BASE jumping accident kills 2 including extreme athlete Andy Lewis, who performed with Madonna at Super Bowl

June 16, 2026 5:29 AM EDT / AP

A weekend BASE jumping accident in a Utah canyon killed two people, one of them a daredevil athlete best known for performing onstage with Madonna at the 2012 Super Bowl, authorities said.

Emergency responders were dispatched Sunday to a report of people injured in a BASE jumping attempt at Mineral Bottom, a remote desert area near the Utah-Colorado line, according to the sheriff’s office in Grand County, Utah.

The office confirmed one of the dead was Andy Lewis, an extreme athlete known for feats in BASE jumping, a dangerous sport that involves parachuting to the ground after jumping from a tall fixed object such as a building, bridge or desert cliff overlooking a deep canyon.

The victims had been conducting a tandem jump in which two people are harnessed together, according to a social media post by Aerial Arts Moab, an acrobatics company that described Lewis as “co-owner and best friend.”

Lewis also owned BASE Jump Moab, a business that offered tandem jumps to inexperienced customers who would be harnessed to a guide wearing the parachute. Promotional videos on the company’s website show pairs of people stepping off the edges of towering cliffs and briefly plummeting before their parachutes open.

Andy Lewis walks across a highline at the Fruit Bowl in Moab, Utah, in an undated photo. Jared Alden / Getty Images

Lewis’ risk-taking knew few bounds

In BASE jumping circles, Lewis had a huge following and a reputation for pushing the envelope – leaping into tighter spaces or deploying his parachute later than his peers would dare, said John McEvoy, a BASE jumping instructor in Twin Falls, Idaho, who has jumped with Lewis.

“He had an incredible level of athleticism and skill that was developed over years of practice,” McEvoy said. “But then he would take an incredible amount of risk.”

Grand County Sheriff Jamison Wiggins confirmed the other person who was killed was Danny Joe Kregle, a 68-year-old father and grandfather who was described by a family member as an accomplished businessman.

“Danny had a wonderful sense of humor and was always looking for ways to make people laugh,” relative Sydney Laverty told The Times-Independent. “One of his greatest joys was performing magic tricks alongside his granddaughter.”

Lewis was also a prominent figure in the niche sports of slacklining and tricklining, which combine elements of high-wire walking with aerial acrobatics – sometimes at perilous heights.

He went from obscure athlete to overnight celebrity when he appeared onstage in Madonna’s 2012 Super Bowl halftime show. Dressed in a Roman toga, Lewis bounced and executed tricks on his inch-wide line like it was a trampoline while Madonna sang behind him.

Andy Lewis appears during Madonna’s halftime performance at Super Bowl XLVI between the New York Giants and New England Patriots on Feb. 5, 2012, in Indianapolis. AP Photo / Charlie Riedel, File

“My phone actually rang itself to death three days in a row,” Lewis said soon afterward in an appearance on Conan O’Brien’s late night show.

BASE jumping much riskier than skydiving, study shows

Though there’s no official tally of BASE jumping deaths, a list compiled by the website BASEaddict.com shows 540 total fatalities worldwide since 1981 – including 30 people killed last year. Prominent deaths include BASE jumper Dean Potter and his climbing partner, Graham Hunt, who were killed in 2015 while attempting a wingsuit flight in California’s Yosemite National Park.

A study focused on BASE jumping in Norway, published in a medical journal in 2007, estimated that BASE jumping carried risks of injury or death five to eight times greater than skydiving.

Lewis openly acknowledged the sport’s inherent danger.

“It’s weird to think about how many people are dead, because it’s like a normal thing,” Lewis told documentary filmmaker Ella Warnick in an interview published last year.

Tandem BASE jumping carries additional risk because it straps together two people, one of whom generally lacks experience, under a single parachute, McEvoy said. But because they involve novices, they also tend to be the most low-risk, basic types of jumps.

“Within BASE, it’s a very controversial topic,” McEvoy said. “There’s a lot of people who say it’s the stupidest thing in the world and others arguing: `No, we’re giving people the experience of their lives.’”

No one immediately returned phone, text and Facebook messages left Monday for BASE Jump Moab.

Lewis won four straight world championships in competitive slacklining from 2008 through 2011. Lewis set a Guinness World Record for slackline surfing, swaying his feet side to side in a rocking motion that mimics surfing, while keeping his balance above China’s Diaoshuilou waterfall in 2011.

In 2014, he walked a slackline suspended between two hot air balloons more than 4,000 feet above the Nevada desert.

Lewis’ other sport made him an overnight celebrity, thanks to Madonna.

5 things to know for June 16: G7 summit, primaries, test flight tragedy, southern floods, Trump rally

2026-06-16 06:32 AM ET / CNN

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1️⃣ G7 summit

The leaders of the world’s most powerful nations are meeting in the French alpine resort of Évian-les-Bains as they confront a long list of geopolitical and economic challenges. Russia’s war in Ukraine is expected to dominate the agenda, alongside growing anticipation over the working agreement between the US and Iran, with many officials still waiting to see the terms. Read more.

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Voters head to the polls today in primaries across Georgia, Alabama, Oklahoma and Washington, DC. Much of the attention is on Georgia, where Republicans are set to pick nominees in a high-stakes contest to take on Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in one of November’s most closely watched races. Read more.

