美伊谈判之际 霍尔木兹海峡货船遭不明飞行物击中

2026年8月4日 18:19 / 联合早报

伊朗继续对霍尔木兹海峡实施有效封锁，并坚持要求船只与伊朗协调通行，且必须沿伊朗海岸线航行。 （路透社档案照片）

在美国与伊朗谈判之际，一枚不明飞行物击中霍尔木兹海峡的一艘货船。

法新社报道，英国海事贸易行动办公室（UKMTO）说，一艘货船星期二（8月4日）清晨在阿曼海岸附近的霍尔木兹海峡遭不明飞行物击中。

UKMTO称，这艘船只未被命名，当局正在进行调查，但未说明船只受损情况及是否有人伤亡。

伊朗继续对霍尔木兹海峡实施有效封锁，并坚持要求船只与伊朗协调通行，且必须沿伊朗海岸线航行。不过，许多船只转而选择走海峡对岸靠近阿曼的南部航线。

伊朗外交部发言人巴加埃说，德黑兰正与阿曼首都马斯喀特磋商开辟新航线，但这与重新开放霍尔木兹海峡无关。

特朗普星期一（3日）在白宫警告说，这是伊朗“被斩首前的最后机会”。他称，已应沙特阿拉伯、阿联酋、卡塔尔和其他一些国家的请求，同意继续与伊朗进行谈判。

不过，伊朗外交部否认与华盛顿正在进行谈判，尽管特朗普坚称谈判正在进行。

特朗普称，谈判重点是重新开放霍尔木兹海峡，“明天就能实现”。至于伊朗的无核化问题，他称这可能“需要一些时间”。

他还预计星期二就会知道谈判进展，“无论结果如何”，但他坚称“这并不复杂”。“不管伊朗是否愿意承认，我们实际上是在讨论如何解决他们几十年来造成的问题。”

自2月28日美国和以色列对伊朗发动突袭以来，德黑兰和华盛顿一直处于战争状态。尽管双方此后数月曾达成停火协议和初步共识，但外交努力未能结束这场战争。

Rep. Max Miller faces growing pressure to resign over abuse allegations

2026-08-04T11:21:00.057Z / CNN Politics

By Matthew Lally, CNN

Published 7:21 AM EDT, Tue August 4, 2026

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报告：宇树科技上市后估值料超500亿人民币

2026-08-04 19:43 / 联合早报

8月1日，在中国北京的一家宇树科技门店里，一名儿童坐在宇树G1人形机器人旁，与一台宇树GO2机器人互动。 （路透社）

一份报告指出，中国机器人制造商宇树科技上市后的估值，预计将超过500亿元（人民币，下同，约95亿新元）。

据路透社报道，宇树科技首次公开募股（IPO）的保荐机构中信证券星期二（8月4日）预计，这家总部位于杭州的公司在本月晚些时候上市后的六到12个月内，市值将达到506亿至559亿元。

这份分发给投资者的估值报告，在很大程度上被视为星期三（5日）IPO初步询价前的参考指导。中信证券对宇树科技给出的估值，大约是公司今年预期销售额的20倍、预期利润的80倍。

宇树科技将于星期四（6日）确定IPO发行价，并于星期五（7日）接受投资者申购。

中信证券在报告中指出，宇树科技是一家“全球知名、世界领先的高性能、通用机器人制造商”，公司不仅坚持稳健的研发投资战略，同时在对具身智能生态系统的理解上也确立了领先地位。

宇树科技在人形机器人制造领域正与美国竞争对手特斯拉和波士顿动力展开激烈竞争。宇树科技此次计划筹集42亿元资金，主要用于支持创新与生产。

机器人技术被视为中国的关键战略产业之一，对于北京与华盛顿的科技竞争至关重要。

华盛顿近期将外国制造的先进机器人列入其“涵盖名单”（Covered List），限制其获得在美国销售所需的设备授权。今年6月，美国更将宇树科技及其他几家主要的中国科技企业，列入一份被指援助中国军方的公司名单中。

