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Ex-NFL cheerleader battles former gubernatorial aide in tight GOP primary race

September 10, 2026 1:00am EDT / Fox News

The winner faces an uphill battle in November after Dem incumbent governor lost primary Wednesday

By Leo Briceno, Fox News

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Elaine Pelino, a former NFL cheerleader and publisher pitching herself as the party-line choice, and Aaron Guckian, a former aide to former Gov. Donald Carcieri and a more centrist candidate are locked in a GOP primary that remained too close to call by early Thursday morning.

The race centered on experience and qualifications as Republicans hope they have found a candidate to win over a historically Democratic-leaning state.

SENATE REPUBLICAN PUSHES OVERHAUL TO CUT RED TAPE AND SPEED UP AMERICAN ENERGY PROJECTS

Aaron Guckian, left, pictured alongside Elaine Pelino, right.(Guckian for Governor; Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

In the last election, Daniel McKee, the then-Democratic candidate and current governor of Rhode Island, beat out Republican challenger Ashley Kalus in a 57.9% to 38.9% victory.

Among other priorities in her campaign, Pelino promised to champion merit-based hiring, support law enforcement, immigration law and school choice.”This is what I’m going to do. I’m learning. Everything is a learning [curve] because I’m not a lifetime politician. I’m here because I love Rhode Island. And I want them to have a great life. I want them to live in a prosperous and safe place. We should get all the illegals out of here,” Pelino said at a candidate forum.

DEM INCUMBENT BECOMES FIRST SITTING GOVERNOR TO LOSE PRIMARY SINCE 2018

Rhode Island Governor, Donald Carcieri, speaks to the media February 22, 2003 in West Warwick, Rhode Island.(Douglas McFadd/Getty Images)

Before her time in politics, Pelino had a wide range of experience, working as a model, in media and even as a cheerleader for the Houston Oilers, the football team that would eventually become the NFL’s Tennessee Titans. Later, in 2011, she founded Tigress magazine, which published 12 issues.

For his part, Guckian took a far more policy-centric approach, committing to overhaul Rhode Island’s permitting, improve service delivery and tighten use of the state’s revenue. He argued that the state’s budget growth had “gone too far.”

“The state budget increased from $9.3 billion in 2019 to more than $14 billion between 2024 and 2026, nearly 50% growth in five years, even as federal COVID relief dollars are expiring,” Guckian said on his campaign website.

“Rhode Island made a critical mistake. We built permanent commitments on temporary federal money.”

SELF-FUNDED CEO CLAIMS GOP NOMINATION TO CHALLENGE MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRAT’S SECOND-TERM BID

Aerial view of Rhode Island State Capitol in Providence Rhode Island.(Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Once one of them has secured the primary, Pelino or Guckian will face an uphill battle in the Nov. 3 general election.

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

Trump’s Iran campaign echoes the post-9/11 ‘forever wars’

2026-09-10T05:04:02.653Z / Reuters

WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – When Donald Trump campaigned for a second term in the White House, he promised to be a “president of peace” who would stop foreign wars, not start them.

Now, a quarter-century after the September 11, 2001, attacks that triggered America’s global “war on terror,” he is entangled in an unpopular conflict of his own making that analysts say risks becoming his version of a “forever war.”

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With the 9/11 anniversary at hand, Trump’s war against Iran is drawing comparisons in foreign policy circles to the ​long, divisive conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq that preceded it. It is also prompting questions about whether the U.S. has again failed to learn the lessons of past conflicts or prepare a clear exit strategy.

“Trump ‌has broken an important post-Iraq and Afghanistan constraint in Washington against launching another major, open-ended war in the Middle East,” said Sina Toossi of the Center for International Policy, a Washington think tank. “That could leave his successor inheriting … an entrenched U.S.-Iran confrontation.”

Administration officials have said the war against Iran is nothing like the protracted post-9/11 engagements.

During the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. removed hostile governments, committed thousands of ground troops who took and held territory, suffered and inflicted much higher casualties and struggled to instill Western-style governance.

This time, the U.S. is relying mainly on air and naval power, operations that ​have damaged Iran militarily and economically but have not defeated it or spurred Iranians to overthrow their rulers as Trump initially urged.

