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At least two people died after a shooting at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Michigan. Officials said seven victims are stable and one is in critical condition. The suspect, confirmed to be Thomas Jacob Sanford, was “neutralized” in the parking lot.



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Sept. 23, 2025, 12:01 AM EDTBy Natasha Korecki and Jonathan AllenFormer Vice President Kamala Harris’ memoir of her failed 2024 campaign for the Oval Office skewers some of the nation’s most prominent Democrats — including former President Joe Biden — offers her perspective on crucial moments in the election and outlines her own regrets about her decisions and performance.Published by Simon & Schuster on Tuesday, “107 Days” zooms in on the narrow window during which Biden abruptly handed her the reins of the Democratic nomination and she lost to Donald Trump.The book is notable among election memoirs in its often candid assessments of figures who are still active in politics and in the possibility that Harris will use it as a launch pad for a third bid for the presidency in 2028. Harris also ran in the 2020 Democratic primaries but abandoned her bid before the first votes were cast.She opted this year to forgo a run for governor of California, and allies say that decision was made in no small part to keep the door open to a presidential campaign.In one newsy nugget, Harris writes that Biden first asked her whether she would be willing to take his spot atop the ticket if he stepped aside. The two were sitting in the Situation Room at the White House after a briefing on the failed July 13 assassination attempt on Trump, and Biden raised a topic he hadn’t discussed with her before.“If for any reason I had to drop out, I would support you, but only if that’s what you want. It’s occurred to me I haven’t asked you,” Biden said, according to Harris’ account. She writes that he had “clearly rehearsed the speech, it wasn’t spontaneous thought.”Harris recalls replying: “I’m fully behind you Joe. But if you decide not to run, I’m ready. And I would give it all I’ve got, because Trump has to be beaten.” She writes that Biden didn’t raise the possibility with her again until nearly a week later, when he called to tell her he was leaving the race.Biden’s spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.Here’s some of the rest of what you’ll find in Harris’ new book.Resentment toward Biden Early on in “107 Days,” Harris describes her sentiments toward Biden as she spoke to her campaign staff for the first time in late July at the Wilmington, Delaware, headquarters.“My feelings for him were grounded in warmth and loyalty, but they had become complicated, over time, with hurt and disappointment,” she writes. In detailing her conversation with him when he dropped out, she recalls Biden’s wanting to wait days to endorse her so national attention would focus on him for a while — a plan she talked him out of, believing it would have hurt her ability to lock down the delegates she needed to secure the party’s nomination. When Biden spoke to the nation later that week to explain his decision, she writes, “it was almost nine minutes into the eleven-minute address before he mentioned me.” She took similar umbrage at Biden’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in August. “He spoke for nearly an hour, detailing the accomplishments of our administration,” Harris writes. “It was a legacy speech for him, not an argument for me, and he was entitled to it. But if we waited for some personal stories about working with me and what qualities he had seen that led him to endorse me, they weren’t there.” Silent anguishIn the book, Harris bemoans her choice not to question Biden’s decision to run again for president. She lays out some of her reasoning at the time.”Of all the people in the White House, I was in the worst position to make the case that he should drop out. I knew it would come off to him as incredibly self-serving if I advised him not to run. He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps as poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: Don’t let the other guy win,” she writes.She then refers to what became a poisonous refrain from Democratic insiders: “It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.” “We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized. Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.” Dishing on DemocratsIt’s unusual for candidates who may run again to call out members of their own party in memoirs, but Harris does just that in this book, drawing on her contemporaneous notes to detail the responses she got from fellow Democrats when she asked for their endorsements the day Biden dropped out. In some cases, like those of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, there was no hesitation.But former President Barack Obama, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, the former House speaker, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom were among those who stalled or ghosted, according to Harris. From her descriptions in the book of this group: “Barack Obama: Saddle up! Joe did what I hoped he would do. But you have to earn it. Michelle and I are supportive but not going to put a finger on the scale right now. Let Joe have his moment. Think through timing.””Nancy Pelosi: I’m so sad about Joe. It’s so tragic. My heart is broken. But now it’s you! It’s important there’s a process, we have a great bench. We should have some kind of primary, not an anointment.””J.B. Pritzker: As governor of Illinois, I’m the convention host. I can’t commit.” Pritzker endorsed Harris a day later. “Gavin Newsom: hiking. will call back. (He never did.)” Newsom did endorse Harris hours later, which isn’t noted in the memoir.The wrong veep?Pete Buttigieg says Biden ‘should not have run’ after Kamala Harris calls his bid ‘reckless’01:37Harris writes that her first choice for a running mate was then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a friend who may also be a 2028 rival. “He would have been an ideal partner — if I were a straight white man,” she writes of Buttigieg, who is gay. “But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man. Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let’s just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk.”Buttigieg pushed back last week in an interview with Politico after an excerpt of the book was released, saying he was “surprised” by her take.”My experience in politics has been that the way that you earn trust with voters is based mostly on what they think you’re going to do for their lives, not on categories,” he said.Harris ended up choosing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, whom she describes as a balance to her in terms of background.Of the three finalists, she passed over Shapiro, whom she described as “poised, polished, and personable” in their one-on-one interview. But Harris was taken aback when, according to her telling, Shapiro said he wanted to be in the room for every decision.”I told him bluntly that was an unrealistic expectation,” Harris writes. “A vice president is not a copresident. I had a nagging concern that he would be unable to settle for a role as number two and that it would wear on our partnership.”And, she added, “I had to be able to completely trust the person in that role.”Josh Shapiro says he raised concerns with Biden as Kamala Harris blasts his 2024 bid03:17Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., the former astronaut, was the remaining finalist, and Harris writes that she respected his public service in the military and in government. But she worried about his ability to handle the mudslinging of a campaign.”He also hadn’t yet had an ‘oh s—‘ moment,” Harris concluded as she interviewed Kelly, whose wife, former Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., narrowly survived a failed assassin’s bullet to the brain. “I wasn’t sure how he would cope with the kind of garbage Trump would throw at him.” Dismissing Trump’s jabsHarris says repeatedly that she took some of Trump’s more personal attacks as signs that he was worried about her and that she tried not to take what she saw as bait.In July, when Trump questioned whether she is Black or Indian — her father is of Jamaican descent and her mother is of Indian descent — she didn’t like adviser Brian Fallon’s suggestion that she give a speech about race like a famous address Obama delivered during his 2008 campaign.”I was so pissed I didn’t hold back,” recalls Harris, who was aboard Air Force Two, talking to Fallon by phone. “Are you f—ing kidding me?” she says she told Fallon. “Today, he wants me to prove my race. What’s next? He’ll say I’m not a woman and I’ll need to show my vagina?”Regrets, she had a fewChief of which was her response to the ill-fated query on ABC’s “The View” about what she would have done differently from Biden: “There is not a thing that comes to mind.” Trump’s team jumped on the response, which would haunt her until Election Day. “I had prepped for that question; I had notes on it. There was the answer I’d given in the debate: ‘I’m not Joe Biden and I’m certainly not Donald Trump.’ I had a note that I was a new and different generation. And I had this: ‘But to specifically answer your question, throughout my career I have worked with Democrats, independents, and Republicans, and I know that great ideas come from all places,” she writes. “If I’m president I would appoint a Republican to my cabinet. But I didn’t say any of that.” Harris writes about several regrets surrounding her first interview as the Democratic nominee, a joint session with Walz, hosted by CNN’s Dana Bash. She wasn’t happy with an alignment of chairs that emphasized Walz’s physical stature over hers, and she was disappointed in her own answers to several of the questions. Most of all, she writes, she shouldn’t have agreed to appear for the first time in an interview with her running mate at her side.”Having Tim there beside me, in hindsight, was an error,” she writes. “My campaign felt we should do the interview in tandem because it was a thing that had been done by prior candidates and their running mates. But because we’d waited to do this interview, there was so much riding on it. And the plan to have him there fed a narrative that I wasn’t willing or able to go it alone.”While she wouldn’t rewrite her position on defending transgender people, she notes she could have struck back at anti-trans ads running in battleground states with more precision. “I do not regret my decision to follow my protective instincts. I do regret not giving even more attention to how we might mitigate Trump’s attacks. Character matters. I wish I could have gotten the message across that there isn’t a distinction between ‘they/them’ and ‘you.’ The pronoun that matters is ‘we.’ We the people. And that’s who I am for.”The Joe Rogan of it all Harris spends some ink explaining how the decision not to go on Joe Rogan’s popular podcast went down. At the time, there was much ado about a Rogan invite, whether she declined and whether it hurt her politically. She never was on, while Trump spent hours appearing on an episode, which today has 60 million views. “On the eve of the election, Rogan endorsed Trump. Since then, he has lied on his show, claiming we pushed for tight topic restrictions,” Harris writes. “He even claimed that the very topics we had suggested were ones we’d refused to discuss. His team says we ‘never committed,’ which is accurate, but misleading. The plain truth: I wanted to go on Joe Rogan’s podcast on October 25. He chose Trump instead.”The Biden scourgeIt seemed that each time she was grabbing momentum, Biden would derail the campaign, emerging in the news with one inexplicable misstep after another. She describes the moment Biden briefly wore a MAGA hat — in an image that then went viral. “Joe was sharing a joke with some guys in MAGA hats. One of them took his hat off and offered it to Joe.”Don’t take it.”He took it.”Don’t put it on.”He put it on.” She said that within hours, images exploded of Biden wearing the hat accompanied by a caption: ‘Biden endorses Trump over Harris.'”At another campaign high, she was coming off a speech at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., which drew tens of thousands of people. As she was still en route to celebrate, the news from a Biden call started circulating that he had called Trump’s supporters “garbage.” That supplied Trump with fresh fodder going into a critical weekend.Harris, though, relayed that ultimately her feelings toward Biden would remain loyal. “I was still vice president to President Biden. We had three months left of our administration. Even after the lack of support from the White House, the debate night phone call, and the MAGA hat debacle, I felt I owed him my loyalty.”No signs of what’s nextHarris reveals nothing about her 2028 aspirations except that she has learned that changing the system from within isn’t possible. “In this critical moment, working within the system, by itself, is not proving to be enough. I’ll no longer sit in DC in the grandeur of the ceremonial office. I will be with the people, in towns and communities where I can listen to their ideas on how we rebuild trust, empathy, and a government worthy of the ideals of this country.”Natasha KoreckiNatasha Korecki is a senior national political reporter for NBC News.Jonathan AllenJonathan Allen is a senior national politics reporter for NBC News.
October 12, 2025
Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleOct. 12, 2025, 10:45 AM EDTBy Alexandra MarquezSen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Sunday that he was in favor of the Senate voting to reopen the federal government but that he would not negotiate with Senate Democrats on their plan to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies while the government was still shuttered.“I’m willing to vote to open the government up tomorrow,” Graham told NBC News’ “Meet the Press.” “To my Democratic friends: I am not going to vote to extend these subsidies.”“Let’s have a rational discussion, but not with the government shut down. It’s up to you. If you want to keep it shut down, fine. It’s not going to change how I approach health care,” the South Carolina senator added.Graham’s comments come on the 11th day of the government shutdown, as hundreds of thousands of federal workers remain furloughed and critical government services are operating with no staff or at lower-than-usual staffing numbers.The shutdown continues as the Senate is at an impasse over whether to pass a temporary government funding measure.https://dataviz.nbcnews.com/projects/20250922-shutdown-ticker/The chamber has voted multiple times over the last two weeks on a stopgap funding measure backed by GOP leadership that has already passed in the House and would keep the government funded at previous levels through Nov. 21. Not enough Democrats have voted with Republicans to overcome the 60-vote threshold to pass that bill.We’d like to hear from you about how you’re experiencing the government shutdown, whether you’re a federal employee who can’t work right now or someone who is feeling the effects of shuttered services in your everyday life. Please contact us at tips@nbcuni.com or reach out to us here.Meanwhile, Democrats have proposed a temporary funding measure that would keep the government open through Oct. 31. That continuing resolution would also reverse Medicaid cuts passed by Republicans earlier this year and would extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act that are set to expire at the end of the year.Graham on Sunday said that negotiating a potential extension of subsidies while the government was shut down was a nonstarter for him, referencing the 2018-19 government shutdown, where Republicans and President Donald Trump tried to force Democrats to pass funding for a border wall.“You know, we shut the government down for 35 days, Republicans trying to force the Democrats to build the border wall,” Graham told “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker. “Well, we eventually got the wall built, but not because we shut down the government.”“The subsidies we’re talking about here,” Graham added, “if the Affordable Care Act is so affordable, why, every time I turn around, are we spending $350 billion to keep it afloat?”Mark Kelly calls for a ‘real negotiation’ with Republicans amid shutdown: Full interview09:02Meanwhile, Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., earlier in the program blasted Republicans for refusing to negotiate with Democrats, saying Trump had only spoken to Democratic leaders for an hour about the ACA subsidies.