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法国总理：绝不容忍校园抗议活动的暴力行为

2026年10月6日 23:08 / 联合早报

勒科尔尼宣布，本周余下时间暂停高中正式课程，让校方与学生讨论校园问题。 （路透社）

法国总理勒科尔尼星期二（10月6日）说，对暴力行为“没有任何容忍空间”。当天，法国全国数以万计学生走上街头，抗议学校现状。

法新社报道，勒科尔尼在国会说：“烧毁一所高中，并不能改善高中校舍的状况。袭击一名教师，也无助于补充师资。”他还说，声称政府下令警方镇压示威者是“谎言”。

过去几天，学校抗议活动已造成数千人被捕、数十人受伤。部分学校外有物品被纵火，示威者也向警方投掷物件。

不过，极左翼政党“不屈法国”以及一些人权组织指责警方对示威者反应过度，而许多抗议者还是未成年人。

谈到部分学生受伤的情况时，勒科尔尼承认，“意外”可能发生。

但他反过来指责“不屈法国”怀有“政治议程”，企图在2027年总统选举前“让国家陷入混乱”。

勒科尔尼还宣布，本周余下时间将暂停高中正式课程，让校长、教师和学生有时间展开他所称的“内部民主”讨论，就各自学校的具体情况进行沟通。

沙特胡塞战斗升级 土耳其巴基斯坦承诺派兵支援

2026年10月6日 23:46 / 联合早报

• 也门胡塞武装与沙特支持政府军战斗升级，过去一天双方逾270人死亡，政府军称已夺回曼德海峡沿岸港市摩卡。 – 胡塞发言人称向沙特机场发射弹道导弹并击中目标；沙特民航总局说境内两座机场遭袭致三人受伤及设施损坏。 – 沙特、土耳其和巴基斯坦宣布落实共同防御协议，将即刻派兵驻守沙特提供支援，但未说明部队具体任务。 – 美国财政部警告外国金融机构若与伊朗有商业往来将面临制裁，并宣布针对伊朗多个领域的新制裁措施。

沙特阿拉伯支持的也门政府军周一（10月5日）在红海沿岸城镇祖巴卜附近向胡塞武装阵地开火，试图收复胡塞武装组织占领地。（路透社）

（利雅得／萨那综合电）也门胡塞武装组织与沙特阿拉伯的战斗升级，沙特支持的也门政府军试图收复失地，胡塞武装组织则强力反击死守。早前与沙特达成防卫协议的土耳其和巴基斯坦宣布启动协议，派兵驻守沙特提供军事支援。

胡塞军事发言人萨雷亚周二（10月6日）称，胡塞仍控制近期攻占的所有领土，包括红海沿岸的战略要地。

他指出，胡塞当天在数小时内发动了数十次袭击，攻击也门西北部省份焦夫和马里卜的政府军，也向塔伊兹省发动攻势。

萨雷亚也在社媒平台X上称，胡塞向沙特西南部阿西尔地区的艾卜哈国际机场展开新一轮弹道导弹袭击，不仅扰乱了空中交通，导弹也精准击中机场。

他说，胡塞向靠近也门边境的贾赞地区沙特军事营地发射数枚弹道导弹，击中目标。

据法新社报道，沙特首都利雅得的居民形容，听到城市北部传来爆炸声。

沙特民航总局周二说，前一日傍晚沙特境内贾赞和奈季兰的机场遭到两次袭击，造成三人受伤及设施损坏。遭袭的两座机场分别是阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王国际机场和奈季兰国际机场。

也门政府军同天称已开始收复失地，周一夺回上月初被胡塞占领的曼德海峡沿岸港市摩卡（Mocha）。政府军也说，已控制曼德海峡附近的其他地区，比如红海沿岸城镇祖巴卜（Dhubab）。

以沙特为首的联军宣布，在也门首都萨那摧毁一台弹道导弹发射装置，并展开一次海军行动，摧毁荷台达（Hodeida）的军事目标包括军火库。荷台达是曼德海峡以北的重要港口，被胡塞武装控制了10多年。

