Democrat Annie Andrews to face off against Sen. Lindsey Graham in South Carolina, CBS News projects

June 9, 2026 / 10:12 PM EDT / CBS News

Annie Andrews won South Carolina’s Democratic primary for Senate on Tuesday, CBS News has projected, as Democrats once again try to unseat Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham in November.

Andrews is a pediatrician who faced off against Republican Rep. Nancy Mace two years ago and lost.

Graham defeated several primary challengers on Tuesday night, winning the Republican nomination, CBS News also projected.

Graham has held the seat since 2003, and an upset isn’t expected. He defeated Democrat Jaime Harrison by 10 points in 2000, and no Democrat has won statewide office in South Carolina since 2000.

In March, CBS News asked Andrews why she would run against those odds.

“So I don’t mind being an underdog,” Andrews said. “I am a fighter. And it is clear to me that people in South Carolina are ready for something different. Lindsey Graham is a career, corrupt, cowardly politician. He’s been our senator for 23 years now. And people understand that he really has abandoned South Carolinians.”

Brown told WCSC that Graham isn’t a powerhouse.

“I don’t see Senator Graham as a powerhouse anything,” Brown said. “We have to have a candidate who’s going to be arguing every day for the interest of South Carolinians and putting South Carolinians first, serving purpose, not power.”

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美国中央司令部6月9日晚发表声明说，美军已完成对霍尔木兹海峡附近伊朗防空系统、地面控制站、监视雷达站的空袭。 （路透社）

美国中央司令部宣布完成对伊朗的“自卫性打击”。

路透社报道，美国中央司令部在美国时间星期二（6月9日）晚上（新加坡时间10日早上）在社媒平台发表声明说，美军已完成对霍尔木兹海峡附近伊朗防空系统、地面控制站、监视雷达站的空袭。

美国军方说，此次空袭是为报复伊朗8日在霍尔木兹海峡附近击落一架美军阿帕奇武装直升机。《华盛顿邮报》引述美国官员说，阿帕奇直升机上的两名机组人员被美国海军海上无人机救起，这是美军首次采取此类手段。

要求匿名的一名美国官员透露，这架阿帕奇直升机是被一架伊朗单向攻击无人机击落的。美国总统特朗普在阿帕奇武器直升机被击落后誓言将作出回应，他也说两名飞行员没有受伤。

Dem who vows to impeach RFK Jr clinches nomination in key Senate race to

June 9, 2026 8:48pm EDT / Fox News

South Carolina hasn’t sent a Democrat to the Senate since the 1990s, making Annie Andrews’ path an uphill battle

By Alex Miller

Lindsey Graham said Sen. Bill Cassidy’s primary loss shows Republicans who oppose President Donald Trump or his agenda risk political fallout inside today’s GOP.

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Palmetto State Democrats have chosen their candidate who will face incumbent Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

Dr. Annie Andrews, a pediatrician, survived a three-way primary contest in South Carolina on Tuesday and will officially face Graham, who is seeking a fifth term in office, in November. Andrews, who is a familiar face in Palmetto State politics.

That’s because South Carolina voters haven’t sent a Democrat to the Senate since the 1990s. Former Sen. Fritz Hollings, who retired in 2005, was the last Democratic lawmaker to represent the state in the upper chamber.

LINDSEY GRAHAM DRAWS DEMOCRATIC SENATE CHALLENGER WHO PREVIOUSLY LOST CONGRESSIONAL RACE

Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews participates in a debate with Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C. for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, Oct. 19, 2022, in Charleston, S.C.(Brad Nettles/The Post And Courier via AP, File)

While Andrews’ primary focus is to unseat Graham, her larger target is Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom she vowed to “lead the charge to impeach and remove RFK Jr.,” at a recent rally with voters.

The Senate doesn’t initiate impeachment proceedings, but acts as the final step in the process.

In an op-ed piece for MS Now published earlier this year, Andrews charged that while Kennedy wasn’t solely responsible for the recent measles outbreak in her state, “We’re kidding ourselves if we pretend leadership doesn’t matter.”