But after six months of war, the United States is mired in a battle of attrition punctuated by bursts of ​hostilities – exemplified by this week’s exchange of attacks on oil tankers – while Trump tries to tighten the economic noose around Tehran.

Analysts warn it is likely to drag on well past the U.S. midterm ⁠elections in November, when voters’ opposition to the war could threaten Trump’s Republican Party’s chances of keeping control of Congress.

And, much like those earlier conflicts, there is no obvious exit even as the economic costs weigh on U.S. consumers.

Tehran’s disruption of oil shipments ​through the Strait of Hormuz has pushed U.S. gasoline prices higher. The war has weakened Trump’s approval ratings and undermined Washington’s international standing, which was also one of the repercussions from the Iraq and Afghan wars.

White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said Trump alone had “possessed the courage” ​to confront Iran over its nuclear program, that he had achieved all of his objectives and Iran’s economy was being crippled by stepped-up sanctions and a U.S. maritime blockade.

She did not respond directly to Reuters’ questions on how the Iran conflict fits into America’s legacy of post-9/11 wars.

LESSONS IGNORED?

Analysts say Trump has failed to heed the central lessons of the post-9/11 era, which began after al Qaeda militants crashed planes into New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon outside Washington, killing nearly 3,000 people.

Those include the steep political downsides of long wars and the dangers posed by an entrenched foe ​fighting for its survival.

The attacks led to decades of conflict, starting with the invasion of Afghanistan, where al Qaeda leaders were sheltering, and followed by the 2003 invasion of Iraq, based on what turned out to be faulty intelligence that it was developing ​weapons of mass destruction.

The twin wars undertaken by President George W. Bush overstretched the U.S. military and destabilized the Middle East.

The resulting U.S. public backlash helped fuel Trump’s rise a decade ago, and he won a second term in 2024 vowing to avoid military adventurism and focus on ‌Americans’ economic concerns.

But ⁠similar to how the Bush administration underestimated the insurgencies the U.S. would face in Iraq and Afghanistan, Trump and his aides have miscalculated Iran’s resiliency and ability to throttle a fifth of the world’s energy shipments, analysts say.

Notably, Trump’s “Operation Epic Fury” launched alongside Israel on February 28 was not precipitated by a 9/11-type national trauma but was deemed by critics to be a war of choice. Experts have disputed Trump’s claims that Tehran’s nuclear program posed an imminent threat to the U.S.

Iran may be taking a page from Afghanistan’s Taliban, who returned to power five years ago after a chaotic U.S. withdrawal, that a determined foe can outlast Washington’s superior firepower while domestic pressure erodes its resolve.

The Iran conflict has also illustrated the cost of going to war with few allies on board.

Bush ​secured significant international support before launching his Iraq and Afghan campaigns, ​though that backing waned over time.

By contrast, Trump attacked Iran ⁠with little prior consultation or explanation and has found European and Asian leaders mostly resistant to his demands for assistance.

Relations with Trump had already been strained by his threat to seize Greenland, his questioning of NATO’s utility, his reduction of weapons supplies to Ukraine and his sweeping tariffs on trade partners.

HIGH COST FOR ALLIES

The conflict has also mirrored the Iraq invasion in terms of a ​regional spillover that seemed to catch Washington off-guard, in this case Tehran’s retaliation against U.S. Gulf allies.

With Iran’s neighbors quietly seeking to de-escalate a conflict they never wanted, a Gulf official ​lamented that the administration might be ⁠making some of the same errors of the post-9/11 wars.

“What was the (U.S.) strategy here?” asked the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Saudi analyst Aziz Alghashian described “a sense of limitation and helplessness in the Gulf about the wars that are taking place due to the whims of the United States.”

While the Iraq and Afghan wars ended as unpopular conflicts, both started with solid support at home.

Trump’s war enjoyed no such honeymoon in public opinion.

Most Americans were against it from the outset, and he has even drawn criticism from prominent figures associated with his “America First” movement.

Trump had ⁠initially expected to ​replicate his quick win from a January 3 raid that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

But the Iran campaign instead has hardened into an uneasy stalemate that ​has not achieved most of Trump’s shifting objectives, including shutting down its nuclear program, and has depleted the Pentagon’s missile stockpiles.

Still, Trump is not without defenders.