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3️⃣ Test flight tragedy

Eight people, including two Boeing employees, were killed during a test mission at California’s Edwards Air Force Base on Monday. A B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff, officials said, adding that the crew included military personnel, government contractors and other civilians. Read more.

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4️⃣ Southern floods

A prolonged stretch of heavy rain is raising flood concerns across Texas and parts of the Gulf Coast this week, fueled by a system that could become the first tropical storm of the Atlantic season. Flood watches are in effect for nearly 18 million people from central Texas to central Mississippi, and officials are urging residents to monitor conditions closely after flooding in Texas turned deadly on Monday. Read more.

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5️⃣ Trump rally

President Trump said Monday that America’s 250th anniversary celebration on the National Mall next month will include a “TRUMP RALLY” on July 4. The announcement was notable, as events marking Independence Day are typically nonpartisan. It also comes as Trump has drawn criticism for turning otherwise apolitical events into personal showcases. Read more.

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During a ballet performance of “Romeo and Juliet” in Izmir, Turkey, a cat unexpectedly joined the actors in the final scene of the show and completely stole the show with its antics.

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Some at Fed may pencil in a hike. Most won’t. Warsh is a question mark

2026-06-16T10:03:17.933Z / https://www.reuters.com/business/some-fed-may-pencil-hike-most-wont-warsh-is-question-mark-2026-06-16/

WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) – A majority of Federal Reserve policymakers now feel they will need to keep U.S. short-term borrowing costs on hold all year, projections due out on Wednesday are expected to show, with a small number seen penciling ​in a rate hike to stop a spike in inflation from getting entrenched in the economy.

The anticipated adjustments to the Fed’s so-called dot plot would mark a hawkish shift from where Fed officials ‌were just three months ago. They also present a particularly sticky communications challenge for new Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh, as stronger-than-expected job gains in recent months and inflation on the rise since the start of the Iran war have shifted the focus of arguments at the policy-setting table from whether to cut to the possibility of a hike.

President Donald Trump picked Warsh to replace Jerome Powell with the explicit expectation his new Fed chief would lower interest rates. Warsh has offered a couple of rationales for cutting rates, including what he sees as AI’s disinflationary impact, but ​he has also said he has made no promises and told lawmakers at his confirmation hearing that he does not believe in giving any guidance at all.

Indeed, the biggest question about the Fed’s June projections is what ​Warsh himself will write down — if, indeed, he will write anything at all.

“It could be that Chair Warsh simply decides not to participate as a means of signaling how little ⁠regard he has for this exercise,” Regions Bank Chief Economist Richard Moody wrote last week.

TD Securities economists expect Warsh to omit his own dot as “a more deliberate way of minimizing any hawkish message that might stem from the June dot ​plot.”

Other analysts expect Warsh to participate, but to launch a review of Fed communications that could spell the eventual end of the dot plot, published quarterly since 2012 and generally regarded as a useful indication of where the Fed’s 19 policymakers ​see interest rates going.

“We expect Warsh will submit his own projections,” argued JPMorgan Chief U.S. Economist Michael Feroli. “To not do so would look like a spiteful dissent against his own committee.”

It could be that Warsh, in the job for just three weeks, simply pleads he needs more time to settle in before participating in the forecasts. Also, submitting a dot could raise another risk for him: It might reveal he is not nearly as dovish as Trump would want. Stephen Miran, in his brief run as a Fed governor appointed by Trump last ​summer, consistently submitted rate projections that were the lowest — by his own admission — among all policymakers. With Miran now departed to make room for Warsh on the Fed board, his low forecast will be gone from the plot, and any absence ​of a comparably low dot in its place would out Warsh as more hawkish.

‘WALK A VERY FINE LINE’

In March, most U.S. central bankers thought they would probably end up cutting rates by the end of the year, either because inflation was receding, the labor ‌market was weakening, ⁠or both. Only one policymaker had written down a rate hike, and that was for 2027, not 2026.

On Wednesday, central bankers are expected to leave the policy rate in the 3.50%-3.75% range and to change their post-meeting statement so that it no longer suggests the Fed’s next move, when it comes, will be a rate cut. An upward drift in rate-path projections in the dot plot would underscore the committee’s new openness to a rate hike, even if most still do not expect it.

“We think the debate within the FOMC is now about whether a long policy hold would suffice to stabilize inflation, or instead raising rates would be necessary,” BNP Paribas economists wrote last week.

The Fed will also publish projections for the labor market ​and inflation that may reflect greater policymaker optimism on ​jobs and pessimism about prices than they signaled in ⁠March, views that would offer some rationale for what’s expected to be a changed dot plot.

JPMorgan’s Feroli, for instance, predicts Fed policymakers will replace their March forecast for a year-end unemployment rate of 4.4% with a forecast of 4.3%, matching the actual unemployment rate for the past three months.

He figures they will also write down year-end core PCE inflation at 2.9%, while ​other economists expect the figure to top 3%. Either way, it would be up from the 2.7% they expected as of March for this key measure of underlying ​inflation pressures, though lower than the ⁠year-on-year rate of 3.4% that economists now expect a government report will show for May.

In his run as Fed leader, Powell regularly noted that economic forecasts often prove way off the mark, and the Fed’s “dots” are neither predictions nor promises. Analysts expect Warsh to emphasize that same view in his post-meeting news conference, even if he tries in other ways to put distance between himself and his predecessor, who continues to serve as a governor.

