欧美宣布人工智能发展计划

2026年7月31日 16:12 / 联合早报

欧盟委员会主席冯德莱恩去年在一次人工智能峰会上承诺，要帮助欧洲国家在人工智能领域的竞争中迎头赶上。 （路透社）

（布鲁塞尔综合电）欧盟星期四（7月30日）正式启动一项计划，拟资助在欧洲建立七个总价数十亿欧元的人工智能（AI）超级工厂，用于训练人工智能模型，协助欧洲在人工智能竞赛中迎头赶上。

欧盟委员会主席冯德莱恩去年在一次人工智能峰会上承诺，要帮助欧洲国家在人工智能领域的竞争中迎头赶上。这项计划是为兑现欧盟的承诺。欧盟的目标是支持建造四座较小规模的数据中心，每个中心配备2万5000至7万5000个专用人工智能晶片，以及三座较大规模的数据中心，每个中心配备4万至10万个晶片。

欧盟委员会将在明年初选出得标的方案，企业过后有18个月的时间进行建设。

竞逐较小项目的企业，最多可获得10亿欧元（约14亿8000新元）的公共资金资助，较大项目得标者最多可获得20亿欧元资助。

欧委会一名高级官员星期四向记者说，欧盟通过所建立的最大规模公私合作伙伴关系，确保企业获得所需的资金。至今，欧委会已拨出10亿欧元，预计会在下一个欧盟预算期内再投入40亿欧元。据知，欧盟与私人企业界投入的总投资额，最终可高达300亿欧元。

此外，美国商务部星期四宣布，已同七家开发人工智能和先进运算系统半导体技术的公司签署意向书，将提供总金额8亿7400万美元的资助。

美国将通过晶片法发放资金，这是美国强化国内半导体生产能力，减少对海外供应商依赖的整体策略之一。

商务部说，作为融资协议的一部分，当局将持有每家公司的少数股权。

Trump admin cannot refuse detained illegal immigrants a chance for release on bond, appeals court rules

July 31, 2026 5:47am EDT / Fox News

The 2-1 decision deepens a circuit split that raises the chance the Supreme Court will take up the case

By Landon Mion Fox News

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that the Trump administration cannot deny migrants detained inside the U.S. a chance for release on bond as part of its expanded mandatory detention policy.

In a 2-1 decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled against the administration.

Four other appeals courts have also rejected the policy, although the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans and Eighth Circuit in St. Louis have ruled in favor of the federal government.

The deepening circuit split raises the chance that the U.S. Supreme Court will eventually take up the case. The administration asked the high court last month to consider the case.

APPEALS COURT BLOCKS TRUMP ADMIN FROM HOLDING MIGRANTS WITHOUT BOND FOR 90 DAYS

A federal appeals court ruled that the Trump administration cannot deny migrants detained inside the U.S. a chance for release on bond.(Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

The Department of Homeland Security said it “strongly disagrees with the Ninth Circuit panel and is confident in its legal position regarding mandatory detention.”

“President Donald Trump and Secretary Mullin are now enforcing the law as it was actually written to keep America safe,” the department said in a statement.

Under previous administrations, most illegal immigrants with no criminal record who were arrested inside the U.S. were allowed to seek a bond hearing while their immigration cases were pending, and mandatory detention was typically reserved for those detained at the border.

But last year, the government issued guidance expanding mandatory detention to include illegal immigrants inside the U.S. The move was part of the president’s mass deportation plan, leading to several lawsuits by immigrants pursuing a release from custody.

The Department of Homeland Security said it “strongly disagrees with the Ninth Circuit panel and is confident in its legal position regarding mandatory detention.”(Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Some federal judges who ordered bond hearings criticized the administration for repeatedly violating their orders.

The administration has said that Congress changed immigration law in 1996 to allow mandatory detention past the border and that previous administrations failed to enforce that measure.

But Ninth Circuit Judge Daniel Bress, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, rejected that argument.

“Although no reading of the complicated and interrelated textual provisions at issue here is without some shortcomings, the historical understanding of the statute is the better one,” said Bress, writing for the majority.

