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Democrats’ bitter civil war hits Michigan, but biggest prize still up for grabs

Takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries in Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Virginia and Washington State

2026-08-05T03:28:00-04:00 / Fox News

By Paul Steinhauser Fox News

Published August 5, 2026 3:28am EDT

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed addresses supporters early on Aug. 5 as his Democratic primary against Haley Stevens remains too close to call, urging the party to unite for the general-election fight against Republican Mike Rogers.

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DETROIT — The Democratic Party’s progressive wing was aiming to notch its biggest victory yet Tuesday, hoping to deliver a high-profile blow to the center-left establishment in an intensifying ideological battle.

But the anticipated triumph, in battleground Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, will have to wait.

That’s because the race between left-wing candidate Abdul El-Sayed, a former Wayne County Health Department director, and Rep. Haley Stevens, a more moderate contender, was too close to call in the early Wednesday hours.

THE MIDTERM SENATE RACES THAT COULD FLIP THE BALANCE OF POWER IN CONGRESS

Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan, speaks during a primary election night event Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026, at the Majestic Theatre in Detroit.(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)

While the biggest prize was yet to be awarded as five states from coast to coast held primary elections, the establishment scored some victories, including Rep. Wesley Bell of Missouri defeating Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)-backed challenger former Rep. Cori Bush, a one-time Squad member, in a rematch of their 2024 showdown.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump’s powerful sway over the Republican Party was reaffirmed as two Trump-backed candidates won gubernatorial nominations in Michigan and Kansas.

Here are the top takeaways from a busy primary night across the country.

Verdict still out in high-stakes showdown

“We’re going to have to wait a little longer to see the outcome of this race,” El-Sayed told supporters at a primary night event in Detroit early Wednesday morning.

El-Sayed, a former Wayne County Health Department director backed by top leaders of the left, including progressive champions Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, held on to a razor-thin lead over Haley, who is supported by establishment leaders including longtime Senate Democratic leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, as votes continued to be counted.

“I know it’s been a long night because that’s the Michigan way. But I want to give you all an update. I. We knew that this was going to be a close race, and that’s exactly what we’ve got. A close race,” Stevens said.

MIKE ROGERS ARGUES ABDUL EL-SAYED IS ‘A SPECIAL SAUCE OF CRAZY’

Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., a candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan speaks to supporters election night Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026, in Detroit.(Paul Sancya/AP Photo)

The race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters, who is backing Stevens, is a must-hold for the Democrats and one of roughly a dozen Senate races from coast to coast that will determine if Republicans hold onto their slim Senate majority.

Boosted by a string of victories this spring in mostly blue congressional districts across the country, the Democrats’ ideological war moved to the Great Lakes battleground state, where the combustible and expensive clash became the biggest stage to date in the intra-party showdown.

El-Sayed, who, if elected, would make history as the nation’s first Muslim senator, is an epidemiologist who unsuccessfully ran for governor as an insurgent candidate in 2018. He has made support for “Medicare-for-all” a major component of his campaign.

The far-left candidate has also called for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and is a vocal critic of Israel amid its war with Hamas — even characterizing Israel’s actions in Gaza as “genocide” against Palestinians.

Schumer and the party establishment view Stevens, who flipped a GOP-held district in her 2018 election to Congress, as more electable than El-Sayed, who has sparked controversy with his past comments.

Over $80 million was spent on the primary showdown, making it the most expensive Democratic Senate nomination race in history. Much of the money was shelled out by outside groups in support of Stevens and against El-Sayed. The biggest spending came from United Democracy Project, a political action committee aligned with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

“We all knew that we’re going to spend their money. We didn’t know they were going to spend $70 million of their money. We didn’t know that they were going to outspend us $11 to $1. And yet we’re still standing,” El-Sayed highlighted in his speech.

El-Sayed urged party unity and took aim at former Rep. Mike Rogers, the GOP Senate nominee.

So did Stevens in her primary night speech.

