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GOP Rep Thomas Massie introduces 8 articles of impeachment against War Secretary Pete Hegseth

The Kentucky Republican accuses the Secretary of War of violating the War Powers Resolution in Iran and Yemen

September 15, 2026 2:20pm EDT / Fox News

Thomas Massie moves to impeach Pete Hegseth

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., introduces articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on the House floor on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026.

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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., introduced a resolution to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and read eight articles of impeachment against Hegseth on the House floor Tuesday.

Massie formally entered a resolution to impeach Hegseth for “high crimes and misdemeanors” on the House floor for, among other things, allegedly violating the War Powers Resolution of 1973 in Iran and for his role in the operation that led to former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro’s capture and extradition.

The first three of the eight articles of impeachment Massie introduced accused Hegseth of violating the War Powers Resolution of 1973, arguing that Hegseth’s Department of War is “waging the Iran war despite no declaration of war, statutory authorization, attack on the United States, or imminent threat.”

His first article seeks to establish “that the war was unlawful from its inception.” The second article claims that Hegseth disobeyed Congress after both the House and the Senate directed the removal of troops from Iran. The third article claims that Hegseth is “continuing hostilities in Iran after expiration of the War Powers Resolution’s 60-day termination period and any potential 30-day withdrawal period.”

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U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., introduces a resolution to impeach War Secretary Pete Hegseth in connection with the U.S. conflict with Iran on Sept. 15, 2026.(House TV/Handout via REUTERS)

The fourth and fifth articles accuse Hegseth of refusing to minimize civilian casualties and engaging in extrajudicial killing, with the latter charge accusing Hegseth of “replacing maritime law enforcement with unauthorized lethal military targeting of suspected drug traffickers” during operations striking suspected narcotraffickers in the Caribbean Sea.

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Also related to military action in the Caribbean and South America, Massie’s seventh article accuses Hegseth of the “Kidnapping of a Sovereign Foreign Leader” for his role in Operation Absolute Resolve, the January mission in which U.S. Special Forces apprehended and extracted former Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores from Caracas. Massie’s article condemns Hegseth for doing so “without constitutional or legal authority.”

War Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a press conference on U.S. military action in Iran at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on Mar. 2, 2026.(Brendan Smialowski/AFP/ via Getty Images)

Article six accuses Hegseth of using his authority to suppress the free speech of Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., by retaliating against the senator for his video in which the senator joined a group of other lawmakers in a video which critics claimed encourage active military members to disobey lawful orders.

The final article charges Hegseth with carrying out unlawful orders in Yemen. The article “charges Secretary Hegseth with initiating Operation Rough Rider without congressional authorization or an imminent threat to the United States, while also violating war powers reporting requirements. It further addresses extensive civilian deaths and unlawful strikes on civilian objects, rescuers, and other protected persons.”

After reading out his articles for over an hour on the House floor, Massie closed out his introduction.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., arrives for a House vote on the funding bill to reopen the government on Feb. 3, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

“In all of this, Secretary Hegseth abused the powers entrusted to him as Secretary of Defense by subordinating the constitutional limits on the use of military force and the laws governing the conduct of hostilities to his own policy objectives,” Massie said.

Massie also added that Hegseth “has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to civilians, the lawful conduct of United States military operations, the integrity and credibility of the United States Armed Forces and the Constitution, if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with his duties, and the rule of law.

This, Massie said, “warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.”

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Trump-aligned Kennedy Center board votes to close institution immediately for renovations, source says

2026-09-15 15:26 EDT / CBS News

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The Trump-aligned Kennedy Center board voted to immediately close the institution for renovations, a source familiar with the vote said, after President Trump and his allies on the board repeatedly warned of financial and physical ruin for the center if no action is taken.

Earlier Tuesday, a federal judge again blocked the board — which is chaired by Mr. Trump and composed of his Cabinet members and political allies — from adding Mr. Trump’s name to the building after he had previously ordered it to be removed.

“Defendants cannot install memorials for President Trump or anyone or anything else at the Kennedy Center without Congress’s blessing,” U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said in his ruling.

Cooper’s ruling came in response to the board’s vote in August to add the inscription “Renovated and Restored by President Donald J. Trump” beneath the Kennedy Center’s name on the building.

