SK海力士传与英特尔洽谈 可能首次在美国生产晶片

2026-09-16 15:24 / 联合早报

SK海力士是全球领先的AI处理器高带宽内存（HBM）供应商。 （路透社）

三名知情人士透露，韩国晶片制造商SK海力士正与英特尔磋商一项协议。若谈成，SK海力士将首次在美国生产存储晶片。

路透社报道，知情人士称，其中一个可能方案，是SK海力士（SK hynix）租用英特尔（Intel）在俄亥俄州规划已久的晶片制造厂的一部分设施。其中两名知情人士说，另一个方案是，SK海力士与英特尔及其他有意锁定存储晶片供应的大型云服务公司组成合资企业。

若能达成协议，不仅能缓解英特尔目前面临的困境，对特朗普政府而言也将是一大胜利。特朗普政府一直向晶片制造商施压，要他们在美国设厂，因为人工智能（AI）和数据中心领域的持续投资加剧了存储晶片的严重短缺。

不过消息人士指出，来自首尔方面的潜在反对可能是一个主要障碍。

其中一名消息人士将目前的谈判描述为探索性，并强调尚未有任何决定。他也说，SK海力士还可能考虑其他交易架构方案。

这是SK海力士与英特尔的潜在交易细节首次曝光。不过路透社尚不知道SK海力士可能会在俄亥俄州生产何种类型的晶片。

SK海力士在给路透社的一份声明中说，公司正在评估各种措施，包括增设生产基地以提升存储业务竞争力，但目前尚未做出任何决定。

英特尔拒绝对“传闻”置评，但强调公司正持续对俄亥俄州项目进行投资，以做好厂区前期准备。

针对SK海力士的潜在计划，韩国产业通商资源部表示，这属于企业自主决策，但若涉及“国家核心技术”，必须根据《产业技术保护法》接受审查。

美国商务部未回应置评请求。

SK海力士的产品线包括用于服务器、个人电脑和智能手机的DRAM（动态随机存取内存）晶片，以及用于长期数据存储的NAND闪存晶片。此外，SK海力士也是全球领先的AI处理器高带宽内存（HBM）供应商。

Lawmakers throw out ‘Trojan horse’ activists they say are engaged in American subversion

Activists wore pro-Iran and pro-Cuba T-shirts behind witnesses as lawmakers examined Neville Roy Singham’s $278M network

2026-09-15T20:50:51-04:00 / Fox News

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Published September 15, 2026 8:50pm EDT

Heritage Foundation senior fellow confronts CodePink’s Medea Benjamin before House hearing

Mike Gonzalez, senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, told CodePink cofounder Medea Benjamin to “stop shilling for a communist tyranny” ahead of a House hearing on malign foreign influence.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin and two fellow agitators entered the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing room 2272 today, wearing camera-ready T-shirts supporting the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Communist Party of Cuba, turning themselves into a live demonstration of the “Trojan horses” for foreign influence that lawmakers had gathered to examine.

At 2:39 p.m., about 30 minutes into the hearing’s start, after Benjamin carefully photographed their T-shirt slogans appearing on the TV screen behind the witnesses, staffers on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia had had enough, and Capitol Hill police officers escorted Benjamin and her fellow agitators out of the room, as they protested their ejection for staging their trademark CodePink antics.

For lawmakers, CodePink’s camera-conscious performance underscored the central point of the hearing: that protest theater, messaging and social-media content can function as parts of foreign influence operations.

“It’s really about theatrics,” Subcommittee Chairman Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., later told Fox News Digital. “They’re using it not to affect policy, but really to enrich themselves because they use that then to go out on social media, to try to whip other people up, to help donations, to help get volunteers, help get some of those other folks, and to really try to go and disrupt our – not just our sense of government and processing government – but society.”

