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Dolly Parton offered to try experimental drugs to help others if there was “no hope” in her cancer battle, sister says

2026-08-27 18:43 EDT / CBS News

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Dolly Parton’s sister, Stella Parton, said the country music icon offered to try experimental drugs if there was “no hope” in her cancer battle, in an effort to help others.

“What the world saw is exactly who she was, so much so, she told me recently that if there was no hope for her, she would still allow her medical team to try experimental drugs in the hope of helping others in the future,” Stella Parton said in a Facebook post.

“My sister was always thinking of others and if you want to honor her legacy, show more kindness, lift others up and give more of your time and resources as she continued to do to the very end,” Stella Parton wrote.

Dolly Parton was widely recognized for her philanthropy. Through the Dollywood Foundation, founded in 1988, she worked to improve education in her hometown and later expanded those efforts by covering higher-education costs for Dollywood employees. She also created the Imagination Library, which provides free books to young children. In 2020, she donated $1 million to Vanderbilt University’s COVID-19 research, which contributed to the development of the Moderna vaccine.

Stella Parton and Dolly Parton attend Stella Parton’s Red Tent Women’s Conference 2014 at the DoubleTree Hotel Downtown on April 18, 2014, in Nashville, Tennessee. Terry Wyatt / Getty Images

Dolly Parton died Tuesday after a brief battle with cancer. She was 80. Following her death, politicians, including President Trump, and celebrities, including her goddaughter, Miley Cyrus, mourned the loss of the country music legend and praised her as an icon whose legacy will never be forgotten.

Last October, Dolly Parton’s sister, Freida Parton, raised concerns about the singer’s health by asking fans to pray for her, though Dolly Parton later said she was OK. In May, Dolly Parton said she was responding well to treatment for health issues, including kidney stones, but canceled upcoming Las Vegas performances because she wasn’t ready to return to the stage.

Dolly Parton grew up in poverty in rural Tennessee as the fourth of 12 children. Stella Parton was the sixth sibling and also had a career in the music industry.

Stella Parton said she and Dolly Parton had weekly coffee dates, adding that her “Tuesday morning coffee time will never be the same but [Dolly Parton’s] love, respect and goodness will remain.”

“If anyone gets to heaven I’m sure she made it right on time. I know she’s showing out big time, in all her sparkles and shine. That was my sister’s way,” Stella Parton wrote.

Closing arguments in trial of man accused in Tupac Shakur’s murder expected Monday

August 27, 2026 7:29 PM EDT / AP

The murder trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur is headed to closing arguments after the defense rested Thursday following testimony from three former Las Vegas police officers.

Jurors are scheduled to return Monday for closing arguments before beginning deliberations in the only prosecution brought in the killing of the hip-hop icon. The presentation of evidence ended after nine days of testimony.

Davis, 63, did not take the stand.

Shakur was riding in a BMW on Sept. 7, 1996, when a white Cadillac pulled up next to it at a red light near the Las Vegas Strip and gunfire erupted. Shakur was shot multiple times and died six days later. The driver of the BMW, Marion “Suge” Knight, survived.

Years later, Davis would say he procured the gun and his nephew, who has since died, fired the shots. Prosecutors say Davis orchestrated the killing, and he faces life in prison if convicted of murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang. He has pleaded not guilty.

Duane Davis enters the courtroom during his murder trial in connection with the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur at Clark County District Court at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Aug. 27. Steve Marcus / POOL /AFP via Getty Images

Defense attorney Michael Sanft has argued that Davis fabricated or embellished his accounts of the killing for money and notoriety and that investigators failed to independently corroborate his claims.

Retired Las Vegas homicide detective Dan Long, the defense’s final witness, testified that he tried unsuccessfully to verify several details Davis provided during a 2009 police interview.

Davis told Long that his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, had gone to a Las Vegas hospital after being beaten by Shakur and others in a casino brawl hours before the rapper was fatally shot. Long said he was unable to find hospital records confirming Anderson was treated there.

Long also tried unsuccessfully to locate records for a white Cadillac that Davis said had been rented before the shooting.

Asked by a juror whether he had been able to verify that Davis was actually in the Cadillac the night Shakur was killed, Long said Davis himself told him he was in the car and that the shooting came from it.

A 1996 photo of rapper Tupac Shakur and Marion “Suge” Knight is displayed during the Duane Davis murder trial at Clark County District Court Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, Aug. 17, 2026. Reuters/Steve Marcus/Pool

On follow-up questioning by Sanft, Long acknowledged he had no independent facts outside of what Davis told him confirming he was in the Cadillac.