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Republican Senate candidate former Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan stands for a Fox News Digital interview, on August 2, 2026 in Farmington Hills, Michigan(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

“Whoever wins is going to go and take on Mike Rogers. Republicans are going to do everything they can to throw all the dirt, all the mud, the kitchen sink at us because they want to keep the U.S. Senate red so Mike Rogers can keep rubber stamping Donald Trump’s ridiculous agenda,” she argued.

The left-wing versus establishment battle also played out in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, a key Republican-controlled swing seat race that’s among roughly two-dozen that will impact whether the GOP holds onto its fragile House majority.

William Lawrence, a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, which advocates for political action to tackle climate change, edged out two more moderate Democrats. Lawrence is backed by Sanders and El-Sayed, as well as some top progressive groups. Lawrence will now face GOP Rep. Tom Barrett in the general election.

And the party’s civil war was also on display in Michigan’s deep blue 13th Congressional District, where the Associated Press had yet to project a winner.

Rep. Shri Thanedar, who is supported by top House Democratic leaders, is being challenged by state Rep. Donovan McKinney, who is backed by Sanders, El-Sayed, and “Squad” members Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Summer Lee of Pennsylvania.

Wins for centrists to cheer

The party’s ideological warfare was front-and-center in Missouri, in the state’s St. Louis-based and heavily Democratic 1st Congressional District.

That’s where Bell, who was backed by House Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and other establishment leaders, defeated Bush, a former two-term representative who Bell ousted in the 2024 primary.

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Democratic Rep. Wesley Bell speaks at his Democratic primary victory celebration, on August 4, 2026 in St. Louis, Missouri(Michael Thomas/AP Photo)

Bell was once again boosted by a major infusion of outside money, allowing him to massively outspend Bush and her allies. Much of the funding and attack ads targeting Bush came from United Democracy Project — the super PAC aligned with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel advocacy group best known by its acronym, AIPAC. Bush was one of the first House Democrats to accuse Israel of genocide against Palestinians in its war against Hamas in Gaza.

“Two years ago, St. Louis voted for better and more accountable representation. We have kept that promise, whether it’s bringing federal resources home to our neighborhoods, standing with working folks when they needed someone in their corner, or helping families cut through red tape,” Bell said following his victory. “That work does not stop tonight.”

But Bush lambasted Bell, calling him out for not showing up to candidate forums and claiming he is controlled by billionaires.

“It pisses me off that for the next two years, this community will be represented by someone that didn’t deem you valuable enough to show up to one candidate forum where there were audience comments, even though I showed up to every one,” Bush emphasized.

MEET THE FAR LEFT INSURGENTS WAGING WAR ON THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THE 2026 MIDTERMS

Former Rep. Cori Bush speaks after losing the Democratic Congressional primary in Missouri’s 1st District, on August 4, 2026 in St. Louis, Missouri(Matthew Donnell/Fox News)

Back in Michigan, two candidates who are far from left-wingers captured Democratic nominations in statewide contests. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson won the Democratic gubernatorial primary in the race to succeed term-limited Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel was renominated.

“It’s not all that clear that the party has shifted that far to the left,” Matt Bennett, one of the leaders at the Third Way, a leading center-left Democratic organization, told Fox News Digital.

Pointing to the increasing visceral opposition to Trump by Democrats across the country, Bennett said the Senate primary results in Michigan may be “a unique situation where candidates matter.”

“And in this moment Democratic voters everywhere are very very angry at Trump and they’re flipping over the tables and taking it out on the establishment and Haley, for better or worse, has run as the establishment.”

Trump flexes political muscle

Trump’s immense clout over the GOP and the power of his endorsements in Republican primaries was tested once again on Tuesday, and the president easily passed the test.

Trump-backed Rep. John James of Michigan, a West Point graduate and two-time GOP Senate nominee, topped multi-millionaire businessman Perry Johnson, a former gubernatorial and presidential candidate, to capture the party’s gubernatorial nomination.