On Sept. 15, 2026, CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin and her fellow activists are being escorted out of a House subcommittee hearing on “Trojan horses” and malign foreign influence.(Asra Q. Nomani)

HOUSE PANEL TO PROBE FOREIGN ‘TROJAN HORSES’ AS SINGHAM SCRUTINY WIDENS

Singham network takes center stage

The hearing, “Trojan Horses: Covert Foreign Malign Influence Operations in America,” focused on the network of nonprofits, media outlets and activist groups that are promoting the interests of foreign governments and pro-communist ideologues, like Neville Roy Singham, a U.S. tech tycoon who lives in Shanghai, supporting the Chinese Communist Party. According to a Fox News Digital investigation, Singham has pumped $278 million into a far-left network of groups that have pushed anti-America, pro-China propaganda, including CodePink, which has received $1.33 million from Singham.

Outside the hearing room, Benjamin refused to answer questions from Fox News Digital about the Singham funding, and instead slipped into the hearing room with her fellow activists and positioned themselves behind the witnesses in seats that get maximum TV exposure.

Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, spotted Benjamin immediately and, in a tense back-and-forth with her, said “I’m telling Medea Benjamin that she should try to stop shilling for a communist tyranny.”

Standing on the committee hearing room floor, Benjamin defended herself as “anti-war,” and denied any direction from the Chinese Communist Party.

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During opening remarks, Huizenga took direct aim at actors he said are tied to U.S. adversaries attempting to influence the American public, including Singham, CodePink and Marxist influencer Hasan Piker.

“We are here today because America’s adversaries – China, Cuba, Iran, and Russia – are conducting covert influence campaigns to shape American thought and society through lies and censorship. These countries have one shared goal: to weaken the United States of America,” Huizenga

“A prominent example of these adversary efforts is Neville Roy Singham, who lives in China and uses his wealth and relationships with the CCP to provide millions of dollars and personnel to extremist groups like CodePink, the People’s Forum, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation to destabilize American society and promote communist ideology,” he continued.

Witnesses warn of foreign malign influence

A hub for pro-communist organizing in New York City, People’s Forum has received $22.44 million from Singham.

The first to testify, Gonzalez said a “red-green” alliance of far-left groups working with Islamist organizations channel money through intermediary organizations and donor funds before directing funds toward U.S.-based groups that organize protests and produce political messaging.

Gonzalez pointed to Cuba and China’s influence operations as the basis of a “sustained campaign of subversion against the United States.”

He described BreakThrough News as a media platform that amplifies demonstrations and promotes narratives aligned with Beijing, while arguing that the network’s causes — including Gaza, Cuba, Venezuela, the environment and social justice — provide a constantly changing set of rallying points. BreakThrough BT Media runs BreakThrough News and has received $1.098 million from Singham, according to Fox News Digital’s reporting.

The testimony also focused on Singham’s connections in Shanghai. Gonzalez cited research saying Singham shares premises with Maku Cultural Communication, a Chinese communications firm that promotes a favorable image of China, and was photographed attending a Chinese Communist Party strategic communications workshop in 2023. Gonzalez also pointed to connections between Singham-funded organizations and Chinese state-linked academic and media institutions.

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Singham and CodePink have denied that the organization takes direction from the Chinese government. Singham has said he is guided by his own political beliefs, while Benjamin has said CodePink receives no money from the Chinese Communist Party. No criminal charges have been filed against Singham or the organizations in connection with the allegations.

Soon after, Sam Lyman, head of research at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, presented the network as one of three overlapping channels of influence: Chinese state media and online campaigns, nonprofits supported by Singham, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a Marxist-Leninist organization that works closely with CodePink, People’s Forum and BreakThrough News. Lyman said Singham-funded groups had echoed Chinese messaging on artificial intelligence, data centers and U.S. technology policy, while the Party for Socialism and Liberation organizers helped mobilize opposition to data-center projects across the country.

In the gallery, CodePink’s Benjamin stared at her phone, scrolling through messages.

Lyman said his research identified 21 campaigns linked to the Party for Socialism and Liberation in 14 states that contributed to data-center moratoriums, a permanent ban and the rejection or cancellation of several projects. He estimated that campaigns in which the Party for Socialism and Liberation played a role had delayed, reduced or blocked proposed AI infrastructure investment across the country. He cautioned, however, that opposition to data centers isn’t entirely manufactured and that many Americans had genuine concerns about electricity costs, environmental effects and local development.

