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美通报中美外长通话 鲁比奥强调构建建设性双边关系重要性

2026年7月3日 07:01 / 联合早报

美国国务卿鲁比奥（图）在与中国外长王毅通话时，谈及构建具战略稳定性的建设性双边关系的重要性。图为鲁比奥6月25日在巴林国际机场向媒体发表讲话。 （法新社）

美国国务卿鲁比奥与中国外长王毅通话时，谈及构建具战略稳定性的建设性双边关系的重要性。

美国国务院于当地时间星期四（7月2日）在官网发布简短声明，证实鲁比奥与王毅进行通话，但未披露双方对话的具体时间。

声明引述鲁比奥指出，按照美国总统特朗普所概述的原则，建立基于公平与对等、且具有战略稳定性的建设性双边关系至关重要。

此前，新华社星期三（7月1日）深夜发布通稿，披露王毅在前一天同鲁比奥通电话。

王毅表示，今年5月，两国元首在北京达成“构建中美建设性战略稳定关系”等一系列重要共识，为未来三年乃至更长时间的中美关系作出战略指引、明确发展方向。

与鲁比奥通话 王毅：台湾问题牵一发动全身

王毅并指出，双方应将两国元首重要共识转化为具体政策和切实举措；构建建设性战略稳定关系“不是一句口号，需要付诸行动、相向而行”。他也强调，双方要拉长合作清单、打造更多积极议程，同时压缩问题清单、管控风险隐患。

他并强调“台湾问题牵一发动全身”，希望美方务必慎之又慎对待涉台事务。

新华社通稿称，双方一致认为此次通话是“积极、建设性”的，同意共同落实两国元首达成的重要共识，并继续以灵活方式保持沟通。

西班牙攻守兼备3比0完胜奥地利 轻松闯入16强

2026年7月3日 07:02 / 联合早报

波罗（左）和梅开二度的奥亚萨瓦尔（右）包办了西班牙的全部进球。 （路透社）

（英格伍德综合电）2026年世界杯夺冠热门“斗牛士”西班牙展现绝对实力，在新加坡时间星期五（7月3日）凌晨的32强赛中以3比0完胜奥地利的同时，也令对手全场零射正。他们将在16强赛中对战克罗地亚和葡萄牙之间的胜者。

斗牛士从开场起就展现出极佳的状态。亚马尔（Yamal）在边路屡屡撕开奥地利的防线，曾一度由库库雷拉（Cucurella）近距离射门得手，但由于奥地利门将施拉格尔（Schlager）被犯规在先，进球被判无效。

不过在第36分钟，库库雷拉送出一记精准的传中，奥亚萨瓦尔（Oyarzabal）顺势将球扫入球门死角，打破僵局。好在施拉格尔在半场结束前连续扑出了西班牙队的自由球及后续的补射，凭借一己之力让奥地利在半场时仅以一球落后，保留了比赛悬念。

不过西班牙的攻势绵绵不断。第66分钟，波罗（Porro）头球破门，为西班牙扩大比分。第89分钟，面对防线出现明显漏洞、心态不稳的奥地利，奥亚萨瓦尔完成双响，攻进了个人本届赛事的第四个进球，并助球队以3比0锁定胜局。

西班牙此前在三场小组赛中完成零封，并且没有让对手在上半场完成过一次射正。本场比赛，他们甚至没有让奥地利全场完成过一次射正。他们也成为了自2014年世界杯决赛德国对阵阿根廷以来，首支在世界杯淘汰赛阶段让对手“零射正”的球队。

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Sanctuary county refused 615 ICE transfer requests, turned over just 11 illegal immigrants, records show

2026-07-02T17:54:10-04:00 / Fox News

America First Legal obtained sheriff’s office records exposing how the sanctuary policy shielded hundreds from DHS

By Charles Creitz Fox News

Published July 2, 2026 5:54pm EDT

Angel mom Cheryl Minter demands accountability from Fairfax DA

The House GOP grilled Fairfax DA Steve Descano over his controversial soft-on-crime record, particularly his office’s leniency toward illegal immigrant criminals. During powerful testimony, Angel Mom Cheryl Minter detailed how her daughter’s murder by an alleged illegal alien with over 30 prior arrests highlighted the tragic consequences.

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FIRST ON FOX: Records obtained by a conservative legal group show Fairfax County, Virginia, declined to transfer 615 illegal immigrants to ICE over the past 16 months, while turning over just 11.