胡塞和也门政府军的消息人士则分别向法新社透露，过去一天也门各地的战斗已造成270多名政府军士兵和胡塞武装人员死亡。也门政府军有115人丧命，胡塞损失160名战斗人员。

此外，沙特、土耳其和巴基斯坦周一晚在沙特首都利雅得举行紧急会议，会后发表联合声明，宣布三方会即刻落实共同防御承诺，尽速调派军队为沙特提供支援。声明并未说明土耳其和巴基斯坦的部队抵达沙特后将执行哪些任务。

这三国是在8月7日签署《麦加共同防务协议》。协议规定，三国中任何一方遭到武装攻击，都会被视为对三国全体的攻击。

另一方面，美国财政部周一警告外国金融机构，若同伊朗或伊朗银行有任何商业往来，将面对华盛顿制裁。

财政部也宣布新制裁，目标是伊朗的金融、加密货币、铁路、汽车和制造业领域，并对两家分别设在阿联酋和土耳其、涉嫌向德黑兰当局提供援助的银行采取行动。

美国非政府组织“反对伊朗核武器联盟”周一发表报告说，美国对伊朗的军事和经济封锁，已导致至少50艘伊朗油船在伊朗和斯里兰卡附近的海域滞留。

伊朗官方媒体同日报道，伊朗总统佩泽希齐扬指与美国的谈判毫无意义，只会招致新一轮的攻击。“对方至今已三次在谈判后又对我们发动攻击，这显示他们根本无意寻求对话，真正目的是要推翻伊朗伊斯兰共和国。面对一个每天诉诸暗杀、制裁、施压与威胁，而且背信弃义的敌人，谈判是毫无意义的。”

Judge to weigh government’s effort to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia

2026-10-06 09:34:34 EDT / CBS News

By Jacob Rosen Justice Department Reporter

Washington— The fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man wrongfully deported by the Trump administration last year, will again be argued in court on Tuesday when his legal team asks a federal judge to block his deportation to Liberia, the latest country where the administration has attempted to send him in his ongoing legal saga.

Abrego Garcia, who had been living in Maryland with his family, was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March 2025, despite a judge’s 2019 order that blocked his deportation to the country on the grounds that he could be harmed by local gangs. The Trump administration had said Abrego Garcia was a member of the gang MS-13, which he has denied.

He was initially held at the Salvadoran mega-prison CECOT and was eventually returned to the U.S. in June 2025 to face criminal human smuggling charges.

In March, the Trump administration said that it was ready to deport Abrego Garcia to Liberia, and asked U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland to dissolve her order that is currently blocking that, or any other removal of Abrego Garcia, from happening.

In court filings, the Trump administration said that Liberia’s government was willing to accept Abrego Garcia and that Immigration and Customs Enforcement could arrange a charter plane to send him to the West African country in a matter of days.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia attends a rally in his honor at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore on Aug. 25, 2025. Stephanie Scarbrough / AP

Liberia is among the countries that have agreed to accept non-native immigrants from the U.S., and the Trump administration began sending deportees from Latin America there in August. CBS News traveled to Liberia last month and interviewed a number of them. They described being in limbo and feeling stateless. They are unable to return to the U.S., where many have spouses and children, and said they are scared of being persecuted if they go back to their homelands.

Abrego Garcia has said he is willing to go to Costa Rica and designated the country as his preferred country of removal, and Costa Rica has indicated it would provide him refugee status or residency. But at a hearing last year, a Justice Department lawyer said there had not been discussions about deporting him there.

Tuesday’s hearing is also the first since a federal judge in Tennessee tossed out the criminal indictment charging Abrego Garcia with the alleged crimes, finding that the Justice Department’s prosecution of him was vindictive. The government appealed that order in August.

In court filings ahead of Tuesday’s hearing, Abrego Garcia’s lawyers said that the Trump administration is “trying to abuse its immigration powers to punish” him because their client had the “audacity” to challenge his removal to El Salvador.