DEMOCRAT COMPARES ICE TO ‘DOMESTIC TERRORISTS’ AS 111 HOUSE DEMS DEMAND TEXAS DETENTION CENTER CLOSE

Some federal judges who ordered bond hearings criticized the administration for repeatedly violating their orders.(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Bress was joined by Judge M. Margaret McKeown, who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton.

Judge Carlos Bea, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, dissented, arguing that the amendment Congress passed 30 years ago supports the administration’s position.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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欧美宣布人工智能发展计划

2026年7月31日 16:12 / 联合早报

欧盟委员会主席冯德莱恩去年在一次人工智能峰会上承诺，要帮助欧洲国家在人工智能领域的竞争中迎头赶上。 （路透社）

（布鲁塞尔综合电）欧盟星期四（7月30日）正式启动一项计划，拟资助在欧洲建立七个总价数十亿欧元的人工智能（AI）超级工厂，用于训练人工智能模型，协助欧洲在人工智能竞赛中迎头赶上。

欧盟委员会主席冯德莱恩去年在一次人工智能峰会上承诺，要帮助欧洲国家在人工智能领域的竞争中迎头赶上。这项计划是为兑现欧盟的承诺。欧盟的目标是支持建造四座较小规模的数据中心，每个中心配备2万5000至7万5000个专用人工智能晶片，以及三座较大规模的数据中心，每个中心配备4万至10万个晶片。

欧盟委员会将在明年初选出得标的方案，企业过后有18个月的时间进行建设。

竞逐较小项目的企业，最多可获得10亿欧元（约14亿8000新元）的公共资金资助，较大项目得标者最多可获得20亿欧元资助。

欧委会一名高级官员星期四向记者说，欧盟通过所建立的最大规模公私合作伙伴关系，确保企业获得所需的资金。至今，欧委会已拨出10亿欧元，预计会在下一个欧盟预算期内再投入40亿欧元。据知，欧盟与私人企业界投入的总投资额，最终可高达300亿欧元。

此外，美国商务部星期四宣布，已同七家开发人工智能和先进运算系统半导体技术的公司签署意向书，将提供总金额8亿7400万美元的资助。

美国将通过晶片法发放资金，这是美国强化国内半导体生产能力，减少对海外供应商依赖的整体策略之一。

商务部说，作为融资协议的一部分，当局将持有每家公司的少数股权。

特朗普下令 禁止含关键矿产电子垃圾出口

2026年7月31日 18:07 / 联合早报

广泛用于武器生产的关键矿产钨的供应吃紧，美国自2015年以来就没有再进行任何商业性质的钨开采，全球供应链如今由中国主导。图为位于越南北部的炮山多金属矿场，它是中国以外全球最大的钨矿床之一。 （档案照片）

（华盛顿综合电）美国总统特朗普下令禁止出口含有关键矿产的废旧电池等工业废料，以推动国内回收利用这些关键矿产，降低对中国供应链的依赖。

特朗普星期四（7月30日）签署一项命令，在《国防生产法》下授权商务部制定条例禁止这类可回收关键矿产与材料被运到海外。

熟悉决策过程的白宫官员透露，特朗普政府希望将这些材料，尤其是钨（tungsten）和被称为“黑粉”（black mass）的粉碎电池材料，转移给国内的再循环业者。

建立新矿和处理设施往往需时数年，特朗普政府如今寻求更快捷的方案，把原本就存在的关键材料留在国内再循环。美国平均每月出口近3万3000公吨的电子垃圾，许多含有锂和其他可再循环的关键矿物。

这引起当地业者长期的不满，认为把材料留在国内，更有助于美国实现关键矿产自足自给的目标，也能减少往往势必引起国内民众不满的矿山开采项目。

据俄亥俄州一个再循环业者Cirba Solutions本月发布的调查，美国人若知道将他们的老旧电子产品再循环可帮助国家减少对外国矿产供应的依赖，约84%的人会更愿意这么做。