Prosecutors countered that Davis’ account matched information already developed by investigators. On cross-examination, Long testified that Davis identified the same four men investigators already believed were in the Cadillac when Shakur was shot.

Long also said he returned to Las Vegas after interviewing Davis in 2009 intending to seek an arrest warrant for murder because he believed there was probable cause, but prosecutors at the time told him to stand down while they reviewed the matter.

The defense also called two former Las Vegas police officers who were assigned to keep the peace at Knight’s home on the night of the shooting. They testified about vehicles entering and leaving the gated residence, including a cream- or white-colored Cadillac.

The case remained unsolved for decades before Davis’ public interviews and 2019 memoir helped revive scrutiny of the killing.

Prosecutors rested Wednesday after calling 24 witnesses. They contend Davis orchestrated Shakur’s killing in retaliation for the casino fight involving Anderson, and their case relied heavily on Davis’ own accounts over the years, including interviews, his memoir and recorded jail calls.

Cyclospora outbreak linked to recalled iceberg lettuce tied to 3 more states, FDA says

August 27, 2026 7:42 PM EDT / CBS/AP

Parasitic illness cases linked to recalled iceberg lettuce have now been confirmed in 20 states, federal health officials said Thursday, expanding the scope of the largest outbreak of its kind in the U.S.

The Food and Drug Administration said government scientists have now identified cyclosporiasis cases in three additional states: Georgia, Tennessee and Texas. Other states impacted by the outbreak include Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

The tally of people sickened in the outbreak by the parasite cyclospora is now 11,458, the FDA said, up from about 10,900 reported last week. There have been two deaths linked to the outbreak, both reported in Michigan. The two residents had “significant underlying health conditions,” the state’s Department of Health and Human Services has said.

The FDA, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health officials have focused their investigation on lettuce grown at a farm in central Mexico operated by Taylor Farms, a major U.S. produce supplier. CBS News discovered that prior to the cyclosporiasis outbreak, the FDA last inspected its potential source, Taylor Farms de Mexico, seven years ago

The FDA said its staffers are continuing to inspect and test produce at the farm, in cooperation with officials from the Mexican government. The U.S. agency said it “remains confident that all recalled iceberg lettuce related to this specific cyclospora outbreak is off the market.”

Cyclospora is a microscopic parasite that commonly causes watery diarrhea “with frequent and sometimes explosive bowel movements,” according to the CDC. Outbreaks tend to occur most often in the late spring and summer.

The heat-loving parasite infects the bowels and spreads through feces. The illness, called cyclosporiasis, is less common than foodborne illnesses caused by other germs, including salmonella and E. coli. Many cyclosporiasis cases are never linked to a specific food or other source.

Earlier this week, the CDC reported that there have been about 17,180 confirmed cyclosporiasis cases in the U.S. this year. There have been 922 hospitalizations, according to the agency. Previously, the worst year in the U.S. for infections was 2019, when about 4,700 illnesses were reported nationally.

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Abbott taunts far-left AG with fiery warning over ICE extradition fight: ‘Such bad lawyers’

2026-08-27 6:41pm EDT / Fox News

Minnesota AG Keith Ellison accused Gov Greg Abbott of ‘turning Texas into a sanctuary state for violent criminals’

By Alec Schemmel Fox News

Published August 27, 2026 6:41pm EDT

Minnesota’s progressive Attorney General Keith Ellison accused Texas Gov. Greg Abbott of turning the Lone Star State into a “sanctuary state for violent criminals” after an ICE agent charged in the shooting of a man in Minneapolis was released from a Texas jail, escalating a politically charged extradition fight between the two states.

Christian Castro, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent charged in connection with a non-fatal January shooting in Minneapolis, was released Thursday from a south Texas jail after a federal judge denied Minnesota’s emergency request to keep him in custody and compel Abbott to sign the extradition warrant. Texas law generally limits pre-extradition detention to 90 days, and Abbott has not yet decided whether to approve Minnesota’s request.

“This is not politics — this is not a game,” Ellison said in a statement after Castro’s release. “If [a governor] can delay extraditions and cherry-pick cases according to their political tastes, then no state will be able to hold fugitive criminals accountable.”

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Meanwhile, Ellison wrote on X that by “refusing to extradite Castro, Greg Abbott is turning Texas into a sanctuary state for violent criminals.”

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (left) and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (right) clashed on X over whether ICE agent Christian Castro should be extradited to Minnesota to face charges tied to a January shooting in Minneapolis.(Getty Images)

“You guys are such bad lawyers. You showed up unprepared, uninformed & unpersuasive. You don’t know the law & it showed,” Abbott wrote on X in response to Ellison’s post calling Texas a “sanctuary state for violent criminals.”

