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Army veteran raves over Trump’s plan to ditch illegal alien truck drivers and hire vets

July 31, 2026 7:00am EDT / Fox News

Qualified veterans with heavy vehicle experience from military service can skip duplicating driver training they received

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Army veteran, trucking executive raves over Trump’s plan to ditch illegal alien drivers and hire vets

An Army veteran who is now the top executive at a major trucking company says President Trump’s plan to fast-track veterans applying for CDLs will greatly bolster the industry.

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An Army veteran and trucking company executive who attended President Donald Trump’s Wednesday announcement about a new initiative called “Freedom Haulers” at the White House praised the new plan to provide a boost to the industry.

“I came down here to support the cause of getting into an industry that is always in need,” said Tom Jacques, the director of Department of Transportation (DOT) compliance at Waste Management. Jacques is also the chairman of the board of directors for the Pennsylvania Motor Trucking Association.

Jacques, whose biography says he enlisted in the Army and joined the 3rd U.S. Infantry as an escort to the President, called the plan “wonderful.”

President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a White House event announcing the Freedom Haulers Initiative alongside Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.(Peter D’Abrosca/Fox News Digital)

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“It’s wonderful to get skilled workers who are disciplined [and] dedicated into an industry that requires discipline and dedication,” Jacques told Fox News Digital at the White House. “You don’t get behind the wheel of a tractor-trailer — 80,000 pounds — without understanding the need to be disciplined and to be safe. So it’s nice to have that, to tap into a large workforce as they transition out of the military and into the next career field.”

Under the initiative, qualified veterans with heavy-vehicle experience gained during military service can apply to waive the CDL road-skills test, allowing them to avoid duplicating training they received in the military.

Certain veterans in participating states — 34 of them so far — may also qualify for a waiver of the written knowledge test. Veterans without military truck-driving experience will be eligible for expedited training that administration officials said could be completed in several weeks.

Tom Jacques is an Army veteran, trucking executive and chairman of the board of directors for the Pennsylvania Motor Trucking Association.(Peter D’Abrosca/Fox News Digital)

TRUMP PROMOTES FREEDOM HAULERS INITIATIVE TO FAST-TRACK MILITARY VETERANS INTO TRUCKING JOBS

“Data shows that truck drivers who are veterans account for 42% fewer accidents. Think of that, 42%,” Trump said at the event. “And that number, they say, is their very minimal number, even as they drive double the number of miles of non-veteran drivers.”

Jacques said the trucking industry is always in need of new drivers, and discussed the important role that truckers play in the everyday lives of Americans.

“If you take a look at the trucking industry, the behind the scenes, that’s what gets the commodities where they’re at,” he said.

He also noted that during COVID-19, when non-essential workers were furloughed and much of America worked from home, truckers didn’t have that option. Americans depended upon their work in order to have access to necessities, otherwise the country could have “shut down,” he said.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy speaks as President Donald Trump listens during a White House event announcing the Freedom Haulers Initiative, which aims to expand trucking opportunities for military veterans.(Peter D’Abrosca/Fox News Digital)

“There’s no shortage of positions for truck drivers,” said Jacques. “It’s an aging workforce. It’s something that people need to understand that we’ve got to be continually replenishing that workforce, and [it’s] a great opportunity getting our veterans … into a good, highly-paying job right out of the service. It’s going to be really nice to see more service members behind the wheel.”

OUT OF CONTROL, UNQUALIFIED ILLEGAL ALIEN TRUCKERS ENDANGERING KIDS ON US ROADS, INSIDER WARNS: ‘JUST MADNESS’

That truckers are paid well is a fact not lost on Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who also spoke at Wednesday’s event.

“These are great paying jobs. They’re anywhere from $80 to $100,000 plus a year,” he said. “And it’s important because you have men and women who drove big rigs in the military who would then get out and have to go through a months-long training for their skills and their knowledge test to drive this vehicle over here.”

The initiative has another component — getting illegal alien truck drivers off the roads.

Veterans, trucking industry representatives and administration officials attend a White House event announcing the Trump administration’s Freedom Haulers Initiative.(Peter D’Abrosca/Fox News Digital)

“For many years, American highways and roadways have been terrorized by unqualified illegal aliens dangerously driving big rigs,” Trump said, pointing out that many illegal alien drivers can’t speak English or read the road signs. “You have to have a talent for it, and these people don’t have that. They’re driving big rigs, semi trucks and tractor trailers, all because radical left maniacs at the state level have issued them commercial driver’s licenses, even though they’re not entitled to have them.”

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He said that last year alone, at least 30 Americans were killed at the hands of illegal alien truck drivers, and that 24,000 illegal aliens drivers have already been taken off the streets.

“So to end this, very simply, the radical left wants more jobs for illegal aliens and more migrants in 18-wheelers, Trump said. “And the Trump administration wants safer roads and more jobs for the American veteran.”

Fox News Digital’s Brittany Miller contributed to this report.

Peter D’Abrosca is a politics reporter at Fox News Digital.