特朗普7月20日刚签署另一项行政令，从明年1月起收紧国防承包商向中国购买关键矿产的条例，其中钨的供应情况最为吃紧。

然而，美国自2015年以来就没有再进行任何商业性质的开采项目，全球供应链如今依旧由中国主导，因此电子废料是美国本土获取这类材料的少数管道之一。

今年3月，一家私人再循环公司Amermin致函商务部说，钨的出口“对美国工业和军事战备状态造成不可接受的风险”。

中美去年爆发关税战，中国对稀土等关键矿产实施出口管制，严重打击美国和多国制造业者，促使美国大力推动与盟友建立替代供应链，减少对中国的依赖。

特朗普下令 禁止含关键矿产电子垃圾出口

2026年7月31日 18:07 / 联合早报

广泛用于武器生产的关键矿产钨的供应吃紧，美国自2015年以来就没有再进行任何商业性质的钨开采，全球供应链如今由中国主导。图为位于越南北部的炮山多金属矿场，它是中国以外全球最大的钨矿床之一。 （档案照片）

（华盛顿综合电）美国总统特朗普下令禁止出口含有关键矿产的废旧电池等工业废料，以推动国内回收利用这些关键矿产，降低对中国供应链的依赖。

特朗普星期四（7月30日）签署一项命令，在《国防生产法》下授权商务部制定条例禁止这类可回收关键矿产与材料被运到海外。

熟悉决策过程的白宫官员透露，特朗普政府希望将这些材料，尤其是钨（tungsten）和被称为“黑粉”（black mass）的粉碎电池材料，转移给国内的再循环业者。

建立新矿和处理设施往往需时数年，特朗普政府如今寻求更快捷的方案，把原本就存在的关键材料留在国内再循环。美国平均每月出口近3万3000公吨的电子垃圾，许多含有锂和其他可再循环的关键矿物。

这引起当地业者长期的不满，认为把材料留在国内，更有助于美国实现关键矿产自足自给的目标，也能减少往往势必引起国内民众不满的矿山开采项目。

据俄亥俄州一个再循环业者Cirba Solutions本月发布的调查，美国人若知道将他们的老旧电子产品再循环可帮助国家减少对外国矿产供应的依赖，约84%的人会更愿意这么做。

特朗普7月20日刚签署另一项行政令，从明年1月起收紧国防承包商向中国购买关键矿产的条例，其中钨的供应情况最为吃紧。

然而，美国自2015年以来就没有再进行任何商业性质的开采项目，全球供应链如今依旧由中国主导，因此电子废料是美国本土获取这类材料的少数管道之一。

今年3月，一家私人再循环公司Amermin致函商务部说，钨的出口“对美国工业和军事战备状态造成不可接受的风险”。

中美去年爆发关税战，中国对稀土等关键矿产实施出口管制，严重打击美国和多国制造业者，促使美国大力推动与盟友建立替代供应链，减少对中国的依赖。

Trump convenes Cabinet at Camp David amid simmering Iran war

2026-07-31 10:05:05 UTC / Reuters

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WASHINGTON, July 31 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump convenes a Cabinet meeting on Friday at his Camp David retreat as he grapples with how to ​resolve his war against Iran and bring down gasoline prices ‌that are threatening Republicans in November midterm elections.

Unlike some past presidents, Trump has largely stayed away from the mountaintop presidential redoubt in western Maryland, preferring to spend time ​at his golf resorts when not at the White House. This ​will be his third trip to Camp David in his ⁠second term.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters at a ​briefing last week that this would be the 13th Cabinet meeting of Trump’s ​second term and that it would be “a lot of fun and something different for the cabinet to experience together.”

The agenda for the meeting will likely focus heavily on foreign ​policy. Trump is engaged in tit-for-tat strikes against Iranian targets with ​no end in sight to a conflict that the president initially projected would last just ‌a ⁠few weeks but is now five months old.

The war has sent gasoline prices spiraling and taken a toll on his standing. This week, a Reuters-Ipsos poll found just one in three Americans support the war, the lowest ​reading in the ​poll since the ⁠conflict’s early days.

The impact of the war on the U.S. economy is causing heartburn among Republicans who are ​looking uneasily ahead to November, when Democrats will seek to ​break ⁠their control of the U.S. Congress.

