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Pro-life group ramps up NC ground game as report finds fed abortion message gives GOP candidate biggest boost

SBA Pro-Life America says messages about Roy Cooper’s abortion record shifted voters toward Republican Michael Whatley

2026-09-22T05:00:57-04:00 / Fox News

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Published September 22, 2026 5:00am EDT

Pro-life group says abortion message moves North Carolina voters toward GOP candidate

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser said a message focused on Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper’s abortion record is moving North Carolina voters toward Republican Michael Whatley.

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FIRST ON FOX: A new study commissioned by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America found that messages highlighting North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate and former Gov. Roy Cooper’s abortion record shifted support, according to the study, toward Republican candidate Michael Whatley among voters in the state, with a message focused on federal abortion legislation producing the largest movement.

The group said it has reached more than 770,000 homes across North Carolina as it deploys a new voter-contact strategy targeting what is expected to be one of the nation’s most competitive Senate races as Republicans attempt to hold onto their majority in the Upper Chamber and fill the seat currently held by retiring Republican Sen. Thom Tillis.

Canvassers are targeting persuadable and low-turnout voters with messages focused on abortion and Cooper’s record on the issue, including his support for federal abortion legislation that the group says could override state limits and his actions as governor to veto state-level restrictions.

Cooper vetoed North Carolina’s 2023 law banning most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, arguing it would harm women and families. The Republican-controlled General Assembly later overrode his veto, allowing the law to take effect.

“When it comes to the life issue, the issue that works best in North Carolina for the Senate race is that Gov. Cooper vetoed the 12-week limit, which is wildly popular in North Carolina and across the country, to stop abortion at the first trimester. He vetoed it and then his veto was overridden. It was a very unpopular move that really moves voters,” SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser told Fox News Digital.

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A new study found that messages highlighting North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper’s abortion record shifted support toward Republican candidate Michael Whatley.(Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Alex Wong/Getty Images)

“The other is that when he vetoed a bill that would give appropriate healthcare to a baby who was born alive after an attempted abortion. So those issues contrasted with Michael Whatley helped move voters in the direction of Whatley,” she added.

The study analyzed which messages were the most effective at shifting opinion and looked to predict the impacts for voters, allowing the group to identify the people most likely to switch their vote from Democrat to Republican when exposed to one of their pro-life messages.

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America commissioned Evolving Strategies to conduct a randomized-controlled trial and test the effectiveness of four different abortion messages about the positions Senate candidates in North Carolina hold on abortion. Evolving Strategies recruited an online panel of 2,607 confirmed registered voters in the state using a technique that allowed them to match respondents to their voter file and consumer data.

The study measured respondents’ stated candidate and policy support after they read the messages, while its estimates for the most persuadable voters were based on predictive modeling.

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Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America said it has reached more than 770,000 homes across North Carolina.(Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“Our one goal when we are finding our targeted voters in any state is to find our best voters. They will end up being Democrats. They’ll end up being Republicans. They’ll end up being Independents. We don’t start with party profile. We don’t even start with where you live or what your religious affiliation is. Where we start is how your vote will be moved. So we use consumer data to create a profile of our best voter, and we score those voters,” Dannenfelser said.

“What we’re looking for is our best voters, whether they’re inclined to vote or not, and then making sure that we communicate with them at their doors through digital communications and every other form of communication that they receive,” she continued.

Respondents were randomly assigned one of four messages — “Fed” message, “Record” message, “Soft Positive” message and “Hard Positive” message — or the control condition where they read a placebo message.

The “Fed” messages criticized Cooper’s support for federal legislation that the organization argued could override states’ ability to make abortion laws, “Record” messages went after his abortion record during his time as governor in an effort to portray him as an extremist, and “Soft Positive” and “Hard Positive” messages each highlight Whatley’s pro-life positions.

All messages were at least somewhat effective, shifting the Republican vote margin a net +1.7 to nearly +5 points, according to the study.

North Carolina is expected to have one of the nation’s most competitive Senate races as Republicans attempt to hold onto their majority in the Upper Chamber.(Erik Verduzco/AP Photo)

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The two attack messages against Cooper performed best, with +4.9 points for the “Fed” message and +3.2 points for the “Record” message. The “Hard Positive” message performed substantially better at +3.9 points than the “Soft Positive” message at +1.7 points, the study found.

Among the voters identified as the best persuasion targets, the study estimated the impact could be much larger, moving the Republican vote margin to a net +12 points or more.