美伊谈判之际 霍尔木兹海峡货船遭不明飞行物击中

2026年8月4日 18:19 / 联合早报

伊朗继续对霍尔木兹海峡实施有效封锁，并坚持要求船只与伊朗协调通行，且必须沿伊朗海岸线航行。 （路透社档案照片）

在美国与伊朗谈判之际，一枚不明飞行物击中霍尔木兹海峡的一艘货船。

法新社报道，英国海事贸易行动办公室（UKMTO）说，一艘货船星期二（8月4日）清晨在阿曼海岸附近的霍尔木兹海峡遭不明飞行物击中。

UKMTO称，这艘船只未被命名，当局正在进行调查，但未说明船只受损情况及是否有人伤亡。

伊朗继续对霍尔木兹海峡实施有效封锁，并坚持要求船只与伊朗协调通行，且必须沿伊朗海岸线航行。不过，许多船只转而选择走海峡对岸靠近阿曼的南部航线。

伊朗外交部发言人巴加埃说，德黑兰正与阿曼首都马斯喀特磋商开辟新航线，但这与重新开放霍尔木兹海峡无关。

特朗普星期一（3日）在白宫警告说，这是伊朗“被斩首前的最后机会”。他称，已应沙特阿拉伯、阿联酋、卡塔尔和其他一些国家的请求，同意继续与伊朗进行谈判。

不过，伊朗外交部否认与华盛顿正在进行谈判，尽管特朗普坚称谈判正在进行。

特朗普称，谈判重点是重新开放霍尔木兹海峡，“明天就能实现”。至于伊朗的无核化问题，他称这可能“需要一些时间”。

他还预计星期二就会知道谈判进展，“无论结果如何”，但他坚称“这并不复杂”。“不管伊朗是否愿意承认，我们实际上是在讨论如何解决他们几十年来造成的问题。”

自2月28日美国和以色列对伊朗发动突袭以来，德黑兰和华盛顿一直处于战争状态。尽管双方此后数月曾达成停火协议和初步共识，但外交努力未能结束这场战争。

波音737 MAX 7历时近10年终获美国监管机构认证

2026年8月4日 18:27 / 联合早报

一架阿拉斯加航空波音737 MAX 9客机星期一（8月3日）飞抵美国洛杉矶国际机场。同日，美国联邦航空管理局正式批准波音737 MAX 7，推动波音股价大幅上涨。 （法新社）

（纽约/华盛顿综合电）美国联邦航空管理局星期一（8月3日）正式批准波音737 MAX 7，为这款首飞逾八年的客机投入商业运营扫清最后监管障碍。

MAX 7是737 MAX系列中最小的机型，也是波音自2018年和2019年两起致命空难，以及2024年阿拉斯加航空客机舱门塞脱落事故以来，首款获得认证的新机型。事故促使美国收紧认证要求，也使审批一再延误。

联邦航空管理局（FAA）说，这项认证历经近10年审查。波音须更新飞行控制软件、机组警报系统，并重新设计发动机防冰系统。为了取得认证，波音完成441次试飞，累计飞行686小时。

波音原计划于2019年开始交付MAX 7，目前正为首批交付做准备。作为启动客户，西南航空预计将在未来几个月让这款飞机投入运营。

Five things to watch in Tuesday’s US primaries

2026-08-04T10:06:24.762Z / Reuters

WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) – The Democratic Party’s ideological divide faces its biggest test of the 2026 primary season on Tuesday, with progressive Abdul El-Sayed looking to win Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate nomination over center-left U.S. Representative Haley Stevens.

Michigan is one of five states holding primaries along with Kansas, Missouri, Virginia and Washington state. Democrats need ​to net four seats to retake the Senate, making Michigan — a state Donald Trump won in 2024 — central to those hopes.

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Here are five things we’re watching:

DEMOCRATS FIGHT THEIR CIVIL WAR IN ‌MICHIGAN

Progressives and democratic socialists have jolted the establishment with primary victories in battleground congressional districts and safe Democratic seats from New York to California.

But the biggest prize — and greatest risk — is Michigan, where El-Sayed, a former unsuccessful candidate for governor, is running against Stevens, a moderate congresswoman who flipped a Republican-held seat in 2018.