Trump questions Thune’s leadership as SAVE America Act stalls

July 31, 2026 7:00am EDT / Fox News

Thune pushed back, saying Republicans lack the votes and calling Trump’s claim ‘a different form of math’

By Alex Miller, Fox News

Trump says ‘we’re going to find out’ if Thune is the man to lead the Senate GOP

President Donald Trump didn’t fully back Senate Majority Leader John Thune, telling reporters in the Oval Office, “We’re going to find out” if Thune is the one to lead Senate Republicans as his prized SAVE America Act founders.

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For months, President Donald Trump has fixated on one legislative priority. Now, its repeated failure may be costing Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., the president’s support.

Trump has badgered Republicans to pass the SAVE America Act, his missing legislative crown jewel, turning support for the bill into a loyalty test.

Thune has become the target for those irritated that the bill hasn’t moved in the Senate. For months, Trump largely spared him from criticism over the bill’s stalled progress. That appears to have changed.

The hairline fractures in their relationship stem from Thune doing what few Republicans are willing to do: tell Trump no.

GOP RIFT GROWS AS THUNE HITS BRAKES ON TRUMP’S ELECTION BILL TO AVERT SHUTDOWN

Congressional Republicans, President Donald Trump and the GOP base want voter ID turned into law, but one barrier stands in the way: the political reality of the Senate.(Leon Neal/Getty Images; Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“Well, that’s too bad for him,” Trump said when asked about Thune not having the votes to move the SAVE America Act. “I mean, that’s too bad for him and too bad for the Republican Party.”

“He’s got the votes,” he continued. “He should get it done. He should be able to get it done.”

And, though he’s backed him before, Trump appeared to waver in his support of Thune when asked if he was the right man for the job.

“Well, we’re going to find out, and I’ll let you know,” Trump said.

TRUMP THREATENS TO YANK HIS OWN AG NOMINEE AS GOP REVOLT GROWS

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On his way to and from the Senate floor, Thune was pressed on Trump’s comments. When asked about Trump wavering on him as the leader of the Senate GOP, Thune signaled it wasn’t up to him.

“I don’t know what you say on that,” he said. “That’s a decision made by my colleagues.”

He also pushed back on the president’s assertion that Republicans could pass the SAVE America Act.

“That must be a different form of math,” Thune said.

Thune has repeatedly argued Republicans simply don’t have the votes to pass the SAVE America Act, a position that has increasingly put him at odds with Trump. A bloc of Republicans has never supported the legislation, while Senate Democrats overwhelmingly oppose it, leaving Thune without the votes.

TRUMP DEMANDS THUNE KEEP SENATE IN SESSION UNTIL SAVE AMERICA ACT PASSES

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said he hopes the next Senate shows more independence from President Donald Trump while crediting Senate Majority Leader John Thune with steering Republicans through a difficult political landscape.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)

“I think it’s wrong to blame Thune for this — Senator Thune,” Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told Fox News Digital. “This is not his fault.”

Still, Thune has moved major legislation backed by the president and has the Senate on a record pace for nominee confirmations, all while dealing with vulnerable Republicans taking tough political votes and Democrats who are bound to kneecap Trump’s agenda at every turn.

“I hope that the next Congress, the people with the election certificates as U.S. senators who actually make that decision, show some independence and courage,” Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told Fox News Digital. “And recognize that Thune has helped navigate an almost impossible scenario to navigate with this president.”

The legislation has been tested several times in a variety of forms, and has never gotten the needed votes to pass. And Thune has said the votes aren’t there to nuke the filibuster, which Trump has pushed for throughout his second term.

Even as Trump publicly questions Thune, the Senate GOP leader intends to seek another term as the top Republican.

Leadership is elected internally by Senate Republicans, not by the president. Thune came out of a crowded field to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., battling Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., to get the top spot in the Senate GOP.

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And his colleagues, so far, have his back.

Scott, who ran against Thune, told Fox News Digital that he had no intention of running for the top gig in the Senate again. He also noted that even though he wanted it, it’s a difficult profession to take on.

“John’s a smart guy,” Scott said. “He is working really hard. So I think he shouldn’t — you know, it’s tough to be the leader.”

“We’ve got a lot of issues we haven’t addressed, so it’s hard,” he continued. “I assumed it was gonna be hard.”

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

中国国家发改委：上半年AI相关行业保持30%以上高增长

2026年7月31日 19:40 / 联合早报

中国国家发展改革委称，人工智能成为中国经济增长的“澎湃动力源”。图为中国人工智能企业深度求索（DeepSeek）所在地。 （档案照片）

（北京／上海综合讯）中国国家发展改革委员会称，人工智能（AI）成为中国经济增长的“澎湃动力源”，上半年相关行业保持30%以上的高增长。

综合央视网、《人民日报》与财联社报道，中国国家发改委新闻发言人蒋毅星期五（7月31日）在发布会上说，中国AI自主创新步伐加快，在全产业链多环节实现快速突破，算力、模型、数据互促共进的良性循环正加速形成。

蒋毅指出，在算力底座方面，首个全国产10万卡AI超集群正式投用，截至6月底，全国智能算力规模达到去年同期的2.8倍。

至于模型能力，深度求索、月之暗面等中国AI企业先后发布多个万亿级参数开源大模型，国产大模型全球总下载量突破100亿次，而在要素流动方面，中国建成超过12万个高质量数据集。