Meanwhile economists polled by Reuters also believe the Fed will likely hold its policy rate ⁠steady this year, ​but just as within the Fed there are a range of views. Economists at PGIM, for instance, say the Fed will need to raise ​rates three times this year to bring inflation under control.

Those at Citibank, noting that oil prices have dropped on recent progress toward ending the Iran war, expect three rate cuts to shore up what they believe will be a weakening labor market.

“Rookie Fed Chair Warsh and Co will have to walk ​a very fine line,” wrote Evercore ISI’s Krishna Guha. “Too hawkish, and bets on rate hikes will cascade, sending the equity market lower. Too dovish, and longer-term yields and break-evens will rise, also impacting stocks.”

Reporting by Ann Saphir; Editing by Andrea Ricci

FBI disrupts alleged explosive-drone plot targeting White House UFC event, officials say

June 16, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News

By Sophia Compton

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FIRST ON FOX: The FBI and its law enforcement partners disrupted an alleged plot targeting this weekend’s UFC Freedom 250 event in Washington, D.C., officials told Fox News Digital.

Five people were in custody as of Monday, and investigators identified 23 people as part of a potential network of plotters. The alleged plan involved using explosive-laden drones to hit buildings near the event, force a mass evacuation and steer crowds toward a pre-staged sniper team, officials said.

A “second wave” was then allegedly planned to storm the White House gate, according to officials.

The FBI first learned of the threat on June 10 and worked with partners to secure probable cause for an arrest in Cincinnati, where one suspect was taken into custody.

FROM RALLY GUNFIRE TO WHITE HOUSE SHOOTING, THREATS AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP CONTINUE TO MOUNT

Fireworks explode as crowds gather for UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn of the White House on June 14, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Jacquelyn Martin – Pool/Getty Images)

Investigators later uncovered Signal chats in which multiple people allegedly discussed attacking the UFC event. An initial review of one suspect’s iPhone identified at least 23 Signal users discussing pre-operational activity, officials said.

Some of those involved allegedly planned to travel to Fredericksburg, Virginia, on June 12 or 13 to prepare for the attack.

One suspect allegedly told investigators the goal was to target “capitalist elites,” “billionaires” or politicians who received donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

The investigation stretched across at least 12 FBI field offices.

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FBI Director Kash Patel spoke during a press conference at the Department of Justice on April 21, 2026.(Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

FROM RALLY GUNFIRE TO WHITE HOUSE SHOOTING, THREATS AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP CONTINUE TO MOUNT

FBI Director Kash Patel credited the FBI, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and law enforcement partners with acting quickly across multiple states to prevent the alleged attack.

“Thanks to the rapid action of this FBI, our partners, and the Department of Justice in a multi-state operation, multiple individuals are now in custody and allegedly planned attacks were stopped cold,” Patel said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

Patel said the operation showed the FBI’s ability to respond quickly when threats emerge.

“While the result represented the best of investigative work, it was also nothing out of the ordinary for this law enforcement team,” Patel said. “We are built to detect, respond to, and bring to justice those who threaten the lives of American citizens — particularly during large gatherings like the historic UFC 250 fight. That’s exactly what we did here.”

President Donald J. Trump and family pose for a photo in the Octagon after the UFC lightweight championship fight during the UFC Freedom 250 event on the South Lawn at the White House on June 14, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)

“I want to thank our great agents and partners, this work remains ongoing, and we will continue to update the public as permitted,” Patel added.

The alleged plot targeted UFC Freedom 250, a high-profile White House event held on the South Lawn as part of President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday weekend.

The event drew an estimated 4,300 attendees, including about 1,200 active-duty service members, as 14 fighters from around the world competed inside a wire-mesh cage Sunday night.

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The alleged plot comes amid a growing series of threats and security incidents involving Trump and senior administration officials, fueling heightened concerns about political violence.

Fox News Digital’s Christina Dugan Ramirez contributed to this report.

Sophia Compton is a Writer at Fox News Digital. Sophia was previously a business reporter covering finance, energy and tourism and has experience as a TV news producer. She graduated with a journalism degree in 2021 from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Story tips can be sent to sophia.compton@fox.com.

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美国担忧Anthropic模式被中俄等军情机构利用

2026年6月16日 18:16 / 联合早报

Anthropic技术人员正与美国政府商讨解决方案，尽快解除禁令，让所有用户可恢复使用其Mythos 5和Fable 5 AI模型。 （路透社/示意图）

（华盛顿综合电）美国商务部长卢特尼克称，已禁止Anthropic向外国用户提供最新两款AI模型，因担忧被中俄等军方或情报机构利用。

卢特尼克上周五致函Anthropic首席执行长阿莫迪时提出上述忧虑。Anthropic已依指示暂停相关Mythos 5和Fable 5两款AI模型服务，并对政府决定表达强烈保留。

一位接近Anthropic的人士告诉路透社，自周五以来，Anthropic技术人员几乎每天都与政府官员会面，商讨解决方案。美国政府正在寻求保证，这些AI模型不会被用来损害美国国家安全；Anthropic则希望尽快解除禁令，让所有用户可恢复使用权限。

美国国家网络总监凯恩克罗斯也参与了商务部周一与Anthropic的会议。不过法新社引述消息指，双方还未讨论解除禁令。

Anthropic发言人则在会后称，双方“都在迅速寻求解决方案”，Anthropic“持续致力于与政府携手合作，共同保护美国关键基础设施和保持美国在网络防御领域的领先地位”。