“I think it’s important for all Americans to know that this fight right now over this government shutdown is about one thing. It’s about the cost of their health care,” Kelly said. “Tens of millions of people — actually, about 19 million people get their health care off the Affordable Care Act, and their rates are going to go up dramatically, and it’s going to become unaffordable.”“The president has negotiated for one hour, as far as we can tell, and Republicans in the House, they’ve been gone for four weeks. And John Thune, the majority leader in the Senate, sent people home for four days,” Kelly added.He noted that the House passed the stopgap funding measure on Sept. 19 and has not returned to Washington since then. On Friday, Speaker Mike Johnson told House lawmakers that he was extending their district work period for at least another week, through mid-October.Asked whether Democrats would vote to reopen the government if Republicans promised to hold a vote on extending ACA subsidies once the government reopens, Kelly firmly said, “No.”“Not right now, no,” the Arizona senator said. “We need a real negotiation, and we need a fix. We need this corrected for the American people. This is for so many people — their health care is running towards a cliff, and if we don’t fix this, it’s going to go right over it.”Kelly added that in order for Democrats to reopen the government, they would need assurances that Republicans wouldn’t just hold a vote on extending subsidies, but that both sides could agree on what an extension would look like.“Having some vote without an assured outcome” wasn’t the solution, Kelly said.“All this is going to take is putting everybody in a room for an extended period of time and coming up to some reasonable conclusion,” he added.Alexandra MarquezAlexandra Marquez is a politics reporter for NBC News.
November 30, 2025
Nov. 30, 2025, 6:00 AM ESTBy David CoxIn early 2023, Liana Shatova began taking low doses of an antidepressant to ease symptoms of a premenstrual disorder marked by mood swings, anxiety and depression. At first, the difference was remarkable for her. “I felt full of energy and could juggle multiple things at once,” said Shatova, 40, a business development manager from the Greater Boston area. Then, after around 18 months on the medication, she started to fear she was becoming emotionally numb.“My best friend’s mom died unexpectedly, everyone was in shock and sobbing, and I couldn’t cry at all,” said Shatova. “I just felt nothing.” When Shatova asked her doctor if she could stop taking the medication sertraline, an antidepressant better known by its brand name Zoloft, she said she was reassured that she was on the lowest prescribed dose and that coming off it wouldn’t be difficult.Initially all seemed well, but after a month, Shatova said she experienced her first bout of what would become chronic insomnia, followed by panic attacks. Other symptoms emerged, including night sweats, muscle and joint pain and mood swings that left her unable to work. She said her doctor told her that the symptoms were a relapse of her premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and suggested a different antidepressant. Shatova declined the new drug.Antidepressants, primarily SSRIs, or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, are some of the most widely prescribed medications in the United States, taken by tens of millions of adults. About twice as many women as men report using an antidepressant in the past 30 days, with antidepressant use highest among women aged 60 and older, according to government data.Side effects are a key reason people choose to go off their medication, but stopping the drugs can also lead to withdrawal symptoms, research indicates. Along with the growing awareness, a deprescribing movement is building up in the field of psychiatry, aimed at helping patients reduce or stop their medications when no longer considered necessary. In a recent large analysis published in The Lancet in November, researchers at King’s College London found that physical side effects, including quick weight gain, significantly increased heart rate or elevated blood pressure, may be more common than once thought, depending on the drug. The review analyzed results from 151 clinical trials and 17 reports from the Food and Drug Administration, involving about 30 different prescription drugs used to treat depression, anxiety, and bipolar and panic disorders. The researchers examined the effects of antidepressants on weight, blood glucose, total cholesterol, blood pressure and heart rate. They didn’t look at emotional changes experienced by patients such as Shatova, although the lead study author said it should be examined further in future studies. “Not all antidepressants are built the same when it comes to their physical health side effects,” said Dr. Toby Pillinger, an academic clinical lecturer at King’s College London, who led the study. “Up until recently, we’ve approached antidepressant prescribing with a one-size-fits-all policy, and I think we need to move away from that.”Separately, in August, psychiatry researchers in the U.K. found that serious withdrawal effects may be more common than previously suspected, especially with longer-term use, although the study was small with just 18% of participants responding to the survey. The results showed that among people who had been taking antidepressants for more than two years, 63% reported moderate or severe withdrawal effects, with a third describing withdrawal issues that lasted more than three months. Symptoms ranged from