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法国总统马克龙谴责抗议冲突中“肆无忌惮”的暴力行为

2026-10-19 07:15 / 联合早报

• 法国多城抗议演变为数十年来最严重暴乱之一，马克龙谴责暴力行为，警告政府或将在未来几天禁止部分集会。 – 法国内政部称星期六全国近2400人被捕，约1000名执法人员受伤；星期天巴黎共和国广场非法集会被警方驱散。 – 极右翼候选人勒庞抨击马克龙政府失去方向，极左翼候选人梅朗雄警告局势或将失控，马克龙呼吁各方通过辩论对话。 – 马克龙承诺支持受损企业并保持执法透明，针对反对党要求解雇内政部长，他已要求努涅斯就情报与预判问题给出答复。

法国马赛附近一处屏幕正播放总统马克龙星期天（10月18日）的全国电视讲话。 （路透社）

法国全国多座城市举行的大规模抗议演变为暴力事件后，总统马克龙在公开演讲中谴责这些肆无忌惮的暴力行为，并警告如有必要，政府会在未来几天禁止一些集会活动。

法新社报道，马克龙在星期天（10月18日）晚间的电视公开演讲中做出上述表态。不过，他没有宣布进入紧急状态或实施宵禁等极端管制措施。

法国内政部指出，在星期六（17日）发生一系列暴乱事件中，全国已有近2400人被捕，约1000名警察和国家宪兵在执法中受伤，其中七人伤势严重。

这场因不满生活费高涨、公共服务退化而爆发的大规模示威，已演变为法国数十年来最严重暴乱之一。面对暴乱造成的严重破坏，包括多处建筑被焚毁、大量车辆被砸毁、数百家商家遭抢劫，马克龙痛心地说：“今晚，我们大家都感到愤怒和耻辱。”

他说：“看着这些画面，我们不禁问自己：他们到底在想什么？法国人怎么能这样对待自己的国家？”

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法国爆发全国大规模示威 逾2000人被捕经济损失惨重 从学生示威到全国暴乱 法国人到底在抗议什么？

马克龙强调，必须将提出“合理诉求”的抗议者，与那些“搞破坏、砸抢烧的人”严格区分开来。

他誓言，当局对那些“在城市里肆无忌惮发动暴力”的“极左翼边缘团体煽动者以及大批犯罪分子”，绝不会妥协退让。

巴黎共和国广场星期天（10月18日）爆发非法集会，警方使用催泪弹驱散示威者。（法新社）

法新社记者也目击到，有数百人星期天仍在社交媒体的号召下，聚集在巴黎共和国广场。当局指该集会未经批准，警方随后向示威人群施放催泪弹和眩晕弹。示威者向警方投掷瓶子和石块，警方逮捕了42人。

当天，共和国广场周边至少有五家商店遭抢劫。巴黎市中心其他多家商店的橱窗也被砸碎，市政府已要求许多商家暂停营业。在东南部城市里昂，警方也与企图抢劫一家奢侈品服装店的年轻人群体爆发激烈冲突。

总统大选临近 反对派借骚乱猛烈围攻

这场动乱爆发之际，距离法国总统大选仅剩几个月。受宪法规定限制，中间派的马克龙无法竞选连任，而极右翼候选人勒庞在民调中遥遥领先。

勒庞公开抨击称，这场动乱表明马克龙政府已经“气数已尽、精疲力竭且失去方向”。

极左翼总统候选人梅朗雄则警告，国家可能正在走向“最终将无法控制的局面”。

对此，马克龙回应称，法国“值得拥有一场精彩的总统大选”，各方应当通过政党辩论来进行对话，“而不是在街头发动暴力”。

马克龙也说，政府将与各地市长协同做出决策，以保护城市、公共建筑和企业。他承诺，受损企业将获得政府支持，并承诺执法人员对抗议活动的处理过程将保持完全透明。

而针对部分反对党要求解雇内政部长努涅斯（Laurent Nunez），马克龙说，他已要求努涅斯“汲取所有必要的教训”，特别是针对情报收集和风险预判方面，并期待得到“明确的答复”。

Obama calls Trump administration’s investigation into Ilhan Omar ‘appalling’

2026-10-18T20:20:55.412Z / CNN

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn

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PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2026, 4:20 PM ET

Former President Barack Obama speaks in Chicago on December 5, 2024.

Erin Hooley/AP/File

Former President Barack Obama on Sunday called the Justice Department’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar “appalling,” saying the government is attempting to intimidate and deport one of President Donald Trump’s most outspoken critics.

