NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Sept. 3)

Welcome to NTD Evening News. Our top story tonight, Russian President Vladimir Putin says there's a chance at a Ukraine peace deal and President Trump calling on the Supreme Court to allow new mail balance safeguards to take effect. More on the Trump administration's new rules. Homeland Security says ICE is continuing to break records in apprehending illegal immigrants and the Justice Department says states must report illegal immigrants And the Trump administration launching a new training program to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says America's dependence on other countries has become a national security issue. Jason Perry reports. And more than a billion dollars in federal funding has gone through Los Angeles' Homeless Services Agency. Now Congress demanding answers from Mayor Karen Bass over how that money was handled. Christina Corona reports. And Elon Musk's Political Action Committee spends more than $800,000 in the midterms. Where that money is going? David Lamb with more. This is NTD Evening News. Live from our global headquarters in New York City, here's Kerry Dunst. Good evening. Thank you for joining us this evening. The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to clear the way for new mail ballot safeguards ahead of the November midterms. Now the rules would give the Postal Service a new role in verifying ballot mail before it goes out to voters. Now under the new rules, states sending mail-in ballots would first provide the Postal Service with a list of the voters who are set to receive them. Then each ballot envelope would also carry a unique barcode. The Postal Service would then check that list against what the state submitted, adding any extra layer of verification before those ballots enter the mail. Now the administration says that the system would strengthen election integrity and make ballot mail more secure. But Democratic-led states say that the federal government is overstepping into state-run elections. Now a federal judge temporarily blocked the rules. And with the first midterm ballots already entering the mail, Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to let them take effect. And Russian President Vladimir Putin today saying there's a chance for a peace deal with Ukraine. This has President Trump tells GB News that the U.S. is still working to end the war. Here are the president's remarks. I just want to see that end. I think we'll get it. You know, I ended eight wars, eight different wars. Of the eight, four of them were supposed to be much more difficult than this one. I thought this would be the easiest. Why is it so difficult? You just can't get them in a room. President Putin and President Zelensky hate each other and they have a hard time with it. Putin today revealing that contact between Moscow and Kyiv is still ongoing via intelligence services, saying there's a chance this might lead to peace. He adds that for hostilities to end, Russia and Ukraine must first reach an agreement between themselves. Now, the Russian leader also acknowledges the impact other nations are making, saying he has a desire to rekindle relations with the U.S. And a new record has been set for illegal immigrant arrests in this month for ICE. August saw under 51,000 beating the previous record that was set in July by about 700 arrests. Entity correspondent Jason Blair reports. ICE announces 50,925 arrests for the month of August, setting a new all-time record. ICE has been setting a new record for three months in a row. June saw 43,900 arrests and July 50,208 arrests nationwide. A brand new historic number of number of aliens ICE is arresting. They're breaking records every month. New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently pushed back, doubting that the Trump administration is going after the worst of the worst illegal immigrants. It seems like in the last year and a half, you would have already removed the worst of the worst and the baddest of the bad. And now to make your quotas, you're going after innocent people. People are not committing crimes. DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen says some arrestees are targeted because they've committed crimes in other countries. We have a 38-year-old citizen from India who has a criminal history that includes conviction of rape in Germany. Mullen also says regardless, anyone who crossed the border illegally has committed a crime. When you choose to take the shortcut, you have made a decision, a conscious decision, to enter this country illegally and break our nation's laws. And the Justice Department announces that any state that takes part in the temporary assistance for needy families or supplemental security income programs must report known illegal immigrants to the DHS. This applies to all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The move reverses a 1998 interpretation of a welfare reform law passed by Congress in 1996. The old interpretation said that only a state's welfare offices had to report. They now say it applies to every state agency. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Joshua Gradyk of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel says our clarification does not impose new obligations on states. It simply restores the original meaning of the statute Congress enacted and ensures that DHS receives the information it is legally entitled to. The DOJ says the move will be applied from now on and states won't be penalized for relying on the past interpretation. Reporting in Washington, D.C., Jason Blair, Entity News. The U.S. continues to secure the Strait of Hormuz amid Iranian efforts to disrupt commercial shipping. Vice President J.D. Vance says oil shipments are returning to near pre-war levels and President Trump is saying the U.S. is beginning to stockpile weapons. Entity's Washington correspondent Jack Bradley has more. Iran continues to fire missiles at commercial shipping vessels. Vice President J.D. Vance says that's what's keeping this conflict ongoing. But despite that, the U.S. Navy is successfully defending those oil tankers