Trump’s Cabinet meetings tend to run long – well over an hour – as each Cabinet secretary offers an update on activities in ⁠their ​departments, mixed with plenty of praise for the ​president.

After the meeting, Trump is scheduled to go to his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club ​for the weekend.

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Moreno unloads on Fauci after Senate hearing, calls him Democrats’ ‘hero’ over pandemic policies

The Ohio Republican argued Fauci’s pandemic response was driven by a desire for power rather than public health

July 31, 2026 5:58am EDT / Fox News

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Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, reflects on Dr. Anthony Fauci’s testimony on ‘Hannity.’

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Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, doubled down Thursday on his criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci after the former top health official declined to answer questions during a Senate hearing, calling him Democrats’ “hero.”

Appearing on “Hannity” Thursday evening, Moreno argued Fauci’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic was driven by a desire for power rather than public health.

“This is about controlling American people,” Moreno said. “He treated us like lab rats.”

Moreno said Fauci’s approach to the pandemic reflected what he believes Democrats ultimately want from government.

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Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic during an appearance on Fox News’ “Hannity.”(Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

“You want to give power to Democrats, socialists and communists in this country? They will take away your freedoms, they will take away your liberties, they’ll control you, they’ll replace you,” he said. “They want to systematically destroy this country, and that’s why Fauci is their hero. He got to do what they only fantasize about, which is total and complete control of the American people.”

Moreno and Fauci clashed during Wednesday’s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing after Fauci, on the advice of counsel, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and declined to answer questions from committee members.

RAND PAUL SEEKS CONTEMPT CHARGES AFTER FAUCI INVOKES FIFTH AMENDMENT MORE THAN 100 TIMES

Former NIH Director Anthony Fauci testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in Washington, D.C., on July 29, 2026. Fauci was expected to be questioned about his diary entries during his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.(Getty Images)

A frustrated Moreno told Fauci that the former White House chief medical advisor had inspired him to run for the Senate because of his influence over COVID-19 policies.

“Here I am sitting in front of you six years later saying, ‘Who the f— do you think you were for doing that? It is a total disgrace what you did to this country,’” Moreno said.

Asked Thursday whether he stood by those remarks, Moreno argued Fauci’s influence set back children’s health for decades and devastated small businesses.

“The reality is this guy damaged a lot of things in this country,” he said.

FAUCI PRIVATELY TOOK CREDIT FOR COVID-19 LOCKDOWNS DESPITE PUBLIC DENIAL, NEWLY EXPOSED DIARY ENTRIES REVEAL

Senator Bernie Moreno, a Republican from Ohio, during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, June 17.(Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Moreno also pointed to more than 1,000 pages of internal notes released by committee Chairman Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., ahead of the hearing. According to Paul, the notes suggest Fauci privately expressed views about COVID-19 that differed from some of his public statements.

“This is one of the most depraved bureaucrats,” Moreno said, adding that Fauci should face prosecution over his handling of the pandemic.

Although Fauci received a pardon from former President Joe Biden, Moreno noted that state investigations remain possible. On Thursday, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced his office would open an investigation after Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right during Wednesday’s hearing.

“We know what he was actually thinking,” Moreno said. “We know he lied to the American people. State attorneys general, like the one in Florida—I hope the one in Ohio does the same thing. We got to pursue this guy.”

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Former NIH Director Anthony Fauci listens during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on July 29, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Fauci declined to answer questions, asserting his Fifth Amendment right.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Moreno said the moment that bothered him most during the hearing came when he asked Fauci to apologize to audience members who said they were harmed by or disagreed with pandemic policies.

“He wouldn’t even look at them,” Moreno said. “That’s how despicable this guy is.”

Fox News Digital’s Alex Miller, Adam Pack and Robert McGreevy contributed to this report.

Fox News Digital has reached out to Fauci’s attorney for comment.