今年4月，Anthropic首次向少数公司和机构开放Mythos模型测试，并警告模型具备发现网络安全漏洞的能力，不宜广泛推广。上周，Anthropic发布了Fable 5，这是Mythos级模型的首个公开版本，但同时也设置了诸多限制措施，旨在控制Fable 5的网络能力。

美国政府上周五以国家安全为由发布紧急出口管制令，迫使Anthropic在全球范围内关停Mythos 5和Fable 5模型。当局未具体说明国家安全顾虑，但据Anthropic的理解，“政府认为有一种可绕过或‘破解’Fable 5模型的方法，而这种方法可能被黑客利用来发动袭击”。

一名出口管制专家指出，这是美国商务部首次援引2018年《出口管制改革法案》对新兴技术实施管制。受管制技术出口需申请许可，违规将面临刑事和民事处罚。

然而，他指出，AI模型通常通过远程方式提供，并非传统意义上的“出口”，因此是否适用相关法规仍存争议。

超过80名网络安全高管和专家星期天联名致信卢特尼克和凯恩克罗斯，支持Anthropic，并呼吁解除相关限制。包括英伟达和Adobe在内多家企业的网络安全负责人参与联署。

加拿大AI开发商Cohere Inc.的首席AI官皮诺说，美国政府的最新管制措施对整个AI行业犹如一记警钟，“几天前还被认为是业内最强大的模型之一，现在却突然无法使用，显示技术获取存在不确定性，对各大企业构成重大隐患”。

As US nears 250th birthday, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows many Americans doubt it will last another 250 years

June 16, 2026 10:06 AM UTC / Reuters

By Jason Lange

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• 38% of poll respondents did not think the US would exist as a single country in 250 years
• 64% said American democracy was in danger of failing, up from 57% in August
• A majority said 250th anniversary celebrations had grown too political

WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) – As the U.S. approaches its 250th birthday next ​month, two out of five Americans do not believe it will endure another 250 years beyond that, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll ‌that highlighted deep divisions over how the nation views itself.

The four-day poll, which concluded on Monday, comes amid the polarizing pageantry that President Donald Trump has brought to celebrations for July 4, which will mark 250 years since the people who became known as the founding fathers of the U.S. declared their independence from Britain.

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Trump has put himself at the center of ​many of the events to mark the anniversary, including staging a White House cage match on his birthday on Sunday. On Monday he said ​he would be the main attraction at a July 4 celebration in Washington that will also serve as a political ⁠rally for the Republican as his party looks to keep control of Congress in November’s midterm elections.

Trump has framed his presidency as a bid to save ​America from being destroyed by Democrats. Democratic leaders contend it is Trump who is the danger to democracy and allege he is using federal law enforcement ​to target political critics.

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Some 38% of respondents in the poll – including 40% of Democrats and 26% of Republicans – said they didn’t think the U.S. will exist as a single country 250 years from now. Just 62% thought their nation would last.

Trump has accused Democrats — and especially the prior presidential administration of Democrat Joe Biden — of illegally targeting his allies, including those involved ​in the January 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, which was an attempt to overthrow Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election. Republicans also ​point to multiple assassination attempts against Trump as evidence that the leader’s opponents are bent on violence.

MANY SEE DEMOCRACY IN DANGER OF FAILING

Two-thirds of respondents — including 85% of Democrats and ‌50% of ⁠Republicans — said they agreed with a statement that American democracy was in danger of failing. The overall share seeing democracy at risk was up from 57% in a poll conducted in August of last year, with the increase driven by more Republicans worried about democracy’s staying power.

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Trump for years has claimed falsely that his 2020 loss was the result of widespread voter fraud and has been pushing for changes to voting laws.

Some 77% of poll respondents said it was likely ​that political violence would increase in ​the next five years.

GREATEST COUNTRY IN ⁠WORLD?

The poll also showed the share of Americans who see the country as a global standout is on the decline. Some 30% of respondents said they considered America the greatest country in the world, down from 38% in a ​Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in November 2017, during Trump’s first term in office. The share of Democrats with this view ​fell to 11% from ⁠26%, while the share of Republicans held steady at about six in 10.

A majority of Americans — including three-quarters of Democrats and half of Republicans — said they thought the events celebrating the country’s 250th anniversary had grown too political.

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Americans were also divided along more mundane matters like how to celebrate Independence Day. Some 52% of Republicans said ⁠their celebrations ​would include wearing red, white and blue clothing – the colors of the U.S. national flag – compared ​to 20% of Democrats. Republicans were more likely than Democrats to say they planned to attend a fireworks show — 46% to 28%.

The poll, which was conducted online, gathered responses from 1,537 U.S. ​adults nationwide and its results had a margin of error of 3 percentage points in either direction.