Stevens is backed by the Democratic establishment, including Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and has been the beneficiary of tens of millions of dollars in outside spending by a pro-Israel super PAC.

Progressives, including Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth ​Warren, have rallied around El-Sayed, whose victory would test the narrative that progressives can’t win in general election battleground districts or states.

Republicans hold a 53-47 Senate majority. And while Democrats are largely on offense ​in battleground states, they’re defending two seats in states Trump won: Michigan and Georgia. A loss in either state would make a Democratic Senate majority significantly more ⁠challenging.

Recent primary polls show El-Sayed leading Stevens by double digits, but surveys show Stevens is a stronger general election opponent.

Former U.S. Representative Mike Rogers, the 2024 Republican Senate nominee who is running unopposed, will enter the general ​election with $4.5 million in his war chest, according to his most recent campaign finance disclosure. He lost the 2024 race by less than a percentage point to Democrat Elissa Slotkin.

DIVIDED MODERATES COULD GET CONQUERED

While Michigan’s Senate race is the state’s ​marquee matchup, the moderate-progressive divide will also play out in a Lansing-area battleground district represented by Republican Tom Barrett.

The three-way Democratic primary features two moderates — former U.S. Navy SEAL Matt Maasdam and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink — and progressive climate activist William Lawrence.

Establishment Democrats would rather see Maasdam or Brink face Barrett in the general election, but there’s concern they could split the center-left primary vote and give Lawrence a path to victory.

Trump won Barrett’s district by 1.3 percentage points in 2024, when Barrett ​won the Democratic-held open seat by nearly 4 percentage points. Democrats need to net three seats in November to win a majority in the House of Representatives.

CORI BUSH’S COMEBACK BID

Former members of Congress have had a mixed ​record this year on comeback attempts, with only four so far advancing in primaries. Several others either suspended their campaigns or lost their primaries.

Next up is Cori Bush, a progressive Missouri Democrat seeking to unseat U.S. Representative Wesley Bell in a ‌rematch of 2024.

A ⁠pro-Israel super PAC spent $8 million to help unseat Bush, a vocal critic of Israel, last cycle. That same super PAC, United Democracy Project, has spent more than $3 million this cycle to keep Bush out of Congress.

The winner is heavily favored to win in November, as the St. Louis-area district is safely Democratic.

CAN THANEDAR WIN A TWO-MAN RACE?

U.S. Representative Shri Thanedar, a wealthy Indian American, was elected to his Detroit-area district in 2022 after prevailing in a crowded open-seat primary. He defeated two Black women in a 2024 primary but has a single opponent this time: Donavan McKinney, a Black state representative backed by several progressive lawmakers, including Sanders and U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.

Black ​Michiganders comprise about 45% of the district’s population. Democratic congressional ​leaders — including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who ⁠is Black — have endorsed Thanedar’s reelection. McKinney is backed by many members of the Congressional Black Caucus, including former CBC Chair Steven Horsford of Nevada.

McKinney has raised more than $1.3 million, but Thanedar has millions of dollars from his personal wealth to spend. An opinion poll last month sponsored by the progressive group Justice Democrats found Thanedar narrowly ​leading, though respondents favored McKinney by a wider margin after being shown biographies of both candidates.

The winner is expected to win in November.

KANSAS CONSIDERS SUPREME COURT ​REFORM

Voters in Kansas will consider a ⁠referendum that critics warn could lead to the overturning of abortion rights in the state.

In 2022, nearly 60% of voters rejected a constitutional amendment to restrict access to abortion. The Kansas Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that the state’s constitution protected Kansans’ decision of whether to continue a pregnancy. The court reaffirmed that right in 2024.

The new referendum would change how state Supreme Court justices are chosen, if successful. Justices are currently selected by a process in which the governor ⁠chooses among three ​finalists selected by a nine-member commission.

The referendum would allow voters to elect justices to six-year terms, with three seats up in 2028, ​two seats up in 2030 and the final two seats up in 2032. Vacancies would be filled by special elections.

