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Key swing state voters to settle dueling Senate primary fights in crucial open-seat race

Socialist-aligned Manzur calls Pappas a ‘genocide enabler’ over his Israel support as Democrats wage an ideological battle

2026-09-08 05:00:29 EDT / Fox News

By Paul Steinhauser

Published September 8, 2026 5:00am EDT

Leftist candidate Karishma Manzur is trying to upset 4-term Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas in New Hampshire’s Democratic Senate primary.

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MANCHESTER, N.H. – The Democratic and Republican Senate nominations are up for grabs on Tuesday in swing state New Hampshire, in a race that may determine if Republicans keep control of the chamber in the midterm elections.

Socialist-aligned candidate Karishma Manzur is on the move as she tries to pull off a major upset and defeat establishment-backed four-term Rep. Chris Pappas in the Democratic Senate primary.

Once a longshot, Manzur gained momentum in recent weeks as the national spotlight turned to New Hampshire after a six-month primary season that saw the far-left score a slew of high-profile victories over centrists in what’s been framed as a battle for the Democrats’ ideological future.

The winner of the Democratic primary will take on either John E. Sununu or Scott Brown, two former senators who are battling for the GOP Senate nomination in the race to succeed retiring longtime Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, the first woman in the nation’s history elected governor and senator.

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Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), the first woman elected governor and U.S. senator in the nation’s history, is retiring at the end of her current term.(Getty Images)

Republicans haven’t won a Senate election in New Hampshire in 16 years, but they view the open Democrat-held seat as a top flip opportunity in the fight to hold their slim majority in the midterm elections.

In the Democratic primary, Manzur is taking the fight to Pappas.

“All he wants to do is just get his little cushy job and go to D.C., go to all these parties and these restaurants and just do whatever the bare minimum is,” she charged in a Fox News Digital interview.

The first-time candidate, scientist with a Ph.D. in biochemistry and nonprofit leader who is a member of a local Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) group, is pushing for universal healthcare, raising the minimum wage to at least $20 per hour, abolishing ICE and ending all military aid to Israel for what she argues is the Israeli government’s “genocide” against the Palestinian people in their war against Hamas in Gaza.

Manzur charged that Pappas, who has been supported over the years by the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, is a “genocide enabler.”

“Chris Pappas has had his turn and has not been able to serve this state honorably. He hasn’t done a good job in serving his corporate donors, his AIPAC foreign-aligned lobbies,” she claimed.

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Pappas, in an interview with Fox News Digital, said, “Israel’s a historic ally of the United States, the only democracy in the region. And you can say that while you have vehement disagreements with the Netanyahu government as I’ve expressed.”

Referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Pappas said, “I think Netanyahu’s being incredibly reckless right now. He faces voters in a matter of weeks and could lose his election. And I think that would be important to set a new tone for the U.S.-Israel relationship.”

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Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas of New Hampshire, a U.S. Senate candidate, is joined by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of neighboring Massachusetts, at a campaign stop in Dover, N.H. on Sept. 5, 2026.(Jessica Sonkin/Fox News)

Pappas, who has been the frontrunner for his party’s nomination ever since Shaheen announced early last year that she wouldn’t seek re-election, enjoys strong establishment and union backing. And for over a year, as he runs for the Senate, Pappas also takes aim at what he calls a political system “rigged for billionaires.”

Regardless, Manzur charges that Pappas is taking a page from her playbook.

“It’s really embarrassing and insulting to the people of New Hampshire. He’s been there for eight years. He has not provided any of that sort of populist messages, and now he’s realizing, wait, he’s dropping in the polls, and now he has to catch up,” Manzur argued.

Pappas defended his record, noting, “I’ve been fighting to change Washington to get big money out of our political system since I got elected to Congress in 2018.”

And Pappas emphasized he’s “appealing to those voters between the 20- and 80-yard line on the political playing field, and there are a lot of them in New Hampshire. This is not a left wing or a right wing state. It’s a state of voters who are pragmatic.”

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Democratic Senate candidate Karishma Manzur speaks with voters during a campaign stop in Dover, New Hampshire, on Sept. 3, 2026.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

While Democrats wage an ideological battle, Republicans are fighting over Trump’s influence in their own primary.

The president in February endorsed Sununu, a longtime GOP Trump critic, over Brown, one of his first-term ambassadors. Sununu is also backed by Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Brown charged in a Fox News Digital interview that Sununu’s “got 70 endorsements on his website, but he doesn’t have the president’s. He never talks about it. He’s embarrassed by it.”

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“I’ve had the MAGA base and a lot of those so-called traditional Republicans for almost over a year,” Brown highlighted. “Johnny came lately, and he’s here, and now he thinks everyone’s going to just vote for him. That’s not how it works. You got to go earn it.”

Brown claimed that Sununu is “beholden” to Trump, Thune, the Senate leadership, and outside groups.

