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IN POLITICAL NEWS
- Missouri redistricting: The Supreme Court rejected Missouri’s request to use its new Republican-favoring congressional map without a public referendum, prompting a downward revision of the House prediction to R 220. A separate federal judge subsequently ruled that the earlier 7-1 map was permissible, creating conflicting rulings.
- Democratic Party: A Fox News opinion piece gives five reasons for expecting Democrats to continue moving further left.
- Wyoming: Republicans have reportedly gained roughly 69,000 net registered voters since 2020.
- Democratic politics: Ruy Teixeira and other moderate Democrats are criticizing the modern DSA left as increasingly cult-like. The Democratic national organization is reportedly pressuring Texas candidate James Talarico to stay quiet as Greg Abbott's Republican challenger Ken Paxton gains ground. Republican candidates are also reportedly leading or closing the gap in the Oregon governor and Minnesota Senate races.
- Elaine Chao: A report alleges that Elaine Chao held positions associated with Chinese Communist Party organizations while Mitch McConnell was a senator.
- Airline incident: An American Airlines passenger was reportedly duct-taped to his seat and the flight diverted after an onboard disturbance involving fellow passenger Rabbi Jonathan Cahn.
- Republican advertising: The Supreme Court sided with Republicans in an emergency dispute involving television advertising rates ahead of the midterms.
- DEI: The Trump administration is proposing to strip tax-exempt status from schools that use race-based DEI programs.
- New Mexico: A Democratic state legislator who allegedly ran naked through a hotel and banged on doors has resigned.
IN AI NEWS
- West Virginia: A new analysis argues that data centers are generating substantial economic benefits for the state.
- ChatGPT-6: OpenAI’s model reportedly aced an extremely difficult eight-hour Korean college entrance examination.
IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS
- USCIS corruption: A senior immigration-services official was arrested in an alleged green-card pay-for-play scheme that reportedly operated for six years.
- Immigration judges: The administration has reportedly fired 137 immigration judges described by the source as far left.
- New Jersey crash: An undocumented immigrant reportedly fleeing ICE crashed into a vehicle carrying the wife of a Democratic New Jersey mayor.
- Missing children: U.S. Marshals reportedly recovered 79 missing children during an Ohio-based operation.
IN CULTURAL NEWS
- Smithsonian: Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch is reportedly stepping down.
- Texas education: The Texas Board of Education approved textbook changes linking radical Islam to the 9/11 attacks.
IN ECONOMIC NEWS
- Jobs: The latest jobs report is presented as evidence of continued economic strength under the Trump administration.
- Nuclear power: The Trump administration facilitated a loan supporting the restart of an Iowa nuclear power plant.
- Cognizant: The Department of Labor has reportedly suspended nearly all India-based Cognizant visa filings.
- Advanced materials: Johns Hopkins researchers reportedly developed a method to dramatically reduce manufacturing time for carbon-carbon composites, potentially lowering the cost and production time of materials useful for hypersonic and aerospace applications. The source connects the breakthrough to earlier work on the X-30/National Aerospace Plane program.
IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS
- China: Beijing reportedly injected $56 billion into credit markets to prevent a severe contraction in lending.
- Germany: The AfD is continuing to make major electoral gains and is reportedly only three seats short of an outright majority in one relevant parliamentary context. Alice Weidel argues that Germany is effectively broke.
- India: A major anti-corruption operation reportedly has 8,000 investigations underway and more than 1,100 arrests, targeting cryptocurrency, human trafficking, drugs, and terrorism networks.
- United Kingdom: The Home Office reportedly plans to resettle 3,500 migrants in small towns where migrants could outnumber local residents by 10 to 1. Separately, UK police reportedly made more than 62,000 arrests over five years related to online speech.
- Antarctica: A report claims the Antarctic ice sheet is growing, challenging some interpretations of current climate trends.
- Spain: The government is reportedly considering higher gas and oil taxes amid migration and energy concerns.
