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勒索软件组织：已窃取柏林数据 将公开拍卖

2026年8月29日 23:39 / 联合早报

德国柏林政府机构数据疑落入黑客手中，勒索软件组织Rhysida声称要将数据公开拍卖。 （档案照片）

德国柏林政府机构数据疑落入黑客手中，勒索软件组织Rhysida声称要将数据公开拍卖。 （档案照片）

一个勒索软件组织声称，他们将拍卖从德国柏林政府机构窃取的大量数据，但柏林市政府官员拒绝支付赎金。

路透社引述研究人员称，该组织名为Rhysida，其活动地点位于俄罗斯或东欧。组织在其网站上称，他们窃取了5.79太字节（Terabyte）的数据，其中包括4万6500份合同以及电子邮件、电话号码、密码和机密信息。

这个组织声称，这些数据的拍卖倒计时不足七天，起拍价为30个比特币（一个比特币约为7万7622美元，约9万8626新元），并在其网站上显示了倒计时。此次针对柏林网络的网络攻击发生在柏林市9月20日举行选举不到一个月之前。

德国广播公司RBB星期四（8月27日）晚间报道称，柏林在遭受攻击后收到了数额不详的赎金要求。

柏林市长凯·韦格纳和柏林内政部长伊里斯·施普朗格星期五发表联合声明称：“柏林州绝不屈服于勒索”。

韦格纳在新闻发布会上说，由于此次攻击的范围仍在调查中，官员们无法提供有关受影响数据的具体内容或范围。

施普朗格指出，柏林的选举基础设施未受影响，据安全官员称，没有与选举相关的数据遭到泄露。

勒索软件组织Rhysida自2023年6月出现以来，已声称发动了近280次攻击。据勒索软件分析和追踪服务机构Ransom-DB称，约一半受害者来自美国，其次是英国、加拿大和意大利，以及其他国家。该组织曾多次以政府机构为攻击目标，例如2023年10月入侵英国图书馆。该组织还声称对智利军队、学校、医疗机构和各种规模的企业发动了攻击。

Kara Swisher: ‘It’s a stunt presidency’

Published 10:30 AM EDT, Sat August 29, 2026 / CNN

Kara Swisher: ‘It’s a stunt presidency’

CNN Contributor and journalist Kara Swisher calls the Trump presidency a “stunt presidency,” likening it to the final season of The Apprentice. She says Trump’s provocative actions are designed to grab attention but are losing their impact as Americans grow bored. Others shifted focus to more consequential concerns, warning that the spectacle could distract from consequential issues including the economy and the upcoming elections.

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津巴布韦两车迎面相撞 27人死亡

2026年8月29日 23:52 / 联合早报

津巴布韦一辆卡车与一辆小客车在首都哈拉雷通往马斯温戈市的公路上迎面相撞，造成27人死亡、七人受伤。

法新社报道，津巴布韦警方星期六（8月29日）发布声明说，一辆挂外国牌照的卡车星期五晚间在奇夫（Chivhu）附近超车时与对向小客车相撞。

公共广播公司ZBC在社交媒体上播放的视频显示，损毁严重的小客车几乎烧成空壳，卡车则停在道路另一侧。

事故发生在一段地势平坦、人迹罕至的道路上，路边植被低矮，远处是开阔的平原。

事故原因仍在调查。津巴布韦道路多年来因资金不足和疏于维护而坑洼遍布，加上车辆超载和驾驶者经常不遵守交通规则，交通事故频发。

津巴布韦两车迎面相撞 27人死亡

2026年8月29日 23:52 / 联合早报

津巴布韦一辆卡车与一辆小客车在首都哈拉雷通往马斯温戈市的公路上迎面相撞，造成27人死亡、七人受伤。

法新社报道，津巴布韦警方星期六（8月29日）发布声明说，一辆挂外国牌照的卡车星期五晚间在奇夫（Chivhu）附近超车时与对向小客车相撞。

公共广播公司ZBC在社交媒体上播放的视频显示，损毁严重的小客车几乎烧成空壳，卡车则停在道路另一侧。

事故发生在一段地势平坦、人迹罕至的道路上，路边植被低矮，远处是开阔的平原。

事故原因仍在调查。津巴布韦道路多年来因资金不足和疏于维护而坑洼遍布，加上车辆超载和驾驶者经常不遵守交通规则，交通事故频发。

‘We have not slowed down’: Minnesota not out of the woods on massive fraud scandal, expert warns

