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COVID map shows states with increased hospital admissions

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COVID map shows states with increased hospital admissions

A dozen states have seen a “substantial” increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

COVID-19 hospitalizations started increasing over the summer but have started to drop in recent weeks. They are considered low for the vast majority of the country, according to the CDC. There were 19,079 admissions in the week through September 23, down 3.1 percent from the previous week.

However, there were 12 states where COVID-19 hospitalizations rose by more than 20 percent, which the CDC classes as a “substantial” increase.

Connecticut saw the highest increase (36 percent) in hospital admissions, followed by Montana (32.2 percent), Delaware (31.8 percent), Wisconsin (31.6 percent), New Mexico (29.5 percent) and New Hampshire (27.6 percent).

Six other states also saw an increase in hospital admissions of more than 20 percent: South Dakota, North Dakota, Maryland, Idaho, Nevada and Minnesota.

At the other end of the spectrum, three states saw hospital admissions drop by more than 20 percent, which the CDC classes as a “substantial” decrease.

Mississippi saw the biggest drop (-42.8 percent), followed by Alaska (-35.1 percent) and Florida (21.6 percent).

A CDC spokesperson told Newsweek earlier in the week that the agency’s genomic surveillance indicated that the majority of infections were being caused “by strains closely related to the Omicron strains” circulating since early 2022.

“While rates now seem to be plateauing, we are entering October, which is the typical start of the respiratory virus season,” the spokesperson said. “Even if hospitalization rates level off for a few weeks, they could increase in the coming weeks, and prevention is the best approach.”

In September, the Food and Drug Administration approved updated COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer, and the CDC has urged just about everyone, including babies as young as 6 months, to get vaccinated ahead of the upcoming fall respiratory virus season.

About 2 million Americans have reportedly gotten the new shot in the two weeks since its approval amid a messy rollout that included barriers from insurance companies.

Amid reports that some patients were being charged as much as $190 for a shot at pharmacies, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra issued a public statement directed at “the health care payer community.”

“We should be completely aligned in our goals of getting everyone the updated COVID-19 vaccine,” he wrote. “With claims rejections in the thousands each day, we are missing opportunities to save lives together.”

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has said that vaccines will remain free for most U.S. residents through the Vaccines for Children Program, Children’s Health Insurance Program, most commercial insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid programs. For those who are uninsured or underinsured, the CDC’s Bridge Access Program will provide free coverage.

A spokesperson for HHS told Newsweek that while there had been reports of “unexpected coverage denials at the point of service,” these were being addressed by the government’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Full list of 9 Republicans who voted against government spending bill

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Full list of 9 Republicans who voted against government spending bill

Nine Republican senators voted against a government spending bill passed by the House of Representatives in a last-minute effort to avoid a government shutdown on Saturday.

Congress passed the spending bill with just hours left until the end-of-September deadline for passing a series of appropriations bills to fund the government through the next fiscal year. House Republicans were unable to reach a deal on a spending bill, with the party’s most conservative flank withholding their support, prompting House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to push a short term spending bill that keeps federal funding at its current levels, but does not include additional funding for Ukraine, for 45 days.

It passed both the House and Senate with bipartisan support, with members of both parties rallying in support of it to avoid a shutdown, which could have impacted millions of Americans, including hundreds of thousands of federal workers across the country who would have been furloughed.

Congress now has until November 17 to pass legislation to fund the government to avoid a shutdown, leaving them more than a month to reach an agreement. McCarthy, a California Republican, is tasked with striking a deal that will both pass the Democratic-led Senate while also appeasing his conference’s most conservative members, who have threatened to file a motion to vacate his position if he opts to negotiate with moderate Democrats instead of them.

For now, however, the government will remain open. The House legislation easily passed the Senate late Saturday night, on a 88-9 vote. Several Republicans voted against the bill, also referred to as a continuing resolution (CR).

Here is a list of the nine GOP senators who opposed the legislation:

Senator Marsha Blackburn (Tennessee)Senator Mike Braun (Indiana)Senator Ted Cruz (Texas)Senator Bill Hagerty (Tennessee)Senator Mike Lee (Utah)Senator Roger Marshall (Kansas)Senator Rand Paul (Kentucky)Senator Eric Schmitt (Missouri)Senator J.D. Vance (Ohio)

Schmitt said in a statement to Newsweek on Sunday that his vote against the bill was a vote “for reforming a broken system and against a bloated budget.”