- Europe: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is reportedly advocating policies that could place private bank deposits under greater state direction.
IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
- College football: The SEC is reportedly seeking legal authority to remove LSU from the conference over its decision to bring former professional players back onto its football roster.
- Burning Man: A third attendee has reportedly died following this year's festival.
- Lori Loughlin: The actress and husband Mossimo Giannulli are reportedly divorcing after nearly 30 years of marriage. Loughlin previously pleaded guilty in the Varsity Blues college-admissions scandal.
- NFL: Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield signed a three-year, $165 million extension, making him the NFL's third-highest-paid quarterback.
AND FINALLY . . .
- Viking treasure: Yard work in Denmark unexpectedly uncovered the largest silver hoard ever discovered in the country, dating to the Viking era.
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Today's News with Larry Schweikart — TODAY'S NEWS, September 8-9, 2026. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
Hi everybody, welcome back to today's news, the news of today's history of tomorrow. This is today's news for what we got here September 8th and 9th, 2026. And our headlines are courts, juggle election issues that would be Missouri. Pratt's tell Talleriko to shut up and Trump will strip tax-free status from schools practicing DEI. As always, make sure you like, share, bilirio coffee. Hey, I saw the first animated rinders of the pilgrims. Patriots history, the pilgrims. You're going to love it. It is excellent stuff. We're aiming for a 20-minute torch video that we can take to angel studios. Anyway, I will have it up as soon as I can. Help us out bilirio coffee.
All right. In political news, Kegger Kavanaugh rejected Missouri's appeal to use its new redistricting map in favoring the Republicans, saying it must be put to a public referendum. That forces me to revise downward my house prediction to Republican 220, and I'm already down one from Max Miller, so this takes me down two. This seat isn't gone, but it's no longer a lock. If I understand the legal rationale here, this is pretty much what the court said to Virginia as well. Then, though, just minutes after Kegger gave his decision, another federal judge in a different case said, nope, the first 7-to-1 map stance. Missouri appears to be going along with that. Now, I don't know that anybody knows what's going on here. Will it be appealed to the sups again? Probably, if they let the federal judge stand, then his ruling stands. I don't know. Zen Master explains that Kegger struck down a
state decision while the federal judge now has the final ruling until or unless he is specifically overruled by the sups. Wow, go figure. But like I say, for now, I'm going to count this as a loss putting us to 220. Full news has five good reasons that Democrat fascist socialists will continue to move the party far, far, far, far, far to the left, and these aren't the only ones. Wyoming, man, this looks like a great place to live. Republicans are crushing it in voter registration since 2020 Republicans are 69,000 net in Wyoming. I think percentage-wise, Wyoming may actually be ahead of Florida. Rita Shira and his commonsense Democrat colleagues are back pointing out that the new fascist Democrat socialist alliance or whatever they're called that the left is a cult type religion. We also have a word that the Democrat Terraparti's
national organization is telling Talcompowder, Taloreco to shut the hell up. Apparently, every time he opens his mouth, he loses ground in the polls. Apparently, the internals for him are terrible and Paxton now is favored. Of course, you listen to this webcast, you know that Paxton was always favored. I don't do polls, but for those of you who do do polls, the Republican is pulled ahead in the Oregon governor's race. Yeah, that sounds like a blue wave, right? And Michelle Tafoya is within two in her US Senate race in Minnesota. Now, even for some of the good pollsters, that is the good pollsters of 2024, that margin in Minnesota means this race is a tie right now because they always over sample Democrats in Minnesota. Even the good ones do for some reason. Gerald's wife Elaine Chao held four different positions in the