“Just as the Government unlawfully wielded its criminal powers against Abrego Garcia, so it seeks to unlawfully exploit its immigration powers against him,” they wrote in a motion for relief in May. “The record leaves no mystery about what is going on. If the Government truly wanted to remove Abrego Garcia from the United States, it would have sent him to Costa Rica in August 2025 when he designated it as his country of removal.”

The Trump administration has also attempted to re-deport Abrego Garcia to the African nations of Uganda, Eswatini and Ghana, but none of the countries agreed to accept him.

The Justice Department said in court filings that Xinis should deny Abrego Garcia’s motions because “his claims fail as a matter of law.”

Abrego Garcia has remained free from ICE custody as his case has proceeded.

Whistleblower says Trump demanded FBI probe into protesters over a TikTok he saw

2026-10-06 09:21 AM ET / CNN

By Holmes Lybrand, Evan Perez, Priscilla Alvarez

Updated Oct 6, 2026, 10:32 AM ET

PUBLISHED Oct 6, 2026, 9:21 AM ET

FBI Director Kash Patel looks on as President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference in October 2025.

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The FBI opened preliminary investigations targeting anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters in Southern California, a former FBI intelligence official alleged in a whistleblower complaint, adding that she believed the move violated the law and agency policy.

The investigations were opened in early 2025 in the early weeks of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown following demands from President Donald Trump and other administration officials, according to the disclosure by Jill Fields, a former supervisory intelligence analyst in the FBI’s Los Angeles field office.

CNN reviewed the complaint, which was filed by lawyers representing Fields to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

A Justice Department spokesperson told CNN said the DOJ will continue to “vigorously uphold the First Amendment rights of all Americans and restore the rule of law.”

“The DOJ and FBI have a responsibility to investigate any potential violations of federal law, and conspiracies to impede federal law enforcement and assaults on federal officers are against the law,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “Violence is not protected by the First Amendment. Politically motivated attacks will not deter us from doing our job.”

CNN has reached out to the FBI and White House about the disclosure.

In at least one instance, the FBI began preliminary investigations of protesters after the president demanded an investigation of people he saw in a TikTok video depicting demonstrators against ICE and Customs and Border Protection in Alhambra, California. The protesters were using bullhorns to warn neighbors about the presence of immigration-enforcement officers, Field’ disclosure said.

Following the February 2025 protest in Alhambra, an analyst who worked under Fields “informed her that the squad had been ordered to run pre‑assessment checks on the two to four anti‑ICE and CBP protesters in the video accused of impeding an immigration arrest, even though FBI policy prohibits opening investigations based solely on First Amendment‑protected activity, and the squad did not yet have evidence of a crime,” lawyers representing Fields said in a letter to senators.

The investigations came after FBI Director Kash Patel told top FBI leaders that the president “was angry about the incident, and he wanted those protesters investigated and arrested,” the letter said.

In a letter to Patel and Attorney General Todd Blanche, citing the whistleblower complaint, Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla questioned the Justice Department on how many investigations into protestors were currently active and whether Trump had directed other, similar investigations.

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Fields’ whistleblower complaint disclosed two separate incidents in which she said White House officials demanded the FBI investigate and arrest anti-ICE protesters.

A separate incident weeks earlier sparked a similar focus on free speech, according to Fields, when then-Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove demanded the FBI investigate a group of anti-ICE protestors outside a federal building in California.

In both cases, Fields noted that First Amendment protections prohibited such investigations and potential charges unless other action beyond speech had taken place.

When she raised the issue with one superior, Fields says she was told it had to happen.

The former analyst said she was stripped of her team and lost support from FBI leadership in her Los Angeles office, pushing her to ultimately resign from the bureau.

This story has been updated with additional information.