Michael Sinkewicz is a writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to michael.sinkewicz@fox.com

People with disabilities fear service cuts as Trump’s DOJ questions legal protections

2026-07-31T05:00:13-0400 / https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-doj-disability-rights-home-care/

Amanda DeSimone-Shabrack relies on a home healthcare aide to help her high-needs autistic 12-year-old son. Virginia’s Medicaid program covers the assistance, enabling her to work as both an education technology specialist and a professor, run errands, and keep Mason in the home.

That could change. In June, the Department of Justice issued a legal opinion saying federal disability rights laws don’t require states to provide services that allow people with disabilities to remain in their homes rather than institutions.

It’s a sharp reversal from 1999, when a landmark Supreme Court ruling held that unjustified institutionalization constituted discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Previous administrations have relied on that ruling to enforce civil rights for disabled people, but the Trump administration says that long-held interpretation is wrong.

Advocacy groups say legal protections for about 40 million adults and 5 million children who have disabilities could be undermined, and they worry that the new interpretation may herald a return to forced institutionalization.

The stage is also now set for a legal fight between advocates, states, and the federal government. Some states with ongoing lawsuits challenging disability rights requirements are already citing the DOJ opinion in hopes it will help them prevail.

In a case in Texas, for example, some Republican-led states are arguing that a rule instituting a 1973 civil rights law that led to community and home integration of people with disabilities is costly and infringes on states’ rights.

People like DeSimone-Shabrack are especially worried because, they say, the opinion follows a spate of White House and Republican-led initiatives that have already begun eroding hard-won protections for people with disabilities.

“I’m worried. Am I going to have to put him in an institution, and what’s that going to be like for him?” said DeSimone-Shabrack, whose personal home care help was recently reduced from 30 to 18 hours a week by the state. “As he gets older, am I going to be able to care for him without this support?”

The Department of Health and Human Services remains steadfast in enforcing federal civil rights laws, agency spokesperson Emily Hilliard said in an email.

“Our commitment to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are treated with dignity, afforded equal opportunity, and are able to meaningfully access community services remains unchanged,” she said.

But advocacy groups say the DOJ opinion could have sweeping repercussions. The opinion doesn’t change existing law, but advocates worry that HHS and the DOJ could begin rescinding guidance and regulations that mandate integration for people with disabilities.

They’re concerned that agencies will stop enforcing disability laws that ensure people aren’tunnecessarily institutionalized. HHS, for example, has historically investigated disability discrimination claims at hospitals and in states that get federal funding, enforcing compliance with home and community integration through voluntary agreements. Disability rights experts say those agreements could now be imperiled.

And some states facing financial pressures may roll back Medicaid services that enable people with disabilities to stay in their homes and communities — a trend that’s already happening following last year’s passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which cuts a projected $900 billion-plus from the safety net program over a decade.

Democrats are seizing on the opinion, which was released in a DOJ memo, to portray President Trump and Republicans as a threat to people with disabilities. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and other Senate Democrats led the introduction of a resolution calling on the DOJ to rescind the opinion.

“The Trump Administration’s memo is an outrageous attack on the rights and independence of the disability community,” Duckworth said in a statement.

The DOJ didn’t return emails seeking comment.

According to the DOJ’s interpretation, regulations that give disabled people the right to demand certain services for daily living — bathing, mental health counseling, and financial budgeting help, for instance — and that require states to extend community-based services to mentally disabled individuals are unlawful, a view the agency acknowledged “is out of step with the common understanding of that decision within the federal courts.”

States may have legitimate reason to treat mentally disabled people in institutions, “including resource constraints, capacity limitations in community-based facilities, and safety concerns for both the patient and the community,” the memo reads.

The Supreme Court case, Olmstead v. L.C., has long shaped federal policy. And while it remains to be seen how courts will respond to the DOJ, some states seeking to curtail disability protections see the opinion as significant.

Consider the 2024 lawsuit in federal court in the Northern District of Texas by Republican-led states arguing that an HHS rule about the integration mandate is unlawful. The lawsuit began with broader claims and 17 state plaintiffs. Following significant advocacy from the disability community, only Texas, Alaska, and Florida remain.

Following the new DOJ interpretation, the states filed documentation to inform the court about the memo as a new and relevant development. Similar documentation citing the memo has been filed in disability rights cases in Florida and New Hampshire, according to The Arc of the United States, a disability advocacy group.

