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Trump urges calls to cellphone of Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton in battle over permanent daylight saving time bill

October 3, 2026 2:33 PM EDT / CBS/AP

President Donald Trump on Saturday pressured Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas to support a bill to make daylight saving time permanent, urging Americans to call what appeared to be the personal cellphone number of Cotton, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The Sunshine Protection Act passed the House in July in a 308 to 117 vote. Mr. Trump called the passage of the bill “Great News for America!” at the time.

The bill still faces roadblocks in the Senate, where some Republicans are strongly opposed. Proponents, including the White House, argue that the change would provide more daylight during the times that Americans are most active.

Detractors said permanent daylight saving time would lead to darker and potentially more hazardous winter mornings when children will be waiting for school buses and parents will be driving to work in darkness.

The president has changed his position on the issue throughout the years. Mr. Trump has called both for daylight saving time to be eliminated and for it to be made permanent.

Daylight saving time is the period between spring and fall when clocks in most parts of the United States are set one hour ahead of standard time. Not all states observe it — and under the bill, states can opt out of the change if their respective legislatures act to do so before the bill’s enactment.

“For some reason, Tom is stopping the Bill and, in the Senate, it’s very easy to do, it only takes one!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media, noting that passing the bill would give professional golfers more time on the greens. “So, everyone in Arkansas, a State I love, and won 3 times, the last by by 34 points, tell Tom to, GET IT DONE! It will be appreciated by all,” Mr. Trump said.

Mr. Trump included a phone number with an Arkansas area code. This is not the first time the president has released personal information about a senator.

While competing for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina described Mr. Trump as “unfit for office” after Mr. Trump denigrated the military service of Sen. John McCain of Arizona. Mr. Trump then released Graham’s personal cellphone number. That prompted a viral video in which the senator dramatically destroyed a series of flip phones. Graham later became a close ally of Mr. Trump.

Cotton, a member of Republican leadership, reiterated his opposition to permanent daylight saving time in a social media post of his own Saturday afternoon, though he is not the only Republican who opposes it.

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

Mr. Trump responded: ” If Tom Cotton were putting Arkansas first, he would give them an extra hour of daylight and, more importantly, they wouldn’t have to run all over their houses, farms, work places, and everywhere else, twice a year, having to change their Clocks, and often forgetting to do so.”

Members of Congress have long been interested in the potential benefits and costs of daylight saving time since it was first adopted as a wartime measure in 1942. The Senate passed a bill four years ago to make daylight saving time permanent, but it stalled in the House.

中尼科学家组建科考队 开展地质灾害应急科考

2026年10月3日 22:53 / 联合早报

9月3日，中国消防救援人员在吉隆泥石流灾害核心区开展搜寻与消毒工作。 （路透社）

中尼边境突发特大泥石流灾害后，中国与尼泊尔共同组建地质灾害应急跨境科学考察队，寻求破解冰岩崩灾害链演化的谜题，并评估次生灾害风险。

新华社消息，由中国地质大学（北京）牵头、尼泊尔科学院协同组建的地质灾害应急跨境科学考察队星期六（10月3日）在成都理工大学举行出征仪式。中国专家将于星期天（4日）从成都启程赴尼泊尔，开展跨境冰冻圈与岩石圈巨灾应急联合科考。

据介绍，科考队包含十余家高校与科研院所的50余名科研人员，中国科学院院士王成善与尼泊尔科学院院士比沙尔·乌普雷蒂共同担任首席科学家。

王成善说，科研人员将抢抓灾后黄金窗口期，到境外源区开展应急调查，获取珍贵的野外观测数据。

他续指，科考队将打通境外源区、境内受灾体、下游流域全链条调查，既要破解冰岩崩灾害链演化的科学谜题，评估次生灾害风险，也将服务吉隆口岸恢复重建，为青藏高原及周边地区的跨境冰冻灾害防控提供科学参考。