so well that they're now moving through the Strait at nearly pre-war levels. If you go back three months ago, how much oil and gas was coming out of the Strait under Iranian threats? It was virtually nothing. Now it's almost back to where it was before the conflict even started. So my advice to the Iranians is stop acting like crazy people and stop shooting at commercial shipping. About 18 million barrels of oil are now moving through the Strait every day. That's not far from the roughly 20 million barrels per day that crossed before the conflict began. But Vance says keeping that going comes down to two choices. We really have two options here. We could leave and the entire world would be way worse off because there would be no guaranteed access to oil and gas. By the way, the Gulf Arab countries are telling us that would be the worst thing in the world. Or we can accept the Iranians are going to shoot at ships like crazy people and we're going to do what we have to do in order to ensure that their efforts don't lead to a worldwide energy crisis. That's why President Trump says that reports of U.S. munitions stockpiles being heavily depleted during the Iran conflict are false and that the military is stockpiling weapons in the meantime. Writing on Truth Social, For the treasonous scum that refuses to accurately report on our military operation in Iran, we have virtually unlimited amounts of mid to high-grade ammunition, far more than we could ever use for this or for any other war, which is highly unlikely, that could improbably take place. The president did not mention specific reports that he's calling treasonous, but throughout the war with Iran since February, there have been multiple reports citing anonymous sources claiming U.S. munitions have been depleted. The president also writing of stockpiles of ammunition, we are taking them for ourselves, the USA, rather than selling them to others, but the sales to allies will soon again begin. The message from the White House is Iran is losing its grip on Hormuz and the U.S. is stockpiling weapons. Jack Bradley, NTD News, Washington. Thanks to Jack for that report. Next, 17 fields, 65 billion barrels, one historic deal. Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart joins NTD's Capitol report to take us inside the U.S.-Venezuela oil agreement, and he also lays out the roadmap to free elections there. Then he turns to socialism, drawing a hard line from former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez's rise to what he sees playing out right here in American politics today. Here's a preview. Socialism is the precursor to what it really is. It's communism. And communism is destructive everywhere. Or socialism, it's the same thing. So we talked about Venezuela. When Chavez, by the way, who got elected the first time, he got elected, he actually got elected by the Venezuelan people. And you know what he said? Exactly the same things. And you know what it caused? The richest country in South America became the largest export of people, the largest refugee numbers anywhere in the history of Latin America came from a wealthy Venezuela and Venezuela became a poor country because of the same exact rhetoric, the same exact promises of socialism. That's what happened in Venezuela. That's what they're trying to bring to the United States. Stay tuned for that full interview on Capitol Report. That's at 7 p.m. Eastern, just after evening news. And the Trump administration is launching a new training program to bring manufacturing jobs back here to the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says America became too dependent on other nations to make what it needs. And Denise, Jason Perry has the details. Increasingly, young Americans are asking, is the college degree worth it? Is the college route worth it? Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaking on Thursday at the launch of the Foundry School. It's an initiative created by the Trump administration in an effort to bring manufacturing back to the United States. And I think this speaks to that because it also, in addition to being good for our country, is an opportunity to say to students, if you come here and you go to school and you follow this curriculum, you will leave here not just with a paper credential, but with the skills that make you immediately employable in a high paying job, in a good paying job with long term stability. The Foundry School uses a first of its kind advanced manufacturing curriculum developed by Stanford University. Seven other universities are joining the program and manufacturing founders and CEOs will give lectures. Rubio explains why it's important to bring manufacturing back to the United States. Let me put it to you this way. I think we made a terrible mistake in this country. And that was the idea that the ability to make things no longer mattered. It didn't matter any longer where things were made. They were to be made in the most efficient place at the lowest possible cost. That meant more profits for the company, lower costs for the consumers. And that was the way the world would work. There was this fantasy, really, that the whole world would become a free enterprise democracies and that everyone would look like us. Rubio then explains why the loss of U.S. manufacturing capacity is a national security issue. We woke up to the reality just a few years ago that we are suddenly as a nation dangerously dependent, dangerously dependent on other nations for all sorts of things that we need, not simply for our economic vibrancy, but in many cases for our national security and our very survival as a prosperous nation state. President Trump has brought trillions of dollars of industrial investment to American soil, and the Foundry School will focus on turning that investment into jobs. Jason Perry, NTD News. Private schools and colleges could risk losing their federal tax-exempt status if they engage in racial discrimination. The Treasury Department and the IRS announcing a new proposal today. Under the proposed rule, a private school will lose federal 501c3 tax-exempt status if it discriminates on the basis of race or national national or ethnic origin. Now, the rule would apply across admissions, educational policies, scholarships and loans, athletics in every school program. The Trump administration estimates the proposal would affect as many as 18,000 private educational institutions from elementary schools to universities and trade schools. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson says, quote, Under President Trump, this administration is standing up for America's students by ensuring racial discrimination has no place in American education. Schools rebranding race-based preferences as equitable, inclusive, or diversity-enhancing does not change their discriminatory nature. And L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is being called to testify before Congress over the handling of more than $1 billion in federal homelessness funding. The House Oversight Subcommittee investigating allegations of waste, fraud, and abuse involving the L.A. Homeless Services Authority. And today's Christina Corona has more. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is being called to testify before Congress over the handling of more than $1 billion in federal homelessness funding. The House Oversight Subcommittee is investigating allegations of waste, fraud, and abuse involving money that went through the Los Angeles Homelessness Services Authority, or LHASA. Since 2021, LHASA has received more than $1 billion in federal funding, including $220 million in 2024 alone. Now, federal officials have raised concerns about how that money was handled. A Department of Housing and Urban Development inspector general investigation cited alleged repeated false statements along with problems with financial management, internal controls, and safeguards against conflicts of interest. In June, the Department of Housing and Urban Development suspended additional federal funding to LHASA. Congress is now asking Mayor Bass to explain what the city knew and what oversight was in place. The committee is also demanding records from Bass's office dating back to January 2020. Those documents are due September 14th, just one day before Bass is scheduled to testify. This comes as Los Angeles continues to struggle with a massive homelessness crisis with more than 45,000 people experiencing homelessness in the city. Bass is expected to appear before Congress September 15th. Christina Corona, NTD News. And the latest disclosure in election spending from the world's wealthiest person, Elon Musk's political action committee spent more than $800,000. Most of it went to key Senate races. NTD's David Lam reports. AmericaPAC, founded by Elon Musk, is putting in the first round of its midterm money into the GOP's key battleground races. According to recent campaign data, his political action committee used more than $800,000 in August, almost 90% towards Senate races. The biggest contributions include almost a quarter million dollars to support Republican nominee Ken Paxton in Texas, $170,000 for re-election of Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins, and more than $100,000 to support Republican Senator John Husted in Ohio. The expenditures indicate which candidates Musk, valued as the world's wealthiest person, is focusing on. The spending disclosure was made days after House Speaker Mike Johnson reportedly met with Musk in Texas. The Republican Party is holding its first ever midterm convention next week in Dallas, while House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says the Texas Democratic Party will engage in its own programming. The RNC says it will showcase its Republican candidates ahead of the November elections. David Lam, NTD News. And President Trump's new tariffs are taking effect. Foreign drones now face a 100% tariff when they enter the U.S. Drones with a takeoff weight of over 55 pounds face this 100% tariff rate. Now, drones with thermal imaging capabilities and docking stations are going to also face that highest rate. Now, smaller drones face a lower tariff rate of 25%. Some drone components will also face tariffs starting next February. Now, the tariffs come from an order President Trump signed in August, which aims to boost domestic production amid Chinese dominance in the drone industry. Trump administration says dependence on Chinese drones poses a national security threat. Studies show Chinese drone maker DGI controls over two thirds of the global market. The U.S. has identified it as a company linked to the Chinese military. And video streaming platform TikTok refusing to show up to a House Select Committee meeting on China. It claims it cannot appear due to unrelated child safety litigation. Now, the meeting was set to take place on September 15th. Chairman of the committee, Rep John Molinar, he is questioning this excuse. The meeting's aim was meant to assure the public that TikTok is following a national security law aimed at protecting Americans from foreign adversaries. Speaking in an interview, Molinar says no part of the roundtable was meant to focus on kids. He said that this, quote, raises serious questions on the algorithm, access to Americans' data, and what kind of influence the Chinese regime continues to have with TikTok. And coming up, jurors in the Lindsay Clancy case remaining deadlocked after six days now of deliberations, although they may be getting close to a verdict. And cities are pulling the plug on license plate cameras. We're going to have that and more. We'll be right back. 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They have drawn online controversy over concerns regarding data privacy, surveillance overreach, and their potential misuse. Police in Dallas, Texas are removing the camera system after Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a directive ending funding for flock camera use. Meanwhile, the Florida Department of Transportation saying agencies have 30 days to remove license plate reading cameras off state highways. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says he backs giving police useful crime-fighting tools, but he's drawing the line at turning Florida into a surveillance state. I was hoping that he would do some type of review, an independent review of the way the system is worked, and if it is working as intended and there's not a mass, you know, like misuse of the system, that then they would order them back on. Retired police chief Tom Whitesell calls the current movement to take down flock cameras an overreaction. Is there room for some improvement for oversight and accountability? For sure. And has there been some misuse by police officers? But in every case that I've been able to research, they have either been under investigation and are on suspension. They have been found to have misused it and been fired. And in most cases, states are criminally charging them. In Haines City, Florida, an officer is now facing charges accused of running his estranged wife's plate through flock system more than 700 times. And in Sumter County, Florida, a sheriff detective was fired and charged, accused of using license plate data to dig up information on her husband's ex-wife. Whitesell says license plate reader camera systems have a passive mode and an investigative mode. Passive mode, all that means is that you get an alert on your squad car computer that a vehicle has come into your jurisdiction that's wanted, entered in the system, taken maybe in a carjacking, stolen, wanted in connection with a child kidnapping. It gives you the location and direction of travel and then you can go and investigate it. The investigative mode, says Whitesell, can be used for cases like fatal hit and runs, where the only information is car make and a bumper sticker like the Chicago Bears. You can put that information into flock as an investigative tool, search, and it will come up with any vehicles in the system that were in that area or that they have caught on their cameras with that type of description. And those have been very, very helpful in solving crimes. Marion County, Florida, officials say the cameras helped find a missing 13-year-old girl at the center of an amber alert. And in December 2025's Brown University shooting, two students killed, nine wounded. Flock's AI cameras tracked the suspect's car 14 times beforehand. And police say the system kept him on their radar even after he swapped his license plate. It's also used for everyday police work. It solves hundreds of maybe tens of thousands of hit and runs, hit and run fatalities, burglaries, retail thefts, and other carjackings, stolen autos. I mean, those are everyday crimes that the beat officers come in contact with. It doesn't make the news media. It's not a big story. Whitesell says losing such a useful tool would handcuff law enforcement. He is calling for greater penalties for misuse, for example, five years in prison and stronger regulation of the camera systems. That's reasonable. You're misusing the system. You know that if you're convicted, you're going to go to prison for five years. I think most people would support that. The retired police chief acknowledges the concerns about privacy and misuse, but says no police tool is 100 percent abuse proof. Better regulation and stiff penalties, he believes, will do the job to ensure law enforcement keeps a valuable tool. Coming up, President Trump lashing out at inaccurate media reporting of low U.S. munitions, saying it constitutes treason. Analysis ahead from NTD's senior geopolitical analyst, retired Lieutenant Colonel Darren Gobb. And CNN revises an article after falsely claiming the U.S. could have foreseen the flood in Nepal, and China continues to actively go after people trying to report on the catastrophe. Arianne Pasdar has the latest after the break. Boxes everywhere. And this is going to be Addie's room. First night here, but Amy seems cool. Take me down. My 15-year-old son Ethan and I had a fun and relaxing morning. We returned home and Ethan walked to his best friend's house an hour later. I heard the ambulance scream by the street carrying my beautiful boy. Ethan was shot in the head in his best friend's house with an unsecured gun. He had zero chance of survival. The father of the gun owner, he stored his three guns and bullets in a shoebox. How do you feel? That has to be the most horrific experience that a human could ever have. David, would you give any advice? First thing you do is not keep your ammunition with your weapons and that your weapons need to be locked at all times. Hear that? That's the sound of your life. Perfectly imperfect. But every time you drive after drinking, the music gets drowned out. Life sounds pretty great. Don't let a buzz ruin it. Buzzed driving is drunk driving. Don't drive buzzed. My graduation was something I will never forget. People like you and me sometimes may have doubts but I feel that everything's possible. Find free adult education classes near you at finishyourdiploma.org. Elmo's daddy taught him that when he has a big feeling like being frustrated, having a son can help you feel better. Love your mind. Welcome back to Anthony Evening News. I'm Kerry Dunst. President Trump today disputing reports on U.S. munitions by what he called treasonous scum. He says the U.S. has virtually unlimited amounts of mid to high-grade ammunition. Joining us now for analysis is retired Lieutenant Colonel Darren Gov. He's NTD's senior geopolitical analyst as well as he served in the U.S. Army as a battalion commander and Blackhawk pilot. Darren, thank you for joining this evening. To start off with, could you elaborate on the state of U.S. stockpiles as it relates to the Iran war? Hey Kerry, I think probably the first thing to highlight is the fact that what Trump said about the fact that these reports were leaking out. Now the accuracy of the reports basically at this point are almost irrelevant when it comes to the idea that that shouldn't be what is said in the public in the first place. I would not go past saying that he's right when it comes to using the word treason. What are you doing? You're working against the lives and mission success of our service members overseas regardless of which branch and any of that kind of thing. And so whether the report was right or wrong, it should never have been