Last December, the board had voted to rename the center “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts,” and added Mr. Trump’s name to the facade. Judge Cooper ruled in May that Mr. Trump’s name had been added illegally and ordered its removal. At the time, he also blocked the administration from closing the venue for renovations.

Since Mr. Trump’s name was removed, the exterior wall displaying the Kennedy Center’s name has been obscured by a tarp-covered scaffold.

Lawyers for the Justice Department argued in court filings in the lawsuit that the center’s “dangerously dilapidated, outdated, and decrepit” conditions and recent financial losses put the living memorial to President John F. Kennedy in a “financial and structural death spiral” that requires it to be closed for renovations.

Last year, Congress approved $250 million for the renovation project.

In a Truth Social post shortly after the board voted Tuesday, Mr. Trump said that construction would not begin on the center until after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rules on a Justice Department appeal of Cooper’s earlier order barring the first renaming, with Mr. Trump’s name on the building.

“If the ruling is a negative one, which it should not be, and is not overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Reconstruction and the Renovation of The Kennedy Center will not take place,” Mr. Trump said, adding that he has raised $17 million so far in donations to send to the center to “keep it afloat.”

The source of the donations mentioned by Mr. Trump was not disclosed, and it’s unclear where the donations are going.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/doj-in-court-defend-kennedy-center-board-new-push-add-trump-name-building/

Thomas Massie pushes surprise impeachment vote of Pete Hegseth

2026-09-15T18:15:01.674Z / CNN

House Democrats were privately dreading a politically charged — but purely symbolic — vote on impeaching President Donald Trump triggered by one of their own members.

Then came something unexpected.

Just hours before that vote, GOP Rep. Thomas Massie surprised his colleagues with a push to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a stunning act of intraparty warfare that deepens the rogue congressman’s rift with Trump and GOP leaders.

Massie’s push to impeach Hegseth, like the Democratic push to impeach Trump, is doomed to fail. Yet both votes have created headaches for their respective party leaders, neither of whom want to spend the final days in session before the midterms dealing with impeachment drama that exposes intraparty rifts.

Massie’s impeachment push — with dozens of pages of legal arguments — appeared to have been in the works for weeks. But he told reporters Tuesday that he did not inform party leaders of his plans to introduce the articles of impeachment against Hegseth.

Republicans do not want to watch Massie make history as the first member of Congress to try to impeach a Cabinet member of the same party — particularly after he lost his primary to a Trump-backed opponent this spring. And they’re furious he made the move without informing leadership, according to multiple sources.

“I didn’t give anybody heads-up,” Massie told reporters Tuesday afternoon. “When they found out I was doing the Epstein discharge petition, they canceled two weeks of Congress, and I think if they found out I was going to do this, they might have canceled even more days.”

Democrats, meanwhile, are irritated that their colleague — Rep. Al Green, who also lost his primary in May — is forcing the impeachment vote at a time when Republicans would otherwise be facing pressure on tariffs, gas prices and AI. Their moods lifted, however, once Massie took to the floor to announce his intention to force a vote to impeach Hegseth.

“Just when you think Al Green screws us, Massie turns around and gives it right back to the Rs,” one Democratic aide quipped.

Just ahead of a seven-week recess, the House is now confronting dueling impeachment headaches — both from members who won’t be in Congress next year and who have proved uncontrollable by party leaders.

The House is set to hold a vote to table — or block — the Trump impeachment resolution Tuesday afternoon. It’s not clear when a vote will be held on the Hegseth impeachment measure, but it could take place this week. Party leaders must hold a vote within the coming days — unless they decide to send the House home early.

In his 34-page resolution, Massie argues that Hegseth has repeatedly abused the powers of his office in leading the US war with Iran, including carrying out unlawful orders and continuing to keep troops deployed without authorization from Congress.

Hegseth, he argued, “has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with his duties and the rule of law.” Massie spent multiple hours reading aloud his resolution on the House floor.

Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday defended Hegseth in light of the impeachment push, arguing that he “follows the law.”

“Secretary Hegseth is doing a phenomenal job, and the secretary of war doesn’t just go off and do things. So, he follows the law. And so the DOJ plays a role in that, and we play an active role in making sure the laws are complied with,” Blanche said while holding a press briefing in the White House Rose Garden.