“In the coming weeks, I intend to push for structural reforms to ensure the deadline dealmaking ends and we have an open and transparent process that stops reckless spending and improves the lives of Americans,” he said.

On Sunday afternoon, Blackburn wrote in a statement to Newsweek, “No one wins in a government shutdown, however, this legislation did nothing to address Biden’s open border, nor did it reduce Biden’s reckless government spending. In FY2023 alone, Border Patrol confiscated enough fentanyl to kill the entire population of the United States and encountered well over 2 million illegal immigrants along our southern border. Biden’s open border policy has created a humanitarian, national security, and drug crisis.”

Braun wrote in an opinion piece for The Hill last week and said that Congress needed to take action to pass bipartisan legislation that would avoid a shutdown, pointing to several bills that have been introduced, such as a bill that would prevent members of Congress from being paid during a shutdown, or several that would continue to fund the government if Congress can’t reach a deal on the spending bills. His office referred to that piece when reached for comment by Newsweek on Sunday morning.

Hagerty wrote in a post to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, that he did not vote for the bill because he believes it inadequately addresses the U.S.-Mexico border.

“During negotiations around a Continuing Resolution, I made very clear that I wouldn’t support any short-term funding bill that didn’t include serious border-security measures to help put an end to the Biden Border crisis, & I’m keeping that commitment,” he wrote.

Marshall expressed similar reasoning for his opposition.

“The CR does nothing to address our most immediate national security threat- our open southern border & the fentanyl pouring in. With a $33 trillion debt crisis, it’s never been more clear America can’t afford to continue these spending levels for one more day, let alone, 45,” he posted to X.

Newsweek reached out to each of the senators’ offices for comment via email.

Update 10/01/2023, 4:56 p.m. ET: This article was updated with comment from Blackburn.

Matt Gaetz vows to make good on threat against Kevin McCarthy

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Matt Gaetz vows to make good on threat against Kevin McCarthy

Representative Matt Gaetz said on Sunday that he intends to follow through on his threats to file a motion to vacate Kevin McCarthy from his House speakership role after he passed a short-term spending bill opposed by House conservatives.

Congress passed the spending bill, known as a continuing resolution (CR), as a last-minute effort to avert a government shutdown on Saturday. The bill funds the government at current levels for 45 days and excludes additional funding for Ukraine, a sticking point for House conservatives. The bill was passed in the House on bipartisan lines, with 91 conservative Republicans bucking McCarthy’s leadership to vote against it.

Gaetz, a Florida Republican, said he plans to file the motion against the speaker this week over the bill, calling for “new leadership that can be trustworthy” during an interview on CNN‘s State of the Union Sunday morning. He previously threatened to do so if McCarthy, a California Republican, worked with Democrats to pass a bill, rather than make more concessions to conservatives.

“Look, the one thing that everybody has in common is that nobody trusts Kevin McCarthy,” Gaetz said.

He continued: “He lied to Biden. He lied to House conservatives. He had appropriators marking for a different number altogether. The reason we were backed up against shutdown politics is not a bug of the system. It’s a feature. Kevin McCarthy’s goal was to make multiple contradictory problems, to delay everything, back us up against shutdown politics, and at the end of the day, blow past the spending guardrails.”

McCarthy, meanwhile, responded to Gaetz during an interview on CBS News’ Face the Nation.

“This is personal with Matt. Matt has voted against the most conservative ability to protect our border, to secure our border. He’s more interested in securing TV interviews than doing something. He wanted to push us into a shutdown, even threatening his own district, with all the military people there who would not be paid, only because he wants to take this motion. So be it, bring it on. Let’s get over with it, and let’s start governing,” he said Sunday.

Any member of Congress can file a motion to vacate the speakership at any point, a concession McCarthy made to conservative hardliners in his effort to win their support during the contentious House speaker race in January. Once a motion is filed, it would take a simple majority to remove McCarthy.

Newsweek reached out to McCarthy’s office for comment via email.

During his appearance on CNN, Gaetz described McCarthy’s agreement with Democrats as a “last straw” for him, accusing the speaker of breaching an agreement with House conservatives. He also predicted that enough Republicans will vote against McCarthy that he will be “serving at the pleasure of the Democrats” if he survives the challenge.