Kris Kobach, now the state’s Republican attorney general, said in 2022 that electing justices by popular vote was the next best way to overturn the court’s abortion decision ​after the referendum failed. Kobach said Supreme Court elections would allow the state to “slowly and quietly” put anti-abortion justices on the bench to eventually restrict abortion access.

Reporting by Nolan D. McCaskill; Editing by Michael Learmonth and Howard Goller

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Trump lashes out as political losses pile up

2026-08-04T08:00:25.734Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/politics/donald-trump-reflecting-pool-save-act-losses

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President Donald Trump lashed out at oil companies and his own US attorney in the gilded Oval Office on Monday as his spin ran into the real world.

It was more evidence that Trump 2.0 is losing some of its juice.

Oil executives are capitalizing on Trump’s war against Iran and “making too much money,” the president said. He singled out Chevron and warned it to make gasoline cheaper even though, he said, he’s a “big free enterprise guy — nobody bigger.”

Jeanine Pirro, his handpicked US attorney for Washington, DC, “choked,” Trump said, when she about-faced in court papers and admitted it was a botched rehab by the Interior Department and not vandalism that caused setbacks in the renovation of the Reflecting Pool, which Trump has taken on as a pet project. It was he, he said Monday, who had the idea of applying material meant for swimming pools to the 100-plus-year-old landmark.

“She folded like an umbrella,” Trump added of his longtime ally.

CNN reported Monday that he is now considering removing the former Fox News personality from her position.

Pirro’s transgression, in Trump’s eyes, is that she was forced to admit that the narrative he’s pushed in public is not one that can be prosecuted in court.

Trump’s victory to open the week is winning enough support for Todd Blanche, his former personal attorney, to be confirmed as attorney general.

But there’s a loss in the fine print of that deal. Blanche, currently acting attorney general, had to officially and permanently squelch the $1.8 billion fund widely seen as a way to pay Trump’s political supporters.

In Trump’s world, the fund — part of a settlement between him and his own Department of Justice — was a way to right wrongs against his allies. Other people saw it as an ethical minefield that would put taxpayer money in the pockets of people Trump previously pardoned.

Blanche’s promise not to pursue the fund wasn’t enough for Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Thillis, who wanted it rescinded in writing.

While CNN reported Monday that the White House was deeply involved in the decision to rescind the settlement, CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig noted that Trump and his lawyers have not signed the document clawing back the agreement. That means Trump or his attorneys could, in theory, sue to have it reinstated.

“For all the drama around this written document from Todd Blanche, it really accomplishes essentially nothing as a legal matter,” he said Monday on CNN’s “The Situation Room.”

Those same two Republicans who insisted on having Blanche kill the settlement in writing have also been vocal in arguing the GOP should move on, for now, from Trump’s voting restrictions bill, which would impose new proof-of-citizenship requirements in addition to voter ID conducted in the states.

For months, Trump has argued the bill is required to address the threat of mass voter fraud. There’s no evidence for that kind of fraud in the real world, as CNN’s Daniel Dale has repeatedly documented, but it remains an animating principle of Trump’s presidency. None of the political pressure from Trump or from the MAGA side of the GOP has created momentum to get enough votes for the legislation. And there wouldn’t be enough time to implement it before the midterm elections.

Neither Tillis nor Cornyn will be on the ballot in November. Tillis, a longtime but selective Trump critic, is not running for reelection. His North Carolina seat is considered a strong pickup opportunity for Democrats by political handicappers.

Cornyn lost a primary election runoff against a more MAGA opponent who won Trump’s late endorsement. Democrats are salivating over the prospect of making Texas competitive this year.

A pause on handing more power to Trump’s political appointees

Another Republican, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, slipped language into a spending bill unveiled by Republican leaders to block, for now, a rule proposed by Trump’s Office of Management and Budget that would give political appointees, rather than subject experts, more power over federal grants. Collins, the only Republican running for reelection in a state Trump won in 2024, is locked in a tight reelection battle.

Meanwhile, Trump’s approval rating is dipping to record lows — about one-third of Americans approved of his job as president in a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS and released last week. The last time a US president drew approval that low was at the tail end of Trump’s first term, after the storming of the Capitol by his supporters in January 2021.