The impeachment resolution touched on more than Iran. Massie also took aim at Hegseth for what he called the “kidnapping of a sovereign foreign leader” in Venezuela, referring to the capture of then-President Nicolás Maduro. He accused the Pentagon of kidnapping the nation’s leader “under the guise of narcotics law enforcement, though in actuality intended to assert U.S. control over Venezuela’s oil reserves.”

Democrats’ resolution, meanwhile, is less politically explosive for the party. Still, it requires a tricky calculation for the party in the minority.

The party has impeached Trump twice already when they held the majority in his first term. But House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his leadership team have been careful to keep their political focus on the rising cost of living. Democrats’ path back into the majority will need to come through battleground seats that Trump has previously won — and they do not want to alienate independent and GOP voters with impeachment rhetoric.

But Democrats also know their base detests Trump, with many voters eager to see him impeached a third time.

Jeffries and his leadership team said in a joint statement Monday night that they will vote “present” — rather than committing to an up or down vote — on a procedural measure related to Green’s impeachment push.

“Impeachment is a sacred constitutional vehicle designed to hold a corrupt executive accountable for abuse of power, breaking the law and violating the public trust,” they said, noting the process requires “comprehensive investigative” work to lay out the evidence and convince the American public, which they said Green has not done.

CNN’s Lauren Fox and Ellis Kim contributed to this report.

FBI director insists new hiring standards on prostitution and bestiality were only meant to assist sexual assault victims

September 15, 2026 / 3:50 PM EDT / CBS News

FBI Director Kash Patel on Tuesday defended his agency’s decision to lower its hiring standards, after he faced a barrage of questions from incredulous lawmakers who demanded to know why engaging in acts of bestiality is no longer an automatic disqualifier for employment.

In a series of extraordinary exchanges with both Democratic and Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patel insisted that several changes were made to ensure that victims of sexual assault or trafficking involving animals were not precluded from employment at the FBI.

“We did not want to punish victims of bestiality, victims who were trafficked,” Patel told Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin during an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“We did not want to make it an automatic disqualification for the FBI to consider you if you are a victim of these awful, heinous acts. They still have to go through the same rigorous standards and application process,” Patel added.

Tuesday’s hearing marked the first time that Patel has publicly addressed the new hiring standards related to prostitution, employment theft and bestiality, after CBS News first reported about them in August.

Previously, anyone who engaged in such conduct was automatically precluded from working at the bureau.

Now, a person can still be considered eligible in certain circumstances.

For prostitution, job candidates can still be hired as long as they have not hired sex workers or engaged in acts of prostitution three or more times and the conduct took place more than 10 years ago.

For employment theft, a person can be considered if the theft took place more than three years ago, and for bestiality, a job candidate can still be eligible as long as the acts occurred before the age of 18, multiple sources familiar with the changes previously told CBS News.

Sources previously told CBS News that the new eligibility requirements do not distinguish between candidates who were coerced into sexual activity with animals, as opposed to those who engaged in such acts willingly.

On the eve of the hearing, Democrats from the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Patel demanding a “full accounting” for why such changes were made and asked the bureau to provide “the number of applicants hired, extended conditional offers, or placed under case-by-case review since June 16, 2026, whose files would previously have been automatically disqualified, broken out by category of conduct.”

Lawmakers on Tuesday from both sides of the aisle repeatedly grilled Patel over the decision, with most of them primarily focusing their questions on the changes related to acts of bestiality.

“Tell me what it said before,” Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana asked, referring to the automatic disqualification for acts of bestiality.

“It automatically disqualified any individual who participated on either side of it. Obviously, we are never going to hire the criminal side,” Patel said.

“Either side of what, the bestiality?” Kennedy asked.

“Yes,” Patel responded.

“So you disqualified the animal?” Kennedy responded.

“Well, we have great canines,” Patel said.

“I’m trying to understand why you did this,” Kennedy continued. “Why would you even get into bestiality?”

Patel told lawmakers that some FBI applicants were trafficked and forced to engage in “degrading acts” such as those involving animals, and the changes were meant to assist people in that category.