Reporting by Jason Lange; editing by Scott Malone and Deepa Babington

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美国担忧Anthropic模式被中俄等军情机构利用

2026年6月16日 18:16 / 联合早报

Anthropic技术人员正与美国政府商讨解决方案，尽快解除禁令，让所有用户可恢复使用其Mythos 5和Fable 5 AI模型。 （路透社/示意图）

（华盛顿综合电）美国商务部长卢特尼克称，已禁止Anthropic向外国用户提供最新两款AI模型，因担忧被中俄等军方或情报机构利用。

卢特尼克上周五致函Anthropic首席执行长阿莫迪时提出上述忧虑。Anthropic已依指示暂停相关Mythos 5和Fable 5两款AI模型服务，并对政府决定表达强烈保留。

一位接近Anthropic的人士告诉路透社，自周五以来，Anthropic技术人员几乎每天都与政府官员会面，商讨解决方案。美国政府正在寻求保证，这些AI模型不会被用来损害美国国家安全；Anthropic则希望尽快解除禁令，让所有用户可恢复使用权限。

美国国家网络总监凯恩克罗斯也参与了商务部周一与Anthropic的会议。不过法新社引述消息指，双方还未讨论解除禁令。

Anthropic发言人则在会后称，双方“都在迅速寻求解决方案”，Anthropic“持续致力于与政府携手合作，共同保护美国关键基础设施和保持美国在网络防御领域的领先地位”。

今年4月，Anthropic首次向少数公司和机构开放Mythos模型测试，并警告模型具备发现网络安全漏洞的能力，不宜广泛推广。上周，Anthropic发布了Fable 5，这是Mythos级模型的首个公开版本，但同时也设置了诸多限制措施，旨在控制Fable 5的网络能力。

美国政府上周五以国家安全为由发布紧急出口管制令，迫使Anthropic在全球范围内关停Mythos 5和Fable 5模型。当局未具体说明国家安全顾虑，但据Anthropic的理解，“政府认为有一种可绕过或‘破解’Fable 5模型的方法，而这种方法可能被黑客利用来发动袭击”。

一名出口管制专家指出，这是美国商务部首次援引2018年《出口管制改革法案》对新兴技术实施管制。受管制技术出口需申请许可，违规将面临刑事和民事处罚。

然而，他指出，AI模型通常通过远程方式提供，并非传统意义上的“出口”，因此是否适用相关法规仍存争议。

超过80名网络安全高管和专家星期天联名致信卢特尼克和凯恩克罗斯，支持Anthropic，并呼吁解除相关限制。包括英伟达和Adobe在内多家企业的网络安全负责人参与联署。

加拿大AI开发商Cohere Inc.的首席AI官皮诺说，美国政府的最新管制措施对整个AI行业犹如一记警钟，“几天前还被认为是业内最强大的模型之一，现在却突然无法使用，显示技术获取存在不确定性，对各大企业构成重大隐患”。

Trump’s endorsement power faces crucial tests in closely watched Georgia and Alabama GOP runoff elections

2026-06-16T05:00:55-04:00 / Fox News

Trump-endorsed candidates battle rivals backed by Gov Brian Kemp and Sen Ted Cruz in high-stakes GOP showdowns

Collins says Trump’s stamp proves he has the playbook to win Senate race

Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia is interviewed by Fox News Digital hours after President Donald Trump endorsed the GOP Senate candidate, ahead of Tuesday’s runoff with Republican Derek Dooley.

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While he isn’t on the ballot, President Donald Trump’s immense clout over the GOP faces more key tests on Tuesday in high-stakes Republican runoffs in Georgia and Alabama.

Trump-endorsed candidates are fighting in competitive showdowns against Republican rivals for the GOP gubernatorial and Senate nominations in battleground Georgia and for the Senate in solidly red Alabama.

Tuesday’s contests in Georgia and Alabama come as Oklahoma and the District of Columbia hold primary elections, and voters in California’s 14th Congressional District will vote in a special election to narrow the field of nearly a dozen candidates hoping to fill the seat left vacant when scandal-plagued Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell resigned.

But the biggest spotlight is on Georgia, where Trump made an 11th-hour endorsement this past weekend in the Senate race in Georgia, which is one of a handful of midterm election contests across the country that will decide if the GOP holds its slim majority in the chamber.

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Derek Dooley, Republican U.S. Senate candidate for Georgia, from left, his wife Allison Jeffers Dooley, Marty Kemp, Georgia’s first lady, and Gov. Brian Kemp during an election night event at Park Bench Battery in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday, May 19, 2026.(Ben Hendren/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump endorsed Republican Rep. Mike Collins, a MAGA champion and strong supporter of the president, who is facing off against former college football coach Derek Dooley, who has the support of popular conservative Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.

“It’s an honor to have that endorsement. It just shows that he has confidence that we know how to win this race, we know we’re in the lead in this thing,” Collins told Fox News Digital on Sunday, hours after landing Trump’s endorsement.

Asked if Trump’s endorsement in Georgia came too late to make a difference, Collins said, “I don’t think President Trump ever is too late. He has this impeccable ability of putting his thumb right on the scale at the right time with whatever he wants to do.”

Dooley, who’s running as an outsider, said in a Fox News Digital interview on the eve of the runoff that the president’s backing of his rival “doesn’t change how I feel.”

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“I’m honored to have Governor Kemp’s endorsement. I certainly would have been honored to have the President’s endorsement. But the most important endorsement that I’m fighting for is the people of Georgia,” he emphasized.

Collins, who represents Georgia’s 10th Congressional District, which is located between Atlanta and Augusta, is the son of the late Rep. Mac Collins, and is the founder and co-owner, along with his wife, of a trucking company.

Dooley, a lawyer, a former University of Tennessee football coach and the son of legendary University of Georgia head football coach Vince Dooley, is strongly backed by Kemp, who is a lifelong friend. The governor and his wife, Georgia First Lady Marty Kemp, have regularly appeared with Dooley on the campaign trail, and the governor’s top political advisor is a senior consultant for Dooley’s Senate bid.