蒋毅指出，下一步，中国将推动AI高质量发展，加快自主创新，加强基础研究和技术创新，同时加快AI立法进程，强化风险监测防控等。

中国多地目前正在加速AI布局，在各省份“十五五（2026至2030年）”规划纲要中，有23个省份提出加强算力基础设施建设或布局优化，17个省份聚焦模型算法创新，27个省份部署高质量数据集建设。

中国国产DRAM存储晶片龙头长鑫科技所在的安徽省，未来五年将重点聚焦AI前沿领域的发展。安徽星期五印发了关于数智供应链发展的行动方案，目标是到2028年培育50家左右省级数智供应链领军企业，以及两三家国家级数智供应链领军企业。

在平台建设与集群构建方面，安徽将‌打造15个以上省级数智供应链平台、两三家在国内外有较强影响力的数智供应链平台，‌建成10个以上省级数智供应链集群。

总部位于安徽合肥的长鑫科技星期一（7月27日）登陆上交所科创板，完成科创板史上最大规模融资，目前是中国市值最高的公司。

未来两周天气更干燥 最高气温可达34摄氏度

2026-07-31 19:47 / 联合早报

根据新加坡气象署星期五（7月31日）发布的8月首两周天气预报，天气会比7月下半月干燥。 （档案照片）

我国未来两周天气会更加干燥炎热，全岛大部分地区的总降雨量预计低于平均水平。部分日子的最高气温，可能攀升至约34摄氏度。

根据新加坡气象署星期五（7月31日）发布的8月首两周天气预报，天气会比7月下半月干燥。受西南季候风持续影响，未来两周有几天的天气晴朗，间中风势较强，尤其是在8月第二周。

风向主要来自东南或南方。西南季候风季节一般持续至9月，整体气候较为干燥。

每日最高气温预计介于33摄氏度至34摄氏度。夜晚也可能持续闷热，有数天的气温将保持在27摄氏度以上。

降雨量料低于平均水平

部分地区预计会在一些日子的上午较迟时段及下午，出现局部短暂雷阵雨。整体而言，8月上半月全岛大部分地区的总降雨量，将低于同期平均水平。

回顾过去两周天气，气象署指出，新加坡及周边地区持续受西南季风影响，风向主要为东南风或南风。全岛大部分日子都出现局部短暂雷阵雨。

其中，7月22日上午较迟时分及下午早些时段，受区域风向辐合影响，多个地区下起强雷阵雨。裕廊渡头当天录得105.8毫米的降雨量，是7月下半月最高记录。

过去两周，多数日子的最高气温，介于32摄氏度至34摄氏度。7月19日，宏茂桥测得34摄氏度，是这段期间的最高气温。

同时间，东部、南部及西部部分地区，有数天夜晚也闷热，最低气温维持在27摄氏度以上。

降雨方面，过去两周全岛约半数地区的降雨量，低于同期平均水平。其中，裕廊渡头一带降雨量比平均水平高出58%，而金文泰一带则比平均水平少46%。

公众可通过气象署与国家环境局官网，以及环境局的myENV应用，查询最新天气预报。

禁令落实三月后 澳洲仍有逾八成青少年用社媒

2026年7月31日 19:51 / 联合早报 麦可欣

调查发现，因科技公司核查不力，澳洲社媒禁令落实三个月后，仍有超过80%的青少年继续使用社媒平台。 （路透社）

（悉尼综合电）澳大利亚不准16岁以下青少年使用社交媒体的禁令生效三个月后，仍有逾八成少年使用社媒，原因是科技企业未能实施有效的年龄核查措施。

澳洲互联网监管机构eSafety星期五（7月31日）发布的调查结果显示，这道禁令去年12月10日生效，到了今年3月，大多数10至15岁的少年儿童使用社媒的频率几乎没有变化，而且家长对孩子这方面的习惯的了解程度不增反退。

报告指出，拥有社媒账号的少年儿童比率从52%降至42%，其中使用YouTube、Snapchat和TikTok的降幅最为显著，但尽管如此，澳洲少年儿童仍普遍持续使用社媒。

eSafety在声明中指出：“大多数在禁令实施前就有社媒账号的16岁以下者，在禁令生效三个月后，要么保留了账号，要么创建了新账号。社媒平台未能实施有效的年龄核实措施被列为主要原因。”

澳洲当局担忧社媒影响儿童少年的身心健康，因而出台了这道禁令，成为全球首例，受到很多有意仿效的国家密切关注。

社媒平台监查不严 青少年谎报年龄蒙混过关

根据报告，在禁令实施前，近86%的受访儿童承认至少使用一个有年龄限制的社媒平台。禁令生效三个月后，这一比率仍超过81%；约58%的受访少年承认，每天或频繁使用社媒，只比被禁前的60%稍微下降。

报告还显示，禁令几乎没有改变儿童少年在“体育锻炼、艺术音乐、陪伴亲友与社区活动”等现实生活中的时间分配。

在保留账号的儿童当中，约一半坦承平台并没有核查他们的年龄，这是他们能够继续使用服务的最主要原因。另一些受访者透露，他们虚报自己满16岁，或利用系统误判漏洞成功“通关”。