“The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president,” Obama wrote on social media.

The former president said the recent search of the Minnesota Democrat’s Washington, DC, home was to “uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.” CNN previously reported that the search was related to an immigration fraud probe investigating whether Omar’s father lied about her age when she obtained her US citizenship in 2000.

Omar has sought to dismantle the basis of the probe, saying she became a lawfully naturalized citizen in 2000 after fleeing Somalia in 1995.

“The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views,” Obama said in his post. “Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.”

While the government has not yet indicated it will attempt to strip Omar of her citizenship, Trump said in a post to Truth Social earlier this year that he’d like to see her sent to Somalia. Omar has not been charged with a crime, and the Justice Department has not revealed any evidence against her. Omar has disputed the legality of last week’s search and demanded the return of her property seized by federal agents.

Trump told reporters last week that the search “has nothing to do with me.”

“I think she’s a terrible person, but that’s really up to the DOJ. I have nothing to do with it,” he said.

Along with Obama, other prominent Democrats have defended Omar. House Democratic leaders called the search “deeply disturbing” and said it “raises serious questions about the continued corrupt weaponization of the federal government against Donald Trump’s adversaries.”

Omar, who is running for reelection, called the search “the latest escalation” in Trump’s “campaign of political intimidation.” “I will not be silenced,” she said last week in a statement on X.

The search of her home was highly unusual for its timing. Generally, the Justice Department avoids overt investigative activity that could affect an election within 60 days of Election Day, and the search occurred less than a month before voting ends.

CNN’s Katelyn Polantz contributed to this report.

加拿大军事基地火灾酿4死39伤

2026-10-19 07:49 / 联合早报

消防员星期天（10月18日）在加拿大艾伯特省韦恩赖特军队基地附近持续扑灭残火。 （法新社）

加拿大艾伯塔省一处军事基地在进行演习时发生草火，并在强风助长下迅速蔓延，导致至少四名士兵死亡、39人受伤，其中19人情况危殆。

路透社报道，这起发生在韦恩赖特加军基地（CFB Wainwright）的火灾始于当地星期六（10月17日）下午4时左右（新加坡时间18日早6时左右）。当时阵风风速高达每小时96公里，极大地加剧火势。目前共有39人在医院接受治疗。

驻扎在事发基地以西约210公里的埃德蒙顿（Edmonton）的加拿大第一师指挥官拉特兰少将（Wade Rutland）形容，这起火灾是一起“罕见且蔓延极快”的事件，“我绝对从未见过这样的景象”。

加拿大总理卡尼星期天（18日）早些时候说，这是加拿大武装部队本土有史以来在和平时期遭受的最严重惨剧之一。

他也说，已下令全国所有联邦政府建筑物降半旗致哀。“全国都在为我们失去的这些勇敢军人哀悼。”

根据2021年人口普查数据，韦恩赖特基地驻有1310名军事与文职人员。基地设有加拿大机动训练中心，负责为陆军开展各项模拟训练与演习，受火灾影响的人员来自全国各地的军事基地。

卡尼也说，军事与民用消防员在“难以想象的恶劣条件”下奋战一整夜。事发当天，来自埃德蒙顿以及距离基地约300公里的萨斯喀通（Saskatoon）的医疗救援直升机紧急飞往基地支援抢救。埃德蒙顿医疗部门已宣布启动大量伤患应对机制，以便统筹协调伤员救治工作。

伤者目前正在埃德蒙顿、韦恩赖特、卡尔加里（Calgary）和红鹿市（Red Deer）的医院接受治疗。

火灾并未引发韦恩赖特镇发布疏散令。这座拥有约6000名居民的小镇位于基地正北方，火势虽一度穿过基地围栏，蔓延至城镇附近区域，但市政府预计火势不会进一步发展，超出目前的控制范围。

Trump endorses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of reelection bid

2026-10-18T12:04:00-0400 / CBS News

Updated on: October 18, 2026 / 2:38 PM EDT / CBS/AP

President Trump on Sunday endorsed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection, saying on social media that he “has been a Great Warrior Prime Minister, and an even greater Partner for Peace in combatting the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

This is a coveted boost for Netanyahu because of Mr. Trump’s popularity in Israel but one that the U.S. leader withheld for months as their strategies in the Middle East diverged.

Netanyahu’s government, the most nationalist and far-right in Israel’s history, faces domestic criticism over security failures and international criticism over the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Some of the government’s senior officials are settlers themselves.

