能源设施不断遭袭之际 俄罗斯开始进口燃料

2026年8月19日 23:41 / 联合早报

社媒照片显示，乌克兰无人机6月18日袭击俄罗斯首都莫斯科的一座炼油厂，厂区冒出滚滚浓烟和熊熊烈火。 （路透社）

俄罗斯副总理诺瓦克说，俄罗斯已经开始进口燃料。

塔斯社报道，诺瓦克星期三（8月19日）公布这个消息。他还说，政府预计几家炼油厂在完成计划中的维护后，会在近期恢复运营，这有助于改善燃料供应。

不过，诺瓦克没有透露燃料进口量或来源等细节。

路透社报道指出，俄罗斯通常是燃料净出口国，但过去几个月乌克兰持续对它的能源设施发动空袭，导致炼油产量下降，造成全国范围内的燃料短缺，俄罗斯被迫转向进口燃料。

不敌丹麦羽球老将组合 高永杰／洼纯佑止步男双32强

2026年8月19日 23:55 / 新明日报

羽毛球世锦赛男双32强对战中，我国选手高永杰（左）和洼纯佑（右）大比分2比0败于丹麦老将。 （档案照片）

面对优势明显的丹麦组合，新加坡组合高永杰／洼纯佑以16比21、8比21直落两局告负，星期三（8月19日）止步羽毛球世锦赛男双32强。

我国羽毛球男双选手高永杰／洼纯佑首次挑战经验丰富的丹麦名将组合拉斯姆森／阿斯特鲁普。对手现世界排名第16位，而我国组合排第42位。

第一局用时15分钟，我国男双队员奋力追分但还是以16比21落败。第二局，对手以11比2的巨大优势率先进入技术暂停。除了比拼球技，双方在这一局中也多次运用鹰眼挑战系统（我国组合一次，对方两次）。

尽管两对组合在世界排名与奖金积累上差距显著——丹麦组合不仅排名靠前，职业生涯更是已累计获得超48万美元（约61万新元）的奖金，而年轻的新加坡组合职业生涯总奖金仅为7734美元。

同为24岁的新加坡组合正处于上升期，职业生涯总战绩为62胜52负（本赛季9胜14负）。面对分别34岁与37岁、身材高大且经验老道（职业生涯近400胜）的丹麦老将阿斯特鲁普／拉斯姆森，年轻的新加坡组合并没有让比赛呈现一边倒的态势。

Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios suspended after testing positive for cocaine

2026-08-19T08:48:00-0400 / CBS News

Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios has been provisionally suspended from professional tennis after testing positive for cocaine.

The former Wimbledon finalist, who got his first major win in more than two years at last year’s Miami Open, has been provisionally suspended since Aug. 4, according to the International Tennis Integrity Agency, after a sample provided during a June tournament in Mallorca, Spain, tested positive last month for benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine.

In a lengthy Instagram post, Kyrgios said he had “made a huge mistake and I take full responsibility for it.”

Once ranked world number 13, Kyrgios has slipped to 919 after a series of injuries. The 31-year-old has only played four singles matches this season. He got a wild card to play in the doubles competition at Wimbledon in July, but lost in the first round with his partner Alexander Bublik.

Nick Kyrgios of Australia meets fans following his match against Zhang Zhizhen of China during the 2026 Kooyong Classic at Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club on Jan. 13, 2026, in Melbourne, Australia. Kelly Defina/Getty Images

Kyrgios will not be able to play in or coach at any events organized or sanctioned by any of tennis’s global bodies or national associations until the suspension is lifted. He has the right to appeal his provisional suspension, the ITIA said, “but has not done so to date.”

On Instagram, Kyrgios apologized “to my fans, my family, my sponsors and everyone close to me. Above all, I’m sorry to the kids who follow me. I know the example this sets and I’m deeply disappointed in myself.”

“I’m not going to make excuses, but I do want to give some context about where I’ve been,” he added. “The last couple of years of injuries have taken a huge toll on me, both physically and mentally. My body hasn’t been able to do what my mind expects it to do, and coming to terms with being near the end of my career has been harder than I ever imagined.”

