Live updates: Trump, Kennedy take aim at Tylenol, citing potential autism link; Disney puts Kimmel back on TV

President Trump and top health officials Monday said pregnant women should not take acetaminophen for pain relief due to a potential link to autism.   

Acetaminophen is the active ingredient in Tylenol, one of the most widely used medications in the world.  

“Taking Tylenol is not good,” Trump said during a White House announcement. 

Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will begin updating the label on acetaminophen and will begin notifying physicians that Tylenol “can be associated with a very increased risk of autism.”  

“All pregnant women should talk to their doctors for more information about limiting the use of this medication while pregnant. So ideally, you don’t take it at all, but if you have to, you can’t tough it out … probably, you’re going to end up doing it,” Trump said.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Monday it would not follow California’s new law banning its agents from covering their faces during enforcement operations.

“To be clear: We will NOT comply with [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom’s unconstitutional mask ban,” DHS said Monday in a post on the social platform X.

DHS suggested the masks provide protection for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, who have seen a sharp rise in attacks in recent months.

“At a time that ICE law enforcement faces a 1,000% increase in assaults and their family members are being doxxed and targeted, the sitting Governor of California signed unconstitutional legislation that strips law enforcement of protections in a disgusting, diabolical fundraising and PR stunt,” DHS said in a statement.

Newsom, a possible 2028 presidential contender, signed a first-of-its-kind bill on Saturday banning ICE agents from wearing masks while operating in the state.

He said ICE agents would no longer be “hidden from accountability” arguing masks prevent “transparency” for citizens and hinder “oversight.”

Disney says it will reinstate comedian Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday after pulling the late night host off the air.

The company said in a statement shared with multiple media outlets it took the comedian off the air “to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for the country.”

Kimmel had been taken off the air after comments last Monday saying conservatives were trying to score “political points” off the assassination of Charlie Kirk and joking that President Trump was mourning his death “like a four-year-old mourns a gold fish.”

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The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether it should overrule its 90-year-old precedent that enables Congress to provide certain agencies with a degree of independence from the White House, a major test of President Trump’s expansive assertion of presidential power.

The justices are set to review Trump’s contention that he can fire independent agency leaders at will, an argument that casts their for-cause removal protections as infringing on the separation of powers.

Oral arguments are set for December, with a decision expected by next summer. 

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Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) said Monday that New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani “should be in the Socialist Party, not in the Democratic Party.”

“Listen, I — I think he’s a very impressive candidate and — right? And I’m not taking that away from him, but — my problem is that he’s a socialist, and he should be in the Socialist Party, not in the Democratic Party,” the New Jersey Democrat told CNN’s Kate Bouldan on “CNN News Central.”

Mamdani, a democratic socialist, shocked political observers in June with a win over political heavyweight former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the New York City Democratic primary for mayor. Cuomo is now running as an independent against Mamdani.

Karoline Leavitt said Democrats will be blamed if there is a government shutdown, arguing that they know “what the right thing to do is here, to join Republicans to pass this clean funding extension.”

When asked if Trump would meet with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Leavitt said “discussions are ongoing with both Republican and Democratic members of Capitol Hill.”

“We want a clean funding extension to keep the government open, that’s all we’re advocating for,” she said.

“If the government is shut down, it’s only going to be — it would be the fault of the Democrats, and it will only become most vulnerable in our country, our seniors, our veterans, our military families and increasing security for members of Congress, which is something this White House and the administration supports,” Leavitt added.

Federal Reserve Gov. Stephen Miran criticized his fellow central bankers Monday for setting interest rates too high and touted several Trump administration policies he believed justified steep cuts.

In his first speech since leaving the White House to join the Fed board, Miran defended his consensus-breaking vote for lower interest rates last week and said the bank was threatening the U.S. job market with its current level. 

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The White House defended border czar Tom Homan amid reports that he allegedly received $50,000 in cash in exchange for contract awards in September of last year, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

“Mr. Homan did absolutely nothing wrong,” Leavitt said.

She added that Trump “stands by Tom Homan 100 percent” and that Homan “never took the $50,000.”

Homan on Saturday said the allegations are “bulls‑‑‑.”

MSNBC, citing internal documents and multiple people involved with the probe, said Homan as part of an undercover operation last year had been recorded accepting $50,000 from agents posing as business people.

The White House said Monday that Trump’s call for Attorney General Pam Bondi to go after rivals like New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) was not “weaponizing the Department of Justice.”

“In fact, the president is fulfilling his promise to restore a Department of Justice that demands accountability,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. “And it is not weaponizing the Department of Justice to demand accountability for those who weaponized the Department of Justice.”

