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Outgoing House Democrat backs incumbent Republican lawmaker for re-election

2026-09-22T06:11:43-04:00 / Fox News

Rep Mike Lawler described it as ‘an honor and a privilege to accept’ Rep Jared Golden’s endorsement

By Alex Nitzberg Fox News

Published September 22, 2026 6:11am EDT

My biggest concern is China ‘leapfrogging’ us economically: Rep Mike Lawler

Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., discusses the debate over regulating artificial intelligence, weighing how lawmakers can balance innovation, national security and consumer protections while ensuring the U.S. remains competitive in the global AI race on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’

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Outgoing Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, has endorsed his colleague Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., for re-election, backing the Republican in an opinion piece ahead of the 2026 midterm election.

“The Congress we get is the one we elect, and the country needs fewer members who treat the job as a stage and more who treat it as work. In New York’s Hudson Valley this fall, that is the choice on the ballot. Mike Lawler has been a true partner to me and a friend to fishing families he will never represent,” Golden wrote.

“I strongly back him, and I hope voters send him back to work. Wherever you live, find the members who pass laws with the other party, and keep them,” the Democrat noted.

REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: DEM REBELS EXPOSE CRACKS IN JEFFRIES’ HOUSE LEADERSHIP

Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, attends a news conference to oppose a “union-busting executive order by President Donald Trump,” that eliminated collective bargaining rights for federal workers, in the Capitol Visitor Center on Thursday, July 17, 2025.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Golden, who has served in the House of Representatives since early 2019, announced last year that he would not run for re-election in 2026.

Lawler, who has served in the House since early 2023, is currently seeking re-election this year.

“It’s an honor and a privilege to accept the endorsement of my friend, Democratic Congressman Jared Golden,” Lawler noted in a post on X.

VULNERABLE HOUSE REPUBLICANS EMBRACE TRUMP AS GOP BETS ON DEFYING MIDTERM HISTORY

U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., takes the stage on the second day of the 2026 Republican National Convention at the American Airlines Center on Sept. 10, 2026 in Dallas, Texas.(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

“While we are from different parties and different states, Jared and I have worked during our time together in the House to find common ground on issues that matter both to us and our constituents. We share a firm belief that what’s best for the people should come before one’s party, and that if more members on both sides of the aisle took that approach more often, the country would be better off for it,” the Republican wrote.

Lawler is facing Democratic candidate Cait Conley in the contest to represent New York’s 17th Congressional District.

Conley, a combat veteran, has served as the National Security Council director for counterterrorism and has also worked with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

ARMY COMBAT VETERAN CHALLENGING MIKE LAWLER CALLS HEGSETH NATIONAL SECURITY ‘HAZARD,’ BACKS IMPEACHMENT

Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg attends a rally for Cait Conley, who is challenging U.S. Representative Mike Lawler to represent New York’s 17th Congressional District, on Sept. 16, 2026 in Tarrytown, N.Y.(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg rallied with Conley last week, and wrote in a post on X that he was “proud to be in Cait’s corner.”

Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.

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台湾陆委会：美对台政策不变

2026年9月22日 16:13 / 联合早报

“习特会”即将登场之际，台湾陆委会主委邱垂正表示，台美有共同利益和价值，并称支持台湾是美国跨党派的共识，“美方也不断重申对台政策不变”。

《纽约时报》星期一（9月21日）报道，台湾正聘请游说人士、邀请美国总统特朗普的重要支持者访台，争取对白宫的影响力。但布鲁金斯学会资深研究员何瑞恩（Ryan Hass）透露，部分赴美台湾官员被特朗普政府官员要求，减少造访华府智库。他认为，这显示，特朗普要确保台湾不妨碍他实现对华政策目标。

据《自由时报》报道，邱垂正星期二（9月22日）就此受访称：“我们认为台美关系，因为有共同的利益、共同价值，而且支持台湾是美国跨党派的共识，美方也不断重申对台政策不变。”