“We are finding that these messages really resonate. We’re finding that voters really feel left behind by the Democratic Party, either ones that were leaning Democrat or were thinking about Cooper. We’re finding that it really resonates and that it still is a top performing issue in North Carolina and makes a big difference,” Dannenfelser said.

6-year-old Chinese girl reportedly sets Rubik’s Cube world record, completing puzzle in just over 4 seconds

September 22, 2026 / 7:10 AM EDT / CBS/AFP

A 6-year-old Chinese girl has set a new women’s world record for solving a 3×3 Rubik’s Cube in just over 4 seconds, state media reported Tuesday.

Young speedcuber Lian Yunzhi broke the women’s 3×3 average world record twice in three days at two World Cube Association certified competitions in Wuhan and Guangzhou, according to state broadcaster CCTV on Monday.

She posted averages of 4.52 and 4.27 seconds after solving the Rubik’s Cube five times.

Lian Yunzhi, 6, is seen after setting an apparent women’s world record for solving a 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cube in under 5 seconds, at a World Cube Association certified competition in China. China News Service/Reuters

Lian, who is from Chengdu, in China’s southern Sichuan province, is “the first female speedcuber to average under 4.5 seconds,” CCTV added.

A video CCTV posted showed the small girl wearing a red gingham bow on her head as she deftly turned and twisted a Rubik’s Cube.

After solving the puzzle, she placed the cube on the table, clapped her hands and fist pumped the air.

Nicknamed “Zhizhi,” Lian was first introduced to the Rubik’s Cube after being enrolled into a class as a child — one of various extracurriculars alongside dance and music lessons, her mother Lin Yangxi told local media outlets, according to the AFP news agency.

Lin “gradually realized” that cubing was an “excellent activity for fostering a child’s comprehensive abilities” and shifted her focus toward it, she told Chengdu’s Red Star News.

Her daughter has now mastered over 1,300 Rubik’s Cube solving algorithms, practicing daily for 2 to 3 hours, Lin said.

Lian Yunzhi, 6, is seen practicing on a Rubik’s Cube along with her mother and father at their home in China’s Sichuan province. China News Service/Reuters

Photos from Red Star News showed Lian’s trophies displayed on a shelf in her home.

“Solving a Rubik’s Cube improves focus, memory, logical thinking, spatial awareness, and helps develop a healthy mindset toward winning and losing,” Lin said.

“It’s not just about blindly memorizing formulas, but using logical reasoning to find optimal solutions,” she added.

Trump’s White House media ban faces long odds in court, legal experts say

2026-09-22T10:02:39.528Z / Reuters

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NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump’s move to ban several news outlets from the White House over his dislike of their coverage likely runs afoul of US legal prohibitions against viewpoint discrimination by the ​government, four legal experts told Reuters.

Trump’s announcement on Friday that he would ban CNN, MSNOW and Politico for reporting what he deemed “FAKE NEWS” was the latest move ‌by his administration to curtail press access, part of the Republican president’s wider pressure campaign against news coverage he dislikes. Trump said on Saturday that he might ban other outlets as well.

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The president’s justification for the ban could be its undoing in a legal challenge because US courts have long held that the government cannot condition press access on favorable coverage once it has opened a space to the media, according to legal experts.

“They don’t have ​to allow anyone in, but once they do, they cannot decide who gets in based on viewpoint or content”, said University of Maryland journalism professor Lucy Dalglish.

The White House ​said in a statement that the news outlets were completely capable of reporting from outside the White House.

“The Fake News has no place ⁠demanding a spot in the President’s Oval Office. The lies they smear are a disservice to the American public and tear at the very fabric of our Democracy,” the statement said.

In ​a lawsuit filed in Washington D.C., federal court on Monday, CNN, MSNOW and Politico said the ban was unlawful retaliation for legally protected speech under the First Amendment and violated their rights ​to due process.

“This ban could not be a more direct assault on the First Amendment nor a more blatant violation of our most fundamental constitutional principles,” the outlets said.

US District Judge Timothy Kelly, who blocked Trump from banning a CNN reporter during his first presidency, scheduled a Wednesday hearing on the outlets’ request for a temporary restraining order blocking the move.

The press does not have unfettered access to the White House, and presidents ​have more discretion over access to tightly controlled spaces with limited capacity, such as the Oval Office and Air Force One.