Advocates for people with disabilities say the speed at which plaintiffs are citing the opinion underscores how it may be used to justify the erosion of protections.

“The administration’s attempt to dismantle decades of progress in community integration is alarming and inconsistent with federal disability rights laws and Supreme Court precedent as well as the critical enforcement work of prior administrations,” said Shira Wakschlag, senior executive officer of legal advocacy and general counsel at The Arc.

Forced institutionalization led to human rights violations, segregation, and a eugenics movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that included involuntary sterilization.

Exposure of the abuses, legal battles, and an independent living movement caused a major shift toward integration. Fewer than 1% of people with intellectual or developmental disabilities lived in state-run facilities in 2021, down from almost 30% in 1967, according to data from the University of Minnesota’s Residential Information Systems Project, which maintains metrics on such long-term services and supports.

The Trump administration has already taken steps to reverse that trend, advocates say.

Mr. Trump signed an executive order last year that addresses homelessness by expanding involuntary treatment and institutionalization.

Much of the special education program office is moving from the Department of Education to HHS, raising concerns among advocates that the administration is reverting to a view that disabilities are a medical issue to be fixed rather than differences that can be accommodated.

And cuts in federal funding for Medicaid, a federal-state insurance program for people with low incomes or disabilities, also portend fewer resources and services. States have responded by reducing some optional benefits such as home health aides and support. In addition, qualifying for an exemption from the program’s work requirements, which take effect Jan. 1 in most states, will pose significant hurdles for people with disabilities.

The June DOJ opinion, advocates say, could accelerate the shift and result in court rulings that chip away at disability rights.

“While it doesn’t overnight change the law, it’s very troubling and very dangerous,” said Zoe Brennan-Krohn, director of the Disability Rights Program at the American Civil Liberties Union. “It reflects a really deeply held disrespect for disabled people from this administration and a total lack of awareness of the lived experiences of people with disabilities who are living in their homes.”

Data shows there can be benefits to involuntary institutionalization. Relative to those voluntarily admitted, people with psychiatric illness who were involuntarily admitted “experienced greater improvements in symptoms and function,” according to a September 2024 review in Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, a peer-reviewed academic journal.

Deinstitutionalization has created new challenges. More hospitals have been forced to board people with psychiatric illness in emergency rooms because of a dearth of available beds. And moving people into home- and community-based living was supposed to be accompanied by an increase in outpatient care and treatment that never materialized, creating gaps in support.

But advocates for the disabled community say involuntary institutionalization strips people of their autonomy and poses a higher risk of neglect and abuse.

Jennifer Kucera, 57, of Cleveland, spent two years in a nursing home. She has spinal muscular atrophy, a genetic disease that kills motor neurons, leaving her able to move only part of her left arm and her head.

At the institution, she said, she felt bored and trapped and developed intense itching from scabies, which is caused by microscopic mites.

For more than a decade, however, she has lived in an apartment with the help of caregivers who come in the morning to get her dressed and ready and return to put her to bed. She works at a disability rights group, and her care is covered by Medicaid.

“The two years I lived in the nursing home, it was the most horrible time in my life,” said Kucera, who worries about the DOJ opinion on Olmstead. “My future is a shaking floor beneath me. With the stroke of a pen, they could get rid of everything I’ve built for myself.”

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New York sues prediction market Kalshi alleging it’s an illegal gambling operation

2026-07-31T10:36:14.689Z / CNN

By Kara Scannell

1 hr 25 min ago

PUBLISHED Jul 31, 2026, 6:36 AM ET

An app for Kalshi, an online prediction market site, is shown on February 25, 2026. Online prediction market platforms allow people to place bets on wide-ranging subjects such as sports, finance, politics and currents events.

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The New York attorney general’s office is suing Kalshi, one of the largest prediction markets, alleging it’s running an illegal gambling operation in the state.

Attorney General Letitia James alleges Kalshi failed to obtain a state gambling license and pay related taxes. The lawsuit, which was filed in New York State court early Friday, is seeking an order enjoining Kalshi’s operations, plus fines, restitution and the forfeiture of profits.