Fairfax County, whose board includes one Republican supervisor for what is the most populous jurisdiction in the Old Dominion, formally designated itself a sanctuary jurisdiction in 2021 after passing the Public Trust and Confidentiality Policy or “Trust Policy.”

America First Legal filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the county seeking records from the office of Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Ann Kincaid, who testified at a contentious House hearing earlier this spring on Fairfax’s reluctance to cooperate with federal law enforcement.

The data, obtained directly from a Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office document, showed that for the entirety of 2025, Kincaid’s office refused to transfer 448 illegal immigrants to the Department of Homeland Security for processing and instead only turned over a total of nine to ICE. During the first four months of 2026, Fairfax declined to transfer another 167 illegal immigrants, while turning over only two.

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Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Kincaid(Eva Russo/Getty Images)

Since then, county policy has barred law enforcement from honoring ICE civil detainers or otherwise assisting with federal immigration enforcement.

America First Legal (AFL), which first obtained the data, placed much of the blame on Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Stephen Descano, who sat beside Kincaid at the recent hearing and faced sharp questioning from Republicans over his prosecutorial discretion in cases involving illegal immigrants arrested in the county.

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AFL said in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital that Fairfax’s overall framework encourages recidivism by illegal immigrant offenders and has directly led to several gruesome cases, including the murder of Fredericksburg, Virginia, woman Stephanie Minter, whose alleged killer is an illegal immigrant from West Africa with a lengthy criminal record in Fairfax County.

AFL noted that Descano is under investigation by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division over claims U.S. citizens are effectively discriminated against because of the prosecutor’s stated preferential policies, which appeared on his campaign pages and elsewhere and were highlighted by Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock, R-Calif., and others during the hearing.

The group pointed to fatal stabbings; the alleged assault of a woman on the Washington & Old Dominion Trail, a popular rail trail spanning from Washington, D.C., to Purcellville that has long been considered safe; and other crimes allegedly committed by illegal immigrants who, it said, received light sentences or had charges dropped.

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Descano has long defended his prosecutorial discretion as evidence-based and handled on a case-by-case basis.

A Descano spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement Thursday that the DOJ’s probe is politically motivated and has “distort[ed] the office’s policy.” The spokesperson also said the notice appeared to arrive intentionally just before Descano testified before McClintock.

“Our office’s policies are fair, legal and reflect the values of Fairfax County, and we will not be distracted from our mission of keeping this community safe and holding individuals accountable when they commit crimes,” the spokesperson said.

Fox News Digital also reached out to Kincaid’s office for comment.

Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano, left, and Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Ann Kincaid, right, testify before Congress.(Tom Williams/Getty Images)

AFL counsel Will Scolinos rejected the county’s defense, telling Fox News Digital that tragic cases such as Minter’s murder are the product of the Trust Policy and the shielding of “hundreds of illegal aliens … from federal law enforcement.”

“This deliberate obstruction by county officials protects illegal alien lawbreakers and endangers every family in Northern Virginia,” Scolinos said. “For too many families, it is already too late. But to protect other Virginians from future crimes at the hands of illegal aliens with prior arrests, Fairfax County must reverse this reckless, anti-American governance immediately.”

In the most recent month recorded, April 2026, 32 illegal immigrants were listed as being in the sheriff’s office’s custody, with none released to ICE. All 32 were subject to an “informed detainer,” and three were listed as convicted.

AFL also noted that Santa Clara County, California — home to the San Francisco 49ers’ new stadium — informed the group that it received 529 ICE detainer requests in 2025 and honored none.

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“If each detainer represents a unique illegal alien, an average of 1.34 arrested illegal aliens were released into Santa Clara every day,” AFL said in April.

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The numbers reflect a pattern that is expected to continue drawing scrutiny from the Trump administration and groups such as AFL, which has also sought data from sanctuary jurisdictions nationwide.

Fox News Digital reached out to DHS for comment.