something that was settled in the court of public opinion through headlines and different newspapers where in many cases they were competing. Second of all, you know, if I knew the exact status of our munition status across multiple different types of munitions in the U.S. military right now, you actually would have a problem because I should not know that at this point. You know, I don't have the level of clearances I used to have which were the highest in the country when I did have them. And so what that tells me is that people are leaking information either one, they know it's wrong in order to hurt the mission or two, they know it's right and they're accessing classified information they shouldn't be sharing in the first place while also again hurting the So I think at this point, it's best to trust what you've heard. And if what you've heard turns out to be wrong, that's a different thing altogether. But for now, I don't see any indications why we should assume all these headlines about us running out of munitions are right. Logistics is going to win wars. And we should always be concerned about it. But you can't fix a logistics problem or know your status without having accurate information. And for now, I have to believe what Trump and Hegseth say that we have plenty of what we need to operate. And maybe we can talk about what what is more public knowledge. And that's the administration working to speed up production of munitions here at home, like the recently announced deal with General Dynamics and Lockheed. So what does the production pipeline look like right now? And how could this deal change that? Well, it's improving. And then that just comes with funding and focus. And this is not a mystery at all. And oftentimes you would have a facility that would say manufacture artillery shells. Maybe there's five different lines in that facility manufacturing and three of those five were shut down because you didn't have the people to hire to run them. You didn't have enough material in the first place to buy or could afford to buy to keep that many lines going at the same time. So often it's taking an existing system and ramping up internal capabilities that already exist. And so that's a positive thing when it comes to restocking our war stocks as well. What people also should understand is that you can only store so much. I mean, to some extent, what we call just-in-time logistics applies to ammunition too. You store a certain amount, it does have a shelf life on some of these items, and you either use them, ideally you don't have to, or there are other processes for how you handle these things. But you can't just keep building and keep stockpiling forever. That's also not a good idea either. It's a misuse of taxpayer dollars. So I think what you're seeing is an improvement to the process that we need, because we took a pretty heavy hit when we kept sending things to Ukraine. Yes, and Darren, while I have you, I want to pivot a little bit, talk about the Strait of Hormuz. Secretary Besant, he made some pretty interesting comments recently. He said that the Strait would be basically worthless in two years. So I want to get your thoughts here on his comments, as well as your view on the Iran war more generally. Well, that's actually one of the key things that, for those of us who follow these things closely, are really able to step back and take a look at. We know the world of tensions on the Strait, and what flows through the Strait, the energy, other supplies that go through there. But why is he saying in two years it wouldn't, I wouldn't use necessarily the word useless, but it is that it would not be a leverage point like it is right now, a single choke point? Well, there are numbers of pipelines that are going across Saudi Arabia, for example, that are bypassing the Strait now, and they're going to load oil onto ships in a different port, different location that doesn't use that waterway, takes away its importance to some respect. That's not the only pipeline, it's just one example. Second of all, you just saw the deal that was signed with Venezuela for the billions of barrels of oil coming out of Venezuela, when it's ready to be pumped and moved. What you're doing is just simply spreading the risk out to multiple locations around the world rather than a single one. And that's a good thing, not only for us, but for everybody who operates in the Strait of Hormuz right now. Yeah, indeed, any financial planner will tell you diversification, of course. Now, Darren, I want to turn now to the Ukraine-Russia war. Of course, Russian President Vladimir Putin, he said today, expressing some optimism. I think we've been here before, but he just had his representative at the G20 summit, the first time that they've attended since the beginning of the war, and they were there in North Carolina. He also said he's in favor of fully restoring relations with the U.S. Clearly, that's something appealing to him, maybe a leverage point. So what are your reactions to Putin's latest statements? And if you think that this might actually be some light at the end of the tunnel? Well, I think it could be some light at the end of the tunnel. And part of the reason why is because it's gone on for so long that both sides of the front are suffering under exhaustion. And they can only punish each other so much to where neither the law of diminishing returns comes to play here as well, much less the fact, and most important part, that they're running out of people that should never have been killed in a useless war in the first place. And so I think what you're seeing is a recognition that this exhaustion is real, running out of people, running out of resources, running out of funding, those kinds of things. And the question is, is it worth continuing on when all you're doing is harming economies on both sides and the front is not moving anywhere and no one's gaining anything? So that's part of it. And so I think, you know, the relationships with the United States part is we have to kind of watch and see how that plays out. What is he seeking? And before we judge it too harshly, we've got to remember