Collins and Dooley were the top two finishers in a crowded field of candidates in last month’s primary that also included Rep. Buddy Carter. Since no one topped 50%, Collins and Dooley advanced to Tuesday’s runoff election.

The winner of the GOP Senate nomination in Georgia will face off in the midterms against Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff. Republicans view Ossoff as the most vulnerable Senate Democrat seeking re-election and are heavily targeting the first-term senator. But while Republicans have been battling for their party’s nomination over the past year, Ossoff’s built a powerful war chest that will give him a major fundraising advantage as the general election gets underway.

Term-limited GOP Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, right, endorses Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in the Republican gubernatorial runoff, in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 15, 2026.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

The power of a Trump endorsement is also facing a key test in Georgia’s gubernatorial nomination runoff, where Trump last year backed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in the race to succeed the term-limited Kemp. Jones is battling billionaire businessman Rick Jackson, who has dished out over $100 million of his own money on his campaign, in the runoff.

The winner will take on former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who served in the Biden administration, in this autumn’s general election. Bottoms avoided a runoff by winning a majority of the vote as she topped six other candidates in last month’s Democratic gubernatorial primary.

Jones and Jackson were the top two finishers in last month’s crowded and competitive GOP gubernatorial primary, which also included state Attorney General Chris Carr and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Because no candidate topped 50%, Jones and Jackson advanced to the runoff.

Pointing to a tele-rally Trump headlined for him last week, Jones told Fox News Digital: “The president’s endorsement carries a lot of weight here in Georgia.”

Kemp made a last-minute endorsement on Sunday, backing Jones. And at an event Monday morning, Kemp explained that his mission is “to make sure that we have the best folks at the top of the ticket that can win in November and you know that’s why I’m supporting Burt Jones for governor.”

“When you think about the direction of the state, the great things that we’ve been able to do, I think he’s best suited to move the state forward,” Kemp said. And he warned of the “consequences of not winning, like we’ll be going the way of Virginia, New York, California, we just cannot afford to do that.”

Jones, a former captain of the University of Georgia football team, an oil executive and heir to the Jones Petroleum Company, served as a state senator before winning election in 2022 as lieutenant governor.

Jackson was unknown to Georgia voters before launching his gubernatorial campaign in February, but thanks to an avalanche of ads, his story of building a business empire despite growing up in foster care and not being able to afford college became well known in the Peach State.

And he’s repeatedly highlighted that, like Trump, he’s an outsider and businessman. “I’m going to be Trump’s favorite governor because we’re just alike on the way that we handle business and handle problems, and I want to do exactly in Georgia what he’s doing at the federal government,” he reiterated in a Fox News Digital interview Sunday.

And on the eve of the runoff, he predicted, “I think people are ready for an outsider. That’s what they want, and that’s what they’re going to vote for. And that’s why we’re going to win tomorrow.”

Jackson also landed a last-minute endorsement, as conservative firebrand Sen. Ted Cruz backed Jackson on Friday and joined him on the campaign trail for a runoff eve rally.

“Rick has an extraordinary record, an extraordinary life story. And I also think he’s positioned to win. And the stakes are too high. This election is a battleground all across the country. We can’t afford to lose Georgia,” Cruz told Fox News.

When Cruz endorsed Jackson on Friday, he also supported South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, who is facing off in a week against Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette.

Asked if he’s trying to put some daylight between himself and the president on the campaign trail, Cruz quickly responded, “No. Not remotely….The president and I agree on the vast majority of races. What I try to do in every race is endorse the strongest conservative who can win. And typically I get in races late in the race at a time where my support might be able to make a difference and be helpful.”

Jones, on the eve of the Cruz visit, took aim at Jackson.

“He keeps on bringing in these out-of-state senators, and I would much rather have the president’s endorsement,” he said. “He’s having to go out of state to get his support. We’re keeping all our stuff in state.”

In neighboring Alabama, Trump is supporting Rep. Barry Moore, who is facing off with former Navy SEAL sniper Jared Hudson in the GOP Senate runoff, in the race to succeed Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who is running for governor this year rather than seeking re-election.

Moore, who founded a waste hauling company and later served as a state lawmaker before first winning election to the U.S. House in 2020, and was one of the first politicians to endorse Trump in 2015 when the president first ran for the White House, is also endorsed by Vice President JD Vance and Senate Majority Leader Sen. John Thune.

Rep. Barry Moore, seen on the final night of the 2024 Republican National Convention, is running for the Senate in Alabama this year.(Tom Williams)

Moore, who represents Alabama’s 1st Congressional District, in the southern portion of the state, is a member of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus.

Hudson, running as an outsider, edged out state Attorney General Steve Marshall to advance to the runoff with Moore.

Besides being a combat veteran, Hudson has served as a sheriff’s deputy, firefighter, small business owner and current head of a nonprofit that trains law enforcement in taking out human traffickers.

Hudson was endorsed by then-Sen. Markwayne Mullin, who is now Trump’s Department of Homeland Security secretary, as well as Sen. Tim Sheehy, the National Association for Gun Rights PAC, and conservative activist and media star Riley Gaines.

Former Navy SEAL Jared Hudson is running for U.S. Senate.(Jared Hudson)

Moore or Hudson will be considered the clear front-runner in November against the winner of the Democratic runoff between small business owner Dakarai Larriett and attorney and former judge Everett Wess.