“Some of these individuals would go on to be law enforcement officers, who qualified to be law enforcement officers and later applied to the FBI,” Patel said.

Patel also told Kennedy that the changes related to prostitution were meant to ensure that victims who were forced into the act were not precluded from employment.

“It’s not if you frequented a prostitute. It’s if you were a prostitute?” Kennedy asked.

“If you were, yes, the victim forced into it,” Patel responded.

The internal changes to the automatic disqualification, however, relate to both the solicitation and engagement of prostitution, sources previously told CBS News, and an FBI spokesperson also previously acknowledged that the changes might also apply to an applicant who admits to hiring a sex worker in a place where it is lawful.

Current and former FBI agents and legal experts familiar with the bureau’s hiring practices previously told CBS News they were deeply troubled by the changes, saying it is indicative of challenges the FBI may be having with recruiting new talent.

Several also said they were baffled by how the bureau was justifying the changes, noting that all applicants have an opportunity to disclose personal issues that could impact the results of their polygraph prior to taking the test, such as a history of sexual abuse.

Patel did not explain during the hearing why the bureau has lowered the standards for candidates who may have stolen in the past from their employers.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/kash-patel-defends-changes-fbi-hiring-standards-questioning-senate-hearing/

Kash Patel defends changes to FBI hiring standards during questioning at Senate hearing

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Iran war expected to cause a spike in US inflation, according to budget watchdog

2026-09-15T18:06:48.945Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/15/politics/cbo-releases-iran-war-cost-estimate

The US war with Iran is expected to increase inflation for the first quarter of 2027, raising costs at a time Americans are growing more concerned about the economy, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday,

The CBO expects the Iran war to add roughly 0.5 percentage points to inflation during that period, a calculation that is largely driven by higher energy costs due to the conflict.

The office said, in a letter to Congress, that the projected spike was tied to the “inflationary pressures caused by the reduction in shipments of oil and natural gas through the Strait of Hormuz and disruptions to shipping through the Red Sea (which have intensified since CBO completed the analysis underlying this letter).”

On top of the impact on the US economy, the CBO estimates the war has cost approximately $38 billion through August 1. The estimate does not include the cost to repair US facilities damaged during the war, with most of the price tag coming from munitions expenditures, the office said.

“CBO estimates that the cost to replace the munitions expended through August 1, 2026, is $21.7 billion: $7.3 billion for the land-attack cruise missiles, $13.1 billion for the missile defense interceptors, and $1.2 billion for other munitions,” the letter said. “Replacing those munitions has been the largest single component of the costs incurred by DoD during the conflict, CBO estimates.”

The CBO estimates the war will continue to cost the US approximately $2 billion to $3 billion per month past August 1, with higher costs estimated during periods of escalated fighting.

But the CBO said it would not provide a full accounting of the war’s cost as requested by lawmakers given limitations in available data.

“The estimates that CBO was asked to produce for each category of costs are the result of separate analyses that reflect disparate data, methods, time periods, and magnitudes of uncertainty,” the office said. “Thus, the estimates for each category are not directly comparable or summable.”

The CBO estimate closely tracks what the Pentagon has told Congress, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth putting the cost at $37.5 billion through July 21 during testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee. The Defense Department’s estimates similarly do not include the cost of repairing facilities. In some cases, the US government may simply decline to rebuild assets that were severely damaged or destroyed by Iranian attacks — in part due to cost considerations, sources previously told CNN.

Pentagon officials have publicly refused to say what they might rebuild and declined to respond to CBO’s request for information.

Pentagon comptroller Jules “Jay” Hurst III told reporters in April it was not clear how much it would cost to repair bases and facilities damaged in the war, “and part of it is we would assess what our posture should be in the Middle East.”

Hurst later added that the Pentagon does not “have a final number for what the damage is to our installations overseas,” and it depends “on how we decide to rebuild those, or if we do.”

The CBO also conducted an analysis of US stockpiles, and found that the war has significantly depleted munitions, including interceptor stockpiles. That assessment matches a Pentagon inspector general report released Monday that described a critical missile shortage.

Experts warn this could reduce the military’s capacity to respond to another major conflict. Rebuilding the US stockpile could take five years or longer, the CBO reported.