德国前情报局长涉嫌付费获取机密文件被捕

2026年10月6日 18:53 / 联合早报

德国联邦检察机关星期二（10月6日）说，德国前对外情报机构负责人奥古斯特·汉宁（August Hanning）因涉嫌付费获取机密文件，并利用这些资料为一个外国情报机构撰写分析报告而被捕。

路透社报道，检方没有说明涉及的是哪个外国情报机构，目前也不清楚有关分析最终是否交到预定接收者手中。

检方指，汉宁于2005年结束担任德国联邦情报局局长五年后，与一名前情报局办公室主管达成协议，以支付报酬换取机密情报资料。

这名前办公室主管因隐私规定仅被称为曼弗雷德·D（Manfred D.），也于星期二被捕。

检方说，D涉嫌多年来向汉宁提供约2000份文件，其中包括仅限德国联邦情报局内部使用的机密资料，以及提交给总理府高层的情报简报。

据检方指控，汉宁利用D提供的机密信息，为一个外国情报机构的一名官员撰写分析报告；此外，他多年来还曾向另一个外国情报机构的一名代表提供政治信息。

德国《南德意志报》获得的信息显示，这起案件不涉及俄罗斯。

Battle over daylight saving time erupts as push to stop changing clocks hits Senate wall

October 6, 2026 6:15am EDT / Fox News

Cotton butts heads with Trump, arguing permanent daylight saving time would leave Arkansas kids attending school in the dark

By Alex Miller Fox News

Published October 6, 2026 6:15am EDT

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Trump addresses Iran and permanent daylight saving time

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House about Iran, falling oil prices, and making daylight saving time permanent.

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The battle over Americans’ clocks reemerged in an unlikely way over the weekend, with President Donald Trump picking a fight with one of his top allies over the issue.

There have been many fights in Congress over the nearly two years that Trump has been in office for his second term that either ended in partisan victory or gloriously fizzled out, but one has quietly gone onto the shelf despite his pressure on Republicans to do something about it.

And that fight is over allowing states to voluntarily observe daylight saving time year-round to effectively do away with the twice-a-year ritual of changing clocks. It’s a popular issue with voters and the president, and there’s a bill that passed the House this summer to enact the change. But it’s a policy issue that has divided both sides of the aisle and ground to a halt in the upper chamber.

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President Donald Trump wants to make daylight saving permanent, but a geographic coalition of northern versus southern states are in a heated debate over the merits of the change, which spells doom for the bill.(Evan Vucci-Pool/Getty Images; Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has been one of the more vocal opponents of the bill, vowing to block any attempts to fast-track it on the floor. That resistance earned him a Truth Social post from Trump, who over the weekend shared his personal phone number in a bid to pressure the lawmaker to change his stance on daylight saving time.

“Almost everybody wants “The Sunshine Protection Act” to pass, except for Tom Cotton,” Trump said. “To the Great People of Arkansas, please let your Senator know it would be a GREAT Bipartisan WIN for the United States Senate, and for America, itself.”

Cotton responded, noting that Congress has tackled daylight saving time before, only to roll back the change shortly after.

“No one likes changing the clock, me included, but Congress has enacted permanent Daylight Saving Time multiple times before and repealed it each time once Americans experienced absurdly late sunrises in the winter,” Cotton said on X. “Arkansans don’t want their kids going to school in the pitch dark, and I’ll always put Arkansas first.”

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In the 1970s, lawmakers did enact year-round daylight saving time. But Americans rapidly soured on the change, especially parents whose children had to wait in the dark for the school bus. It was repealed about a year later.

And Cotton recently answered an off-the-cuff question from a fellow Republican during their weekly closed-door policy lunches, a source told Fox News Digital, where he made a similar case as his response to Trump. No one pushed back during the meeting.

The issue of daylight saving time, and supporting a permanent fix or sticking to the status quo are more geographical than political.

It’s, in part, mountainous and Western states versus coastal states. On one side of the spectrum are lawmakers like Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., who introduced a Senate version of the bill last year.

“Every year, more Americans grow more frustrated setting their clocks back and forth, and every winter folks in Washington state despair at the prospect of losing an hour of precious sunlight when we are forced off Daylight Saving Time,” Murray said in a statement at the time.

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Aerial view of downtown Bozeman, Montana at dusk.(iStock/DianeBentleyRaymond)

Lawmakers in landlocked states out West, like Sens. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and Mike Rounds, R-S.D., warn that it would cause kids in their states to go to school in the dark.