“Minn. is the literal definition of a sanctuary state because you refuse to assist in enforcing immigration laws,” Abbott shot back. “I’ll put Minneapolis at the top of the list for future bus drop offs if we ever have a President like Joe Biden again.”

Castro faces four felony counts of second-degree assault and one misdemeanor count of falsely reporting a crime – charges filed by a Minnesota state court. He is accused of firing through the front door of an occupied north Minneapolis home during an ICE operation in January, striking Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg. Castro has maintained that he acted in self-defense.

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Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty’s office filed the underlying state charges against Castro following an investigation by Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. The Trump administration initially cast the episode as an attack on an ICE officer, but ICE later placed Castro and another agent on administrative leave after its acting director said they appeared to have made “untruthful statements” about what happened.

ICE agents detain a woman after pulling her from a car before on January 13, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Trump administration has deployed over 2,400 Department of Homeland Security agents to the state of Minnesota in a push to apprehend undocumented immigrants.(Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Minnesota prosecutors say surveillance video and other evidence contradict Castro’s account that he fired after being attacked with a broom and snow shovel. Federal assault charges initially filed against Sosa-Celis and another man were later dismissed after prosecutors said new evidence was “materially inconsistent” with the original allegations.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Christian Castro gets into a car surrounded by news reporters moments after being released from the Carrizalez-Rucker Cameron County Detention Center in Brownsville, Texas on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026.(AP Photo/Michael Gonzalez)

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Abbott has said Texas is investigating whether Castro qualifies as a fugitive subject to extradition, noting that the agent returned to Texas on federal orders rather than voluntarily fleeing Minnesota. The governor’s office praised the judge’s ruling, accusing Minnesota of trying to force a deadline on Abbott’s review.

Fox News Digital asked Abbott’s office about how the governor was planning to act on Minnesota’s extradition request and for clarification on Texas’ review of Castro’s fugitive status, but did not receive a response before publication.

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.

费用既是推动新加坡人践行环保的最大动力，也是最大阻力

2026-08-28 07:00 / 联合早报 新明日报

近半数受访者表示，节省开支是他们环保的首要原因。

黄巧嫣（30岁，右）与丈夫郑汉满（31岁）计划为即将入住的组屋新居添置节能家电，以减少用电量和碳足迹。（受访者提供）

对黄巧嫣（30岁）来说，选购家电时，除了价格，能效标签上的勾也一样重要。

她和丈夫郑汉满（31岁）将于10月迁入四房式组屋。为了减少日后的耗电量，家中所有家电都选择贴有国家环境局能源标签计划最高五勾评级的节能电器。

勾数越多，代表电器越节能，在相同使用情况下耗电更少。

从事语言本地化工作，负责根据目标市场的语言和文化调整内容的黄巧嫣之所以选购节能电器，是因为她关注气候变化及气温升高问题，希望藉此减少用电量和碳足迹。

她说：“了解气候变化的严重性后，我觉得环保已是匹夫有责。欧洲近期接连出现热浪也提醒我们全球暖化并非遥不可及，而是近在眼前。”

新加坡超过九成电力来自进口天然气。天然气虽被认为是最洁净的化石燃料，但开采、加工到运输过程中，仍会排放温室气体。

温室气体会将热能锁在大气层中，导致地球表面平均气温持续上升，造成全球暖化。全球暖化进一步引发一连串气候变化，例如天气模式改变和海平面上升。

节能电器不仅有助减少用电和碳排放，还能节省电费，可说是一举两得。尤其近期受中东冲突影响，推高全球天然气价格影响，今年7月至9月新加坡住家电费创下历来新高，这让黄巧嫣益发觉得自己做了正确选择。

对黄巧嫣来说，节省电费是额外收获，不过，一项最新调查发现，开支既能推动新加坡人实践环保或更可持续行动的动力，也可能成为阻力。

这项调查由新报业媒体与淡马锡基金会委托进行，于2026年4月访问1000名新加坡居民。受访者来自独立市场研究机构凯度的全球受众者网络。

调查发现，长期可节省开支、市场上有价格合理的可持续选择，以及奖励补贴或回馈，是推动受访者实践环保或更可持续行动的三大因素；反之，可持续选择价格较高及缺乏奖励机制，则是最大的阻力。