Mark Dubowitz, head of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, an anti-Iran think tank in Washington, denied Trump had plunged the U.S. into an endless war and insisted he ​had scored successes that would eventually bring victory.

“It’s been a 47-year war waged by the Islamic Republic against America,” Dubowitz said. “And now we’ve struck back.”

Reporting and writing by Matt Spetalnick; Additional reporting by Timour Azhari in Riyadh; Editing by Don Durfee and Daniel Wallis

美媒：约旦军事基地多架美军战机受损

2026年9月10日 14:36 / 联合早报

7月14日发布的视频据称显示伊朗从不明地点发射无人机，攻击位于约旦阿兹拉克基地的美军阵地。 （路透社）

美国媒体报道，伊朗日前对约旦军事基地的空袭，导致数架美军战斗机受损。

美军中央司令部星期二（9月8日）说，美军连夜摧毁五艘伊朗油轮，以回应伊朗革命卫队连续两天向一艘美国军舰发射弹道导弹。

伊朗随后在霍尔木兹海峡攻击两艘美国船只和多艘油轮，并向约旦阿兹拉克美军基地发射弹道导弹。

约旦方面说，防空系统拦截18枚导弹，另有两枚落入无人活动地区。不过，据知情人士星期三（9日）向美国哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）透露，多架美军战斗机在伊朗空袭中受损。

熟悉情况的人士说，约有八架F-15战斗机轻微损坏，据称已恢复服役；一架绰号为“疣猪”（Warthog）的A-10“雷电”攻击机被击中，导致一侧机翼缺失。

针对约旦美军基地的袭击没有造成美军人员死亡。

哥伦比亚广播公司还获悉，驻约旦美军发射30多枚“爱国者”导弹，以防御伊朗的袭击。

Cameras disabled, inspectors blocked: Nuclear watchdog asks for help with Iran

2026-09-10T04:01:29.560Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/10/politics/iran-nuclear-program-inspections-iaea

The UN’s nuclear watchdog agency is asking the body to hold Iran accountable for failing to stick with safeguards meant to prevent the development of nuclear weapons, diplomatic officials announced Wednesday.

It’s the latest chapter in a more than decade-long effort to keep an eye on Iran that has seen the country descend from compliance to sabotaging inspection efforts – such as disabling monitoring cameras and “excessively invasive physical searches” of inspectors – according to multiple former officials, diplomats and more than a decade of UN documents reviewed by CNN.

Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with the US and other countries established the world’s most invasive nuclear inspection regime, overseen by the International Atomic Energy Agency. And for years, Tehran’s nuclear program complied with the agency’s inspectors.

But during the years after President Donald Trump withdrew from that deal, Iran gradually and systematically defied its nuclear safeguards, according to contemporaneous IAEA reporting, and the agency later concluded that Iran failed to disclose nuclear material-related sites.

“The Iranians were really playing rope-a-dope and consistently making it hard for the IAEA to get access, presenting information that was laughably not true or plausible,” said a former US diplomat whom CNN granted anonymity to freely discuss the sensitive topic.

The UN nuclear watchdog sometimes downplayed issues for political reasons, including efforts to be less confrontational with Iran, a former IAEA official and a former US diplomat told CNN.

The saga demonstrates the limitations of monitoring and verification in the face of concerted noncompliance, leading top experts to argue that even a full diplomatic solution to the war that includes a new nuclear deal won’t be enough to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb.

“I think for both technical and political reasons … if Iran wants to get the bomb at this point, it’s going to get it,” said James Acton, a physicist who heads the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s nuclear policy division.

Acton told CNN he believes “there’s a 50-50 chance that Iran gets the bomb” within the next three years.

23 governors sitting on the International Atomic Energy Agency voted Wednesday to report Tehran to the Security Council, with Russia, China and Niger voting against the action, which stems from a June 2025 resolution declaring Iran non-compliant with nuclear safeguards.

That resolution came seven months before the current war with Iran, and days before US strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities in Operation Midnight Hammer.

Tehran was last reported to the Security Council in early 2006, and the UN body responded with a cascade of actions including sanctions against the regime. It’s unclear whether the Security Council will respond similarly to Wednesday’s report; Russia and China are permanent members of the body who may unilaterally veto proposed actions.