SCORCHED-EARTH SHANAHAN: RFK JR.’S FORMER RUNNING MATE THREATENS POLITICAL WAR AGAINST CONFIRMATION OPPONENTS

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., talks with reporters in the U.S. Capitol during votes on Tuesday, March 10, 2026.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

“Kennedy has been a leading voice in the anti-vaccine movement for decades, which has led communities across the country to slip below the herd immunity threshold for the prevention of outbreaks of infections like measles,” Andrews wrote.

“Even if you replaced the name on the door at HHS tomorrow (which a responsible Congress would do), trust doesn’t snap back like a rubber band. It takes years to build and minutes to burn,” she continued.

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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addresses the media to announce actions for combating fraud in Minnesota at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota on May 21, 2026, in Minneapolis.(David Berding/Getty Images)

Graham won a six-way primary dogfight, which included businessman Mark Lynch, on Tuesday night.

That contest was effectively a test of President Donald Trump’s endorsement power versus the fraying edges of his own Make America Great Again movement.

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Lynch, who styled himself as a constitutional conservative and called for more “MTGs, Gaetzes and Massies” in Congress, was recently endorsed by Trump’s former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent, who argued to voters that Lynch was “the best postured right now to get the warhawk, neocon, Lindsey Graham out of office.”

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.

伊朗称“摧毁”一架美国MQ－9死神无人机

2026年6月10日 09:59 / 联合早报

伊朗称“摧毁”一架美国MQ－9死神无人机

据报道，一架美国MQ－9型死神无人机造价3000万美元。 （路透社）

新华社报道，伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队公共关系部门星期三（6月10日）凌晨发布声明说，伊朗在布什尔省“拦截并摧毁”了一架美国空军MQ－9型“死神”无人机。

据报道，单架MQ－9型死神无人机（MQ-9 Reaper）造价高达3000万美元（约3860万新元）。

美国中央司令部于美国时间9日晚上（新加坡时间10日早上）在社媒平台发表声明说，美军已完成对霍尔木兹海峡附近伊朗防空系统、地面控制站、监视雷达站的空袭。此次空袭是为报复伊朗8日在霍尔木兹海峡附近击落一架美军阿帕奇武装直升机。

美国军方称此次空袭是出于自卫，由特朗普总统下令实施。

GOP Rep. Valadao to face progressive Villegas in key California House district, in defeat for moderate Democrats

2026-06-09T21:11:00-0400 / CBS News

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Republican Rep. David Valadao will run against progressive Randy Villegas in the general election in California’s 22nd Congressional District, CBS News projects.

Last week’s primary pitted the Republican incumbent against two Democrats, with the top two vote-getters advancing to November. Villegas was projected as the second candidate to advance on Tuesday, a week after the election, after a close contest.

Moderate Democrat Jasmeet Bains did not advance, in an embarrassing defeat for establishment Democrats amid an intraparty feud about the party’s future.

The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the race as a toss up after California voters approved a new congressional map last year to counter Texas’ redrawn districts, reshaping the Bakersfield-area 22nd district.

A late intervention by the House Democrats’ campaign arm added some last-minute drama to the race when the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee offered support to Bains, a state assembly member.

The intervention became the latest fight in the broader debate within the Democratic Party over how well progressives can perform in competitive races. It’s playing out in a district in California’s Central Valley that is heavily Hispanic — a key constituency that shifted away from Democrats in 2024.

“The Democratic Party has taken Latino communities for granted,” Villegas, who is Latino, recently told CBS News. “Far too late, far too little for Latino communities. And this is just another example of that.”

Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington, who chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, backed Villegas in a statement shortly after his win Tuesday, calling him “a son of the Valley” and “the kind of people-first leader Valley voters deserve.”

Valadao was first elected to Congress in 2012 but narrowly lost his bid for a fourth term in 2018, when Democrats flipped more than 40 seats and won back control of the House. Valadao ran again in 2020 for his old seat and won.