The CBO released these estimates in response to a request from House Democrats on the Budget Committee who have pressed for specifics on how much the US-Iran war is costing.

“Donald Trump’s disastrous war in Iran has already taken the lives of brave American servicemembers and left others wounded. Beyond that human toll, this nonpartisan CBO report makes clear that the war has also cost American taxpayers tens of billions of dollars and counting, while continuing to drive up costs,” Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle, the committee’s ranking member, said in a statement to CNN.

NATO jets shoot down drone in Lithuanian airspace as Russia grows ‘increasingly reckless,’ Rutte says

September 15, 2026 8:56am EDT / Fox News

Two Italian Eurofighter Typhoons scrambled overnight and destroyed the drone, which officials say likely entered from Belarus

By Bradford Betz Fox News

Two Italian Eurofighter Typhoons operating under NATO command scrambled overnight and shot down a drone over Lithuania, marking the first time a drone has been downed in the Baltic nation’s airspace, officials said Tuesday.

The incident came less than a day after NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned that strikes close to alliance territory would drive the 32-nation bloc to increase its support for Ukraine.

The drone was destroyed near the village of Pratkūnai, about 60 miles northwest of the capital, Vilnius.

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Lithuanian soldiers are securing the area where Italian fighter jets during NATO’s Baltic Air Policing Mission shot down a drone early morning near Pratkunai village, Kaisiadorys district roughly 60 miles northwest of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026.

“Last night, two Italian Eurofighters deployed on NATO Air Defence mission at Siauliai, scrambled and shot down a drone over Lithuanian airspace,” a NATO official told Fox News Digital. “The operation was coordinated through NATO’s Combined Air Operations Centre in Uedem, Germany. Investigations are ongoing together with national authorities.”

Lithuanian officials said the drone most likely entered from neighboring Belarus and remained in the country’s airspace for about 30 minutes before it was intercepted.

Lithuanian soldiers are securing the area where Italian fighter jets during NATO’s Baltic Air Policing Mission shot down a drone early this morning near Pratkunai village.(AP Photo)

Lithuanian Air Force Commander Antanas Matutis said the recovered drone was “likely” carrying explosives.

Authorities are examining the wreckage of the downed drone to determine its origin and purpose.

The incident comes amid heightened tensions along NATO’s eastern flank.

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Speaking in Brussels on Monday, Rutte said strikes “close to NATO territory” showed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “desperation and also his desire to sow fear and terror.”

“Russia is growing increasingly reckless as it continues its terrible war against Ukraine,” Rutte said, while pledging to strengthen NATO defenses along its eastern flank.

Debris of what, according to the Lithuanian national crisis management centre, was a drone shot down by a NATO fighter jet, lies on the ground near Pratkunai village, Lithuania, September 15, 2026, in this screengrab from a handout video.(Lithuanian Army/Handout via Reuters)

In a separate incident Tuesday, Denmark said a Russian frigate fired flares toward a Danish military helicopter conducting routine surveillance over the Baltic Sea. Denmark summoned the Russian ambassador over the encounter.

Meanwhile, Russia continued drone strikes across Ukraine, killing three people in Kyiv, Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, according to Ukrainian officials.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv remained ready to support de-escalation if the U.S. could ensure Russia was prepared to stop its attacks. Ukrainian forces also struck an oil refinery in Syzran and targeted a drone production facility in Taganrog, he said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Bradford Betz is a Fox News Digital breaking reporter covering crime, political issues, and much more.

北京香山论坛登场 日本政府相关人士未获邀参加

2026年9月15日 23:49 / 联合早报

• 第十三届北京香山论坛开幕，近一百个国家和地区代表参会。日本防卫研究所研究人员未获邀请，驻华使馆武官也未参加。 – 美国原定由战争部首席主任卡拉斯率团，但据知她因病无法出席，或改由驻华使馆高级国防官员率团，规格回到去年水平。 – 前日本首相鸠山由纪夫以民间人士身份参加论坛高端访谈，据台媒报道他在活动中再次呼吁高市早苗收回涉台言论。 – 中国国家副主席韩正在欢迎晚宴致辞称中国始终是和平力量；本届论坛为期三天，议题包括中美战略稳定关系等。