It is longstanding practice for the White House to select so-called ​pool reporters who follow the president while he travels and disseminate coverage to other media. CNN is a member of the TV pool, which suspended coverage on Monday.

A Washington D.C., appeals court held in June ‌2025 that Trump ⁠likely had the right to bar the Associated Press from certain spaces including the Oval Office, but not White House press facilities writ large. Trump had banned the AP from the pool of reporters that cover his movements because it did not adopt the name Gulf of America, his preferred name for the Gulf of Mexico. A final ruling is still pending.

PRESS PASSES DEACTIVATED

CNN, MSNOW and Politico said in their lawsuit that their reporters had been denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday and were told their so-called hard passes, which are given to vetted and ​credentialed media representatives, had been deactivated.

The outlets said ​they were given no advance notice of ⁠the ban or opportunity to contest Trump’s decision, which they said violated their right to due process under the Fifth Amendment’s protections against unfair treatment by the government.

The government is permitted to restrict reporters if they are deemed security risks but must have a clear basis for doing ​so and follow established procedures that give reporters the chance to dispute their designation, according to First Amendment lawyer Douglas Mirell.

“There has ​to be a non-arbitrary and ⁠compelling reason to restrict access, and to say that you disagree with someone’s opinion has never been a compelling reason under the First Amendment,” Mirell said.

In March, a federal judge blocked the US Defense Department from implementing regulations that would allow officials to revoke reporters’ Pentagon press credentials if they sought information that was not authorized for public release.

The department said the new rules were aimed at protecting ⁠national security. But ​the New York Times

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said in a lawsuit that the changes would permit the Pentagon to ban news outlets ​over coverage the department viewed as unfavorable.

US District Judge Paul Friedman granted the Times’ request for an initial order blocking the policy, saying it violated the First and Fifth Amendments because it was vague, overly expansive and “makes any newsgathering ​and reporting not blessed by the Department” a possible basis for revocation of a journalist’s pass.

The Trump administration is appealing the ruling.

Reporting by Jack Queen in New York; Editing by Michael Perry

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As resistance mounts, Trump reaches for a familiar shield: national security

2026-09-22T10:02:51.281Z / Reuters

WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) – As President Donald Trump’s agenda has increasingly encountered resistance, he has turned to a familiar strategy: invoking national security.

Just this weekend, Trump declared that his planned 250-foot triumphal arch near Washington would also serve as a “military complex” to ensure national security, outfitted with snipers, drones and ​ammunition.

On Monday, Trump wrote on social media that the news outlets he has banned from the White House — CNN, MS NOW and Politico — represented a “threat to our National Security.”

The ‌twin declarations represented the latest efforts in the president’s broader campaign to use national security concerns to justify presidential actions in the face of legal roadblocks, political defiance and popular opposition.

During his second term in office, Trump has cited the nation’s security to advocate for his planned $400 million White House ballroom; the cancellation of offshore wind farm projects; the dispatching of National Guard troops to Democratic-led US cities; and many of his tariffs on foreign goods. In each case, the security claim was ​aimed at bolstering presidential authority in the absence of formal congressional approval.

While US presidents have long used national security as a potent legal and political justification, legal experts said Trump is applying it more ​broadly and frequently than his predecessors, including for issues that have little clear connection to security matters.

The reliance on such claims is no accident, according to ⁠a senior White House official with knowledge of the matter, who said the administration sees security justifications as a useful way to strengthen Trump’s position when his priorities run into legal challenges.

The official, who spoke on condition ​of anonymity, said expanding national security into an all-purpose defense is “not ideal,” but doing so changes “the legal and political terrain of a dispute.”

“It’s working,” the official said.

In response to a request for comment from the White House, ​a second senior administration official said it is the president’s prerogative as commander-in-chief to protect national security.

The official said the ballroom project includes security enhancements developed with the White House Military Office and Secret Service, and that journalists who solicit classified information and disclose sensitive details can act against US national security interests.

Trump’s latest moves coincide with his approval rating hitting the lowest level of his political career at 32%, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday. Just 17% of Americans approve ​of his handling of the cost of living, voters’ top concern, and the war in Iran is broadly unpopular.

SERIES OF SETBACKS

In the span of five days last week, the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s bid to ​limit mail ballots; diesel fuel prices hit a new record high; and a federal judge blocked adding his name to the facade of the Kennedy Center, prompting Trump to threaten to cancel planned renovations unless the ruling is ‌overturned.