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Republican gubernatorial candidate in Michigan, Rep. John James, R-Mich., speaks during a breakfast at Fireside Grill & Patio on Aug. 3, 2026 in Novi, Michigan.(Finn Gomez/Getty Images)

James now takes on Democratic nominee and current Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, in the race to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

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In Kansas, Trump-endorsed state Senate President Ty Masterson prevailed in a crowded field of Republican gubernatorial contenders.

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is term-limited, which makes the race to succeed her a top flip opportunity for the GOP.

Fox News’ Matthew Donnell and Luke Trevisan contributed to this report.

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

俄军空袭基辅至少14死27伤

2026年8月5日 14:12 / 联合早报

俄罗斯星期三（8月5日）连夜空袭乌克兰首都基辅及周边地区，导致基辅郊区一座仓库遭击中起火，冒出滚滚浓烟。 （法新社）

俄罗斯星期三（8月5日）连夜空袭乌克兰首都基辅及周边地区，造成至少14人死亡、27人受伤。

路透社报道，基辅军事行政当局说，空袭于午夜后展开，全市防空警报持续超过一小时，至少七处地点遇袭。

基辅市长克利琴科说，靠近市中心的一座仓库被炸毁，两名受困者获救，但据信瓦砾下仍有人受困，搜救工作仍在进行中。伤者包括一名救护车司机，其中四人伤势危急。

袭击还引发多处仓库及储存设施起火，市郊发生大火，一枚导弹残骸坠落住宅附近。基辅军事管理部门说，袭击导致氨气泄漏，应急人员正处理此事。

俄罗斯国防部称，俄军打击了基辅及周边地区的物流枢纽和补给中心，指这些设施被用于军事用途。

与此同时，乌克兰也持续攻击俄罗斯境内目标。据报道，乌军袭击俄罗斯网络零售商Wildberries的一处物流中心，这是近期受袭的十多个类似设施之一。

拥有60万粉丝墨西哥网红 现场直播突遭枪杀

2026-08-05 14:52 / 联合早报

墨西哥军人在墨西哥锡那罗亚州库利亚坎街头巡逻。 （法新社档案照片）

墨西哥网红加斯特鲁姆在快餐店外做直播时遭人枪击身亡。

路透社报道，墨西哥当局说，这起事件发生在星期二（8月4日）晚上。加斯特鲁姆（Cesar Gastelum）在锡那罗亚州（Sinaloa）首府库利亚坎（Culiacan）的一家快餐店外做直播时，两名戴头盔的人骑着一辆电单车向他和他的朋友靠近。

路透社看到的直播画面显示，驾驶电单车的人似乎直接朝加斯特鲁姆开枪。

锡那罗亚州一名安全官员证实加斯特鲁姆的死讯，并表示当局正展开大规模搜捕行动。

发生枪击案的库利亚坎处于有组织犯罪集团争夺控制权的冲突中心。加斯特鲁姆的遭遇也令人想起去年的另一起枪击案。墨西哥美妆网红马奎斯（Valeria Marquez）去年在哈利斯科州（Jalisco）做TikTok直播时遭人枪杀。检方说，当时年仅23岁的马奎斯在一家美容院工作并进行TikTok直播，一名男子突然闯入并开枪打死她。马奎斯的死因按“杀害女性罪”（femicide）相关程序调查。

加斯特鲁姆在TikTok拥有近60万粉丝，以搞笑视频和直播走红，官方和主流媒体未公布他的年龄，但社交媒体上的公开信息显示他年约25岁。

In the Reflecting Pool fiasco, Trump’s ‘alternative facts’ again crash into reality

2026-08-05T04:01:25.684Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/05/politics/trump-pirro-reflecting-pool-blanche

Jeanine Pirro faced a choice that all President Donald Trump’s team members confront sooner or later: Do they live in his world, or the real one?

The DC US attorney earned a tongue-lashing from the president, an old friend, after reasoning that damage to the capital’s Reflecting Pool resulted from his flawed remodeling project rather than the vandalism he claimed.

By siding with evidence and leaving the looking-glass world that the president conjures around his White House, she infringed the personal bargain that is the price of entry to his inner power circle.