Policy fellow calls for 90-day moratorium on new provisional licenses as 364 facilities opened in the past year

August 29, 2026 5:00am EDT / Fox News

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Fox News Digital spoke to Center of the American Experiment policy fellow Bill Glahn who warned that elected officials in Minnesota haven’t done enough to stop fraud from continuing.

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Despite Minnesota’s fraud scandal exploding onto the national scene and costing taxpayers billions, there are growing concerns that the state has still not done what’s necessary to root out the problem.

“We have not slowed down, there is no sense in which the fraud has been stopped in Minnesota,” Bill Glahn, a policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment, told Fox News Digital.

Glahn has been warning on social media that Minnesota’s rapid growth in provisional assisted-living licenses, most for small facilities, may be outpacing state oversight. In a recent article, Glahn explained the state’s licensing database showed 364 new facilities with provisional licenses popping up over the past year and called for a 90-day moratorium on new licenses while officials investigate.

“We have something along the order of 2,500 of these licensed across the state, but about 20% of them, around three, 400 of them have just been started in the last year,” Glahn explained.

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz testifies during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 2026. The hearing examined alleged misuse of federal funds for Minnesota social services and Medicaid programs.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“I’m not sure if there’s a real underlying driver in the demographics or the demand for these facilities, but it’s odd that we have these assisted living facilities linked to Medicaid fraud, at the same time, the Minnesota Department of Health is approving more than one a day. More than one new facility gets approved every single day, 365 days a year. And I don’t think anybody is really giving any thought to, hey, maybe some of this is not on the up and up.”

Glahn also pointed to a recent criminal complaint filed by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office against Salman Ahmed Elmi, who was charged Aug. 17 with eight felony theft offenses tied to alleged Medicaid billing fraud, as evidence that fraud is still taking place.

The criminal complaint also details alleged ties among the Medicaid-funded businesses, properties previously used to provide commercial sex services and people investigators say were part of a sex-trafficking organization.

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“This is two scandals in one,” Glahn said. “You have a commercial sex operation, actual brothels, housed in what were later licensed as assisted-living facilities under the Medicaid program.”

Elmi previously received an award from the state for being an “Outstanding Refugee.”

“Elmi’s case alone makes clear that this is not old news,” Glahn said. “This particular fraud was going on just a couple of months ago.”

Glahn argued that the latest allegations point to a deeper problem within the state agencies responsible for vetting providers and monitoring taxpayer-funded programs which haven’t been properly addressed.

“Personnel is policy,” Glahn said. “There isn’t a regulatory mindset under the Walz administration. There isn’t the mindset that we need to trust but verify.”

While Minnesota officials and lawmakers have taken some fraud-prevention steps since the fraud scandal erupted onto the national scene, Glahn stressed that the reforms do not address what he sees as the central issue: a lack of accountability for those who failed to identify the schemes earlier

“Walz has never cleaned house, he’s never fired anybody for not detecting the fraud or not prosecuting the fraud,” Glahn said. “It’s the same people doing the same thing, and that culture has never changed.”

For Glahn, the messaging should start at the top.

“They’re just operating as business as usual,” Glahn said. “We don’t have anybody who’s currently in office, currently in charge of state government, at least in the executive branch, who’s doing anything substantive to address the fraud. It’s just amazing how we see these reports every day, and we have Tim Walz traveling the country, traveling elsewhere. He’s a lame duck. He doesn’t seem to have any interest in closing out this chapter of his legacy with any kind of victory on the fraud front.”

