Californians are in a sour mood but don’t want to change the political status quo

• October 6, 2026

Californians are in a sour mood these days, and for good reason.

The state’s economy is stuck in neutral with scant job creation since the end of the COVID pandemic. Major sectors, such as high technology, are experiencing layoffs and job shrinkage and California is tied with two other states for the nation’s highest unemployment rate.

Meanwhile, Californians’ cost of living — especially housing, utilities and fuel — has climbed sharply, more than 100% since 2000, while personal income, adjusted for inflation, has actually declined fractionally since 2020.

A recent poll by the Public Policy Institute of California reflects the angst.

“Majorities of California adults (54%) and likely voters (52%) say the state is headed in the wrong direction,” PPIC found. “This belief is held by nearly all Republicans (94%) and a majority of independents (55%), compared to one in three Democrats (32%).”

PPIC continues, “Californians are much more pessimistic about economic conditions over the next year, with seven in ten adults (71%) and likely voters (73%) as well six in ten or more across parties (61% Democrats, 90% Republicans, 72% independents) expecting bad economic times for the state.”

If Californians are dissatisfied with the present and sour on the future, one might assume that they would express that negative frame of mind by rejecting the state’s political status quo in favor of candidates who promise change.

However, with voting by mail beginning in a few days, the Democratic Party that has dominated California politics for the last three decades can comfortably expect to maintain — or even increase — its hegemony.

All of the statewide offices, including the governorship, will remain in Democratic hands. Polls by PPIC and UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies have found Democrat Xavier Becerra with a double-digit lead over Republican Steve Hilton for the governorship.

Democrats will retain supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature and probably gain a few congressional seats, thanks to gerrymandered districts that voters adopted last year to help neutralize Republican gerrymanders in other states.

A handful of legislative and congressional districts are in play but the macro results favoring Democrats are certain. Republican candidates, from Hilton down, are handicapped by low voter registration and Californians’ deep disdain for President Donald Trump. Just 27% of California voters approve of Trump’s performance, according to the Berkeley IGS poll.

The most uncertain — and therefore most interesting — aspects of this year’s election are a very close battle for the mayoralty of Los Angeles, pitting veteran incumbent Karen Bass against a left-leaning city council member, Nithya Raman, a few Democrat vs. Democrat duels for congressional seats, and some polarizing ballot measures.

Five of the 14 statewide ballot measures relate to taxes, including two that would increase them and three that would make increases less likely.

The biggest and most controversial is Proposition 40, which would impose a one-time 5% tax on the wealth of about 200 billionaires, with proceeds mostly going to shore up healthcare services.

Prop. 40 is sponsored by a healthcare worker union and generally draws support from some, but not all, Democratic political figures and unions. Meanwhile, billionaires are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to oppose Prop. 40 and pass two other measures, Proposition 41 and Proposition 42, that would undermine Prop. 40’s implementation if it survives the election.

Until recently, Prop. 40 was ahead in the polls, although barely. More recent surveys found that its base was eroding as the massive opposition campaign cranked up, so the result is very much in doubt. And even if Prop. 40 wins, it still could be neutralized by the passage of Props. 41 and 42.

Prop. 40 exemplifies the nation’s social and political polarization and its outcome, whatever that may be, will reverberate for years to come.

Dan Walters is a CalMatters columnist

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Students turn on Cornell’s president over the school’s handling of gang rape allegations

• October 6, 2026

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and LEAH WILLINGHAM

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — Some of the students outraged by Cornell University’s handling of an alleged fraternity house gang rape are directing their ire at the school’s president, a longtime molecular physiology professor who has faced several crises since taking the top job.

Michael Kotlikoff was Cornell’s longest-serving provost before assuming the presidency on an interim basis in July 2024 and on a permanent basis last year.

In his second month in charge, dining and custodial workers walked off the job in a labor dispute that ended about two weeks later. Last fall, some faculty and students criticized Kotlikoff for agreeing to pay $60 million to end Trump administration civil rights investigations into the Ivy League school. And earlier this year, he defended himself from accusations that he tried to back his car into a group of demonstrators following a debate over Israel and Palestinian rights, saying he was the victim of harassment.