“Bibi Netanyahu has been Strong, Brave, and Brilliant in the face of tremendous opposition, including that coming from even Israel, itself. Despite all of that, he has endured and, in fact, he has thrived!” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Netanyahu, on X, thanked Mr. Trump for his “tremendous support and the joint work.”

“Together we will complete the mission!” he added.

Netanyahu’s Likud Party attached to the statement a 35-second video showing clips of the two leaders together and Mr. Trump praising the prime minister.

U.S. President Trump meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at White House in Washington DC, United States on July 28, 2026. Maâayan Toaf (GPO)/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images

In a separate video message shared on social media, Netanyahu said he was “honored and humbled” by Mr. Trump’s endorsement and that there has “never been a greater friend of Israel in the White House.”

In the video, he also sent a message to the American people about the importance of not letting Iran have a nuclear weapon.

“If you’re worried about today’s gas prices, think of what will happen if Iran gets nuclear weapons — something that Donald Trump and I will never allow,” Netanyahu said. “And when that happens, when that regime disappears, gas prices will go down, and how? But only under Trump.”

It was not immediately clear what impact the endorsement would have on what is expected to be a tight race. Mr. Trump is still popular in Israel, but many Israelis, including leading commentators, have expressed disappointment over the inconclusive outcome of the Iran war and Mr. Trump’s ceasefire proposal, which fell short of many of the countries’ key goals when they jointly launched the war in February.

In his post, Mr. Trump again threatened to “soon finish the job” against Iran “unless they change their ways, rapidly,” but added he might not want to if Netanyahu loses the election.

“If Israel has the wrong Leader, which would be anyone other than Bibi, America will have to do this work ourselves, and I am not inclined to do so,” Mr. Trump said.

The U.S. leader and Netanyahu have been close allies and seem more aligned than ever in the wake of the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2025. But over the course of the nearly eight-month war with Iran this year, they have had disagreements.

Israelis are set to vote on Oct. 27, which will be the first national elections since the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.

Transcript: Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Oct. 18, 2026

2026-10-18T12:14:00-0400 / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Oct. 18, 2026.

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MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to Florida State Representative Angie Nixon. She is the Democratic Party’s nominee for Senate, and she joins us from Gainesville. Good morning to you.

ANGIE NIXON: Good morning. Happy to be here with you.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, it’s good to talk you.

ANGIE NIXON: And to the nation.

MARGARET BRENNAN: It’s good to talk to you. You identify as a progressive, but I know this past June you joined the Democratic Socialists of America during your primary bid. Our CBS polling shows 42% of Americans have a somewhat or very negative view of socialism. I’m wondering what elements of the Democratic Socialist platform drew you to it. How do you define your vision here?

ANGIE NIXON: For sure. So first of all, thank you for having me on the show today, and I think it’s really important for me to lay the groundwork because a lot of people—this is my first introduction to them. I am someone who is a lifelong Floridian, having worked in the state of Florida as a community organizer and a union organizer, and our campaign is on fire. We actually had over 4,000 people show up yesterday at rallies, and some in deep red counties, and we are on fire. We were able to outfundraise our opponent by over $2 million in this past quarter, and I know in regards to my joining that organization, it’s not about letters, but it is actually about the fact that we are fighting to ensure that there’s access to quality health care for everyone, and access to fully funded public schools, in addition to ensuring people have a roof over their head, my opponent, Ashley Moody, actually voted to end health care for over 440,000 people here in the state of Florida, which also jacked up premiums for private people—private insurance, and so I just want to make sure that people don’t go bankrupt simply because they’re trying to live or go to the doctor.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, so on the specifics with your platform, you call for Medicare for all, a national rent stabilization standard, raising the federal minimum wage, abolishing ICE, and a 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires. If you win, you would have two years here in Congress with a Republican president in office. What areas of agreement do you see, if any? How would you work across the aisle with Republicans?

ANGIE NIXON: You know, I would work across the aisle with whoever wants to put hardworking everyday people at the forefront. I mean, right now, what we’re witnessing in D.C. and with my opponent Ashley Moody is a culture of corruption. Ashley Moody is someone who has enriched herself in the tune of $2 million because she is trading stocks, and of which she actually has the opportunity. She’s sitting on committees, health- healthcare committees, where she has access to insider stock trading information. She also has been able to—she also has actually been able to, she’s just not listening to what Floridians want. She is rubber stamping everything that Donald Trump wants as well. You know, she’s deporting—she’s okay with his deportation policies, locking people up in cages, and it’s something that I would work to stop when I become the next United States senator.