Finally, among the Republican witnesses, Matthew Johnson, senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, a think tank, described the Singham network as an intermediary layer that translates themes associated with Beijing — including anti-imperialism, environmental harm, militarization, inequality and opposition to U.S. power — into activist language for American audiences.

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His testimony identified the People’s Forum, BreakThrough News, Tricontinental, CodePink and the communist ANSWER Coalition as part of the broader ecosystem. Tricontinental Ltd. is a Massachusetts-based think tank led by a friend of Singham’s, Vijay Prashad, who led a session on the future of Marxism at Singham’s wedding to Evans. Singham provided $16.76 million to Tricontinental.

“Beijing cannot simply command an American university, company, journalist, think tank or activist,” Johnson said. “It must gain access and cultivate relationships within institutions that shape perception, expertise and decision-making.”

Democratic minority lawmakers called Donald Sherman, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, to the hearing as their witness. His opening remarks offered a dissenting opinion to the other witnesses, criticizing President Donald Trump for accepting a plane for Air Force One from Qatar and taking aim at Trump’s family’s business dealings with nations abroad.

The phrase “Trojan horse” comes from the ancient Greek story in which soldiers concealed themselves inside a wooden horse presented as a gift to the city of Troy. Once the horse was brought inside the city, the soldiers emerged and opened the gates to the invading army.

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In modern foreign influence operations, lawmakers used the “Trojan horse” metaphor to describe seemingly legitimate people, organizations, media outlets, nonprofits or cultural initiatives that can provide hidden access for a foreign power’s interests. The concern is that a foreign government, foreign intelligence service, wealthy foreign actor or proxy may use that structure to gain access to American audiences, political debates, institutions, policymaking or elections.

CodePink members booted from hearing

After the last witness spoke, about 30 minutes into the hearing, Huizenga briefly suspended proceedings while U.S. Capitol Police approached Benjamin and her fellow agitators.

“We do have some folks who have not verbally disrupted the committee as of yet,” Huizenga said. “This has been deemed to be a protest by the clerk because of the nature of the shirts and what is happening.”

The shirts were still visible on the official feed of the hearing behind the witnesses.

Video from inside the hearing room shows a Capitol Police officer approaching Benjamin at her seat and asking her to leave. Benjamin complied but protested.

As the activists huddled outside with Capitol Police officers, ranking member Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif., objected to the removal, saying the activists were “exercising their freedom of speech by wearing T-shirts” and “certainly were not being disruptive.”

On Sept. 15, 2026, CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin poses outside the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing room, a Trader’s Joe bag beside her feet.(Asra Q. Nomani)

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Outside, Benjamin kept the performance going, strategically positioning herself beside the bronze committee placard and started filming a video about the political spectacle just staged, her Trader Joe bag beside her feet. Suddenly, she cut filming when she spotted Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., exiting the hearing room. Chasing after Fine, a strong opponent of the anti-semitism of the “red-green alliance” and a strong supporter of Israel, Benjamin hurled questions at her, her team filming the chase.

After Fine entered an office, Benjamin returned to her spot outside the Foreign Affairs Committee hearing room, pulled out a comb to straighten her hair and returned to filming her remarks about the day’s hearing. The video complete, Benjamin disappeared down the hall with her fellow CodePink agitators.

Soon after, CodePink published videos of their members disrupting a House Financial Services Committee to heckle Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. As Fox News Digital has reported, Bessent’s Treasury Department has been investigating CodePink and other organizations for possibly violating restrictions on doing business with the Communist Party of Cuba.

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Then, just about two hours after being escorted out of the hearing room, at 4:38 p.m., the CodePink team posted a carefully edited 43-second video of Benjamin standing outside the hearing room and chasing Fine, packaging the day’s confrontation into a ready-made social-media clip.

Far-left activists from the Singham network quickly shared the CodePink video.

Fox News Digital’s Jesse Watson contributed to this report.

Asra Nomani is senior editor of investigations at Fox News Digital. She is a former reporter at the Wall Street Journal, where she covered stories related to money, politics and society. She is the author of “Woke Army: The Left-Green Alliance That Is Undermining America’s Freedom.”_ She can be reached at asra.nomani@fox.com and on X at @asranomani.