But it was the school’s handling of the investigation into the alleged gang rape at the Chi Phi fraternity house in October 2024, just a few months into his presidency, that threatens his leadership.

The Cornell faculty senate indicated that it plans to vote on a resolution of no confidence in the school’s administrators. And at a Monday protest, students chanted and waved signs calling on Kotlikoff to resign or be fired and for fraternities to be banned.

“Throughout his administration, he’s refused to take accountability for anything that has happened,” said one of the protesters, sophomore Sophia Kong. “He does not represent us.”

Kotlikoff, 75, has come under scrutiny since the woman, identified in court documents only as Jane Doe, filed a lawsuit last month alleging she was sexually assaulted by multiple Chi Phi members two years ago after being pressured into drinking alcohol and taking drugs.

The woman reported the alleged assault to Cornell police in November 2024, three weeks after she said it occurred. Campus police investigated and sent a summary of their findings to the district attorney’s office, which relied on the information in deciding not to bring criminal charges. Separately, Cornell conducted a Title IX investigation.

Amid mounting outrage over the school’s handling of the case, Kotlikoff called the allegations “deeply disturbing” over the weekend. In an apologetic video, he also reaffirmed his commitment to supporting an independent review called for by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who has assailed the campus police department for not fully conveying the woman’s story to prosecutors.

No criminal charges have been filed. The Chi Phi chapter was shut down, and the university has said it expelled some students and suspended others. The accused men have all either denied participating or said that the sex that took place was consensual.

Experts are divided on whether it’s fair to criticize Kotlikoff

As some experts see it, Kotlikoff had limited options. Without criminal charges, only Cornell’s Title IX investigation continued. While the federal law is best known as a gamechanger for female college athletes, it also is supposed to protect sexual assault and harassment accusers. But it is packed with protections for the accused, including giving them the right to cross-examine their accuser. Most victims don’t proceed, and when they do, lawsuits from the accuser and accused over the outcome of the proceedings are common.

There are also limits on the punishments schools can mete out, especially for bystanders, said Peter Lake, who directs a center focused on higher education law and policy at Stetson University College of Law in Florida.

If universities act too quickly, they risk a situation like what happened at Duke University two decades ago, when a woman falsely accused three lacrosse players of rape, he said. The players ultimately reached an undisclosed settlement with Duke, which had suspended them, canceled the team’s season and forced their coach to resign after the accusations were first made.

But some point to the role of university leadership in setting campus culture. Critics note that Cornell’s fraternities have a history of problems, including hazing and sexual misconduct, and argue that more should have been done to set a better tone and educate students about consent.

“If you are the leader of that campus and this is part of your portfolio of what happens on your campus, it’s not like ‘Oh well that only affects the members of that fraternity and the women that they’re attempting to sleep with,’” said Jane Stapleton, co-founder of the Prevention Innovations Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. “That impacts the entire fabric of the culture of, ‘How do men respect women? How safe is it to be a woman?’”

Kotlikoff has discussed steps to address the case

Within a few weeks of the alleged assault, Kotlikoff issued a statement detailing the investigation and decrying the alleged behavior as “abhorrent.”

A task force on sexual assault that was launched afterward included recommendations such as improved education on Title IX and what it described as “sexual citizenship.” The report said that a 2025 survey found that 35% of undergraduate women and 8% of undergraduate men report experiencing sexual assault during their time at Cornell.

The extent of Cornell’s investigation has emerged in court records filed after one of the punished students sued the school. According to Cornell’s account, investigators conducted 50 interviews with 32 witnesses and gathered evidence that included witness accounts, electronic communications and social media messages. The process ultimately led to a disciplinary hearing that stretched over 12 days.

Kotlikoff has called for a “serious look” at Greek life, but the end of fraternities on campus is not being considered. Instead, Kotlikoff said Cornell would engage students, alumni and others in examining how to preserve the benefits of Greek life while strengthening accountability and transparency.

Not every president survives such situations

A little over a decade ago, former Baylor University President Ken Starr, best known for the probe that led to Bill Clinton’s presidential impeachment, lost his job amid allegations that the Texas Baptist school mishandled several cases in which football players were accused of attacking women. In 2021, Oregon State trustees accepted the resignation of university president F. King Alexander, concluding he was unable to rebuild trust at the school because of his role in the mishandling of sexual misconduct cases during his previous tenure at Louisiana State University.