MARGARET BRENNAN: You made reference to a number of things there in regard to your opponent. There was a grand jury finding that the DeSantis administration misappropriated taxpayer funds to a charity called Hope Florida, but there were no charges brought against the senator. She has denied any wrongdoing. But moving along to issues in this campaign, you have talked about some frustration that you’re not getting more support from the Democratic Party. You told MS Now in September they could do a lot more to help you. You pointed out Florida has a very large black population, and you said “Folks are a little gun shy because Vice President Harris lost as a black woman, and so people are very hesitant in terms of funding black women in the South.” You did just campaign with Bernie Sanders. Senator Chris Murphy was just down there as well. Do you think now you are getting support from the National Party?

ANGIE NIXON: You know we are excited with all of the folks that are coming down, helping to ensure that we get this W in November, and I’m excited that folks like Leader Schumer as well as Senator Gillibrand have decided to host fundraisers, and we’re getting support. We always want even more support. But again, I’m also excited because this is a people-powered campaign, and we’ve had over 300,000 contributions, and those average donations are around $31. So that lets people know that your regular, everyday working people are supportive of this campaign. Look, we are not the little engine that could. We have been on the ground organizing, doing the work, building diverse coalitions all across the state of Florida. Previously, with very little help, and I have led those efforts from doing things like expanding and increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour here in this state, and that is what we are going to take part in and you know incorporate here on this campaign those coalitions of people, and that’s how we’re going to be able to win come November.

MARGARET BRENNAN: But you think you are getting the help you need now?

ANGIE NIXON: We’re getting help, but we always can use more. As a matter of fact, people can go to angienixon.com to donate to our campaign.

MARGARET BRENNAN: I just want to move on to some other issues here on your platform, but you did when you were talking about your opponent—I want to come back to language here because you have said you want to keep funding the police. You said that’s wrong for your opponent to accuse you of trying to defund the police.

ANGIE NIXON: Yeah, absolutely.

MARGARET BRENNAN: You’ve said she should be locked up and punished in jail. Given in the past that Democrats have expressed discomfort with some Republicans using that kind of language, do you worry that that sounds like a desire to weaponize the justice system?

ANGIE NIXON: It’s not language to weaponize the—It’s not a desire to weaponize the justice system. It’s designed to actually hold corrupt politicians accountable for what they’re doing. Again, I want an investigation done. I would like the Department of Justice to investigate because nearly $10 million was stolen from sick kids, and people are pointing the finger saying they don’t know who did it, and so we need to bring that in. Look, this is Donald Trump 2.0 here in the state of Florida, and we really need to work to push back. I’m wondering how many kids are going to die because $10 million was taken from Medicaid that was supposed to make sure that those sick kids had the treatment that they needed here.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, well, as we mentioned, Senator Moody has denied wrongdoing. But thank you for your time. It’s good to meet you, Angie Nixon. We will be watching your race in November. We’ll be right back with a lot more. Face the Nation. Stay with us.

Transcript: Sen. Kevin Cramer on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Oct. 18, 2026

2026-10-18T12:48:00-0400 / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with Sen. Kevin Cramer, Republican of North Dakota, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Oct. 18, 2026.

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MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome back to Face the Nation. We go now to North Dakota Republican Senator Kevin Cramer, who joins us from Bismarck. Good morning to you, Senator.

SENATOR KEVIN CRAMER (R-ND): Good morning. Good to be with you.

MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about Ukraine. I know you just recently traveled there. A number of your departing, some retiring, Senate Republican colleagues have made clear they were very upset with President Trump’s decision to waive the Lindsey Graham sanctions off of Russia and buyers of Russian oil. Senator Cornyn said Lindsey would be appalled. Senator Tillis said it is beyond irresponsible, unconscionable to capitulate to Vladimir Putin. Where do you stand?

SEN. CRAMER: Well, Margaret, on this topic and a whole bunch of others, I think capitulating to a bully generally means they’re going to make more demands going forward. That’s the problem with taking sort of a business negotiation approach to negotiating with a thug, which is what Vladimir Putin is. So I share those colleagues’ positions on it. However, I also have to acknowledge that we are few weeks or a couple weeks from an election. One of the important topics of the election is the cost of diesel fuel. It’s really an important issue here in North Dakota.