中国称日菲海域划界谈判构成国际不法行为

2026年7月3日 07:50 / 联合早报

2018年4月18日，中国航母辽宁舰在西太平洋参加中国人民解放军海军的军事演习。 （路透社档案照片）

中国就日本与菲律宾即将举行的海域划界谈判向两国发出法律警告，指该谈判构成“国际不法行为”。此举凸显北京正加大力度向华盛顿的这两个关键区域盟友施压，以应对日菲试图抗衡中国在海上强势姿态的举措。

中国自然资源部下属机构“中国海洋发展战略研究所”星期四（7月2日）发布《关于日菲宣布启动双边海域划界的法律评论》。报告指出，日菲谈判未与中国协商，无视区域特定地理情况，违背国际法上主权平等、善意原则以及合作与克制义务，构成国际不法行为。

报告敦促日菲立即停止推进双边海域划界谈判，积极与中国展开协商。

报告强调，“台湾是中国领土不可分割的一部分，这牵涉中国依据包括《联合国海洋法公约》在内的国际法，在台湾岛以东主张的大面积专属经济区和大陆架。”

报告说，日菲不得借所谓“划界”挑战一个中国原则，不得以任何形式将台湾当局引入所谓“划界”进程，否则将是对一中原则的严重挑衅。

报告还警告各国不应为日菲提供协助，远离国家责任和政治风险。“相关国家应充分评估参与此类行动或承认其合法性的法律后果，不介入、不支持、不承认日菲非法划界进程。”

彭博社分析指出，此举表明，北京对马尼拉和东京决定就台湾以东海域展开海域边界谈判日益不满。自日菲宣布将启动海域划界谈判以来，中国大陆已多次派遣海警船赴该海域巡逻，并派出测量船进行海底测绘。

近期，中国大陆还多次派遣海警船在台湾以东、靠近日本与那国岛以南的海域宣示主权。对此，日本已多次通过外交渠道提出抗议。

为应对北京的施压，日本和菲律宾同时采取了深化军事关系的举措。日菲两国已于今年5月同意提升双边关系，并启动一系列防务对话。

Mitch McConnell still hospitalized after EMS responded to his home for “unconscious” person last month

2026-07-02T17:56:00-0400 / CBS News

By Caitlin Yilek
Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.

Updated on: July 2, 2026 / 6:00 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington — Sen. Mitch McConnell remains in the hospital and “continues to improve,” a spokesperson for the Kentucky Republican said in a statement Thursday, just over two weeks after he was initially hospitalized.

McConnell was hospitalized on June 14. On the same day, emergency medical personnel went to his home to respond to an unconscious person, according to a public EMS dispatch call reviewed by CBS News this week.

During the call, a dispatcher called in a “cardiac arrest” and a medic said there was “CPR in progress” at McConnell’s address. The dispatcher also said somebody was “unconscious.” The senator’s name is not mentioned during the EMS call, and CBS News has not confirmed the identity of the unconscious person.

McConnell’s team has not confirmed that the dispatch call was about the senator or provided more information about why he was admitted to the hospital.

“Senator McConnell appreciates the outpouring of support he’s receiving while he continues his recovery in the hospital,” the spokesperson said in a statement Thursday. “The Senator continues to improve, and is working closely with his staff on Kentucky and Senate matters while the Senate is out of session.”

McConnell, a childhood polio survivor, has faced several health scares in recent years. In a May 19 committee hearing, the 84-year-old was seen with a bandage around his hand. In February, McConnell spent more than a week in the hospital after he checked himself in for “flu-like symptoms.”

In 2023, he was hospitalized with a concussion after a fall and later appeared to freeze in two separate instances. He suffered minor injuries in 2024 after another fall.

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Letitia James hammered after NY Medicaid fraud unit funding frozen over ineffective enforcement

The report found the unit secured fewer than 10 criminal fraud indictments in four of the past five years

July 2, 2026 4:21pm EDT / Fox News

Lawmakers on a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee question Medicaid officials from California, Ohio, Minnesota and New York regarding accusations of widespread fraud and inadequate oversight.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James is facing renewed criticism from Republicans after the Trump administration suspended federal funding for the state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU), citing years of poor criminal enforcement performance and leadership decisions that federal officials say left fraud investigations lagging.

The federal action gives Republicans a new line of attack against James as she campaigns for re-election. Republican challenger Saritha Komatireddy has made the state’s struggling Medicaid Fraud Control Unit a key issue in the race, arguing James failed to aggressively prosecute fraud. Federal watchdogs’ findings now lend new weight to those claims.

“Letitia James ran New York’s Medicaid Fraud Unit into the ground, and now we know why: a deliberate leadership choice to open fewer cases and let them drag on for years,” Komatireddy said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

“This means New York taxpayers are losing their hard-earned money to fraudsters, and patients and seniors are being hurt or neglected, and no one is holding them accountable.”

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The Republican Attorneys General Association also chimed in on the funding freeze, arguing it reflected broader differences between Republican and Democratic attorneys general in combating fraud.