“He owes them everything. He doesn’t work for the people of New Hampshire,” Brown charged.

But Sununu emphasized, “I’ll have one job: stand up for the people of New Hampshire every single day… I don’t need to make anyone in Washington happy. It’s all about our state, our communities, our economy, and our small businesses.”

Asked by Fox News Digital about Trump’s endorsement, Sununu didn’t mention the president’s name but highlighted his local endorsements, saying, “We’ve received tremendous support in New Hampshire … we’ve got great momentum at the grassroots level.”

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Trump last week said he’d be heading out on the campaign trail to help fellow Republicans running in the midterms.

Asked if he’d like Trump to join him on the Granite State campaign trail, Sununu answered, “I don’t need anyone from outside New Hampshire to campaign for me. I’ve said that from the very beginning.”

The former senator also disagreed with the Trump administration’s trade war with neighboring Canada, saying, “I don’t think it’s the right thing to pick a trade war with Canada. They’re a great trading partner for New Hampshire.”

In the race to replace Pappas in New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District, Shaheen’s daughter Stefany Shaheen, a former Portsmouth city councilor, is in a heated battle for the Democratic nomination against Maura Sullivan, a U.S. Marine combat veteran who later served in the Defense Department during then-President Barack Obama’s administration. Gaining strength in the final weeks of the campaign is progressive contender Carleigh Beriont, a Hampton selectwoman.

Businessman and auto dealership owner Anthony DiLorenzo, who is backed by Trump, and Hollie Noveletsky, a businesswoman and former state party vice chair who’s running a second straight time for Congress, are the frontrunners for the GOP nomination. State Rep. Brian Cole is also bidding for the Republican nomination.

In the state’s 2nd Congressional District, first-term Democratic Rep. Maggie Goodlander is facing a primary challenge from the left from state Rep. Paige Beauchemin.

Lily Tang Williams, a former Colorado Libertarian Party chair who is running a third straight time for Congress in New Hampshire, is the frontrunner in the Republican primary.

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New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte marches in the annual Independence Day parade in Amherst, N.H., on July 4, 2026.(Gov. Kelly Ayotte)

Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte, a former U.S. senator and former state attorney general, faces no serious opposition as she seeks a second two-year term as New Hampshire governor.

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Cinde Warmington, a former New Hampshire Executive Councilor and 2024 candidate for governor, is unopposed for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.

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加拿大对美反制关税生效 特朗普威胁禁售庞巴迪飞机

2026年9月8日 17:30 / 联合早报

美国和加拿大之间的贸易争端持续升级，图为9月6日，一辆卡车通过连接两国的戈迪·豪国际大桥，把货物从加拿大运入美国。 （法新社）

（渥太华/华盛顿综合电）加拿大周二对数百种美国商品征收15%至50%的反制关税，以报复美国对部分加拿大商品征收50%的高关税。目前，两国仍无达成协议的迹象，美国总统特朗普更威胁要禁止加拿大飞机制造商庞巴迪在美销售，贸易争端恐进一步升级。

加拿大政府自美东时间周二（9月8日）凌晨起，对总值200亿美元（约253亿新元）的美国进口商品征收15%、25%或50%的关税。其中，多数美国钢铝制品的关税从25%提高至50%；纸制品、建筑材料、家用电器、农产品等其他美国商品也面临新的关税。

此前，美国在两国谈判破裂后，自8月22日起对同等价值的加拿大商品征收50%关税。

预料，加拿大此举对密歇根、俄亥俄等州的打击尤其大，这些州属与加拿大贸易往来较为密切，也是11月美国中期选举的关键战场。

彭博社分析指，这是加拿大总理卡尼经过权衡的冒险之举，希望以强硬态度为两国贸易谈判增加筹码。

加拿大前贸易和美加关系顾问克洛（Brian Clow）说：“加拿大的反制关税旨在让美国企业和消费者切实感受到这场贸易战的代价，从而推动华盛顿重返谈判桌。加拿大征收这些关税，不是因为它想要打贸易战，而是为了结束贸易战。”

不过，美国已多次表明不会容忍报复行为，并暗示可能针对加拿大出台更多关税，甚至禁止某些加拿大商品进口。

特朗普周一（7日）在社交媒体上发文，威胁要把庞巴迪（Bombardier）赶出美国市场，称这家公务机制造商的产品“不够好”。他说：“如果他们想要我们的市场，就必须在这里生产，不能再把美国当作‘提款机’。”

庞巴迪随后发声明说，它每年向美国供应商支付超过25亿美元，是美国航空航天业的重要贡献者。

庞巴迪客户运营的5100架飞机中，约有一半位于美国。这家公司雇有3500名美国员工，美国供应商约有2800家。它在美国也设有工厂和服务中心。

今年1月，特朗普也曾威胁取消部分庞巴迪飞机的认证，并对加拿大制造的飞机征收50%关税，直到加拿大认证美国湾流宇航公司（Gulfstream Aerospace）的部分飞机。特朗普最终没有落实这两项威胁，加拿大随后认证了湾流宇航的几架飞机。

Hurricane Lowell passing just west of Hawaii, bringing heavy rain, strong winds, punishing waves

September 8, 2026 / 7:06 AM EDT / CBS News

Hurricane Lowell is skirting western Hawaii, bringing damaging winds, heavy rain and punishing waves, the National Hurricane Center said. It left tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the dark.