“Letting go of something that has been my whole life is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to face. At times I’ve felt helpless and alone,” he said. “None of that excuses what I did.”

Kyrgios said he would be stepping away from social media and public life for a month, “while I focus on getting myself right.”

“I would never … dope in this sport”

Kyrgios is well-known for on-court antics, including shouting obscenities, arguing with umpires and obliterating rackets, making him a controversial figure in tennis.

In 2015, he made a derogatory comment to his opponent about another player sleeping with his girlfriend.

In 2023, he admitted to assaulting his ex-partner by pushing her over on a sidewalk two years earlier, an incident for which he avoided criminal conviction.

A year later he apologized for sharing a post by misogynist influencer and accused rapist and sex trafficker Andrew Tate.

Kyrgios has previously criticized high-profile doping cases involving top players Jannik Sinner and Iga Swiatek.

“I just think that it’s been handled horrifically in our sport,” Kyrgios said in 2024. “Two world number ones both getting done for doping is disgusting for our sport.”

“It’s a horrible look,” he added in remarks reported by ESPN. “Someone like me … I would never even in my entire life ever try and dope in this sport.”

Several years ago Kyrgios complained to an official during his U.S. Open match in New York that he was bothered by what he thought was the smell of marijuana wafting onto the court.

Trump to host crypto executives as SEC considers regulations

August 19, 2026 12:55 PM UTC / Reuters

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WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will host cryptocurrency executives at the White House on Wednesday as U.S. financial ​regulators this week prepare to advance their framework for certain digital ‌assets.

Trump, who has earned more than $1.4 billion from his family’s crypto ventures, is scheduled to make remarks with technology leaders at the White House in the afternoon, according to his official ​schedule. Representatives for the White House did not immediately return a request ​for comment.

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Crypto executives and representatives from industry trade groups are expected ⁠to attend the event, according to two people familiar with the matter. ​U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Mike Selig, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair ​Paul Atkins and crypto advisor Patrick Witt are also expected to attend, according to media reports.

The Republican president has pursued crypto-friendly policies since returning to office in January 2025, particularly through the SEC ​and the CFTC. Sweeping crypto legislation — the industry’s top priority — has stalled in Congress, with little time ​remaining for lawmakers to approve the bill before the end of the year.

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The SEC on Tuesday proposed ‌long-awaited ⁠rules that would exempt certain token offerings from securities regulations, making it easier for crypto companies to issue tokens and raise money. The CFTC is scheduled to discuss crypto regulation, among other issues, at an industry gathering on Thursday.

Reuters/Ipsos polling this ​week found that ​a majority of ⁠Americans believe Trump and his family have inappropriately profited from the crypto sector since his return to power and that ​his policy decisions are influenced by his private business dealings, which ​include ⁠World Liberty Financial and the Trump meme coin.

Trump says that he has had no day-to-day role in his family’s business and that his investments are independently managed. The White ⁠House ​dismisses any allegations of impropriety.

Reporting by Hannah Lang, Susan Heavey and Michelle Price; Editing by Paul Simao

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5 takeaways from Florida Senate primary: GOP Sen Ashley Moody will face DSA’s Nixon

The impeachment witness raised $16.27M but was defeated by Nixon’s grassroots campaign in the Florida Senate primary

August 19, 2026 9:48am EDT / Fox News

By Eric Mack

Fox News’ Danamarie McNicholl reports on DSA-backed Angie Nixon’s stunning upset in the Florida Democratic Senate primary. ‘Ruthless Podcast’ co-host Josh Holmes analyzes the progressive breakthrough on ‘America’s Newsroom.’

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President Donald Trump celebrated the primary defeat of longtime political foe Alexander Vindman on Tuesday night after Democratic Florida State Rep. Angie Nixon pulled off a stunning upset in the primary that sought to flip the seat held by Sen. Ashley Moody, R-Fla.

This will be the first general election race for Moody, outgoing Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ handpicked successor for former senator and current Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and it will be an ideological battle between a leading legal mind and one of the Democratic Socialists of America’s up-and-coming figures in Nixon.