“New York’s gambling laws protect children from underage betting and help combat gambling addiction,” James said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. “No matter what they call themselves, prediction markets like Kalshi are gambling platforms, plain and simple.”

The attorney general also alleges Kalshi’s prediction market is open to users younger than the legal age in New York to participate in mobile sports betting.

A spokesperson for Kalshi said in response to the lawsuit: “It’s sad to see this type of political theater from the leadership in our own state. States can’t just shut down a federally licensed exchange. This would also just hurt New Yorkers, who would be driven offshore. We love New York, we love New Yorkers, and New Yorkers love our product.”

The lawsuit is the latest brought by a state attorney general against an operator of prediction markets, which allows up or down bets on almost anything – from the Oscars to sports games.

The fast-growth, increasing popularity and big-dollar bets across prediction markets have created an all-out battle over whether state gaming commissions or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal regulator, should have oversight.

A federal appeals court paved the way for New York to file the lawsuit after an appellate judge on Wednesday denied Kalshi’s request to pause a lower court’s ruling finding that New York’s gambling rules could apply despite federal regulation.

A person familiar with the case said there were negotiations to avoid a lawsuit but talks broke down.

Overnight, the federal regulator, the CFTC, asked the judge overseeing the federal case to issue an order to stop New York from taking any action against prediction markets, saying it has exclusive jurisdiction.

“Altogether, allowing New York to enforce its gambling laws against CFTC-regulated (entities) has the potential for a single state to bring entire federally regulated markets to the brink of destruction,” the CFTC wrote in a court filing.

Other states have previously filed lawsuits against Kalshi and its rivals, and the prediction markets have proactively sought to block some state commissions from oversight.

In May, Rhode Island sued Kalshi and Polymarket for unlawful sports betting. In April, the New York attorney general sued Coinbase and Gemini, alleging they are running illegal gambling operations in New York through their prediction market platforms. The platforms all deny any wrongdoing.

Courts across the country have ruled in favor of both sides in different cases.

A federal judge on Monday blocked Minnesota from enforcing its statewide ban on prediction markets. Days later, in a separate case in Wisconsin, a judge ruled that the state can regulate prediction markets like gambling. A federal appeals court held a hearing Thursday about similar lawsuits in Ohio and Tennessee.

So far, Nevada, Michigan and Washington state have successfully shut down some or all of Kalshi’s operations in their states, as a result of lawsuits that are ongoing. The company opposed these decisions and has argued that it can only be regulated by the federal government.

CNN has a partnership with Kalshi and uses its data to cover major events. But CNN editorial employees are not allowed to use prediction markets.

CNN’s Marshall Cohen contributed to this report.

伊朗：打击两艘欲借美军护航通过霍尔木兹海峡的油轮

2026年7月31日 18:41 / 联合早报

自2月28日战争爆发以来，伊朗实际上一直控制着霍尔木兹海峡的航行。图为6月21日，位于伊朗阿巴斯港（Bandar Abbas）附近霍尔木兹海峡的船只。 （路透社）

伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队说，打击两艘在美军空中护航下，试图通过战略要道霍尔木兹海峡的油轮。

法新社报道，伊朗革命卫队星期五（7月31日）称：“这些不服从指令的油轮……遭到打击并被迫停航，而另外四艘油轮迅速改变航向，返回原先位置”。

伊朗革命卫队称，这些油轮试图通过一条“未申报航线”，穿越霍尔木兹海峡。这条航线是美国支持的，旨在替代德黑兰指定、更靠近伊朗海岸的水道。

自2月28日战争爆发以来，伊朗实际上一直控制着霍尔木兹海峡的航行，要求船只必须在使用水道前获得许可，并缴纳过境费。

革命卫队星期四（7月30日）说，两艘试图穿越霍尔木兹海峡的油轮，在其中一艘起火后返航。

另据新华社引述伊朗国家电视台星期五的报道说，伊方“打击了美军位于科威特艾哈迈德·贾比尔空军基地（Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base）的战斗机掩体、卫星通信系统和装备仓库”。