“The only way Kevin McCarthy is speaker of the House at the end of this coming week is if Democrats bail him out,” Gaetz said. “Now, they probably will. I actually think that when you believe in nothing, as Kevin McCarthy does, everything is negotiable.”

Gaetz Says He Won’t Work With Democrats to Challenge McCarthy

Gaetz said he would not agree to any deal with Democrats to topple McCarthy’s speakership, adding that they should side with him “for free.”

However, the Florida congressman would almost certainly need Democratic support to remove McCarthy from his position. Doing so would require 218 votes, and many House Republicans still remain supportive of McCarthy’s leadership, making them unlikely to back Gaetz’s challenge.

During another Sunday appearance on ABC News’ This Week, Gaetz said there are “a lot of talented people” in the Republican conference who could be considered for the House’s top role.

Meanwhile, McCarthy slammed Gaetz, without naming him, and other conservatives threatening to file a motion to vacate during a Saturday press conference after passing the short-term funding bill.

“When are you guys going to get over that it’s alright if you put America first? That it’s alright if Republicans and Democrats join together to do what is right? If somebody wants to make a motion against me, bring it. There has to be an adult in the room. I am going to govern with what is best for this country,” he said.

Ukraine gets bad news from two NATO allies

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Ukraine gets bad news from two NATO allies

Ukraine received troubling news from two allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as it continues its counteroffensive effort against Russia to reclaim occupied territory.

NATO emerged as a crucial ally for Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a “special military operation” against the country in February 2022. The military alliance has provided Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars to bolster its defense effort, which has left the Russian military in a more tenuous condition, blunting any future military plans for Putin.

However, both the United States and Slovakia delivered bad news to Ukraine this week, threatening to upend the amount of humanitarian and military aid Kyiv receives as the war continues.

On Saturday, the U.S. Congress passed a 45-day short-term spending bill, which follows a weeks-long showdown that saw Republicans spar over how much funding should be cut by and other conservative priorities. Ultimately, the bill, known formally as a continuing resolution (CR), received bipartisan support, but does not include additional funding for Ukraine.

President Joe Biden, a staunch Ukraine supporter, requested $300 million for more weapons for Ukraine and to train its soldiers. But those funds were not included in the bill, as aid for the Eastern European nation has become a sticking point for House conservatives, who argue that money should be spent domestically instead.

The spending package has drawn questions about the future of U.S. support for Ukraine, as polls throughout this year have also shown slipping support for Ukraine aid. The U.S. has been one of Ukraine’s strongest allies, with Biden overseeing the transfer of billions of dollars to Kyiv.

Between January 2022 and July 2023, the U.S. has provided Ukraine with $46.6 billion in military aid, $3.9 billion in humanitarian aid and $26.4 billion in financial aid, totaling roughly $77 billion, according to a recent analysis from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). This means it has provided more than any individual nation, though the European Union (EU) institutions have provided more than $80 billion.

Still, supporters of Ukraine aid have vowed to continue efforts to get more assistance passed later on in a separate bill.

“We cannot under any circumstances allow American support for Ukraine to be interrupted. I fully expect the Speaker [Kevin McCarthy] will keep his commitment to the people of Ukraine and secure passage of the support needed to help Ukraine at this critical moment,” Biden wrote in a statement following the passage of Saturday’s bill.

Slovakia Backs Pro-Russia Party

Meanwhile, Ukraine also received bad news on Sunday from Slovakia after Robert Fico, the leader of the country’s populist Smer-SD party, led his party to victory in Bratislava’s parliamentary elections.

Slovakia shares its eastern border with Ukraine and has provided it with Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets amid the Russian invasion. Fico, however, pledged to put a halt on military assistance from Slovakia, saying he would only support humanitarian aid packages. He has also opposed issuing sanctions against Moscow and ran on a pro-Russian message, according to the Associated Press.

In late September, Fico told United Kingdom’s The Telegraph that “arming Ukraine brings nothing but killing.”

Meanwhile, an Eurobarometer survey in August found a decline in the number of Europeans who support Ukraine aid.