More recently, Columbia University President Minouche Shafik was among several U.S. college leaders to resign under pressure for the handling of protests over the war in Gaza.

Soham Bera, a Cornell sophomore, said students have “incredibly low faith” in the university leadership.

“Now, with all this news, with all the attention, we can finally make change,” he said at Monday’s protest.

Lili Rose Mas, a junior who was also calling for Kotlikoff to step down, said she was encouraged by the number of students who joined the protest.

“It makes me have more faith in humanity,” Mas said. “I truly think that Gen Z might be the generation that changes the world, because, like, these old people in the admin are not doing anything, but all the students here care about this.”

Hollingsworth reported from Mission, Kansas. The Associated Press’ education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP’s standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org.

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Cheryl Brown: Seniors don’t get a do-over. Vote Yes on Prop. 42.

• October 6, 2026

When I served in the State Assembly and chaired the Committee on Aging and Long-Term Care, I said one thing on the floor more than anything else: seniors don’t get a do-over.

You can’t go back and save more money twenty years ago. You can’t take back the decision about when to retire, or whether to take the pension or the lump sum. Every one of those choices was made under the rules in place at the time. When you’re working, a bad year is a setback. When you’re retired, it’s permanent. There’s no raise next year and no job to go back to.

That’s why I’m voting Yes on Proposition 42.

California’s aging population is not a projection anymore. The silver tsunami is here. When I worked on the Master Plan for Aging, I had to think about seniors who have nothing and no help, and also about people who worked their entire lives, paid their taxes, and set aside what they could so they’d have something to live on. Both are of my concern. Both are vulnerable in the same specific way: they are living longer, on what they already have.

And I know how this state works. We go through boom-and-bust cycles. When the budget gets into a pickle, someone always goes looking for money, and seniors are an easy place to look.

I think about my great-aunt Annice. She was a day worker. When Social Security came along, they told people like her to sign up, that this was how you’d be taken care of when you got old. She did what they told her. And years later, when the government found itself short, there was talk of taxing her retirement, of messing with her Social Security. She was furious. Not about the dollars. About the fact that they had made her a promise and were looking for a way around it once it got expensive.

That fight is as old as this country. Annice knew it, and I’ve watched it my whole career.

Some people will say seniors should pay their fair share. Seniors have paid their share. They paid taxes on that money when they earned it. They paid into the system for decades, expecting it would be there for them. Now the cost of groceries, utilities, housing, and health care has gone up on a fixed income—and the answer can’t be to ask the people with the fewest options left to give the most.

Proposition 42 says the state cannot tax you simply for owning what you’ve saved, and cannot reach backward into decisions you already made. It doesn’t change a single tax Californians pay today. It doesn’t cut a dollar from the schools, health care, or programs in the budget right now. What it does is keep the state from changing the rules in the middle of the game.

That matters for people retired today, and it matters just as much for everyone still working and saving. They deserve to know the rules they’re planning around will still be the rules when they get there.

I’ve spent my career on this. Support the seniors who have nothing, yes, and don’t punish the ones who managed to save. Neither group gets a do-over.

Vote Yes on Proposition 42.

Cheryl Brown is immediate past chair of the California Commission on Aging. She previously served in the California Assembly. 

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Dodgers drop Shohei Ohtani to 5th in lineup for NLDS Game 3

• October 6, 2026

ATLANTA — It was a tough Sale that led to a tough decision.

The Dodgers dropped a slumping Shohei Ohtani in the lineup for Game 3 of their National League Division Series. Ohtani was fifth in the Dodgers’ batting order on Tuesday night. It is the first time with the Dodgers that he has not batted first or second in their lineup and the lowest he has hit in a lineup since 2020 with the Angels.

“This is really specific to Sale,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, referring to the Atlanta Braves’ Game 3 starter, Chis Sale. “The guys that I think that they want to run out there tonight and Shohei’s history versus Chris.”