Two major drags on his popularity have been his handling of the economy and the war he launched on Iran. In Trump’s telling, the war would last at most a couple of months and the US would have more control over worldwide oil markets as a result.

Things have not worked out that way. Instead, despite Trump’s repeated claims that Iran wants badly to negotiate an end to the war, the Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed, and the status of talks is unclear.

Disruptions to oil from the Middle East, paired with the opening of markets in Venezuela thanks to Trump’s order to snatch then-President Nicolás Maduro from his bed, have created a situation where US oil companies are benefiting more than they have since the 2022 inflation crisis.

For those who need their memories jogged, the Biden administration’s refusal or inability to acknowledge the economic pain Americans were feeling then sapped much of the juice from Joe Biden’s presidency.

波音737 MAX 7历时近10年终获美国监管机构认证

2026年8月4日 18:27 / 联合早报

一架阿拉斯加航空波音737 MAX 9客机星期一（8月3日）飞抵美国洛杉矶国际机场。同日，美国联邦航空管理局正式批准波音737 MAX 7，推动波音股价大幅上涨。 （法新社）

（纽约/华盛顿综合电）美国联邦航空管理局星期一（8月3日）正式批准波音737 MAX 7，为这款首飞逾八年的客机投入商业运营扫清最后监管障碍。

MAX 7是737 MAX系列中最小的机型，也是波音自2018年和2019年两起致命空难，以及2024年阿拉斯加航空客机舱门塞脱落事故以来，首款获得认证的新机型。事故促使美国收紧认证要求，也使审批一再延误。

联邦航空管理局（FAA）说，这项认证历经近10年审查。波音须更新飞行控制软件、机组警报系统，并重新设计发动机防冰系统。为了取得认证，波音完成441次试飞，累计飞行686小时。

波音原计划于2019年开始交付MAX 7，目前正为首批交付做准备。作为启动客户，西南航空预计将在未来几个月让这款飞机投入运营。

黑海两艘船遭无人机袭击 土耳其促俄乌保障航行安全

2026年8月4日 18:31 / 联合早报

土耳其外交部星期二（8月4日）称，两艘船只于星期一（3日）晚间离开俄罗斯新罗西斯克港后遭到袭击，多人受伤。 （路透社）

土耳其官员说，两艘民用船只在黑海遭到无人机袭击，造成船员受伤。

法新社报道，土耳其外交部星期二（8月4日）称，这两艘船只于星期一（3日）晚间离开俄罗斯新罗西斯克港后遭到袭击，多人受伤，“他们的状况正受到密切关注”。

外交部说：“我们对俄乌在黑海不断升级的冲突深表关切，尽管我们已多次发出警告，但冲突仍在影响民用航运。”

土耳其外交部呼吁，各方“紧急采取具体措施，确保黑海航行安全”，并警告称食品供应可能受到影响。

据监测网站MarineTraffic显示，这两艘被土耳其外交部确认为“亚沙尔号”和“娜杰日达号”的船只分别悬挂巴拿马国旗和喀麦隆国旗，但都属于土耳其公司所有。

俄罗斯和乌克兰已连续数周加大对货船的袭击力度。

6月下旬，一艘土耳其渔船在克里米亚海岸附近的黑海海域遭到袭击，造成一人死亡，四人受伤。

5月底，土耳其曾警告称，在一艘土耳其货船遭到无人机袭击后，黑海地区局势可能出现“失控升级”。乌克兰海军则声称，发动袭击的是一架俄罗斯无人机。

Michigan Democrats choose between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens, and more races to watch today

2026-08-04T06:00:00-0400 / CBS News

Voters are going to the polls in five states, including Michigan, where Democrats are watching the expensive and contentious Senate primary contest between populist Abdul El-Sayed and moderate Rep. Haley Stevens.

They’re running for retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters’ seat, which is among a handful that Democrats must hold in order to have any chance of winning control of the Senate. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is backing Stevens, while Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are campaigning for El-Sayed. Former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers, who lost to Sen. Elissa Slotkin by less than a point in 2024, is running unopposed in the Republican primary.