Here are five takeaways from Tuesday night’s high-profile Florida Senate primary:

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President Donald Trump has long rebuked defeated Florida Democratic senatorial primary candidate, retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.

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The Obama-Biden establishment Democrat era sees another one of its national political figures suffer a loss in Florida, a state that once was former President Barack Obama’s key swing state.

“SleazeBag Vindman loses tonight to a Radical Left Lunatic,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Tuesday night. “How cool is that???”

Vindman, a retired Army Lt. Col. who fled Soviet Ukraine as a child with his twin brother Eugene, rose to prominence as a Russia hawk during the final years of the Obama administration’s Pentagon.

Vindman testified during the first Trump impeachment trial that he “was asked to serve” on the National Security Council in July 2018, serving under fellow impeachment witness Fiona Hill. He became a polarizing national political figure when he testified during the 2019 House impeachment inquiry about Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s Impeachment I testimony made him a darling of Democrats but a target for President Donald Trump’s political clout.(Andrew Harnik)

Dems again burn big money opposing DSA candidate

Vindman, backed by the Democrat establishment, raised 16 times as much money as Nixon, but like the big-ticket loss in the Michigan Democratic primary race won by Abdul El-Sayed against Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., it proved to be money wasted before November’s midterm general elections.

That comes as Democrats have widely reported issues with fundraising right now. They trail Republicans’ national apparatus and Trump’s MAGA coffers by hundreds of millions, showing the power of incumbency, despite the long historical challenges of midterm elections swinging power back to the opposition party.

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Vindman raised $16.27 million to roughly $1 million for the DSA-backed Nixon, according to federal filings. Despite the nearly 16-to-1 cash advantage, Vindman lost in roughly a 12-point blowout.

That comes on the heels of the estimated $70 million spent on Stevens.

Democrats, whose small-donor platform ActBlue is under congressional investigation, could use those millions against the RNC’s reported $128.5 million June cash on hand and Trump’s reported $800 million.

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Florida delivers Election Night results fast: A contrast of red state-blue state

“Florida proved there’s no excuse for elections to drag on for days or weeks,” Republican National Committee (RNC) spokeswoman Ally Triolo wrote in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Floridians voted, ballots were counted, and we woke up knowing who won. It can be done — and it should be the standard nationwide.”

Defeated California independent mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt marveled in a trolling X post on election integrity.

“Wait. How did Florida count all their votes already?” Pratt wrote. “I was reliably informed democracy takes 5 weeks.”

ELECTION ‘HUMAN ERROR’ DELAYS KEY PRIMARY RESULTS IN LATEST VOTING MISHAP TO HIT BLUE STATES

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RNC Chair Joe Gruters, who resides in southwest Florida, called that quick result shot to Fox News Digital weeks ago, repeating a long-hailed refrain by Gov. DeSantis.

“I always say, go look at Florida, my home state, state of 23 million people, a state where literally within 90 minutes, we can give you results everybody has full faith and confidence – that’s with Democrat and Republican supervisor of elections across the state,” Gruters said.

“We could do this nationwide. It’s not rocket science, but when you have a party that does everything they possibly can to cheat, lie, and steal to win elections, when it’s all about control and power, rather than trying to make sure we protect democracy, we got to do everything we can to put the ship in the right direction, and that’s what we’ve done at the party. We’re going to continue to do anything we can make sure these elections are safe and secure.”

Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Florida State Rep. Angie Nixon is yet another Democratic Socialists of America candidate in a high-profile Senate race.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Florida won redistricting, but Nixon won Democratic voter cred

Nixon sparked national headlines during Florida’s legislative redistricting battle when she pulled out a bright pink megaphone on the House floor to protest a GOP-drafted congressional map.

Undeterred by a state reprimand, Nixon stood by her actions, famously stating that “fighting for democracy is more important than having decorum” and declaring that she had no regrets about speaking out. That viral floor protest helped define Nixon’s political identity as a confrontational progressive willing to break norms, serving as a signature centerpiece for her high-profile U.S. Senate campaign.

In the primary, the newly redrawn maps shifted competitive dynamics across the state, while Nixon’s stand against redistricting became her primary rallying cry against the well-backed establishment.