As Representative Turner pointed out, and I was cheering him on, our allies throughout Europe have been buying energy from Vladimir Putin and funding his war machine for decades and they should stop right now. Having said all of that, I expect this will be a short-term pause, and I certainly hope so, because one of the things that President Zelenskyy asked of us when I was with him on last Thursday, I think it was Thursday or Friday, was that the president would fully enforce the Lindsey Graham sanctions bill. And I still take that position.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah. And some European Union countries do continue to buy fuel products. India and China would be the largest purchasers who would be hit by these tariffs. So do you think the president would actually even post-election trigger the tariffs on China?

SEN. CRAMER: Well, I certainly hope that he does, Margaret. Again, speaking of thugs who will never agree to terms, or at least not continue to agree to terms that would be negotiated, Xi Jinping is another one. I think we have to start approaching our geopolitical negotiations the way that we ought to, and not the way that you do in a boardroom. You know, this is not a finality outcome to a dictator. The outcome of a negotiation with a dictator is more, you know, asking for more demands. And we have to start playing nice with our friends and treating our adversaries like they are adversaries.

MARGARET BRENNAN: You just met with President Zelenskyy. As you know, President Trump publicly blasted him again this week and said Ukraine needs another new president. Let me ask you something specific about how they defend themselves and conduct this war. Starshield is a U.S. military program which Ukraine says that they use to fire into Russian-held territory. Last night, Secretary Rubio said Ukraine does not currently have access to it, but they have asked to use it to fire deep inside of Russia. When you were in Ukraine, as I understand it, you were presenting a proposal to President Zelenskyy to allow for Starshield access expansion if Ukraine stops striking Russian energy assets. What can you tell us about that proposal and what is the status of it?

SEN. CRAMER: So that, you’re right, that was a proposal we brought to President Zelenskyy. Senator Wicker, Roger Wicker, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, came up with that idea. President Zelensky was enthusiastic about it. He said, I’d do that tomorrow. I would absolutely stop attacking Russia’s energy facilities if I could have access to targeting capabilities, which is what Starshield would provide them, to go deep into Russia and attack their attackers, in other words, their launch facilities, kill the archer, not the arrows. Of course, the third thing he asked for was the capacity to get licensed to jointly produce, co-produce Patriot missile interceptors, which would help him defend against these much faster now jet-powered drones and missiles coming into Ukraine.

So his requests were three. They were simple. And I agree with all three of them. So I would hope we can get to that point where- remembering that what President Zelenskyy is protecting are civilians. Russia has chosen to go after civilian populations, while President Zelenskyy has simply gone after the launchers and, more importantly, the war machine’s funding source, which is energy.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Right, bringing us back to where we started here. Ukraine has resumed, just even overnight, hitting Russian oil refineries. They hit the St. Petersburg oil terminal. Russia has been targeting the energy infrastructure inside of Ukraine. Secretary Rubio said there are talks ongoing. Have you talked to Secretary Rubio about your exchange with President Zelenskyy? Who in the administration is actually trying to bring this to a close?

SEN. CRAMER: So I have not talked to Marco, although as I was watching your previous segment, I just said to my staff, I wish I would have called Marco. But obviously he and others are involved with it, including Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. I thin– but I worry, Margaret, that there’s a disconnect. Once again, I go back to my earlier illustration. There’s a disconnect between traditional, mutually beneficial negotiations between business people and the difference between somebody’s protecting humanity itself versus somebody who wants to take humanity down. And so I worry about that. So who exactly is negotiating these things? I don’t know who’s calling shots. But at the end of the day, I think the president is, you know, it’s where the buck stops. And I think he accepts that.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So is Senator Wicker presenting this deal to the White House? What are you doing with what you negotiated?

SEN. CRAMER: Oh yeah, yes, for sure. I mean, we had talked to people in the White House at the Department of War and to the State Department even prior to meeting with President Zelenskyy.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So do you join your colleagues, Senator Tillis and Senator Shaheen, in calling for an investigation of what has happened here in terms of whether U.S. government officials knew that Starlink was going to be interrupted, which impacts Ukraine’s ability to use its drones and defend its people?

SEN. CRAMER: Well, I certainly support investigating what was the source of that decision, if in fact it was a decision at all. It may very well have been some sort of a technical glitch. I don’t know for sure or whose call it was. So far, nobody’s taking credit for making that call or the blame for it. So I do support some sort of an investigation. Certainly Congress itself could and should investigate. I think the letter that Senator Shaheen and Senator Tillis are talking about would be an inspector general investigation, perhaps.