Communist Party in China while he was a senator. No security issues here. A crazed American airlines passenger, this is some story, had to be duck taped to his seat and the flight diverted after he caused such a ruckus. His seatmate and apparently the one he directed his angra, get this was Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Khan, who definitely is worth listening to read any of his books on the end times and he's really good. So it's kind of funny and Khan said he had a foreshadowing that this was coming before he even got on the plane, but he went anyway. In the USPS case, a new emergency briefing will occur on Saturday. I'm sorry, we already covered that. Let me get rid of that. Meanwhile, the soups sided with the Republicans in a fight over their ads so the Republicans get more money to spend on their ads. Trump administration is moving to strip tax
exempt status from all schools teaching DEI racism. You know folks, that stuff went out with reconstruction there, your little dick nipples. The New Hampshire Democrat state legislator who ran around New Mexico, this guy was in New Mexico state legislator. Remember him I had this story last week. He ran around naked beating on hotel doors. He's resigned. In AI News, West Virginia, which has been extremely friendly to data centers, just put out a paper showing that the data centers are making West Virginia rich. Man, wouldn't that be something if West Virginia of all places came out of these AI battles as the new Washington or Silicon Valley or so that would be pretty amazing. But open AI's chat GPT 6, AST and extremely difficult eight hour Korean college entrance test. Smart little dickens. In illegal criminal alien news, a senior immigration services
guy was arrested in a green card pay for play scandal. He apparently got away with this for six years. The administration has fired. Listen to this, this is big, big news folks. The administration has fired 137 far left immigration judges. Maybe that's why we're not seeing so many more of these people coming up the works as we keep moving forward. You know, you don't get much more karma than this. An illegal fleeing ice, an illegal fleeing from ice crashed into a car, carrying the wife of a New Jersey Democrat mayor. Marshall's rescued 79 missing children in another stink. Where are they getting these leads? Couldn't be the epi files. Could it? In cultural news, the head of the Smithsonian will resign good. He's a DEI hire through and through
and many of his exhibits are just horrible. Also good, Texas Board of Education approved textbook changes that tie quote radical Islam to the 9-11 attacks as it should be. Except they might want to mention that all Islam is radical, but I guess that's a bridge too far. In economic news, Trumponomics triumphs in the latest jobs report. Even the New York Slimes has to call those numbers zesky. The Trump administration facilitated a loan that will restart in Iowa, nuke plant. The Department of Labor has suspended all, all India-based cognizant. That's a company, cognizance, visa, filings. That's kind of interesting. A Johns Hopkins team found a way to drastically reduce fabrication time for carbon-carbon composites. Here's my little carbon-carbon story.
Sometime around 1989-1990, I was doing contract work for the United States Air Force, writing a history of a then-secret program called the X-30 National Aerospace Plane Program. I talked about this before. The goal was to create a single stage-to-orbit jet that would take off and land like a regular jet. It would use hypersonic engines to reach mock 25 in the atmosphere before tilting up. To do this required fantastic materials breakthroughs, especially in carbon carbon composites. I went to General Dynamics, one of the airframe makers in Dallas, and the guy I was interviewing said, quote, hold out your hand. So I did. He put about a three-inch piece of shuttle leading wing edge in my hand, and it felt like an amble folks. I could barely hold it up. Then he said, now try this. Same exact piece, except this one was carbon-carbon,
light as a feather. I could have lifted it with two fingers. So if we can get these kinds of materials happening fast and cheap, who knows what's possible. In international news, China dumped $56 billion into its credit markets to prevent credit from drawing up and to prevent the largest credit contraction in China's history. The Huns are learning you can't keep the AFD party down. Gee, maybe it's because it really is about the issues. The party is just three seats short of an actual majority. German AFD leader, Alas Vidal says Germany is broke and can't hide it. There's a gigantic sweeping anti-corruption effort, a foot. In India right now, did you know about this? 8,000 investigations are underway and they have arrested over 1,100 people already.