“While Republican attorneys general are aggressively fighting fraud, waste, and abuse, Democrat AGs like Keith Ellison in Minnesota and Letitia James in New York knowingly aid and abet scams and fraud in their states,” RAGA Executive Director Adam Piper said in a statement.

“Republican AGs are thrilled to roll up our sleeves and work with JD Vance, Republican AG staff alum Andrew Ferguson, Scott Brady, and the White House Task Force to save taxpayers billions of dollars and deliver maximum accountability.”

New York Attorney General GOP candidate Saritha Komatireddy blasted AG James for failing to adequately investigate and prosecute Medicaid fraud.(Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images)

In a June 30 letter denying the unit’s annual recertification, Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) officials concluded that New York’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit had become the lowest-performing large state unit in the nation for criminal Medicaid fraud enforcement despite receiving roughly $60 million annually in federal funding and employing more than 270 staff members.

“The New York MFCU is not effectively prosecuting criminal Medicaid fraud,” the letter stated. “The Unit reported only 53 fraud convictions from 2023 to 2025. This is by far the lowest among similar-sized Units; the next lowest number of reported fraud convictions for this period was 129.

“Enough is enough.”

The report also found New York ranked last in criminal indictments, securing fewer than 10 fraud indictments in four of the past five years.

Federal officials further found that 34% of the unit’s open cases were more than three years old, while 69% of referrals from the state’s Medicaid Program Integrity Unit had remained pending for at least two years, contributing to a growing investigative backlog.

The HHS letter concluded that the unit’s poor performance stemmed in large part from “a deliberate leadership choice” to prioritize high-impact civil fraud cases over criminal prosecutions, finding that strategy had left the office ineffective at pursuing criminal Medicaid fraud despite its size and resources.

PENNSYLVANIA AG EXPLAINS WHY STATE LEADS NATION IN MEDICAID FRAUD CONVICTIONS WHILE OTHERS BATTLE MASS SCHEMES

New York Attorney General Letitia James attends a campaign rally with community leaders in the Jackson Heights neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York City on Nov. 1, 2022.(AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

While federal officials acknowledged the state’s fraud unit remained competitive in civil recoveries, they said those results did not outweigh the decline in criminal enforcement.

“The Unit has sacrificed its ability to effectively fight criminal fraud to obtain civil recoveries that are largely in line with its peers,” the report stated.

James blasted the funding freeze, accusing the Trump administration of targeting New York for political reasons.

“This administration’s unprecedented attack on New York is another political distraction,” James said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “During my time as attorney general, my office has recovered more than $627 million for Medicaid and was recognized by this very administration for leading the nation in anti-fraud efforts.”

James’ office noted that HHS highlighted New York as one of four states responsible for half of all civil recoveries nationwide in fiscal year 2025. The attorney general also pointed to several recent Medicaid fraud prosecutions, including multimillion-dollar fraud cases announced in recent weeks.

“The only people this decision benefits are the criminals we investigate every day,” James said. “We are considering all legal options to stop this outrageous action.”

TRUMP SAYS ANTI-FRAUD EFFORTS ARE UNCOVERING BILLIONS IN WASTE, CLAIMS SAVINGS COULD BALANCE BUDGET

John Sarcone, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York(Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images)

Meanwhile, federal prosecutors in New York said they are expanding efforts to investigate Medicaid fraud and patient abuse.

“Attorney General James’ apparent inability to explain the New York MFCU’s indefensible criminal enforcement performance is not a political distraction as she puts it,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III, who is spearheading the revival of the NDNY Health Care Fraud Task Force, said in a statement.

Sarcone noted that the New York MFCU averaged just nine criminal indictments a year between 2021 and 2025, compared with more than 100 annually during the three years preceding James’ tenure.

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“Public benefits fraud and Medicaid fraud did not abruptly stop in 2019,” Sarcone added. “Instead, under the failed leadership of AG James, criminal Medicaid fraud in New York State has been ignored.”

The suspension took effect July 1 and remains in effect through Sept. 30 unless New York completes a series of corrective actions ordered by HHS, including reducing case backlogs, increasing criminal indictments and improving coordination with federal investigators. If those deficiencies are not corrected, the Office of Inspector General warned New York it could lose its federal Medicaid Fraud Control Unit grant for fiscal year 2027.

Elaine Mallon is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business covering national politics.