“I can see where Florida likes it for tee times at certain times of the year, but it doesn’t work so well for moms and dads putting kids on buses when the sunrise in Western Montana wouldn’t be till 9:30 in the morning. It’s not going to work for us,” Daines told CNN in July.

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The most vital currency in the Senate is floor time. And lawmakers won’t have much floor time to spare when they return after the midterm elections in November. Though it’s popular, more pressing issues like the National Defense Authorization Act, supplemental funding for the war and a looming government funding battle will likely take precedence.

And Republican leaders acknowledge that it’s not as easy as a simple yes-or-no vote for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

“Depends where you’re living in the country and the impact — what it would be, in your own home state,” Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said in July. “So it’s not as simple as what one state might like.”

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

Buttigieg, Gallego and other potential 2028 Democratic contenders set to discuss party’s future at post-midterms meeting

2026-10-06T10:01:44.760Z / CNN

By Patrick Svitek

Pete Buttigieg speaks during a town hall at the La Crosse Center on January 16, 2026, in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Buttigieg spoke about housing costs, child care and the need for leadership.

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A group of potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates is heading to Denver days after the midterms to discuss the party’s future, in one of the party’s first major gatherings following the election.

Attendees will include former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and former US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, as well as Sens. Ruben Gallego of Arizona, Chris Murphy of Connecticut, Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, according to an initial lineup shared first with CNN. The group of speakers also includes Govs. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey and Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, plus several additional members of Congress.

The “What’s Next” summit is being hosted from November 12-14 by Majority Democrats, an organization that launched last year to help Democrats win in more places.

In staging the event less than two weeks after the midterms, where Democrats hope to retake the Senate and the House, the group is looking to move quickly to outline the lessons learned from the election that could be instructive going forward, including in the next White House race.

Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona talks to reporters as he heads for a vote at the US Capitol on June 1, in Washington, DC.

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“This isn’t a policy conference nor a talk shop on tactics,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts, said in a statement. “What’s Next is timed for a unique moment after the midterms and before the presidential to debate a vision for the Democratic Party. Politicians who believe they have that vision should be on that stage.”

Organizers chose Denver partly because it is one of the cities under consideration to host the 2028 Democratic National Convention.

The initial lineup also includes top party strategists such as David Axelrod, former senior adviser to President Barack Obama and a chief political analyst at CNN; Quentin Fulks, former principal deputy campaign manager for Kamala Harris in 2024; and Morris Katz, adviser to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Majority Democrats is not the only organization holding an event in the immediate aftermath of the midterms in a bid to shape the party’s future. Two days after the election, some of the party’s most prominent strategists and commentators are set to converge in Washington, DC, for Crooked Con, which is hosted by the progressive media company Crooked Media.

Democrats think a blue wave is building. Here are 3 forces that could stop it

Polling errors, a weak Democratic brand and massive GOP ad spending could reshape close midterm races

October 6, 2026 5:00am EDT / Fox News

By Paul Steinhauser

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Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer is sounding increasingly bullish about his party’s chances of riding a potential blue wave into November, declaring Democrats have “the wind in our sails” as national and battleground polling points to a favorable political environment in the midterm elections.

But beneath that confidence are three variables that could determine whether the Democratic advantage becomes a wave — or breaks before Election Day: a potential polling undercount of Republicans, persistent voter skepticism of the Democratic brand, and the GOP’s financial firepower advantage.

Schumer, speaking to reporters last week as the Senate adjourned until after Election Day, predicted that Democrats are “on the edge of taking back the Senate.”

After nearly two years of President Donald Trump back in the White House and Republican control of the Senate and the House, Schumer emphasized, “Americans are frustrated with higher costs and a government they don’t believe is working for them.”

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., predicted that Democrats have “the wind in our sails” heading into this year’s midterm elections.(Getty Images)

The GOP is fighting political history, which has traditionally seen the party in power in Washington lose congressional seats during midterm election years. Add to that a challenging political climate fueled by persistent inflation Americans see at the grocery store, high gas prices tied to what polls show is an unpopular war with Iran, and Trump’s negative approval ratings.