If Valadao notches another victory in November, he will be the last of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach President Trump in 2021 over the Capitol riot to remain in Congress.

朝媒连续两天大篇幅报道习近平访朝消息

2026年6月10日 10:27 / 联合早报

习近平6月9日结束对朝访问回国，金正恩和夫人李雪主到机场送行，目送飞机起飞。 （路透社）

朝鲜官媒星期三（6月10日）详尽报道了中国国家主席习近平访朝的第二天行程，大力渲染和突显朝中友好关系。

韩联社报道，朝鲜内宣媒体《劳动新闻》在六个版面中用四个版面大篇幅报道习近平访朝行程，刊发图片多达52张。头版上方并排刊登朝中两国国徽和国旗，用红色字体标注“朝中友谊的历史和传统将永不磨灭”的句子，并刊登习近平参谒朝中友谊塔的10张现场照。

第二版报道习近平参访劳动党中央干部学校的消息，并刊登16张相关图片。第三版报道习近平夫妇和金正恩夫妇共进午餐的消息。第三版和第四版详细介绍平壤居民热烈欢送习近平的场景，还刊登金正恩夫妇到机场为习近平夫妇送行的22张图片。第五版刊登习近平向金正恩发来的感谢电全文。

另一个内宣媒体朝鲜中央广播电台10日上午7时起播报习近平访朝相关新闻；朝鲜中央电视台当天上午9时起开播，介绍习近平访朝消息。另外，外宣媒体朝中社也发布了52张习近平访朝新闻图片，并报道了相关内容。

朝鲜媒体9日也大力宣传习近平访朝，《劳动新闻》将版数由六版增至10版，并刊发了80余张图片。朝鲜中央电视台开播起介绍相关消息，每个时段播出朝方为习近平安排的欢迎仪式、欢迎表演的录制视频。

韩前官员：中国加强对朝关系可同时遏俄制美

2026年6月10日 08:53 / 联合早报

韩前官员：中国加强对朝关系可同时遏俄制美

朝中社发布的照片显示，朝鲜领导人金正恩 （白领带者）星期二（6月9日）在平壤国际机场为结束访朝、即将离开的中国国家主席习近平（红领带者）送行。 （路透社）

中国国家主席习近平星期二（6月9日）结束对朝鲜的两天国事访问回到北京，此访被认为巩固对平壤的影响力。韩国统一部前发言人郑俊熙研判，加强中朝关系对北京有绝对益处，不仅可通过拉拢与莫斯科关系日益密切的平壤来“遏俄”、巩固中国在地区事务中的核心利益，同时还能让美国将注意力集中在伊朗战争等问题上。

郑俊熙是韩国政府资助智库统一研究院现任监事。他星期二在香港《明报》采访中分析，台海一旦发生冲突，对北京而言，朝鲜还能利用其核能力威慑美国。

在经济方面，中朝关系良好也确保了中国进入日本海的通道，从而有助东北地区的发展。图们江下游属俄朝界河，中国在当地并没有实际出海口。

郑俊熙认为，对朝鲜而言，改善与中国的关系对于削弱国际制裁至关重要；借助与俄罗斯的密切关系制衡，此次访问也使北京默许平壤的核计划。如果朝鲜与中俄形成一种稳固的关系，其国际政治地位也必将得到加强。

习近平2019年首次访朝时，表明“支持朝鲜半岛无核化”，相较之下，此次访朝则未提到无核化一词，受到首尔关注。

据韩联社报道，韩国外交部发言人朴一星期二在记者会上表示，韩国外交部认为中国既有立场不变，但政府同时留意到，北京近期对外不太使用无核化这一表述，“在此背景下，（韩国）政府可能将通过外交渠道与中方进行沟通，了解中方就朝鲜无核化的立场”。

Pamela Evette, Alan Wilson head to runoff in crowded GOP primary for South Carolina governor, CBS News projects

June 9, 2026 / 10:23 PM EDT / CBS News

By Kathryn Watson

Kathryn Watson is a politics reporter for CBS News Digital, based in Washington, D.C.