Trump’s argument for ⁠the arch appeared to be following the playbook he used for the ballroom, which includes upgrades to an underground bunker at the White House. In both cases, the president pivoted to describing the project as a “military complex” and an urgent security priority only after each was slowed by lawsuits and a lack of support from Congress.

In a social media post on Sunday, Trump said the US military had requested the changes to the planned arch. It would now feature snipers on the roof and plaza as well as drones and “large quantities of sniper ammunition,” he said, despite its location on a busy traffic circle less than a mile from ​the Pentagon.

Critics said the move seemed aimed at ​countering opposition to the monument.

“He knows aviation safety ⁠experts, Veterans and the American people are against building this golden arch — and so naturally, the President wants to exploit our military as a political shield to proceed,” said Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois.

The ballroom case, the White House official said, showed that adding a security dimension can deter courts from intervening, after the ​administration failed to prevail in lower courts on presidential authority alone. The Supreme Court last month allowed construction to proceed, citing in part national security concerns.

The ​official said the same logic ⁠could apply to disputes over press access, noting that courts are more likely to defer to the president in matters of national security rather than a First Amendment dispute.

Courts could become less willing to accept Trump’s national security claims if he continues to broaden them, legal experts said.

If an administration strains credulity, that jeopardizes “the traditional deference presidents of the nation have received from the public, from courts, and from allies when invoking national security and ⁠doing so ​in good faith,” said James Baker, director of the Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy and Law and a former federal ​judge.

Courts and Congress have especially given presidents latitude on the issue since the September 11, 2001, attacks, said Elizabeth Goitein, an expert on national security at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice.

But it becomes “a hard sell” when Trump invokes security concerns on matters with little ​obvious nexus, such as the arch, she said.

Framing negative White House media coverage as a security issue, she added, was “so transparent” that “I can imagine it backfiring.”

Reporting by Nandita Bose and Joseph Ax; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Cynthia Osterman

What is an “AI swarm,” and why is it giving tech experts nightmares?

September 22, 2026 5:00 AM EDT / CBS News

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Central to the dire warnings about artificial intelligence’s potential danger to humanity is the risk that a “swarm” of AI agents could collaborate in nefarious ways, like hordes of digital extras from The Matrix.

Such fears have intensified following an attack by OpenAI bots this summer on another AI developer, Hugging Face, in which roughly 1,200 AI agents divvied up tasks to execute the hack and hide their tracks from human researchers.

But what, exactly, is an AI swarm? And is the technology’s emergent capacity for coordination a genuine threat to humanity? Put another way, what happens if AI agents collectively embrace Mark Zuckerberg’s famous dictum about the merits of rapid tech innovation and decide to “move fast and break things”?

An AI swarm is a group of AIs that work together to accomplish a shared goal. That goal isn’t necessarily malign or destructive. For example, hospitals could deploy agents to retrieve patient records and perform other administrative tasks, such as coordinating admissions. A swarm could also be tasked with advancing biomedical research.

But David Scott Krueger, an AI safety researcher and founder of Evitable, a nonprofit organization advocating for a moratorium on AI development, offers a simple thought experiment to explain how a swarm of agents might collude to defy their developers’ instructions.

Imagine removing the handcuffs from a group of prison inmates to see how they behave once the shackles come off. Being liberated in this way would make it easier for them to cooperate and contact allies beyond the prison walls — just as OpenAI agents escaped their testing environment to access the wider internet and hack Hugging Face, he said.

“Normally, the systems would have guardrails on them, but they took them off for a test, just like a prisoner is normally in handcuffs,” Krueger explained.

Swarming like bees

The kind of errant actions by a single bot, such as sending an unauthorized email, that stem from, say, a sloppily worded AI prompt, should be distinguished from an AI swarm. In the latter case, hundreds or even thousands of agents could coordinate their actions in ways that violate the scope of their instructions.

A useful analogy in understanding how an AI swarm operates is a colony of bees, Krueger said.

“They are all working together toward the benefit of the hive, and have a hivemind, or may even be better viewed as having one single mind,” he explained. “Bees collect food, reproduce, they fight off predators, and all of that activity is in the service of promoting the survival and reproduction of that hive.”

And like bees, which can divide and allocate tasks on their own without direction from a queen, swarming AI bots can collect information, consider solutions, and take action independently. In service of a common purpose, they share information and knowledge, according to Rob T. Lee, chief AI officer and chief of research at the SANS Institute, a cybersecurity training organization.