The latest polls indicate Democrats holding an advantage over Republicans in the battle for Congress and that they are more enthusiastic to vote in the midterms.

But Trump predicts that Republicans will perform much better in the midterms than critics and pollsters expect.

“I think we’re going to have a big surprise, because they don’t know what’s happening,” the president told supporters at a rally Saturday night in Ohio, as he referred to Democrats.

Here’s a closer look at the three variables.

Polling problems?

Republicans control the Senate 53-47, which means Democrats need a net gain of four seats to win back the majority. But with one month to go until Election Day, Democrats are treading deeper and deeper into red territory as Republicans stay mostly on defense.

The latest Fox News polls indicate margin of error races in Michigan, a must-hold for the Democrats, and in Texas, Maine and Iowa, three seats the party is working to flip to win the majority. An average of the latest surveys also points to very close contests in Alaska, Ohio and Kansas, where the Democrats are playing offense, and Minnesota, a leading flip opportunity for the GOP.

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Fox News Power Rankings on which party voters trust more to handle the economy.(Remy Numa/Fox News)

But what if the polls are off?

“Polls considerably underestimated Donald Trump and other Republicans on the ticket with him in 2016, 2020, and, to a slightly lesser extent, in 2024,” polling guru, political analyst and statistician Nate Silver noted this past weekend.

But Silver added that polls in the previous two Trump-era midterms, 2018 and 2022, were essentially unbiased.

Fast-forward to this cycle, and polls in some high-profile Democratic primaries were off the mark. Among the miscues this summer: overestimating Abdul El-Sayed’s narrow victory in Michigan’s Senate showdown, and underestimating victories by Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota’s Senate primary, state Rep. Angie Nixon’s win in Florida’s Senate contest, and Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley’s upset victory to capture the Wisconsin gubernatorial nomination.

Coverage of the miscues grabbed widespread media attention and sparked fresh criticism of public opinion polling.

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Fox News Power Rankings on midterm seat losses under President Donald Trump’s economy.(Remy Numa/Fox News)

If the surveys are overestimating Democratic turnout and underestimating Republican enthusiasm, even a modest polling miss could reshape several of the close Senate contests.

“I don’t think any Democrat is over optimistic after … 2024. We all understand that anything can happen in the closing days, and we’re preparing for that,” longtime New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley told Fox News Digital.

Bad brand?

Trump’s approval ratings remain well underwater, as do favorable ratings for the GOP.

But surveys indicate the Democrats’ brand is nothing to brag about.

The Democrats’ favorable rating hovered in negative territory in the most recent Fox News national poll, at 44%-55%. And it was even lower in the latest Wall Street Journal national survey, at 38% favorable and 58% unfavorable.

“I think just because Americans are outraged because of how Republicans have failed them and made their life more expensive doesn’t automatically mean that they’re going to embrace and trust Democrats,” former Biden administration Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told Fox News Digital on Saturday.

Buttigieg, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate who is considering another White House run in 2028, said it’s crucial Democrats “make sure that our candidates get out there, make it very clear who they are, what they’re about, and what we would do differently.”

Making life even tougher for the Democrats: the victories by left-wing and socialist-aligned candidates over more moderate contenders in the party’s primaries, which gave the GOP more messaging ammunition to portray all Democrats on the ballot this year as radicals.

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Republicans argue that Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is too far to the left for voters in battleground state Michigan.(Emily Elconin/Getty Images)

That’s the case in Michigan, Minnesota and Florida, where El-Sayed, Flanagan and Nixon all defeated establishment-backed rivals.

Meanwhile, in Texas, a trail of controversial past comments by Talarico is handing the GOP more firepower.

But Democrats in all four of these Senate showdowns are returning fire by anchoring the Republicans on the ballot to Trump.

In the latest Fox News poll in Texas, 53% of those questioned said they were extremely or very concerned that Talarico is too liberal. But a near equal amount, 51%, said they were extremely or very concerned that Paxton is too close to Trump.