The Braves will be starting right-hander Tyler Mahle in Game 4, but Roberts would not say Ohtani will be back in the leadoff (as he has been against right-handed starters since returning from the injured list and platooning at leadoff with Mookie Betts)

“Not necessarily,” Roberts said. “Mahle is certainly a neutral, you could argue a reverse (splits versus right- and left-handed batters). So I don’t know that answer. Yes, he does throw with his right hand, but I haven’t made that decision quite yet.

“I don’t see him hitting in the 5 tomorrow, I know that, regardless.”

Ohtani returned from the IL to go 5 for 21 in the final five games of the regular season and managed just one single in each of the first two NLDS games. More troubling, he has not hit a home run since Aug. 18 (94 plate appearances ago) and has just one extra-base hit (a double) in his past 62 plate appearances.

But it has been hard to evaluate how much of Ohtani’s struggles recently are due to physical issues. He has chased far too many pitches out of the strike zone, seeming overeager to re-assert himself.

“I had a good conversation with him last night (about dropping him in the lineup), told him my thoughts,” Roberts said. “He completely understood and said – in all honesty, he said I was going to come to you in September and say, ‘Why don’t you hit me seventh?’”

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Trump highlights a big new defense project in Maryland, a blue state whose governor didn’t attend

• October 6, 2026

By JOSH BOAK, WILL WEISSERT and STEPHANIE SCARBROUGH

BALTIMORE (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday touted a $3.7 billion investment by the military technology company Anduril to build components for nuclear-powered submarines at a Baltimore-area shipyard.

It’s one of a series of events Trump is holding across the country to showcase investments in factories, as high gasoline prices from the Iran war and persistently elevated inflation have damaged the president’s approval ratings on the economy.

“The workers of Baltimore and the shipyard here at Sparrows Point have been a vital part of the American industrial strength for literally over a hundred years,” Trump said, adding that the work being done “is going to be a big component for our future military.”

The site where he spoke was Sparrows Point, Maryland, which formerly housed a steel mill for Bethlehem Steel that closed in 2012.

The president is trying to rally Republican voters with less than a month before the midterm elections on Nov. 3.

This event, though, was in the solidly blue state of Maryland — and Democratic Gov. Wes Moore didn’t attend.

Ammar Moussa, a spokesman for the governor, said Moore was blocked from speaking at the event. A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning, said Moore had been invited to attend the event — as a guest. Moore, who is seeking reelection, is considered a potential presidential candidate in 2028.

Despite the dustup over the event, Moore joined Trump in praising the project.

Moore in a statement said the project could potentially create “the most jobs in Maryland in history.” The new facility is expected to create 3,100 direct jobs with several thousand more indirect jobs being supported.

“Governor Moore has always said he will work with anyone when it comes to delivering for Marylanders but bow to no one when it comes to standing up for them,” Moussa said.

Before the event, guests, who included several dozen service members, mingled with food and drink inside a hangar-like structure adorned with Anduril banners proclaiming “Who Dares Strike at Liberty,” “Command the Sea Command the World” and “The Shipyard is the Weapon.”

Behind the stage where Trump spoke, a backsplash touted “Rebuild the Arsenal.”

Several members of the the Baltimore Ravens, including Marlon Humphrey, a star cornerback, were among those invited. The president plans to attend Saturday’s big college football matchup between Alabama and Georgia, after attending Texas at Tennessee late last month.

“Whoa ho ho,” Trump proclaimed of the players. “All these guys are making a lot of money.”

The president also said he wasn’t necessarily personally cut out to go aboard submarines, offering, “Me, I’d rather be floating on seas.”

The $3.7 billion covers “the cost of standing up the facility, building the workforce, filling it with modern technology and other capabilities required to do the work that we will be tasked with,” Chris Brose, Anduril’s president and chief strategy officer, said on a conference call with reporters organized by the White House.

Administration officials on the call said he government would commit $2.9 billion to the project by purchasing what the factory in Baltimore County, Maryland, produces. The Trump administration is trying to revive America’s shipbuilding capabilities for national security and economic reasons.

Trump said the deal will allow U.S. taxpayers to take a 40% stake in the shipyard and will ensure that “the historic grounds of Sparrows Point will never fall silent again.”