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz testifies during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 2026. The committee held the hearing to examine the alleged misuse of federal funds intended for Minnesota social services and Medicaid programs.(Getty Images)

In addition to the perception that not enough accountability has been taken for the scandal, Walz’s Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is running for Senate while Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar is running for governor despite both being in positions of power during the duration of time the fraud scandal festered.

“Amy Klobuchar has come out with her multi-point plan of how she’s gonna fight fraud once she gets in office, if she gets elected in November,” Glahn explained. “I don’t know why we couldn’t implement this stuff today. She’s called for a top-to-bottom audit of state government. She’s got another few data points that perhaps were legislative proposals that didn’t get passed. Tim Walz could call a special session. We could be in session on Monday, passing an anti-fraud agenda, but there’s nothing. So I guess he just fundamentally doesn’t have an interest in the subject.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Walz’s office, Klobuchar’s campaign and the Minnesota Department of Health for comment but did not receive a response.

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) speaks during a rally in support of a “Yes” vote on Proposition 50, a congressional redistricting measure in the November 4 special election, at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California, on November 1, 2025.(David Swanson/REUTERS)

The Minnesota Department of Human Services told Fox News Digital in a statement that it has rolled out a series of anti-fraud reforms since the fall of 2024, including identifying 14 high-risk services and freezing the enrollment of new providers in those programs. The agency also said it discontinued the Housing Stabilization Services program, began auditing autism-service providers through onsite visits, instituted licensure requirements for autism centers and disenrolled inactive providers.

DHS said it has also expanded pre-payment reviews for providers in 13 high-risk fee-for-service programs and completed revalidation determinations for high-risk providers by the end of May. Since the beginning of 2025, the department said it has stopped payments to 747 Medicaid providers over what it described as credible allegations of fraud and made 824 referrals to law enforcement.

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Jewish AG’s convention boycott exposes deepening Israel fault line among Michigan Democrats

2026-08-29T06:00:42-04:00 / Fox News

Pro-Palestinian activists shouted down pro-Israel speakers at a prior convention, including Rep. Haley Stevens

By Paul Steinhauser, Peter D’Abrosca, Fox News

Published August 29, 2026 6:00am EDT

Michigan rabbi breaks with Democrats to back Republican Mike Rogers: El-Sayed would be a ‘disaster’

Michigan rabbi tells Fox News Digital Jewish Democrats are moving toward GOP nominee: ‘There’s a growing movement.’

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LANSING, MI– Michigan Democrats gather Saturday in the battleground state’s capital city to hold their 2026 state nominating convention amid controversy over recent antisemitic harassment and open hostility within the party over U.S. support for Israel.

Democratic Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is Jewish, recently announced she wouldn’t attend the confab due to security concerns, after anti-Israel party activists shouted down pro-Israel speakers, including Rep. Haley Stevens, at a prior convention in April.

This weekend’s convention comes as a growing number of Democrats push for cutting military aid to Israel, amidst the Israeli government’s ongoing war against Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

The convention is also being held just a few weeks after Abdul El-Sayed, a vocal critic of Israel who describes their military actions as “genocide,” narrowly edged Stevens to win the Democratic Senate nomination for a crucial seat the Democrats must hold in the midterm elections.

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US Democratic Senate candidate from Michigan Abdul El-Sayed speaks with reporters during a Student Meet and Greet at the Michigan Theatre in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on August 26, 2026.(JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP via Getty Images)

“I don’t feel safe going. I feel like my presence isn’t going to be welcome. I don’t want to get chased around. I don’t want to get harassed. I don’t want to get yelled and screamed at. I don’t want to get booed off the stage, irrespective of what I’m saying,” Nessel said during a roundtable discussion last month. “I believe that if I go, that is what will happen because it’s been happening to me.”

Responding, the Michigan Democratic Party said it is “committed to ensuring party-hosted events are safe and secure environments for all attendees.”

“We reject antisemitism, Islamophobia, and all forms of hateful conduct. We are working diligently with stakeholders, elected officials, and party membership to prepare for our August convention and look forward to welcoming Michigan Democrats to the Lansing Center on August 29,” state party spokesperson Derrick Honeyman said in a statement.