The survey found that 24 percent of EU citizens said they “totally agree” with “financing the purchase and supply of military equipment and training to Ukraine,” compared to 33 percent who said they “fully approve” of this taking place in April 2022. Total support for providing Ukraine with military funding fell from 67 to 48 percent over the same period, with the percent of those against aid increased from 26 to 34 percent.

The survey polled 26,514 EU citizens across the 27 EU member states between August 24 and 31.

Newsweek reached out to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry for comment via email

Michael Cohen’s dire prediction for Donald Trump: "Death blow"

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Michael Cohen’s dire prediction for Donald Trump: "Death blow"

Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen predicted on Sunday that a New York judge’s ruling that the ex-president committed business fraud will be a “death blow” to his businesses.

Judge Arthur Engoron ruled against Trump on Tuesday in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ $250 million lawsuit alleging that he and his sons fraudulently inflated his net worth by billions of dollars to obtain benefits such as better bank loans and reduced tax bills between 2011 and 2021. Trump, who is running in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, has maintained his innocence in the case, and his legal team has said they plan to appeal the judge’s decision.

The ruling, referred to some legal experts as the “corporate death penalty,” saw Engoron order the cancellation of business licenses for The Trump Organization and several other New York entities associated with the former president, greatly limiting their ability to conduct business in the state, home to the largest financial hub in the country. Engoron called for the naming of receivers who would oversee any dissolution, but did not call for the businesses to be dissolved in the order.

Cohen, who for years served as Trump’s personal attorney, but flipped on him after pleading guilty in 2018 to tax charges while working for the former president, explained how the ruling could be a “financial catastrophe” during an appearance on MSNBC‘s Inside with Jen Psaki.

Cohen said Trump will likely lose “more than just several” of his businesses as a result of Engoron’s ruling.

“Once he loses the license within which to operate the good standing of the certificates of incorporation that make up what’s called the Trump Corporation, not only is the main company now going into the receivership, but there are hundreds of other subsidiary companies that additionally will ultimately go as part of the receivership. It is a financial catastrophe. It is the death blow to Donald,” he said Sunday.

Cohen, who has provided testimony to investigators in some of Trump’s legal cases surrounding his businesses, described the ruling as the former president’s “biggest fear.”

“During my tenure at The Trump Organization, I can tell you that this has always been his biggest fear, that he would lose all of his money, and that he would no longer be considered the mega billionaire that he tried to portray himself as,” he added.

Newsweek reached out to Trump’s campaign for comment via email.

Trump is set to head to trial on Monday in connection to the case. While Engoron has already determined that fraud occurred at Trump’s businesses, the trial will focus on whether the former president and his executives committed illegal activity.

Cohen is among the witnesses the attorney general’s office is expected to call during the trial.

Meanwhile, Trump’s legal team filed a lawsuit in April against Cohen for more than $500 million over his media appearances, accusing him of spreading false information about the former president that has allegedly been “embarrassing or detrimental” and partaking in “other misconduct in violation of New York Rules of Professional Conduct.”

Scientist reveals essential activity that boosts child’s brain development

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Scientist reveals essential activity that boosts child’s brain development

When we think of education, our minds often conjure up images of tests, multiplication tables and thick textbooks. But science has increasingly shown that these rigid educational practices might not be the best way to enrich our children’s brains.

In her book The Brain That Loves to Play, child development expert Jacqueline Harding draws on the latest research in neuroscience and childhood development to challenge this traditional view of education and highlight the importance of play for the growing brain.

“It’s tempting to think that formal education is the main driver when it comes to achievement in later life, but that is simply not true,” Harding told Newsweek. “Each thought and every action create a new connection in the brain.”

During early childhood, our brain is at its most receptive to forming these new connections. “Through play in childhood, we have learnt how to respond to the world, the environment and others. We have unknowingly prepared ourselves for our futures,” Harding said.

Different types of play stimulate different parts of the brain. For example, toys like Lego can help with spatial reasoning skills, while imaginary games can help with social skills and processing emotions.

“It is well established that imaginary play and creative pursuits offer up exciting biological and neurological benefits for children and adults,” Harding said. “One of the most striking [new] discoveries is the power of imagination to turn genes on or off inside the nerve cells which produce proteins that can subsequently change the very architecture of the brain. In essence, imagination is speaking to the brain in its language.”

The brain circuits involved in imagination and perception overlap, so by simply imagining a conversation with a friend, your brain is practicing the pathways needed to light up during those social interactions.