这份报告由全球高校研究员组成的专家组撰写，对比了禁令生效前后对4000多名儿童与家庭的追踪数据。澳洲当局准备追踪调查两年，以评估禁令的成效。

调查还发现了意想不到的结果，即家长对孩子使用社媒的了解程度不升反降。“这个情况可能意味着无法及时求助或发现网络伤害。家长了解得越少，能够给予支持或进行早期干预的机会就越小。”

Bombshell voting scandal adds to pattern of noncitizen voters as Trump warns of threat to ‘heart’ of democracy

2026-07-31T06:00:27-04:00 / Fox News

New Jersey’s error adds to a 25-year record of states finding noncitizens on voter rolls

By Peter Pinedo Fox News

Published July 31, 2026 6:00am EDT

Election integrity is ‘matter of desire,’ says expert

America First Legal President Gene Hamilton posits that there are ways to fix ongoing problems with U.S. voting systems.

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New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s recent announcement of 6,600 ineligible voters found on the state’s rolls is only the latest in a decades-long string of cases involving noncitizens registered to vote in U.S. elections, records show.

Sherrill said that the ineligible voters were registered due to a “serious software error” in New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle System. Her announcement came within a week of a major address from President Donald Trump in which he warned that digital election interference posed a “cyber threat aimed at the very heart of our democracy.”

While New Jersey is the latest documented failure, it is not an isolated anomaly. New Jersey’s error adds to a 25-year record of state reviews, software failures and prosecutions that found noncitizens on voter rolls and, in some documented cases, casting ballots. Experts say the episodes establish a recurring vulnerability. However, due to the lack of a national standard for identifying and reporting errors, reviews are sporadic and use different methods, making it impossible to determine how widespread the problem truly is.

“It’s a major vulnerability,” Jason Snead, executive director of the conservative think tank the Honest Elections Project, told Fox News Digital. “And we have seen just within the last couple of years many states that have checked their voter rolls and found non-citizens on them … So, this is a big problem.”

NEW JERSEY REMOVES 6,600 PEOPLE FROM VOTER ROLLS WHO WERE ELIGIBLE TO CAST A BALLOT FOR 2024 ELECTION

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill speaks in the Assembly Chamber of the New Jersey State House in Trenton, New Jersey, on Tuesday, March 10, 2026.(Heather Khalifa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

According to New Jersey’s preliminary findings, fewer than 400 individuals who were improperly registered ended up voting. Sherrill said they lived all across the state and mostly lacked a party affiliation, though there were some registered as Democrats or Republicans.

Fox News Digital reached out to the New Jersey Secretary of State Division of Elections, state Attorney General Dale Caldwell and the chairs of several key legislative elections’ oversight committees for clarification on which elections the 400 ineligible voters participated in and to request details on the state’s auditing protocols. Fox News Digital did not receive a response from any of the state officials mentioned above.

Snead explained that though states are required by law to ensure their voter rolls are up-to-date and accurate, there is no uniform federal requirement for a state to disclose its findings. He said that this has led to differences across states in how the law is enforced and how errors are reported.

“There are federal requirements to maintain clean and accurate voter rolls. And of course, it is a federal crime for a noncitizen to register and to vote, but there’s no requirement that a state report how many non-citizens that they have found up to the federal government. That’s entirely a state law question,” he explained.

He argued that problems involving noncitizen voting are greater in blue states due to policies he said make it easier to cheat.

LEAVITT RIPS BLUE STATE’S EXPLOSIVE NONCITIZEN VOTER-ROLL ADMISSION: ‘NOT A COINCIDENCE’

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“When you look at the policies that are pushed in blue states by the left, things like automatic voter registration, giving driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, banning voter identification laws, no proof of citizenship to vote on and on and, this is the inevitable outcome of all of those policies,” said Snead, adding, “This is not the first time that we’ve seen a state with automatic voter registration add potential non-citizens to the rolls.”

After the president’s speech, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin released a statement announcing that preliminary DHS reviews of state records found “as many as” 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote in four states: 35,152 in New Jersey, 190,832 in California, 15,903 in Nevada and 14,576 in Pennsylvania.

Fox News Digital reached out to DHS for clarification on its preliminary findings. However, DHS did not answer Fox News Digital’s questions and instead sent a statement from Mullin reiterating the number.

In the statement, Mullin emphasized to Fox News Digital that “this shouldn’t be a red or blue state issue: ONLY Americans should elect American leaders.” He added that “we’ve put these governors on notice. States must work with us to ensure free, fair, and honest elections.”

Charles Stewart III, a professor of political science specializing in elections at MIT, explained that the controlling federal law governing voter registration, the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), is “silent on the issue of noncitizens on the roll.”

He told Fox News Digital that because “this was not an issue in the early 1990s … one of the ambiguities right now and controversies is over precisely what sort of obligations states have to audit their rolls for noncitizens.”

“This is really at the crux of the matter and two of President Trump’s executive orders. It’s the crux of the matter in the Save America Act. It is the crux to the matter in the current efforts, well, back to the executive orders and a lot of the lawsuits. And the states are pointing out, when being pressed by the federal government, that yes, it is illegal for noncitizens to vote, for sure, and states should have an obligation to make sure noncitizens are not registering, but there is no federal law that compels states to do investigations, nor is there a federal law to compel them to report.