In Oklahoma, Trump is backing Mike Mazzei, a former state senator and Oklahoma budget secretary, in the GOP gubernatorial primary in the race to succeed term-limited GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt.

The president is also supporting minister Jackson Lahmeyer, who founded the group Pastors for Trump, in the Republican primary in the state’s 1st Congressional District, in the race to succeed Rep. Kevin Hern, who is running for the Senate.

And in deep blue Washington D.C., the Democratic primary between seven candidates trying to succeed outgoing Mayor Muriel Bowser will effectively decide her successor in the District of Columbia.

The brute force of the president’s endorsement power has been on display in GOP primaries over the past month and a half, with his candidates ousting incumbents he targeted in showdowns in Indiana, Louisiana, Kentucky and Texas that grabbed plenty of national attention.

But Trump’s endorsement streak in statewide and congressional Republican primaries was snapped two weeks ago when his 11th-hour endorsement of Republican Rep. Randy Feenstra of Iowa in the race to succeed retiring GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds wasn’t enough to propel the three-term congressman to victory.

Feenstra was narrowly edged by Zach Lahn, a businessman, farmer and former political strategist who was backed by the political wings of MAHA — the acronym for the Make America Healthy Again movement aligned with Trump Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and Turning Point USA, the powerful conservative organization co-founded by the late Charlie Kirk.

Trump rebounded last week, as the candidate he endorsed in the South Carolina GOP gubernatorial primary, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, finished first in a crowded field and clinched one of the two tickets in the race for the nomination.

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Meanwhile, longtime Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham did win a majority of the vote in the Republican Senate primary, and avoided a runoff.

Graham, who was endorsed by Trump, was facing primary challenges from five candidates, including conservative businessman Mark Lynch, who took aim at the senator over his support for the war in Iran. Lynch was backed by some MAGA leaders who have been critical of the president.

Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.

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Burt Jones makes Rick Jackson’s big spending his closing argument in Georgia gubernatorial runoff

2026-06-16T09:00:09.009Z / CNN

Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones is criticizing billionaire rival Rick Jackson’s record campaign spending in their GOP gubernatorial runoff.
Jackson has spent over $100 million of his personal fortune in the lead up to Tuesday’s election.
The winner will face Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms in November’s general election for governor.

Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones is criticizing rival Rick Jackson’s campaign spending as the billionaire breaks state records in the final stretch of a tight runoff for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.

“Rick Jackson is everywhere – spending over $100 million trying to buy our vote,” says a new ad from Jones’ campaign, featuring AI-generated imagery of voters recoiling at Jackson’s omnipresent image. “But Georgia is not for sale.”

Jackson, a former healthcare executive, has leveraged his personal fortune to elbow into the race, dropping tens of millions of dollars on ads and mailers to place himself in front of voters. It was enough to garner him roughly a third of the vote in the primary in May, forcing Tuesday’s runoff with Jones to decide who will face Keisha Lance Bottoms, the Democratic former mayor of Atlanta, in November.

But whether Jackson can convince Georgia’s Republican voters to back him against Jones, President Donald Trump’s chosen candidate in the race, remains unclear — with Tuesday’s election offering the latest test of whether multimillionaire and billionaire political outsiders can translate their business expertise into ballot box victories at a time when affordability is top of mind for many Americans.

Jackson deflects questions about his wealth with a rags-to-riches story – growing up in deep poverty, the child of a broken marriage cycling through foster homes, running away and starting a successful business career. And while he’s acknowledged “legitimate concern” about his campaign spending, Jackson argues that “money cannot buy this election, I’m gonna have to earn it.”

“The question is, do you want money that’s been buying other people, through special interest groups, and donors, and so forth? Or somebody that’s spending hard-earned money in order to make a difference? Because I can’t be bought,” Jackson told ABC affiliate WJCL.

Jackson finished just 6 points behind Jones in the first round of the GOP primary last month, beating out well-known Georgia officials like Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Attorney General Chris Carr — a remarkable showing for a candidate who only entered the race in February.

“He’s gone from 0% name recognition to, he got a third of the vote in the primary,” said Charles Bullock, a professor of political science at the University of Georgia.

Entering the weekend, Jackson had given his campaign more than $100 million and ranked as the second-biggest advertiser of the 2026 election cycle, breaking Georgia gubernatorial campaign records while spending $90 million on advertising, according to the tracking firm AdImpact. That’s produced more than 380 unique ads, per AdImpact data, generating more than 450 million impressions.

Jones, a multimillionaire whose family found success in the petroleum industry, has also contributed to spiraling totals. He’s loaned his campaign $25 million and has spent more than $35 million on advertising – ranking him third among individual candidates so far this cycle.

The state official has leaned heavily on Trump’s endorsement, holding a tele-rally with the president this week. “It’s very important you get out and vote for Burt. He’s been with me from the very beginning,” Trump said on the call.

Here, too, Jackson has tried to leverage his money, donating $1 million to the pro-Trump super PAC MAGA Inc. a little over a month before he launched his governor campaign — even though the president had already endorsed Jones last year.

Bullock cautions that it “hasn’t worked out well” for many wealthy, self-funding candidates in Georgia, recalling former Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s high-profile runoff loss in 2021 a year after her appointment to the seat. He also pointed to the example of Guy Millner, a multimillionaire businessman who ran twice for governor and once for US senator as a Republican in the 1990s, losing all three races.

