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Hasan Piker cheerleads progressives as 80-year-old senator wins six more years

September 2, 2026 12:09am EDT / Fox News

The 80-year-old senator defeated younger challenger Seth Moulton by doubling down on progressive priorities

By Leo Briceno, Fox News

Top 5 moments from final Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary debate

Incumbent Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., faced off over transgender athletes, ICE, socialism and term limits in their final debate before the Sept. 1 Democratic primary. (Credit: WCVB)

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Hasan Piker, a controversial Twitch streamer and far-left activist who has supported several challengers against moderate Democrats, celebrated the victory of Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., in a primary contest that pitted the 80-year-old progressive stalwart against a far younger and more centrist candidate.

“It’s very clear that the Dem voters care more about policies and having a progressive represent them in the Senate than age! Another w for our movement!” Piker wrote on X after Markey defeated Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., who is 33 years his junior.

Markey defeated Moulton, who centered his campaign on generational change, by casting himself as the race’s true progressive. He repeatedly questioned Moulton’s progressive credentials while continuing to push for transgender rights, particularly in sports — a position many Democrats have shied away from.

DEMOCRATS’ GENERATIONAL BATTLE ERUPTS AS 80-YEAR-OLD SENATOR FACES YOUNGER CHALLENGER

Former Democrat operative Evan Barker says the party needs to realize that controversial Twitch streamer Hasan Piker is quickly becoming the face of their movement.(Julia Demaree/AP Photo)

The position, which Republicans have used as a political rallying cry on the campaign trail and which Democrats have largely avoided as they push to flip both chambers of Congress, is one that Moulton argued played a major role in Democrats’ losses across the board in 2024.

“Trans athletes should be able to play,” Markey told The New York Times. “That reflects Massachusetts and who we are. And Seth Moulton does not.”

Markey has also supported aggressive legislation on climate change, a platform that helped win over even groups that center around younger audiences.

“VICTORY! Congratulations to Ed Markey on his victory in Massachusetts tonight. Sen. Markey has been a leading climate champion in the fight for a Green New Deal to create jobs and lower costs for working people,” the Sunrise Movement said in a statement to X.

HOUSE PROGRESSIVES REVIVE GREEN NEW DEAL FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS AS DEM CIVIL WAR EMPOWERS FAR LEFT

Sen. Ed Markey, the more progressive of the two candidates, has the backing of Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Ayanna Pressley.(Jemal Countess/Getty Images for MoveOn Civic Action)

The group describes itself as a “movement of young people fighting fascism to win a Green New Deal.”

David Axelrod, a top political consultant and former advisor to President Barack Obama, noted that Markey hadn’t always been a darling of the progressive left ahead of Tuesday’s election. He credited Markey’s pivot for his political longevity.

“[Ed Markey] was first elected to Congress 50 yrs ago as a social conservative, opposed to abortion rights and school busing,” Axelrod said in his own post to X.

“Now 80, he’s likely to sail in tonight’s primary in MA, despite his age, because, in his Golden Years, he’s grabbed on to the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, trans rights and other marquee priorities of the Left, undergirding himself against younger, more moderate challengers in very blue MA.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., also praised Markey’s win. Like Markey, Sanders, 84, continues to shape the progressive movement despite the decades between him and many of its younger candidates.

“Congratulations to Ed Markey on his landslide victory in the Democratic Massachusetts Senate primary. Ed knows that, at a time of massive income and wealth inequality, Congress must take on the billionaires and fight for working families,” Sanders wrote.

AOC ENDORSES SEN ED MARKEY AS INCUMBENT FACES DEM US SENATE PRIMARY CHALLENGE FROM REP SETH MOULTON

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) hugs Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) as they speak at a news conference on the launch of the American Climate Corps outside the U.S. Capitol building on September 20, 2023 in Washington, DC.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Having cleared the primary election, Markey now heads to the general on Nov. 3, where he is heavily favored to win in the deep-blue Bay State.

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Markey last won reelection in a 66.2% to 33.0% victory over Republican challenger Kevin O’Connor, a local attorney.

Leo Briceno is a politics reporter for the congressional team at Fox News Digital. He was previously a reporter with World Magazine.