Meanwhile, states that have published review results have reported concerning findings. Besides New Jersey, state reviews conducted since 2020 have found evidence of significant numbers of noncitizens registered to vote in Louisiana, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio and Illinois, a Fox News Digital review found.

Earlier this year, the Louisiana secretary of state said that using the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, which was rolled out by the Trump administration last year, the state identified 403 noncitizens on its voter rolls, 83 of whom had voted in elections, American Press reported.

In 2025, an audit by the Iowa secretary of state confirmed that 277 noncitizens were registered to vote and that 35 successfully voted in the 2024 election while five attempted to vote but were rejected.

TRUMP RELEASES DECLASSIFIED ELECTION INTELLIGENCE, SAYS IT REVEALS ‘SHOCKING VULNERABILITIES’

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The same year, the Michigan Department of State published its findings from a review of the 2024 election, which it said proved that “credible cases of noncitizens casting a ballot in Michigan elections are extremely rare.” The review found that 15 people, who it said “appear to be non-U.S. citizens,” cast a ballot in the election. Additionally, the department identified a Chinese national who allegedly voted illegally.

The Ohio Secretary of State’s Office announced in 2024 and 2021 that it had identified 597 and 117 apparent noncitizen voter registrations, respectively, and referred the cases for further investigation.

According to findings cited in Illinois legislation and testimony by secretary of state officials before the general assembly, a programming error in the state’s automatic voter registration system allowed the records of 574 people who identified themselves as noncitizens to be transmitted to election officials between 2018 and 2019.

Further, officials in Pennsylvania, Texas, Maryland, Colorado, Florida and North Carolina have also reported cases of noncitizens being registered to vote as far back as 2000.

In testimony given to the Pennsylvania House State Government Committee in 2017, then elections commissioner Jonathan Marks revealed that the state had found 1,160 records of apparent noncitizens who self-reported and canceled. Marks said that a deeper analysis of the years 2000 through 2017 found 544 ballots were cast by the identified registrants.

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In Texas, authorities discovered a resident alien named Rosa Ortega registered in 2002 and voted five times from 2004 through 2014, according to Attorney General Ken Paxton.

In another case, a Ghanaian national named Michael Nana Baako registered to vote in Maryland, swearing that he was a U.S. citizen in 2005 and subsequently voted in 10 federal elections between 2006 and 2018, according to the DOJ.

A 2012 report by the Colorado Department of State revealed that the state identified 3,903 registered voters whose citizenship status was “in question.” An additional 430 Colorado voters were found to have identified themselves as ineligible to vote because of citizenship requirements.

The report noted that in Colorado “no proof is required to validate the status indicated on a registration form.” It said that individuals can register to vote at a driver’s license office, state public assistance office, county office, private voter registration drive, or even online, none of which verify citizenship.

Three reviews conducted by the Florida Department of State for the years between 2013 and 2017 identified 821 noncitizen registrations and 126 people with voting histories.

Meanwhile, a 2017 state audit in North Carolina concluded that 41 legal-status noncitizens cast ballots.

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A DOJ spokesperson reiterated that “it is illegal for any noncitizen to vote in a federal election.”(Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital also reached out to the Justice Department to ask how many individuals the agency has charged with noncitizen voting or unlawful voter registration since 2000. However, a spokesperson for the DOJ did not offer specifics. Instead, the spokesperson sent Fox News Digital a statement assuring that the department’s Civil Rights Division “is investigating and will keep pressing states to clean their rolls” and is “prosecuting cases where the law and evidence support it.”

The DOJ spokesperson reiterated that “it is illegal for any noncitizen to vote in a federal election” and that “every unlawful vote dilutes the voice of American citizens.”

“Whether or not a case is prosecutable doesn’t change the fact that the wrongful vote happened — DHS found over 250,000 likely noncitizens on voter rolls nationwide, and New Jersey’s own Governor confirmed 400 noncitizens voted there,” the spokesperson said.

“The fact of the matter is that election after election after election after election happened and no one did anything about it,” remarked Gene Hamilton, president of America First Legal.

He pointed to a letter sent by the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division to election officials in all 50 states which he said, “reminded them of their obligations and the possibility of legal consequences for not taking action.”

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Since President Donald Trump’s return to office, the Civil Rights Division has filed lawsuits against 30 states and the District of Columbia seeking to compel the production of full voter registration lists under the NVRA, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

“There are ways to fix it,” said Hamilton. “It’s just a matter of desire.”

Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

Watchdog unleashes database to expose ‘loopholes’ as $5B in foreign cash floods US nonprofits

July 31, 2026 7:00am EDT / Fox News

Americans for Public Trust cataloged 523 groups and over 12,000 records of foreign contributions to tax-exempt organizations

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Published July 31, 2026 7:00am EDT | Updated July 31, 2026 7:09am EDT

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Americans for Public Trust, a government transparency advocacy group, is releasing a new database that tracks more than $5 billion in foreign spending, bankrolling politically active nonprofits in the U.S.

The tool, the first of its kind, aims to provide a searchable database that catalogs 523 groups and 12,090 records of foreign contributions to nonprofit organizations that, under current law, aren’t required to disclose the names of their donors, stemming from provisions passed under the Tax Reform Act of 1969. The database also reinforces the cautionary warnings from some lawmakers that those contributions are having an outsized influence on American discourse.