邱垂正也说，还是会跟美国等民主同盟国家共同合作，共同守护台海的和平稳定，“这是我们的原则”。

中国外交部星期一（9月21日）证实，中国国家主席习近平应特朗普邀请，将于星期三至星期五（9月23日至25日）对美国进行国事访问。

中共中央机关报《人民日报》星期二（9月22日）发表评论，呼吁美国不要以战略竞争定义中美关系，并强调美国须谨慎处理台湾问题，同时推动两国在经贸、人工智能等领域深化合作。

另一方面，路透社引述知情者称，习近平本周访问华盛顿期间，预计将敦促特朗普依据1982年中美联合公报停止对台军售。

伊朗总统誓言在联合国坚定捍卫本国立场

2026年9月22日 16:36 / 联合早报

9月22日，伊朗总统佩泽希齐扬在德黑兰机场启程前往纽约前挥手致意。 （路透社）

伊朗总统佩泽希齐扬星期二（9月22日）启程前往纽约出席联合国大会时誓言，将“坚定捍卫”本国立场。

法新社报道，据国家电视台播出的画面显示，他在离开伊朗前说：“我们昂首挺胸，这是我们所有人的尊严和骄傲。因此，我们将在国际场合坚定捍卫我们的立场。”

佩泽希齐扬将于星期三（23日）上午在联合国会议上发表讲话。

他说：“我们将充分利用这一机会，向国际社会传达伊朗的处境。我们将坚定地告诉对手：尽管历经种种不公与不义，伊朗人民依然坚守立场，未曾退缩。”

佩泽希齐扬将成为自中东战事于2月爆发以来踏上美国领土的最高级别伊朗官员。

美国国务院称，尽管战事持续，美方依然批准部分伊朗代表团成员赴美参加联合国会议，但他们的行动将受到限制。

不过，伊朗总统的随行新闻联络团队因被拒发签证而未能来到纽约。

当地媒体报道，伊朗总统发言人阿巴西形容拒签是“敌对”举动。

Three out of four Americans say AI firms not doing enough to prevent disaster, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

2026-09-22T10:02:20.943Z / Reuters

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• Summary

• 39% say AI has negative impact on society, highest share on record
• 55% say slowing AI development would be good, 13% say bad
• 73% prioritize safe, responsible AI over keeping US ahead globally

WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) – Three-quarters of Americans, some 73%, worry that AI companies haven’t gone ​far enough to prevent AI from causing serious harm to society, as concerns grow about where the technology may lead, ‌according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.

The four-day poll, which concluded on Sunday, found that 39% of respondents think that artificial intelligence is having a negative impact on society, up from 36% last month and the highest share since Reuters/Ipsos began asking the question in March. Only 11% said the new technology was a positive thing. The ​rest weren’t sure or didn’t answer the question.

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The poll found many Americans lacked confidence in AI companies’ ability to regulate themselves, ​with most respondents saying federal officials should play a major role in setting safety standards.

While high-profile leaders ranging ⁠from US Senator Bernie Sanders — a progressive independent who caucuses with Democrats — to Steve Bannon — a close ally of President Donald Trump — have called ​for federal action, little has come so far. Trump himself backs fast development of the technology and the Republican-led House of Representatives is on ​recess until November, leaving little chance for quick action.

The technology is upending how computer programmers work but it remains to be seen how much disruption it will cause in labor markets. The technology appears to pose significant risks to cybersecurity, with OpenAI revealing over the summer that its AI agents escaped a controlled test and ​hacked into another company’s systems without either company’s initial knowledge.

AI RESEARCHERS QUIT OVER FEARS

Earlier this month a researcher at Anthropic, another leading AI company, ​publicly quit his job over concerns that AI could be on a path to wipe out humanity. Anthropic scientist Evan Hubinger echoed the warning, saying there ‌was a more ⁠than 10% chance of such an event within the next decade.

Most Americans — some 69% of respondents — said they had followed the news that major AI companies were calling for a slowdown in AI development as well as greater oversight and safety standards.

Some 55% of people in the Reuters/Ipsos poll said it would be a good thing to slow down AI development, compared with 13% who said it would be a bad thing. ​The rest weren’t sure or didn’t ​answer the question.

Artificial intelligence burst ⁠onto the national stage in 2022 when OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a consumer-facing product that could answer user questions much as a human might and offered a new way to search the Internet.