In her campaign, Nixon urged voters to “make sure you wear your pink to the polls.”

Sen. Ashley Moody, R-Fla., will participate in her first general election after being nominated to the Senate by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to fill the seat vacated by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)

Moody’s law-and-order résumé gives Nixon a steep credibility test

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Moody, who served six years as Florida’s attorney general before DeSantis appointed her to fill the seat vacated by Rubio, enters the general election with a résumé built around the issues Republicans are likely to put front and center: crime, fraud and public safety.

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By contrast, Nixon comes to the race from activism on the pavement, not the courtroom. The Jacksonville Democrat built her profile as a progressive organizer and state lawmaker, championing government-run healthcare, expanded social programs and other priorities aligned with DSA.

The Florida Senate seat will be a target for the cash-strapped Democratic National Committee, but it will have to invest its resources of time, energy and money into a DSA candidate opposing a tough on crime fraud-fighter.

Eric Mack is a breaking news reporter and writer Sunday through Thursday, 6 a.m. ET to 2 p.m. ET, with a particular interest in stories that lead the news cycle on politics, elections, foreign affairs and government.

Ohio death row inmate, backed by ex-sheriff and celebrities, asks parole board for full pardon

2026-08-19T08:46:00-0400 / CBS/AP

An inmate sentenced to death in Ohio had a rare opportunity this week to ask for a full pardon before the state’s parole board, after spending three decades on death row for a double murder that he insists he did not commit.

Tyrone Noling, 54, of Alliance, presented his case Tuesday to the Ohio Parole Board. Backed by the Ohio Innocence Project, an organization that works to prevent wrongful convictions and exonerate wrongfully convicted prisoners, Noling assembled a growing body of evidence to share during the hearing.

That includes recanted witness testimony, changed stances by the sheriff and one of the jurors at his trial, and clues pointing to an already executed killer as the possible perpetrator.

His case has been the subject of documentaries and true-crime podcasts and garnered celebrity attention from Kim Kardashian and actors Hilarie Burton and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who all support his exoneration. The case also called into question the practice of convicting and sentencing inmates to death for crimes to which no physical evidence had linked them, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit that doesn’t take a position on capital punishment but provides research on how it is carried out.

Noling was convicted in the 1990 murders of an elderly couple in their home, which he has always said he did not commit. In lieu of physical evidence, some witnesses gave statements against Noling during his trial, but later recanted their statements and said they were initially pressured by the prosecutor to give them, the Death Penalty Information Center says.

Tyrone Noling, who was convicted in 1996 of murdering an elderly couple and has maintained his innocence, is pictured June 15, 2005, in Mansfield, Ohio. Thomas Ondrey, The Plain Dealer via AP, File

Following Tuesday’s hearing, the first for an Ohio death row inmate since 2020, the parole board will issue its recommendation to Gov. Mike DeWine, who has the final say. DeWine, a Republican, called in June for abolishment of the death penalty — saying his stance has changed because he no longer views capital punishment as a deterrent to violent crime.

Death row inmates don’t typically land clemency hearings until they have an execution date, which Noling does not, so winning Tuesday’s hearing was a victory. He seeks release from prison and has said he would not accept a commutation to life without parole for a crime he didn’t commit.

Noling was convicted in the April 5, 1990, killings of Bearnhardt and Cora Hartig, both 81, at their Portage County home. The couple’s bodies were discovered on the kitchen floor of their Atwater Township home by a neighbor who noticed their lawn mower had been in front of their home for several days. Bearnhardt Hartig had been shot three times and his wife five times with a .25-caliber automatic handgun. The house had been ransacked.

Authorities said Noling, who had just turned 18 at the time, was part of a group involved in home robberies of elderly couples. Three others in the group — 14, 15 and 16 at the time — implicated Noling in the slayings of the Hartigs during a burglary but later retracted their statements, saying that police pressured them to name Noling as the shooter.

Initial aggravated burglary charges brought against Noling were dropped in 1992, but a grand jury reindicted him in 1995 for the Hartig murders. He was sentenced to death in 1996.

