Trump gets his Comey indictment

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/09/25/james-comey-grand-jury-indictment-trump

It is telling that the acting U.S. attorney with jurisdiction over the Comey matter, Erik S. Siebert, reportedly believed the evidence was insufficient. Trump forced him out last week and installed an inexperienced White House aide, Lindsey Halligan, to take his place. Career prosecutors presented Halligan with a memo laying out the concerns that dissuaded Siebert.

During the president’s first term, Attorney General William P. Barr appointed a special counsel, John Durham, to investigate the origins of the Russia probe. Two people Durham charged with making false statements to investigators were acquitted at trial.

Barr and Durham were the A-team. Those failed cases demonstrate the difficulty of proving lies in court, especially on politically charged subjects. Given Trump’s confessions of political motive and his firing of Siebert, the case might be hard to get to trial — much less yield a unanimous conviction.

Measles outbreak in Jerusalem: three toddlers die in less than a week

 https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/rkunprg3gx

Doctors at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem on Thursday confirmed the death of an 18-month-old boy who contracted measles last month and was not vaccinated, marking the third toddler to die of the disease in less than a week. His death raised the total toll from the outbreak to five.

Over the holiday, a 1-year-old girl died from measles complications after two months in intensive care, where she was placed on an ECMO heart-lung machine. Last weekend, another 16-month-old boy from Jerusalem also died of the illness. An 11-month-old baby remains in intensive care on a ventilator.

‘It’s not going to happen’: Trump says he won’t allow Israel to annex West Bank

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/its-not-going-to-happen-trump-says-he-wont-allow-israel-to-annex-west-bank

In his first public comments on the matter, US President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank.

“I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. It’s not going to happen,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked to confirm reports that he assured Arab and Muslim leaders of that stance during a multilateral meeting held Tuesday on the UN General Assembly sidelines.

Trump Leaks Exposed

Vance says Trump was ‘joking’ about hating enemies during memorial for Charlie Kirk

 https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5520184-vance-trump-charlie-kirk-service-hating-enemies/?tbref=hp

Trump told a packed audience at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona Sunday that he remembered Charlie Kirk as someone who “did not hate his opponents.”

“He wanted the best for them,” Trump said. “That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponents, and I don’t want the best for them. I’m sorry.”

The president’s words on Sunday were notably different in tone from those of other speakers, including Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s widow, who forgave the shooter who took her husband’s life, saying, “I forgive him because it was what Christ did and it is what Charlie would do.” Video from the memorial showed audience members, some visibly emotional, stand and applaud.

Trump and RFK’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Autism Press Conference

 https://www.thefp.com/p/trump-and-rfks-terrible-horrible-autism-press-conference-health

The autism community has its factions and disputes, but yesterday most of them agreed on one thing: The press conference held Monday by President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS)—in which they claimed that autism was linked to Tylenol use by pregnant women—was an abomination.

Paul Offit, head of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a board member of the Autism Science Foundation, called it “arguably the most irresponsible public health press conference in history.”

Trump’s touting of an unproven autism drug surprised many, including the doctor who proposed it

 https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-business/ap-trumps-touting-of-an-unproven-autism-drug-surprised-many-including-the-doctor-who-proposed-it-2/?tbref=hp

When President Donald Trump’s administration announced it would repurpose an old, generic drug as a new treatment for autism, it came as a surprise to many experts — including the physician who suggested the idea to the nation’s top health officials.

Dr. Richard Frye told The Associated Press that he’d been talking with federal regulators about developing his own customized version of the drug for children with autism, assuming more research would be required.

“So we were kinda surprised that they were just approving it right out of the gate without more studies or anything,” said Frye, an Arizona-based child neurologist who has a book and online education business focused on the experimental treatment.

It’s another example of the haphazard rollout of the Trump administration’s Monday announcement on autism, which critics say has elevated an unproven drug that needs far more study before being approved as a credible treatment for the complex brain disease.

Israeli researchers report breakthrough gene therapy for hearing and balance disorders

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-researchers-report-breakthrough-gene-therapy-for-hearing-and-balance-disorders

 Israeli researchers report breakthrough gene therapy for hearing and balance disorders

Scientists from Tel Aviv University and Boston Children’s Hospital use an optimized virus to deliver a corrected gene into the patient’s cells, improving auditory and sensory loss

Researchers at Tel Aviv University say they have found an innovative gene therapy method to treat impairments in hearing and balance caused by inner ear dysfunction, providing hope for a cure to inherited deafness.

“This treatment holds promise for treating a wide range of mutations that cause hearing loss,” said lead scientist Prof. Karen Avraham, Dean of Tel Aviv’s Gray Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences, speaking to The Times of Israel in a teleconference call recently alongside Roni Hahn, a PhD student.

The work was conducted in collaboration with Prof. Jeffrey Holt and Dr. Gwenaëlle Géléoc, both of Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, with support from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, the US National Institutes of Health, and the Israel Science Foundation Breakthrough Research Program.

Trump gave medical advice about Tylenol. Here’s what medical experts say

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/09/22/tylenol-pregnancy-autism-risk-rfk-jr/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=acq&utm_campaign=dr-sept-25&utm_content=dtpmonthly_20250923&campaign_id=15016301

Punctuating his words with hand gestures, President Donald Trump on Monday warned pregnant women against using acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, suggesting a connection between the widely used medication and autism.

He acknowledged that his advice, which is largely unproven, represents his personal views.

The recent interest in acetaminophen — picked up and accelerated by anti-vaccine, right-wing and MAHA influencers — was sparked by a study funded by the National Institutes of Health that was published Aug. 14 in BMC Environmental Health.

“Suggestions that acetaminophen use in pregnancy causes autism are not only highly concerning to clinicians but also irresponsible when considering the harmful and confusing message they send to pregnant patients, including those who may need to rely on this beneficial medicine during pregnancy,” a statement from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said.

Dealing with People who are bad Influences

 Devarim (28:9-10)You stand this day, all of you, before your God יהוה —your tribal heads, your elders, and your officials, every householder in Israel, your children, your wives, even the stranger within your camp, from woodchopper to waterdrawer—

Rashi (Devarim 29:10) FROM THE WOODCUTTER [UNTO THE DRAWER OF THE WATER] — This teaches that some of the Canaanites came in Moses' days to become proselytes just as the Gibeonites came in the days of Joshua, — and this is the meaning of what is stated of the Gibeonites, (Joshua 9:4) “And they also acted cunningly”; — and Moses made them woodcutters and drawers of water (cf. Midrash Tanchuma, Nitzavim 2).

Rashi says the woodchoppers and waterdrawers are the lowest in society. He says they are Cananites who decided to convert rather than be killed. Since they were an undesirable influence they were given the most menial tasks so that they should be avoided and not influence others. I saw in the Sefer Mishna Torah that they in fact were assigned to work in the Temple. He asks but this would seem as a reward for their trickery? He answers there are two ways of dealing with bad people 1) ostracize or isolate them 2) Expose them to good influences so they become good also. The Temple was the place of optimal good and thus they might become better.

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