Ex-Dem lawmaker receives GOP nod in uphill race to challenge top Senate Democrat

2026-09-15T20:32:33-04:00 / Fox News

Mike Katz will seek to upset the Dem incumbent in a state that hasn’t seen a Republican senator in decades

By Alec Schemmel Fox News

Published September 15, 2026 8:32pm EDT | Updated September 15, 2026 8:50pm EDT

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Former Democratic state lawmaker Mike Katz won Delaware’s Republican Senate primary Tuesday, sending the state’s GOP-backed candidate into a November fight against the Democratic nominee for a seat Republicans have not won in more than three decades.

Katz defeated retired Army colonel John Shulli in the two-way Republican primary and will face three-term Democratic Sen. Chris Coons in the Nov. 3 general election.

Katz, a pediatric anesthesiologist and business owner, previously served in the Delaware state Senate as a Democrat after winning election to the chamber in 2008. He represented the state’s 4th Senate District until losing his re-election bid in 2012.

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WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 27: U.S. Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) walks through the Senate Subway in the U.S. Capitol on January 27, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Senate confirmed Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary in a 68-29 vote.(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The anesthesiologist has crossed party lines during his political career. Katz ran for U.S. Senate in 2024 as the Independent Party candidate, finishing third behind Democrat Lisa Blunt Rochester and Republican Eric Hansen with about 4% of the vote.

He later registered his 2026 Senate candidacy as a Republican, according to Federal Election Commission records.

Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Delaware Dr. Mike Katz.(Dr. Mike Katz for Delaware)

Katz entered Tuesday’s contest as the Delaware Republican Party’s endorsed candidate. His campaign has focused on lowering the cost of living, reforming health care, protecting jobs in Delaware, and reducing federal spending, according to his campaign website.

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Katz characterized his move to the Republican Party as an alignment with long-held beliefs rather than a shift in his political views, telling FOX 29 that re-registering as a Republican “was not a change in principle” but an alignment with principles he had held for decades.

“Our campaign is building a coalition. A coalition of Republicans, Independents and Democratic voters to win this race in November to defeat Chris Coons,” Katz told supporters in an ad ahead of Tuesday’s primary.

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Katz will attempt to snap a decades-long losing streak for the party in Delaware Senate races. The GOP has not won a U.S. Senate election in the state since Republican Sen. William Roth won re-election in 1994.

Alec Schemmel is a Politics Reporter for Fox News Digital who is originally from Charlotte, North Carolina but now resides in the Washington D.C.-Baltimore Metro Area.

Trump admin imposes new visa restrictions over alleged racial discrimination, land seizures in South Africa

2026-09-15 20:11 EDT / Fox News

The State Department will target foreign nationals it says are responsible for policies against Afrikaners and minorities

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Published September 15, 2026 8:11pm EDT | Updated September 15, 2026 8:15pm EDT

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Fox News senior foreign policy correspondent Gillian Turner details the State Department’s record-setting revocation of more than 150,000 U.S. visas, a majority being revoked over criminal activity, on ‘Special Report.’

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The Trump administration announced new visa restrictions Tuesday targeting foreign nationals in South Africa who it says are responsible for race-based discrimination, uncompensated land seizures or inciting imminent violence against racial and ethnic minorities.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the policy under a provision of federal immigration law allowing him to deem foreign nationals inadmissible when their entry into the U.S. could have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences.

The restrictions will target foreign nationals who are responsible for, or complicit in, enacting or implementing laws or policies that the State Department says enable uncompensated land seizures, race-based discrimination or the incitement of imminent violence against minority ethnic or racial groups in South Africa.

RUBIO UNVEILS VISA RESTRICTIONS TARGETING CYBERCRIME NETWORKS

President Donald Trump meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, May 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Evan Vucci/AP Photo, File)

Rubio sharpened the administration’s criticism of the South African government in a post on X announcing the restrictions Tuesday.

“As @POTUS has made clear, the South African people are being failed by a government that is destroying its economy through an obsessive pursuit of racial grievance against the Afrikaner minority,” Rubio wrote.