After the Virginia Supreme Court struck down Democrats’ voter-approved plan to redraw the congressional districts to net up to four more districts, Virginians will be using the maps drafted by a nonpartisan commission in 2021. Democrats are still targeting several districts in their fight for control of the House.

In Missouri, ongoing redistricting legal battles may yet affect congressional races, where longtime Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s district has been redrawn to favor the GOP and five Republicans are vying for the chance to take him on in November. In the only reliably Democratic district in the state, the 1st, Democratic Rep. Wesley Bell is being challenged by former Rep. Cori Bush, whom he defeated two years ago.

In Kansas, Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s tenure will be ended by term limits, opening up the governor’s race in the reliably GOP state.

There are also primaries in Washington, where the top-two vote getters, regardless of party, will advance to the general election. Four Democrats and three Republicans are vying to take on two-term Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who is a frontrunner to make the ballot in the 3rd District this fall. And in the Seattle area, longtime Rep. Adam Smith is being challenged by former Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant, a socialist, along with several others.

Here are the major races to watch today:

Michigan Senate race

Progressives and moderate party leaders have been clashing for months over who’s best positioned in the race, and who is more broadly representative of Michigan’s voters. Stevens, 43, was recruited by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, has represented Michigan in the House since 2019 and has the support of national Democrats. El-Sayed, a 41-year-old former health official, has picked up the backing of prominent progressives like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders.

File: Democratic Senate candidates: Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens and former Michigan health official Abdul El-Sayed Campaigns of Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed

El-Sayed spoke with CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O’Keefe on the eve of the primary and suggested the Democratic Party has been losing sight of what Americans really need.

“Sometimes, when the Democratic Party talks about a big tent, we push everybody into the corner and then go talk and pander to the corner,” he told O’Keefe. “I’m just trying to bring everybody to the tent pole in the middle to talk about what we really need. We need good housing. We need good schools. We need healthcare.”

Stevens, who also talked with O’Keefe, accused El-Sayed of using the Senate race as stepping stone to the presidency.

“This is six years of hard, unglamorous work that I’m signing up for. I’m Michigan’s workhorse. That’s what I want to be,” Stevens said. “My opponent, he’s already got his website for president.”

El-Sayed, has run on progressive policies like Medicare for All, and he’s been an outspoken critic of Israel’s government and the war in Gaza. And for Michigan, which is home to the largest concentration of Arabs in the U.S., the issue has been central to the campaign.

While Stevens is a proponent of a two-state solution, she’s received an influx of funding from a pro-Israel groups, which El-Sayed seized on during their debate earlier this month. But Stevens has emphasized her priorities in The Great Lakes State, including affordability issues, health care and housing.

A third high-profile candidate, state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, dropped out earlier this month without offering a reason for her departure from the race.

Michigan’s governor’s race

Whitmer is also facing term limits, setting up an open contest. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson faces Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson in the Democratic primary, with Benson holding a 60-point lead, according to a July poll from The Detroit News and WDIV-TV.

On the Republican side, former Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox dropped out of the race in July, citing Mr. Trump’s endorsement of Rep. John James in the race. Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt suspended his campaign a month earlier for the same reason. Both candidates then backed James. James still has one opponent, businessman Perry Johnson. Polls show James with a significant lead.

Michigan House races

With Stevens running for Senate, the race for her suburban Detroit district is wide open. Although Stevens flipped the Republican seat in 2018, she won the seat by nearly 20 points in 2024 and the district is considered a solidly Democratic seat. Four Democrats are competing on Tuesday, with Whitmer backing state Sen. Jeremy Moss. Troy Mayor Ethan Baker is running unopposed for the Republican nomination.

There is also an open primary in Michigan’s 10th District, since James is running for governor. The nonpartisan Sabato Crystal Ball at UVA Center for Politics ranks the seat as a toss-up and it has nearly 50-50 partisan split, according to the Michigan Legislative Consultants.

Republican Robert Lulgjuraj dropped out of the race in July, leaving three Republicans still in the running — Army Capt. Michael Bouchard, Justin Kirk and Steffan Demetropoulos. Three Democrats are running, attorney Eric Chung, former Pontiac Mayor Tim Greimel and prosecutor Christina Hines.