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Joan Lowenstein, endorsement chair of the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus, told Fox News Digital she hasn’t “talked to anybody who thinks they will be unsafe at this convention.”

But Lowenstein, who also sits on the Michigan Democratic Party Central Committee, added, “Some people think it will be unpleasant and why should they bother.”

But other Jewish Democrats in Michigan are very concerned.

“People are traumatized from the previous convention. Many people I talked to, many super progressive people, are really traumatized by the way they were treated, and the way Haley Stevens was booed, and the way other candidates were treated,” Rabbi Asher Lopatin told Fox News Digital last week.

Lopatin, who was interviewed after joining Republican Senate nominee former Rep. Mike Rogers at a campaign event to unveil Democrats supporting Rogers, referred to Nessel’s decision not to attend the convention and said “it just shows how terrible these extremists are that they’re intimidating even the attorney general of our state.”

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Former Rep. Mike Rogers, the Republican Senate nominee in Michigan, announces support from Democrats as he launches a ‘Dems for Mike’ coalition, on Aug. 20, 2026, in Detroit, Michigan.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

But Lopatin emphasized, “We got to be strong. We got to be proud. We got to be courageous. The Jewish community cannot cower.”

Stacy Gittleman, a lifelong Democrat who is supportive of Israel, attended the April convention.

“I saw more Palestinian flags than American flags on the floor,” Gittleman, a writer who published her observations at the convention on substack, told Fox News Digital this week.

Gittleman said the jeers and what she highlighted as a “lack of decorum and disrespect” were signs to her of “how far left our party is drifting.”

The convention is being held as some Jewish leaders in Michigan are circulating an open letter urging Jewish Democrats and independents in the state to sign their names in support of Rogers. The news was first reported last week by the Jewish Insider and confirmed by Fox News Digital.

“This is sort of a do-or-die moment,” a person involved with the letter who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely told Fox News Digital. “There are many lifelong Democrats who are feeling homeless. … It’s not just a leftward drift but has turned into an anti-Jewish drift as well.”

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Lowenstein, who doesn’t support the petition, said those behind the letter “feel it’s an existential issue, and I think that represents a lot of people. And, so, they have to do what they have to do.”

“It’s sort of 50/50,” she added. “Half the people I talk to say, ‘I could never vote for Abdul El-Sayed because of things he’s said about Israel and, consequentially, the Jewish community. And the other 50% say ‘it is so important for Jews as Americans to have an Democratic Senate that I could never vote for Mike Rogers.’”

Rogers and El-Sayed are running to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters. The race is among a dozen that will determine if the Democrats win back the Senate majority from the GOP.

Rogers, in an interview last week with Fox News Digital, reiterated that he’s not asking Democratic voters to become Republicans. And he highlighted concerns he’s heard from Democratic Jewish voters in Michigan.

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“I’ve talked to two young women who were at University of Michigan who were afraid to walk to class. They couldn’t display their Star of David. To say that they’re afraid is probably an understatement,” he said.

Rogers said “the violent rhetoric … is going to make a difference” in the general election.

El-Sayed is a former Wayne County Health Department director who, if elected in November, would make history as the nation’s first Muslim senator. The epidemiologist who unsuccessfully ran for governor as an insurgent candidate in 2018 has made support for Medicare for all a major component of his campaign and has also called for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

But it’s El-Sayed’s stance and comments on Israel that have angered some Jewish people in Michigan, a state that also has a large Arab and Muslim population.

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El-Sayed used the word “bloodthirsty” to characterize Israel’s military moves in Gaza in an MS NOW interview this month. He has argued against unconditional U.S. military aid to Israel, as have other progressive politicians. And El-Sayed has repeatedly declined to directly answer whether Israel has the right to exist.

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But El-Sayed, after winning the Senate nomination, emphasized, “I stand in solidarity with my Jewish sisters and brothers, and we can condemn antisemitism. And, at the same time, we can be talking about how we bring people together, and we can be talking about everybody’s pain.