The Category 2 hurricane had maximum sustained winds of 110 mph, just shy of the 111 mph that would make it a major Category 3.

Map shows Hurricane Lowell’s path

As of the latest advisory at 11 p.m. Monday night local time, Lowell was 90 miles west of Lihue, the county seat of Kauai County, which includes the islands of Kauai and Niihau, and was moving north-northeast at 18 mph. Hurricane-force winds extended outward as much as 70 miles from Lowell’s center.

Map shows the location and path of Hurricane Lowell near Hawaii, Sept. 8, 2026. CBS News

Lowell had the potential of pouring up to 2 feet of rain on parts of the chain as well as producing “life-threatening surf and rip current conditions” and even some tornadoes, the hurricane center said. It issued a hurricane warning for Kauai County and a tropical storm warning for the island of Oahu.

The warning extends to a large swath of the vast Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, which covers almost 583,000 square miles of ocean and includes 10 of Hawaii’s islands.

Map shows warnings and watches issued for Hurricane Lowell near Hawaii, Sept. 8, 2026. CBS News

A tornado watch is in effect until 4 a.m. local time for Niihau and Kauai and their surrounding waters for tornadoes and waterspouts associated with Lowell, CBS Honolulu affiliate KGMB-TV reports.

Conditions were “very hazardous” late Monday night in both Kauai County and on Oahu, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency said, adding that people in both places should shelter in place overnight.

Heavy rainfall

The hurricane center noted that Lowell was expected to produce additional rainfall totals of 4 to 8 inches for Kauai, with maximum storm totals of 24 inches possible. For the Big Island, an additional 3 to 8 inches of rain was expected, with as much as 12 inches possible in some areas.

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For Oahu and Maui County, an additional 2 to 5 inches of rain was expected, and some areas could see as much as 10 inches, the hurricane center said. “This rainfall may produce significant flash flooding and mudslides, especially across Kauai County and portions of the Big Island,” it said.

涉3亿新元美国最大规模加密货币盗窃案 狮城青年料认罪

2026年9月8日 17:38 / 联合早报

新加坡籍男子林誉轩（译音，Malone Lam Yu Xuan）被指与同伙在2024年8月从一名受害者手中盗取超过2亿4000万美元（约3亿新元）的比特币，他将在华盛顿特区联邦法院出席认罪协议听证会。 （iStock档案照片）

涉美国史上最大规模的加密货币盗窃案，22岁新加坡籍男子本周料认罪，若罪成将面临至少14年监禁。

福克斯新闻报道，新加坡籍男子林誉轩（译音，Malone Lam Yu Xuan）星期二（9月8日）将在华盛顿特区联邦法院出席认罪协议听证会。

美国检方指，他是这个庞大加密货币犯罪团伙的疑似主谋之一。他和同伙被指在2024年8月从一名受害者手中盗取超过2亿4000万美元（约3亿新元）的比特币，随后将赃款挥霍在豪车、私人飞机、豪宅和奢华夜生活上。

检方说，团伙成员冒充谷歌和加密货币交易平台Gemini代表联系受害者，谎称他的账户遭到入侵，并说服他交出Google Drive访问权限，再骗取安全验证码，转走超过4100枚比特币。当时这些比特币价值超过2亿4000万美元。

团伙随后通过多个加密货币交易平台转移赃款，并把部分加密货币兑换成现金。检方指，他们自2023年底以来已利用类似手法实施多起涉及数百万美元的盗窃案。

团伙在短短一个月内就在洛杉矶夜店消费400万美元，林誉轩更被指一晚花掉约57万美元。他也被指用赃款购买一块价值200万美元的手表，以及超过30辆汽车，包括定制保时捷、兰博基尼和法拉利。