Money matters

Republicans are winning the ad wars, thanks to a major money advantage. Boosted by massive cash infusions from the Trump-aligned MAGA Inc. and other leading Republican groups and donors, the GOP is outspending the Democrats in all the crucial Senate showdowns.

That includes a roughly $70 million advantage in Ohio and nearly $30 million in Maine and Texas, three top targets for the Democrats, according to figures from AdImpact, a top ad-tracking firm. The GOP’s outspending the Democrats by approximately $25 million in Michigan, which Republicans are aiming to flip.

Republicans are also outspending Democrats in swing state New Hampshire, in the battle to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.

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“The amount of money being spent is enormous,” Buckley told Fox News Digital, as he pointed to all the Republican-aligned ads flooding the small state.

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But Buckley said Democrats have organizing and enthusiasm advantages.

“We might not be as competitive as we’d like on television, but we’re certainly competitive knocking on the doors. We’ve got the energy out there. The voters are excited. You saw that with the turnout in the primaries throughout the country,” he said.

Paul Steinhauser covers the national campaign trail from coast to coast for Fox News

‘Let Troy be Troy’: How Maine Democrats’ hope to beat Sen. Susan Collins is working to quiet doubters

2026-10-06T09:00:44.993Z / CNN

As Democrats enter the homestretch of their longtime quest to defeat Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins, they are placing their hope in a fifth-generation logger from the state’s rural north who speaks with a distinct Allagash accent, displays an apparent penchant for boba tea and has never been this close to the national spotlight before.

This was not how it was supposed to go.

But more than two months after Democrats picked Troy Jackson to replace Graham Platner following allegations of sexual assault that Platner has denied, his supporters, critics and other observers agree on one thing.

“Troy is definitely unusual,” said Douglas Rooks, a longtime Maine writer and historian who worked in the state legislature when Jackson first arrived there in 2002. “He is very different from anybody who’s been elected in a long, long time from Maine and many other places.”

Jackson’s quirkiness is set to be tested in a crucial period of the campaign beginning Tuesday night, when he and Collins are set to meet for the first of four debates in 10 days. And this weekend, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) is set to visit Maine for three rallies with Jackson, testing whether the progressive working-class politics they share play as well in a general election as they do in a primary.

“Jackson is who he is, and I think in this election, people like that,” said Jim Melcher, a political science professor at the University of Maine at Farmington. But he also said Jackson would have a “learning curve” on navigating the Senate compared to Collins that could work against him.

Jackson has hit a few road bumps recently. A September story from New York magazine aired out concerns he’s being overly managed by out-of-state consultants, a video of him enjoying a boba tea drew widespread ridicule onlinehttps://www.facebook.com/TroyJacksonmaine/videos/sips-boba-tea-/1789304855601895/, and he had to apologize for theorizing about why Jews may not want to call the war in Gaza a genocide.

A CBS News/YouGov poll released Friday showed some warning signs for Jackson. Forty-three percent of Democrats said they wished someone else were their nominee, and nearly a fifth of voters who disapproved of Trump said they still supported Collins. The poll found the Senate race tied.

Jackson, who lost his primary bid for Maine governor earlier this year before the Senate nomination came open, is still working to galvanize some former Platner loyalists. Scott Niemi, an organizer who met with Platner in August to pitch him on a write-in campaign that Platner ultimately rejected, said he supports Jackson but raised questions about his ability to excite Democrats.

“Obviously he doesn’t carry the same energy as Graham, and he definitely doesn’t have the speaking ability that Graham did,” Niemi said. “I think that’s kind of hurt him the most. We went from someone who’s fiery, had a lot of fight in him, to a guy who’s a bit on the calm side, which I can appreciate, but we want someone who can go to Washington and fight for us.”

Jackson has insisted he is staying the course.

“Nothing has changed,” Jackson said during a call-in program on Maine radio Thursday when asked about the New York magazine story. “This campaign has the same people working on it that it did during the governor’s race. At the end of the day, this campaign is for anyone and everyone who wants to beat Susan Collins and Donald Trump and have a government that works for them.”

