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President Donald Trump canceled a meeting with top Democrats, stating that he did not want to deal with the "long and brutal slog" of governing.

In a wild and rambling rant on Tuesday, the president said demands for funding health care were "unserious and ridiculous."

President Donald Trump has gobbled up power and punished his critics in unprecedented ways in just over half a year back in office, and his administration officials warn they're just getting started.

Presidents have commonly sought to stretch the limits of the White House's power and have, on rare occasions, targeted their domestic critics, but Axios reported on 15 different areas where Trump has "proudly and loudly" veered into unprecedented territory in the first eight months of his second term.

A Pennsylvania school board member is stepping down from her duties after an online post she made – purportedly about gardening – was misinterpreted by her community as attacking the right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk.

On Sept. 10, the same day Kirk was killed while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University, Homer-Center School District Board member Misty Hunt posted a message on social media: “One down, hundreds to go,” she wrote, according to a report Tuesday from The Guardian.

Global health experts are aghast that President Donald Trump announced an unproven link between autism and commonly used painkillers and vaccines, and they're warning others to ignore his advice.

The U.S. president, along with his Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., advised pregnant women not to take acetaminophen, which is used in Tylenol and other products and marketed internationally as paracetamol, but health officials in other nations disputed his claims as unscientific and dangerous, reported The Guardian.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio previewed President Donald Trump's upcoming speech to the United Nations on Fox News Tuesday morning, in part by complaining that the world organization didn't take up Trump's offer decades ago to have his personal business renovate their headquarters in Manhattan.

"You can anticipate the president will point to his own history with the U.N. going back to his time here as a developer, where he actually offered to fix the U.N. building, and instead they decided to go in another direction, wasted a bunch of money, and really didn't achieve on the building's perspective, what needed to happen," Rubio told the Fox & Friends panel.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), a physician-turned-lawmaker who voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy as the head of Health and Human Services, is sparking backlash after raising doubts on the HHS secretary’s new report linking autism to the use of Tylenol by pregnant mothers, a claim that experts say existing data doesn’t support.

“I understand and applaud President Trump’s desire to address this issue and to support HHS,” Cassidy wrote on X Monday shortly after RFJ Jr.’s announcement linking autism to Tylenol.

Within hours of Donald Trump's press conference at which he implored pregnant women to never use the pain reliever Tylenol, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rushed out guidance for doctors and consumers that undercut his claims.

During an appearance on “Morning Joe,” MSNBC and NBC medical analyst Dr. Vin Gupta directed viewers to search for the FDA report that was released approximately 3 hours after the president went off script with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looking over his shoulder.

Federal agents caught and detained a 5-year-old girl to lure her immigrant father outside the family's home following a brief traffic pursuit, according to a report.

Video of the incident Tuesday in Leominster, Massachusetts, captures the family's anguished screams as Immigration and Customs Enforcement held the 5-year-old girl outside after chasing her father, Edward Hip, a Guatemalan man who has lived in the U.S. for 22 years, reported WBTS-CD.

Elon Musk's estranged father has been accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren over the past three decades, according to a new investigative report that claims family members repeatedly reached out to the tech mogul for help.

A New York Times investigation found the sex abuse allegations were a significant factor in the schism between Musk and his father, who is accused of committing the abuse in South Africa and California since 1993, according to police and court records, as well as personal correspondence, communications with social workers and interviews with family members.

The Secret Service disrupted a potential plot to “disrupt the [United Nations] General Assembly” Tuesday after seizing a cache of hundreds of computer servers and tens of thousands of SIM cards capable of disabling cellular towers or conducting surveillance, according to a report from the New York Times.

The UN General Assembly is set to meet later Tuesday morning in New York City, New York, where close to 150 world leaders will convene for its annual session. President Donald Trump is also slated to address the international body at 9:50 a.m. EST.