团伙还租住价值数百万美元的豪宅、乘坐私人飞机，并聘请私人保安。奢靡生活很快引起执法部门注意。

林誉轩在2024年9月被捕并遭起诉。目前共有18人因这起案件遭起诉，其中10人已经认罪。林誉轩若认罪，将成为第11名认罪的被告。

林誉轩首次出庭时，检察官根据量刑指南估计，他若被定罪，建议刑期至少14年。

华为涉伊朗业务案将在美国开审

2026年9月8日 19:35 / 联合早报

• 美国检方秘密起诉华为八年后，围绕其伊朗业务的刑事案件即将在纽约开庭审理，陪审团遴选预计星期二展开。 – 起诉书涵盖华为约1999年至2020年间涉嫌的不当行为，包括就伊朗业务欺骗银行、违反制裁及窃取商业机密等。 – 华为前高管孟晚舟2021年与美国司法部达成暂缓起诉协议后获准返华，但针对华为的刑事诉讼并未终止。 – 华为对所有控状不认罪并否认不当行为；北京批评此案是美国打压中国科技崛起行动的一部分。

美国检方秘密起诉中国科技巨头华为八年后，这起围绕华为伊朗业务的刑事案件即将开庭审理。 （路透社档案照片）

美国检方秘密起诉中国科技巨头华为八年后，这起围绕华为伊朗业务的刑事案件即将开庭审理。陪审团遴选预计星期二（9月8日）在纽约布鲁克林联邦法院展开。

据路透社报道，起诉书涵盖华为约在1999年至2020年间涉嫌实施的不当行为。美国检方指华为就公司伊朗业务欺骗汇丰等银行，并涉嫌违反美国对伊朗制裁、洗钱、电信欺诈、妨碍司法公正和有组织犯罪。

此外，华为还被控串谋窃取五家美国科技公司的商业机密、就朝鲜业务作出虚假陈述，以及在2009年德黑兰爆发反政府示威期间，向伊朗提供用于追踪示威者的监控设备。

案件部分依据路透社2012年和2013年有关华为与星通技术（Skycom）关系的报道。路透社当时披露，星通2010年曾提出向伊朗最大移动通信营运商出售价值至少130万欧元（191万新元）的惠普电脑设备，而这些设备受到美国禁运限制。华为创始人任正非的女儿、华为高管孟晚舟也据报曾于2008年2月至2009年4月担任星通董事。

美国检方指控，华为利用星通为伊朗业务取得受禁运限制的美国商品、技术和服务，并通过国际银行体系把资金转出伊朗。一家银行据称为星通相关交易结算了超过1亿美元（1.27亿新元）的美元款项。起诉书没有点名这家银行，但消息人士和路透社查阅的文件显示，它是汇丰银行。

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美法官：孟晚舟供证可用于华为刑事诉讼美法官驳回华为撤销指控的申请 案件明年在纽约审判

案件在2018年引发外交风波。当年，时任华为首席财务官孟晚舟在加拿大温哥华被捕，美国检方指她和华为涉嫌就伊朗业务及合规情况误导汇丰等银行。孟晚舟随后在加拿大被软禁近三年，极力争取不被引渡至美国受审。

2021年，孟晚舟以视频方式出席美国法院聆讯，并与美国司法部达成暂缓起诉协议。她在一份长达四页的事实陈述中承认，曾就华为遵守制裁及出口管制法律的情况，向一家金融机构作出虚假陈述。协议达成后，她获准返回中国，美国后来也撤销对她的刑事指控。

不过，美国针对华为的案件并未终止。补充起诉书在最初的银行欺诈指控之外，进一步指华为窃取商业机密及从事危害美国国家安全的活动。华为对所有控状均不认罪，并否认有任何不当行为。

案件由美国联邦地区法官唐纳利（Ann Donnelly）审理，预计审讯持续约三个月，期间将碰上中国国家主席习近平9月24日赴华盛顿与美国总统特朗普会晤。潜在陪审员已填写长达27页的问卷，内容包括他们对中国和伊朗政府的看法。

北京长期批评这起案件，称它是美国打压中国科技崛起行动的一部分。华为发言人上星期六（9月5日）发表声明说，美国政府对案件的整体叙述“明显不实”。华为也形容，刑事诉讼旨在削弱公司的竞争力，窃取商业机密的指控则是把早已解决的商业纠纷重新包装。

美国检方在特朗普首个总统任期内起诉华为，同时限制在美国境内使用华为设备，并以中国可能利用相关设备从事间谍活动为由，施压其他国家把华为排除在电信网络之外。美国也于2019年以涉嫌危害国家安全的犯罪行为为由，将华为列入贸易黑名单。若华为被定罪，检方将寻求没收公司通过相关非法活动取得的财产或收益。

涉3亿新元美国最大规模加密货币盗窃案 狮城青年料认罪

2026年9月8日 17:38 / 联合早报

新加坡籍男子林誉轩（译音，Malone Lam Yu Xuan）被指与同伙在2024年8月从一名受害者手中盗取超过2亿4000万美元（约3亿新元）的比特币，他将在华盛顿特区联邦法院出席认罪协议听证会。 （iStock档案照片）

