Trump Wants Max Miller To Drop Out Of His Reelection Race: CBS NewsPresident Donald Trump and other White House officials have privately expressed that they would like Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) to drop out of the race for reelection, according to a new CBS News report.Miller has been accused of domestic abuse and child abuse by his ex-wife, allegations that he has denied. On Sunday, his former father-in-law, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), said Miller is dangerous and unfit for office. Moreno was the first Republican to publicly denounce Miller. Miller has until Wednesday to drop out of the race and let another Republican replace him.On Monday, Trump called Miller a “good person,” but privately, he reportedly told Miller in a phone call that “things aren’t looking good,” according to Axios. Latest Live UpdatesEdwin López Cornejo Is A Reminder Of ICE Detention's Lethality: Rights GroupThe death of 41-year-old Edwin López Cornejo in federal immigration custody over the weekend is a “terrible reminder of the lethality of the United States’ rapidly expanding immigration detention system and should not be treated as an isolated tragedy,” the group Physicians for Human Rights said in a statement on Tuesday.López Cornejo, who was being held at Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, was pronounced dead after agents took him to the hospital for “a medical emergency,” according to an ICE press release. The husband and father’s family told Radio Jornalera and Radio Cosecha he had complained of numbness in his face and right hand on Friday.Newark’s University Hospital told López Cornejo’s mother, Maria, that her son was dead when he arrived at the hospital. López Cornejo, who lived in the U.S. for decades after arriving from El Salvador, became the 53rd known death in ICE custody since the start of this Trump administration.PHR Medical Director Dr. Michele Heisler testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week urging Congress to regulate the number of people in ICE detention, guarantee timely and appropriate healthcare and ensure transparent investigations into each death in custody.Judge Sets Paramount-Warner Bros. Antitrust Trial Start For March 2027A judge has set a trial date between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. for March over a $111 billion merger that several states have argued will unlawfully reduce competition.Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin issued her ruling on Tuesday, and said the trial will begin March 2, 2027 and end March 19 -- a total of 12 court days. A final pretrial conference will be held in February.Paramount had asked the court Friday to set a trial date in November. Paramount will have to start paying Warner Bros. shareholders $7 million a day starting Sept. 30 until a deal is finalized.Read more about the already-costly deal at Fortune.Netanyahu Refuses To Withdraw From Gaza Until Hamas Completely DisarmsIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israeli forces will not withdraw from their current lines in Gaza until Hamas has completely disarmed.In remarks on social media, Netanyahu suggested there were differences between Israel and the Trump administration over a recent deal announced to disarm the militant group.The agreement called for Hamas to begin disarming and for Israel to halt its strikes and begin withdrawing from Gaza. It was part of an October ceasefire agreement that ended major military operations but has stalled on other fronts. Netanyahu instead said disarmament should come first, and that Israeli forces would continue to “do whatever is necessary to protect themselves, our territory, and our citizens.”Read more from The Associated Press:Epstein Survivors Said Sens. Tillis And Cornyn Refused To Meet With ThemA number of survivors of the late notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein released a statement Tuesday condemning two Republican senators who they say refused to meet with them before caving to President Donald Trump’s attorney general pick.Republican Senators John Cornyn (Texas) and Thom Tillis (N.C.) announced Monday they would clear the way for Trump’s attorney general nominee Todd Blanche.Ahead of Blanche’s confirmation vote on Tuesday, Epstein survivors said Tillis promised to meet with them over their concerns about Blanche, only to be turned away after waiting nearly an hour. “Senator Tillis publicly invited us, on camera, to come to his office and promised to meet with us,” the statement said. “We did. We waited for 45 minutes in his lobby, only to be told by a staffer that he would not meet with us after all. Senator Cornyn also refused to hear directly from survivors before casting his vote.”The survivors had planned to talk to the senators about Blanche’s treatment of them.“When we met with Todd Blanche, he interrupted us,” the statement said. “He told us to ‘get to the point.’ He told us to report what happened to us to the FBI. We already have. Some of us have been reporting these crimes for decades. This was a check-the-box meeting designed to secure Senator Tillis’ vote.”Instead, they said they were ignored by Tillis and Cornyn.“The message was unmistakable: they wanted us to go away.”Chipotle At Center Of New Food Health ScareChipotle Mexican Grill said Tuesday it had pulled jalapeños from its menus as the U.S. deals with a new food scare.The fast food chain said in a statement it had “proactively removed” the pepper from its restaurants as public health officials investigate the source of a salmonella outbreak.The announcement came after Bloomberg News reported Chipotle had yanked jalapeños from multiple stores in Minnesota.The salmonella outbreak in the state has sickened 110 people, the outlet reported.Chipotle’s move comes on the heels of two people in Michigan dying amid the cyclospora outbreak, the first fatalities in the U.S. linked to the parasite.Federal investigators linked the surge in cyclospora, which has hit nine states, to iceberg lettuce sourced from Taylor Farms, whose product recall has affected Taco Bell stores among others.“We are aware that public health authorities are investigating the source of a salmonella outbreak in the supply chain impacting several food service retailers,” Chipotle said in a statement. “We are cooperating with the public health authorities in their efforts.”