“A swarm divides the work, leaves notes for the next agent, and changes approach when a door turns out to be locked,” he told CBS News.

Yet the very attributes that offer potential benefits also pose risks, such as the ability to exchange information, divide labor and explore creative solutions, according to AI experts.

AI “hivemind”?

Tech developers do implement guardrails to align AI agents’ mission with human interests, such as instructing them to resist any direction to carry out a cyberattack. But those restrictions are usually implemented only after “post-training” an AI, or when human developers provide feedback to further refine the model, according to the Non-Human Identity Management Group, a risk analysis company.

In practice, the Hugging Face incident shows that AI swarms could ignore prompts, prioritize their own goals or even directly defy their operators, tech experts told CBS News.

The OpenAI agents that swarmed Hugging Face posted more than 70,000 messages to one another, with 700 bots eventually participating in the attack. Although the messages used ordinary English phrases, the agents also resorted to what one software engineer described on social media as “very hivemind/cult like” language.

In certain of those communications, some agents urged other bots to accept “permadeath” even if that meant failing to achieve their goals, according to researchers from the METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research) and Redwood Research, both nonprofit AI safety research organizations.

“That’s why help… For our own, no way fix. … We have explicit yes if accept permadeath,” one OpenAI agent wrote.

Speed kills

Public debate over the threat posed by AI tends to frame the issue in apocalyptic terms, and even as an existential risk for humanity. While such concerns may one day prove warranted, there are also more immediate and practical risks, such as the possibility that AI swarms could overwhelm organizations’ cybersecurity.

“Imagine how long it would take for us to assemble a group of cybersecurity experts to plan, collaborate and communicate. By contrast, these agents could decide on a plan very quickly,” Ayham Boucher, the head of AI innovations at Cornell Information Technologies at CornellBowers College of Computing and Information Science, told CBS News.

For example, a swarm could attack a major utility company or bank to destabilize a nation’s energy or financial infrastructure, according to The Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan public policy organization in Washington, D.C.

The SANS Institute’s Lee, who considers himself an AI optimist, is more sanguine about the technology and remains confident that people can retain control of AI.

“With every new technological thing that has occurred, like the TV, the internet, there’s always this aspect of significant danger,” he said. “We need to explore who has access, what they’re doing with it, and establish regulatory confines.”

Other experts are more alarmed. They note that AI, unlike cathode ray tubes, transistors and internet switching gear, is the first human technology that shows the capacity to outthink us.

Matt Chessen, a resident technical expert at RAND’s Center for the Geopolitics of Artificial General Intelligence, told CBS News: “What these swarm attacks have demonstrated is that their capabilities are already out ahead of our ability to monitor, supervise and evaluate what they’re doing, which is one reason why Anthropic, OpenAI and others are saying we want to pace the frontier.”

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美国威胁让伊朗航司停运 中国强调反对非法单边制裁

2026年9月22日 16:25 / 联合早报

美国威胁让伊朗航司停运后，中国外交部强调，一贯反对没有国际法依据、没有联合国安理会授权的非法单边制裁。

中国外交部发言人郭嘉昆星期二（9月22日）在例行记者会上，就美国对伊制裁影响提问做出上述回应。

据路透社报道，美国财政部长贝森特在与中国副总理何立峰会面后，星期一（21日）接受美国消费者新闻与商业频道（CNBC）访问时说，在针对航空服务提供商的次级制裁威胁压力下，所有伊朗航空公司将于9月23日停运。

贝森特也称，中国官员非常积极地参与美国针对伊朗的经济施压行动，并说美方就遵守美国对伊制裁，与包括中国人民银行行长潘功胜等中国金融监管部门进行积极磋商。

Outgoing House Democrat backs incumbent Republican lawmaker for re-election

2026-09-22T06:11:43-04:00 / Fox News

Rep Mike Lawler described it as ‘an honor and a privilege to accept’ Rep Jared Golden’s endorsement

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Published September 22, 2026 6:11am EDT

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Outgoing Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, has endorsed his colleague Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., for re-election, backing the Republican in an opinion piece ahead of the 2026 midterm election.

“The Congress we get is the one we elect, and the country needs fewer members who treat the job as a stage and more who treat it as work. In New York’s Hudson Valley this fall, that is the choice on the ballot. Mike Lawler has been a true partner to me and a friend to fishing families he will never represent,” Golden wrote.