that what were we able to turn South Korea into after that war? Look at how our relationships were with Japan in World War II and what it is today. It's not the first time we've had an adversary of some sort where we repair the relationships and it was better for everybody around the world, much less the two countries. So give that one some time. Maybe it'll be good, but this could be a very slight glimmer at the end of that tunnel, and I hope it grows into something good. Well, you paint a picture of optimism, something that I think everybody would absolutely like to see after this tremendous loss of life. Teran Gov, thank you for joining. Thanks, Eric. And next, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran is, quote, weaker than ever before following U.S. strikes in the region. He also says toppling the Iranian regime is within reach. I am convinced of our ability to remove this threat once and for all, meaning to topple this regime. This is the central mission still before us, but it is close. It is not impossible. It is within reach. Netanyahu, speaking with his defense minister and Israeli Defense Forces Chief of the General Staff in Tel Aviv, he spoke of, quote, historic achievements made against the regime to ensure Israel's continued existence. He says the regime is currently faltering and it is fighting for its life. And the death toll in Nepal now at over 1,200 after that devastating flood last week. China, meanwhile, continues actively going after people who are trying to report on the catastrophe on the Chinese side of the mountain. And it is A rescue team from the Nepali army using inflatable boats to enter a flooded tunnel linked to a hydropower project on Thursday. They're still searching for trapped workers. Eight days after a devastating flood hit Nepal and Tibet, thousands of people remain missing, with 1,200 tragically confirmed dead. The United States continues sending aid in various forms to help with search and rescue efforts. Despite that, CNN published an article seemingly attempting to partly blame the U.S. for the disaster. The report stated that the Trump administration cut funding for a program that aimed to identify landslide hotspots in Nepal. The State Department pushed back, saying the program was not built to generate real-time flood warnings. The program was never an end-to-end flood early warning system, adding that this outrageous, slanderous article is as bad faith as they come. CNN should be ashamed. Only after that did CNN heavily correct the article, admitting that the program would not have been able to prevent the disaster. Meanwhile, in China, the Communist Party is going after people trying to report on the flood. According to the Human Rights Watch, Chinese state-owned media was ordered not to interview with survivors or their families. Meanwhile, on Nepal's side, media from all over the world have been traveling and reporting freely for over one week now. According to an expert, this contrast makes the Chinese government feel that controlling information around this event is harder. The CCP is not only preventing coverage, but actively going after people who do spread information. One of the regime's own mouthpieces published an article admitting that at least 10 people have been fined for reporting on the catastrophe. Ariane Pastar, NTD News. A federal judge blocks President Trump's latest effort to restrict birthright citizenship. U.S. District Judge Demra Bordemann ruling yesterday the order is, in her words, almost certainly unconstitutional. The ruling prevents federal agencies from denying citizenship to children covered by the case. President Trump signed the new order in August after the Supreme Court rejected his earlier attempt to end birthright citizenship. Now, the new order also sought to deny citizenship to children if one of their parents works for foreign governments in the U.S., engages in fraud or a commercial transaction to obtain citizenship, or is The Justice Department argued the latest order was more narrow than the original sweeping proposal and an injunction was inappropriate, but that judge rejected that argument. Here's Attorney General Todd Blanche responding to the court ruling yesterday. We crafted the EO around and in concurrence and understanding what the Supreme Court said in their decision. And so we expected, we didn't expect this judge to say we were right. And so this is not something that is a surprise to us, but make no mistake about it. It was not our intention and we did not go in any way different or we complied with the Supreme Court. And what we're doing now is making sure that we're protecting American citizens and that we're compliant. What did the framers mean when they talked about who could and who could not be citizens in this country? And so we'll continue to fight as President Trump has talked about for many years and we'll, if we have to go back to the Supreme Court, we will. And what do everyday Americans think about birthright citizenship and birth tourism? And today, Sam Wong was out on the National Mall in DC to hear from the people. Birthright citizenship is all over the headline right now. Where do you stand on this issue? Personally, I feel like it's been abused. I mean, obviously the whole birthright citizenship thing was because of slavery originally, but we're way beyond that at this point. I am not for natural citizens, people that are born here, especially with all the people coming from China and just getting their citizenship for their kids. But if you're an immigrant and you plan on living here full time, I have no problem with it. If the Constitution says you're born on this land, you're a U.S. citizen. That's the way it is. That's the way it works. Most people's problem is, and I think my problem would be, is that people who come here with the intention to give birth here, I think that's a problem. I don't think it's a good thing for our country to just be able to have anyone walk in, especially with all of the businesses literally created for birth tourism. That's not what we're here for. There are cases of Chinese nationals, for example, coming to