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印度河流现七具遗体 或为尼泊尔洪灾遇难者

2026年8月28日 16:49 / 联合早报

8月27日的卫星图像显示，洪水爆发后，尼泊尔和中国西藏自治区交界处形成堰塞湖。 （路透社）

印度官员星期五（8月28日）说，当局从发源于尼泊尔的河流中打捞出七具遗体，据信是这场毁灭性洪灾的遇难者。

法新社报道，这些遗体是在北方邦的马哈拉杰甘杰（Maharajganj）和拘尸那揭罗（Kushinagar）两区河流中被发现的，这个邦与尼泊尔南部受洪水影响的奇特旺地区接壤。

马哈拉杰甘杰县行政长官索加瓦尔告诉法新社：“我们星期四（27日）在这里发现四具身份不明的遗体。我们认为他们是被尼泊尔的突发洪水冲进印度。”

一名警官证实在拘尸那揭罗县又发现三具遗体。当局正在努力确认这些遗体的身份。

尼泊尔洪灾已造成至少472人死亡，其中469具遗体在尼泊尔被发现，三具在中国被发现。另有至少1400人失踪。

美法官裁定五角大楼将Anthropic列黑名单违法

2026年8月28日 16:46 / 联合早报

美国人工智能公司Anthropic因拒绝解除Claude用于自主武器和国内监控的限制，与五角大楼对簿公堂。 （路透社）

美国联邦法官裁定，五角大楼将人工智能公司Anthropic列为“国家安全供应链风险”的决定违法，并下令阻止有关黑名单措施生效。这是Anthropic与美国军方围绕人工智能（AI）在战场上的使用限制持续交锋的最新进展。

路透社报道，加利福尼亚州联邦地区法院法官林丽塔（Rita Lin）星期四（8月27日）在一份长达59页的裁决中指出，五角大楼对Anthropic作出的风险认定“违法且毫无根据”。

她写道：“空泛地援引国家安全，并不意味着政府可以任意惩罚和报复批评者。”

美战争部长赫格塞斯此前将Anthropic列为国家安全供应链风险企业，理由是公司可能对军事系统构成潜在渗透或破坏风险。这项措施限制Anthropic参与部分军方合同。

Anthropic今年3月入禀加州联邦法院，指赫格塞斯越权，并称政府是在公司拒绝解除Claude人工智能模型部分使用限制后采取报复行动。

Anthropic不允许美国军方使用Claude进行国内监控或控制自主武器。公司认为，目前人工智能模型的可靠性仍不足以安全应用于自主武器，同时反对侵犯公民权利的国内监控。

五角大楼则认为，私人企业不应有权限制军方如何使用人工智能技术。

Anthropic指出，被列入供应链风险名单可能令公司损失数十亿美元业务，也会损害声誉。这也是美国首次公开依据一项原本用于防范外国势力破坏军事系统的政府采购法律，将一家美国企业列为供应链风险。

Anthropic在诉讼中称，政府因公司公开表达对人工智能安全的立场而采取行动，侵犯宪法第一修正案保障的言论自由；同时公司在被列入名单前没有机会提出异议，也违反宪法第五修正案赋予的正当程序权利。

美国司法部反驳说，Anthropic拒绝取消使用限制，会令五角大楼无法确定Claude在军事行动中可以如何使用，甚至可能增加关键系统在行动期间失效的风险。政府强调，相关决定针对的是Anthropic拒绝接受合同条件，而不是公司的人工智能安全观点。

Anthropic目前另在华盛顿提出诉讼，挑战五角大楼另一项供应链风险认定；有关措施可能进一步导致公司被排除在美国联邦政府民用合同之外。

伊朗外长警告美国 施压不起作用

2026年8月28日 16:59 / 联合早报

美国和伊朗的冲突始于2月底。尽管双方于4月达成停火协议，但袭击事件仍时有发生，主要集中在霍尔木兹海峡附近。 （路透社）

伊朗星期五（8月28日）警告美国，对伊朗施加压力“行不通”，并呼吁华盛顿履行承诺。

伊朗外长阿格拉奇在X上说：“让外交重回正轨并非不可能。关键在于美国是否能理解一个简单的道理：施压是行不通的。”