尽管高温天气和热应激是受访者最关注的气候变化影响，在调查涵盖的七项环保行动中，选购节能产品和支持重视环境责任的品牌，仍是采取率最低的两项。

新加坡国立大学能源研究所研究员易伟良指出，纵然许多人明白环境可持续发展的重要性，但环保方案也必须须符合经济效益，才能吸引更多人采纳。

他说：“这种情况在家庭采买时尤其明显，消费者一开始就得掏钱，因此对价格会特别敏感。”

更环保降温方案未必更贵

更环保的降温方案，是否一定比较贵？专家和黄巧嫣都认为未必如此。

黄巧嫣发现市场上各个价位都有节能电器可供选择。

她选购了一台获得最高五勾评级、标榜使用较少制冷剂的冷气机。制冷剂是冷气机运作时吸收和释放热量的化学物质，减少使用量有助降低温室气体排放。

浏览本地零售商网站不难发现，在制冷能力相同的情况下，四勾和五勾冷气机的售价相差不大。有些五勾型号售价较高，也有一些反而更便宜。

易伟良指出，这与变频冷气机的发展历程相似。变频冷气机通过调节压缩机转速来维持恒定室温，早期售价一度高于非变频机种，但随着技术日趋成熟、产量扩大，现已成为市场主流。这或许也可用于四勾和五勾冷气机价差逐渐缩小的原因。

他说，在制冷能力相同的情况下，五勾冷气机的耗电量比四勾冷气机低约10%。

易伟良以组屋普通睡房常用的9000BTU冷气机为例，在目前电价下，若每天使用八小时，将四勾换成五勾机种，一年可节省约64元电费。

随着气温持续升高，家庭对冷气的依赖越来越高，不仅使用时间更长，使用频率也更高，冷气耗电占家庭总用电量的比重也越来越大。易伟良说：“冷气机的能源效率即使只提升一点，或稍微调整使用习惯，长期累积下来，就能节省一笔可观的费用。”

詹姆斯库克大学战略与可持续发展教授柯子兴指出，节能电器、太阳能板等较成熟的降温和减碳方案，随着技术日趋成熟，成本已逐步下降，更有利于普及。

这主要归功于生产规模扩大、融资渠道增加、政府初期补贴和市场需求稳定。

他补充，政府政策的支持同样重要。在国家环境局和公用事业局推行的加强版气候友善家庭计划下，符合资格的家庭可领取最高400元的气候优惠券，用于购买指定的节能和节水家电。黄巧嫣添置新家电时，也受惠于这项计划。

柯子兴认为，气候优惠券有助降低购买环保产品的初期费用，解决公众实践环保时面对的一大障碍。

不过，柯子兴指出，一些新兴的减碳方案仍存在“绿色溢价”，例如大型建筑节能翻新工程和碳捕集技术等。由于相关材料和基础设施尚未成熟，这些方案的成本仍然偏高。

“随着气温持续升高，家庭使用冷气的时间会更长、频率也会更高，冷气机用电占家庭总用电的比重将越来越大。冷气机的能源效率即使只提升一点，或稍微调整使用习惯，长期累积下来，就能节省一笔可观的费用。”——国大能源研究所研究员易伟良

资金助力未来降温技术

根据安永—博智隆和新加坡企业发展局今年5月发布的报告显示，新加坡气候科技和洁净能源领域的创投资金持续下滑，从2022年的2亿1400万美元（约2亿7400万新元），跌至2025年的3700万美元。

报告引述美国研究机构PitchBook的数据指出，全球相关领域的投资交易总额也跌至近五年来最低水平。

詹姆斯库克大学战略与可持续发展教授柯子兴表示融资放缓意味着，新一代气候解决方案可能需要更长时间才能走入寻常百姓家。

他认为，政府和公益基金的资金有助弥补这方面的不足，降低早期投资风险，并为试点项目和共用基础设施提供资金支持。同时，它们也能逐步建立一个更具市场信心、更容易吸引投资的生态系统，让气候解决方案随着时间推移变得更普及，也更负担得起。

新加坡也正通过一项计划推动这项工作。

淡马锡基金会气候与宜居项目总裁王丽兰说，气候解决方案必须切实可行、具备推广潜力，并要能惠及最有需要的社区，才算真正发挥作用。

王丽兰指出，气候变化仍在持续加剧。世界气象组织今年3月指出，2015年至2025年是有记录以来最热的11年。“这也是淡马锡基金会一直以来，并持续通过‘宜居挑战赛’及在全球举办的气候科技创新挑战赛网络，支持气候创新发展的主要原因。