Larry Greene, public information director of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, demonstrates how a curtain is pulled between the death chamber and witness room at the prison in Lucasville, Ohio, in November 2005. AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File

No physical evidence tied him to the crime, and no murder weapon was ever found. Noling’s advocates say evidence, including law enforcement notes and a cigarette butt found in the Hartigs’ driveway, points to two other potential suspects. One is Dan Wilson, who was executed by lethal injection in Ohio in 2009 for a different crime. Noling’s lawyers wrote in court documents that a man told authorities that his foster brother, Wilson, bragged about committing the crime.

Former Portage County Sheriff Ken Howe, now 83, will be among a long line of witnesses testifying on Noling’s behalf at Tuesday’s hearing. In an Associated Press interview, he said that there were red flags at the time, and evidence that’s piled up since then has persuaded him to take Noling’s side.

“I believe that these boys were, and are, innocent,” he said.

Portage County Prosecutor Connie Lewandowski and Caitlin Flanagan, an attorney for a team representing Noling, did not immediately return separate phone messages seeking comment.

Following the hearing, the board will deliberate in executive session and is expected to deliver a recommendation to the governor by Aug. 25.

研究：海洋热浪可能给欧洲带来更强风暴

2026年8月19日 20:04 / 联合早报

气候研究警告，海洋热浪不但影响生态，也可能使欧洲面临更强、更持久的风暴。图为7月17日，游客在地中海国家马耳他的水上乐园跳水。 （路透社）

（布鲁塞尔综合电）人类活动造成的气候变化正使欧洲的海洋升温，这不但可能影响海洋生态，也可能为陆地带来更强、更持久的风暴。

世界天气归因联盟最新研究发现，全球变暖已造成地中海升温2摄氏度，西欧海域也升温1.3至1.4摄氏度。

人们已经观察到海洋热浪带来的生态影响，例如，一些物种正在向北部更凉爽的水域迁移，进而扰乱食物链、沿海渔业和水产养殖业。

研究员也警告，海洋热浪的影响会蔓延到陆地。当海面温度更高时，这将为风暴提供更多的能量，持续时间更长。

同时，更高的海水温度也会增加沿海地区的湿度，使陆地在夜间也难以降温，甚至可能形成在东南亚和印度等地季风季节常见的致命风暴。

研究认为，如果继续以现在的速度变暖，到本世纪末，极端海洋热浪的温度将比现在还高1.3到1.9摄氏度。

She’s lived through unimaginable grief. Her advice: “Reach for the joy.”

August 19, 2026 / 8:20 AM EDT / CBS News

“Everyone’s grief is different,” says Kate Doerge — and after experiencing heartbreaking loss in her own family, she’s made it her mission to help others find their way through the most difficult time in their life.

Doerge lost her father to heart failure, her mother in a car crash just five days before Christmas, and then, in 2022, her 16-year-old daughter Penny — “a bright light” who lived a love-filled life while coping with a rare disease, neurofibromatosis.

“You hold your grief with you always,” she says. “But what I would say to that is, you can hold grief and joy in the same space.”

Doerge became a certified grief coach and wrote a book, Reimagining Grief, which she describes as the book she wishes she’d had when she needed it — one that illuminates a path for moving through grief with agency instead of just letting it wash over you.

Not moving on, moving through

“I think sometimes people feel guilty for moving on. You’re never ‘moving on.’ You’re moving through,” Doerge says.

She encourages people to “reach for the joy,” even in times of darkness.

“To be able to infuse, a little bit, that opportunity of ‘reach for the joy’ — what are the things that bring you joy? You can go to the cemetery, but what are the flowers he loved? Wear his favorite color. So you’re still moving through it and you’re moving forward.”

Other ways of reaching for joy?

“It’s the little things,” she says. “It’s turning on music you love driving down the road. And what song do you want to hear? What’s going to bring you joy? Getting outside with your dogs or with a friend. Putting your face in the sunshine. A great cup of coffee. You know, it doesn’t have to be a lot.”

Connect with others

A key piece of advice, Doerge says, is to connect with others.

It’s the No. 1 thing on the list she calls the five actions of grief — not the five stages you may have heard of in the past, but five actions that can help you carry grief through your life.