Iran’s diplomatic mission to the IAEA decried the resolution as “political” and “nonconsensually adopted” in a statement on social media.

IAEA and the JCPOA

The 2015 deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA, followed 20 months of intense negotiations. The JCPOA placed strict limits on the country’s nuclear program — especially around uranium enrichment activity — that would be independently verified by the IAEA.

The JCPOA placed strict limits lasting a decade or more on Iran’s enriched uranium stocks and resulted in the country shipping most of its excess uranium to Russia for destruction. The agreement restricted enrichment centrifuge manufacturing, plutonium reprocessing, nuclear weapons design and other related areas.

The deal also permitted the IAEA to enact the most intrusive monitoring scheme on the planet: seals, cameras, sensors, daily in-person inspections, and a mechanism to investigate suspected covert nuclear facilities.

When the deal went into force in January 2016, the IAEA certified that the Iranians were following its terms. And until mid-2019, Iran remained in compliance with the deal’s access requirements and safeguards on its enrichment centrifuges and declared uranium stockpile despite Trump pulling out of the JCPOA in May 2018.

But Iranian compliance began to unravel in 2019, according to the IAEA’s reports, which were issued on a roughly quarterly basis.

In July 2019, inspectors reported that Iran had accumulated enough low enriched uranium to break the JCOPA’s cap on nuclear material. That fall, Tehran resumed enrichment using advanced centrifuges in facilities where the agreement had banned such work.

Then in 2020, Iran blocked IAEA inspectors from accessing two locations suspected of being used for nuclear-related activities before the JCPOA was signed.

IAEA access was curtailed further after Iran’s parliament passed a law in December 2020 that slashed cooperation with the watchdog agency on enhanced monitoring and verification provisions. The law, passed in the wake of Israel killing a top Iranian scientist, also directed the acceleration of Tehran’s nuclear program — to include enriching uranium to 60% purity — unless the US reduced sanctions. 60% is a key threshold that enables rapid further processing into weapons-grade material.

Iran initially agreed to keep IAEA monitoring equipment installed and store the data locally, but that agreement collapsed in mid-2021 — that summer, the Iranians disabled monitoring cameras, destroying one, in a centrifuge workshop in Karaj before demanding the agency remove all its JCPOA monitoring equipment about a year later in June 2022.

Members of Iran’s security forces also intimidated IAEA inspectors through “excessively invasive physical searches” in 2021, the agency said.

The IAEA discovered an undeclared set of centrifuges at the Fordow nuclear facility in January 2023 that were enriching uranium up to 83.7% purity, a level nearing weapons grade (about 90%).

The discovery came when an experienced Russian inspector spotted a subtle change to centrifuge piping, the former US diplomat said. Months later, Iran kicked that inspector and several other IAEA uranium enrichment experts out of the country.

Rafael Grossi, the IAEA’s chief, described the booting of the inspectors as a “very serious blow” to the agency’s ability to monitor Iran’s nuclear program.

The relationship deteriorated further in subsequent years, with Iran and the IAEA trading allegations of espionage.

The interference, continued enrichment and lack of candor regarding undeclared nuclear sites led the agency to pass a resolution declaring Iran in violation of its nonproliferation promises in June 2025. Israel launched strikes against Iran the day after the resolution passed, and the US bombed three key nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan less than two weeks later.

Iran’s representatives have disputed the IAEA claims in the past and sharply criticized Wednesday’s referral resolution that built upon the June 2025 finding. In their statement before the vote, the Iranians argued that the agency never “verified the diversion of nuclear materials.”

Tehran’s diplomats claimed that the US and other Western states sponsoring the Security Council referral “shed crocodile tears over proliferation while hypocritically evading even a simple verbal condemnation of unprecedented massive aggressions against peaceful safeguarded nuclear facilities, brutal war crimes, and crimes against humanity.”

Since February 2026, when the US and Israel launched their air campaign against Iran, the IAEA has been unable to visit any Iranian nuclear facility other than the Bushehr nuclear power plant.

Inspectors have not visited the nuclear facilities previously bombed by the US and Israel in June 2025, either. The lack of access compounds the early 2021 lapse of IAEA monitoring of centrifuge production, movement and installation.