the United States for the purpose of just giving birth. What do you make of the national security implications of that? Well, that definitely is the biggest concern. I mean, obviously that and just, you know, I think after the Supreme Court ruling, you know, and I believe in Mexico, they started putting up billboards saying, you know, how to, you know, come to the United States to give birth, cross the border. Oh, I think it's totally wrong. It's a huge national security problem, in my opinion, because if they're not going to live here and then come back and vote, they're going to vote in blocks once they're 18. And that we'll probably see that pretty soon because this has been going on for quite a while. There's Chinese birth places here. People can sign up. They can, they can come in. They can, they can give birth in the United States, birth tourism. If they want to fix it, change the law. Someone that comes here to be delivered by birth, and then they never come back until who knows what possible nefarious reasons they come back here for. The people that live here should be here because they love this country and just want to make it a better place to be. And we have the latest updates on the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. The jury remains deadlocked after six days of deliberations. It appears that one juror is holding out entities. Arlene Richards has the details on today's courtroom fireworks. On Thursday in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, jurors sent another note to judge William Sullivan, asking him to reread the instructions for the law on reasonable doubt. Apparently one juror may not have been following the law and it was preventing the other 11 from coming to a unanimous decision. The request caused defense attorney Kevin Reddington to strongly object during a sidebar conversation with the judge. At one point, Reddington slammed his hand on top of the papers on the judge's bench and raised his voice. The judge also raising his voice. Sullivan later called the jury back into the courtroom and reread his reasonable doubt instruction over Reddington's objection. He said in part, proof beyond a doubt does not mean proof beyond all possible doubt for everything in the lives of human beings is open to some possible or imaginary doubt. Sullivan then ordered the jury to continue deliberating. If jurors cannot unanimously agree, the judge may eventually choose to declare a mistrial, ending the trial without a clear resolution. That means the prosecution could decide to try the case again. Clancy's attorney told the press Thursday morning he's ready to try the case again. After the note incident, he publicly objected, arguing that one juror is refusing to follow the law and should have been removed. But Judge Sullivan shot back, saying he wasn't taking sides. The jury resumed deliberations for 30 more minutes before being excused until Friday when they will again receive instructions at 9 a.m. We don't know how the jurors are divided on the verdict. By the way, the defense reacted they may be leaning toward dismissing the charges against Clancy. Arlene Richards, NTD News. And we will be keeping you updated as that case evolves. Coming up next, though, in college football, the SEC suing its own member just days before the season starts. Dave Martin joins us with the details. There's cultures that have been lost, but this culture hasn't been. The artist is showing us our sense of who we are, where we came from. You look at his hat. His hat is knitted probably by a man because a man traditionally knitted the hats. That hat tells you the story of who this person is, what his place in the culture is, the animals around him. Everything's all contained in the messages in the hat and the tool that he's carrying over his shoulder. This is a centuries-old tool that has been able to rework the mountains. Those traditions are invaluable, and if we don't honor those traditions, then we're ruthless. The artist is showing us the value of maintaining our culture and respecting our culture. My biggest fear in the middle of my addiction was that I would never be able to get over it and that my kids wouldn't have a father. I overdosed on heroin, and I lived. And I started thinking, you know what? This isn't my story. For the longest time, fear held me back from ultimately being who I wanted to. I found the fatherhood program, and it was one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life. My desire to change had finally outweighed my desire to stay the same. I felt powerless for so much of my life that it's important to me that my kids are empowered and truly believe that if they can think it, they can do it. I definitely had to become a better man to be a better father. For the first time, I finally feel like I'm exactly where I should be, where I want to be. Sports news. We're joined by NTD's Dave Martin. Dave, let's kick off with my favorite, college football. Kind of a weird story brewing in the SEC between the conference itself and LSU, one of the power teams in that conference. What's going on? Yeah, well, they are now in legal conflict with each other. Like you said, this has been brewing for quite a while here, Terry. Now, the SEC is filing suit against LSU over their intent to play a couple of players who previously signed pro contracts. Now, the league says the school is ignoring SEC rules that prohibit signing and playing former NFL players. Now, this battle has been on the horizon for actually quite a while. After news spread that a pair of undrafted rookie NFL free agents were possibly going to be cut from their NFL teams, but had agreements to come back this season to LSU for a fifth season, thanks to a court injunction, the SEC voted last week to ban former players from playing in their league. Now, interestingly, LSU's own president voted in favor of the SEC issuing a statement that affirmed its longstanding rules of not allowing pro athletes on their rosters. But the judge that granted those two players a fifth season of eligibility said Friday last week the league cannot punish members for doing so. Now, meanwhile, LSU