“If that is repeated regularly, a new pathway in the brain is formed which then becomes the chosen route,” Harding said. “Neurons that fire together wire together.”

This doesn’t apply to just children. Numerous studies have found that by simply imagining you’re working out, your muscle strength can increase.

Play also appears to play an important role in the development of the prefrontal cortex, the brain’s “executive control hub.” Harding pointed out that “this part of the brain is essential for regulating emotions, planning, problem-solving—not only for academic life but for navigating our way more easily through life’s later challenges in general.”

If children are diverted from their natural instinct to play, they could miss out on these vital learning experiences, throwing into question our entrenched dichotomy of work and play.

“It seems that the young child’s body and brain are literally designed to be playful, and this is crucial for its development,” Harding said. “Children are naturally wired to play, and any sustained deviation from this masterful design comes at a price.

“There is no doubt, according to all the latest research, that the brain loves to play, and it is time that as adults we got on board with this notion too,” she said.

China officially silent on billionaire Evergrande tycoon’s arrest

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China officially silent on billionaire Evergrande tycoon’s arrest

The Chinese government has denied any knowledge of the legal quandary facing Hui Ka Yan, the founder and CEO of Evergrande who was put under police control this week in the latest episode in the mega developer’s years-long fall from grace.

China’s Evergrande Group announced on Thursday that Hui, its chairman, was suspected of unspecified “illegal crimes,” and that mandatory action had been taken in line with the law. The statement also said trading in the firm’s shares would be halted until further notice and advised securities holders and potential investors to “exercise caution.”

Evergrande is the world’s most indebted property developer, with liabilities in excess of $300 billion. When it was unable to pay interest on these debts in 2021, it sent China’s property market into a liquidity crisis. Some analysts have called it China’s “Lehman Brother’s moment,” a reference to the U.S. financial crisis in 2008.

Hong Kong-based Hui is now under police control at a designated, but unspecified, location in mainland China, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed individuals. In China, police control is considered less serious than detainment or arrest.

Asked to clarify the 64-year-old situation on Thursday, China‘s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told a regular press briefing that said she had no information to offer.

Hui joins a list of half a dozen tycoons to be investigated for financial crimes in the last decade, coinciding with Chinese President Xi Jinping‘s rise to power and his far-reaching anti-graft campaign in the public and private sectors.

“It is unclear why Hui is under police surveillance, but it may signal certain negotiations demanded from the government. The latest development has disrupted [Evergrande’s] hope of [debt] restructuring,” Gary Ng, an economist with the international financial services provider Natixis told, Reuters. No company was “too big too fail” in China, he said, and that he doubted any bailout was forthcoming coming for the troubled property giant.

The current freeze on Evergrande shares came just one month after trading had resumed following a 17-month suspension. Within minutes of the resumed trading on August 29, shares plummeted 87 percent as investors jumped at the chance to ditch the toxic stock.

With the property developer’s hopes of restructuring now in jeopardy, liquidation appears more likely.

Reacting to the bursting property bubble—and to reel in speculation and overleveraging—the Chinese government in late 2020 introduced the “three red lines,” or guidelines meant to curb risky speculation and lending. However, the result was widespread defaults and a precipitous drop in home prices.

As much as 70 percent of household wealth in China is tied up in property, according to estimates cited in an August joint report by the Asia Society Policy Institute and the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions. Meanwhile, property accounts for about 30 percent of China’s GDP.

While Evergrande was overleveraged, and the three red lines compounded the market’s woes, “the most important driver behind China’s boom-bust has been a weakening in the fundamentals in housing demand for the longer term, just as the housing bubble was heating up,” Guonan Ma, a senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute, told Newsweek.

These eroded fundamentals included slowing productivity, diminishing returns on overly ambitious investments, a post-peak population, an aging workforce, slowing urbanization, and a spike in the average household debt-to-income ratio, Ma said.

Idaho murder victims’ lives detailed in chilling new book

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Idaho murder victims’ lives detailed in chilling new book

Just days after J. Reuben Appelman heard that four students had been stabbed to death in their home, he headed to Moscow, Idaho.

Appelman, an author and private investigator, previously spent 10 years digging into the unsolved case of the Oakland County Child Killer and wrote a deeply personal book about it called The Kill Jar.