Supporters of the technology say ​AI has the potential to boost productivity, accelerate scientific discovery and transform industries ranging from healthcare to ​finance.

Heavy investment in ⁠the construction of data centers — vast collections of computers that power the technology — is boosting the economy but also creating enough noise to anger neighbors and put pressure on politicians ahead of the November 3 midterm elections.

Some 73% of respondents in the Reuters/Ipsos poll said it was more important for ⁠the US ​to ensure AI is developed safely and responsibly, compared to 23% who said it ​was more important for the US to stay ahead of the rest of the world on AI development.

The poll, which was conducted online, gathered responses from 1,277 US adults nationwide. ​Its results had a margin of error of 3 percentage points in either direction.

Reporting by Jason Lange; editing by Scott Malone and Rosalba O’Brien

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李在明：可放宽对朝制裁 换取冻结核武与洲际导弹开发

2026-09-22 18:23 / 联合早报

• 韩国总统李在明在纽约出席联大期间提出，以放宽对朝制裁换取朝鲜冻结核武器及洲际弹道导弹技术发展。 – 李在明称现行制裁效果不明显，主张采取中止、削减、废弃的阶段性方式解决朝核问题，而非坚持完全无核化。 – 李在明认为特朗普缩减韩美军演意在向朝鲜传递没有敌意的信息，期待特金会重启能带动韩朝对话恢复。 – 朝鲜宣布在金正恩和金珠爱观摩下成功试射改良型高超音速导弹，金正恩称新武器将给敌人带来无法治愈的头痛。

朝中社周二（9月22日）发布的照片显示，朝鲜星期天（20日）在境内某未公开地点进行导弹发射系统试射。 （法新社）

正在美国纽约出席联合国大会的韩国总统李在明提出，以放宽对朝制裁换取朝鲜冻结核武器及洲际弹道导弹（ICBM）技术发展。他直言，在当前形势下，如果一味坚持完全无核化，恐将“一事无成”。

不过，就在李在明积极释放对朝对话信号之际，朝鲜宣布成功试射改良型高超音速武器，凸显朝鲜半岛对话努力与军事紧张并存的局面。

李在明于美东时间星期一（9月21日）接受《纽约时报》采访时说，现行对朝制裁“效果并不明显”，而以制裁松绑换取朝鲜停止发展更多核武器和洲际弹道导弹技术，“具有相当大的价值”。即使这一方案令人难以接受，目前也缺乏现实可行的替代方案。

李在明指出，根据韩方估计，朝鲜目前可能已具备每年额外生产10至20枚核武器的能力。一旦平壤认为已经拥有足够核武器和导弹确保自身生存，就可能产生向外出口牟利的诱因，“那将是极其危险的时刻”。

他因此主张采取“中止、削减、废弃”的阶段性方式解决朝核问题。李在明在同日公开的另一项专访中说，鉴于朝鲜核导能力已经高度发展，期待一步到位实现完全无核化并不现实，因为在此期间朝鲜核能力仍会继续增强，威胁也将随之扩大。

他以行驶中的汽车作比喻称，要改变汽车行驶方向，首先必须让它停下来，因此应先中止核计划，再逐步削减并最终废弃。这意味着韩国政府把“冻结”视为迈向无核化的第一步，而非要求朝鲜先行弃核。不过，以制裁松绑换取核冻结，也可能引发是否变相接受朝鲜现有核武库的争论。

美国总统特朗普近期多次表明有意与朝鲜领导人金正恩恢复对话，并缩减韩美联合军演规模。

李在明坦言，这一决定“有些出乎意料”，但认为特朗普此举意在向朝鲜传递美国“没有敌意”的明确信息，为重启对话创造条件。

他说，期待“特金会”重启能够带动韩朝对话恢复，并强调韩美都愿在没有先决条件的情况下与朝鲜展开对话。

对于金正恩女儿金珠爱的接班可能性，李在明则保持谨慎。他说，韩国政府正关注金珠爱“日益提升的地位”，并对各种可能性保持开放态度，但现阶段不宜轻易断言她是否已被指定为接班人。

朝鲜：新武器将给敌人带来“无法治愈的头痛”