Brose said Anduril would take advantage of “manufacturing revolutions” in the aerospace and other sectors, along with software, to change how factory production would occur.

The U.S. has 26 Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines and expects to add two more to its fleet in the spring, according to an official on the call. That official spoke anonymously as a condition set by the White House.

Associated Press writer Collin Binkley contributed to this report.

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NTSB releases preliminary report into NBC4 helicopter crash in Chatsworth

• October 6, 2026

A news helicopter that crashed in Chatsworth as a pilot and reporter were covering a fatal traffic crash last month descended at about 38 knots — or nearly 44 mph — from 800 feet above ground level, according to a preliminary report released by the National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday, Oct. 6.

The crash killed pilot George Marciniw, 70, reporter Eliana Moreno, 38, and a man on the ground, Edy Gutierrez Mejia, 29.

Marciniw and Moreno were working for Angel City Air, which contracts with NBC4 Los Angeles.

The report did not offer any new revelations or identify a cause of the crash.

Marciniw and Moreno took off from Whiteman Airport in the Airbus AS350 B2 helicopter about 5:25 p.m. on Sept. 15. The pilot maneuvered to above a collision in which a SUV plowed into a LA Metro bus at De Soto Avenue and Nordhoff Street, killing two bus passengers and injuring six people. It hovered above for an hour and 24 minutes before it went down.

During the last minute of the flight, the helicopter was about 800 feet above ground level and had decelerated to 6 knots — or about 7 mph.

Investigators noted a four-plus-minute recording taken by Moreno. The sounds of the helicopter were mostly consistent with normal operations.

The video was focused on the bus crash, then zoomed out as the helicopter started descending. Moreno at one point is heard asking, “You can’t pull up?” just before slamming into the ground in the 9100 block of Mason Avenue.

“During the last 29 seconds of the flight, the recording captured the helicopter noise as it changed frequency, along with intermittent and continuous horns, consistent with the helicopter’s main rotor high rpm, low rotor rpm and other aural advisories,” the report said.

As the helicopter began a “rapid descent” it also turned turned right, the report says.

The helicopter hit a metal storage container on the ground and landed partially on its right side, the report says. It then burst into flames.

The fuselage was “mostly reduced to ash and thermally damaged metal,” the report says.

The tail boom separated but stayed next to the fuselage and both rotors were attached at their respective mounting assemblies.

Mariciw and Moreno were covering the bus crash in which authorities say the SUV ran a red light and slammed into the side of the coach. Gage Weida, 31, and Daniel Castillo, 46, died at the scene.

The SUV driver, Bailee Lynn Rios, of Simi Valley, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said Rios was under the influence of drugs, speeding and driving on the wrong side of the road at the time of the crash.

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Saddleback president stresses relationship-building in her new role

• October 6, 2026

By Brian Robin, contributing writer

You couldn’t miss Lonita Cordova on the soccer field, or rather alongside the soccer field. She was the one sitting in a lawn chair, watching her daughter run up and down the field on a Saturday morning. Just like the typical soccer mom.

Except she wasn’t.

Cordova was easy to spot. She was the one balancing the computer on her lap, one eye on her daughter, one eye on the words she tapped out on the screen.

It could have been a paper for her master’s, the one in educational counseling she earned in 18 months. Or it could have been her doctoral dissertation. That one came in general psychology and took her three years, working 10-15 hours a day during weekends on her dissertation. Because didn’t everyone get doctorates in three years? Didn’t everyone write parts of their dissertation alongside a soccer field?

“In my mind, I believed everyone can do it in that time if they put their mind to it. I realized that’s not the norm,” Cordova said.

You realize less than five minutes in that Cordova, who just became Saddleback College’s president in July, isn’t the norm. She’s not like everyone else. How many college presidents are Navy veterans with a background in information systems? College presidents who traded IT for teaching ninth graders in Stockton? College presidents who traded teaching for counseling? Then, took that counseling background — one born of “doing work that changed people’s lives” — into administration?