此前一天，阿格拉奇会见卡塔尔外交大臣穆罕默德。穆罕默德此次访问德黑兰，旨在重启陷入僵局数周的美伊和平谈判。

阿格拉奇说：“美国应该建立信任，以尊重的态度对话，承认我们的权利，并履行承诺。”

美国和伊朗的冲突始于2月底。尽管双方于4月达成停火协议，但袭击事件仍时有发生，主要集中在霍尔木兹海峡附近，使双方最终达成和平协议的前景黯淡。

研究：太极拳可缓解慢性肌肉骨骼疼痛并提升骨密度

2026年8月28日 17:04 / 联合早报

一项新研究显示，包括太极拳、八段锦在内的中国传统运动，有助改善部分肌肉骨骼疾病患者的身体功能、心理健康、睡眠质量等。

新华社报道，中国辽宁中医药大学和中国医科大学等机构的研究团队共纳入92项基于随机对照试验的系统综述和荟萃分析，所汇总数据涉及1744项原始随机对照试验。

综合分析结果显示，太极拳等中国传统运动可改善膝骨关节炎患者的身体功能和心理健康、颈痛患者的心理健康，以及纤维肌痛患者的睡眠质量。对太极拳的分析还显示，它可减轻慢性肌肉骨骼疾病引发的疼痛和僵硬，并可提高骨质减少或骨质疏松者多个负重部位的骨密度。

研究团队还发现，对于膝骨关节炎以及骨质减少或骨质疏松患者而言，持续时间更长、每周至少三次且总时长至少150分钟的这些运动通常带来的益处更多。

研究人员认为，这类运动可作为常规疗法的补充，研究结果支持将它纳入临床指南和康复计划。

不过，研究人员指出，未来仍需开展大规模、长期随访的随机对照试验，并进一步比较不同运动方式，明确适宜的练习频率、持续时间和每周总量。

相关论文近日已在线发表于《英国运动医学杂志》。

印度河流现七具遗体 或为尼泊尔洪灾遇难者

2026年8月28日 16:49 / 联合早报

8月27日的卫星图像显示，洪水爆发后，尼泊尔和中国西藏自治区交界处形成堰塞湖。 （路透社）

印度官员星期五（8月28日）说，当局从发源于尼泊尔的河流中打捞出七具遗体，据信是这场毁灭性洪灾的遇难者。

法新社报道，这些遗体是在北方邦的马哈拉杰甘杰（Maharajganj）和拘尸那揭罗（Kushinagar）两区河流中被发现的，这个邦与尼泊尔南部受洪水影响的奇特旺地区接壤。

马哈拉杰甘杰县行政长官索加瓦尔告诉法新社：“我们星期四（27日）在这里发现四具身份不明的遗体。我们认为他们是被尼泊尔的突发洪水冲进印度。”

一名警官证实在拘尸那揭罗县又发现三具遗体。当局正在努力确认这些遗体的身份。

尼泊尔洪灾已造成至少472人死亡，其中469具遗体在尼泊尔被发现，三具在中国被发现。另有至少1400人失踪。

Thousands march in Washington as leaders warn of voting and civil rights rollbacks

2026-08-28 10:04 UTC / Reuters

By David Hood-Nuño

August 28, 2026 10:04 AM UTC Updated 19 mins ago

[1/4]People visit Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial as demonstrators for racial justice march on the 60th anniversary of the March On Washington and Martin Luther King Jr’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C, U.S., August 26, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

• Summary

• Demonstration echoes Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 demands on voting and jobs
• Senator Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez confirmed speakers
• Thousands expected to gather on the National Mall, organizers say

WASHINGTON, Aug 28 (Reuters) – More than six ​decades after Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial ‌and declared his dream for a more just America, thousands are expected to march in Washington on Friday, as a new generation of civil rights leaders warns that the very rights King fought and died for are once again under siege.

