Pete Hegseth vows to make first firing squad execution in decades ‘public’

2026-10-08T20:18:05.152Z / CNN

By Haley Britzky

Updated 8 min ago

Updated Oct 8, 2026, 7:26 PM ET

PUBLISHED Oct 8, 2026, 4:18 PM ET

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at an event for Anduril Industries, Inc., at Sparrows Point Shipyard in Sparrows Point, Maryland, on October 6, 2026.

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US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed in an interview this week that the execution of the man who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood in 2009 would be “public.”

“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public, because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Hegseth told far-right podcaster Jack Posobiec in an interview aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on Wednesday.

A Pentagon official said Thursday that the execution “will be livestreamed,” but did not offer more details. Earlier on Thursday, the Pentagon had referred questions about how the execution would be publicized to the Army, who did not respond to questions from CNN.

The Pentagon announced on Monday evening that Nidal Hasan would be executed by firing squad, which Hegseth recommended and President Donald Trump approved. Acting Secretary of the Army Adam Telle set the date for Hasan’s execution on December 3 at 2pm ET, 1pm CT, at Fort Hood.

Hegseth said the execution would occur on “a Thursday, we’re going to do it at one o’clock, which is when he did it, and it’s going to be soldiers with rifles executing the firing squad.”

Hasan was convicted in July 2013 of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder. During his trial, he told the panel of 13 officers that he was targeting soldiers who would deploy to Afghanistan and “were going to engage in an illegal war.” On the day of the shooting, he started at the medical processing center at Fort Hood, firing on troops there to collect medical checks before they deployed. He then followed soldiers out the back door of the processing center as they fled and was confronted by police, with whom Hasan exchanged gunfire and was eventually struck.

The execution by firing squad would be the first of its kind carried out by the US Army since World War II. Hegseth said in the interview that he liked “the mentality we had in World War II, which was win. Which was understand when the enemy attacks you, you stand your ground.”

A public livestream of Hasan’s execution could potentially violate the Army regulations governing military capital punishment. Army Regulation 190-55 specifies the types of people permitted to witness a military execution, and it also bars minors from watching the punishment. But the Army’s provost marshal general — a general who oversees military law enforcement — is permitted to waive provisions of the regulation so long as the waiver doesn’t violate the law or a higher binding regulation.

CNN’s Davis Winkie contributed to this article. His work at CNN is supported by a partnership between Outrider Foundation and Journalism Funding Partners (JFP). CNN retains full editorial control of the reporting.

Correction:This story has been updated to correct the spelling of far-right podcaster Jack Posobiec’s name.

烟霾清晨持续加剧 中部PSI升至163

2026年10月9日 07:13 / 联合早报

根据国家环境局网站，截至早上7时，全岛24小时PSI介于111至163。中部最高，达163，其次是西部158、南部139、东部137，以及北部111。 （吴先邦摄）

本地烟霾情况星期五（10月9日）清晨持续转差，全岛五个地区的24小时空气污染指数（PSI）均处于不健康水平，其中中部最高，升至163，西部也达到158。

根据国家环境局网站，截至早上7时，全岛24小时PSI介于111至163。中部最高，达163，其次是西部158、南部139、东部137，以及北部111。

数据显示，全岛空气质量从凌晨起持续转差。凌晨1时，北部PSI为100，仍处于中等水平，其他四区则介于115至144。到了凌晨2时，北部PSI升至102，全岛五个地区都进入不健康水平。此后各区指数继续攀升，其中中部从凌晨1时的144，逐步升至早上7时的163。

至于反映较即时空气质量的一小时PM2.5悬浮颗粒浓度，截至早上7时，全岛介于每立方米92微克至145微克，均处于偏高水平。其中西部最高，达145微克，其次是中部143微克、南部138微克、东部105微克，以及北部92微克。

根据国家环境局的分类，24小时PSI介于101至200属不健康水平，201至300则为非常不健康水平。

USS Lincoln docks in San Diego, returning home for first time in over 10 months

2026-10-08 5:15 PM EDT / CBS News

By Elizabeth Campbell

The USS Abraham Lincoln and its more than 4,500 sailors and Marines returned home to San Diego on Thursday for the first time in 321 days, a jubilant homecoming after a long deployment that included months in the Middle East.