Pirro, as a law enforcement official, is in a dicier position than other officials who can indulge Trump’s unsupported claims without crossing him, since she must submit his accusations to the exacting standards of the courts.

But in most areas of his political life, Trump’s spinning of alternative realities is a powerful tool. It helped him build his political mystique and win two White House races, and it can act as a face-saving cover for his failures.

This salesman’s technique turned the Trump brand into a real estate empire and curated his image as a master tycoon on “The Apprentice” despite the checkered success of his businesses.

When Trump hits a brick wall now, as president, he just fashions an alternative reality. He can talk up tough financial data or a foreign policy hiccup as though he’s bigging up a tatty property in a real estate prospectus.

This approach internally sustains a presidency that is deeply unpopular, with Trump’s approval rating at 34% in the latest CNN/SSRS poll. But it’s increasingly leading its author and the country onto dangerous ground. For many Americans struggling to afford grocery and rent, his “golden age” is a mirage. (Roughly two-thirds of respondents in the CNN poll think his policies have worsened economic conditions.) And the war with Iran that he insisted he won in a few days is now heading into its sixth month.

Every successful president is a successful storyteller. Skillful politicians establish personal myths. President John F. Kennedy projected an image of modernity and youth despite his own fragile health to court voters weary of older leaders. It was often hard to distinguish between the screen persona of the movie star President Ronald Reagan and his real character. In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama created euphoria with his “hope and change” campaign that was never fully validated by the achievements of his presidency.

But no recent president has so openly broken with reality as Trump.

His method of deciding what is true and requiring everyone to accommodate him emerged as a signature trait only hours into his first presidency. Fuming over unflattering comparisons between his inaugural crowd and Obama’s first swearing-in, he sent then-press secretary Sean Spicer into the briefing room to deliver a bizarre statement. “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe,” Spicer said.

At the time, it seemed absurd. But it was an important moment. Spicer was the the first Trump official to choose between observable reality and his boss’s false version. Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway coined a presidency-defining soundbite for the ages when referring to the president’s “alternative facts”.

This pattern has endlessly repeated. Trump calls inconvenient but accurate news coverage fake. He treats tough polls the same way. Hyperbole is his best friend: He described his first-term tax cuts as the biggest in history. They weren’t. In 2019, he held up a doctored map of the path of a hurricane to back up his claim it had been on track to hit Alabama, contradicting the accurate scientific data of government weather services.

In his second term, the alternative facts have kept rolling. Trump’s false insistence that foreign nations cough up for trade tariffs contradicts basic economics: The duties are paid by US importers, and consumers end up bearing the costs.

Sometimes, as with the tax-cut fib, Trump’s fables detract from significant achievements and campaign promises kept. But his mythmaking can be more corrosive. When Covid-19 threatened his first reelection bid, he argued the problem was not the pathogen but efforts to stop it. “If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any,” the president said in June 2020.

And on election night that year, when he realized voters had rejected him, Trump invented an alternative scenario to spare his embarrassment that pitched the country into its worst political crisis in decades. “This is a fraud on the American public. This is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election,” a furious Trump said. His claims ultimately led to the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, when some of his supporters smashed their way into the Capitol and beat up police officers.

Trump has never left the personal universe that he created for himself that night. But just as his Reflecting Pool claims would later crash into the verifiable facts, multiple courts threw out Trump’s threadbare claims of massive voter fraud.

The fallout from his election denialism lingers years later: in legislation the president is pushing to tighten voter registration rules and in his attempts to use executive power to curtail mail-in voting as critics fear another disputed election in November.

And anyone who wants to stay in the Trump orbit must indulge this fantasy: Administration officials regularly contort themselves in congressional hearings to avoid acknowledging that he lost the 2020 election fair and square.

And the airbrushing of that dark day at the Capitol goes on. A judge on Tuesday reluctantly dismissed a seditious conspiracy case against leaders and members of the Oath Keepers, a far-right anti-government group. Constrained by deference to the executive branch’s authority on charging decisions, Judge Amit Mehta said the dismissal diminished the gravity of criminal acts. But he added, “The Court cannot write a different ending.”