Civil ​rights leaders will retrace his path through the capital, invoking the same demands King made from ​the same steps of the Lincoln Memorial two and a half generations ago: ⁠that the fight for equality remains unfinished.

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The event, called “March on Washington 2026: Defend the Vote,” hopes to ​draw thousands to the National Mall, and is organized by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network and Martin Luther ​King III and Arndrea Waters King’s Drum Major Institute, alongside more than 90 community partner organizations, including the NAACP and National Urban League.

“Defending the vote means defending the foundation of our democracy,” said King III in a statement. “Sixty-three years after my ​father stood at the Lincoln Memorial, we are called to march again, not only in remembrance, but ​in action.”

The march comes after the Supreme Court weakened a key provision of the Voting Rights Act earlier this year that ‌set off ⁠a string of redistricting battles across the South, with Republican-led statehouses moving quickly, in some cases within days, to redraw congressional maps in time for the midterm elections in November.

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According to the organizers, the march aims to “confront the systemic rollback of civil rights at this critical moment,” referring to broad changes made by President ​Donald Trump’s efforts to curb ​mail-in voting, weaken anti-discrimination protections ⁠across the federal government and fundamentally shift what civil rights are.

“We stand on the same ground because the work is not finished,” Sharpton wrote in a letter ​to supporters. “The right to vote, the very foundation of our power, is being ​chipped away ⁠in statehouse after statehouse. When the vote is weakened, every other right grows fragile with it.”

The program begins at 9 a.m. ET with confirmed speakers U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, and Democratic Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ⁠and ​Yvette Clarke from New York.

“The March on Washington 2026 is a ​moral call to protect democracy for every generation,” said Arndrea Waters King. “We march to defend the vote, honor those who sacrificed for ​it, and ensure that every voice is protected.”

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Dems derided Trump’s midterm gamble — until he ended up winning big

Redistricting Reckoning: Democrats warnings that Trump’s push threatened democracy fall flat

August 28, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News

By Paul Steinhauser

GOP could gain more than a dozen House seats following redistricting wins

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One year ago this week, Texas passed a new congressional redistricting map, giving President Donald Trump his first major victory in his push to give Republicans a big boost heading into the midterm elections by drawing more right-leaning districts.

One year later, as they fight to hold their razor-thin House majority, Republicans are the big winners, with partisan redistricting netting them at least 10 additional right-leaning congressional seats in time for the midterms.

Democrats and left-leaning pundits repeatedly railed against Trump’s efforts and charged they would “shred our country’s democracy.”

Top Democrats aimed to fight fire with fire but fell short. Their efforts to keep pace with the GOP were derailed following major court rulings by the Supreme Court and Virginia’s top court earlier this year, which were seen as major legal victories for Republicans. And the GOP scored another redistricting win earlier this month in Missouri, when a judge allowed a new map, backed by Trump and passed last year by Republican state lawmakers, to be used in November’s elections.

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U.S. President Donald Trump has been the driving force behind a Republican effort for mid-decade congressional redistricting ahead of the midterm elections.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Progressive pundits that cast Trump’s push for Texas to redraw its congressional map before the 2026 midterms as a threat to voting rights and democracy. Among them was former MSNBC anchor Joy Reid.

She branded the fight a “Voting Rights 911” and later titled a segment on “The Joy Reid Show” as “Texas’s War on Democracy Through Gerrymandering.”

John Oliver, host of “Last Week Tonight” on HBO, was also among a group of pundits that criticized the redistricting push as a power grab by Trump and the GOP.

Oliver said gerrymandering was the practice of manipulating maps “to get the outcome you want,” and called it “putting a heavy thumb on the scale of who gets elected.”