“The master’s in counseling was because students kept coming to me in crisis and I really connected with them,” she said, explaining the transition. “I’m going to geek out here, but when you think about neuroscience and humans, it’s not that different from computers. … I see the importance of mental health and human connections. I love technology, and I love humans, and there’s the overlap between the two.”

Perhaps that’s the self-described extrovert in her; she calls herself “the most outgoing IT person you will ever meet.”

But Cordova makes having the skill set of a human Swiss Army knife and the career of a unicorn look easy. When you look at her CV, you wonder how Cordova tied such seemingly disparate parts into an impressive whole.

Navy radio technician. Petty Officer 1st Class after only eight years. Teacher. Learning disability specialist, veterans counselor, adjunct professor of psychology at Cal State Stanislaus, administrative roles at Modesto Junior College and in the Merced Community College District and president of the Executive Board of the Association for California Community College Administrators.

Spoiler alert, in case the story of Cordova writing papers and her dissertation on a laptop at a soccer game didn’t resonate. It wasn’t easy.

Cordova grew up in the hardscrabble city of Stockton and understood from an early age how to navigate life and connect with underserved students. Because she was one.

“I didn’t realize I was smart until I was in my 30s because I was so busy trying to survive life that I didn’t realize I was smart,” she said. “I worked three jobs and my husband was Mr. Dad as I worked. Three jobs. I thought everyone did this. But my parents never put limitations on me.

“I’m the person who jumps into the deep end and doesn’t notice the sign saying, ‘No lifeguard.’ I didn’t know how capable I was until I got into higher education and someone saw something in me.”

Cordova’s constant dives into the deep end of life made her just as noticeable as she was on the sidelines of her daughter’s soccer games. It forged her leadership style, one that makes her noticeable around the Saddleback College campus. Whenever she has a 30-minute break or whenever a meeting gets canceled, Cordova gets out and walks around the campus.

You don’t have to look far to see her, either. She’s the one talking to students, staff, faculty — whoever, about their families, their children, their pets. Their lives.

“Leadership isn’t about being the sage on the stage. I’m a relational person,” she said. “Getting out there and meeting people, getting to know them at that level is where the rubber meets the road. It’s easy to have hard conversations and challenging conversations when you know the person. Being out and about is how I learn a lot and how they learn a lot about me. There’s that trust that is so important in the work that we do.

“It’s just part of my core. … It validated my decision to go for the position here at Saddleback. It validated it by seeing the students here on campus. They’re amazing. There’s so much potential there, and they’re already leaps and bounds ahead of where I was. They know what they want and are so focused. They’re ready to challenge the world and to walk around and see that energy validates my relational style of leadership. It validates my why: why I wanted to be at Saddleback. It validates my sense of belonging as well. I belong here.”

To learn more, please visit: Saddleback Valley College www.saddleback.edu and South Orange County Community College District www.socccd.edu.

The news and editorial staff of the Orange County Register had no role in this post’s preparation.

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Trump says he has call scheduled with Putin to discuss possible case of pneumonic plague in Russia

• October 6, 2026

By WILL WEISSERT and MICHELLE L. PRICE

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he has a call scheduled with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a possible case of plague at a Siberian research institute.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said he would be talking with Putin about the case “very soon.” Health authorities are investigating after the death of an employee at an anti-plague institute, which authorities attributed to pneumonia with an unknown cause.

Asked what the U.S. intelligence community was saying about the case, Trump said the U.S. is in “very deep discussions” on the topic. “We’ll be able to report about it, probably tomorrow,” Trump said.

The World Health Organization on Tuesday said the case presents a “very low” risk outside Russia. The United Nations agency said it was in contact with Russian authorities following reports of the death last week of a woman who worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East.

On Monday, Trump said the U.S. would be willing to help Russia with the situation. “It’s a rough disease. You know, that’s a disease we used to be able to control, but somehow those microbes have gotten stronger and smarter. They’re like an army,” Trump told reporters at the White House.

The call also comes as the Trump administration faces an Oct. 18 deadline to decide which Russian entities, if any, it will sanction under the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, which Trump signed into law on Sept. 18.

Ukraine has given the administration and Congress a wish list of Russian companies, vessels and individuals it would like to see hit with U.S. sanctions under that law.

AP writer Collin Binkley contributed to this report.

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