Hundreds of family members and friends waited for hours in the sun to greet their loved ones. As the ship pulled into the harbor, a roar of cheers erupted from a pier. Sailors stood at attention on the deck for the aircraft carrier’s long approach, and after they were released, smiles and waves broke out as sailors took out their phones to call people on the pier.

In one such reunion, McKenzie Adkins held her 10-week-old son Declan as she waved to her husband, Alexander, on the ship’s deck, before the new father met his son for the first time.

Sailors wave aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier as it returns to Naval Air Station North Island after deployment on Oct. 8, 2026, in Coronado, California. Gregory Bull/AP Photo

The Lincoln carrier strike group had been deployed for more than 10 months, including more than 250 uninterrupted days at sea this year. Much of that time was spent in the Middle East, where the aircraft carrier and its escort ships supported the U.S. war with Iran. It left the region in late August and began sailing back toward its home port of San Diego, stopping in Thailand and Guam. The Japan-based USS George Washington, another U.S. aircraft carrier, arrived in August in the Middle East to replace the Lincoln.

During the Lincoln’s record-long time at sea, the Navy drew scrutiny for conditions aboard the ship. Reports circulated of supply shortages and faulty plumbing, and families of crew members raised concerns about deteriorating mental health conditions.

Congressional Democrats expressed outrage and pressed the Navy for more information about reports of shortages and mental health issues on the Lincoln. The Pentagon has defended conditions on the ship.

中国海警称出于人道主义允许菲转运坐滩船只伤员

2026-10-09 07:41 / 联合早报

中国海警星期四（10月8日）在社交平台公布，中方出于人道主义考虑，允许菲方转运一名坐滩船只伤员，并批评菲方指中国海警阻挠转运的说法是颠倒黑白。

中国海警局在微博发文称，菲律宾海警4409号船赴仁爱礁（菲称阿云津礁）附近海域，转运非法坐滩船只一名伤员。

海警局新闻发言人姜略说：“出于人道主义考虑，中方第一时间允许菲方采取小艇过驳方式转运伤员，中国海警依法依规处置，并提供必要便利。”

菲律宾海岸警卫队同日指中国海警阻挠转运一名驻扎在坐滩军舰的患病菲律宾士兵。菲国海岸警卫队发言人塔里埃拉（Jay Tarriela）在声明指一艘中国海警船发射高压水炮，并称此举显然是为了阻止菲律宾巡逻船靠近坐滩军舰，以接运患病士兵。

姜略批评“菲方有关言论罔顾事实、颠倒黑白，企图混淆视听”，并强调中国对包括仁爱礁在内的南沙群岛及其附近海域拥有无可争辩的主权。“我们正告菲方立即停止侵权挑衅和不实炒作。”

Super Intelligence task force member on Trump declaring anyone who uses the term A.I. to be ‘The Enemy’

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DOJ trying to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who testified about Jan. 6

2026-10-08T17:40:00-0400 / CBS News

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Federal prosecutors have been presenting evidence to a grand jury in Washington, D.C., on whether former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson may have lied to Congress in her testimony related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, drew the ire of President Trump’s base when she testified in 2022 before the House committee tasked with investigating the 2021 Capitol attack.

In a series of depositions and public committee testimony, she said that Mr. Trump and Meadows had been warned on Jan. 6 that some of his supporters were carrying weapons to the Capitol, but that Mr. Trump said he didn’t care and tried to order officials to remove the magnetometers.

She also relayed a story she said was told to her by then-White House deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato, in which Mr. Trump grew incensed after his lead Secret Service agent declined to drive him to the Capitol after the president had delivered a speech to supporters. During that address on the White House Ellipse, he had encouraged them to go to the Capitol, where Congress was confirming the Electoral College results from the 2020 election. He told his supporters that “after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you.”

Hutchinson testified that Ornato had told her that Mr. Trump lunged at the steering wheel.

Her account was later contradicted by Mr. Trump’s driver, who in sworn testimony claimed that the president never tried to grab the steering wheel.