But, sure, we want to get to the bottom of it. In the meantime, what’s more important is that that power is put back on full scale and that we actually enhance Ukraine’s ability to hit these launch facilities inside of Russia, deeper inside to like 300 kilometers, I think is what President Zelenskyy was asking for.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah. President Zelenskyy said today that it has been restored, but has been throttled back. And in terms of that Starshield expansion, as you say, no deal yet. Let me ask you about something closer to home. You said this summer that you “hate,” that was the word you used, President Trump’s decision to import foreign beef tariff-free because it’s not America first, wrongheaded and threatens the future of U.S. food production. The White House did not reverse course, despite those tough words from you. How negative has that been for your state? And is that going to infect- affect- I should say, the enthusiasm for voters to show up in November? Are these ranchers just so ticked off they’re not going to vote?

SEN. CRAMER: Well, first of all, Margaret, it won’t have any effect in North Dakota in the election cycle. We don’t have a governor up. The president’s obviously not up. We don’t even have a senator up. And we’re gonna have an overwhelming Republican victory here. Having said that, it’s very discouraging to our ranchers. Again, I think there’s a misunderstanding of commodity cycles, commodity economic cycles. Ranchers rebuild their herds when prices are high. Their herds are obviously made much smaller when prices are low. That’s why- that’s why the countercyclical effect of commodity prices are well known to us, and why it’s discouraging when we reduce or eliminate the barriers to to importing somebody else’s beef, which is not nearly as safe or as high quality, at the cost of- at the cost of- our local ranchers. They rely on these higher prices. And by the way, I doubt that bringing in a bunch of Argentine beef is going to bring the price at the grocery store down–

MARGARET BRENNAN: –It hasn’t–

SEN. CRAMER: –It has not. But it will hurt the market price of the cattle themselves. Now, ranchers are going up against lots of other problems as well, including the concentration of meat packing in the United States, where about a third or more is literally owned by the Chinese and the Brazilians. So they’re going up against a lot of things, but their input costs are also higher. They don’t come down because the price of a cow goes down. But yeah, so I still strongly oppose it, and I think it was wrongheaded.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Right. Well, I wanted to get your insight on that because we’re seeing that dynamic in other states as well, including Kansas. So, Senator, thank you so much for your time today. We’re going to have to leave it there. We’ll be right back.

Trump says construction at historic Washiongton, D.C. golf course will start next month

October 18, 2026 12:59 PM EDT / CBS News

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President Trump said Sunday that construction on a historic Washington, D.C., golf course will begin next month, despite an ongoing court challenge to his long-sought renovation of the East Potomac Golf Links course.

“I am pleased to announce that the Department of the Interior, under the auspices of Secretary Doug Burgum, and in conjunction with famed Golf Course Architect, Tom Fazio, has developed a plan to build a World Class Championship Golf Course on the site of the current East Potomac Golf Links, located in Washington, D.C.,” Mr. Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

The president, who did not acknowledge the court challenge in his post, said that while the new golf course would remain open to the public, it would also be designed to host tournaments like the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship, the Ryder Cup and the Presidents Cup. He also billed it as a “tremendously positive” economic opportunity for D.C. that would “create many jobs.”

Mr. Trump described the current course as an “old, broken, dilapidated, and of no further use or effect … with falling, dangerous, and disease infested trees, and, importantly, a collapsing and hazardous seawall.” He said the site “was famous for no trees” originally but has since become “overgrown, dysfunctional, and unsafe.”

Mr. Trump said construction will begin Nov. 15 on the course, which will be closed for about 15 months until the new one opens.

A golfer walks past the stump of a large tree at the East Potomac Golf Links, Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, in Washington, D.C. AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein

His announcement Sunday came less than a week after a federal judge barred the Trump administration from removing trees at the current golf course through Oct. 16, after hundreds of trees were cut down the weekend prior.

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes said in the order that until that date, the administration may not make “any irreparable modification” to the East Potomac course without first providing three business days’ notice of such plans to the court, as well as to the plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to stop Mr. Trump’s planned overhaul of the site.

“The administration has time and again tried to avoid the law in their mad rush toward converting a public recreation space to a high-end golf course and today’s order will stop them from doing further irreparable harm to a precious public resource,” said attorneys for the plaintiffs, the D.C. Preservation League and two local golfers, in response to the judge’s order. “We are pleased that the court intervened and will prevent additional work while we seek more lasting relief.”

Melissa Quinn contributed to this report.