He says he wasn’t sure at first what he was doing in Moscow, a tiny college town that captured the world’s attention after four University of Idaho students—Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Kernodle’s boyfriend Ethan Chapin, 20—were murdered in the early morning hours of a Sunday in November.

“I was following the case like everybody else,” Appelman told Newsweek in an interview. “I just went there and I rented a motel room and I started talking to people.”

The case felt close to home for Appelman, who has lived in Boise for more than two decades and has a daughter who attended the University of Idaho.

“I’m not somebody who jumps on the next murder beat, so to speak,” he said. “I just worry about things happening in my backyard and this case is deeply rooted in the community that I’ve spent 25 years in.”

Weeks later, he was in the middle of writing a proposal for a book when an arrest in the case was made more than 2,500 miles away in Pennsylvania.

Appelman spent the next six months researching and writing While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four Idaho Students, which is set to be released on October 3.

Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old former graduate student in criminology at the nearby Washington State University, is charged with four counts of murder. A judge entered not-guilty pleas on Kohberger’s behalf earlier this year.

Kohberger was initially scheduled to go on trial for the murders on October 2, but it was delayed after Kohberger waived his right to a speedy trial.

Appelman’s book shines a light on the gruesome nature of the murders (“our imaginations are strong enough,” he said) and doesn’t mention Kohberger’s name until more than half way through.

His paramount focus is on the four young people who lost their lives prematurely.

The faces of the four slain students have been widely shared on social media and in news reports, but Appelman’s book takes a significant number of pages to paint a picture of who Goncalves, Mogen, Kernodle and Chapin were before they lost their lives.

“I wanted to elevate the memory of the victims,” Appelman said.

“These are real kids,” he said. “You know, they look pretty on TV, they make good news stories, but they ran around in little pyjamas and ate snacks at snack time, just like everybody else when they were little.”

The most difficult aspect of writing the book was approaching the families of the victims and asking them to talk.

“We’re not talking about a cold case,” he said. “These people were still in mourning, they still are, so to get information out of them was not my main task.

“I felt like I’m going to write the story that I know that I can write, and I hope that they’ll want to participate and some of them did, but it really took a lot of precaution to not invade their privacy or their mourning… and I think that they will be happy with the book because the book in many ways memorializes their kids.”

He also feels that what he has written is something that will appeal both to people who know little about the case and the online sleuths who followed every development, searched for clues and shared theories on social media.

“It’s an incredible primer for going into the trial, so to speak… if you want to know about this case right now, read this book, and then follow the trial,” he said.

The true crime buffs “might know 75 or 80 percent of what’s in the book already,” he added.

“But they’ll be happy to see that certain things like the mention of this guy, Pappa Rodger, or the mention of other theories. They’ll be happy to see that because there’s a lot of what feels like truth to some of these theories… I wrote them in because I wanted to acknowledge them for all the work they’ve done.”

He didn’t say whether he believes Kohberger is guilty as charged.

“It’s just not my place to do that,” he said, adding: “I feel like everywhere I looked into him, I got the same answers: this was a troubled person from junior high on.”

Mary Trump explains "worst thing" that could happen to Donald Trump

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Mary Trump explains "worst thing" that could happen to Donald Trump

Donald Trump’s estranged niece Mary Trump recently outlined the “worst thing” that could happen to the former president amid his ongoing legal battles.

Mary Trump—a clinical psychologist and daughter of the former president’s older brother, Fred—is a vocal critic of the former president who is again running in the Republican 2024 presidential primary to set up a potential rematch against President Joe Biden. She frequently takes to social media to broadcast her opposition to her uncle and provided her insight into the former president’s psyche during a new episode of The Nerd Avengers podcast, according to a transcript posted to her Substack on Friday.

During the podcast, hosted alongside several other political commentators, Mary Trump tore into her uncle, noting that he is “seriously being threatened for the first time in his life, from a financial, legal, and existential perspective” amid his ongoing legal troubles. The podcast discussion comes just days after Judge Arthur Engoron ruled in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against the former president that he and some of his businesses committed fraud, such as inflating his net worth to mislead insurers and banks—a ruling Trump’s legal team has pledged to appeal.

The former president’s niece also revealed on the podcast what she believes is the worst thing that could happen to him.