Fox News Digital reached out to representatives for Reid and Oliver to see if they continue to stand by their criticism, but didn’t receive responses by the time this story was published.

It wasn’t just pundits who spoke out.

Top Democrats also took action, after Trump, aiming to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House when Democrats reclaimed the House majority in the 2018 midterms, first floated the idea of rare, but not unheard of, mid-decade congressional redistricting.

After Texas led the way last summer, Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin called a ruling by the conservative-dominated Supreme Court to greenlight the redistricting a victory for a “rigged map” meant to protect the GOP from midterm accountability.

“But it will backfire,” Martin predicted.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who led a successful redistricting effort in his Democrat-dominated state last year to negate the GOP gains in Texas, emphasized, “California will not sit idle as Trump and his Republican lapdogs shred our country’s democracy before our very eyes.”

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a plan for a special election on November 4, 2025, to seek voter approval for a new congressional map, on August 14, 2025 in Los Angeles.(AP)

And Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, who considered but decided against redrawing congressional maps in the blue-leaning state, charged that Trump and Republicans were aiming to “erode our democracy and drag us toward authoritarianism.”

A veteran Republican strategist sees the Democrats’ arguments as hypocritical.

“The left’s overcharged political rhetoric is undermined by Governor Gavin Newsom’s willingness to spearhead a power grab in his state that eliminated at least 5 GOP congressional seats,” Colin Reed told Fox News Digital.

Reed argued that “Democratic leaders had the same goal as Republicans with mid-decade redistricting; they just weren’t as successful, but their intent makes any complaints about democracy ring hollow.”

But Democrats stand by their resistance.

“Elected leaders in every state should respond aggressively to this unAmerican attempt to rig control of congress for a generation,” John Bisognano, executive director of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, told Fox News Digital.

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While Texas and California were the first major battlegrounds in the redistricting war, the fight quickly spread from coast-to-coast.

Republican-controlled Florida, Missouri, and Ohio and swing state North Carolina, where the GOP dominates the legislature, drew new maps as part of the president’s push.

But in blows to Republicans, a Utah district judge late last year rejected a congressional district map drawn by the state’s GOP-dominated legislature and instead approved an alternate that created a Democratic-leaning district ahead of the midterms.

And Republicans in Indiana’s state Senate in December defied Trump, shooting down a redistricting bill that had passed the state House.

But Democrats were dealt a major blow this spring when the Virginia Supreme Court struck down the Democrat-controlled state’s congressional redistricting ballot measure, which would have produced up to four more left-leaning House seats.

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Concurrently, a blockbuster decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that gutted key portions of the landmark Voting Rights Act – ruling that race should not dictate the redrawing of legislative districts – gave a handful of GOP-dominated Southern states the greenlight to move forward with redistricting.

The legal rulings locked in an advantage for Republicans in this year’s battle for the House. Now it’s up to voters to decide which party will control Congress.

But the redistricting fight is far from over.

Democrat-controlled New York is taking steps toward redistricting in time for the 2028 elections.

So is blue state Maryland, but a court ruling on Wednesday dealt Democrats a setback. A Maryland court blocked Democrats from adding a congressional redistricting initiative to the November ballot on Wednesday. The Democrat-backed effort would have allowed Maryland residents to vote on an amendment to the state constitution to let lawmakers redraw district maps ahead of the 2028 elections.

Meanwhile, battleground Georgia, where Republicans currently control the governor’s office and state legislature, is also mulling a move.

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“The gerrymandering crisis Trump started last year is is not over. We expect him to continue demanding new congressional maps that manipulate voting districts to protect Republicans despite what American voters want,” Bisognano told Fox News Digital.

He urged state leaders to speak out and draw “responsive maps to ensure the national congressional map reflects the make up and the will of the American people.”