IAEA officials have stressed that the inspection blackout broke the agency’s “continuity of knowledge” on Iran’s uranium, enrichment centrifuges and related items under the watchdog’s monitoring. That means it cannot vouch for the status, amount or location of those items.

Reestablishing that monitoring baseline poses a monumental task for the agency, according to experts who spoke with CNN.

Eric Brewer, a former National Security Council counterproliferation director who now researches nonproliferation at the Nuclear Threat Initiative nonprofit, told CNN that “the IAEA is starting from a pretty massive deficit when it comes to understanding the picture on the ground in Iran.”

“They would need to have much stronger monitoring and a much longer time to go back in and establish a new monitoring baseline to try to put the pieces of the puzzle back together,” Brewer said.

The Security Council will ultimately determine whether Iran will face new international consequences for its alleged violation of the non-proliferation treaty.

After the last such report in 2006, the body passed a series of resolutions that enabled crushing economic sanctions on Tehran.

But with the US currently taking military and economic action against Iran, it’s unclear what impact additional actions would have, and it’s unclear whether any Security Council resolutions on the matter would make it past the veto powers that Russia and China hold.

Davis Winkie’s work at CNN is supported by a partnership between Outrider Foundation and Journalism Funding Partners (JFP). CNN retains full editorial control of the reporting.

CNN’s Arpita Dasika contributed research to this story.

Trump touts $5,000 payout if Republicans win as Vance waits in wings

2026-09-10T07:02:54.605Z / Reuters

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• Plan could require congressional approval
• Vance’s convention speech seen as 2028 test run
• Republicans lean on Trump despite weak approval ratings

DALLAS, Sept 10 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump capped the first day of his Republican Party’s first-ever midterm convention by proposing to pay every U.S. adult a $5,000 “Trump dividend” if his ​party wins November’s congressional elections.

Trump delivered the extraordinary overture during a primetime speech that lasted nearly two hours and firmly placed him at the ‌center of the midterm campaign at a time when his sagging approval ratings could weigh on Republicans’ chances.

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Vice President JD Vance will give the keynote address on Thursday night, though Trump is scheduled to make closing remarks to bring the made-for-television two-day event in Dallas to an end.

With Trump constitutionally barred from seeking a third term, Vance’s speech could serve as an early audition ​for the 2028 presidential election and offer clues about how he would lead a party reshaped by Trump.

It was not immediately clear how the $5,000 payments ​would work or whether they would be legal. The proposal would likely cost more than $1 trillion, with approximately 270 million ⁠U.S. adults, and could require the approval of Congress.

The convention’s focus on Trump – some Republicans have dubbed it “Trumpapalooza” – amounts to a risky bet that he can mobilize ​the voters who carried him to the presidency two years ago, despite opinion polls showing his popularity is at an all-time low.

But it remains to be seen whether ​his campaign-style speech will appeal to the critical swing voters who have drifted away from Trump’s party amid growing dissatisfaction with the cost of living and the war on Iran.

‘PRETEND THAT I’M ON THE BALLOT’

“I’m asking you to pretend that I’m on the ballot,” Trump said, a line that may have pleased Democratic campaign strategists just as much as MAGA voters.

Republican efforts ​got a boost from an unlikely source on Wednesday, when Democratic U.S. Senator John Fetterman appeared in a pretaped video segment introducing his “great friend,” fellow Pennsylvania Senator Dave ​McCormick, a Republican.

Fetterman said he would always “reject the extremes in socialism,” a comment that is likely to bolster Republican attacks on Democrats as too left-wing. Fetterman, who has increasingly broken ‌with his ⁠fellow Democrats, has nevertheless rejected speculation that he might leave the party.

Some vulnerable Republicans in tough races, perhaps mindful of tying themselves too closely to the unpopular Trump, elected to skip the affair, including Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Senator Susan Collins of Maine.

DEMOCRATS PORTRAYED AS ‘SOCIALISTS’ AND ‘COMMUNISTS’

While Republican officials had described the convention as an opportunity to tout Trump’s policies, most speakers focused on attacking Democrats as extreme on topics such as transgender women in sports and border security – political red meat ​for core Trump supporters.

Alabama state Representative Ernie ​Yarbrough, a convention attendee, said Trump ⁠needs to give voters a clearer sense of how long the war in Iran could last.