Pamela Evette and Alan Wilson are heading to a runoff in South Carolina’s Republican primary for governor after none of the six candidates in the primary reached the required majority threshold of votes to avoid a runoff. The runoff election will be June 23.

Evette is South Carolina’s current lieutenant governor and had President Trump’s backing. Alan Wilson has been South Carolina’s attorney general for over 15 years.

The South Carolina GOP gubernatorial race was one of the widest open primaries in the country, with there being no clear frontrunner heading into Tuesday night.

Candidates knocked out of the race include GOP Rep. Nancy Mace, who has had some disagreements with Mr. Trump in the past. She condemned Mr. Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, and he endorsed a primary challenger in her House reelection race in 2022, but she prevailed in that race. Although she and Mr. Trump had warmer interactions afterward, Mace was instrumental in the House push to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Trump snubbed Mace by endorsing Pamela Evette shortly before the primary.

Mace conceded on Tuesday and endorsed Wilson. In a post on social media on Tuesday night, Mace said “as a survivor, I chose to stand on principle and stand against the Epstein cover-up.”

“And apparently, I chose wrong if the goal was winning an election,” Mace added.

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During early voting, the president called Evette a “good friend, fighter, and WINNER.” The president’s endorsement echoed term-limited South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, who is also backing Evette.

South Carolina state Sen. Josh Kimbrell, U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman and former business executive Rom Reddy also lost out on primary night.

South Carolina hasn’t had a Democratic governor since Gov. Jim Hodges, who left office in 2003, and Mr. Trump Trump won the state with 58% of the vote in 2024, making the Republican candidate the favorite to win in November.

Trump’s endorsement power faces another GOP test in South Carolina after Alan Wilson advances

2026-06-09T21:13:09-04:00 / Fox News

Trump’s endorsement power in Republican showdowns faces new test in South Carolina governor primary

By Paul Steinhauser Fox News

Published June 9, 2026 9:13pm EDT

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One week after President Donald Trump’s endorsement-winning streak in high-profile Republican primaries was snapped, the president’s immense clout over the GOP was on the line again, this time in South Carolina.

And the president easily passed the test.

The candidate Trump endorsed in the Palmetto State’s GOP gubernatorial primary, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, finished first in a crowded field of candidates and clinched one of the two tickets in the race for the nomination, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.

Evette, who repeatedly spotlighted Trump’s support, now advances to a Republican runoff election in two weeks against South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, the second place finisher, in the race to succeed term-limited GOP Gov. Henry McMaster.

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South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced his candidacy for governor on Monday, June 23, 2025, accompanied by his family.(Tracy Glantz/The State/Tribune News Service)

Since no candidate topped 50% of the primary vote to land a majority, Evette and Wilson will battle for the nomination in the June 23 runoff, and the winner will be considered the clear favorite in the general election in the solidly red southeastern state.

Meanwhile, in the South Carolina GOP Senate primary, longtime Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham did win a majority of the vote, and will avoid a runoff, the Associated Press reported.

Graham, who was endorsed by Trump, was facing primary challenges from five candidates, including conservative businessman Mark Lynch, who took aim at the senator over his support for the war in Iran. Lynch was backed by some MAGA leaders who have been critical of the president.

Graham’s campaign and allied political groups spent nearly $20 million to highlight Trump’s support. And the president joined Graham and Evette for a primary eve tele-rally.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) won renomination on Tuesday in South Carolina’s Republican Senate primary, as he runs for a fifth six-year term in the Senate(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

While he wasn’t on the ballot, Trump’s immense clout over the GOP was facing another key test in South Carolina.

The brute force of the president’s endorsement power has been on display in GOP primaries over the past month, with his candidates ousting incumbents he targeted in showdowns in Indiana, Louisiana, Kentucky and Texas that grabbed plenty of national attention.