涉美国史上最大规模的加密货币盗窃案，22岁新加坡籍男子本周料认罪，若罪成将面临至少14年监禁。

福克斯新闻报道，新加坡籍男子林誉轩（译音，Malone Lam Yu Xuan）星期二（9月8日）将在华盛顿特区联邦法院出席认罪协议听证会。

美国检方指，他是这个庞大加密货币犯罪团伙的疑似主谋之一。他和同伙被指在2024年8月从一名受害者手中盗取超过2亿4000万美元（约3亿新元）的比特币，随后将赃款挥霍在豪车、私人飞机、豪宅和奢华夜生活上。

检方说，团伙成员冒充谷歌和加密货币交易平台Gemini代表联系受害者，谎称他的账户遭到入侵，并说服他交出Google Drive访问权限，再骗取安全验证码，转走超过4100枚比特币。当时这些比特币价值超过2亿4000万美元。

团伙随后通过多个加密货币交易平台转移赃款，并把部分加密货币兑换成现金。检方指，他们自2023年底以来已利用类似手法实施多起涉及数百万美元的盗窃案。

团伙在短短一个月内就在洛杉矶夜店消费400万美元，林誉轩更被指一晚花掉约57万美元。他也被指用赃款购买一块价值200万美元的手表，以及超过30辆汽车，包括定制保时捷、兰博基尼和法拉利。

团伙还租住价值数百万美元的豪宅、乘坐私人飞机，并聘请私人保安。奢靡生活很快引起执法部门注意。

林誉轩在2024年9月被捕并遭起诉。目前共有18人因这起案件遭起诉，其中10人已经认罪。林誉轩若认罪，将成为第11名认罪的被告。

林誉轩首次出庭时，检察官根据量刑指南估计，他若被定罪，建议刑期至少14年。

研究：二手烟导致全球近170万人死亡

2026年9月8日 17:46 / 联合早报

国际医学期刊《柳叶刀》周二（9月8日）发表的研究报告指出，二手烟是全球公认的健康风险，不存在所谓的安全吸入水平。 （彭博社）

国际医学期刊《柳叶刀》周二（9月8日）发表研究报告指出，全球超过27亿人曝露在二手烟的危害，当中至少7亿人是14岁及以下的孩童，在2023年造成近170万人死亡。

报告说，烟草仍是全球疾病的主要原因之一，2023年全球有约800万人死于吸烟相关疾病，其中许多是暴露于二手烟的非吸烟者。“二手烟是全球公认的健康风险，不存在所谓的安全吸入水平”。

研究人员检视美国国立卫生研究院生物医学数据库PubMed的研究和人口调查数据，估算1990年至2023年间204个国家和地区接触二手烟的情况，并量化由此造成的疾病负担。

研究发现，2023年约27.1亿人暴露在二手烟环境，其中7亿6700万名15岁以下儿童。二手烟导致约166万人过早死亡，并造成大量疾病和健康寿命损失，其中以缺血性心脏病造成的死亡人数最多。

报告也说，2023年儿童因接触二手烟估计出现520万起下呼吸道感染病例。

虽然自1990年以来，全球吸烟率显著下降，但由于人口增长，以及非洲和中东曝露在二手烟环境的人数增加，整体上，受二手烟危害的人数至今都没有减少。

报告指出，女性受二手烟危害的程度尤为严重，并呼吁各国政府在公共场所和家庭环境实施更严格的控烟措施，以更好保护妇女和儿童的健康。

法国审判14名偷渡案被告 涉2021年英吉利海峡移民惨案

2026年9月8日 17:51 / 联合早报

2021年11月25日，一艘破损的充气艇停泊在法国敦刻尔克的卢恩海滩上。 （路透社）

14名男子星期二（9月8日）在法国巴黎受审，他们被控涉及一起偷渡案。2021年，超过30名移民在横渡英吉利海峡时遇难，这是有记录以来英吉利海峡最严重的移民遇难事件。

路透社报道，调查人员指，一个主要由阿富汗人和伊拉克库尔德人组成的偷渡网络，组织移民从法国北部大桑特和加莱附近的难民营偷渡到英国。被告面对的指控包括过失杀人、以有组织犯罪集团成员身份协助非法移民，以及犯罪共谋。

根据法庭文件，2021年11月，一艘法国渔船在加莱附近海域发现漂浮的尸体后，立即通知紧急救援部门。最终找到27具遇难者遗体，另有四人至今下落不明，只有两名男子生还。

遇难者主要为伊拉克库尔德人，也包括阿富汗人、埃塞俄比亚人、一名埃及人、一名索马里人、一名伊朗库尔德人和一名越南人。已知年龄最小的遇难者是一名7岁女孩。

文件显示，移民被塞进一艘简陋且不适合横渡英吉利海峡的橡皮艇，救生衣也不足。专家认为，艇上人员根本无法应对海上紧急情况。

面对过失杀人指控的被告包括偷渡集团组织者、运输人员和后勤协调员。检方认为，即使部分被告在船只下水时不在现场，他们的行为也助长了这场灾难。

两名被告已逃脱法国当局的追捕，将缺席审判。

一些遇难者家属通过律师说，他们将从伊拉克埃尔比勒前往英国旁听部分庭审。声明中写道：“司法必须追究所有参与这场悲剧的人的责任。”

Democrats enter the midterms looking to conquer red territory

2026-09-08T09:00:29.125Z / CNN

On Friday, Sen. Roger Marshall took a rare step for a Republican incumbent running in Kansas: launching an attack ad against his Democratic rival.