“We as human beings need each other. In order to move through life and loss, you need someone by your side. And there is scientific research that has showed that with connection — and it doesn’t have to be big, whether it’s a grief group or it’s a runner’s club or going to your exercise class — connection reduces the amount of prolonged grief. It reduces the amount of PTSD, anxiety and depression,” she explains.

“And so I think that was the first step, the first action I took, because I also recognized grief is isolating. It is, it can be really lonely.”

Celebrate your loved one

The second item on the action list is to celebrate your loved one, even in the midst of sadness.

“It’s hard to celebrate,” Doerge says. “I think it’s the little things. … It’s about remembering what your loved ones loved and doing something in their honor. Wearing the color that they loved. Serving this food that they loved. You know, the little things of playing the music that they listened to all the time. What’s ways you can connect with them, and therefore you’re celebrating them.

“You’re keeping their legacy alive by doing the things they loved.”

Be open to signs

Action No. 3 has a spiritual dimension: Be open to signs.

Doerge describes this as a kind of faith — not the same as religious faith, but a belief that you’re on the path you’re meant to be. It means looking for moments of connection and being open to signs that your loved one is still with you.

For her, a glimpse of a butterfly is a sign that evokes her daughter Penny, who wore a little butterfly necklace.

“This idea of a butterfly represents an inextinguishable soul always drawn to the light. And that’s so Penny,” she says. “And how beautiful is it for us to open our eyes to the signs?”

Get moving

The next action on the list: Get moving. The power of physical movement can help you push through emotional loss.

“When people say, I can’t imagine losing a child, I’ll say, Imagine if you did. Imagine instead of staying in bed with the covers over your head, not wanting to get out of bed, what would your child want you to do? They would want you to get up, one foot in front of the other,” Doerge says.

“Just get yourself outside,” she continues. “If you show yourself you can do that, then you can keep going. You’re showing others you’re moving forward. So it is critical to move that energy, to move that anxiety through your body.”

Turn pain into purpose

The last of the five actions Doerge lists in her book is to turn pain into purpose.

During the last weeks of her daughter’s life, when Penny had developed an inoperable brain tumor, the family chose “to fill the house with love and light and create this love cocoon.” They held a celebration of life filled with her favorite songs.

The next day, she says, she and her husband woke up and realized they needed to do something to harness all that love and support. For them, it meant “we have to find a cure for the condition that took her life.”

They founded Penny’s Flight Foundation to fund scientific research to find a cure for neurofibromatosis, a genetic condition that causes tumors to grow on nerve pathways, and to educate the public about this little-known condition that’s actually more common than ALS.

“150,000 people have NF, 30,000 people have ALS. Everyone knows of ALS because of the Ice Bucket Challenge and all the awareness. But no one knows about NF,” a condition that looks different in different patients.

How to offer support

What advice does she have for those who don’t know what to say to someone stricken with grief?

She keeps it simple: “You know, I’m thinking about you. Even if it’s a simple text, just that connection. And knowing that they are supported means so much.”

“Let’s go for a walk, I’m here for you,” she offers. “And you know what the reality is? It may take time, but just keep showing them you’re there for them and you love them and you’re supporting them.”

She also suggests some alternatives to just saying “I’m sorry” — or not knowing what to say at all.

“What I have learned through all of this is how important it is when someone comes up to you and says,’ I remember the time your mother did this,’ or ‘I loved playing tennis with your mother because of that.’ And that is so beautiful, because that’s a way that you’re connecting. You’re keeping their legacy alive.”

“You create a connection by just taking that step,” she says. “Not only are you keeping her legacy alive, but you’re creating the connection. … So even if you don’t know what to say, just to say I’m here with you, my arms are wrapping around you, I love you.”

Trump’s bid to inscribe name on Kennedy Center faces renewed court test

2026-08-19T13:20:42.223Z / Reuters

A car drives past the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on the day the center’s board voted to inscribe “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump” onto the building, in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 13, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab

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• Kennedy Center board voted 20-3 to add Trump’s name to facade
• U.S. Representative Joyce Beatty says she will ask court to block move by September 8
• Judge had previously ordered Trump’s name removed from building

WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) – A Democratic board member of the ​John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts said she will seek a court order blocking Republican President Donald ‌Trump’s name from being newly inscribed on the building’s facade, months after a federal judge said only Congress could rename the iconic Washington venue.