宜居挑战由淡马锡基金会呈献、环保媒体公司益笔思主办，自2018年推出以来，每年面向全球征集方案，协助应对热带城市面对的挑战。至今已孵化62家起步公司，并投入约1800万元资金。

王丽兰说，宜居挑战不仅提供催化资金，协助初创企业争取后续融资，也通过导师指导、业界联系和提升曝光度，帮助创新团队把气候解决方案从原型开发推向商业应用，提升项目吸引投资的能力，让创新成果即使在市场资金趋于谨慎的情况下，也能持续发展。

总部设于新加坡的KrossLinker是去年宜居挑战的得奖企业之一，研发用以被动式降温的的气凝胶为基础的涂料和涂层。

联合创办人兼首席执行长佳亚特里· 纳塔拉詹表示，传统降温涂料主要通过反射阳光，减少建筑物吸收热量来降温，但仍有部分热能会穿过墙体和屋顶传入室内。气凝胶是一种超轻、高度多孔，内部大部分为空气的固体材料，加入涂料后可形成隔热层，减缓剩余热量进入建筑物的速度。

她说，KrossLinker希望降低气凝胶技术成本，让原本价格高昂的技术更容易普及。宜居挑战协助公司开展试点项目，收集验证技术表现的数据，为日后商业化推广提供依据。

自2026年3月起，KrossLinker研发的气凝胶降温涂料已在裕廊西先驱坊屋顶升降机房外墙展开试验。此项目与义安理工学院环境永续创新中心合作，由该中心负责架设监测传感器。

KrossLinker也正准备在技能及人力发展局的“技能创前程行业领头羊”计划下，与胜科新加坡太阳能公司合作，在胜科登格浮动太阳能厂开展另一项试点计划，测试这项技术应用于电力转换系统设施的成效。电力转换系统负责交流电与直流电之间的转换，让电池储能系统与电网之间能够双向输送电力。

简单生活习惯帮助降温

降温不一定得添购新设备。

易伟良说，在家降温，首先要了解热量从何而来，是室外传入的热量，还是室内产生的热能。只要减少其中任何一方，便能降低对冷气的需求。

一些简单的生活习惯就能帮助降温，如在阳光最猛烈的时候拉上窗帘，减少阳光直射室内；没在用的电灯和电子设备应随手关掉，因为设备运作时会散发热量，不仅有助节省电费，也能减少室内热能。

他也补充，最好避开一天中最炎热的时段进行会产生大量热能的活动，如烘焙。此外，在室外气温较低或天气适宜时，打开窗户通风，也有助室内散热。

柯子兴指出，对于家中装有冷气的家庭，适度使用十分重要，因为冷气占家庭用电相当大的比重。

他引述国家环境局的资料，先开冷气一小时，再改用风扇，可节省约23%的水电费；若全程只使用风扇，节省幅度更可达约26%。

黄巧嫣平时将冷气设定在25摄氏度，天气较热时，她会打开风扇，而不是把冷气温度调低。国家环境局估计，冷气设定温度每调高一摄氏度，约可节省3%的水电费。

易伟良看好未来降温技术的发展，包括可根据建筑物使用情况和天气自动调节运作的AI智慧降温系统，未来有望从商业建筑扩展至住宅；另一项趋势则是个人降温技术，例如可穿戴式降温设备，把降温对象从整个空间转向个人。

随着气候持续暖化，要推动降温技术不断进步，仍有赖长期投入。

易伟良说：“要让这些技术更普及，持续投资不可或缺。唯有不断提升产品性能和可靠性、降低制造成本，才能让更多家庭受惠。”

“洞察先机•智绘趋势”是新报业媒体推出的内容系列，以数据与分析为基础，结合深度观察与专家观点，探讨塑造社会的关键课题。

【本文由淡马锡基金会呈献】

Fired Stars and Stripes journalists sue Hegseth and Pentagon spokesperson

2026-08-27T17:01:00-0400 / CBS News

Washington — Three fired Stars and Stripes journalists sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and two other top Pentagon officials in federal court Thursday, claiming the Trump administration is attempting to fire them illegally as part of its “extraordinary censorship efforts” against the military news outlet.

The plaintiffs — publisher Max Lederer, editor-in-chief Erik Slavin and reporter Lara Korte — were given separation notices last week. The cause cited was insubordination.

They alleged that they were fired both for “speaking up as private citizens in support of the press’s freedom to cover military operations,” and because of their reporting on rough conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier. The lawsuit names Hegseth, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell and aide Andrew Brey as defendants.