Trump’s fictions are also having a detrimental impact overseas. He keeps insisting that Iran is “begging” to negotiate after being pummeled by weeks of US airstrikes. But his victory narrative is rather thin. Many foreign policy analysts see the war as a strategic defeat, since the US is struggling to loosen Iran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz — which was open before the war.

But Trump’s personal brand depends on winning.

So a war that may at best end in an ugly draw must be hailed as a great victory; an election that he lost must have been a triumph; and damage to the Reflecting Pool caused by an unsuccessful renovation must be blamed on vandals.

There’s one thing about Trump: He rarely hides his intentions. He explained his political ace in the hole back in 2018, telling an audience of veterans in Kansas City, Missouri: “Just remember, what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”

Trump warns Iran will be hit ‘really hard’ if nuclear negotiations collapse again

August 5, 2026 2:28am EDT / Fox News

The president told Fox News that military action remains on the table if diplomacy fails with Tehran

By Michael Sinkewicz, Fox News

President Donald Trump discussed the latest in negotiations with Iran and an armed man being arrested at his California golf course ahead of his visit on ‘Fox News @ Night.’

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President Donald Trump renewed his warning to Iran on Tuesday, saying the U.S. could strike the country “really hard” if negotiations between Washington and Tehran collapse again.

“If they back out again, they’re going to get hit really hard,” Trump told Fox News’ Trace Gallagher. “They know that. They understand that. I have no choice. They can’t have a nuclear weapon. It’s very simple.”

Trump said military action remained an option if diplomacy fails.

TRUMP WARNS IRAN FIGHTING ISN’T OVER AS HE VOWS US WILL ‘WIN’ AS TALKS FADE

President Donald Trump warned that the United States would strike Iran “really hard” if negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program collapse.(REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)

“The hard hit is yet to come, and hopefully we won’t have to use it,” he said during the interview.

Trump’s comments came days after he held off on a planned military strike on Iran that he said would have been the largest since World War II after Tehran and several Middle Eastern countries requested more time to negotiate over reopening the Strait of Hormuz and addressing Iran’s nuclear program.

“We were going to a tremendous attack, the biggest since World War II, and they called me and said very politely, ‘Please, can we talk? Can we talk?’ And I said, ‘Yes, we can talk. Let’s get it done,’” Trump said.

Earlier this week, Trump said a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and curb Iran’s nuclear program was “imminent.”

TRUMP SAYS IRAN DEAL ‘LARGELY NEGOTIATED’ AS 84-DAY WAR NEARS POSSIBLE END

President Donald Trump said military action against Iran remains an option if negotiations fail.(The White House via X Account/Anadolu via Getty Images/Contributor/Getty Images)

Iranian officials have denied holding direct talks with the United States, saying negotiations are taking place through mediators in Oman. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that Iranian and Omani officials had made significant progress toward a potential agreement to reopen the strait, though negotiations remained ongoing.

US OFFICIAL SAYS JD VANCE MADE ‘GREAT PROGRESS’ IN IRAN TALKS, CALLS SNUB REPORTS ‘FOREIGN PROPAGANDA’

Trump described Tuesday’s negotiations as “very good,” despite Iran’s repeated public denials that direct talks were underway.

“They don’t like to admit that, but, well, you know, it’s a little bit disconcerting,” he said.

“It’s just such a lie,” Trump added.

A composite image shows President Donald Trump alongside an Iranian flag and a missile launch.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“But it doesn’t matter. That’s talk. The only thing that matters is action. And they want to make a deal. We’ll see what happens. If they don’t make a deal, it’s going to be too bad.”

When asked at what point the U.S. might abandon talks with Iran after negotiations repeatedly collapsed, Trump said he was not in a rush to walk away from diplomacy.

“I have plenty of time,” he said.

Trump argued that previous administrations failed to resolve the issue and again criticized the nuclear agreement negotiated under former President Barack Obama.