Leavitt accused the Biden administration of weaponizing the DOJ by bringing charges against Trump over his efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election.

“We are not going to tolerate gaslighting from anyone in the media or from anyone on the other side who is trying to say it is the president who is weaponizing the DOJ,” Leavitt said. “It was Joe Biden and his attorney general who weaponized the DOJ.”

Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson is facing blowback for comments he made while eulogizing Charlie Kirk on Sunday at a service for the activist who was assassinated earlier this month.

“Carlson’s description of leaders in ancient Jerusalem plotting to kill Jesus, paired with his belief that unnamed ‘people in charge’ decided Kirk had to die because his Christian mission interfered with their agenda echoed the antisemitic deicide charge,” the Anti-Defamation League said in a statement on social media.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that Trump, while at the United Nations, will hold bilateral meetings with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as leaders from Argentina and the European Union.

He also plans to hold a multilateral meeting with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Turkey and Pakistan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.

Leavitt described Trump’s U.N. remarks as a “major speech touting the renewal of American strength around the world, his historic accomplishments in just eight months, including the ending of seven wars and conflicts.”

Charlie Kirk’s memorial service Sunday drew tens of thousands of people, and two planes full of Trump administration staff, to Glendale, Ariz.

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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un said he has fond memories of President Trump and suggested he would be open to resuming talks if the U.S. dropped its long-standing demand for denuclearization as a precondition to diplomacy.

Speaking to the Supreme People’s Assembly on Sunday, Kim made clear that he would never surrender his nuclear weapons program.

“The world already knows well what the United States does after forcing other countries to give up their nuclear weapons and disarm,” Kim said in his speech, which was published by state media Monday.

Technology company Oracle will provide security for the new TikTok entity in the United States, following the President Trump-backed deal to allow the social media company to keep operating in the U.S.

The proposal will “allow Oracle, as the security provider for this new entity, to inspect it, to study how it behaves and see how it operates,” a senior White House official said.

The U.S. TikTok investment group includes Oracle and private equity firm Silver Lake, among other firms, the official said, adding that the full number of investors will be finalized before the end of the transaction. The official expects that TikTok’s parent company ByteDance will hold less than 20 percent of the equity in the U.S. operations, which complies with the Biden-era divest-or-ban law.

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President Trump downplayed his Sunday reunion with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a formerly close ally whose public split with the president drew widespread attention earlier this year.

Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, Trump said he appreciated that Musk greeted him at the memorial service for conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

“Well, Elon came over and said hello. No, it’s nothing to do with that,” Trump told reporters when asked whether Kirk brought the two men back together.

“I thought it was nice. He came over, we had a little conversation,” Trump continued. “We had a very good relationship, but it was nice that he came over.”

Trump and Musk were spotted during the memorial service, speaking in a private suite.

Congress is cruising at a steady clip toward a government shutdown at the end of the month, with both parties — and both chambers — pointing fingers at the other while refusing to blink. 

Lawmakers from both chambers are in their home states this week after the House passed a GOP-crafted government funding bill that was swiftly rejected by the Senate, along with a competing proposal to keep the government open. Senators aren’t expected to return until Sept. 29, and House lawmakers not until October.

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Officials in the Dominican Republic said they confiscated approximately 1,000 kilograms of suspected cocaine from a speedboat targeted recently in a U.S. airstrike in the southern Caribbean.

At a press conference, local officials said the National Drug Control Directorate and the Dominican Republic navy seized 377 packages of suspected cocaine from the boat about 80 nautical miles south of the Dominican Republic’s Beata Island.

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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro offered to engage in direct talks with special envoy Richard Grenell in a letter sent to President Trump earlier this month, the Venezuelan government confirmed Sunday.

The letter, dated Sept. 6, came just days after the U.S. military carried out an airstrike on a ship in the Caribbean that Trump said was connected to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Venezuela has said the ship targeted was not carrying any gang members.

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Tens of thousands of people gathered in Arizona on Sunday for a memorial service honoring conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was killed during a campus event in Utah earlier this month.

The event was held at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., and drew dozens of Trump administration officials, GOP lawmakers and prominent conservatives, along with thousands of supporters. Speakers reflected on Kirk’s life and legacy and the path forward at a point of heightened tensions.

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Congress is moving headfirst toward a government shutdown after the Senate voted down a pair of stopgap spending bills, including a “clean” one proposed by the GOP to keep the lights on for seven weeks while appropriators hammer out a longer deal. 

Lawmakers will be out of town for the next week before returning on the eve of the deadline, raising questions about whether there’s any chance they can avoid a shutdown when they return.

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