Virginia House races

Although Democrats did not succeed in enacting the congressional map that favored them in 10 out of 11 districts, the party is still trying to flip several seats. The state appears to have become more Democratic, and last year the state was severely affected by federal government layoffs. Democrats swept the 2025 statewide elections, and the redistricting referendum passed earlier this year before being struck down by the courts.

Four Democrats, including former Rep. Elaine Luria, are running to take on Republican Rep. Jen Kiggans in the Virginia Beach-area district. Kiggans defeated Luria in 2024, but the Democrats’ campaign arm has thrown its weight behind Luria again this time.

Democrats are also targeting the 1st District, currently represented by Republican Rep. Rob Wittmann. Seven Democrats are vying for the chance to take on Wittmann to represent the Williamsburg and western Richmond suburban district. The Democrats’ campaign arm is supporting Shannon Taylor, a prosecutor who in 2011 was the first Democrat in 40 years to win the Henrico Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office. Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics ranks the race as Lean Republican.

Another closely-watched race is in Virginia’s 5th District, currently represented by Republican Rep. John McGuire. In 2024, McGuire defeated two-term GOP Rep. Bob Goode in the Republican primary by less than 500 votes, and then went on to win the central Virginia district by 15 points in the general election. Although Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics ranks the race as Likely Republican, three Democrats are vying for the chance to take on McGuire in November.

Republicans, meanwhile, are focused on Virginia’s competitive 7th District, Democratic Rep. Eugene Vindman is one of the most vulnerable Democrats this cycle. Vindman, an Army colonel who was a whistleblower during Mr. Trump’s first impeachment trial, won in 2024 by 2 points after Abigail Spanberger decided to run for governor. Vindman is running unopposed, but three Republicans are on the ballot to face him in November.

Missouri House races

In 2024, Rep. Wesley Bell successfully challenged former Rep. Cori Bush, a Black Lives Matter organizer who was aligned with the progressive members known as “The Squad,” in a Democratic stronghold district in St. Louis. Bush is now challenging Bell again for the seat.

Nearly 80% of the district’s constituents voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, so the winner of Tuesday’s primary is expected to win again in November. Bush is campaigning that she will fight both Mr. Trump as well as Democratic leadership, while Bell is running as a more pragmatic candidate.

Last year, Missouri lawmakers undertook redistricting to edge out the state’s other Democratic representative, Cleaver, who has represented Kansas City in Congress since 2004. The new district now stretches from Kansas City through the suburbs into the more rural parts of the state, and Cleaver is running unopposed for the Democratic nomination. Six Republicans are vying Tuesday to take on Cleaver in November, but a Kansas City Star investigation in July found that only one lives in the new district’s boundaries.

Although the new congressional boundaries have been signed into law, the map’s legal status is still in question after an ambiguous ruling from the Missouri Supreme Court. At the heart of the case is a referendum with more than 305,000 signatures that called for a statewide vote on the map. Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins has until Tuesday to verify the signatures and certify the referendum. If he certifies it, the new map would be paused. The legal fight is bound to continue, whatever Hoskins decides.

Washington’s 3rd Congressional District

Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is running against eight other candidates to advance to the general election in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District.

Washington has nonpartisan primaries, with the top two candidates with the most votes appearing on the November ballot.

The race is one of the closest-watched House contests this cycle and will help decide who controls the lower chamber as of early next year. It was one of 13 districts that voted for President Trump in 2024 while also electing a Democrat to the House.

Among her challengers is Trump-backed Republican state Sen. John Braun, who has disagreed with the president on tariffs and whether he lost the 2020 election.

Kansas governor’s race

Kelly, first elected in 2018, prevailed in 2022 despite Kansas’ deep-red leanings and Mr. Trump went on to win Kansas in 2024 by 16 points. Three Democrats are vying Tuesday to replace Kelly, while seven Republicans are on the ballot.

Mr. Trump has endorsed Republican Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson, while Kelly has backed state Sen. Ethan Corson of Fairway for the Democratic nomination.