Paul Steinhauser covers the national campaign trail from coast to coast for Fox News

Tigers, jaguars, bison among 135 exotic and endangered animals found in raid on fuel smugglers near U.S. border

2026-08-28T06:48:00-0400 / CBS News

Mexican authorities said Thursday that they had rescued Bengal tigers, mandrills, hyenas and even a camel during raids on a fuel smuggling ring in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, on the U.S. border.

The 135 animals found at a ranch also included lions, buffalo, sulcata tortoises, spider monkeys, jaguars, an American bison and a green macaw.

Thirty-five of the animals, including the green macaw and sulcata tortoise, are classified as endangered species.

Mexican authorities regularly rescue exotic animals from properties owned by wealthy drug traffickers. Some Mexican drug cartels are known to house exotic cats as symbols of power and, occasionally, to dispose of their enemies. According to a 2023 U.S. indictment, some victims of a Sinaloa cartel faction were “fed dead or alive to tigers.”

On this occasion, however, the military found them during an operation targeting fuel smugglers.

Mexican authorities said Thursday that they had rescued over 130 exotic animals during raids on a fuel smuggling ring in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, on the U.S. border. Mexico Government

Smuggling gasoline and diesel from the United States into Mexico and reselling it tax-free is a huge money-maker for organized crime gangs, including drug cartels.

During these latest raids on five properties, the military seized 18,000 gallons of diesel, fuel tanks, pumps, firearms, and tools.

One person was arrested.

Mexican authorities cracked down on fuel smuggling in 2025, when high-ranking navy officers and officials were implicated in the illegal trade.

Some 10 billion liters of black market fuel were seized at that time in Tamaulipas.

The attorney general’s office on Thursday formally charged Fernando Farias, a high-ranking officer who was expelled last week from Argentina, with fuel smuggling.

A former governor of Tamaulipas, Ernesto Ruffo, was also recently arrested on charges of fuel theft.

Fuel smuggling a growing problem

Fuel theft — more commonly known as huachicol in Mexico — has risen to the second most profitable revenue stream for Mexican cartels behind drug trafficking, according to the U.S. Treasury.

U.S. officials allege that some cartel members steal fuel and crude oil from Pemex by bribing insiders, tapping pipelines, siphoning refineries, hijacking tanker trucks, and intimidating employees.

The stolen fuel is then sold across Mexico, the United States and Central America, while crude oil is smuggled north via complicit brokers — frequently disguised as “waste oil” to evade taxes and environmental scrutiny, the U.S. Treasury discovered.

Once inside the United States, the oil is then funneled to unscrupulous importers along the southwest border, sold at deep discounts on U.S. and global markets with proceeds quietly funneled back to the cartels.

U.S. authorities have even accused the Jalisco New Generation cartel of operating its own service stations.

The United States has been cracking down. In June, the U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on two Mexican men and nine companies involved in transportation, financial services and real estate, accused of being tied to a cartel-linked fuel theft ring.

In December, the Treasury Department imposed sanctions on a violent Mexican fuel-theft cartel and its imprisoned leader, nicknamed “The Sledgehammer.”

Trump’s ‘Lake America’ move revives one of his biggest political flops

2026-08-28T09:00:29.131Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/28/politics/trump-lake-america-unpopular

It increasingly feels as though President Donald Trump is trying to do unpopular things ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

But he might have outdone himself with his latest move.

Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” He did so after Canada declined to capitulate in the trade war he recently launched.

While there’s not yet polling on this specific move, it’s difficult to believe it will be anything but a complete political dud.

And while it’s unlikely to exercise Americans too much, it will likely feed into longstanding perceptions that Trump is more focused on trivial matters than the things they actually want, like lowering prices.

The move recalls one of Trump’s splashiest (so to speak) moves on his first day back in office last year, when he signed an order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.”

But that went over like a lead balloon.

An Ipsos poll that week showed Americans opposed the renaming 70%-25%. About 8 in 10 independents opposed it, as did 45% of Republicans. More than four times as many Americans strongly opposed it (46%) as strongly supported it (10%).