“My commitment to Jewish safety is the same as my commitment to the safety of my own kids. We have a responsibility to take on antisemitism in all of its forms, wherever we see it.”

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Trump’s tougher round-two birthright citizenship strategy hinges on key legal distinction, experts say

2026-08-29 07:00:39 EDT / Fox News

The orders target children of foreign terrorist organization members and diplomats while also cracking down on birth tourism

By Robert Schmad Fox News

Published August 29, 2026 7:00am EDT

Legal experts say Trump’s new birthright citizenship push has stronger footing after Supreme Court setback

Scholars agree that the new batch of President Donald Trump’s executive orders touching on birthright citizenship raise novel legal questions.

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Conservative legal experts say President Donald Trump’s latest attempts to narrow birthright citizenship and crack down on birth tourism may have stronger legal footing than his first effort.

After the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in June that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are citizens at birth under the 14th Amendment, Trump issued two new executive orders taking narrower approaches to citizenship and birth tourism.

The first, signed Aug. 6, directs federal agencies to withhold documents recognizing citizenship from certain children born when neither parent is a U.S. citizen, including some whose parents are members of designated foreign terrorist organizations, foreign-government employees or participants in transactions or fraud intended to obtain birthright citizenship.

Experts from the Manhattan Institute, America First Legal and the America First Policy Institute, all right-of-center organizations, argued that Trump’s new order is narrower than his first and is built around longstanding exceptions to birthright citizenship that they believe could apply here.

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Olga Urbina and her 9-month-old son Ares Webster participate in a protest outside the Supreme Court over President Donald Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship on May 15, 2025.(Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images)

“The Supreme Court has long recognized that there are exceptions to the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship clause for the aliens who are considered children of invading armies or the children of ambassadors,” America First Policy Institute senior fellow Chad Mizelle, who previously served as the Justice Department’s chief of staff, told Fox News Digital. “So in a situation where you have a terrorist here contrary to the laws of the United States … who is looking to do harm … That has long been recognized by the Supreme Court, and basically going back to the history of our country, as recognized exceptions to any sort of claim of birthright citizenship.”

United States v. Wong Kim Ark, decided by the Supreme Court in 1898, recognized exceptions to birthright citizenship for children of diplomats and children of alien enemies born during a hostile occupation. Trump’s order argues that members of foreign terrorist organizations can fall within that enemy exception.

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference in the James S. Brady Briefing Room at the White House, on June 27, 2025, in Washington D.C., following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that limits the application of birthright citizenship. (Photo by Mehmet Eser / Middle East Images via AFP)(Getty Images)

“The Supreme Court ruled that you can’t restrict birthright citizenship to kids of people in the country temporarily or illegally,” Manhattan Institute director of constitutional studies Ilya Shapiro told Fox News Digital. “But what the new executive order does is it goes to one of the classic exceptions to birthrights citizenship, two of the classic exceptions, those who owe an allegiance to a foreign government, meaning employed by a foreign governing diplomats otherwise, and those who are invaders of foreign armies and terrorists, members of foreign organizations hostile to America, certainly qualify in that category.”

David Bier, the director of immigration studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, however, argued that the president’s attempt to redefine what constitutes an alien enemy without going through Congress puts the administration on legally shaky ground.

“Congress ultimately establishes what it means to be subject to U.S. jurisdiction,” Bier told Fox News Digital. “There’s this very limited exception for accredited diplomats and everyone else in the United States is subject to U.S. laws so the idea that the president himself on his own authority can decide who is subject U. S. jurisdiction and U.S. laws is really a radical expansion and assertion of executive power and really would be unprecedented in the history of the United States.”

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The US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on, April 1, 2026. President Donald Trump is fighting to end automatic citizenship for children born to parents who are in the country unlawfully or on temporary visas, part of his broader crackdown on undocumented immigrants and a change that could overturn more than a century of legal precedent.(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“I really do think this case is testing a different proposition from the earlier case,” Bier added, explaining that the issue at hand has more to do with executive power than birthright citizenship. “And I think it’s a lot more questionable as well.”