Exclusive: Trump administration plans to boost worksite immigration enforcement after increase in criminal probes

2026-07-02T20:23:25.443Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/02/politics/worksite-immigration-enforcement-raids-trump

The Trump administration is planning for an increase in worksite immigration enforcement operations, with multiple federal agencies involved in determining how to boost the number of arrests and placate the president’s base, according to five sources familiar with the discussions.

Administration officials say that criminal investigations have been ongoing and that any additional enforcement measures would stem from those probes. A Homeland Security spokesperson told CNN there has been an “increase in criminal investigations targeting fraud.”

The internal effort comes as the administration has tried to balance carrying out a historic number of deportations without agitating key industries — from manufacturing to construction to agriculture — or unsettling a fragile economy.

The Department of Homeland Security has previously sent mixed messages on conducting raids at worksite locations. Last year, an immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia kicked off a diplomatic spat between the United States and South Korea.

Immigration hardliners argue worksite enforcement is necessary to achieve the president’s broader immigration agenda.

“The reality is worksite enforcement isn’t happening and without that the numbers won’t hit the needed levels,” an administration official told CNN, referring to the state of play.

Officials from various federal agencies, including the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security, have been in ongoing discussions to put together a strategy tackling worksite enforcement, three of the sources told CNN.

Part of that plan, so far, involves educating employers on hiring responsibilities, as well as conducting immigration arrests at worksites involved in criminal activity, one of the sources said. Sources cautioned that plans are still fluid and can change.

“This isn’t a new policy,” a White House official told CNN. “The administration has been conducting criminal investigations into a host of violations since the start of the administration into items like welfare fraud, benefit fraud, identity theft, and more.”

“These investigations are criminal in nature. If investigations require law enforcement action to stop those who are breaking the law, the Trump administration will enforce the law,” the official added.

It can take months, if not years, to prepare for a worksite operation, which is often based on an ongoing criminal investigation. ICE Homeland Security Investigations will generally serve notice of intent to audit a company’s immigration paperwork; perform that audit; and, if issues arise, kick off a criminal investigation.

“They’re hard because it’s mountains of paperwork and it requires a lot of analysis and due diligence to put it together to prove culpability,” a former DHS official told CNN, referring to worksite operations. “It takes quite a bit of effort.”

Immigration hardliners and allies of the president have long been urging the administration to do more on worksite enforcement, seeing it as a way to deport a large swath of undocumented immigrants beyond those who are public safety or national security threats and penalize the employers who hire them.

“The administration is going to face with a test — are they going to pass the test or not?” said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for limited immigration. “The test is whether they’re going to significantly step up job-related enforcement. That’s not just raiding worksites. That’s got to be part of it, but all the other stuff like paperwork enforcement.”

That includes putting employers on notice, he said.

The worksite push comes as the administration is also increasing its overall arrest effort. In recent days, ICE has stepped up immigration arrests, taking around 2,000 people into custody daily on average, up from previous months— a target that officials want to sustain. Last year, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller directed ICE officials to meet daily quotas of 3,000 immigration arrests — an unprecedented number that the agency struggled to meet.

“We’re seeing our arrest numbers come up. We’re seeing our deportation numbers continue to increase. Right now, we’re deporting on average over 3,000 individuals — actually, the average has been, for several weeks now, over 3,200 individuals a day,” Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said at a press conference in New York on Wednesday.

“We’re surging every day because we’re trying to restore law and order, regardless of whether you live in a red state or a blue state,” he added.

Last year, Trump himself wavered repeatedly on the topic of cracking down on migrant workers. At times he had suggested farms and other industries employing migrants should be protected, even as he and some top aides have pushed ICE to intensify its immigration sweeps.

That led to whiplash within ICE as agents were told to limit immigration raids at farms, hotels and restaurants — and then told to continue worksite enforcement.

It isn’t clear yet what the scope of the latest enforcement effort would be.

“This is going to inconvenience some people,” Krikorian said, referring to employers. “There’s no way to do (mass deportation) and there’s no way to encourage significant self-deportation without it.”

Supreme Court declines former Fox News reporter’s request to stay contempt order

July 2, 2026 at 4:38 p.m. EDT / The Washington Post

Catherine Herridge has been ordered to disclose a confidential source — or pay $800 a day in court sanctions.

A view of the Supreme Court in 2020. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

By Julian Mark

The Supreme Court on Thursday let stand a lower-court order that forces former Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge to either disclose a confidential source or pay $800 a day in court sanctions.

