📉 Plus: Condom use declines | Thursday, October 03, 2024
| | | | | | | Presented By Suntory Global Spirits | | | | Axios PM | | By Mike Allen · Oct 03, 2024 | | Good Thursday afternoon. Today's newsletter, edited by Sam Baker, is 392 words, a 2-min. read. Thanks to Carlos Cunha for copy editing. | | | | | | 1 big thing: What Jack Smith has to prove | | |  | | | Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photos: Chandan Khanna/AFP, Drew Angerer and Samuel Corum via Getty Images | | | | Special counsel Jack Smith's latest account of Jan. 6 is full of vivid new details of then-President Trump inflaming a violent insurrection despite knowing he had lost. ⚖️ Why it matters: Smith and his team are pulling out everything they can muster to keep their case against Trump alive in the face of the Supreme Court's recent ruling on presidential immunity, Axios' Sam Baker writes. - That includes new evidence designed to bolster the case that Trump's conduct was personal, not official.
👀 The new details: A White House staffer overheard Trump telling family members: "It doesn't matter if you won or lost the election. You still have to fight like hell," according to Smith's latest filing, which was unsealed yesterday. - That statement is "plainly personal," prosecutors argue.
- The new filing says Trump responded, "So what?" when he was told Vice President Pence had to be evacuated from the Capitol.
- And it lays out a litany of evidence that Trump knew he had lost.
The other side: Trump's attorneys can file a response to Smith's brief. But the counterweight to Smith's prosecution has already been written — by the Supreme Court. |     | | | | | | 2. 👩❤️👨 Condom use declines | | |  | | | Illustration: Lindsey Bailey/Axios | | | | Fewer young people are using condoms, prompting public health experts to rethink their approach to promoting safe sex, Axios' April Rubin reports. - 52% of sexually active high school students surveyed by the CDC in 2023 said they used a condom the last time they had sex — a 7-point drop over the past 10 years.
- A slew of experts and young adults told AP condoms just aren't the mainstay they used to be.
🩺 Yes, but: Teens and young adults are having less sex, and contracting fewer sexually transmitted infections, than previous generations. - Teen pregnancy is also down.
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Learn more. | | | | | | 3. Catch me up | | | | Smoke and flames rise after Israeli airstrikes in the southern suburbs of Beirut today. Photo: Ramiz Dallah/Anadolu via Getty Images - 🇮🇱 The Israeli military expanded its evacuation orders in southern Lebanon, possibly signaling a bigger incursion. Go deeper.
- 📱Texas sued TikTok, accusing it of violating children's privacy, Reuters reports.
- 📺 "Saturday Night Live" star Michael Che is workshopping a new late-night show (working title: "Don't Sleep With Michael Che"), in a Manhattan comedy club, per the Hollywood Reporter.
| | | | | | | | 4. 🌙 1 for the road | | | | Photo: Jonathan Martins/AFP via Getty Images This combination image shows stages of the "ring of fire" solar eclipse as seen from Isla de Pascua, Chile, yesterday. | | | | | | | | A message from Suntory Global Spirits | | Spirits leader focuses on water conservation | | |  | | | | Suntory Global Spirits, the parent company of brands like Jim Beam and Maker's Mark, has designed a watershed conservation approach that blends science with adaptability. The goal: The company aims to become net water positive on a global scale by 2050. Learn more. | | |  | Your essential communications — to staff, clients and other stakeholders — can have the same style. Axios HQ, a powerful platform, will help you do it. | | | |
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