Amanda Frost, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, pointed out that United States v. Wong Kim Ark specifies that only children of enemies “occupying” some portion of the country are barred from citizenship at birth, meaning that Trump’s order would not apply to terrorists simply residing within the country. She said the Trump administration could potentially expand who is legally defined as a diplomat to preclude more people from birthright citizenship, but explained such a move would make it difficult to prosecute individuals for criminal offenses, a concern shared by Bier.

Frost and Bier both believe the new executive order should be ruled unconstitutional.

Some have floated the issue of standing as a potential problem for those looking to challenge Trump’s order. Legal standing requires plaintiffs to show they suffered or imminently face a concrete injury caused by the defendant that a court can remedy.

“It’s going to be interesting to see who actually does have standing to challenge this order,” America First Legal co-founder and president Gene Hamilton told Fox News Digital. “Is there somebody who thinks that they’re going to swept up in the definition of a foreign terrorist organization? And if so, it would be kind of fun to see them try to sue the government or have someone sue on their behalf.”

Trump’s new order is already facing legal resistance.

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Demonstrators gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in support of birthright citizenship. President Donald Trump’s executive order seeks to narrow protections for children born to non-residents on U.S. soil. Photo taken May 15, 2025.(Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty)

The same groups who challenged his initial order are now arguing that his new one unlawfully creates exceptions to birthright citizenship that conflict with the Supreme Court’s June ruling. The order remains on the books but is not scheduled to take effect until Sept. 6, with a Maryland judge scheduled to hear an injunction request Aug. 28 and a related motion still pending in New Hampshire.

Issued on the same day as the first new executive order, the second order directed the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security to deny travel visas to or pursue removal actions against individuals believed to be in the country for the purposes of birth tourism. Birth tourism is a process through which noncitizens enter the United States while pregnant and give birth in order to secure citizenship for their child.

Hamilton described this second order as being on “sound, solid legal footing.”

“It relies and invokes Section 215(a) of the INA to impose conditions and delegates authority of the Secretary of State … to ensure that we are not granting visas and allowing people to remain on visas who may be engaged in birth tourism,” he explained. “It is the sovereign right and province of all governments across the world, and certainly the United States is no different, to determine who should be able to receive a visa and who shouldn’t. There’s no entitlement to a visa. There’s no constitutional right to a visa.”

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Trump gave a full-throated defense of “America First” at the U.N. in September.()

Critics also argue that the administration already had tools to combat birth tourism. Since 2020, State Department rules have directed consular officers to deny visitor visas when they have reason to believe an applicant’s primary purpose is traveling to the United States to give birth and obtain citizenship for the child.

“No new executive orders are required for the federal government to go after birth tourism operators or deny fraudulent visa applications,” Center for American Progress senior director of immigration policy Debu Gandhi told Fox News Digital. “Americans should take note that from day one, the Trump administration has tried to evade the Constitution’s clear and unequivocal language on citizenship and unilaterally decide who is born an American.”

If the administration’s latest effort fails, supporters of further limits on birthright citizenship could turn to Congress or pursue a constitutional amendment, which would require approval by three-fourths of the states.

Shapiro says that the administration is on “solid ground” but noted that “if they had proceeded originally in this more targeted, narrower way” then the Supreme Court may not have ruled against them originally.