成都理工大学副校长侯明才说，受全球气候变化影响，冰冻圈岩石圈耦合引发的跨境链式冰冻地质灾害风险增大，应对跨境灾害风险离不开跨国协同。成都理工大学将承担全流域重点河段及灾害堆积体三维建模、灾害链识别与风险评估等相关工作。

报道称，这次科考着力厘清冰岩崩链式转化的全过程，为跨境地质灾害联防联控贡献中国科学方案。

中尼边境8月26日因冰川崩塌引发如海啸般的特大泥石流。根据尼泊尔国家灾难局公布的数据，尼泊尔境内已确认上千人遇难，超过5000人失踪；另据中国官方统计，中国境内有43人遇难，519人失联。

台海巡署以水炮驱离大陆渔船 引台湾强硬执法讨论

2026年10月3日 22:56 / 联合早报

• 台海巡署通报，云林舰在东沙限制水域向一艘大陆渔船喷水驱离，渔船失去动力后获海巡戒护拖带并移交。 – 大陆国台办回应称，台方不得使用危险方式粗暴对待正常作业的大陆船舶船员，否则一切责任由台方承担。 – 苏紫云受访称，水炮驱离是单一事件，不能解读为整体态度强硬，而是被动防御的底线原则。 – 祁冬涛分析，北京此次回应相对克制，主因是事件未造成人员伤亡，且与金门快艇翻覆事件性质不同。

台湾海巡署云林舰星期四（10月1日）在东沙岛海域用水炮驱离大陆渔船。 （自由时报）

台湾升级东沙巡防执法之际，海巡署舰艇喷射水炮驱离进入限制区域的中国大陆渔船，引发两岸舆论对台湾“态度变强硬”的讨论。

台湾海巡署星期五（10月2日）通报，星期四（1日）下午3时许在东沙岛东方27海里处，两艘大陆渔船在限制水域内下锚作业。海巡署云林舰广播要求离开后，“粤惠东渔75066”渔船起锚航离，但渔船“金鲨”留在原地。

海巡署副署长谢庆钦在通报会上说，云林舰向上空喷水30秒警告无效后，再逐渐靠近，向“金鲨”驾驶舱喷水90秒，“全程避开甲板上人员”。但渔船航离时失去动力，海巡“基于人道主义”全程戒护，派小艇前往查看，确认船上人员没有受伤、提供热食，并拖带“金鲨”离开限制水域，于星期五清晨将渔船交给大陆工作船。

中国大陆国台办星期五晚回应说，台方应尊重两岸渔民在传统渔区作业的历史和事实，不得使用危险方式粗暴对待在相关海域正常作业的大陆船舶船员，如造成严重后果，一切责任由台方承担。

事件发生后，相关水炮喷射视频在网上传开。不少台湾网民赞扬海巡署做法，台湾民进党立委王定宇还在脸书转发视频，配文“税金花在这里，爽！”大陆网民则指责水炮驱离行为，称台湾“态度变强硬了”，在“国庆当天欺负自己人”；还有人用“开炮”形容驱离。

东沙群岛位于台湾南部与香港之间，距台湾本岛超过400公里，由台湾实际控制。这并非台湾首次在该区域使用水炮驱离大陆渔船，但此次事件发生在台湾全面升级东沙巡防执法之际，引发舆论对其政治意涵的讨论。

台海巡署上月宣布，全面升级东沙海域整体巡防执法，100吨级巡防艇正式进驻东沙岛，大型巡防舰常态部署东沙海域。当局也称，自去年2月起，对大陆“越界非法作业小舟”的处置由“驱离”提升为“强势扣留”。截至9月23日，台湾当局已在东沙查扣八案九艘大陆小舟。

台湾国防安全研究院战略与资源研究所所长苏紫云接受《联合早报》采访时说，用水炮驱离是单一事件，不能解读为整体“态度强硬”，而是“被动防御的底线原则”。但这起事件可以放在东沙整体执法收紧的背景下观察——即东沙港口设施升级后，可供更大型海巡船靠泊，台湾也强化对越界作业船只的处置，“硬件和政策都在同步提升”。