美澳加码援助太平洋岛国 合计7.4亿新元

2026年9月2日 15:01 / 联合早报

瓦努阿图总理纳帕特（左）6月29日在澳大利亚首都堪培拉与澳洲总理阿尔巴尼斯签署《纳卡马尔协议》后合影。 （路透社）

美国和澳大利亚星期三（9月2日）宣布，将合计向太平洋岛国提供5亿8000万美元（近7亿4000万新元）援助。在中国近年来扩大区域影响力之际，美澳正进一步加大对太平洋岛国的投入。

路透社报道，美国副国务卿兰道（Christopher Landau）在帕劳举行的太平洋岛国论坛会议上宣布，美国将提供1亿5000万美元，其中6000万美元用于协助当地应对能源危机，包括扩大燃料储存能力和提升电网稳定性。

这笔资金也是特朗普政府去年关闭美国国际开发署（USAID）后，继续参与太平洋事务最明确的公开信号之一。

美国研究中心研究主任蒙德沙因（Jared Mondschein）说，中国近年来在太平洋地区通过援助、基础设施项目和捐赠扩大影响力，促使美国必须更有针对性地加强参与。

中国近年在当地的动作包括向瓦努阿图捐建总统府建筑群，与所罗门群岛建立全面战略伙伴关系并加强警务合作，以及与库克群岛建立全面战略伙伴关系。

洛伊研究所太平洋岛国项目主任诺贝陶（Oliver Nobetau）指出，伊朗战争进一步推高能源安全风险，对太平洋岛国造成严重冲击，加上超级厄尔尼诺现象，当地经济放缓，政府也须优先保障基本公共服务，更需要外部伙伴支持。

澳洲则宣布提供6亿澳元（约5亿4000万新元），用于打击区域毒品走私，包括加强空中监控，并为警察和边境执法人员提供更多培训。

澳洲总理阿尔巴尼斯说，太平洋是澳大利亚的“家园和家人”，与区域伙伴合作打击有组织犯罪符合澳洲利益。

伊朗称已打击多个波斯湾国家境内美军基地

2026年9月2日 15:24 / 联合早报

社交媒体流传的视频显示，伊朗星期三（9月2日）向巴林发射无人机和导弹，使得巴林北部上空浓烟弥漫，一只鸟恰好从空中飞过。 （法新社）

伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队称，他们已对位于阿联酋、科威特、巴林和该地区其他国家的美国军事目标发动袭击。

法新社报道，伊朗军方星期三（9月2日）发声明称，“数十架伊朗武装无人机……袭击位于阿联酋达夫拉和明哈德空军基地的雷达系统和美军阵地”，以及位于巴林谢赫伊萨空军基地的其他目标。

伊朗革命卫队也说，他们袭击位于科威特、约旦、巴林和伊拉克库尔德斯坦地区埃尔比勒的美军目标。

声明称，伊朗向约旦港口城市亚喀巴附近的一个美国海军陆战队基地发射重型弹道导弹，造成“大量美军士兵死亡”，多个美军重要设施和武装直升机也被摧毁。

据伊朗媒体星期二（1日）报道，美军当天夜间对伊朗南部多地发动袭击，波及霍尔木兹甘省库赫斯塔克的一场婚礼活动现场，造成四人死亡、50人受伤。

西南部胡齐斯坦省官员通报称，美军前一晚对该省发动的袭击造成七人死亡、八人受伤。

另外，巴基斯坦外交部发言人安德拉比星期三在例行记者会上说，巴基斯坦正与美国和伊朗就结束两国冲突进行对话，并对两国“重返谈判桌”抱有信心。

他也说，巴基斯坦国防军总司令穆尼尔上个月访问德黑兰，为缓和霍尔木兹海峡问题带来了“相当大的进展”。

美称愿与朝鲜无条件对话 李在明吁为美朝会谈创造条件

2026年9月2日 15:36 / 联合早报

韩国总统李在明星期三（9月2日）在朝鲜半岛和平问题海外顾问会议上说，应将朝鲜半岛的停战制度转变为基于合作与繁荣的和平制度。 （路透社档案照片）

美国称愿和朝鲜不附加前提条件进行对话后，韩国总统李在明说，应创造条件重启美朝对话。

韩国总统府青瓦台消息称，李在明星期三（9月2日）在朝鲜半岛和平问题海外顾问会议上说，应将朝鲜半岛的停战制度转变为基于合作与繁荣的和平制度。

白宫官员星期二（1日）就韩联社关于“是否正为朝美首脑会谈做准备”的提问回应说，美国的对朝政策不变，但美国总统特朗普愿意和朝鲜国务委员会委员长金正恩展开不附任何前提条件的对话。