北京香山论坛于9月15日至17日在北京国际会议中心举行。本届论坛主题为“凝聚稳定共识同促安全治理”，设置四场全体会议和八场平行分组专题研讨。图为北京香山论坛会场外景，摄于9月15日。 （中新社）

（北京／东京／华盛顿综合讯）第十三届北京香山论坛星期三（9月16日）开幕，近100个国家、地区和国际组织代表将参会。不过，隶属日本国防部的防卫研究所研究人员今年没有收到邀请，驻华使馆武官也未参加；美国原本由战争部负责中国事务的首席主任卡拉斯率团，但据知她因故无法出席。

日本共同社星期二（9月15日）引述日中关系知情人士报道，去年参加香山论坛的日本防卫研究所研究人员今年没有收到中方邀请，派驻中国的日本使馆武官也未能参加。

中日关系近来持续紧张。日本首相高市早苗去年11月在国会答辩时发表有关“台湾有事”的言论后，引发北京强烈不满。曾任日本首相、现任日本东亚共同体研究所理事长的鸠山由纪夫，星期二以民间人士身份参加论坛一场高端访谈。据台湾媒体报道，鸠山在活动中再次呼吁高市收回涉台言论。

美国之音星期二报道，美国战争部证实将由卡拉斯率团出席香山论坛。但据《联合早报》了解，卡拉斯星期二没有出席欢迎晚宴，因故无法赴会。《南华早报》引述消息人士称，卡拉斯因病无法出席。另一消息人士称，将改由美国驻华大使馆高级国防官员、准将Stacy Kihara率团参会。

中国媒体观察者网此前报道，卡拉斯参会并不意味美国参会规格出现“历史性升级”，这一规格仍低于2024年由时任美国国防部负责中国事务的副助理部长蔡斯率团参会的安排，更像是2025年仅派驻华使馆国防武官参会后的回调。卡拉斯无法赴会后，美国代表规格又回到2025年的水平。

中国国家副主席韩正星期二在香山论坛欢迎晚宴上致辞说，中国始终是和平的力量，积极探索“新时代大国正确相处之道”，以实际行动支持推进国际和平事业，带头做世界和平的稳定器。

为期三天的论坛由中国军方智库举办，今年适逢创办20周年。中国国防部发言人蒋斌星期一说，本次论坛共有近100个国家、地区和国际组织官方代表团，以及国内外专家学者参会，其中包括60余位部级和军队总长级以上代表。

本届论坛主题为“凝聚稳定共识 同促安全治理”，设置国际秩序与战略稳定、局部冲突困境与解决之道、亚太安全稳定与风险挑战、发展中国家作用与愿景四场全体会议，并举行八场平行分组探讨及闭门学术会议，议题包括中美战略稳定关系、乌克兰危机、中东和平前景、人工智能与未来战争等。

英美荷联手揭露伊朗间谍软件 目标锁定异议人士

2026年9月15日 23:43 / 联合早报

英国国家网络安全中心（NCSC）说，与伊朗政府有关的黑客组织利用一种名为“CHOSEN BRICK”的间谍软件，通过WhatsApp和Telegram等通讯平台发起“鱼叉式网络钓鱼（spear-phishing）”攻击，窃取电邮、个人信息及其他机密资料。 （档案照片）

英国、美国和荷兰联合发布网络安全通告，详细披露一个与伊朗政府有关的间谍软件，主要针对异议人士、活动人士和记者。

路透社报道，英国国家网络安全中心（NCSC）星期二（9月15日）说，与伊朗政府有关联的网络攻击者利用一种名为“CHOSEN BRICK”的间谍软件，通过WhatsApp和Telegram等通讯平台发起“鱼叉式网络钓鱼（spear-phishing）”攻击，窃取电邮、个人信息及其他机密资料。

NCSC行动部门主任奇切斯特（Paul Chichester）在声明中说：“这项网络攻击行动的细节，揭示了伊朗如何无情地利用数码监控来打压批评政府的人士，包括窃取电邮和信息，以及访问电子设备，以达到其目的。”

根据这份通告，这款恶意软件可从联系人名单、电邮和社交媒体账号收集资料、截取屏幕内容，并访问设备的麦克风。NCSC说，一些受害者的个人资料后来出现在亲伊朗的泄密网站上。