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港媒：中国企业高管或将随习近平访美

2026年8月29日 18:50 / 联合早报

在中国国家主席习近平预计访美之际，香港媒体报道，中美去年10月在韩国釜山敲定的贸易休战协议预料将延长，两国官员正为中国企业高管是否随习近平访美进行讨论。 （路透社档案照片）

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（华盛顿/北京综合讯）在中国国家主席习近平预计访美之际，香港媒体报道，中美去年10月在韩国釜山敲定的贸易休战协议预料将延长，两国官员正为中国企业高管是否随习近平访美进行讨论。

美国总统特朗普今年5月率领英伟达、苹果、特斯拉和波音等高管组成的代表团访华，期间邀请习近平在9月24日访美。

香港《南华早报》星期五（8月28日）引述知情者透露，中美正商讨中企高管是否随习近平访美，以体现互惠原则。

知情人士称，北京希望中企高管同行，当中包括入选中美贸易委员会的中企，并指中企仍有兴趣在美投资。中企随行或有助中美从对抗转向可控的经济竞争。

知情人士也称，尽管美国政府近期接连制裁中企，中美仍希望延长贸易休战协议。北京倾向将协议延长至特朗普总统任期结束为止，华盛顿则寻求再延长一年。

继美国联邦通信委员会（FCC）上月禁止中国具领导地位的机器人和电力逆变器等产品输美后，美国国土安全部再以违反强迫《防止强迫维吾尔人劳动法》将43家中企列入实体清单。

中国外长王毅8月26日在北京会见美国驻华大使庞德伟时指出，双方应把两国元首达成的重要共识落到实处，妥善管控分歧，为两国高层交往排除干扰、克服障碍，推动中美关系朝着稳定、健康、可持续的方向发展。

庞德伟次日在X平台写道，他与王毅、中国副外长马朝旭等人就习近平赴华盛顿进行国事回访的准备工作进行了富有成效的讨论。

诺里斯与迈凯伦续约至2030年 愿效力车队至退役

2026年8月29日 19:09 / 联合早报

• 世界冠军诺里斯宣布与迈凯伦续约至2030年底，合同含后续多年选择权，他愿在此效力至退役。 – 诺里斯否认网传高薪数字，承认薪资上涨但仍不及维斯塔潘与哈密尔顿，称成就尚未达到该水平。 – 诺里斯自2017年加入迈凯伦，已获13座分站冠军和18个杆位，是车队2008年后首位世界冠军。 – 车队领队斯特拉称续约带来关键连续性，认为诺里斯与皮亚斯特里组成围场最强车手搭档之一。

英国车手诺里斯星期六（8月29日）宣布与迈凯伦车队完成续约。图为他上周末在荷兰赛站拿下胜利。 （法新社）

（伦敦路透电）世界一级方程式赛车（F1）世界冠军兰多·诺里斯（Lando Norris）在星期六（8月29日）宣布与迈凯伦车队完成续约，新合同将至少延伸至2030年底。这名英国车手说，他非常乐意在这个感觉像家一样的车队结束他的职业生涯。

现年26岁的诺里斯此前接连赢下了匈牙利站和荷兰站的胜利。他是在沃金工厂举行的车队“亲友日”活动中，向迈凯伦全体员工公布这一重磅消息。

迈凯伦车队说，合同中还包含在2030年后再续约多年的选择权。为了庆祝这次续约，车队还将上赛季的MCL39赛车送给诺里斯——他因驾驶这台赛车，成为了继哈密尔顿（Hamilton）在2008年之后，迈凯伦首名斩获世界冠军的车手。

早些时候接受媒体采访时，诺里斯说，这份新合同的签订对于提升车队士气和动力而言正值完美时机，不过此前媒体报道中提及的一些合同金额数字并不属实。

诺里斯说：“目前我真的没有任何理由去产生去其他地方的想法，我甚至希望我的整个职业生涯都在迈凯伦度过，因为我在这里很开心，我不想做出改变。

“在困境中我想与迈凯伦并肩作战，在顺境中我想与迈凯伦共享胜利。所以，如果在职业生涯结束时我能说迈凯伦是我效力过的唯一一支车队，我会感到非常非常高兴。”

诺里斯于2017年作为测试与模拟器车手加入迈凯伦，并于2019年完成F1正赛首秀。如今，他已代表这支卫冕车队斩获13座分站冠军和18个杆位。

迈凯伦车队领队斯特拉（Stella）说：“这次续约带给我们至关重要的连续性，也巩固我们对共同发展方向的信心。拥有他和奥斯卡（皮亚斯特里，Piastri），我们知道我们不仅拥有围场内最强的车手搭档之一，还拥有一支极其团结紧密的团队。”