Rubio accused South Africa’s government of failing to adequately address rural crime, what he described as “violent and dehumanizing rhetoric,” and discriminatory policies targeting Afrikaners and other minority groups.

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“Those responsible for these injustices have no place in the United States,” Rubio wrote.

Family members may also be subject to the restrictions, according to the State Department.

The announcement marks the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s dispute with the South African government over its treatment of Afrikaners and other minority populations.

‘NARCO-TERRORIST’ FAMILY MEMBERS TARGETED IN RUBIO’S LATEST VISA CRACKDOWN

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, File)

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February 2025 directing federal agencies to halt aid to South Africa to the extent permitted by law and directing the State and Homeland Security departments to prioritize humanitarian relief for Afrikaners who the administration says are victims of racial discrimination.

The order specifically cited South Africa’s Expropriation Act and accused the government of enabling the seizure of Afrikaner agricultural property without compensation, along with pursuing other discriminatory policies.

President Donald Trump shows press clippings during an Oval Office meeting at the White House in May 2025.(Evan Vucci/AP Photo, File)

Rubio said Tuesday that the administration does not believe South Africa has adequately addressed its concerns.

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The new restrictions are being imposed under Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, according to the State Department.

The White House and State Department did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.

Jasmine Baehr is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital, where she covers politics, the military, legal debates surrounding life and family policy, as well as faith and culture.

Dem senator defeats challenger named ‘No-Trump’ in Delaware primary

September 15, 2026 8:19pm EDT / Fox News

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., discusses the Trump administration’s efforts in the Iran conflict and responds to fallout surrounding Jill Biden’s comments on the 2024 presidential debate on ‘Fox News Sunday.’

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A Democratic stalwart cruised to a primary victory in Delaware on Tuesday, including fending off an opponent with an anti-Trump name.

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., easily held on against a small field of primary challengers and clinched the Democratic nomination for Senate in a race for a third term that he’s expected to win in November, and he did it while besting an opponent with an unusual name: E. No-Trump Hansen.

Hansen, formerly known as Eric Hansen, a former business executive, ran on a platform of curbing presidential power. His solution to President Donald Trump’s “worst impulses” was to pass legislation that would limit presidential power to “restore real checks and balances, and root out corruption and self-dealing.”

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Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., speaks during a press conference with the American delegation, consisting of senators and members of the House of Representatives, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Jan. 17, 2026.(Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

“The name E. (Eric) No-Trump Hansen isn’t a gimmick — it’s his complete commitment to positive change,” his campaign website said.

Hansen told local outlet WHYY that he changed his name to reflect his opposition to Trump.

“Trump has said he’ll go after his critics by any means available,” Hansen said. “He will go after me, but I’m willing to bear that risk anyway — because the alternative is letting things get worse for Delawareans.”

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A statement of candidacy filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) showed that Hansen officially began campaigning under his new moniker in July. Previously, Hansen ran as a Republican in 2024 and scored the GOP nomination.

He ultimately lost to Sen. Lisa Blunt-Rochester, D-Del.

Meanwhile, Coons’ victory over Hansen, Jeff Appelhans and Mary Louve tees up a November challenge against either Mike Katz or John Shulli.

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And Coons, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, has history on his side. The lawmaker first entered Congress to replace then-Sen. Joe Biden, who was tapped by former President Barack Obama to be his running mate.

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He won his first full term in 2014 and has maintained his grip on the position ever since. The First State hasn’t sent a Republican to the upper chamber since 1966, when former Sen. J. Caleb Boggs lost re-election.

Boggs was ousted by a 29-year-old Biden, cementing Delaware as a deep-blue stronghold for decades to come.

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

Republican upsets party-backed rival to challenge first openly trans member of Congress

2026-09-15T20:59:20-04:00 / Fox News

Joseph “Dr. Joe” Arminio will take on the first openly trans member of Congress Sarah McBride in November

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Published September 15, 2026 8:59pm EDT | Updated September 15, 2026 9:39pm EDT

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Delaware Republicans nominated political scientist Joseph “Dr. Joe” Arminio for the state’s lone U.S. House seat Tuesday, bypassing both the state GOP’s endorsed candidate and its 2024 nominee to send Arminio into a November match-up against Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del.

