Congress Returns To The Capitol And China's Military Parade To Welcome World Leaders: Morning Rundown

In today’s newsletter: Congress is backmost successful Washington aft a month-long recess, pinch nan authorities shutdown deadline apical of nan agenda. And China is successful nan last stages of mentation for a subject parade that will tie attraction for its database of attendees and show of weaponry.

Here’s what to cognize today.

Pedestrians locomotion past a emblem that sounds "Free DC" hanging connected an overpass adjacent nan U.S. Capitol building successful Washington, DC, connected Aug. 15, 2025.Jim Watson / AFP - Getty Images

Congress returns from a month-long recess coming to a litany of issues, including a authorities shutdown deadline, impending votes to corroborate President Donald Trump’s nominees and a renewed conflict complete nan Jeffrey Epstein files.

The White House notified lawmakers Friday it had plans to slash $4.9 cardinal successful national backing using "pocket recission" — a contested maneuver that allows nan president to cancel backing successful a mini model of time, preventing Congress from weighing successful and approving nan decision.

While lawmakers connected some sides of nan aisle person condemned its use, there’s adjacent contention brewing complete a monolithic fallout astatine nan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Several resignations pursuing nan firing of erstwhile agency leader Susan Monarez person driven immoderate Republicans to push Trump’s nominees for sub-Cabinets done utilizing a alleged “nuclear option.”

As good arsenic addressing nan staffing holes successful 1 of nan nation’s largest wellness agencies, unit has been building to merchandise nan Epstein files. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., scheme to clasp a news convention this week featuring survivors of Epstein's intersexual abuse. In July, nan brace rolled retired authorities to unit nan Justice Department to merchandise nan files, but some lawmakers opportunity nan management isn’t moving accelerated enough.

Read nan afloat communicative here.

China to shape a ‘show of force’ pinch expansive subject parade

Participants cheer successful Beijing beneath a ample image of President Xi Jinping during a parade successful 2019 to commemorate nan 70th day of nan founding of Communist China.Mark Schiefelbein / AP file

China is readying a spectacular show of force pinch a expansive subject parade connected Wednesday, attended by nan leaders of Russia and North Korea. The highly choreographed “Victory Day” marks nan 80th day of Imperial Japan’s surrender astatine nan adjacent of World War II. In a cardinal show of support for China and unity against nan United States, it will beryllium nan first clip that Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin person gathered astatine nan aforesaid venue.

Leaders from nan United States and different Western governments person declined to attend, partially because of nan beingness of Putin.

The parade comes amid heightened subject tensions successful nan region arsenic China clashes pinch neighbors successful nan South China Sea and nan U.S. and its friends brace for imaginable conflict complete Taiwan, nan self-governing land populist that Beijing claims arsenic its territory.

The arena will impact much than 100 aircraft, hundreds and crushed armaments and immoderate instrumentality being revealed for nan first time, according to nan Chinese government. Many subject observers will beryllium eyeing nan parade for immoderate caller intercontinental ballistic missiles and drones.

This will beryllium China’s first subject parade since 2019 and its 3rd nether Xi.

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Read All About It

• Trump said he plans to grant Rudy Giuliani nan Presidential Medal of Freedom, nan nation’s highest civilian honor, conscionable 2 days aft nan erstwhile New York City politician was injured successful a car accident.

• Over 1,000 group died successful a treacherous landslide that leveled a colony successful occidental Sudan.

• Piotr Szczerek, nan CEO of a paving company, apologized aft he was seen connected a viral video taking a chapeau signed by tennis subordinate Kamil Majchrzak from a kid during nan U.S. Open.

• An evidentiary proceeding for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, nan Maryland begetter wrongfully deported to El Salvador, is expected connected Oct. 6 arsenic nan ineligible conflict complete his position successful nan U.S. continues.

• A shot subordinate astatine nan U.S. Military Academy and his begetter pulled a man retired of a burning vehicle successful a life-saving effort aft witnessing nan aftermath of a car crash.

Staff Pick: Giving AI backmost nan quality touch

Some freelancers opportunity they’ve recovered caller activity arsenic a consequence of AI’s incompetencies successful fields for illustration writing, creation and coding.Leila Register / NBC News; Getty Images

First, we were told artificial intelligence was coming for everyone’s jobs, and past came information to support nan inclination of AI replacements successful definite sectors. Now we are learning what galore critics person often said: There’s conscionable nary replacement for nan quality touch. It was fascinating to publication from Angela Yang’s reporting nan benignant of cyclic play we’ve recovered ourselves in, from investing successful AI to it make things faster, quicker and easier. We’re astir backmost astatine quadrate 1 successful immoderate instances, hiring humans to correct nan mini but salient mistakes automated assistants make. Rather than moving towards a world of afloat replacement of processes, nan communicative challenges america to deliberation much critically astir really AI and humans tin — and should — activity symbiotically.

— Kaylah Jackson, platforms editor

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