TRUMP RECALLS NETANYAHU’S FAILED PUSH TO KILL OBAMA IRAN DEAL, SAYS HE FINISHED THE JOB

President Donald Trump leaves the stage after speaking at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s policy conference on Friday, June 26, 2026. Iran’s latest strike is the latest threat to the MOU he signed that enacted a ceasefire.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

“It should have been done by many presidents over many years, and it wasn’t, and I’m doing it,” Trump said. “Obama was taken to the cleaners.”

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Trump has previously called the latest round of negotiations Iran’s “last chance” to avoid an escalation of US military action. He has said negotiators will initially focus on reopening the Strait of Hormuz before addressing Tehran’s nuclear program.

Fox News Digital’s Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.
Michael Sinkewicz is a writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to michael.sinkewicz@fox.com

印度季风灾害迄今导致逾100人死亡

2026年8月5日 14:54 / 联合早报

印度阿萨姆邦的最大城市古瓦哈蒂因受到季风灾害影响，救援人员星期二（8月4日）从被洪水淹没的地区营救居民。 （法新社）

印度季风暴雨持续引发洪水和山体滑坡，官方星期三公布的数据显示，自7月以来，造成全国各地至少100多人死亡，数千人被迫撤离家园。

法新社报道，印度东北部阿萨姆邦灾情最为严重，首席部长萨尔马说，全邦至少87人遇难，其中受灾最严重的锡布萨格尔县（Sivasagar）有47人死亡，多地至今仍被洪水淹没。

邦政府已呼吁公众捐款，以支持救灾和重建工作。萨尔马形容，这场灾难是当地前所未见，“财物损失可以弥补，但任何补偿都无法替代逝去的亲人”。

印度南部喀拉拉邦连日暴雨造成至少15人死亡、7人失踪，洪水和山体滑坡迫使逾1万人入住300多个临时安置中心。

据当地媒体报道，在喜马拉雅地区的查谟（Jammu）和克什米尔，当地至少31人遇难。

季风雨每年都会为印度农业带来急需雨水，但也经常引发洪灾和山体滑坡。科学家指出，气候变化正令南亚季风变得更加反常、难以预测且破坏力更强。

德国一机场跑道现可疑物 警方展开调查

2026年8月5日 15:11 / 联合早报

德国警方星期三（8月5日）说，作为德国物流巨头DHL主要航空枢纽的莱比锡/哈雷机场，南跑道目前仍关闭，以便爆炸物处理专家利用排爆技术检查可疑物体。 （路透社档案照片）

德国警方星期三说，莱比锡/哈雷机场一条跑道附近发现可疑物体，警方正调查事件是否与不明飞行物有关。

路透社报道，警方星期三（8月5日）说，作为德国物流巨头DHL主要航空枢纽的莱比锡/哈雷机场，南跑道目前仍关闭，以便爆炸物处理专家利用排爆技术检查可疑物体。受事件影响，数个航班包括一架客机在夜间改道，但机场于星期三早上恢复正常运作。

近几个月来，德国多座机场、军事设施、能源终端、港口及物流企业接连出现未经授权的无人机飞越事件，当局已加强戒备。

德国联邦警察此前警告，这些无人机活动可能由俄罗斯特工策划，但俄罗斯否认与相关事件有关。

危地马拉富埃戈火山持续强烈喷发　周边省拉响红色警报

2026年8月5日 15:15 / 联合早报

危地马拉富埃戈火山8月4日持续喷发大量气体、火山灰和熔岩。 （法新社）

危地马拉国家减灾协调委员会星期二（8月4日）宣布，因富埃戈火山持续强烈喷发，火山周边三个省进入省级红色警报状态，全国其他地方维持橙色警报状态。

新华社报道，危地马拉国家减灾协调委员会星期二宣布，红色警报状态覆盖萨卡特佩克斯省（Sacatepequez）、奇马尔特南戈省（Chimaltenango）和埃斯昆特拉省（Escuintla），三地人口合共160万。