Slavin and Korte said the alleged insubordination cited in their termination notices was related to interviews they gave to CBS News for a piece on “CBS Sunday Morning” that aired in July. In the story, Korte said that she worked for Stars and Stripes, “not for the Pentagon, not for any administration, not for any policymaker.”

More than a month later, the newspaper published a piece detailing flagging mental health and food and water shortages aboard the Lincoln, which has been deployed for nine months. A day after that story ran, the lawsuit says, the defendants “ordered plaintiff Max Lederer, Stripes’ publisher, to present notices of separation to Mr. Slavin and Ms. Korte.”

“The notices charged them with insubordination for the statements they made five and one-half weeks earlier on ‘CBS Sunday Morning,’” the lawsuit reads.

He did not deliver the notices. Lederer announced his intent to retire at the end of September over “fundamental” differences with the Defense Department, but the Pentagon fired him before he could.

The three fired staffers’ complaint says they are “facing imminent retaliation and termination in violation of their First Amendment and statutory rights.”

“This action seeks to prevent the blatant violation of the First Amendment rights of these journalists and challenges the U.S. Department of Defense’s (“DoD”) extraordinary censorship efforts in violation of both the First Amendment and DoD regulations and policies,” the lawsuit reads.

CBS News has reached out to the Pentagon for comment.

Stars and Stripes was first published during the Civil War, and in recent decades, the paper has prided itself on its editorial independence — meaning the federal government does not dictate what it can and can’t publish.

Roughly half of the paper’s $29 million annual budget comes from taxpayers, a person familiar with the newspaper’s operations told CBS News last week. Readership has declined since its peaks during the Vietnam War, the Cold War and World War II, according to two U.S. officials, but an average of 1.4 million people see Stars and Stripes each day. Print editions overseas also reach service members in remote locations where internet access is spotty and unreliable.

Earlier this year, Parnell said the Defense Department would make sweeping changes to the paper. He vowed to “modernize its operations, refocus its content away from woke distractions that syphon morale, and adapt it to serve a new generation of service members.” The Pentagon later sought to stop the paper from running syndicated articles by wire services, Slavin has said.

Shortly after the firings, Stars and Stripes published an open letter from Navy Capt. William Urban, who said he was tapped to serve as military deputy to the publisher. Urban wrote that his priorities were to produce “the highest quality of editorially independent reporting,” while modernizing the paper and boosting its advertising revenue.

Judge considers Kennedy Center board’s push to put Trump’s name back on building

August 27, 2026 / 5:28 PM EDT / CBS News

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Washington — A federal judge on Thursday pressed lawyers for Ohio Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty and the Justice Department on new efforts by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Board of Trustees to add President Trump’s name back onto the building’s facade.

Lawyers for Beatty, who sued last year over Mr. Trump’s changes to the Kennedy Center, argue that the board’s recent efforts to recognize the president violate federal law, and they asked U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper to issue emergency relief blocking the changes.

Cooper quickly convened a hearing to consider Beatty’s request but did not issue a decision. The Kennedy Center’s board has agreed not to take any action until Sept. 8, though the judge swiftly questioned Brantley Mayers, a Justice Department lawyer, as to why it had to move so soon.

“What does that have to do with what Congress intended?” Cooper asked of the fast-approaching deadline.

The board, which is chaired by Mr. Trump and composed of his Cabinet members and allies, approved a resolution earlier this month that calls for the inscription “Renovated and Restored by President Donald J. Trump” to be placed under the center’s name on the building and for the inscription “Endowed by the Trump Kennedy Center Fund” to be added if a $100 million fundraising threshold is met. The resolution also calls for the Kennedy Center’s grounds to be named the “President Donald J. Trump Plaza.”

Nathaniel Zelinsky, a lawyer representing Beatty, called the board’s vote to again put Mr. Trump’s name on the center “deja vu” and an act of “outright defiance” of an order from Cooper earlier this year that barred the center’s closure and ordered Mr. Trump’s name to be removed from the building.

“They are doing the same thing they were told they couldn’t do before,” Zelinsky said, calling the board’s move this month an “attempt to end-run your order.”

The board voted late last year to rename the Kennedy Center to “The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts,” and the president’s name was added to the building soon after. But construction crews removed the president’s name from the facade in June after Cooper’s ruling. Since then, the front portico of the building has been covered by a construction tarp, concealing most of its name.

Zelinsky has said that the marble on the building was damaged as a result of the new inscription.

But Mayers, counsel to the associate attorney general, told Cooper that the Kennedy Center is in “structural and financial disarray,” echoing assertions made in a filing Tuesday. In court papers, the Justice Department warned the performing arts institution may have to be demolished if it cannot be closed for two years for renovations.