“The worst thing that could happen to Donald Trump, other than being put in a room with no interconnect connection and no mirror, is to be forced to face the reality about who he is, which he knows deep down and just cannot allow to break through to his consciousness,” she said.

She also said her uncle has “lived his entire life in fear of” being viewed as a failure by his family, which she added explains his “lashing out.”

“He cannot allow any of that to break through, which explains the denial and the projection and the burn it all down mentality,” she added.

Newsweek reached out to the Trump campaign for comment via email.

Earlier in the week, Mary Trump wrote in a Substack post that Judge Engoron’s ruling leaves the former president in “more danger” than ever before and will be “something of a tipping point” for him.

In addition to the New York ruling, Trump has been indicted in four criminal cases.

He is facing charges in two federal cases, one surrounding the January 6, 2021, riot at the United States Capitol building and the other related to classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Furthermore, New York prosecutors charged him in relation to an alleged hush money payment he made to adult film star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign, and an Atlanta-area grand jury indicted him on charges stemming from an investigation into his alleged attempts at overturning Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results.

The former president maintains his innocence in each criminal case. He has accused prosecutors of targeting him for political purposes, such as weakening his presidential campaign.

Video: Russian soldiers warn Ukraine "better armed" after 1,000 troops lost

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Video: Russian soldiers warn Ukraine "better armed" after 1,000 troops lost

Russian soldiers warned that Ukrainian troops were “better armed” while fighting for control of a key village retaken by Kyiv this month in a new video that emerged on social media on Saturday morning.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his military retook control of Klishchiivka, a town located southwest of Bakhmut, on September 17, marking a critical victory for Ukraine’s latest counteroffensive. Launched in June, Ukraine’s most recent effort at reclaiming captured territory appeared to move at a slower pace than the country’s allies, which have provided it with substantial military aid, initially hoped for. But the victory in Klishchiivka provided Ukraine a much-needed boost in its counteroffensive that has since seen positive indicators.

Russian soldiers who fought for control of the city have now posted video to social media explaining the defeat. The video, which was recorded on September 19, was posted to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, by the account @wartranslated on Saturday. The origins of the video remain unknown and Newsweek could not independently verify its authenticity.

In the video, a soldier reveals that at least 1,000—but potentially as many 1,200—troops were killed in the battle for Klishchiivka while also explaining Ukraine’s weaponry advantage in combat.

“In Klischiivka, from the lakeside, two Leopards are operating. The zone is fully fired through and shelled with clusters. Moving out are 10 of us, and 5 are covering only because we didn’t take them, so we’d have a chance to come out,” the soldier said. “Enemy manpower superiority is reportedly 10-fold. They’re better armed. We have no magazine, nothing. Machine guns are rotten. We use whatever there is.”

The group of soldiers were members of the Regiment 1307 and Unit 78567. Their status remains unknown.

The soldier who spoke throughout the video, whose identity is unknown, said the video would be posted if “something bad” happened, but that the soldiers would have “stood to the end for Russia.”

“But if our team does not return, if something bad is going to happen. This video will immediately go out on the internet. On behalf of our group of 10 + 5 support, we want the society to raise the question of the training of the mobilized and contractors,” he said.

Newsweek reached out to the Russian Ministry of Defense for comment via email.

Ukraine’s General Staff said in a post on social media on Thursday that its forces continue to repel Russian attacks around Klishchiivka. Meanwhile, Russia’s defense ministry said on that same day that an artillery strike carried out by its southern grouping of forces killed around 30 Ukrainian fighters near the village.

Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Continues Making Progress

Russia has seen some bad news out of Ukraine in recent days as Kyiv’s counteroffensive makes more progress.

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the war in February 2022, aiming for a quick victory against his Eastern European neighbor, perceived as having a smaller, weaker military. But Ukraine’s stronger-than-expected military response, bolstered by Western aid, has limited Moscow’s progress since last year.

The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defense wrote in a Wednesday intelligence update that Putin’s forces are too “over-stretched” to launch their own counterattack.

“Since the start of the invasion, Russia has only rarely maintained an uncommitted army-size grouping which could potentially form the basis of a major new offensive thrust. With 25 CAA apparently being deployed piecemeal to reinforce the over-stretched line, a concerted new Russian offensive is less likely over the coming weeks,” the intelligence update reads.

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