But his 11th-hour endorsement of Republican Rep. Randy Feenstra of Iowa a week and a half ago — which came on the same day he also backed Evette — in the race to succeed retiring GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds wasn’t enough to muscle the three-term congressman to victory.

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Zach Lahn raises his fist in celebration after winning Iowa’s GOP gubernatorial nomination, on Tuesday, June 2, 2026.(Zach Lahn for Governor via Facebook)

Feenstra was narrowly edged by Zach Lahn, a businessman, farmer and former political strategist who was backed by the political wings of MAHA — the acronym for the Make America Healthy Again movement aligned with Trump Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and Turning Point USA, the powerful conservative organization co-founded by the late Charlie Kirk.

In the South Carolina GOP gubernatorial primary, the major contenders had long been highlighting their support for Trump and his agenda, in hopes of landing his support.

South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette announces her bid for the Republican nomination for governor at The Smokestack at Judson Mill in South Carolina on July 14, 2025.(Joshua Boucher/The State/Tribune News Service/Getty Images)

Trump, after staying neutral for months, endorsed Evette, praising her as an “America First Patriot” and a “WINNER” in his announcement.

After Trump backed Evette, Mace said that her very vocal push last year for the Justice Department to release the files related to its probe into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein contributed to the president’s backing of her rival.

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., is running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in South Carolina in the race to succeed term-limited GOP Gov. Henry McMaster.(Tracy Glantz/The State/Tribune News Service)

“I know I put the likelihood of an endorsement on the line when I demanded transparency on the Epstein files,” the lawmaker wrote. “I demanded it because you deserved the truth — ALL OF IT,” Mace emphasized in a post on X.

Trump, in a social media post endorsing Evette, also said he expected Evette to choose Henry McMaster Jr., the governor’s son, as her running mate for lieutenant governor.

The comment by the president led to blowback in South Carolina political circles and speculation that McMaster, who succeeded then-Gov. Nikki Haley when she stepped down to serve as U.N. ambassador during Trump’s first term and who is in his 10th year as governor, was trying to give his son a political boost.

Republican Gov. Henry McMaster of South Carolina is term-limited and cannot seek re-election in 2026.(Jeffrey Collins/Associated Press)

But McMaster denied any deal or pressure, and Evette has said she wouldn’t name any running mate until after the primary is over.

And on Friday, the younger McMaster took his name out of contention, saying it was “incredibly humbling” to be mentioned as a possible lieutenant governor candidate, but that “now is simply not the right time.”

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But the episode didn’t appear to sidetrack Evette.

Either Evette or Wilson will face off in November against state Rep. Jermaine Johnson, who captured the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.

Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.

韩国70岁以上就业人口首破200万大关

2026年6月10日 10:46 / 联合早报

韩国70岁以上就业人口首破200万大关

在首尔举办的首届“乐龄就业展”，吸引逾2000名60岁以上求职者积极参与，为老年群体提供了丰富的私营部门就业机会。 （档案照片）

最新数据显示，2025年韩国70岁以上就业人口显著增长，同比增加9.2%，达到216.2万人。这一数据首次突破200万大关，凸显了韩国劳动力结构的变化。

韩国国家统计门户（KOSIS）网站星期一（6月8日）公布的数据显示，这一群体就业人数从2018年的121.9万人稳步攀升，于2021年超越150万人，达到156.6万人，至2025年更飙升至216.2万人，是2018年的1.8倍。

受此趋势推动，70岁以上人口在韩国就业总人数中的比重也从2018年的4.5%提升至2025年的7.5%。

分析人士指出，70岁以上就业人口持续增长，主要得益于两方面因素：一是社会老龄化进程加速，导致70岁以上人口基数扩大；二是专门面向老年人的工作岗位日益增多。

展望未来，鉴于韩国当前的人口结构特点，预计70岁以上就业人口在可预见的一段时间内将持续维持在200万人以上水平。