opens their season in two days against Clemson in Baton Rouge. So, this will be a couple of, you know, conflicting cases that will be falling very soon. They're gonna have to wrap a resolution, I would think, very quickly because the league, the game starts in 48 hours. So, they gotta know who's playing. But right now, it's both teams going at it in court. Well, down there in the south, you got God, family, country, and football. So, hopefully, they... Not necessarily in that order, either. All right, let's move on. Fortunately, the rain held out today. I know yesterday we had some rain outs. The U.S. Open, we're still in the second round. What's the latest? Well, we had actually had another top 10 upset, at least on the men's side today. Fourth-ranked Felix Auger, LACM, lost in four sets to Karan Hashanov in the second round. But it should be noted that Hashanov was once ranked in the top 10 himself, so not a huge upset there. Elsewhere, 10th-ranked American Taylor Fritz really blitzed through his win in straight sets there, losing just two games in the process. Now, tonight, second-ranked Alexander Zverev plays his second-round match after his narrow escape on Tuesday in round one, where he had to win in five sets there. On the women's side, former U.S. Open champion Iga Spiatek advanced to the round with a straight-sets win today. Ditto for former two-time U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka, who won in three sets. Plus, Americans Amanda Anasimova and Madison Keyes both advanced. And then tonight, fellow American Coco Gauff, also a former U.S. Open champion, ranked fourth in the world. She plays starting at 7 p.m. Eastern time. So, still in the first week of the U.S. Open. Not too many huge upsets going on, at least on the women's side. Okay, so we got Taylor Fritz storming in, along with Big Ben. So, the men on the U.S. side... Fritz won 6-0, 6-1, 6-1. I mean, he blitzed through that second round, so... All right. Coco, a defending U.S. Open champ. Hopefully, the U.S. can break through. Let's talk about baseball. Shoei Otani, he's getting some rest. Were you expecting that? Well, you know, the Dodgers are contemplating giving him rest. The guy plays almost every day, either pitching or hitting. But he's been injured for so long. He's not pitched, actually, since July 3rd because of a sore left knee. He also has a right biceps issue, they're calling it. It hasn't affected his hitting, though, at least it seemed until last night, anyway. He's been hitting, however, since July 3rd still. Now, Otani struck out all four times at the plate last night. First time this season he did that. He was seen wincing, though, after the final time. Now, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said he's having a talk with Otani today while weighing, giving him a day off. Otani, really, he's having a good season at the plate. Top ten in the National League in slugging, on base, run scored, you name it. He's actually come down from the numbers he's played, probably the last three years, where he's averaged 51 home runs a season. He's at 30 right now with about 20 games left. In any case, his Dodgers play at home tonight against the St. Louis Cardinals, game starting at 10-10 Eastern time. Tarek Skubal, the two-time signing winner they got from Detroit, will start for L.A. against the Cardinals starter Quinn Matthews. Dodgers, meanwhile, they got the big lead in the NL West, nine games over second place to Arizona. So, I think they can afford to give him a day off, you know? Maybe two. I mean, you need him for the playoffs, that's for sure. Got to rest him for the playoffs. All right, a lot happening in baseball. We're going to take you now to Performing Arts, Dave. And after two days of competition, the preliminary round of our own NTD's 8th International Piano Competition includes, now the semifinalists are announced. Ten countries, 20 pianists and plenty of keys at stake. NTD's 8th International Piano Competition enters its second and final day of preliminaries, where the last contestants hope to play their way into the semifinals. But once the lights come on and it's time to perform, the contest may not be with the judges. It's you and your ego. You and your ego. It's a constant battle. It's two walls clashing, two walls clashing. So, you have to be prepared. And also, it's a matter of faith. Whenever we are distracted by the other things, like nerve and anxiety, we have to go back to music. If we only focus on how to interpret this music and how to play this music, then we can erase that bad emotions. Despite the competition and the pressure that comes with it, for some, the experience entails more. You know, it's such a great family to be connected with. And then, you know, all the people who work here, they love their job. And then the staff are so nice. And it doesn't feel like a competition. Probably the only piece that feels like a competition when you're on stage. But every other time, you feel like you're just in a whole family. At the heart of NTD's International Piano Competition is a mission to preserve and promote classical music. Now, we see this on stage, where a new generation of musicians are taking these centuries-old pieces and bringing them back to life. The vision, the values of the competition, honestly, I was touched. I was touched because I love it. I love it. For this competition, I was able to focus on this era. So I felt like I dive into the essence of music. Classical music, to me, it's a form of communication and a form of language to me. It's about kind of translating what the composer wrote back in the day and present it, you know, through my lens to the audience. After two days of performances, 12 pianists are moving on to the semifinals this Friday, with a special chance to play the competition's special commissioned piece. Nico Bani, NTD News, New York. All right. Thanks to Nico for that report. And that's all for today's evening news. But for round-the-clock coverage, you can always visit us at ntd.com, or you can use our Entity app. Thanks for tuning in. I'm Cary Dunstan. 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