Arminio defeated Rev. Earl Cooper, the Delaware Republican Party’s endorsed candidate, and John Whalen, the party’s 2024 nominee, for the seat and a chance to defeat McBride in the Nov. 3 general election.

McBride won Delaware’s at-large House seat in 2024, becoming the first openly transgender person elected to Congress after defeating Whalen by roughly 16 percentage points in the general election.

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Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE) poses for a photograph after joining other congressional freshmen of the 119th Congress for a group photograph on the steps of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol Building on November 15, 2024 in Washington, DC.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

McBride is seeking a second term in a seat Republicans have not won since 2008.

Arminio, a Wilmington native, is a political scientist, author and educator who holds a doctorate in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he focused on national defense policy and international relations, according to WHYY. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Johns Hopkins University and has taught at American University and Lincoln University.

Tuesday’s race was not Arminio’s first congressional campaign, though it was his first in Delaware. He previously sought the Republican nomination in Maryland’s 1st Congressional District in 2008, receiving about 1.6% of the vote in a four-way primary won by Andy Harris, according to WHYY, a public media organization based in Philadelphia.

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Arminio campaigned on economic issues, arguing that excessive public and private debt has squeezed American families. He identified inflation and the cost of groceries, gasoline and housing among the biggest economic challenges facing Delaware.

“The Republican country for that matter is in dire peril,” he told WHYY in an interview. “The economy’s in very bad shape. We’re suffering from crushing private and public debt. So your typical family is having a hard time making ends meet. The young cannot afford to buy a home. They’re having difficulty in their relationships, getting married. It’s very, very serious.”

Arminio will now try to break Democrats’ long-running hold on Delaware’s lone House seat, which the party has controlled since John Carney took over after former U.S. Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del, retired and left office when he did not seek reelection in 2010, instead deciding to run for the U.S. Senate.

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Alec Schemmel is a Politics Reporter for Fox News Digital who is originally from Charlotte, North Carolina but now resides in the Washington D.C.-Baltimore Metro Area.

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美国以色列上周德国秘密会晤阿拉伯国家军事高层

2026年9月16日 11:51 / 联合早报

也门胡塞武装宣传机构9月15日发布的照片，显示与沙特接壤的也门焦夫省，军事车辆遭袭击后不断冒浓烟。 （法新社）

两名以色列官员向美国新闻网站Axios披露，美国和以色列以及多个阿拉伯国家的军事参谋总长上周在德国秘密会晤，讨论了针对伊朗的战争以及中东地区更广泛的紧张局势。

Axios星期二（9月15日）报道，由美国中央司令部司令库珀召集的这次闭门会议，参与国事前均未对外宣布。虽然过去也曾举行类似会议，但这次是自美以与伊朗开战六个多月来，首次举行此类会晤。

与会的中东国家包括沙特阿拉伯、阿拉伯联合酋长国、巴林、科威特、卡塔尔、约旦、埃及。

消息人士说，库珀向与会者做出保证，尽管美军在当地的基地遭到伊朗袭击，但美军绝不会撤出中东地区。同时，他还向与会代表介绍美国旨在保障和扩大霍尔木兹海峡船只通行的计划。

一名以色列官员透露，以色列国防军总参谋长扎米尔向与会各方通报以军多线作战的最新进展。

美国中央司令部发表声明，确认日前在德国主持一场计划内的会议，并与来自八个国家的高级军事将领共同探讨深化中东安全合作的潜在契机。

据悉，以色列和沙特正在美国中央司令部的协助下，探讨以色列如何支持沙特针对也门胡塞武装的军事行动，并参照此前支持阿联酋的模式，提供情报、监视、侦察方面的协助。

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Coast Guard, FBI boarded Texas-bound commercial oil tanker to investigate cyberattack

2026-09-15T22:57:00-0400 / CBS News

Coast Guard personnel and FBI agents boarded a Texas-bound commercial oil tanker last month before it could arrive at a port after determining the ship’s network may have been compromised by a foreign actor as it was crossing the Atlantic, the Coast Guard said Tuesday.