危地马拉国家减灾协调委员会3日晚在社交媒体上宣布，因富埃戈火山（Fuego volcano）喷发持续加剧，在全国范围内发布橙色警报。危地马拉国家地震、火山、气象和水文局发布公告说，富埃戈火山持续喷出大量气体、火山灰和熔岩，火山碎屑流继续沿塞尼萨峡谷和塞卡峡谷下泄。受风向影响，火山灰可能继续向西和西北方向扩散，影响范围最远可达120公里。

富埃戈火山位于危地马拉首都危地马拉城西南，海拔3763米，是中美洲最活跃的火山之一。2018年6月，富埃戈火山喷发夺走200多人的生命。

Takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries in Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Virginia and Washington

2026-08-05T04:27:30.905Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/05/politics/takeaways-michigan-missouri-kansas-virginia-washington-primaries

Votes are being counted in Michigan, where Democratic voters are settling a Senate primary that has become the year’s most significant test of how the party’s electorate is weighing questions of ideology and electability.

Progressive former public health official Abdul El-Sayed faces the more moderate Rep. Haley Stevens in the race to take on Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers in November. Holding onto the seat, now held by retiring Sen. Gary Peters, is crucial to Democrats’ chances of the net four-seat gain they need in this year’s midterm elections to win a Senate majority.

The race was tight, with many votes left to count, as of early Wednesday morning.

“We knew this was going to be a close race, and that’s exactly what we’ve got,” Stevens told supporters at her campaign headquarters just before 1 am.

In remarks at his headquarters soon after, El-Sayed said he wished he was declaring victory, adding: “There is so much more that unites us than divides us. And so, to all of our supporters here tonight, watching on TV: Tomorrow we begin to mend fences.”

It was the most closely watched race — and one of multiple progressive vs. moderate contests — on Tuesday’s slate of primaries in Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia and Washington state

Voters set the matchups in the governor’s races in Michigan and Kansas. They also chose their nominees in key congressional races in Virginia. And an incumbent Democrat held off a democratic socialist former congresswoman vying to win back her old seat in Missouri.

Here are early takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries:

Progressives were unable to score a win in St. Louis, where moderate Rep. Wesley Bell easily fended off former Rep. Cori Bush, a democratic socialist and one-time member of the “Squad,” in a rematch.

This race, in a district where Black voters make up about half of the electorate, carried plenty of its own hallmarks beyond their ideological divide.

The two had faced off before: Bush defeated a Democratic incumbent in 2020, only to lose the seat in another primary four years later to Bell. And while the two have much different styles — Bush is a progressive brawler; Bell casts himself as a consensus-building problem solver — Bell doesn’t have the same long tenure in Washington that former Rep. Lacy Clay did when Bush ended his 20-year stint in the House in 2020.

There was also no generational-change factor in the race: Bush is 50 and Bell is 51.

| CANDIDATE | VOTES |
| — | — |
| Wesley Bell* Democratic | 59.2% 83,663 |
| Cori Bush Democratic | 36.9% 52,083 |

At least one key November race in Michigan this November will feature a left-wing candidate allied with Bernie Sanders.

Democratic socialist and climate activist William Lawrence won a three-way primary in Michigan’s 7th District, after two more establishment-oriented candidates — former US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink and Navy SEAL veteran Matt Maasdam — split the rest of the vote.

Lawrence now advances to a place some in the Democratic establishment have worried he might cost them: in a top-targeted race against GOP Rep. Tom Barrett.

Lawrence’s campaign was heavily criticized by the Congressional Black Caucus and even House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, after the Huffington Post published Lawrence’s 2024 remarks saying that Black political leaders “defang the White left.”

The race sets up a rare test of a Sanders-backed, left-wing candidate in a swing race – similar to what El-Sayed would be in the Senate race.

| CANDIDATE | VOTES |
| — | — |
| William Lawrence Democratic | 43.7% 55,007 |
| Bridget Brink Democratic | 28.8% 36,238 |
| Matt Maasdam Democratic | 27.5% 34,677 |

A GOP effort to make ballot measures harder crashes and burns

Republicans keep responding to the success of left-wing ballot measures by asking voters to pass ballot measures that would make ballot measures more difficult.