In a brief, unsigned order, the justices denied Herridge’s emergency application to stay the U.S. District Court for the D.C. Circuit’s sanctions against her for refusing to identify an anonymous source. Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh noted he would have granted Herridge’s request for a stay.

Former CDC official says RFK Jr.’s response to measles outbreak “not based on science or reality”

July 2, 2026 / 7:20 PM EDT / CBS News

By Caitlin Yilek

While staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were racing to stop the worst measles outbreak since 2000 last year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies sought backward-looking data on measles and its vaccine, a former top CDC official said.

In an interview with “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Wednesday, former CDC Chief Medical Officer Dr. Debra Houry, one of four senior CDC officials who resigned in protest last summer, said Kennedy and his allies were pushing out information “not based on science or reality, but trying to answer an agenda that was already in place.”

More than 2,000 cases of measles were reported nationwide last year, including hundreds in a West Texas outbreak linked to the deaths of two children. During that time, Kennedy aides asked Houry for years-old data on people with measles who had died. Houry told them in an email that the “active measles response has to take priority,” according to a trove of newly released emails that she provided to the Senate health committee.

“During all of that, we also get requests for 15 years of data on every single measles case and were there any other diseases that those people had, that died from measles,” she told CBS News. “Same time, a former group of the secretary’s put out a statement saying that some of the measles deaths weren’t due to measles. So, to me, it seemed like they were looking through CDC data, these requests to answer some questions from other organizations, or potentially promote their beliefs.”

At around the same time, Houry also expressed worry about statements by Kennedy — a longtime vaccine skeptic — on the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. Kennedy spoke positively about the vaccine at times, but also made inaccurate claims about its ingredients and promoted other treatments. In emails in spring 2025, Houry asked Kennedy’s aides whether health officials could “help him with his talking points.”

“He would say things like there’s fetal parts in vaccines, and I had sent an email to correct that, and said, how can we help him?” Houry told “Face the Nation” about trying to provide Kennedy with “appropriate talking points.” There is no fetal debris in vaccines.

CBS News has reached out to the Department of Health and Human Services for comment.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/former-cdc-chief-medical-officer-debra-houry-resignation-rfk-jr-policies/

Houry said she was concerned because the spread of misinformation “impacts lives” and could convince people not to get the measles vaccine during an active outbreak. Some 93% of people who contracted measles last year were either unvaccinated or had an unknown vaccination status, according to CDC data.

“We had children being hospitalized, we had children dying from measles,” she said. “We needed people to respond during a measles outbreak and get vaccinated if they weren’t. Instead, he talked about healers and treatments around, like, steroids and antibiotics, and even vitamin A.”

In TV appearances and an opinion piece on Fox News, Kennedy declared that vitamin A was an effective measles treatment and pointed to a CDC statement recommending the supplement. He also claimed, “Studies have found that vitamin A can dramatically reduce measles mortality.”

“We actually saw vitamin A toxicity cases in hospitals. People were taking too much vitamin A because there had been messaging that it was helpful for measles,” she said.

美官员：特朗普希望结束俄乌战争的“无谓杀戮”

2026年7月3日 07:23 / 联合早报

7月2日，俄罗斯于清晨对基辅发动有史以来规模最大的空袭，摧毁了多栋公寓楼，造成至少21人死亡。 （法新社）

一名美国官员星期四（7月2日）说，美国总统特朗普希望达成和平协议，结束俄乌战争造成的“无谓杀戮”。俄罗斯当日清晨对基辅发动大规模炮击，造成至少21人死亡。

法新社报道，这名美国官员在回应问询时说：“特朗普总统心怀人道主义，他希望结束这场战争，从而结束无谓杀戮。”

“总统及团队为结束俄乌战争付出了巨大努力，他仍然乐观地认为，我们最终会达成和平协议。”

在基辅遭受猛烈炮击后，乌俄双方都誓言发动新一轮攻势。炮击摧毁了基辅的公寓楼，导致数万人流离失所。

特朗普曾猛烈抨击美国对基辅提供的军事援助过多，并于2025年2月在白宫公开斥责乌克兰总统泽连斯基。

相比之下，特朗普对俄罗斯总统普京的态度总体友好，尽管他对普京拒绝结束战争也日益感到不满。

泽连斯基星期四呼吁盟国在下周于安卡拉举行的北约峰会上，加快向饱受战火摧残的乌克兰提供防空援助，特朗普也将出席此次峰会。