NCSC说，攻击者经常在通讯应用上冒充受害者信任的联系人，并针对不同目标设计不同的诱骗方式。有时，他们还会使用伪造文件，包括虚构的核磁共振（MRI）检查结果，诱骗受害者下载恶意软件。

NCSC与美国联邦调查局（FBI）及荷兰情报机构AIVD说，伊朗“几乎可以肯定”正通过网络手段来辅助当局镇压被视为威胁的目标人物。

美国联邦调查局在通告中说，当局曾在今年3月发出警告。据称，伊朗情报与安全部（MOIS）利用这种恶意软件收集目标资料的行动，而这些资料后来被一个名为“Handala Hack”的黑客组织账号发布到网上。

自伊朗战争爆发以来，“Handala Hack”已针对多家美国企业和个人发动网络攻击，包括今年3月对总部位于密歇根州的医疗用品和服务供应商史赛克（Stryker）发动网络攻击，以及同月泄露美国联邦调查局局长帕特尔（Kash Patel）的个人电邮。

US poverty rate dips to lowest on record, Census Bureau says

2026-09-15 14:25 UTC / Reuters

By Ahmed Aboulenein and Lucia Mutikani

September 15, 2026 2:25 PM UTC Updated 24 mins ago

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WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – The U.S. poverty rate edged down to the lowest on record in 2025, while median household income hit a record high, the Census Bureau said on Tuesday. There were 34.5 million people in poverty in 2025, the agency said.

The decline marked the second consecutive annual drop in the poverty rate and brought it to its lowest level since the bureau began tracking the measure. It came as policymakers debate the impact of federal spending cuts on safety-net programs.

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The poverty rate — the percentage of people living in poverty — dipped 0.5 percentage point to 10.2% last year, the bureau said. The supplemental measure of poverty, which takes into account non-cash government benefits and taxes, was at 13.1%, and the median household income increased 2.6% to $87,460.

In 2025, a family with two adults and two children was classified as in poverty if their annual income was less than $32,649, the bureau said. The official poverty rate for children fell to a historic low of 13.4% in 2025.

Most people in the United States had health insurance for some or all of 2025, the bureau said, but 26.7 million people, or 7.9% of the population, did not have health coverage at any time.

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This was not a significant change from the previous year, the bureau said, and the uninsured rate remained near historic lows.

Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein and Lucia Mutikani; Additional reporting by Katharine Jackson; Editing by Hugh Lawson and Xevi Fontgloria

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民调：逾六成马国人视稳定工作和房子为人生成功标准

2026年9月15日 23:55 / 联合早报

益普索市场研究集团（Ipsos）日前发布的民调显示，67%的马国受访者认为拥有一份稳定的全职工作是成功人生的重要标志；60%的人则认为是购买自己的房子。 （示意图/iStock）

民调显示，约三分之二马来西亚人认为，拥有一份稳定的全职工作和自己的房子，是成功人生的重要标准。

《中国报》报道，益普索市场研究集团（Ipsos）日前发布一份“人生愿景2026：马来西亚人如何定义成功”的调查报告，相较于全球其他地区，马国民众更重视家庭作为人生里程碑；婚姻和为人父母在他们对成功人生的定义中占据更重要的位置。

这显示，衡量人生进展不仅在于个人取得的成就，也在于他们建立和支持的家庭。

调查显示，67%受访者认为拥有一份稳定的全职工作是成功人生的重要标志；60%的人则认为是购买自己的房子；成为父母和结婚分别占47%和42%。

其中，各世代对成功人生的基本看法大致相同，稳定与拥有自己的房子始终是最重要的成功指标之一。然而，与千禧一代相比，Z世代较不看重传统的家庭大事，结婚和为人父母的排名也较低。

不过，调查显示，购置房产被视为最难实现的目标，虽然79%受访者预计自己将搬入属于自己的房子，但只有46%已经实现。“约四分之三的马国人希望拥有自己的房子，但已实现的人不到一半，反映出当地住房市场普遍面对的可负担性挑战。”

这项调查访问501名马国人，他们年龄介于18岁至74岁。受访者涵盖不同背景，以反映整体成年人口的看法。