朝鲜周二（22日）宣布，20日在金正恩和金珠爱观摩下成功进行“新型重要战斗武器系统”试验。朝媒公开照片中的监视器出现“火星炮-11Ma-1型飞行轨迹”字样，显示此次试射的是“火星-11Ma”系列高超音速导弹的改良型号。

金正恩称，此次试验展示了朝鲜“先进国防技术实力”，并宣称新武器将成为敌人“无法治愈的头痛”。该型武器据信是在KN-23系列短程弹道导弹基础上发展，可搭载高超音速滑翔飞行器（HGV），高速和机动变轨能力将增加韩美导弹防御系统探测和拦截难度。

李在明定于美东时间22日下午在联合国大会发表演讲，进一步阐述分阶段解决朝核问题的构想，并提出推动朝鲜半岛和平共处的政策蓝图。

伊朗总统誓言在联合国坚定捍卫本国立场

2026年9月22日 16:36 / 联合早报

9月22日，伊朗总统佩泽希齐扬在德黑兰机场启程前往纽约前挥手致意。 （路透社）

伊朗总统佩泽希齐扬星期二（9月22日）启程前往纽约出席联合国大会时誓言，将“坚定捍卫”本国立场。

法新社报道，据国家电视台播出的画面显示，他在离开伊朗前说：“我们昂首挺胸，这是我们所有人的尊严和骄傲。因此，我们将在国际场合坚定捍卫我们的立场。”

佩泽希齐扬将于星期三（23日）上午在联合国会议上发表讲话。

他说：“我们将充分利用这一机会，向国际社会传达伊朗的处境。我们将坚定地告诉对手：尽管历经种种不公与不义，伊朗人民依然坚守立场，未曾退缩。”

佩泽希齐扬将成为自中东战事于2月爆发以来踏上美国领土的最高级别伊朗官员。

美国国务院称，尽管战事持续，美方依然批准部分伊朗代表团成员赴美参加联合国会议，但他们的行动将受到限制。

不过，伊朗总统的随行新闻联络团队因被拒发签证而未能来到纽约。

当地媒体报道，伊朗总统发言人阿巴西形容拒签是“敌对”举动。

俄罗斯要求欧盟解除对所有俄罗斯人的制裁

2026-09-22 18:31 / 联合早报

9月21日，人们走过莫斯科国际商务中心（莫斯科城）大楼和一座东正教教堂前的胜利公园。 （法新社）

俄罗斯星期二（9月22日）说，欧盟应将所有俄罗斯人从制裁名单中移除。此前，欧盟正讨论取消针对寡头乌斯马诺夫（Alisher Usmanov）和弗里德曼（Mikhail Fridman）的制裁措施。

法新社报道，克里姆林宫发言人佩斯科夫在例行新闻发布会上说：“我们认为，无论是针对乌斯马诺夫和弗里德曼，还是针对所有俄罗斯商人和公民的制裁都必须解除。”

他重申了克里姆林宫的立场，即欧盟实施的资产冻结和旅行禁令是非法的。

在法国、卢森堡和斯洛伐克提出要求后，欧盟原本计划取消针对乌斯马诺夫和弗里德曼的资产冻结及签证禁令。

然而，拉脱维亚提出了反对意见。随着制裁延期截止日期的临近，针对俄罗斯人的制裁是否会继续充满变数。

李在明：可放宽对朝制裁 换取冻结核武与洲际导弹开发

2026年9月22日 18:23 / 联合早报

• 韩国总统李在明在纽约出席联大期间提出，以放宽对朝制裁换取朝鲜冻结核武器及洲际弹道导弹技术发展。 – 李在明称现行制裁效果不明显，主张采取中止、削减、废弃的阶段性方式解决朝核问题，而非坚持完全无核化。 – 李在明认为特朗普缩减韩美军演意在向朝鲜传递没有敌意的信息，期待特金会重启能带动韩朝对话恢复。 – 朝鲜宣布在金正恩和金珠爱观摩下成功试射改良型高超音速导弹，金正恩称新武器将给敌人带来无法治愈的头痛。