The problem? Voters keep rejecting these gambits. And Tuesday brought a big rejection — a spectacular one, in fact.

Voters in Missouri overwhelmingly rejected Amendment 4. This was a GOP-led effort to require ballot measures proposed by voters to get a majority of every congressional district in the state. That would greatly increase the threshold for passing such measures, which currently only require a majority of the statewide vote, instead allowing heavily GOP districts to effectively veto them.

As of late Tuesday night, the amendment was receiving just 20% of the vote.

The margin was bigger than usual, but the outcome was familiar. Ohio voters in 2023 rejected by double-digits a GOP effort to raise the threshold for ballot measures to 60%. Similar efforts also failed by huge margins in Arkansas and South Dakota. South Dakota also rejected raising it to 55% back in 2018.

The one recent exception? Arizona, whose voters in 2022 narrowly passed a measure requiring a 60% threshold, but only for raising taxes.

Republicans also failed Tuesday on another ballot measure push, with Kansas voters rejecting an effort to make state Supreme Court justices popularly elected. (As it stands, they are appointed by the governor, and Kansas has elected plenty of Democratic governors despite being a red state.) The move was aimed at trying to overturn a 2019 ruling on abortion rights.

Michigan wasn’t the only place where Democrats were wondering whether they would get the right nominee.

That was also true of the Kansas governor’s race, where state Sen. Cindy Holscher defeated state Sen. Ethan Corson.

Corson had been endorsed by moderate term-limited Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly as well as by former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and other establishment figures. Holscher, while having something of a moderate record, ran with a more combative, populist style while promising to take Republicans head-on.

While Kansas is a red state, it has elected a number of Democratic governors over the years. Holscher now faces state Senate President Ty Masterson, who easily won the GOP primary with Trump’s endorsement.

| CANDIDATE | VOTES |
| — | — |
| Cindy Holscher Democratic | 48.6% 107,061 |
| Ethan Corson Democratic | 38.8% 85,570 |

The other gubernatorial primaries Tuesday night were in Michigan, and they turned out about as expected. Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson sailed to victory and will face Trump-endorsed GOP Rep. John James. James defeated businessman and former long-shot presidential candidate Perry Johnson.

Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is term-limited.

Adam Hamilton, a United Methodist megachurch pastor who has proven to be a prolific fundraiser, won the Democratic nod to take on Republican Sen. Roger Marshall — giving the party a long-shot chance at picking up a seat as they look for paths to the net four-seat gain they need to win a Senate majority in November.

He’s vying to be the latest example of Kansas occasionally showing a willingness to buck its deep-red reputation in recent years. Kelly twice beat Republicans in the red state during her two runs for governor in 2018 and 2022. And in the immediate wake of the US Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, voters in 2022 overwhelmingly rejected an amendment that said there was no constitutional right to abortion in the state.

Hamilton raised more than $3.6 million in the first two months of his campaign and closed the fundraising period that ended June 30 with $2.6 million in the bank. He bested 10 other Democrats on Tuesday, while Marshall also overcame nominal opposition.

The toughest task for Hamilton could be separating himself from a Democratic Party that is already unpopular in Kansas and rapidly shifting leftward.

To win, he could need huge numbers of voters to split their tickets between the Senate contest and a race for governor that represents potentially the GOP’s best opportunity to pick up a state executive seat in November.

In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Tuesday, Hamilton said he doesn’t know that democratic socialists who have knocked off several Democratic incumbents this year have “a momentum across the country.” Kansans, he said, are “centrist people.”

| CANDIDATE | VOTES |
| — | — |
| Adam Hamilton Democratic | 34.9% 76,105 |
| Christy Davis Democratic | 14.2% 30,996 |

Christina Hines wins Democratic primary for competitive US House seat in Michigan, US media projects

2026-08-05 04:16:52 UTC / Reuters

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Aug 5 (Reuters) – Special ​victims prosecutor ‌Christina ​Hines ​won the ⁠Democratic ​nomination ​for a ​competitive ​congressional district in ‌Michigan, ⁠according to ​U.S. ​media.

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