“Out of an abundance of caution, we proactively removed the jalapeños from our restaurants ‌and replaced them with product from different growers,” it added.EPA Cannot Block Billions In Climate Grants, U.S. Appeals Court RulesA federal appeals court said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cannot freeze about $20 billion of clean energy grants awarded to several nonprofit groups, handing a defeat to the Trump administration.Tuesday’s decision by a divided U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. restored an April 2025 injunction against EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s decision to terminate the grants, which had been awarded during the Biden administration with a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.Read more, via Reuters:Trump Administration Still Sending More Intelligence Assets To Cuba: PoliticoThe Trump administration is reportedly continuing to gear up for a regime change in Cuba, sources in the intelligence community told Politico, even as it struggles to extricate itself from a war of choice in Iran.One of the sources said additional “spies and assets” have been dispatched to the island nation that would facilitate military action. The other source acknowledged increased CIA activity, but declined to share any additional details.A chronic fuel shortage, resulting from severe U.S. restrictions imposed on Cuba by the Trump administration, has severely disrupted life in the country.On Sunday, Cuba’s national electrical grid collapsed again — having already collapsed three times over a nine-day period in July.President Donald Trump has repeatedly broadcast his ambition to force some form of regime change in Cuba, at one point telling members of the press he believes he’s “free to take” it.Bono, Eddie Vedder Among Mourners At Funeral Of Oscar-Winning Songwriter Glen HansardDUBLIN (AP) — Hundreds of mourners, including Irish musicians and entertainers, filled a Dublin cathedral on Tuesday for the funeral of Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, who died in a motorcycle crash last week, aged 56.Actors Steve Coogan and Chris O’Dowd and musicians including Bono, Hozier, Declan O’Rourke and Imelda May were in the congregation alongside friends, family and fans who had queued for hours outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral.A large crowed watched on big screens outside as pallbearers carried a wicker coffin topped with flowers into the cathedral.William Morton, the dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, said: “Glen’s remarkable gifts and outstanding talent, which touched so many hearts, took him from the streets of Dublin to audiences across the globe.”The funeral service was interwoven with music, including a performance by Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, who sang Hansard’s “The Song of Good Hope” alongside Hansard’s longstanding musical partner Markéta Irglová.U2’s Bono said of Hansard: “Everyone who met him, they just remembered the day they met him.”Bono held up his phone to play a message he’d received from singer and poet Patti Smith performing “a lullaby for Glen’s family and friends,” before reciting lyrics to U2’s “Beautiful Day.”Hansard was killed in a single-vehicle crash on the outskirts of Dublin on July 29, hours after taking part in a trad music session at a pub.His widow, Finnish poet Maire Saaritsa, who thanked the police officers who came to his aid, read a poem she had written for him early in their relationship.She said the couple’s 3-year-old son was too young to attend or understand the funeral, but “the bright spirit he inherited from his father is with us.”Hansard was the longtime front man of Irish rock band The Frames and played a member of a Dublin soul band in the hit 1991 movie “The Commitments.” He won an Oscar in 2008 for the song “Falling Slowly” from the movie “Once,” in which he co-starred with Irglová. A stage adaptation won eight Tony Awards in 2012.Hansard also was half of rock duo The Swell Season with Irglová and released solo albums including “Didn’t He Ramble,” which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Folk Album in 2016.For many years he led a Christmas Eve busk outside Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre, where members of the public gathered to see famous Irish musicians perform in aid of a homelessness charity.Tributes have been paid by fellow musicians. Bruce Springsteen said on Instagram he was “heartbroken” at the loss of “a great musician, a good friend and a generous and gracious man.”Max Miller Says He’ll Launch Ethics Probe Into Himself Amid Domestic Abuse AllegationsRep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) says he’ll help launch a House Ethics Committee investigation into himself to put to rest allegations that he abused his ex-wife and their 2-year-old.“In light of all the renewed interest in my family affairs I am going to file my own paperwork for an ethics investigation into myself to clear my name from these horrific attacks on myself and family,” Miller said Tuesday on social media. “I have absolutely nothing to hide.”He continued: “We will be providing the committee all necessary documents needed for a detail[ed] examination. The accusations continue to change, but my facts stay the same. I am looking forward to my colleagues reading everything for themselves.”Miller’s ex-wife, Emily Moreno, whose father is Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), has accused the congressman of being an “abusive husband,” an “abusive father” and a “violent man.” In court filings, Moreno claims he held a gun to her head, scalded her by throwing hot water on her body, and fractured their 2-year-old daughter’s collarbone. Miller has disputed her allegations.The congressman’s latest post suggests he is not interested in resigning, despite calls by Sen. Moreno and other Senate Republicans to do so.If Miller were to drop out, he’d have to do so by Tuesday night: Under Ohio law, this is the deadline by which local officials could hold a special primary for someone to take his place as the GOP candidate in Ohio’s 7th congressional district.Blanche Branded ‘Most Discreditable Person Ever’ Wanting To Be Attorney GeneralShortly before the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to approve his nomination as attorney general, Todd Blanche was flayed by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a senior member of the committee.Whitehouse opened his remarks by saying it is a “sad and embarrassing day for this committee” as it was set to advance “probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general of the United States.”“The reasons to vote against him number in the hundreds,” he added of President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer.Among his criticisms, Whitehouse highlighted Trump’s case against the IRS over leaked tax documents, which led to a settlement and the creation of the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund,” which Blanche helped oversee as acting attorney general.The Rhode Island senator noted how a federal judge in Florida reopened the case in May following a lawsuit that claimed the deal to resolve the matter was “premised on deception.”In a filing, 35 federal judges said the settlement was “a product of collusion and is itself a fraud on the court.”Whitehouse argued that the accusation against Blanche is “probably the worst thing you can accuse someone of in a court proceeding.”He added: “It is so bad that in the history of the Department of Justice, no senior official has ever been even accused of a fraud upon the court — and we’re advancing this guy before that question is settled in Florida?”.@SenWhitehouse: Let's not forget that there is an ongoing proceeding in Florida in federal court with an open question whether Todd Blanche committed a fraud upon the court. 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