Immigrants from Ukraine and Sudan to retain deportation protections for now

2026-10-18T13:44:00-0400 / CBS News

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Camilo Montoya-Galvez

Immigrants from Ukraine and Sudan enrolled in the Temporary Protected Status policy will be able to live and work in the U.S. without fear of deportation for the time being, even though their protections were set to expire soon, the Department of Homeland Security told CBS News on Sunday.

The TPS protections of tens of thousands of Ukrainians and hundreds of Sudanese immigrants were officially slated to terminate on Monday.

But in statements on Sunday, DHS said final decisions on the fate of the humanitarian immigration programs will “be made at the appropriate time.”

Until such decisions are announced, DHS added, nationals of Ukraine and Sudan enrolled in the TPS program will “retain protection.”

The decisions to keep the deportation protections in place, albeit not final, stand in sharp contrast to the Trump administration’s broader posture toward TPS programs.

Trump administration officials have routinely denounced TPS as a de facto amnesty policy abused by the Biden administration that encourages illegal immigration and that has been extended too often, despite its temporary nature.

Over the past year and a half, the Trump administration, as part of its aggressive immigration crackdown, has revoked the TPS protections of more than 1 million immigrants from over a dozen countries, including Afghanistan, Haiti and Venezuela.

The programs for Ukrainian and Sudanese nationals are among a handful of TPS policies that have remained in place nearly two years into President Trump’s second term, alongside the protections for tens of thousands of immigrants from El Salvador. Their TPS program was also set to lapse last month, but DHS retained their protections, pending a final announcement.

Created in 1990 by Congress, TPS allows the U.S. government to offer a temporary deportation reprieve and work permits to immigrants, illegal and legal alike, who hail from countries facing armed conflict, an environmental disaster or another crisis that makes their return there unsafe.

The TPS policy for Ukrainians was first announced by the Biden administration in the spring of 2022, soon after Russia launched its full-blown invasion of Ukraine. As of March 2025, there were more than 100,000 Ukrainians enrolled in TPS, including those allowed into the U.S. under a Biden-era sponsorship policy.

The TPS program for Sudan has been around since the late 1990s, with different administrations extending the policy due to the armed conflict and political turmoil that has plagued the African nation. As of March 2025, roughly 1,800 Sudanese nationals had TPS.

This story published first on CBS News at 1:44 p.m. on Oct. 18, 2026.

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Pro-Israel leader warns Democrats failing to condemn ‘vicious Jew haters’ in Congress

Failure to stand against anti-Zionists percolating in politics, elections in US and even Israel

2026-10-18T13:49:22-04:00 / Fox News

By Eric Mack Fox News

Published October 18, 2026 1:49pm EDT

Pro-Israel activist rebukes leftists in US, Israel on anti-Zionist ‘appeasement’

Morton Klein, Zionist Organization of America president, accused Democratic leaders of failing to condemn

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When Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed could not say Iran is a bigger threat to the U.S. than Israel, it was a warning of elections in a post-Oct. 7 world, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) president Morton Klein says.

American and even Israeli leaders are failing to show strength against hate as anti-Zionist voices gain power, Klein told Fox News Digital in a Monday interview.

“Ilhan Omar is one of the most vicious Jew haters in America,” Klein said, speaking on behalf of himself and not as the leader of the ZOA. “And it is very painful to me that the leaders of the Democratic Party have not continuously and vigorously condemned her” and other antisemitic political leaders, including Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., El-Sayed and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

They are not merely “pro-Palestinian” voices, Klein says: “They’re anti-Israel voices. They don’t really give a damn about the Palestinians either. They just hate Jews in the Jewish state. That’s my opinion.”

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Left: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on December 9, 2024. Right: Zohran Mamdani, New York State Assemblyman and mayoral candidate for New York City, speaks at an emergency rally held by the Working Families Party to criticize the Trump administration, after ICE agents arrested Ras Baraka, mayor of Newark and New Jersey Democratic candidate for governor, at Foley Square in New York, New York, U.S., May 10, 2025.(MAYA ALLERUZZO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images and REUTERS/Bing Guan)

The ZOA is a 501(c)(3) that is unpermitted by law to talk candidacies as opposed to their positions, Klein stressed, before unloading on the voices that take aim at Israel and ostensibly handing political power to the antisemites and terrorists – which even includes Israeli elections just two weeks from now.

“Viciously antisemitic members of Congress have not been condemned in any significant way by the Democratic Party,” he continued. “So it’s disappointing to me as an American that we don’t condemn people who are filled with hate and not filled with what’s best for America.”