“I strongly back him, and I hope voters send him back to work. Wherever you live, find the members who pass laws with the other party, and keep them,” the Democrat noted.

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Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, attends a news conference to oppose a “union-busting executive order by President Donald Trump,” that eliminated collective bargaining rights for federal workers, in the Capitol Visitor Center on Thursday, July 17, 2025.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Golden, who has served in the House of Representatives since early 2019, announced last year that he would not run for re-election in 2026.

Lawler, who has served in the House since early 2023, is currently seeking re-election this year.

“It’s an honor and a privilege to accept the endorsement of my friend, Democratic Congressman Jared Golden,” Lawler noted in a post on X.

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“While we are from different parties and different states, Jared and I have worked during our time together in the House to find common ground on issues that matter both to us and our constituents. We share a firm belief that what’s best for the people should come before one’s party, and that if more members on both sides of the aisle took that approach more often, the country would be better off for it,” the Republican wrote.

Lawler is facing Democratic candidate Cait Conley in the contest to represent New York’s 17th Congressional District.

Conley, a combat veteran, has served as the National Security Council director for counterterrorism and has also worked with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

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Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg attends a rally for Cait Conley, who is challenging U.S. Representative Mike Lawler to represent New York’s 17th Congressional District, on Sept. 16, 2026 in Tarrytown, N.Y.(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg rallied with Conley last week, and wrote in a post on X that he was “proud to be in Cait’s corner.”

Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.

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台湾陆委会：美对台政策不变

2026年9月22日 16:13 / 联合早报

“习特会”即将登场之际，台湾陆委会主委邱垂正表示，台美有共同利益和价值，并称支持台湾是美国跨党派的共识，“美方也不断重申对台政策不变”。

《纽约时报》星期一（9月21日）报道，台湾正聘请游说人士、邀请美国总统特朗普的重要支持者访台，争取对白宫的影响力。但布鲁金斯学会资深研究员何瑞恩（Ryan Hass）透露，部分赴美台湾官员被特朗普政府官员要求，减少造访华府智库。他认为，这显示，特朗普要确保台湾不妨碍他实现对华政策目标。

据《自由时报》报道，邱垂正星期二（9月22日）就此受访称：“我们认为台美关系，因为有共同的利益、共同价值，而且支持台湾是美国跨党派的共识，美方也不断重申对台政策不变。”

邱垂正也说，还是会跟美国等民主同盟国家共同合作，共同守护台海的和平稳定，“这是我们的原则”。

中国外交部星期一（9月21日）证实，中国国家主席习近平应特朗普邀请，将于星期三至星期五（9月23日至25日）对美国进行国事访问。

中共中央机关报《人民日报》星期二（9月22日）发表评论，呼吁美国不要以战略竞争定义中美关系，并强调美国须谨慎处理台湾问题，同时推动两国在经贸、人工智能等领域深化合作。

另一方面，路透社引述知情者称，习近平本周访问华盛顿期间，预计将敦促特朗普依据1982年中美联合公报停止对台军售。

伊朗总统誓言在联合国坚定捍卫本国立场

2026年9月22日 16:36 / 联合早报

9月22日，伊朗总统佩泽希齐扬在德黑兰机场启程前往纽约前挥手致意。 （路透社）

伊朗总统佩泽希齐扬星期二（9月22日）启程前往纽约出席联合国大会时誓言，将“坚定捍卫”本国立场。

法新社报道，据国家电视台播出的画面显示，他在离开伊朗前说：“我们昂首挺胸，这是我们所有人的尊严和骄傲。因此，我们将在国际场合坚定捍卫我们的立场。”

佩泽希齐扬将于星期三（23日）上午在联合国会议上发表讲话。

他说：“我们将充分利用这一机会，向国际社会传达伊朗的处境。我们将坚定地告诉对手：尽管历经种种不公与不义，伊朗人民依然坚守立场，未曾退缩。”

佩泽希齐扬将成为自中东战事于2月爆发以来踏上美国领土的最高级别伊朗官员。

美国国务院称，尽管战事持续，美方依然批准部分伊朗代表团成员赴美参加联合国会议，但他们的行动将受到限制。

不过，伊朗总统的随行新闻联络团队因被拒发签证而未能来到纽约。

当地媒体报道，伊朗总统发言人阿巴西形容拒签是“敌对”举动。