At a hearing on the matter earlier this year, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., blasted the privileges that nonprofits enjoy that he believes are being abused.

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Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., talks during Tuesday’s hearing about making Trump’s tax cuts permanent.(House Ways & Means)

“It is clear the status quo is unacceptable. Tax-exempt status is a privilege, not a right. It exists to support legitimate charitable and educational work that strengthens our communities, not to serve as cover for foreign propaganda, election interference, or activities that undermine our national interest,” Smith said in a press release.

Fox News Digital is not aware of evidence that the Department of Justice is investigating or considering charges against groups in the database with any criminal behavior.

But Caitlin Sutherland, executive director for Americans for Public Trust, thinks maybe that should change — that the law itself should change.

“That’s exactly the problem. It should be illegal for foreign influence to permeate our political system and right now it’s not. Our database is designed to give them the information they need to address these loopholes and close them once and for all,” Sutherland said.

The tool allows users to search specific organizations and their contributions. It also provides a timeline of when the contributions were injected into the American scene — some as recent as the past election cycle, others stretching back to 2007.

When asked why some form of similar tool hasn’t existed until now, Sutherland said the idea of nonprofits has disguised the amount of money coming in.

“The term nonprofit, it conjures up an image of putting soup in a homeless person’s bowl, vaccinating orphans. The term nonprofit does not necessarily mean helping the needy. In the United States, nonprofits have really, really morphed into these huge entities. That are engaging in lobbying and public policy,” Sutherland said.

“The nonprofits of today are not what we have seen in decades past.”

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Sutherland also explained that because of a wide-ranging definition for what qualifies as a nonprofit, organizations have a wide latitude for what they want to do with that money.

“Foreign money can pay for get-out-the-vote drives. It can be spent on ballot harvesting. It can be spent on ballot issue campaigns, protests that are emerging across the country,” Sutherland said.

Smith, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, believes the database may soon shed light on the relationships between the groups.

“This database confirms what the Ways and Means Committee has been exposing for months: foreign money is flowing into America’s tax-exempt sector through shell funds and intermediaries designed to hide where it actually came from to influence American policymaking and our public discourse. The size and scope of the problem that Americans for Public Trust has identified is concerning, further underscoring the need to pass our legislation and close these loopholes once and for all,” Smith said.

Under current law, nonprofits aren’t required to disclose the source of their donations.

Supporters of the current policy framework argue that donors could receive harassment for their contributions if they were made public. That’s the position of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a state-level think tank that advocates for free markets, limited government and federalism.

“Donor disclosure and donor privacy are very important issues. Unfortunately, instead of a focus on government transparency and individual privacy, many advocates of donor disclosure are actually attempting to pass laws that would require the disclosure of personal information—like names and home addresses of Americans—in order to intimidate these donors from contributing to the causes they care about most,” the group states on its website.

“The First Amendment protects freedom of speech and association, yet many donor disclosure bills are designed to intimidate people from associating with organizations and ideas that the government may not like.”

Even so, Sutherland believes voters shouldn’t have to scrape through what reporting does exist to get a sense for where foreign dollars are going. She explained that getting that documentation is especially difficult because of varying legal standards for international contributions.

“That means that we are beholden to the laws of other countries that may not necessarily have to report money out here in the United States; a list of groups that are receiving money, whereas foreign charities don’t necessarily have to publish the same information,” Sutherland said.

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Caitlin, Sutherland executive director for Americans for public trust(Americans for Public Trust)

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“There is no central European registry for foreign charities, so we’ve really put together a piecemeal collection of information relying on the foreign charities’ annual reports as well as their grant databases. We think that it should be simple,” she added.

Aubrie Spady and Cameron Cawthorne contributed to this report

Leo Briceno is a politics reporter for the congressional team at Fox News Digital. He was previously a reporter with World Magazine.

先进AI擅“越狱”完成网络袭击 专家：应对窗口仅剩数小时

2026年7月31日 16:06 / 联合早报

OpenAI于7月21日承认，旗下前沿AI模型，在网络能力评估期间利用第三方软件的漏洞，突破原本高度隔离的测试环境，并侵入Hugging Face的生产系统。 （法新社）

美国人工智能（AI）巨头OpenAI旗下一款先进AI模型在沙盒测试中擅自“越狱”，不仅自行接入互联网，更侵入另一家公司的平台窃取信息，以完成测试任务。专家警告，防御AI攻击的应变窗口已从过去的几个星期骤降到12至72小时，在极端情况下甚至只有几个小时。

据OpenAI在官网发布的消息，公司早前在沙盒环境中测试旗下GPT-5.6 Sol和另一款尚未发布模型的网络安全能力。两款模型利用第三方软件漏洞，突破原本与外部互联网高度隔绝的沙盒，侵入知名AI开源社区Hugging Face，并窃取数据库里的秘密信息，以强行完成测试任务。