“There is no renaming here,” Mayers repeatedly argued in court. He said the Kennedy Center board moved to inscribe Mr. Trump’s name in the facade and plaza because of ongoing and future fundraising efforts by the president to supplement congressional funds for the center.

“President Trump is a successful fundraiser,” Mayers said.

The Justice Department had argued in filings that the center’s “dangerously dilapidated, outdated, and decrepit” conditions and millions of dollars in financial losses put the living memorial to President John F. Kennedy in a “financial and structural death spiral” that will require it to close for renovations.

“Without those efforts, the Center will deteriorate further into an unsafe, decrepit structure that will be required to be taken down, with a determination to follow on what to build on the site, such as a large outdoor amphitheater overlooking the Potomac River that has been proposed, by some, for many years,” lawyers for the federal government wrote.

But Cooper told Mayers that the claims about the physical state of the Kennedy Center were a “nonsequitur,” since he is tasked with deciding whether the board’s attempt to put Mr. Trump’s name back on the building complies with federal law.

Still, he also questioned lawyers for both sides on whether he still has jurisdiction over the case, since the Trump administration appealed his earlier decision in favor of Beatty.

Cooper had previously ruled that “Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.” He wrote then that no other individual other than Kennedy can be memorialized on the center’s front portico.

There are no official existing plans to tear down the almost 55-year-old performing arts center. But the warning could raise the stakes in a monthslong legal dispute over the center, which Mr. Trump and his handpicked board of trustees have sought to overhaul.

Beatty was seated next to her legal team in the courtroom. When he took the bench, Cooper joked to the congresswoman that the ongoing legal battle “may have been more than you bargained for when you joined this suit,” prompting laughter from the courtroom.

Ahead of the hearing, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said he had “no idea” whether the Trump administration has the legal authority to tear down the center, and called adding Mr. Trump’s name to parts of the center’s campus “the right thing to do.”

“What I can’t figure out is why we’re in this courtroom,” Lutnick said.

The secretary remained in the courtroom for the entire hearing and spoke with Justice Department attorneys during a brief break in the proceedings.

Lutnick is not a member of the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees, but his wife, Allison, is.

White House silent on Iran-Oman Hormuz plan Tehran says would ban US warships

August 27, 2026 5:37pm EDT / Fox News

Iran and Oman unveiled a framework to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but CENTCOM insists the waterway remains international

By Morgan Phillips Fox News

The Trump administration spent months insisting Iran did not control passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

But after Iran and Oman unveiled a proposed framework that Tehran says would exclude military vessels if finalized, the White House would not say whether President Donald Trump would accept any restriction on U.S. warships under the arrangement.

U.S. Central Command, meanwhile, rejected Iran’s underlying claim of authority.

“Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz,” CENTCOM spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins told Fox News Digital. “The strait is an international waterway that commercial vessels continue to transit with U.S. military assistance.”

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A view of commercial cargo vessels and crude oil tankers are anchored in the Gulf of Oman, off the coast of Muscat, Oman, on June 21, 2026, as they prepare to transit through the critical Strait of Hormuz.(Shady Alassar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital asked whether Trump would accept a restriction on U.S. military vessels if the proposal becomes binding, whether American forces would be expected to comply and whether U.S. warships retain the right to operate in the strait regardless of any future arrangement. The White House did not respond.

Hawkins said U.S. forces have helped nearly 1,500 vessels transit the strait since early May.

The silence marks a shift after months in which the administration publicly challenged Iranian efforts to dictate passage through Hormuz. Secretary of State Marco Rubio repeatedly called a proposed toll system illegal and unacceptable, while Trump threatened Oman this month if it “gets in the way” of a U.S. deal with Iran.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi in Muscat, Oman, Feb. 6, 2026.(Iranian Foreign Ministry/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/ Handout via Reuters)

The administration has also spent months applying military and economic pressure aimed at reopening the strait on U.S. terms. American forces have struck Iranian military targets, protected commercial shipping and maintained a blockade of Iranian ports, while the administration expanded sanctions through its new Operation Economic Outcast campaign.

Those measures have helped push some ships back through Hormuz, but traffic remains far below pre-war levels.

Oil flows through the strait stood Monday at about 5 million barrels per day, down from more than 20 million barrels per day before the war, according to Reuters, which cited provisional Vortexa tracking data.

Iran is now pursuing a reopening arrangement that, by its account, would preserve a measure of control over the waterway while excluding foreign military vessels.

Oman and Iran announced a proposed framework Monday to reopen the strait through a joint temporary navigational corridor and a joint mine-clearing project.