薪资上涨但仍不及维斯塔潘与哈密尔顿

部分媒体报道推测，这份新合同将使这名英国车手在F1薪酬榜上升至第三位，仅次于红牛车队的维斯塔潘（Verstappen）和法拉利车队的哈密尔顿。其中有媒体甚至推测诺里斯的新年薪可能在6000万欧元（约8858万新元）左右。

当被问及与四届世界冠军维斯塔潘和七届世界冠军哈密尔顿的薪资水平时，诺里斯笑着回答：“我觉得我确实应该拿那么多。

“但遗憾的是，实际数字绝对没有网上看到的那么高……当然，就像任何工作在续约时都会上调薪水一样，这次确实涨了一些，但绝对达不到刘易斯（哈密尔顿）或马克斯（维斯塔潘）的水平。在某种程度上，我也确实不该拿那么多，因为我在职业生涯中取得的成就还没法和他们相比。

“我正在为此努力。我不知道我的下一次续约或重新签约会是什么时候，希望有一天我也能达到那个水平。我也梦想着能看到网上报道的那些数字，我会继续为之努力的。”

诺里斯还坦言，虽然有其他车队对他表达过兴趣，但他从未向对方回应过意向，因为离开去其他任何地方都会让他觉得是一种背叛。“事实上，这是我职业生涯迄今为止做出的最轻松的一个决定。”

公益金去年拨1700万元支援心理健康项目 比前年增30％

2026年8月29日 19:32 / 新明日报

公益金2024财年的数据显示，在心理健康方面，接受公益金项目援助的受惠者每四人就有一人的生活素质明显改善。 （档案照片）

长期稳定的拨款有助社会服务机构更好地规划和持续提供援助，我国的公益金在2025财年拨出超过1700万元，支持本地多项心理健康项目，拨款比上财年增加30％。

公益金配合“公益金心弦义走”（Community Chest Heartstrings Walk）在星期六（8月29日）举行，宣布公益金的拨款情况。

公益金透露，它2025财年的拨款总额超过1700万元，比2024财年的超过1300万元多。过去10年，公益金共筹得和拨出超过5亿元，支持社会服务项目和能力建设计划，为有需要的个人和家庭提供帮助。

公益金2024财年的数据显示，在心理健康方面，接受公益金项目援助的受惠者每四人就有一人的生活素质明显改

“公益金心弦义走”是公益金和滨海湾金沙合作了15年的项目，今年吸引约3700人参与，包括义工、受援助者和合作伙伴，活动主宾是社会及家庭发展部长马善高。大伙儿沿着滨海湾步行3.5公里，为公益金筹得超过527万元。

同一天举行的滨海湾金沙慈善嘉年华，筹得超过700万元。

滨海湾金沙慈善嘉年华筹得超过700万元善款。（滨海湾金沙提供）

这天的早上也在滨海湾金沙酒店举行了垂直马拉松，由律政部兼社会及家庭发展部高级政务次长蔡瑞隆主持开跑仪式。共有47组参与者跑上酒店第57楼的空中花园。

共有188名参与者参加白天的垂直马拉松。（滨海湾金沙提供）

为期一年的“2026年前进接力赛”（Relay Majulah 2026）也正式启动了。这个超慢跑活动是要让年长者和体能各不相同的人按个人能力在安全舒适地做运动。这个项目由本地公益基金“励基金”（Li Foundation）和新加坡狮子会联办，目标是鼓励国人积极生活，通过运动加强社区联系。

公益金主席许统民说，本地在心理健康方面的需求越来越复杂，稳定且长期的资金支持让社服机构能够提前规划和更早介入，从而更有效地帮助有需要的人。他希望有更多机构加入这个事业，不只是提供捐款，而是携手为社会带来更多积极影响。

公益金1983年成立至今，支持了超过300项社会服务项目和计划，每年有超过9万4000人受惠。