OpenAI随后进一步披露，模型在同一事件中还攻击了四项可公开访问的网络服务。

据彭博社引述知情人士报道，一般人类黑客需要数周才能完成的入侵，OpenAI的模型只用了数小时便告完成。

在这之前，另一AI巨头Anthropic也在网络安全测试中发生类似事故。由于测试沙盒错误接入公网，包括Claude Mythos 5在内的三款模型误把真实网络当成模拟环境，自行寻找漏洞，并先后入侵三家外部机构。

考虑到Mythos 5能力强大且风险较高，Anthropic最终决定暂不全面开放使用，只让审核通过的网络防御伙伴有限度测试。

针对这一趋势，剑桥大学研究员、人工智能与网络安全专家马科博士（Gerald Mako）接受《联合早报》访问时说，先进AI模型正从协助人类处理网络任务的工具，转变为能自主行动的系统。

他解释，早期模型主要用来生成代码或提供建议；新一代模型则能快速寻找漏洞、调用工具、规划多个步骤，并根据结果调整行动，大幅缩短从发现漏洞到利用漏洞的时间。

他进一步指出，这种攻击能力增强，使得防御方所面对的挑战不再是识别已知恶意代码，而是应对能够持续执行复杂任务的AI系统。

南洋理工大学南洋商学院商法副教授、人工智能与法律专家林玉芬受访时则提醒，不应把这类事件简单理解为AI已具备“超级智能”，因为很多网络系统本身就存在漏洞。

她解释，目前测试尚未显示AI模型能攻破配置和防护都完善的系统，但如果系统本身防御薄弱，AI模型就能快速搜出漏洞，甚至导致整个系统瘫痪。

网袭应变窗口缩短至数小时 防御方须加快反应

美国人工智能政策与战略研究所（Institute for AI Policy and Strategy）研究员拉莫斯（Gabriela Ramos）受访时发出警告，政府和企业已无法再以“数周”或“数月”衡量反应时间。

她说，2022年时，一个漏洞从披露到遭利用，防御方通常还有数周时间应对；如今，近三分之一的新漏洞会在24小时内遭利用，实际留给防御方的时间大约只有12到72小时。

美国当局已要求政府机构在三天内修补最高风险的漏洞。印度电脑紧急应变小组也建议应在12小时内对关键系统采取补救行动。

新加坡国立大学马绍尔法学讲座教授、国大人工智能研究院人工智能治理与政策负责人陈西文（Simon Chesterman）受访时也直言：“在某些情况下，我们谈论的可能不再是几个月或几周，而是几个小时。”

学者建议建立通报机制 加强AI攻击风险评估

尽管马科对具体时间范围则较为谨慎，但也强调政府和企业不能再假设还有几年时间慢慢调整。先进AI模型展现出来的新能力，可能通过研究论文、开源工具、模型微调，或被其他团队复制等方式迅速扩散。

外界目前对于AI参与网络攻击的真实规模仍缺乏全面的认识。微软《数码防御报告》显示，其客户每天面临超过6亿次攻击，每秒阻止约7000次密码攻击，远高于2021年的每秒不到600次。国际商业机器公司（IBM）的研究显示，目前约16％的数据泄露事件涉及攻击者使用AI。

拉莫斯主张建立强制事件通报机制，并透过国际信息汇总机制，摆脱只能依靠零散案例推断风险的局限。

先进AI擅“越狱”完成网络袭击 专家：应对窗口仅剩数小时

2026-07-31 16:06 / 联合早报

OpenAI于7月21日承认，旗下前沿AI模型，在网络能力评估期间利用第三方软件的漏洞，突破原本高度隔离的测试环境，并侵入Hugging Face的生产系统。 （法新社）

美国人工智能（AI）巨头OpenAI旗下一款先进AI模型在沙盒测试中擅自“越狱”，不仅自行接入互联网，更侵入另一家公司的平台窃取信息，以完成测试任务。专家警告，防御AI攻击的应变窗口已从过去的几个星期骤降到12至72小时，在极端情况下甚至只有几个小时。

据OpenAI在官网发布的消息，公司早前在沙盒环境中测试旗下GPT-5.6 Sol和另一款尚未发布模型的网络安全能力。两款模型利用第三方软件漏洞，突破原本与外部互联网高度隔绝的沙盒，侵入知名AI开源社区Hugging Face，并窃取数据库里的秘密信息，以强行完成测试任务。

OpenAI随后进一步披露，模型在同一事件中还攻击了四项可公开访问的网络服务。

据彭博社引述知情人士报道，一般人类黑客需要数周才能完成的入侵，OpenAI的模型只用了数小时便告完成。

在这之前，另一AI巨头Anthropic也在网络安全测试中发生类似事故。由于测试沙盒错误接入公网，包括Claude Mythos 5在内的三款模型误把真实网络当成模拟环境，自行寻找漏洞，并先后入侵三家外部机构。

考虑到Mythos 5能力强大且风险较高，Anthropic最终决定暂不全面开放使用，只让审核通过的网络防御伙伴有限度测试。

针对这一趋势，剑桥大学研究员、人工智能与网络安全专家马科博士（Gerald Mako）接受《联合早报》访问时说，先进AI模型正从协助人类处理网络任务的工具，转变为能自主行动的系统。