苏紫云说，执法强化既是为应对大陆海上“灰色地带”压力，也是生态保护和打击非法捕捞的需要，整体是“防御而非挑衅”。至于事件引发“台湾更强硬”观感，或与水炮喷射画面具较强视觉冲击有关。

中国大陆也有评论反驳“台湾强了、大陆怂了”的论调。福建《海峡导报》星期六（3日）在新媒体平台转发自媒体“湖畔看局”文章称，岛内舆论反复放大水炮画面，把一次海上执法事件包装成“敢于对抗大陆”的象征，放大了两岸情绪，也增加了海上人员误判和事态升级的风险。

文章称，处理这类事件，首先要把人员安全放在前面，依法维护渔民合法权益，推动相关问题通过专业渠道处理。“大陆渔民也应增强风险意识，遵守有关海域作业规定。”

新加坡国立大学东亚研究所高级研究员祁冬涛受访时分析，随着中美关系趋稳，台湾存在被华盛顿当作交易筹码的担忧，加上11月即将举行地方选举，绿营可能借这次事件强调，即便外部环境对台湾不利，政府仍有能力维护自身利益。

他指出，北京此次的回应相对克制，主要原因是事件没有造成人员伤亡，台湾海巡署事后还协助大陆渔船，提供食物和拖带。

祁冬涛说，这与2024年金门快艇翻覆事件造成大陆人员死亡的性质不同，因此大陆没有进一步升级事态的迫切性。大陆在台湾地方选举前，反而还会尽量避免两岸冲突升温，以免相关事件被绿营候选人利用。

颜欣慧短池世界杯巴库站夺金 两天连破两项全国纪录

2026年10月3日 23:06 / 新明日报

颜欣慧在2026年世界泳联游泳世界杯首站比赛中夺得金牌，并打破自己的800米自由泳的短池全国纪录。 （档案照片）

我国长距离自由泳好手颜欣慧在国际赛场上表现突出，于两天内接连打破两项短池全国纪录。

在阿塞拜疆巴库举行的2026年世界泳联游泳世界杯首站比赛中，颜欣慧继星期五（10月2日）在短池女子400米自由泳项目游出4分01秒94的新全国纪录后，次日再度于短池女子800米自由泳比赛中勇夺金牌。

在800米较量中，颜欣慧以8分15秒73的成绩率先触壁，不仅创下个人最佳成绩，更一举打破了由她自己于2024年布达佩斯世界短池游泳锦标赛上创下的8分18秒85的前全国纪录。她将原纪录大幅缩短了3秒12，并且以领先第二名1秒78的优势强势登顶。

亚运六天连赢三枚银牌 打破女子400米自由泳48年奖牌荒

在爱知—名古屋亚运会中，代表新加坡出战的颜欣慧同样大放异彩。之前频频与奖牌擦肩而过的她，终于在第三次出战亚运会时不再有遗憾，在六天内连赢三枚银牌。

她在9月20日举行的1500米自由泳决赛中夺得银牌，以16分00秒45刷新了自己保持的全国纪录（16分01秒29）。

两天后，她也在女子400米自由泳项目以4分06秒81再获一银，打破由她保持的原全国纪录（4分09秒34），并进账个人第二枚亚运奖牌，终结了我国在该项目中长达48年的奖牌荒。

此外，颜欣慧在上星期五（9月25日）的女子800米自由泳决赛交出8分26秒25，拿下银牌的同时也打破全国纪录（8分29秒56）。

MAGA mom’s dire warning over tech guardrails as Trump puts pedal to the metal on race with China

2026-10-03T09:00:54-04:00 / Fox News

Humans First chairwoman Amy Kremer says AI companies should face the same reporting requirements as airlines and hospitals

By Peter D’Abrosca Fox News

Published October 3, 2026 9:00am EDT

Tea Party, MAGA leader calls for safety guardrails on AI

A conservative leader who now runs a AI-centered nonprofit wants regulations to safeguard children and American jobs amid the artificial intelligence boom.