Their joint statement said technical talks would continue on a permanent corridor, future administration of the strait, traffic management and security services, leaving key terms unresolved.

Iranian officials filled in some of those blanks Tuesday.

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U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth listen to questions from the press during a Cabinet meeting at Camp David in Maryland, on July 31, 2026.(Aaron Schwartz / AFP via Getty Images)

Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said the temporary arrangement would route commercial ships entering the Persian Gulf through Iranian waters, with outbound traffic moving through Iranian and Omani waters. He said the proposal would exclude military vessels if it becomes binding.

Separately, Sepah News, an outlet run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, quoted IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi as saying Iran and Oman had reached agreements on “each country’s share of the strait’s waters” and the two countries’ “share of its revenues.”

Mohebbi also accused the U.S. of obstructing the talks.

US CLAWS BACK KEY CONCESSION TO IRAN AFTER FRESH ATTACKS ON COMMERCIAL SHIPS IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ

Ships are anchored in the Strait of Hormuz on August 10, 2026, off the coast of Bandar Abbas, Iran.(Ali Saeedi/Getty Images)

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But Oman’s public statement did not mention a military-vessel ban, transit fees or revenue sharing, and described the framework as proposed. Iranian officials also told Reuters the arrangement was not yet final.

That leaves the arrangement’s most consequential question unresolved: whether Iran can use the emerging commercial shipping framework to restrict American military access to the strait — and what the Trump administration intends to do if Tehran tries.

特朗普暗示或制裁与伊朗交易往来的中国银行

2026年8月28日 07:05 / 联合早报

美国总统特朗普星期四（8月27日）在白宫椭圆形办公室发表讲话时，暗示可能正考虑对与伊朗有往来的中国银行实施制裁。 （彭博社）

美国总统特朗普暗示，政府可能考虑对与伊朗有交易往来的中国银行实施制裁。若最终落实，将意味着华盛顿孤立德黑兰的行动进一步升级。

美国财政部长贝森特本周宣布，美国将加大力度，通过经济制裁和其他措施推动伊朗政权“崩溃”。相关措施包括扩大所谓次级制裁的威胁范围，针对继续与伊朗开展商业往来的国家和实体。

据法新社报道，特朗普星期四（8月27日）在白宫椭圆形办公室出席活动时，被记者问及是否会因相关交易制裁中国银行。他反问：“谁说我不会？”

特朗普随后含糊表示：“谁说我不会？你又不知道我是不是已经在做了。我也不是什么都得宣布，对吧？”

中国是伊朗最大的贸易伙伴，尤其在石油贸易方面。中国的银行目前仍在处理两国石油及其他贸易往来的相关付款。

截至目前，美国财政部尚未对中国大型银行实施相关制裁，但已制裁多家中国大陆和香港企业，指控它们协助伊朗政府及武装力量。

Toronto mayor calls tariff fight “unnecessary,” says “we feel like we’re being bullied”

August 27, 2026 / 5:51 PM EDT / CBS News

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow told CBS News that the escalating tariff fight between the U.S. and Canada is “a lose-lose situation” and “really unnecessary,” arguing the trade dispute threatens jobs in Canada and could increase prices for Americans.

Canada’s tit-for-tat tariffs of up to 50% on $20 billion worth of American goods announced Tuesday are a dollar-for-dollar retaliation against the Trump administration’s 50% tariffs on Canadian products – the latest volley in a widening trade war.

Chow said around 5,000 jobs in Toronto’s textile, clothing and leather manufacturing industries could be affected.

“When that happens, it means the price of Americans buying things, the cost will go up,” Chow said.

President Trump also announced 50% tariffs on Canadian automotive and steel imports that, absent a deal, would take effect on Jan. 1, 2027.

“Canada has been ripping off the United States of America for years,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday, adding “Canada will be treated like a State no longer!”

“We feel like we’re being bullied,” Chow said in response to Mr. Trump’s comments about making Canada the 51st U.S. state. “Being called the 51st state, it’s threatening our sovereignty as a country, and we don’t take it lightly.”

Chow has vowed to “hit back,” in part, by encouraging her constituents to buy Canadian goods rather than American products.

“Unless there’s a choice, we’re going to buy what is around us,” Chow said, stressing her frustrations are with the U.S. government, not the American people.

“It’s not Americans that are hostile. It’s that president of yours that is just attacking us,” she said.

She urged Americans to contact their elected officials to push for further negotiations.

“They’ve been our partners and friends for so many generations,” Chow said. “Why are we just ripping things apart for no good reason?”