朝中社周二（9月22日）发布的照片显示，朝鲜星期天（20日）在境内某未公开地点进行导弹发射系统试射。 （法新社）

正在美国纽约出席联合国大会的韩国总统李在明提出，以放宽对朝制裁换取朝鲜冻结核武器及洲际弹道导弹（ICBM）技术发展。他直言，在当前形势下，如果一味坚持完全无核化，恐将“一事无成”。

不过，就在李在明积极释放对朝对话信号之际，朝鲜宣布成功试射改良型高超音速武器，凸显朝鲜半岛对话努力与军事紧张并存的局面。

李在明于美东时间星期一（9月21日）接受《纽约时报》采访时说，现行对朝制裁“效果并不明显”，而以制裁松绑换取朝鲜停止发展更多核武器和洲际弹道导弹技术，“具有相当大的价值”。即使这一方案令人难以接受，目前也缺乏现实可行的替代方案。

李在明指出，根据韩方估计，朝鲜目前可能已具备每年额外生产10至20枚核武器的能力。一旦平壤认为已经拥有足够核武器和导弹确保自身生存，就可能产生向外出口牟利的诱因，“那将是极其危险的时刻”。

他因此主张采取“中止、削减、废弃”的阶段性方式解决朝核问题。李在明在同日公开的另一项专访中说，鉴于朝鲜核导能力已经高度发展，期待一步到位实现完全无核化并不现实，因为在此期间朝鲜核能力仍会继续增强，威胁也将随之扩大。

他以行驶中的汽车作比喻称，要改变汽车行驶方向，首先必须让它停下来，因此应先中止核计划，再逐步削减并最终废弃。这意味着韩国政府把“冻结”视为迈向无核化的第一步，而非要求朝鲜先行弃核。不过，以制裁松绑换取核冻结，也可能引发是否变相接受朝鲜现有核武库的争论。

美国总统特朗普近期多次表明有意与朝鲜领导人金正恩恢复对话，并缩减韩美联合军演规模。

李在明坦言，这一决定“有些出乎意料”，但认为特朗普此举意在向朝鲜传递美国“没有敌意”的明确信息，为重启对话创造条件。

他说，期待“特金会”重启能够带动韩朝对话恢复，并强调韩美都愿在没有先决条件的情况下与朝鲜展开对话。

对于金正恩女儿金珠爱的接班可能性，李在明则保持谨慎。他说，韩国政府正关注金珠爱“日益提升的地位”，并对各种可能性保持开放态度，但现阶段不宜轻易断言她是否已被指定为接班人。

朝鲜：新武器将给敌人带来“无法治愈的头痛”

朝鲜周二（22日）宣布，20日在金正恩和金珠爱观摩下成功进行“新型重要战斗武器系统”试验。朝媒公开照片中的监视器出现“火星炮-11Ma-1型飞行轨迹”字样，显示此次试射的是“火星-11Ma”系列高超音速导弹的改良型号。

金正恩称，此次试验展示了朝鲜“先进国防技术实力”，并宣称新武器将成为敌人“无法治愈的头痛”。该型武器据信是在KN-23系列短程弹道导弹基础上发展，可搭载高超音速滑翔飞行器（HGV），高速和机动变轨能力将增加韩美导弹防御系统探测和拦截难度。

李在明定于美东时间22日下午在联合国大会发表演讲，进一步阐述分阶段解决朝核问题的构想，并提出推动朝鲜半岛和平共处的政策蓝图。

Anxiety grows over emerging election issue, but GOP says Washington isn’t the answer

Vulnerable GOP senators hear rising voter anger over electricity costs and water use tied to AI data centers

September 22, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News

Republicans want to rein in data centers, just not at the federal level

Senate Republicans and candidates are hearing from their voters about data centers, and while they want to see them reined in, they don’t want to enact strict regulatory structure at the federal level.

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Public perception is everything heading into a crucial midterm election fight, and voters across the political spectrum have laid down the gauntlet over their view of data centers this cycle.

Republicans running for power in the Senate are keenly aware that their voters aren’t happy about data centers, according to recent polling. While they believe that the construction of the windowless, hulking behemoths should be slowed or halted, they don’t want the federal government to play an outsized role.

