Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Shuts Down Jesse Watters During Heated Fox News AppearanceProgressive Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed shut down Fox News’ Jesse Watters during a contentious interview on his primetime show on Fox News on Monday.The two debated a multitude of topics throughout the nearly 30-minute segment on the conservative host’s show, including immigration, Black voters in Michigan, taxing the wealthy, the Iran war, sharia law, trans health care for minors, and more. Watters hardly allowed El-Sayed to speak without talking over him, preventing viewers from hearing El-Sayed’s responses and essentially defeating the assumed purpose of interviewing a political candidate: to inform the public. “Jesse, you have not asked me one time about the issues that people actually care about in Michigan. You don’t want to talk about gas prices. You don’t want to talk about groceries. You don’t want to talk about health care. You don’t want to talk about the stupid trade war…You don’t wanna talk about the actual war that is destroying our own military. You don’t seem to want to talk about any of those things. You want to bring up all this culture war [stuff],” El-Sayed said as Watters disagreed.“I’m not here to fight a culture war; I’m here to fight the affordability crisis that people are facing,” El-Sayed added.“I respect the fact that you came on,” Watters said at the end of the interview, before calling El-Sayed “naive” and his policy positions “wacky.”Latest Live UpdatesHakeem Jeffries Defends Heavily-Criticized Meeting With KushnerHouse Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) took to social media on Monday to defend a widely-criticized meeting he had with President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser Jared Kushner in recent weeks. “He asked for a meeting and I took it,” Jeffries said in a video he posted on X, noting that the two discussed the “affordability crisis that exists that is not a hoax.” Jeffries added that the meeting did not mean that Democrats would go easy on members of Trump’s orbit if they retook the House. “I shouldn’t have to say it, but I am,” Jeffries said. “No one is going to get a pass. We’re going to hold every single member of the Trump cartel accountable beginning on day one.”Jeffries’s statement comes in the wake of backlash he’s faced from Democratic commentators, who’ve questioned his willingness to sit down with a member of Trump’s inner circle. 'Far From Over': Democratic State Officials Vow To Keep Fighting Trump Mail-In Voting OrderDemocratic state officials stressed Monday that the legal fight over President Donald Trump’s mail-in voting order was “far from over.”“This decision is a painful setback, but it will not be the final word,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement. “...This fight is far from over. We are exploring our legal options.”Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Washington Attorney General Nick Brown similarly vowed to continue to challenge the order in court. “Fortunately, today’s decision does not bless the substance of the president’s actions, it simply says states must wait slightly longer to challenge them,” Brown said in a statement. “We stand ready to take action to protect the integrity of our elections and prevent this clearly unconstitutional overreach from taking effect.”“Today’s SCOTUS decision does NOT deal with the substance of Trump’s unconstitutional Executive Order and does not mean his illegal attempt to restrict mail-in voting will go forward,” Shapiro also emphasized in a social media post. On Monday, the Supreme Court lifted a lower court’s injunction on Trump’s proposed mail-in voting restrictions. The panel, however, did not weigh in on the legality of his executive order, which is still likely to face court challenges. Instead, it granted a stay based on conservative justices’ conclusion that states didn’t have the standing to sue because the administration’s regulations hadn’t harmed them yet.Ontario Premier Doug Ford Spars With Trump As Trade War Escalates: 'Kiss My A**'Ontario Premier Doug Ford escalated his feud with President Donald Trump on Monday, telling the president to “kiss my ass” as the U.S. and Canada spiral deeper into a messy trade war.“I have a lot of real estate on my ass, so he has a lot of room to kiss my ass,” Ford, who leads Canada’s most populous province, told reporters.Trump has launched a wave of aggression at Canada after trade negotiations collapsed over the weekend, imposing a 50% tariff on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods that include agricultural products, construction materials and manufacturing parts. The president warned on Monday that he would also increase tariffs on all cars and trucks to 50% starting Jan. 1.Read more:U.S. Set For Largest Mass Visa Revocation In History Targeting Up To 200,000 Foreigners, Officials SayThe Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States. If it happens, the move would be the largest single mass revocation of visas in U.S. history and would likely face legal challenges.Unless challenged or revised, the State Department is expected to announce in the coming weeks the revocation of so-called B1 and B2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026 whose holders have sought asylum or are now seeking asylum, according to State Department documents obtained by The Associated Press and two U.S. officials. The action will be taken in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security.Read more from The Associated Press:Breaking UpdateSupreme Court Clears The Way For Trump Move To Restrict Mail-In VotingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to move ahead with his executive order restricting mail-in voting, though it remains unclear how much his administration can implement before the fast-approaching midterm elections.The decision appears to leave room for additional court challenges that could further slow Trump’s order. And with some states beginning to send mail ballots to voters in just a few weeks, time is running short to impose major changes.Read more from the Associated Press:Wyoming Senator: Americans Don't Want Foreign Beef!Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) is pushing back on President Donald Trump’s plan to allow cheap ground beef imports to be sold without country-of-origin labels.“Americans want US beef on the table — not foreign imports,” Barrasso wrote Monday on X. “Wyoming ranchers produce the highest quality beef in the world. Our ranchers don’t ask for special treatment. They simply want a fair marketplace. It needs to be easier — not harder — for Wyoming ranchers to feed America. I will continue to fight for policies that strengthen Wyoming beef producers and invest in the American cattle herd.”Last week, Trump announced the U.S. will allow 300,000 metric tons of trimmings for ground beef to be imported without tariffs in an effort to lower beef prices for Americans and to allow U.S. cattle herds to grow. Some Republicans balked at this plan because, without labels, consumers won’t be able to tell the difference between U.S.-grown and foreign beef. Oops! 'Technical Issue' Knocks CNN Off Air For 30 MinutesSomeone get Wolf Blitzer — there’s a bit of a situation to attend to.CNN was knocked off the air Monday for around 30 minutes, an eternity in broadcasting time, and attributed the break to a “technical issue across Warner Bros. Discovery.”CNN media analyst Brian Stelter described the broadcast during the disruption as little more than “pixelated blocks of color and fragmented on-air imagery” until anchor Dana Bash broke through the static around 12:30 ET.“Welcome back, and we ARE back,” Bash told viewers. “There was a technical issue across Warner Bros. Discovery’s channels that resulted in losing our signal. We’re very sorry for the interruption.”>> @DanaBashCNN just acknowledged the CNN outage on air: "Welcome back and we ARE back. There was a technical issue across Warner Bros. Discovery's channels that resulted in losing our signal. We're very sorry for the interruption." pic.twitter.com/sEc7wnm3xB— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 24, 2026Canadian PM Rallies Country Amid U.S. Trade War: ‘We Have All We Need Right Here’Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada is “ready” to meet whatever economic challenges lie ahead after he suspended trade negotiations with the U.S., saying: “We have all we need right here.”“That’s not to say there won’t be challenges in the road ahead, but we’re ready to meet them because we have all we need right here,” he said at a press conference Monday. “Building at home and diversifying our trade abroad, that’s not plan B, that’s been our plan A from the start.”Carney went on to tout Canada’s broader international trade partnerships and expansions, including with the European Union, which President Donald Trump has also taken aim at.“This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world’s second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership,” Carney said.Carney made the comments while announcing the production of six new icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard. This follows his pledge to ensure Canada’s ability to protect its Arctic territory without relying on another country for support..@CanadianPM Mark Carney: "The goal of our trade negotiations with the United States has always been to get the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any time frame...we did make some progress in recent weeks, in the end that momentum reversed and we could not… pic.twitter.com/EnSuPgowPb— CSPAN (@cspan) August 24, 2026JD Vance Slips, Says ’Canada Is A State’Vice President JD Vance slipped up during a set of remarks delivered Monday in Maine as he touched on the ongoing trade war that his boss, President Donald Trump, picked with Canada.Vance, forever defending Trump, asserted that Canada is in the same league as China on trade policy with the U.S.“I would not expect that from Canada. We have to remember, Canada is a state — sorry. Freudian slip,” Vance said, prompting laughter from the audience.“That was actually an accident,” he added.“Canada is a country that has under-invested in its military, that would quite literally get invaded by a foreign country would it not be for the umbrella of protection provided by the United States of America,” Vance went on.Canadians have responded to Trump’s tariffs and talk of absorbing their nation into the United States with boycotts of American goods and cross-border travel.Abdul El-Sayed Puts Out Statement Distancing Himself From Hasan PikerMichigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed put out a statement Monday distancing himself from Twitch streamer Hasan Piker in response to Piker suggesting Jewish Americans could bring violence on themselves by supporting Israel. “I believe all Americans deserve the right to advocate for what they believe without fear of violence,” El-Sayed said in the statement on his campaign website, which specifically said it was in response to Piker. “My commitment to Jewish safety is the same as my commitment to the safety of my own daughters,” El-Sayed said. “Antisemitism is a scourge, and we need to address it in all its forms. And I stand against any rhetoric that puts the community at risk.”In a clip from Piker’s stream highlighted by Mike Rogers, El-Sayed’s Republican opponent, Piker said, “If Jews in America keep putting this this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone’s going to come around and take action not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews.”“Absolutely DISGUSTING,” Rogers said. “If Abdul El-Sayed had any courage at all, he would call this out and disavow Hasan Piker once and for all.”Piker campaigned with El-Sayed during the Democratic primary but told HuffPost last week he has no further campaign events planned. He said accusations of antisemitism “couldn’t be further from the truth” and pointed to his support for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is Jewish. El-Sayed stressed Piker doesn’t actually speak for his campaign. “And while politicians and pundits try to make this race about a Twitch streamer, we’re going to be talking about gas, groceries, good schools, and healthcare,” El-Sayed said. See All Updates