Tuesday morning news: September 9, 2025

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Trump considers new Russian sanctions » President Trump says he’s ready to punish Russia with what he calls “a second phase” of sanctions. That’s in response to Russia launching its largest drone attack on Ukraine over the weekend since the start of the invasion.

The president also confirms he expects several E.U. leaders to be in the U.S. this week to discuss the war in Ukraine, and he says he’ll be speaking to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

With peace talks stalled, Georgia Congressman Richard McCormick says it’s time to put more pressure on countries indirectly funding the war by doing business with Russia, like China and India.

MCCORMICK: This is not just one country’s problem. This is all of our problem, and if we want to end this war, we’ve got to put enormous pressure on these countries not to buy their energy.

McCormick speaking to Fox Business.

The White House’s latest deadline for Russia to get serious about peace talks has come and gone. But so far, Moscow isn’t facing any new consequences.

Israeli bus stop shooting » In the Middle East:

SOUND: [Jerusalem]

A bus stop in northern Jerusalem became a crime scene Monday as officials say Palestinian gunmen opened fire on the busy intersection.

At least six people were killed and another dozen injured before police say a security officer and a civilian killed the two attackers. A third suspect is under arrest in connection with the shootings.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the scene.

NETANYAHU: We are now in pursuit, seizing the villages from which the murderers came. And we will get everyone who helped them -- everyone who sent them -- and we will carry out tougher measures.

Monday’s shootings were the deadliest attack in Israel since October of last year.

Trump comments on North Carolina public transit murder » President Trump is speaking out about last month’s horrifying, apparently random murder of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte, North Carolina public transit bus.

Surveillance video released this week shows 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska getting slashed in the neck and killed. Police say her attacker was 34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr., a man with diagnosed mental health issues and a criminal history more than a decade long.

Local leaders in Charlotte are facing sharp criticism for allowing Brown to walk the streets. On Monday, President Trump weighed in, calling the suspect a madman while also offering condolences to Zarutska’s family.

TRUMP: I just give my love and hope to the family of the young woman who was stabbed.

The president made those comments as he addressed the Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible. Later, in a social media post, Trump said of Brown, “Criminals like this need to be locked up!”

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy publicly blamed local leaders, including Charlotte’s Democratic mayor, as did top Republican state lawmakers, including North Carolina’s House speaker, who called Zarutska’s death “the cost of soft-on-crime leadership.”

Jeffries appoints three Democrats to serve on GOP J6 investigation panel » On Capitol Hill, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has appointed three Democrats to sit on the new Republican panel investigating the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

dRepresentatives Eric Swalwell of California, Jasmine Crockett of Texas, and Jared Moskowitz of Florida will be joining the new investigation.

Jeffries says Democrats won’t let the GOP rewrite history and whitewash the violence of that day.

JEFFRIES: Donald Trump promised that he would lower costs on day one. That hasn’t happened. Why didn’t it happen? Because on day one, Donald Trump was too busy pardoning hundreds of violent felons who brutally beat police officers.

GOP leaders say the new probe will look into the security breach of the Capitol on January 6th and say Trump himself urged House Republicans to launch the investigation.

Thune will change rules so Trump nominees can clear Senate » Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he’s moving forward with a rules change aimed at stopping Democrats from blocking several of President Trump’s nominees.

The rules change can pass with a simple majority. It could clear the way for up to 100 nominees. Thune says the Democrats’ log jam has gone on long enough.

THUNE: This is simply the world’s longest, most drawn-out temper tantrum over losing an election.

But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says the president is trying to appoint puppets to exert greater control over government.

SCHUMER: Sometimes it’s almost as if the more corrupt, the better because then Donald Trump will totally control what they do. It’s as if he wants the Senate to confirm people willing to lie for him.

The rules change would only apply to lower-tier executive branch nominations, including posts with federal agencies and ambassadorships, not Cabinet-level or judicial nominees.

French prime minister ousted » Lawmakers in France have voted that country’s prime minister out of office.

Francois Bayrou lost the confidence vote 364 to 194. He had only been on the job nine months. He called the vote in the hopes lawmakers would support his view that France needs to cut $51 billion dollars in public spending to rein in its debt. Obviously, that backfired.

France is Europe’s second-largest economy. Now, President Emanuel Macron will have to search for a fourth prime minister in 12 months to help manage it.

Bayrou warned that despite the vote, the country’s debt is not going away.

I'm Mark Mellinger.

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