“People want to feel like we’re not getting stuck in an endless cycle,” he said.

Trump defended his decision to attack Iran, saying he acted to prevent ​Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon. He also promised that oil prices would drop “as soon as we win the ​war with Iran,” which ⁠he vowed would happen soon.

But the conflict shows little sign of ending more than six months after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, and analysts have said Iran’s nuclear program has not been eliminated. Iran denies seeking a nuclear weapon.

Before Trump took the stage, a parade of speakers called Democrats “socialists” and “communists,” echoing one of Trump’s favorite ​attack lines. ​Democrats are “dangerous, radical and weird,” said Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the chairman of the ​party’s Senate campaign arm.

The stakes are high for both parties. With the elections less than two months away, Republicans face the prospect of losing control of at least one chamber of Congress, with public ​polling showing Democrats more motivated to vote and Trump’s approval ratings deeply underwater.

Reporting by Nandita Bose, Steve Holland and Nathan Layne; Writing by Joseph Ax; Editing by Howard Goller

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Nathan Layne is a correspondent on Reuters’ U.S. National Affairs team, where he reports on politics. From 2023 to 2024, he covered Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. He joined Reuters in Tokyo, where he spent 14 years reporting on Japanese business and politics, before moving to Chicago to cover the retail industry and later to New York to report on white-collar crime.

港媒：中国愿协助促成美朝领导人再会晤

2026年9月10日 15:30 / 联合早报

香港媒体报道，中国愿意协助促成美国与朝鲜两国领导人再次会晤。图为朝鲜领导人金正恩2019年在板门店走上前，与站在一旁等候的美国总统特朗普会晤。 （法新社档案照片）

在中美元首预计本月会晤前几周，消息人士称，中国愿意协助促成美国与朝鲜两国领导人再次会晤。

香港《南华早报》引述多名知情人士报道，随着美国总统特朗普寻求重启与平壤之间的接触，北京正加大努力，在重振美朝两国外交方面扮演积极且建设性角色，凸显了中国在朝鲜半岛谈判中保持核心参与者地位的决心。

报道也引述两名消息人士称，北京将支持所有有助于重启对话的可信努力，但由于朝鲜领导人金正恩与俄罗斯及中国的关系得到加强，加上金正恩对过去与特朗普的几次会晤感到失望，金正恩很可能会为重返谈判桌开出高价码。

消息人士称，北京寻求在朝鲜半岛外交中扮演核心角色，但也希望美国能保证有明确目标。

特朗普曾持续向金正恩释放对话信号。韩国国家情报院不久前向国会汇报时评估，朝美之间虽尚未证实开展具体接触，但已出现对话迹象，特朗普与金正恩举行首脑会谈随时都有可能发生。

特朗普在第一任期内三度与金正恩会面，包括2018年在新加坡举行、全球瞩目的历史性首次特金会。

Trump jokes about trying to “redo” huge Luka Dončić trade in Dallas speech: “I must tell you, I don’t understand the trade”

September 10, 2026 / 1:36 AM EDT / CBS News

President Trump’s rally-style speech at the Republican National Committee midterm convention touched on oil, Iran, immigration, the economy — and the polarizing NBA trade that sent superstar guard Luka Dončić from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers last year.

“I must tell you, I don’t understand the trade. That trade is not good,” he said late Wednesday at the American Airlines Center, the Dallas Mavericks’ home arena.

The president continued: “It’s not going to go down as the greatest trade in the history of sports. It might go down as the worst trade in the history of sports,” before conceding that the Boston Red Sox’s decision to ship pitcher Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees more than a century ago likely still deserved that dubious distinction.

“Maybe we could redo that trade. I redo deals all the time. … I understand deals. But that one, I didn’t quite get,” Mr. Trump said. He then resumed talking about U.S. oil production and Iran.

In a bombshell midseason transaction early last year, the Mavericks sent Dončić and two other players to the Lakers, principally in exchange for Anthony Davis and a 2029 first-round draft pick. The trade drew consternation from many Dallas fans who were critical of the team’s decision to trade away the now-27-year-old face of the franchise.

Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Dončić, right, prepares to shoot against Chicago Bulls forward Jalen Smith, left, during an NBA game in Chicago on Jan. 26, 2026. Nam Y. Huh / AP

The Mavericks are owned primarily by the family of Miriam Adelson, a GOP megadonor who controls the Las Vegas Sands casino company and is close with Mr. Trump.

It’s not the first time he has used the presidential bully pulpit to weigh in on a hot-button sports debate. He has repeatedly criticized the NFL’s new rules for kickoffs, and in a Truth Social post last year, he lamented the fact that quarterback Shedeur Sanders wasn’t selected in the first few rounds of the NFL draft.

“What is wrong with NFL owners, are they STUPID?” the president wrote. “He should be ‘picked’ IMMEDIATELY by a team that wants to WIN.” (Sanders, the son of former NFL player Deion Sanders, was picked up by the Cleveland Browns later in the draft.)

Over the summer, Mr. Trump asked FIFA to review its one-match suspension of star U.S. forward Folarin Balogun during the World Cup. The international soccer organization reversed the red card suspension, though Mr. Trump said he didn’t order FIFA to do so.

为中国特工撰写情报 澳洲男子获刑三年半监禁

2026年9月10日 14:52 / 联合早报

58岁的澳大利亚被告切尔戈是首名面对鲁莽外来干涉罪控状的人士，这项罪名最高可判处15年监禁。 （路透社档案照片）

一名澳大利亚男子因替中国情报机构撰写报告，被判犯有鲁莽外来干预罪，获刑三年多监禁。

法新社报道，58岁的市场营销高管切尔戈（Alexander Csergo）2023年在悉尼被澳洲警方逮捕。他被指控收受中国情报人员的现金，撰写有关澳英美三边安全伙伴关系（AUKUS）核潜艇合作以及关键矿产等议题的报告。

悉尼地方法院星期四（9月10日）判处切尔戈三年零六个月监禁。他最早可于10月获得假释资格。

切尔戈是首名面对鲁莽外来干涉罪控状的人士，这项罪名最高可判处15年监禁。

据报道，悉尼法庭获悉，切尔戈通过职业社交平台领英（LinkedIn）接触到两名中国特工“肯”（Ken）和“伊芙琳”（Evelyn），并在上海与两人会面。

切尔戈2023年带着一份“购物清单”返回澳洲，上面列出“肯”希望能收集到的主题信息。切尔戈抵澳并与家人在邦迪海滩同住三周后，被警方发现这份清单。

Dem senator delivers surprise video at Republican convention backing McCormick

The Pennsylvania Democrat introduced Republican Sen. Dave McCormick as ‘the kind of senator that gets the job done’

2026-09-09 21:08:54 EDT / Fox News

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Dem Sen Fetterman rejects socialism, praises Republican in surprise GOP convention appearance

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., calls himself a ‘commonsense Democrat,’ rejects socialism and praises Republican Sen. Dave McCormick in a video appearance at the RNC Midterm Convention in Dallas.

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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., delivered a surprise video message at the GOP midterm convention Wednesday night, praising President Donald Trump and Republican Sen. Dave McCormick while rejecting what he described as the Democratic Party’s “extremes and socialism.”

“I’m a commonsense Democrat. I’m always going to stand with America,” Fetterman said. “I’m always going to reject the extremes and socialism and that anti-American way of life.”

Fetterman introduced McCormick, who is seeking re-election to the Senate, as “the kind of senator that gets the job done” and someone who will “fight for Pennsylvania.”

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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., has increasingly broken with Democratic leaders while embracing bipartisan ties with Republicans.(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Standing in front of an iconic U.S. steel mill, Fetterman said he was proud to work with McCormick and Trump to defend Pennsylvania’s steel industry, which remains a central part of the state’s economic and political identity.

“That’s exactly the kind of thing that we will work together and will work with President Trump to fight and defend the steel way of life right here in the Steel Valley,” Fetterman said.

The message was notable because Fetterman is a sitting Democratic senator appearing at the Republican Party’s first midterm convention, where Trump is expected to rally GOP voters ahead of the Nov. 3 elections.

His appearance also highlighted his increasingly strained relationship with Democratic leaders and the party’s left wing. Fetterman has repeatedly broken with Democrats on issues including Israel, immigration and Trump’s military actions against Iran.

Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., left, and President Donald Trump during the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., July 15, 2025.(Brian Kaiser/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

He has remained one of the most outspoken Democratic supporters of Israel in the Senate and has criticized members of his party who have sought to limit U.S. support for the country. Fetterman has also backed tougher immigration enforcement and supported some Trump administration nominees, positions that have drawn criticism from Democrats.

Fetterman has said he would consider leaving the Democratic Party if it became “the anti-Israel party,” though he has not indicated that he plans to switch parties.

The senator’s relationship with McCormick has also fueled speculation about his political future. The two Pennsylvania senators previously faced one another in the 2022 Senate race, when Fetterman defeated Republican nominee Mehmet Oz and McCormick lost the GOP primary.

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Fetterman and McCormick have forged an unusually close bipartisan alliance despite representing opposing parties and previously facing off in Pennsylvania’s 2022 Senate race.(Getty)

Since then, Fetterman and McCormick have developed an unusually close relationship. Their campaigns formed a bipartisan joint fundraising committee in July, an arrangement that drew attention because the two senators belong to opposing parties.

McCormick has also sought to emphasize his ties to Pennsylvania’s industrial base and his support for the state’s steelworkers. Fetterman’s video allowed him to reinforce that message while presenting McCormick as a senator willing to work across party lines.

The appearance does not mean Fetterman is switching parties, but it is likely to intensify questions about whether he can maintain support from Democratic voters as he continues to align himself with Trump and Republican priorities.

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It also gives Republicans a high-profile Democratic voice to showcase as they argue that the party’s coalition is expanding beyond traditional GOP voters.

“A different party,” Fetterman said of McCormick. “But I’m proud to count him as my great friend.”

Amanda Macias covers the intersection of business, economics and politics, with a focus on how policy decisions shape markets, businesses and American workers.

Veteran Dem senator cruises past far-left primary challengers in bid for sixth term

2026-09-09 20:17:59 EDT / Fox News

Rhode Island Democratic Sen Jack Reed’s progressive opponents sought to end his three-decade run in the Senate

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Published September 9, 2026 8:17pm EDT

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Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Jack Reed fended off two progressive primary challengers Wednesday, extending a three-decade hold on his party’s nomination as the 76-year-old senator seeks a sixth term in Washington.

Reed defeated Connor Burbridge, a “small business owner, elder-care worker, community organizer and a working-class Rhode Islander,” according to his campaign website, and Luis Muñoz, a medical school graduate, med tech entrepreneur and former candidate who previously ran for Rhode Island governor in 2018 and 2022, according to Muñoz’s LinkedIn profile and local reporting about his previous runs.

The victory sends Reed to the November general election against Republican Ray McKay, who ran unopposed in his primary, and independent Michael Bahry.

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Sen. John “Jack” Reed of Rhode Island, right, next to Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer.(Reuters)

Reed’s father was a World War II veteran and janitor from Cranston, Rhode Island, before eventually working his way up to becoming a custodial supervisor of the city’s entire school system, according to Reed’s campaign website.

Reed, who cites that working-class background as pivotal to his upbringing, attended West Point later in life and spent time in the Army before earning a master’s degree in public policy and a law degree from Harvard.

DEMOCRAT ESTABLISHMENT FLEXES DOMINANCE AS INSURGENTS FALL AND GOP BENCH THINS IN DEEP BLUE STRONGHOLD

Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., listens as U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifies at a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on March 3, 2022, in Washington, DC.(Tom Williams/Pool/Getty Images)

The primary exposed a divide between a more moderate establishment candidate like Reed and the two progressive challengers he faced who ran on issues like abolishing Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), taxing wealth and ending aid to Israel.

Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, has supported continued military assistance to Israel despite criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and calling for renewed efforts toward a two-state solution.

He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996 after serving three terms in the House, and, in addition to being the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, Reed serves on the Appropriations, Banking and Intelligence committees.

The midterm elections heat up as voters return to the polls in 2026.(Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)

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His campaign reported roughly $3.4 million in total receipts during the 2025-2026 election cycle through Aug. 20 and had nearly $3.1 million in cash on hand, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records.

By comparison, Burbridge reported raising just over $25,000 through Aug. 20, while the FEC listed no fundraising totals for Muñoz’s campaign ahead of the primary.

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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