When pastor Adam Hamilton launched his campaign for the seat four months ago, the odds seemed long. The state has not sent a Democrat to the Senate in nearly a century, and President Donald Trump has won it by at least 14 percentage points in all his campaigns.

But as the traditional post-Labor Day sprint to the midterms begins, Hamilton is optimistic.

“People are very frustrated,” Hamilton said in an interview, recalling a recent conversation with a 79-year-old man who handed him a receipt for diesel for his truck and told him, “This is why I’m voting for you.”

From the suburbs of Philadelphia to California’s Central Valley, such stories are fueling Democratic hopes that they can not only flip the House but also capture the majority in the Senate by running strong campaigns in GOP territory. If successful, Democrats would both provide a consequential check on President Donald Trump for his final two years in office and begin to repair their party’s tattered brand as they prepare for the next presidential election.

Republicans acknowledge they face historical headwinds as the party in power two years after winning the White House and capturing unified control of Washington. And Trump has not helped by starting a war with Iran that has exacerbated a cost-of-living crisis that was already on the top of voters’ minds.

But with November’s midterm matchups largely set, the GOP sees cause for optimism in their financial advantage, Trump’s increasing efforts to galvanize the party’s base and the rise of democratic socialists across the country, whom they hope to make a liability for Democrats writ large.

“The issues are going to be the same in my race and everybody else’s,” Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin said in an interview. “People are waking up to the fact that the Democratic Party is no longer the Democratic Party – it’s the Democratic Socialists of America party.”

The GOP push ramped up this weekend as the pro-Trump super PAC MAGA Inc. began tapping into its $400 million-plus war chest for the midterms, a highly anticipated moment for vulnerable Republicans.

Starting Wednesday, Republicans are set to gather in Dallas for an unusual midterm convention that is expected to be dominated by Trump. He is scheduled to speak on both nights, and the Republican National Committee chairman, Joe Gruters, has hyped the gathering as “Trumpapalooza.”

Democrats are not letting the Republican ramp-up go unanswered. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is sending a delegation of House Democrats to Dallas to counter the convention. And Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, is also heading to the city to help Texas Democrats push back, according to a Pritzker spokeswoman, Leah Hurwitz.

Building off the convention, Trump has promised to spend the final 30 days of the election crisscrossing the country for his party, targeting 35 races that he believes will determine control of Congress.

Trump’s emergence as a main character in the midterms, despite his unpopularity across the country, has excited Democrats and left Republicans in competitive districts weighing how closely to tie themselves to him.

“It’ll be spectacular,” California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom told reporters Saturday in North Carolina, sarcastically praising Trump’s midterm plans. “He’s an historic president – historically unpopular.”

“President Trump is not on the ballot,” GOP Rep. Tom Barrett of Michigan, who does not plan to attend the convention, said in an interview. “I’m on the ballot and my opponent is on the ballot, and that’s the choice people are going to be faced with.”

Democrats need to flip a few seats in the House to win the majority, while their path to controlling the upper chamber is harder. They would need to net four seats, including some in Republican-leaning states, while defending a few competitive seats they already hold.

Democrats generally agree their best opportunities to pick up Senate seats are in Maine, North Carolina and Ohio, and then in tougher territory including Alaska, Iowa and Texas.

“Democrats have six core offensive opportunities and we are still expanding the map, forcing Republicans to scramble to defend deep red states as we head into November with multiple paths to win the majority,” Devan Barber, the executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said in a statement.

The map is not without its challenges for Democrats. In Michigan, Democrats nominated progressive Abdul El-Sayed over the opposition of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who saw Rep. Haley Stevens as more electable. And in New Hampshire, Democrats are playing defense against a strong and well-known GOP candidate in former Sen. John E. Sununu. And while Democrats are encouraged by the strength of Sen. Jon Ossoff’s reelection campaign in Georgia, he is still seeking another term in a state that Trump won by 2 percentage points in 2024.

In the fight for House majority, Democrats continue to add redder and redder districts to their target list. But they still have to defend more seats won by President Donald Trump in 2024 than Republicans have to hold on to seats he lost.

“They’re operating on our turf,” said Mike Marinella, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee.