CBS News could not determine precisely which parts of Hutchinson’s testimony are being scrutinized by prosecutors. According to media reports, Republican allies in the House of Representatives made the referral to the Justice Department.

CBS News has reached out to Hutchinson’s counsel for comment.

In an unusual move, the Civil Rights Division — and not the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C. — is handling the Hutchinson investigation, sources said. It was not immediately clear why that office was assigned the case.

The recent flurry of grand jury activity in the investigation was first reported by Punchbowl News.

Trump calls Democrat he pardoned a ‘loser’ for not switching parties

2026-10-08 4:33pm EDT / Fox News

President Trump is backing the Republican challenger, Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina

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President Trump boosts GOP candidate running against pardoned Dem incumbent

President Donald Trump lamented that after he pardoned Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife, the congressman did not become a Republican.

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President Donald Trump lambasted incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, calling the congressman “a loser” on Wednesday, while criticizing the lawmaker for remaining a Democrat after receiving a presidential pardon.

Trump pardoned Cuellar and his wife last year as the couple faced charges pertaining to bribery and money laundering.

“In any event, I did the pardons, and made no deal, where a crooked politician would have, but I thought there would be a good chance that Cuellar, who was persecuted by Democrats because they didn’t like him, would have routinely gone over to the Republican Party — the people that saved him from years in prison,” Trump wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post.

HOUSE DEM BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT AS BROTHER FACES UP TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON IF CONVICTED

Left: U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he leaves the stage after speaking during a campaign rally at the Freeman Coliseum on Oct. 7, 2026 in San Antonio, Texas; Right: U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, poses for a photo at the Starr County Courthouse Annex Building on Oct. 2, 2026 in Rio Grande City, Texas.(Left: Win McNamee/Getty Images; Right: Gabriel V. Cárdenas/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Cuellar, who has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2005, is currently seeking re-election.

“In any event, the man running against him, Tano Tijerina, is a STAR and, hopefully, will WIN! We call that payback for a disloyal and ungrateful person, a person whose life has been saved only to go back into the clutches of the people that tried so hard to destroy him. Henry Cuellar is a LOSER who, right now, should be serving a longterm jail sentence with his wife in a top level penitentiary,” Trump declared in another part of the post.

“Tano, a legendary Baseball Star, Great Athlete, respected County Judge, and fine person, will hopefully beat Cuellar so that people can show how bad it is when you are recognized and humiliated as being one of the most disloyal political people on Earth!” Trump wrote. “I am very proud of the fact that I didn’t make a deal with Cuellar, which I easily could have, but relied on his character, which turned out to be a faulty one.”

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Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina, Republican candidate for Texas’ 28th Congressional District, poses for a portrait at J. W. Nixon High School on Friday, Oct. 2, 2026 in Laredo, Texas.(Salgu Wissmath/ For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump issued the Truth Social post on Wednesday prior to delivering similar remarks during a rally in San Antonio, Texas.

Tijerina declared in a Wednesday post on X, “Everyone in South Texas knows anything after Hello coming from Henry Cuellar is a lie. President Trump just confirmed that.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Cuellar’s campaign for comment on Thursday.

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Representative Henry Cuellar, a Democrat from Texas, during a House Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies hearing in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, May 21, 2026.(Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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In part of a Truth Social post last year, Trump claimed that President Joe Biden had “used the FBI and DOJ to ‘take out’ a member of his own Party after Highly Respected Congressman Henry Cuellar bravely spoke out against Open Borders, and the Biden Border ‘Catastrophe.’ Sleepy Joe went after the Congressman, and even the Congressman’s wonderful wife, Imelda, simply for speaking the TRUTH.”