Anti-Israel rhetoric has moved from the political fringe into elected office, he said, warning that Democrats have not forcefully condemned members of their own party who he says traffic in antisemitism.

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It has even forced Israeli leaders to move toward a dangerous level of “appeasement,” according to Klein.

“I blame the Jewish leaders and the Israeli leaders themselves: You might find that surprising,” he said. “The Israeli government over the years has not made it clear that the Hamas Charter has two clauses that say, murder every Jew on earth, destroy Israel. And, most recently, El-Sayed not only refused to clearly name Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, as a greater threat than Israel during a Michigan Senate debate, “he said worse,” Klein lamented.

“He said both of them are dangerous to America, and he said Israel is as evil as Hamas,” he continued.

“The Democratic Party has not condemned him. Worse, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer endorsed him, has given him tens of millions of dollars to run,” Klein said. “Elissa Slotkin, the senator from Michigan, Jewish senator, has endorsed him. And Dana Nessel, the attorney general, Jewish attorney general has endorsed them. This is disgraceful.”

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“If this guy was unequivocally anti-Black, they would have all condemned him. Why don’t they condemn people who hate Jews for no reason whatsoever? It’s very, very frightening,” he said.

During his push to hold the Michigan Senate seat for Democrats, Abdul El-Sayed described Judaism as “a light unto the world,” expressing deep gratitude for the Jewish community’s contributions.

“My commitment to Jewish safety is equivalent to the commitment to the safety of my own daughters,” he said.

Klein also weighed in on Mamdani for declining to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada, a call to violence against Jews around the world, he warned.

“Mamdani was asked to condemn the phrase, globalize the intifada … he refused to condemn this phrase,” Klein said. “This guy is a monster. He is a jihadist Jew-hater supporter of terrorism.”

Despite the criticism, Mamdani has pledged to “protect our Jewish neighbors” and stated his commitment to “mourning with them, and committing to fight against evil and antisemitism.”

As Mamdani has done explicitly, Israel is often portrayed as the aggressor and perpetrator of a so-called “genocide” in Gaza, Klein observed, stating that the reality is those atrocities were committed by Hamas terrorists Oct. 7, when terrorists invaded Israel specifically to kill “Jews,” not merely “people,” Klein said.

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“They went in house to house, door to door, murdering every single family,” Klein said. “Can you imagine? They go in and there’s a mother and a father and children sitting, they’re scared out of their minds, and they shoot them to death. And oftentimes they raped the mother first and then they murdered them. Then they put babies into ovens and killed them that way. It’s just a nightmare what they did.”

“Yes, their goal is to murder every single Jew. In fact, the leaders of Hamas have said repeatedly: ‘We will have many, many more Oct. 7s; you wait, many, more Oct. 7s,” he added.

Klein said any future Israeli government after the Oct. 27 elections must be “as tough as nails, responding with overwhelming force for any terrorism,” and do as the “the people demanded: destroy Hamas.”

Klein warned, however, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be weakened politically if he is forced to form an alliance with left-of-center parties after Israel’s elections.

“The polls show that it’s likely that Netanyahu will win again, but he may have to have a broader coalition to bring in people from the left of center,” Klein warned. “I think the odds are high Bibi will continue to be the prime minister. But his hands will be somewhat tied if he’s forced, and I think he will be forced, to bring people from left of the center to have coalition.”

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Asked whether the process of forming a coalition could weaken Israel’s response, Klein answered, “Yes.”

“Yes, because some of the left-of-center people are appeasement-oriented,” Klein said. “They still believe just give the Arabs more, it’ll be all right.”

“And people have to understand, and these people don’t quite understand, this is not a war about land or about a Palestinian state. This is a war about destroying Israel and killing Jews.”

He argued that Israel should reject further concessions and project strength until its enemies accept that the Jewish state cannot be destroyed and the decades of calls for a Palestinian state are a proven failure.

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“They had it; they controlled it,” Klein said. “They could have just said a new country of Palestine has now emerged. No, because the goal is not that. The goal is Israel’s destruction.”

“Only when they understand that, that it’s hopeless for them to destroy the Jewish state of Israel, only then might they finally lay down their arms and say, we give up.”

Eric Mack is a breaking news reporter and writer Sunday through Thursday, 6 a.m. ET to 2 p.m. ET, with a particular interest in stories that lead the news cycle on politics, elections, foreign affairs and government.