insomnia to confusion, electric sensations, muscle cramps, agitation, mood swings and derealisation or an alteration in the person’s perception of the world. Dr. Mark Horowitz, a clinical research fellow at University College London who led the withdrawal study, said other research has found that roughly a quarter of patients experience severe symptoms when they abruptly stop taking their medications, from burning pain in the skin or limbs, balance problems, ongoing panic attacks, and sound and light sensitivity. Abrupt cessation of antidepressants is not recommended, but research has found that withdrawal symptoms can occur even when people attempt to taper. A review of various existing studies published last year by a group of German psychiatrists concluded that as many as 1 in 3 antidepressant users will experience some kind of withdrawal symptoms, with severe symptoms occurring in 1 in 30 users. Dr. Joseph Goldberg, clinical professor of psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, said that antidepressants have long been known to cause “discontinuation symptoms,” mainly nausea and dizziness, particularly if stopped abruptly.It’s unclear why some patients have severe symptoms after stopping their medications. Some researchers, concerned by reports of antidepressant withdrawal, suggest that the underlying mechanisms are similar to those faced by people suffering from alcohol and opiate withdrawal. “Withdrawal symptoms tell you that your brain is trying to restore a balance that it was forced to change by the presence of a drug,” said David Cohen, professor of social welfare at the University of California Los Angeles. “I think it’s the best accepted explanation for why stopping any centrally active drug, whether its antidepressants, coffee or heroin, leads to some discomfort.”The challenge for psychiatrists is that the drugs, which are often prescribed along with therapy, do help many people, particularly in the short term. Dr. Jonathan Alpert, a psychiatry professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, said that anecdotes of extreme withdrawal do not reflect his own professional experience. In his practice, Alpert estimated that two-thirds of his patients have been on antidepressants for more than five years, and only a small handful had experienced protracted withdrawal symptoms lasting more than a few days.“There’s been this very inflated idea that it’s really difficult to come off psychiatric medications,” said Alpert. “Even though I respect people’s narratives of their own experience, it feels very different from what we see in clinical practice and research studies.”Goldberg also expressed skepticism as to whether antidepressants themselves are actually responsible for the symptoms being reported by patients. “If somebody, after years of treatment, develops some frankly rather peculiar and unexpected neurological problems, I’m not sure how confident one can attribute that to medicine,” he said. “Anything is possible. But I think we have to consider the more likely possibility that the thing they’re encountering may be unrelated.” More than a year after Shatova first attempted to taper off the medication, she said she’s still undergoing a painstaking process of tiny, gradual reductions to try to avoid exacerbating her symptoms. “I am still tapering and now at 0.835 mg of Zoloft, doing it very slowly and carefully,” she said. “My sleep has gotten better, but I still have windows and waves triggered by life stresses and hormonal fluctuations.” It’s important not to dismiss people’s experiences, Goldberg said, and anyone going through symptoms should undergo further testing. A past president of American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Goldberg said that the organization is now completing new guidelines on deprescribing. The goal is to help doctors explain what to expect when stopping psychiatric medications so patients don’t self-taper without medical supervision.Alpert suggested analyzing different types of data stored in electronic health records to get insight into the characteristics of patients who have prolonged withdrawal symptoms. “Do they have abnormal MRIs or blood tests with inflammatory markers? Through looking at large datasets, it will be more possible to identify predictors of this subset of people who seem to have unusually prolonged symptoms.”Cohen feels that the field of psychiatry needs to speed up research. However, in the wake of the 43% cut to the National Institutes of Health annual budget proposed to Congress by the current administration, a figure which is equivalent to $20 billion per year, it is likely that such studies would need to be carried out by either U.K. or European researchers. “We need large, nonindustry funded trials to examine what happens when people stop antidepressants, using various tapering strategies and long enough follow-up,” Cohen said. “We need dozens of such trials now.”If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988, or go to 988lifeline.org, to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. You can also call the network, previously known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, at 800-273-8255, or visit SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources.David CoxDavid Cox is a freelance journalist focusing on all aspects of health, from fitness and nutrition to infectious diseases and future medicines. Prior to becoming a full-time journalist, he was a neuroscientist attempting to understand how and why the brain goes wrong.
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