特朗普在上一个总统任期内，与金正恩为半岛和平稳定进行三次历史性会谈。

不过，白宫未具体提及对朝政策中是否包含朝鲜无核化目标。

特朗普8月19日被问及与金正恩接触是否仍以实现无核化为目标时，他说不愿谈及该问题。

有观点认为，此举或旨在将坚持“无核化非谈判对象”立场的金正恩拉回谈判桌，特朗普可能将无核化议题排除在朝美对话之外。

美称愿与朝鲜无条件对话 李在明吁为美朝会谈创造条件

2026年9月2日 15:36 / 联合早报

韩国总统李在明星期三（9月2日）在朝鲜半岛和平问题海外顾问会议上说，应将朝鲜半岛的停战制度转变为基于合作与繁荣的和平制度。 （路透社档案照片）

美国称愿和朝鲜不附加前提条件进行对话后，韩国总统李在明说，应创造条件重启美朝对话。

韩国总统府青瓦台消息称，李在明星期三（9月2日）在朝鲜半岛和平问题海外顾问会议上说，应将朝鲜半岛的停战制度转变为基于合作与繁荣的和平制度。

白宫官员星期二（1日）就韩联社关于“是否正为朝美首脑会谈做准备”的提问回应说，美国的对朝政策不变，但美国总统特朗普愿意和朝鲜国务委员会委员长金正恩展开不附任何前提条件的对话。

特朗普在上一个总统任期内，与金正恩为半岛和平稳定进行三次历史性会谈。

不过，白宫未具体提及对朝政策中是否包含朝鲜无核化目标。

特朗普8月19日被问及与金正恩接触是否仍以实现无核化为目标时，他说不愿谈及该问题。

有观点认为，此举或旨在将坚持“无核化非谈判对象”立场的金正恩拉回谈判桌，特朗普可能将无核化议题排除在朝美对话之外。

Americans hate both ‘Lake America’ and Trump’s trade war with Canada

2026-09-02 12:00 AM ET / CNN

Analysis by Aaron Blake

President Donald Trump signs an executive order to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America” in the Oval Office of the White House on August 27.

Evan Vucci/Reuters

President Donald Trump has dropped another clunker in the laps of his fellow Republicans in the run-up to the 2026 midterm elections.

His new trade war with Canada and his related move to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” are the latest in a series of unpopular actions.

In fact, new polling suggests they’re even more unpopular than Trump’s previous tariffs and efforts to rename things.

A Reuters-Ipsos poll conducted in recent days is the first quality survey to test Trump’s renewed clash with Canada.

It shows Americans oppose the president’s executive order to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America” 63% to 14%, with the rest undecided.

That more than 4-to-1 margin is more lopsided than when Trump moved to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” last year. Back then, polls showed more than 7 in 10 Americans opposed it. But support was about twice as high, on average.

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The new survey also shows strong opponents (52%) outnumber strong supporters (7%) about 7-to-1.

And even Trump’s fellow Republicans oppose renaming Lake Ontario, 43%-33%.

Trump’s move to rename the lake stems from growing tensions over his trade dispute with Canada (even though Lake Ontario was named long before the Canadian province).

And that trade dispute fares little better in public opinion.

The new poll shows Americans oppose Trump’s new tariffs on Canada nearly 3-to-1, 57%-20%.

Trump’s tariffs have long polled poorly, especially as inflation and the jobs market have proved stagnant over the past 18 months. But this is among the worst findings to date.

Reuters polling in December showed Americans opposed Trump’s tariffs overall, 53%-23%. And when Trump initially announced tariffs on Canadian goods in early 2025, Americans opposed them 59%-36%.

Just 9% strongly support the new tariffs, while 43% strongly oppose them. And Republicans lean only modestly in favor of them, 44%-33%.

And that’s not all:

• Despite Trump blaming Canada for the escalation, significantly more Americans say the United States is more responsible for the dispute (46%) than say Canada is (12%).
• Ten times as many people expect the tariffs to mostly hurt their personal financial situation (40%) rather than help it (4%).
• Americans say 68%-25% that they prefer the US not to take a hard line in negotiations, “even if it means it doesn’t get most of what it wants.”

In other words, there’s very little appetite for a clash with Canada. Even nearly half of Republicans support the softer, accommodating approach.

And that’s the common thread running through just about all of these findings. Almost nobody is asking for what Trump is selling, with strong support often in the single digits and lukewarm even in his own party. But he’s decided to press forward.

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Whether and how much it will matter in the upcoming election is to be determined.

Some Republicans have fretted that the Canada tariffs could disproportionately hurt their efforts to hold the Senate, given many of the most competitive races happen to be in states that border Canada: Alaska, Maine, Michigan and Ohio.