“The data center companies haven’t done a very good job of explaining why they should be allowed to develop in communities,” Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, told Fox News Digital at the GOP’s midterm convention in Dallas.

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An Amazon Web Services data center in Stone Ridge, Va., on July 28, 2024.(Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

“But the bottom line is, that should be a local decision, not a federal decision,” he continued. “I don’t want the federal government telling you that you must have a data center or that you can’t have a data center. That’s a local decision. Some people will say yes, some people will no.”

A Gallup Poll published in May found that 70% of Americans don’t want new data centers for artificial intelligence (AI) constructed in their towns and cities. Many of their concerns are about the impact that a new data center could have on their bills, be it through spikes in water or electricity costs.

Husted is one of a handful of vulnerable Republicans running in this cycle, and he, like others, is hearing about data centers and their impact routinely on the campaign trail.

He attempted to pass a bill quickly on the Senate floor last week that would have tried to tackle the latter issue of booming electricity costs by preventing AI and tech companies from placing the burden of power grid infrastructure upgrades on taxpayers, but was blocked by Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., despite the bill having passed the House 417 to 3.

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“Rather than voluntary pledges, or suggestions to states, Congress needs to pass real legislation with real teeth,” Heinrich said.

Former Rep. Mike Rogers, who is running in one of the most competitive races this cycle in Michigan, told Fox News Digital that he hears “lots and lots of concern about data centers, not just the physical beings, but what happens on the other side of AI.”

“What we’ve said is there should be a moratorium until we get all of voters’ decisions and questions answered,” Rogers said. “These are big decisions. I don’t think there should be a federal ban because if the federal government can ban it, it can also tell you have to have one.”

Rogers wants data centers to operate with closed water systems, not to add to voters’ electric bills, and for the boom in property taxes that they provide to be returned to taxpayers.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune speaks during a news conference after a weekly policy luncheon with Senate Republicans at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“You don’t give it to the government to give out. You don’t do any of that,” Rogers said. “It goes right back to the very people who have one of these in their neighborhoods. But we’ve got a lot of those questions to get answered. Take a moratorium, take a pause, get the questions answered.”

Republicans who aren’t vying to keep or grasp a seat of power want to take action, too, but like Husted and Rogers, want to keep the federal government’s involvement at arm’s length.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told Fox News Digital that he’d prefer less power in Washington, D.C., on the issue and that the “best way to get the soundest decisions with the most input from the American people, [is] the government that’s closest to them.”

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Thune is also taking the same route to regulate AI and has a bill with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., designed to take a “light-touch approach” that’s been percolating in the Senate since 2023.

“I mean, that’s the thing, people don’t like this hide the ball, operate in this opaque way — It’s out there in public,” Thune said.

“There’s got to be some way of ensuring that there are rules of the road around that, and you know, disclosure about it and in some sort of reporting,” he continued. “I’m, again, I’m not talking about a heavy-handed regulatory regime because that’s not my way of doing things.”

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

美国航空通信线路故障 数千趟航班受影响

2026年9月22日 18:39 / 联合早报

美国多个机场星期一（9月21日）早上发生通信故障，导致多达7000趟航班延误或取消，包括纽约地区三大机场的1400趟航班。 （路透社档案照片）

（华盛顿综合电）美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）的一条主要通信线路发生故障，备用线路又遭施工工人意外切断，迫使多个主要机场暂停进港航班，数千趟航班延误或取消。

这起事件发生在星期一（9月21日）早上。联邦航空管理局暂停了纽约地区三大机场以及费城、波士顿和纽约地区另外两个小型机场的进港航班。故障持续了八个小时才得以解决。

当天正值全球130多位国家领导人和部长抵达纽约，准备参加联合国大会年度会议。

航班追踪网站FlightAware的数据显示，多达7000趟航班延误或取消，包括纽约地区三大机场的1400趟航班。这次故障也迫使100多趟航班备降其他机场。

这起事故暴露出美国老旧空中交通管制系统的问题。联邦航空管理局局长贝德福德（Bryan Bedford）说，服务中断由两个问题造成：费城空中交通管制设施的主要通信线路首先发生故障，当局后来发现新泽西州的施工团队又意外切断一条备用光缆。