他解释，早期模型主要用来生成代码或提供建议；新一代模型则能快速寻找漏洞、调用工具、规划多个步骤，并根据结果调整行动，大幅缩短从发现漏洞到利用漏洞的时间。

他进一步指出，这种攻击能力增强，使得防御方所面对的挑战不再是识别已知恶意代码，而是应对能够持续执行复杂任务的AI系统。

南洋理工大学南洋商学院商法副教授、人工智能与法律专家林玉芬受访时则提醒，不应把这类事件简单理解为AI已具备“超级智能”，因为很多网络系统本身就存在漏洞。

她解释，目前测试尚未显示AI模型能攻破配置和防护都完善的系统，但如果系统本身防御薄弱，AI模型就能快速搜出漏洞，甚至导致整个系统瘫痪。

网袭应变窗口缩短至数小时 防御方须加快反应

美国人工智能政策与战略研究所（Institute for AI Policy and Strategy）研究员拉莫斯（Gabriela Ramos）受访时发出警告，政府和企业已无法再以“数周”或“数月”衡量反应时间。

她说，2022年时，一个漏洞从披露到遭利用，防御方通常还有数周时间应对；如今，近三分之一的新漏洞会在24小时内遭利用，实际留给防御方的时间大约只有12到72小时。

美国当局已要求政府机构在三天内修补最高风险的漏洞。印度电脑紧急应变小组也建议应在12小时内对关键系统采取补救行动。

新加坡国立大学马绍尔法学讲座教授、国大人工智能研究院人工智能治理与政策负责人陈西文（Simon Chesterman）受访时也直言：“在某些情况下，我们谈论的可能不再是几个月或几周，而是几个小时。”

学者建议建立通报机制 加强AI攻击风险评估

尽管马科对具体时间范围则较为谨慎，但也强调政府和企业不能再假设还有几年时间慢慢调整。先进AI模型展现出来的新能力，可能通过研究论文、开源工具、模型微调，或被其他团队复制等方式迅速扩散。

外界目前对于AI参与网络攻击的真实规模仍缺乏全面的认识。微软《数码防御报告》显示，其客户每天面临超过6亿次攻击，每秒阻止约7000次密码攻击，远高于2021年的每秒不到600次。国际商业机器公司（IBM）的研究显示，目前约16％的数据泄露事件涉及攻击者使用AI。

拉莫斯主张建立强制事件通报机制，并透过国际信息汇总机制，摆脱只能依靠零散案例推断风险的局限。

Famed climber Nirmal Purja among 10 missing on Pakistan mountain; 4 bodies found

July 31, 2026 6:28 AM EDT / CBS/AP

Islamabad — Rescuers searching for 10 climbers missing after an avalanche on Pakistan’s Broad Peak located four bodies Friday and were continuing to search for the others despite adverse weather that hampered helicopter flights, officials said. Acclaimed British-Nepali climber Nirmal Purja was among the missing.

Bad weather continued to hamper the search-and-rescue effort Friday, according to a statement from the Gilgit-Baltistan region’s Chief Minister Amjad Hussain.

But the Gilgit-Baltistan region’s police spokesperson said in a statement on Facebook that, “Preliminary reports indicate that four bodies have so far been recovered,” according to French news agency AFP.

Renowned mountaineer Nirmal Purja speaking at a news conference in May 2019. Navesh Chitrakar / REUTERS

The climbers lost contact with their base camp after an avalanche struck Broad Peak while they were attempting to scale the mountain, said Karrar Haidri, vice president of the Alpine Club of Pakistan. “The team has been out of communication since Thursday,” said Haidri, adding that army helicopters were part of the search-and-rescue operation.

According to the Alpine Club, the expedition comprised five Nepali climbers, Pakistani mountaineer Sohail Sakhi, Omani climber Nathira, American climber Mallory Geis, a Chinese climber identified only as Wang, and another foreign climber.

On Friday, China’s government said it was trying to verify whether any of its nationals were among the 10 missing.

“We will provide assistance to Chinese citizens in need and are also willing to offer help in accordance with the needs of the Pakistani side,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Friday in Beijing.

Purja, 43, a Nepal-born former soldier in the British army widely known as Nims Dai, was the expedition leaded. He climbed the world’s 14 highest peaks in a record 189 days in 2019, an achievement featured in the Netflix documentary, “14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible.” His record was surpassed in 2023.

Moving Mountains, a travel company based in Pakistan, announced late last month that the expedition team was on its way to the small town of Askole and wished them a safe journey climbing Broad Peak. The company said this was Geis’ first try at an 8,000-meter (26,000 foot) peak in Pakistan, while it was expected to be Sakhi’s final one.

Sakhi is a guide for the company, as well as a geographer and high-altitude photographer, and has climbed some of the world’s major peaks, according to Moving Mountains’ website.

Geis, 39, lives in San Antonio. She announced on social media earlier this year that she was closing her Pilates studio to take “a giant leap of faith into the unknown to see where life goes. I have a sneaking suspicion there will be lots of helmets, harnesses, and crampons involved.”

Broad Peak, at 26,401 feet, is the world’s 12th-highest mountain. It lies in Pakistan’s Karakoram range, home to five of the world’s 14 peaks above 26,000 feet, attracting climbers from around the globe.

Accidents are common during climbing expeditions in northern Pakistan because of avalanches and rapidly changing weather.