It involves cyber currency, human trafficking, drugs, terror networks, everything. So I don't want to stretch this too far, but it sure seems like Trump is spinning off an awful lot of corruption investigations around the globe. Now it hasn't reached the euros yet. Oh no, they're too smart for that, but it'll get there. Media-Crab Britain's home office intends to resettle 3,500 migrants into small towns where locals are going to be out number 10 to 1. No, they can't keep the aliens out, but they can sure arrest people for online speech that they don't like. 62,000 have been arrested in just five years and mediocre Britain for speech that the authorities don't like. Unreal, what's happened to that country? Oops, the Antarctic ice sheet is growing.
Once again, climate change hoaxters are the hardest hit. I want to take a second here. It's not my notes, but I want to remind you all of something. Just about 35 years ago, 30 to 30 or 35 years ago, Rush Limbaugh was arguing that the climate change hoax was the biggest threat to the United States ever can see. And he argued this because at that time, it looked like the international bodies, like the World Health Organization, the United Nations, all of the world, all these idiots. Through the Paris Accords and all the rest, we're going to intervene in US policy and convert us into a green little vassalage. Remember that? Rush was preaching that about 35 years ago. Well, what happened? Trump won came in in 2017 and absolutely nuked these. This is why we aren't
talking about it anymore, folks. Trump beat it already and people are out there. Oh, what's he done lately? He already beat what Rush Limbaugh called the greatest threat to American democracy he had ever seen. And that was the climate change hoax. It's bad enough they can't stop an invasion of unarmed Moroccans, but the Spanish government wants to raise taxes on gas and oil, even as they swelter. You know, morons isn't a strong enough word here. This is also inevitable. The euros are coming for private bank accounts that they can't make it without, and folks, they need more money. And with shrinking birth rates, they have no more money. And with people rising up against the migrants, they can't drag them and in and tax them. In entertainment news, college footballs, a southeastern conference that SEC, it's a powerhouse has been for years. But it wants to kick out Louisiana State University for bringing back former pro players to play
on its college football team. And here I thought everybody in the SEC got paid. A third person has died at the Burning Man festival. This thing has become a deadly joke. After pleading guilty in the varsity blues FBI sting over fraudulent college emissions, actress Lori Alophalan and her husband are splitsville. Tampa Bay Buccaneers, anybody remember them? Their quarterback Baker Mayfield signed a $165 million dollar three year deal making him the third highest fake quarterback in the NFL. So question, do you think Baker Mayfield is better than say, Dak Prescott or Jalen Hertz or Justin Fields or whoever else you want to eat. Is he the third best quarterback in the NFL? You've got my homes, right? Who else you got? I think Dak Prescott's up there.
They're just all over the place. There's a top quarterback in almost every team. I mean, the number one draft pick for Nando Mendoza is not even going to start in Oakland because he's not ready and because Kirk Cousins is playing so well. Anyway, it's just amazing. This is going to kick start a ratchet where all of the quarterback prices are going to go up. I'm thinking probably Jerry Jones was smart in signing Dak a couple of years ago to that outrageous because he's tied up really until the end of his really good playing time. Then we'll see what happens. Finally, a little bit of yard work in Denmark uncovered the largest trove of silver ever discovered there. Unfortunately, I wasn't there to get any of it. Okay, that's today's news. The news of today's history tomorrow. We'll probably learn today something about what's going on in Missouri. I'm just throwing this out there. I'm starting to feel like the wheel is turning
and that slowly Republicans are going to move into their correct positions and win the midterms. It's not absolutely prophesying yet. I do think Republicans will get 220 in the house, but that's iffy. I mean, we got some races out there with nut jobs on both sides. So we'll see how it turns out. But I do think I felt a little bit of a turn this week. All right. Like, share, buy Larry a coffee, get my new book, American biography. If you want an autographed copy, email me at Larry at wildworldhistor.com. If you want the updated chapters to Patriots history United States, email me at Larry at wildworldhistor.com. They're free. Check out my YouTube Wild World of History channel, where I am reading through Patriots history of the United States. Line by line, verse by verse, I'm up to World War 2 207 lessons. That's a lot of work. Anyway, I'll see you guys back here on
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