Nation and world news — at a glance — for September 18

Secret Service told Trump it needs to bolster security if he keeps golfing

(NYTimes) — The acting director of the Secret Service told former President Donald Trump that significant additional security arrangements and planning would be needed if he wanted to continue safely playing golf, according to three people with knowledge of their conversation. The agency’s acting director, Ronald L. Rowe Jr., made the recommendation Monday afternoon at a meeting with Trump in his office at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and home in Palm Beach, Florida. The meeting came just 24 hours after a second apparent assassination attempt on Trump within just two months. It is unclear what changes Trump will make to his golf schedule.

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Harris campaign says she will meet the press (on her terms)

(NYTimes) — She has hosted a convention, weathered a debate, held her first sit-down interview with a major television network. Now the question for Vice President Kamala Harris’ media strategists is: What should she do next? With Donald Trump declaring that he will not submit to another debate, Harris must determine the best way to keep introducing herself to voters who still have questions about her policies and plans for the nation. During her 2020 campaign and early in her vice presidency, some of Harris’ biggest missteps came during unscripted encounters with journalists. To avoid taking chances, she has granted only six interviews since President Joe Biden withdrew from the race.

Ohio governor sending state police to Springfield after rash of bomb scares

(NYTimes) — Children across Springfield, Ohio, arrived at school Tuesday morning to the sight of state troopers, deployed by the governor after a wave of bomb scares. Gov. Mike DeWine announced Monday that he was sending the state police to the city to reassure the community that the schools were safe and to avoid the evacuations of threatened schools that have disrupted learning over the past week. The threats began last week after Donald Trump mentioned Springfield during the presidential debate, repeating a baseless rumor that Haitian immigrants were abducting and eating household pets. Since then, 33 bomb threats have targeted city schools.

Instagram, facing pressure over child safety online, unveils sweeping changes

(NYTimes) — Instagram said Tuesday it would beef up privacy and limit social media’s intrusive effects for users who are younger than 18, as the app faces intensifying pressure over online safety. Instagram said the accounts of minors will be made private by default in the coming weeks, meaning that only followers approved by an account-holder may see their posts. The app, owned by Meta, also plans to stop notifications to minors from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. and will introduce more supervision tools for adults. An Instagram executive said the moves were intended to address parents’ top concerns about their children online, from inappropriate contact and content to too much screen time.

Star witness in FTX case should receive lenient sentence, prosecutors signal

(NYTimes) — Caroline Ellison, a close colleague of disgraced cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, provided “extraordinary cooperation” to the government, federal prosecutors said Tuesday, signaling that she should receive a lenient sentence for her role in the fraud that led to the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange. Ellison, 29, who w pleaded guilty to fraud shortly after FTX collapsed in November 2022, alongside two other members of his inner circle. In a court filing this month, Ellison’s lawyers asked the judge overseeing the case to sentence her to three years of supervised release, with no prison time. In the government’s filing Tuesday, prosecutors noted that her cooperation was “not only substantial, but exemplary.”

Boeing restarts labor negotiations as it seeks end to strike

(NYTimes) — Boeing and its largest union restarted contract negotiations Tuesday with the help of federal mediators, days after thousands of workers rejected a previous offer and went on strike. The walkout, which began Friday, has slowed the company’s production of commercial airplanes because most of the union’s more than 33,000 members work in manufacturing in the Seattle area. The company makes several airplanes, including the 737 Max, its most popular, in two factories outside the city. If the strike lasts for several weeks, analysts estimate that Boeing, which was in a financially precarious position before the stoppage began, could lose billions of dollars.

‘She didn’t deserve this’: Husband accused of raping wife testifies in French court

(NYTimes) — Testifying for the first time in a trial that has transfixed and horrified France, Dominique Pelicot said Tuesday that he had “nothing but love” for his wife but that a sex addiction controlled him, and he couldn’t stop himself from drugging her and raping her, and bringing other men into their home to rape her along with him while she was unconscious. Pelicot, 71, added that his “perversion” was created by traumatic episodes in his childhood. “She didn’t deserve this; I recognize that,” he said in tears sitting on the stand. Including Pelicot, 51 men are on trial together, mostly on charges of the aggravated rape of Gisèle Pelicot.

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