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MAGA donor says Amb. Kim Guilfoyle asked him for $100K: ‘No question it was a quid pro quo’

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特朗普：美国绝不会在中期选举前再次打击伊朗

2026年10月9日 06:58 / 联合早报

美国总统特朗普说，伊朗在经济和军事上都处于极其糟糕的境地，且封锁措施会继续全面有效执行。图为特朗普10月2日在白宫对媒体发言。 （彭博社）

美国总统特朗普表明，美国正与伊朗进行富有成效的磋商；美国绝对不会在11月中期选举之前，对伊朗发动攻击。

特朗普星期四（10月8日）在自己的社交媒体平台发文说：“我们正与伊朗进行富有成效的磋商。我想向大家明确一点，尽管伊朗在经济和军事上都处于极其糟糕的境地，且封锁措施会继续全面有效执行……但我们绝不会在美国11月3日中期选举之前的任何时间，对伊朗发动攻击。”

他也强调：“伊朗绝不会拥有核武器！”

此前，媒体报道暗示美国可能在中期选举前对伊朗发动新一轮打击。这个消息导致油价星期四飙升。

《大西洋月刊》（The Atlantic）星期三报道称，白宫已要求五角大楼制定打击伊朗目标的方案，以备在中期选举前使用。

《纽约时报》星期四早些时候也发表类似报道，称虽然特朗普态度摇摆不定，但相关计划仍在制定中。

美国与以色列2月底对伊朗开战，此后霍尔木兹海峡通航持续受阻，导致油价上涨。民调显示，美国选民对燃油价格居高不下感到强烈不满，这种反感情绪已经给共和党造成竞选压力。

特朗普反复坚称，美国已实际上赢得对伊朗战争。然而，他关于一旦伊朗战争结束，物价就会下跌的说法，迄今为止并未引起选民共鸣。

Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be livestreamed, Pentagon says

2026-10-08 17:42 EDT / CBS News

The U.S. military plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the ex-Army major who was convicted of the 2009 killing of 13 people at Fort Hood, when he faces a firing squad on Dec. 3, a Pentagon official said.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said earlier Thursday the Pentagon planned to make the execution public.

“He’s gonna get a firing squad of soldiers, as it should be,” Hegseth told Jack Posobiec on Real America’s Voice. “We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public — because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things.”

Hegseth said the early December execution will take place at Fort Hood at 1 p.m.

Earlier this week, the Trump administration approved the plan to execute Hasan. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said on social media the plan to use an Army firing squad was recommended by Hegseth and approved by President Trump.

While executions are sometimes witnessed by small groups of people, including reporters and victims’ family members, it is virtually unheard-of in recent history for an execution in the United States to be viewable by the general public.

The last public execution in the U.S. appeared to take place in 1936, when Rainey Bethea was hanged for rape in Kentucky, reportedly drawing a crowd of around 20,000.

Geoffrey Corn, a Texas Tech University law professor who served in the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, told CBS News the plan to livestream the execution “raises significant moral questions, above and beyond the questions related to the death penalty generally.”

“There’s a certain protocol that is normally followed with executions limiting the gallery of observers, which usually includes people close to the victims and certain members of the media,” he said. “I think it’s an acknowledgment of the gravity of the penalty to be imposed.”

He added: “In short, turning the execution of such a penalty into some type of public spectacle echoes of the past we seem to have put behind us.”

CBS News has reached out to Hasan’s attorney for comment.

A former Army psychiatrist, Hasan was convicted of murdering 13 people and injuring more than 30 in a 2013 court-martial. Hasan acknowledged at trial that he was responsible for the shooting, claiming he opened fire on fellow members of the Army in an attempt to protect Islamic insurgents from U.S. military forces. He was sentenced to death.

Hasan’s case could mark the military’s first execution of an American service member since 1961, when a soldier was hanged for raping and attempting to murder an 11-year-old girl.

It would also mark a rare use of a firing squad. Hegseth said “it hasn’t been since World War II since we’ve done that,” pointing to the military’s 1945 execution of Pvt. Eddie Slovik for desertion.

In state civilian court, the execution method was used in South Carolina three times last year, marking the country’s first firing squads since 2010. The federal government typically uses lethal injection in civilian death penalty cases, though the Justice Department said earlier this year that officials should consider other methods, including firing squads and electrocution.

The decision by Hegseth comes after a lengthy appeals process for Hasan. He chose to represent himself at trial, and in an unusual course of events, he clashed with his own court-appointed standby attorneys, who worried that Hasan was intentionally seeking the death penalty.

Hasan asked the Supreme Court to review his case in 2024, arguing the judge had violated his right to a public trial by clearing the public from the courtroom before discussing some of his issues with the attorneys. The high court declined to take up the issue last year.