On Aug. 21, a specialized team of Coast Guard law-enforcement personnel, a vessel inspector, Coast Guard Cyber Protection Team members and FBI Cyber Action Team operators boarded an inbound foreign-flagged commercial vessel, the Coast Guard said. The team examined both the vessel’s operational technology and information-technology systems, working with the crew and the ship’s corporate operators to oust the threat.

“Currently, there are no reports of operational disruptions, vessel instability, physical danger to crews, or environmental impacts,” the Coast Guard said Tuesday.

The U.S. has so far not attributed the potential breach to a specific actor, but Iranian state media amplified the story in the weeks following the breach.

The Coast Guard did not identify the ship, but the vessel named in Iranian reports appears to be the VL Prosperity, a 333-meter Liberian-flagged very large crude carrier capable of carrying roughly 2.3 million barrels of oil. Public vessel data shows it was bound for Galveston, Texas, at the time.

Unconfirmed reports of the attack first surfaced publicly after the ship passed through the Strait of Gibraltar, between Spain and Morocco.

On Aug. 20, Iran’s Mehr News Agency reported that VL Prosperity had been attacked on Aug. 7 while sailing from Egypt’s Sidi Kerir terminal toward the United States, losing communications for 30 hours. Mehr, citing an unnamed crew member, alleged that the attackers penetrated engine-room systems, reduced engine cooling flow, increased engine speed and interfered with fuel and lubricating-oil systems.

Four days later, Iran’s Tasnim News Agency published an article: “No American Vessel Is Safe Anymore: Will Cannons Give Way to Codes?”

The U.S. has not provided details on the extent of the possible breach, only confirming there were indications the vessel’s network was compromised. Iranian state media has claimed that hackers obtained control over propulsion, navigation and cargo systems.

The risk of penetrating a commercial oil tanker’s system goes beyond stolen data or disabled communications. Modern tankers use interconnected operational technology, or OT, to control the vessels — with propulsion, navigation and cargo systems all internet-connected. If a hostile state can reach and even hijack those systems remotely, while unlikely, an attacker could theoretically manipulate a vessel’s movement or critical machinery, potentially turning a massive oil tanker into a weapon against a port.

US charges 5 people in alleged Russian-backed murder plots

2026-09-16T03:30:59.981Z / Reuters

By Christian Martinez

September 16, 2026 3:30 AM UTC Updated 28 mins ago

A U.S. Justice Department logo or seal showing Justice Department headquarters, known as “Main Justice,” is seen behind the podium in the Department’s headquarters briefing room in Washington, January 24, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

The United States Department Of Justice

Sept 15 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice has charged five people in connection with alleged Russian plots involving ​surveillance, recruitment and targeted killings, according to an ‌indictment unsealed on Tuesday.

The five people allegedly worked for Russian intelligence services to “conduct attacks and murders around the world, including in ​the United States,” the DOJ said in the indictment, ​adding the individuals were still at large.

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The DOJ said ⁠Russian national Yuri Khrameev, 63; his son, Kirill Khrameev, 27; ​Cuban nationals Oemis Romagoza Durruthy, 35, and Yaidel Delgado ​Suarez, 35; and Venezuelan national Angel Eduardo Castro, 22; were charged with an alleged conspiracy to finance terrorism. Khrameev, Suarez, and Castro ​were also charged with conspiracy to commit murder for ​hire.

Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters the plots included “efforts to murder ‌a ⁠Russian dissident who investigators believed was located in the Washington, D.C., area.”

According to the Justice Department, the network allegedly recruited multiple people in the United States to provide surveillance on Russian ​dissidents, including ​one living in ⁠the U.S. and one in Lithuania.

One recruit was allegedly offered “$40,000 to ‘eliminate’ or ‘disappear’” a person residing ​in the U.S., according to the Justice ​Department. ⁠Last year, another U.S. recruit was allegedly offered $25,000 to kill a person living in Lithuania, it said.

The Russian embassy did not ⁠immediately respond ​to a request for comment. ​Russia has previously denied conducting such plots on foreign soil, including in ​the United States.

Reporting by Christian Martinez; Editing by Michael Perry

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