“History has not been that you can make that transition in Georgia – maybe the explanation for Jackson is he’s willing to spend even more than they were,” Bullock said.

In a statement to CNN, Jackson’s campaign said that “when you grow up the way Rick did, you never forget those who are still fighting. Rick will fight for all 11 million Georgians and make Georgia the most affordable state in the nation.”

And it dismissed the new ad from Jones’ campaign targeting Jackson’s spending: “reeks of a campaign that knows it is losing.”

While Jones and Jackson continue to rack up massive spending in the Republican gubernatorial runoff, Bottoms won the Democratic nomination outright in a crowded primary field last month.

The former Atlanta mayor turned Biden administration official has had a free hand to consolidate her support and begin her general election campaign, partnering with Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, who faces his own competitive reelection this year.

Democrats view the prolonged GOP runoff as a meaningful advantage, leaving whichever potential rival that emerges bruised and drained.

“We’re ready to face whichever out-of-touch Trump lackey emerges from the slugfest of a Republican runoff. Whether it’s Jackson or Jones, both candidates have spent the last four months beating each other up and talking about everything but the kitchen-table issues, while Keisha has relentlessly focused on lowering costs and creating opportunity for Georgians,” said TaNisha Cameron, Bottoms’ communications director.

Jackson’s ability to continue funding his campaign is a wild card, though, and after initially committing $50 million to the election, he’s since revised estimates upward.

“I’ll spend whatever it takes to win this race,” he says in an ad launched last month.

A mixed record for self-funded candidates

But it’s unclear whether money alone can move the needle, as several expensive self-funded campaigns in recent years have demonstrated.

“Self-funding a campaign can buy visibility, but it doesn’t necessarily buy votes,” said Hilary Braseth, the executive director of transparency organization Open Secrets. “History shows that even massive personal investments don’t guarantee success at the ballot box.”

A few examples played out in the weeks leading up to the Georgia runoff.

In California, billionaire Tom Steyer, a former hedge fund founder turned Democratic activist, spent more than $200 million on a gubernatorial campaign that failed despite pressing every possible financial advantage – nonstop TV spots, influencer partnerships, billboards and mobile advertisements.

It carried echoes of another costly miss: Steyer’s quixotic run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination as a first-time candidate, costing more than $300 million and failing to produce a single delegate. Steyer’s commitment in that race, however, was overshadowed by that of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who spent more than $1 billion of his own money on a roughly 100-day campaign.

Down the ballot, progressive Saikat Chakrabarti far outspent rivals in California’s 11th Congressional District, only for the former Stripe engineer to finish in third place in the primary. And back at home in Georgia, US Rep. Buddy Carter lost his Senate bid last month, failing to make the GOP runoff despite investing several million dollars of his own money into the campaign.

At a time when affordability concerns are paramount, the intensifying efforts of ultrawealthy candidates can also risk alienating the very voters they are spending so lavishly to court.

“Our data shows that voters are increasingly skeptical of ultrawealthy candidates who write their own checks. Of the 65 federal candidates who put more than $1 million of their own money into their races in 2024, only 10 won,” said Braseth.

But other super-rich candidates like Jackson are hoping for better results. Vivek Ramaswamy, a billionaire biotech entrepreneur and 2024 presidential candidate, is the GOP nominee for governor of Ohio, contributing $25 million to his campaign, while Illinois Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker, heir to a famous family fortune, has similarly seeded his bid for a third term with $25 million.

And, in an upcoming test later this month, former Rep. David Trone, the founder of Total Wine & More, is challenging incumbent Rep. April McClain Delaney for his old seat in Maryland’s 6th District, with the local titans spending a combined nearly $20 million on advertising in a safe Democratic district.

特勤局新推出的应用名为“哨兵”（Sentry），与移民执法人员使用的工具类似，利用人工智能（AI）技术来识别身份。 （AdobeStock示意图）

（华盛顿彭博电）美国特勤局近来开始使用一款面部识别手机应用，以协助排查潜在威胁并识别可疑分子，这也是移民局大规模驱逐非法移民行动的一部分。

官员透露，特勤局上个月达成了一项实用面部识别技术的协议，开始向一小群警员推广使用。

据悉，目前仅有25名驻华盛顿的特勤局警员配备了应用。他们主要负责保护政府大楼、外国使馆和白宫。

特勤局新推出的应用名为“哨兵”（Sentry），与移民执法人员使用的工具类似，利用人工智能（AI）技术来识别身份。

官员透露，特勤人员只要用手机摄像头扫描面部或指纹，应用就会将这些图像与庞大的政府数据库进行比对。

特勤局采用这项新技术表明，在安全威胁上升背景下，负责保护政府领导人安全的机构正在寻求先进技术的帮助。这也标志着执法部门正在更广泛地采用面部识别工具，而该工具此前曾遭到隐私倡导者的批评。

特勤局副局长奎因说，与2025年同期相比，今年调查的威胁案件增加40%，针对疑似精神健康问题个案的干预次数也大幅上升。

他说：“这些趋势凸显了各级执法部门必须采取负责任且具有前瞻性的方法，利用新兴技术和现代威胁评估能力，在风险升级前加以识别和并降低风险。同时，这些努力必须与保护隐私、公民自由和信息安全的承诺保持平衡。”