowman demonstrated how to properly and legally commit a crime to delay Congressional proceedings. Babylon Bee