But the Canada clash could also hurt Trump more broadly — by reinforcing how he’s focused on things besides lowering prices, and might continue doing things that raise them (like the Iran war).

Which might be why these tariffs and his renaming effort appear even more unpopular than previous similar efforts.

Just imagine before 2025 a president holding an event at the White House — which Trump did for “Lake America” — for a move that 14% of Americans support. It’s virtually unthinkable.

But in Trump’s second term, it’s par for the course.

The history of financing America, in six crisis episodes

2026-09-02 / Reuters

Sept 2 (Reuters) – Concerns over America’s fiscal outlook are mounting. Long-dated Treasury yields are at their highest levels since 2007, while the national debt has surpassed $40 trillion.

It is not the first time Washington has faced an imposing financing challenge. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. can grow out of the debt. But history suggests that when the Treasury cannot rely on the usual mix of ​investors, instruments and market conditions, it has also created new methods to raise funds.

Here are six financing challenges Washington tackled and how it overcame them.

CREATE NEW BUYERS

The Civil ‌War forced Washington to borrow at an unprecedented scale. Federal debt rose from about $65 million in 1860 to roughly $2.7 billion in 1865, approximately doubling annually over that span. By comparison, U.S. public debt has compounded at a 6.6% annual rate since 1946, according to Morgan Stanley.

To absorb the new issuance, Washington wrote rules creating a new class of buyers. The National Banking Acts required federally chartered banks to back their currency with U.S. bonds.

Financier Jay Cooke found buyers too, selling ​debt nationwide through banks, sub-agents, advertising and patriotic appeals. Cooke’s 6% “five-twenties” were callable after five years and due in 20, with interest paid in gold; his three-year “7-30” notes paid 7.30%, ​yielding $3.65 a year and marketed as a penny a day for a $50 investment. The campaigns helped turn federal debt into a mass retail product.

CALL IN ⁠WALL STREET

By February 1895, recession, gold exports and fears of a shift to silver had driven the Treasury’s gold reserve down to $41.3 million, far below its politically vital $100 million benchmark. Public bond sales had ​bought only temporary relief.

With no central bank, President Grover Cleveland enlisted two private financiers, J.P. Morgan and August Belmont Jr., to lead a syndicate that agreed to supply more than $65 million in gold, much ​of it from Europe, and help stop further withdrawals. In return, the syndicate received about $62 million in 30-year, 4% Treasury bonds.

The deal stabilized the reserve but made Morgan and Belmont symbols of Wall Street’s sway over public policy, energizing an already growing populist revolt.

ENLIST SAVERS, PEG YIELDS

Financing World War II required both cheap borrowing and the restraint of civilian spending to stem inflation. So Washington turned to war bonds. Through voluntary payroll plans, about 27 million Americans were regularly ​buying them by June 1943. By the war’s end, war bonds had financed roughly half of the wartime debt.

The Fed reinforced this system by subordinating monetary policy to Treasury financing. Beginning in April ​1942, it pegged Treasury-bill rates at 0.375% and effectively capped long-term Treasury yields at 2.5% through open-market purchases. This kept government borrowing costs low but added to inflationary pressure.

Once wartime controls were lifted, the price pressures they had ‌been suppressing ⁠broke loose, fueling a sharp postwar inflation that made the peg impossible to sustain. It finally gave way with the Treasury–Fed Accord of March 1951.

World War II

DO THE TWIST

By the early 1960s, foreign dollar claims were outpacing U.S. gold reserves, threatening confidence in the dollar’s convertibility into gold. Washington wanted to stem capital outflows without choking domestic growth.

Operation Twist aimed for both: the Fed sold short-term bills and bought long-term Treasuries, raising short rates to support the dollar while holding down long rates for investment. Treasury reinforced the strategy with foreign-currency “Roosa bonds,” sold to foreign central banks and insulated from dollar devaluation.

Operation Twist was revived in ​2011 to 2012 to help boost the economic recovery ​after the 2007 to 2009 financial crisis.

LET ⁠THE MARKET SET THE PRICE

Until the early 1970s, Treasury sold notes and bonds at terms it set in advance. But rising inflation and interest-rate volatility in the late 1960s made this fixed-price system risky, and left the Treasury vulnerable to overpaying investors or missing market demand.

To let the market set the price, ​Treasury began auctioning coupon-bearing debt in 1970, initially setting the coupon while investors bid on price. By mid-1973, auctions had replaced the older fixed-price ​methods for notes and bonds. ⁠In 1974, Treasury introduced yield-based auctions for some coupon securities, allowing auction results to determine both the price and coupon rate.