The nationwide redistricting effort that Trump spent months waging has also given Republicans hope they can stem their losses. But Democrats, seeing a political landscape that has revolted against Trump, believe even some of the redrawn seats are in play, such as those that Republicans reconfigured in predominantly Latino South Texas.

In a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, voters said they favored Democrats over Republicans on the generic congressional ballot by 5 percentage points. They disapproved of Trump’s job performance by a 25-point margin and his handling of the economy by even more.

For Democrats, the strategy for the midterms is simple: speak to the mounting economic frustrations of voters, including those who took a chance on Trump in 2024 but now feel betrayed.

“The word that I hear almost daily is ‘drowning,’” said Democratic Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet of Michigan. “Families in my district are drowning, and it is so much worse for them now than it was two years ago.”

McDonald Rivet’s district in Central Michigan is a traditional battleground district, voting for Trump by just 2% in 2024. But Democrats are also finding opportunity in places such as Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District, which supported Trump by 15 points.

The Democratic nominee there, former federal prosecutor Zach Dembo, said the issue of affordability is “hyperfocused” in the Central Kentucky district. Kentucky raises the most cattle east of the Mississippi River, he noted, making it especially impacted by Trump’s recent decision to lower tariffs on foreign beef producers.

“Really this race is not a Democrat versus Republican,” Dembo said in an interview. “It’s about change versus the status quo.”

In many competitive races, Democrats know they need to separate themselves from a national party brand that often polls worse than the GOP and has now become equated, in part, with democratic socialists such as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Hamilton, for example, said he is for “strong and secure borders,” calling former President Joe Biden a “disaster” on the issue.

“When people in Kansas think about national Democrats, they think about the DSA,” Hamilton said. “I’ve been asked, ‘Are you a socialist or communist?’ My answer is, ‘No, I’m an independent-minded Democrat.’”

The Democratic brand is especially under pressure in a handful of races where independents are running strong campaigns for Republican-held seats. In some of those contests, the Democratic nominees have stepped aside to give the independents a better shot.

Nebraska is a prominent example. During their first debate last week, GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts repeatedly labeled his independent opponent, Dan Osborn, as “Democrat Dan” as Osborn insisted he would not caucus with either party if elected.

The economy is a far more sensitive issue for Republicans, who have to sympathize with voters’ concerns while grappling with Trump’s insistence on continuing the war. Trump said Wednesday he was “not affected” by the midterms when considering an end to the war.

Republicans have mostly remained united behind Trump on the war, though their impatience has shown at times. House Speaker Mike Johnson recently said that it would be “great” if the war would end before the midterms, but if not, Republicans “can explain why that was necessary, why we had to complete the job.”

Van Orden, a retired Navy SEAL, said the consequences would be disastrous if Iran were to obtain a nuclear weapon.

“When I explain that to folks, they’re like, ‘Oh, I got it,’” said Van Orden, who is set to speak at the midterm convention. “And I also remind them, especially my Democratic colleagues and many people in the media, that we’re still not paying as much money for a gallon of gas as we did under Biden. We’re not.”

A few Republicans in competitive races have distanced themselves from the war by supporting resolutions to limit Trump’s war powers. Among them is Barrett, who said he is “very sensitive to the nature of prolonged war” as a 22-year Army veteran.

“I haven’t budged and this is something I feel very strongly about and I’m going to vote my conscience,” Barrett said.

Trump, who has a penchant for punishing intraparty critics, has largely held back as some Republicans in tough races have sought daylight with him. And Vice President JD Vance suggested Thursday that he understood if some candidates wanted to skip the convention to focus on “local” matters.

The White House would much rather make the midterms a referendum on Democrats who they say have lurched too far to the left.

In some key House races, Democratic voters picked nominees that national groups worry are too liberal to win in the general election. Barrett’s opponent, Will Lawrence, is one of those candidates – and CNN reported Friday about hundreds of deleted social media posts where he backed the abolition of police and prisons, among other things. Lawrence, a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, said he no longer supports defunding the police and regretted some of his past remarks.

Republicans are also drawing optimism from a larger stockpile of money in their national committee accounts. The Republican National Committee ended July with $130 million cash on hand, while the Democratic National Committee had $16 million in the bank, along with $18 million in debt.

That money is more relevant than ever after a Supreme Court ruling in June that struck down limits on coordinated spending between party committees and campaigns. The National Republican Congressional Committee has already taken advantage of the ruling by reserving coordinated ads for at least 20 candidates, while the NRCC’s Democratic counterpart has been slower to capitalize.

Up until this weekend, however, it was unclear whether Republicans in battleground seats could also count on MAGA Inc. to come to the rescue. But the super PAC began answering that question Saturday when it disclosed $10 million in spending on the Texas Senate race where Democratic nominee James Talarico has vastly outraised Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton by nearly $60 million.