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A conservative political activist who has been deeply entrenched in right-wing politics for decades is calling on the government to implement safety guardrails on artificial intelligence (AI), especially when it comes to protecting children and ensuring that the booming technology doesn’t displace American workers en masse.

“If something happens with one of these companies, whether it’s a child taking their own life due to suicide by manipulation with a chatbot, these companies are not required to report it to the federal government,” Amy Kremer told Fox News Digital.

Kremer is the chairwoman of Humans First, a gorup that advocates for government safeguards on the technology and says it gives the American people a voice in the AI conversation, rather than leaving all the power in the hands of what it calls “Big AI globalists” who have little concern for ordinary Americans.

Chairwoman of Humans First Amy Kremer speaks during the Pro-Human Assembly at the Marriott Marquis Washington on Sept. 15, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Industry leaders, politicians including Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., and community members gathered for a day of discussion around AI legislation.(Finn Gomez/Getty Images)

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“We are a grassroots organization focused on putting guardrails and safety mechanisms in place around AI technology in order to protect the American people, our children, jobs and so forth, and also to put those guardrails in place to to make sure that the people have a seat at the table and a voice in the conversation about what goes into their community,” Kremer said.

Kremer, who is known by the political right for her time as a Tea Party advocate and ferocious fighter for President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, mentioned the 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University, which claimed the lives of two people and injured six others, as an instance of AI gone wrong.

Court documents in that case claim that the alleged shooter, Phoenix Ikner, used ChatGPT to plan aspects of the shooting. The company was sued by the wife of one of the deceased victims, and the state of Florida took the rare step of opening a criminal investigation into the company.

“If a chatbot is used in planning a school shooting like what happened at Florida State University in April of 2025, they’re not required to report that to the federal government,” said Kremer. “The only reason we know about a number of these things that have happened is because of lawsuits that have been filed by the victims and/or their families.”

The proposed AI plan focuses on children’s safety, energy use, job training and free speech protections as the U.S. races to lead globally.(Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

She argued that as a former flight attendant, she had to report every issue on an airliner to the government. And just as hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and hordes of other industries are regulated under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Kremer believes that AI companies should face similar scrutiny.

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AI is a hotly-contested issue ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, with some Democrats looking to reign in the technology while the Trump administration hoping to keep competition and innovation flowing in the effort to win the AI race with China.

But Kremer is far from a Democrat, and she wants also wants the United States to crush China in the race for technological dominance.

“I want America to win this AI race, I absolutely I do. I’m America first, always have been, and we’ve led the world on innovation and ingenuity,” she said. “But again … I go back to, you don’t have to forego safety to have innovation and ingenuity.”

“I’m not siding with the Democrats,” Kremer said. “I am not a tech person. I’m not anti-AI. I’m not anti-technology. I’m not anti-data center.”

“I am a mom with common sense and I’m a conservative, and it only makes sense that guardrails are put in place,” she added.

The Trump administration unveiled a national AI framework aimed at boosting innovation while protecting Americans from emerging risks tied to artificial intelligence.(Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Jay L Clendenin/Getty Images)

After all, Kremer said, AI companies aren’t partisan actors.

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“They don’t care about Republicans, they don’t care about Democrats, they don’t care about Americans. At the end of the day, I think they care about their own companies and their technology, and that’s what, what drives them,” she said. “And so, everything with these guys I think is contractual, you know, it’s not, ‘these are my friends, these are the people, I have the same ideology.’ It’s contractual, it’s what benefits them and I think that’s why they’ve cozied up to President Trump and Republicans in this administration and Congress.”

In a high-stakes summit in Washington, D.C., last week, AI was a hot topic of discussing between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Trump, though what exactly was discussed remains under wraps.

“The Trump administration’s priority is to ensure there is a booming economy so that workers have many opportunities and experience limited volatility from any short-term disruptions,” a White House official told Fox News Digital. “The goal is for workers to continue to have access to high paying jobs and that workers can easily adapt to new technologies and processes.”