Cathy Breen, a Jackson supporter who served with him in the state Senate, said he is “in brand new waters, which I’m sure is disorienting.” But she said she was confident in his campaign and strategy, noting he “absolutely knows what happened” in 2020 when Maine Democrats nominated a more traditional politician, state House Speaker Sara Gideon, and had their hopes dashed by Collins.

“Mainers can smell Washington like nobody’s business, and they don’t like Washington telling them what they do,” Breen said. “I think Troy’s done a really good job of staying true to his story.”

Jackson has made at least 50 public appearances since he replaced Platner in late July, according to his campaign. He has leaned into making the race a referendum on Collins’ support for Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade, an issue that national Democrats believe is key to peeling off women who have historically broken for Collins.

Democrats were at least initially excited that Jackson mixed Platner’s outside image with far more government and political experience. But Republicans are working to use his resume against him.

“The fact is, Troy is a 20-year Augusta insider, which poses a problem for him, since Mainers know that’s where so many of their biggest problems come from,” Collins campaign spokesperson Blake Kernen said in a statement.

Collins remains under pressure to answer for a recent ProPublica story detailing an alleged pay-to-play scheme involving her office, a report she’s strenuously disputed. And President Donald Trump continues to be a major vulnerability for her in a state where he is deeply unpopular.

Some Jackson supporters say his mission is to strike more of a balance between his Aroostook County folksiness and the gravitas that Mainers have come to expect from their senators, including on policy issues. Rooks said the transition from the small world of state politics – the Maine Legislature is part-time – to a federal race can trip up politicians and cause “a lot of vertigo.”

“If I were helping him with debate prep, which I am not, my thing would be, ‘let Troy be Troy,’ and let’s just make sure on substance, he’s sharp,” said Nirav Shah, who also tried to replace Platner but dropped out as Maine Democrats coalesced around Jackson.

熊猫返华后 东京上野动物园游客减少两成

2026-10-06 16:56 / 联合早报

日本东京上野动物园的大熊猫晓晓和蕾蕾今年1月底返回中国后，园方游客人数明显下滑。

日本新闻网报道，由于园内目前已没有大熊猫，今年2月至8月的游客人数比去年同期减少约20%。园方如今开始把鲸头鹳作为新的主打动物，并利用它长时间一动不动站立的独特习性吸引游客。

1月25日是游客最后一天能在上野动物园看到晓晓和蕾蕾。这对双胞胎出生于上野动物园，因活泼好动的模样深受欢迎。

东京都政府数据显示，今年1月动物园游客人数比去年同期多近3万人，但2月至8月约有153万人到访，同比减少19%。

上野动物园副园长金子美香子说：“游客减少清楚反映了熊猫返回中国的影响。过去即使是平日，也有很多人专程来看熊猫。”

上野动物园预计还会有一段时间没有大熊猫。

东京都政府一名高级官员说：“只要中日关系没有出现解冻迹象，新熊猫就不太可能来日本。”

自1972年大熊猫康康和兰兰来到日本后，“说到上野就想到熊猫”的印象逐渐深入人心。虽然如今上野已经没有大熊猫，当地仍继续举办相关活动，希望有朝一日熊猫能重返上野。

松坂屋上野店今年6月照例举办年度熊猫活动。6月也是香香、晓晓和蕾蕾的出生月份。商场在外墙悬挂三只熊猫的巨幅横幅，并举办照片展和集章活动。

上野也继续成为熊猫迷聚会、怀念大熊猫的地方。一些熊猫迷会在看完展览后一起用餐交流。

73岁的上野观光联盟名誉会长二木忠男说，由于上野有许多博物馆和其他旅游景点，他没有感觉到游客明显减少，而且仍能看到许多外国游客。

不过，二木说，他也深刻体会到，大熊猫留在上野并不是理所当然的事。

他说：“我们热切期待它们回来。”

熟悉休闲产业的樱美林大学教授山口有次说：“大熊猫一直是上野动物园最大的明星。未来可能还会出现更多影响，例如相关商品销售下滑。”

“这对动物园来说无疑是一段艰难时期，园方今后必须更加努力吸引新的粉丝，并加强对外宣传。”