Trump suggested Friday he had almost $1 billion in outside money at his disposal and planned to spend as much as half of it on the midterms.

“We’re going to spend a lot of money because we don’t want to lose our country,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

Republicans also hope Trump’s increased activity on the campaign trail reactivates his 2024 voters, even if it puts vulnerable incumbents in an awkward position.

At a recent meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, the GOP nominee for Senate in North Carolina, Michael Whatley, estimated that his state had as many as 250,000 voters who have turned out for Trump in presidential elections but sat out the midterms. “That turnout is absolutely essential,” Whatley said.

One Republican strategist working on a battleground House race agreed that Republican turnout is a major issue but said the solution to the problem has to be “much deeper” than Trump hitting the road.

“I think there has to be more optimism that things are getting better” economically, the strategist said, adding that the White House lacks a “clear message” about when that will happen.

The Trump factor is not the only major variable heading into the final two months before the election.

Both parties are scrambling to respond to voters’ rising anger at data centers and the resources they consume. In the blockbuster race for governor in Nevada, GOP incumbent Joe Lombardo and his Democratic opponent, Attorney General Aaron Ford, have traded TV ads accusing one another of being too cozy with the industry.

“Data centers are raising our costs, but Joe Lombardo doesn’t care,” Ford says in one ad that replays Lombardo saying in May that he is “wholeheartedly in support of data centers.”

(Lombardo, like many GOP governors confronting the issue, has demanded data centers take responsibility for not straining local resources.)

Candidates will also spend the coming weeks haggling over whether to debate — and if so, how much. While Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic challenger Troy Jackson appear set for four debates in October in their all-important race in Maine, there is more uncertainty in other contests, such as the contest for Ohio governor, where Democrat Amy Acton indicated Wednesday she was not interested in debating Republican Vivek Ramaswamy.

And, in another open question, while much of the recent speculation about outside spending has focused on pro-Trump groups, super PACs aligned with Israel supporters and the cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industries are still sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars that could shape races.

Voters can also expect to see more of potential 2028 candidates in the coming weeks, especially Democrats, as they work to show their usefulness to the party and build new allies in Congress.

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is scheduled to visit at least six states in September alone. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is expected to continue campaigning heavily to flip four House seats in his state as he runs for reelection himself. And former Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to step up her travel for candidates, even as some in GOP-leaning territory have said they would not welcome her support.

Harris shrugged off their snubbing in a TV interview Thursday, telling MS NOW, “I support them in doing whatever they need to do to win.”

Addressing reporters Thursday, Vance, widely seen as the de facto frontrunner for the GOP nomination in 2028, urged all Republicans to focus on the midterms as some of them, such as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, have stirred buzz about their White House ambitions.

McDonald Rivet said she was taking nothing for granted in the final stretch, even after Republicans in her district nominated a relatively unknown candidate, Tom Smith, over a Trump-backed rival.

“I think that this is going to be closer than most people think,” she said. “I think that we are going to have to work for every single vote and run hard all the way through November.”

法国审判14名偷渡案被告 涉2021年英吉利海峡移民惨案

2026年9月8日 17:51 / 联合早报

2021年11月25日，一艘破损的充气艇停泊在法国敦刻尔克的卢恩海滩上。 （路透社）

14名男子星期二（9月8日）在法国巴黎受审，他们被控涉及一起偷渡案。2021年，超过30名移民在横渡英吉利海峡时遇难，这是有记录以来英吉利海峡最严重的移民遇难事件。

路透社报道，调查人员指，一个主要由阿富汗人和伊拉克库尔德人组成的偷渡网络，组织移民从法国北部大桑特和加莱附近的难民营偷渡到英国。被告面对的指控包括过失杀人、以有组织犯罪集团成员身份协助非法移民，以及犯罪共谋。

根据法庭文件，2021年11月，一艘法国渔船在加莱附近海域发现漂浮的尸体后，立即通知紧急救援部门。最终找到27具遇难者遗体，另有四人至今下落不明，只有两名男子生还。

遇难者主要为伊拉克库尔德人，也包括阿富汗人、埃塞俄比亚人、一名埃及人、一名索马里人、一名伊朗库尔德人和一名越南人。已知年龄最小的遇难者是一名7岁女孩。

文件显示，移民被塞进一艘简陋且不适合横渡英吉利海峡的橡皮艇，救生衣也不足。专家认为，艇上人员根本无法应对海上紧急情况。

面对过失杀人指控的被告包括偷渡集团组织者、运输人员和后勤协调员。检方认为，即使部分被告在船只下水时不在现场，他们的行为也助长了这场灾难。

两名被告已逃脱法国当局的追捕，将缺席审判。

一些遇难者家属通过律师说，他们将从伊拉克埃尔比勒前往英国旁听部分庭审。声明中写道：“司法必须追究所有参与这场悲剧的人的责任。”