A slightly later Marquette Law School poll showed similar— Americans opposed the renaming 71%-29%.

Both polls tested a number of early Trump moves or threatened actions. Remarkably, the “Gulf of America” was the most unpopular among eight things tested in the Marquette poll, and it was the second most unpopular among 15 tested in the Ipsos poll.

In both polls, in fact, it was more unpopular than even Trump’s pardons of January 6, 2021, defendants — perhaps the prototypical controversial early Trump move.

And since then, Americans have taken a pretty dim view of Trump’s penchant for renaming things — including after himself.

After his handpicked board of loyalists tried to rename the Kennedy Center after Trump, Americans said by a 2-to-1 margin that he had “gone too far” in making changes to institutions like it, according to CNN polling from last month. Just 9% of Americans in a Pew Research Center poll said it was appropriate to name things after Trump while he’s still president, yet his administration keeps trying to do just that — including, CNN reported last week, by potentially substituting Trump’s name for a Black war hero’s that was set to be on an aircraft carrier.

And there’s reason to believe that the “Lake America” move will play even worse than the “Gulf of America” did.

The main reason is that Americans tend to be more sympathetic to Canada than Mexico. While there’s a constituency for cracking down on Mexico, especially given decades of illegal immigration over the US-Mexico border, Canada doesn’t engender such negative feelings, recent polling suggests.

Indeed, when Trump launched tariffs against both Canada and Mexico early in his second term, the Canada ones were narrowly more unpopular, with more than 6 in 10 Americans opposing them.

(This, of course, hasn’t stopped Trump from launching another trade war with Canada.)

Americans also balked at Trump’s proposal to make Canada the 51st state. Marquette polling last year showed 75% of Americans opposed that.

The other main problem is the passage of time. While these kinds of stunts might have felt a little cuter when Trump was riding higher early in his term, they now risk reinforcing how preoccupied he is with not just trifles, but things that Americans decidedly do not want.

Polls have long shown around three-quarters of Americans think Trump is neglecting the most important issues, especially lowering prices. Instead, he’s waging war against Iran (which raises gas prices) and launching a trade war with Canada (which also could raise prices).

Now he’s casting a spotlight on the latter with a move that Americans thought was pretty stupid when he did it the first time. And it’s arguably even sillier than that was, given Lake Ontario wasn’t even named after the Canadian province. (It was actually named 200 years earlier, in the 17th Century.)

Even some Republicans are balking, with the GOP nominee for Wisconsin governor, Rep. Tom Tiffany, saying Thursday that the name should stay the same.

Trump joked in the Oval Office Thursday that he might not be done renaming bodies of water.

“We have a gulf. We have a lake. Now all we need is an ocean,” he said. “So maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific. Maybe we’ll change them both.”

You could say he’s playing the hits. But it’s really playing the flops.

伊朗外长警告美国 施压不起作用

2026年8月28日 16:59 / 联合早报

美国和伊朗的冲突始于2月底。尽管双方于4月达成停火协议，但袭击事件仍时有发生，主要集中在霍尔木兹海峡附近。 （路透社）

伊朗星期五（8月28日）警告美国，对伊朗施加压力“行不通”，并呼吁华盛顿履行承诺。

伊朗外长阿格拉奇在X上说：“让外交重回正轨并非不可能。关键在于美国是否能理解一个简单的道理：施压是行不通的。”

此前一天，阿格拉奇会见卡塔尔外交大臣穆罕默德。穆罕默德此次访问德黑兰，旨在重启陷入僵局数周的美伊和平谈判。

阿格拉奇说：“美国应该建立信任，以尊重的态度对话，承认我们的权利，并履行承诺。”

美国和伊朗的冲突始于2月底。尽管双方于4月达成停火协议，但袭击事件仍时有发生，主要集中在霍尔木兹海峡附近，使双方最终达成和平协议的前景黯淡。