This reform shifted price discovery to investors, laying the foundation for today’s Treasury market.

DEFENDING THE DOLLAR

The dollar came under renewed pressure in 1978, prompting the Carter administration to mount an unusually forceful defense, including the sale of U.S. government debt denominated in foreign currencies.

On November 1, 1978, Carter unveiled a coordinated support ⁠program with West ​Germany, Japan and Switzerland, assembling the equivalent of up to $30 billion in foreign-currency resources for intervention.

The package included expanded swap ​lines, a U.S. reserve-tranche drawing at the IMF, sales of Special Drawing Rights and foreign-currency borrowing. Central to the effort were “Carter bonds,” denominated in Deutsche marks and Swiss francs and sold in German and Swiss markets, which raised foreign cash that could ​be used to buy dollars to help support the U.S. currency.

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Reporting by Karen Brettell, editing by Colin Barr and Nick Zieminski

美国拟收紧儿童护照申请 父母须证明身份

2026年9月2日 15:37 / 联合早报

美国国务院拟收紧儿童护照申请规定，要求家长提交自身公民或移民身份证明。 （法新社）

美国国务院拟要求家长为孩子申请美国护照时，提交自身公民或移民身份证明，作为特朗普政府进一步收紧出生公民权政策的一环。

路透社星期二（9月1日）查阅到的国务院指导草案显示，家长或法定监护人日后可能须提交美国护照、出生证明、永久居民卡或I-94出入境记录等文件，让政府判断孩子是否符合取得美国公民身份的资格。

目前，在美国出生的儿童申请护照时，家长主要须证明亲子关系并出示附照片身份证件，虽须在申请表注明是否为美国公民，但一般无须另附证明。

这项拟议措施与特朗普8月6日签署的新行政令有关。行政令主要针对所谓“生育旅游”，并规定部分情况不适用出生公民权，包括父母为外国政府工作、涉及以欺诈或商业交易方式取得公民身份，或被列为“敌国侨民”。

特朗普此前曾试图规定，只有父母至少一方为美国公民或合法永久居民，在美国出生的孩子才能自动获得国籍，但最高法院以六票对三票裁定有关措施违反宪法第十四修正案。

新的行政令范围较窄，但同样面临司法挑战。代表可能受影响婴儿的律师已要求联邦法院阻止行政令生效，司法部则认为诉讼为时过早，因为政府尚未正式公布执行细则。

美国拟收紧儿童护照申请 父母须证明身份

2026年9月2日 15:37 / 联合早报

美国国务院拟收紧儿童护照申请规定，要求家长提交自身公民或移民身份证明。 （法新社）

美国国务院拟要求家长为孩子申请美国护照时，提交自身公民或移民身份证明，作为特朗普政府进一步收紧出生公民权政策的一环。

路透社星期二（9月1日）查阅到的国务院指导草案显示，家长或法定监护人日后可能须提交美国护照、出生证明、永久居民卡或I-94出入境记录等文件，让政府判断孩子是否符合取得美国公民身份的资格。

目前，在美国出生的儿童申请护照时，家长主要须证明亲子关系并出示附照片身份证件，虽须在申请表注明是否为美国公民，但一般无须另附证明。

这项拟议措施与特朗普8月6日签署的新行政令有关。行政令主要针对所谓“生育旅游”，并规定部分情况不适用出生公民权，包括父母为外国政府工作、涉及以欺诈或商业交易方式取得公民身份，或被列为“敌国侨民”。

特朗普此前曾试图规定，只有父母至少一方为美国公民或合法永久居民，在美国出生的孩子才能自动获得国籍，但最高法院以六票对三票裁定有关措施违反宪法第十四修正案。

新的行政令范围较窄，但同样面临司法挑战。代表可能受影响婴儿的律师已要求联邦法院阻止行政令生效，司法部则认为诉讼为时过早，因为政府尚未正式公布执行细则。

新西兰发生5.5级地震 近7000人报告有震感

2026-09-02 15:40:23+08:00 / 联合早报

新西兰南岛米尔福德峡湾（Milford Sound）附近星期三（9月2日）发生5.5级地震。 （档案照片）

新西兰地震监测机构报告称，南岛米尔福德峡湾（Milford Sound）东北40公里处发生5.5级地震。

新华社报道，新西兰地震监测网GeoNet信息显示，这次地震发生于当地时间星期三（9月2日）下午6时13分（新加坡时间下午2时13分），震源深度约5公里，震级为中等强度。

GeoNet指出，近7000人报告有震感。