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late on Tuesday, Democratic U.S. Representative Joyce Beatty said the board had acted in “naked defiance” of the judge’s prior decision in the case.

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The center’s board, ​stocked with Trump-appointed allies, voted 20-3 on August 13 to alter the building’s signage to read “The John F. Kennedy Center ​for the Performing Arts Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump,” while naming the center’s grounds ⁠the “President Donald J. Trump Plaza.” The board also voted to close the center for two years.

Beatty asked for additional proceedings in ​the case in order to seek a ruling halting the return of Trump’s name to the building, which absent court intervention could ​happen as early as September 8.

“Adding the words ‘Restored and Renovated by,’ or ‘Endowed by,’ before President Trump’s name, and renaming the ground on which the building sits, provides no lawful basis to ignore this Court’s decision and impose Donald Trump’s name on a memorial dedicated by the Congress exclusively to a ​different President,” the filing said.

Lawyers for the Trump administration said in the joint filing that they disagreed with Beatty’s arguments and that “the ​record will demonstrate the Board’s prudence.”

Beatty, a member of the Kennedy Center’s board by virtue of her position in Congress, sued the Trump administration ‌last year ⁠after the board changed the Kennedy Center’s name and altered its signage to place Trump’s name before that of President Kennedy.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled in May that the board overstepped its authority by unilaterally renaming the site, which was created as a memorial to Kennedy after the Democratic president’s 1963 assassination.

Cooper said the board had wide discretion to make operational decisions about the center but ​could not rename it. “Congress gave ​the Kennedy Center its name, ⁠and only Congress can change it,” the judge ruled.

Trump’s name was removed from the building’s white marble facade in June, with a large tarp draped over the wall since then. A federal appeals ​court in July denied the administration’s bid to keep the name up while it appeals Cooper’s ruling.

In ​Tuesday’s filing, the ⁠Trump administration said the tarp and scaffolding were erected for water testing and structural repairs to a roof overhang.

Beatty’s lawyers called that explanation a “pretextual justification,” arguing the tarp and scaffolding are meant to “frustrate the intent of the Court’s order that the Center be returned to a ⁠memorial exclusively ​honoring President Kennedy.”

Trump’s push to renovate and rename the Kennedy Center is part ​of the president’s broader efforts to reshape Washington. Last week, an appeals court ordered the administration to stop construction on a $400 million ballroom Trump plans at the site ​of the White House’s demolished East Wing.

Reporting by Mike Scarcella; additional reporting by Nate Raymond; Editing by David Bario and Chizu Nomiyama

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研究：海洋热浪可能给欧洲带来更强风暴

2026年8月19日 20:04 / 联合早报

气候研究警告，海洋热浪不但影响生态，也可能使欧洲面临更强、更持久的风暴。图为7月17日，游客在地中海国家马耳他的水上乐园跳水。 （路透社）

（布鲁塞尔综合电）人类活动造成的气候变化正使欧洲的海洋升温，这不但可能影响海洋生态，也可能为陆地带来更强、更持久的风暴。

世界天气归因联盟最新研究发现，全球变暖已造成地中海升温2摄氏度，西欧海域也升温1.3至1.4摄氏度。

人们已经观察到海洋热浪带来的生态影响，例如，一些物种正在向北部更凉爽的水域迁移，进而扰乱食物链、沿海渔业和水产养殖业。

研究员也警告，海洋热浪的影响会蔓延到陆地。当海面温度更高时，这将为风暴提供更多的能量，持续时间更长。

同时，更高的海水温度也会增加沿海地区的湿度，使陆地在夜间也难以降温，甚至可能形成在东南亚和印度等地季风季节常见的致命风暴。

研究认为，如果继续以现在的速度变暖，到本世纪末，极端海洋热浪的温度将比现在还高1.3到1.9摄氏度。