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Lawmakers and child safety advocates are demanding stronger safeguards as teens increasingly rely on AI chatbots.(Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

As for children’s safety, the official pointed Fox News Digital to its National Policy Framework on Artificial Intelligence.

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That framework calls on Congress to implement a number of AI child safety measures, including empowering parents with tools to control their children’s content exposure, privacy settings, content exposure and account controls.

It also asks the lawmaking body to “establish commercially reasonable, privacy protective, age assurance requirements (such as parental attestation) for AI platforms and services likely to be accessed by minors,” and ensure that AI platforms implement safeguards against child sexual exploitation and self-harm.

Peter D’Abrosca is a politics reporter at Fox News Digital.

兹维列夫中网轻取中国新星 八强会师乔天王

2026年10月3日 23:21 / 联合早报

• 中网男单头号种子兹维列夫星期六以6比0、6比3轻取持外卡参赛的中国球员商峻程，晋级八强。 – 六号种子乔科维奇耗时近三小时逆转淘汰布云朝克特，中网连胜纪录达31场，将与兹维列夫争四强。 – 女单三号种子可可·高芙苦战逾两小时击败奥索里奥晋级32强，下轮将对阵中国16岁小将孙心然。 – 郑钦文在首盘失利后扳平盘数，第三盘领先时对手因身体不适退赛；头号种子莱巴金娜则爆冷出局。

德国名将兹维列夫（图）以6比0、6比3轻取中国新星商峻程晋级八强。 （法新社）

世界男单二号德国名将兹维列夫（Zverev）星期六（10月3日）晚以6比0、6比3兵不血刃斩落中国新星商峻程，顺利晋级中国网球公开赛男单八强，他将与六号种子塞尔维亚天王乔科维奇（Djokovic）争夺一张半决赛席位。

赛后谈到双方即将上演的巅峰对决，兹维列夫说：“非常兴奋，也非常期待。我知道他很喜欢这里的场地，他在这里有连胜31场的纪录，真的是很棒。我和他在三盘两胜的硬地中他胜率很高，他的状态很好，很期待这样一场挑战赛。”

中网男单赛会头号种子与持外卡参赛的商峻程首次交手，但两个人的水平相距甚远。本场比赛，兹维列夫就像在热身和调整状态，以6比0、6比3完胜。

与兹维列夫轻松取胜不同，他的复赛对手乔科维奇在星期五（2日）晚上耗时近三个小时，最终以4比6、7比6（2）、6比2逆转淘汰中国球员布云朝克特晋级八强，让他的中网连胜纪录达到31场。整场比赛，他发出15记爱司球（直接发球得分）。

赛后，乔科维奇说：“这场比赛对我的意义非常重大。在第一盘落后的时候，真的是很努力逆转形势，这个价值就相当于两场胜利吧。以这样一种方式获胜，让我感觉非常的骄傲，自己心理的努力和身体上的努力都有回报，这样的感觉非常艰难，也有更多的压力，你必须得在赛场上做出正确的事情才能够逆转。”

继首轮后，乔科维奇在次轮的第二盘同样申请医疗暂停，经过医生对他腹部的按摩后才重返赛场。对此，他表示不想说得太多太细。“今年真的对我来说非常艰难，身体和心理上都是巨大的困难。我希望能够找到不同的方式来解决几个问题，让我能够有一个比较好的身体在赛场上跟对手去竞争。这跟体力没有关系，这是跟我自己的健康相关，这是我跟我的团队需要去关注的事情。”

美国女将可可晋级32强

中网女单方面星期六进入第二轮对决，多场焦点战轮番开打。日场比赛方面，女单赛会三号种子美国好手可可·高芙（Coco Gauff）以7比6（4）、4比6、6比2力克哥伦比亚的奥索里奥·塞拉诺（Camila Osorio）‌，晋级女单32强。

本场比赛耗时2小时18分钟，打得并不轻松。首盘可可一度以5比2领先，但被对手拖入抢七，最终她以7比6（4）险胜。次盘奥索里奥凭借顽强的底线防守以6比4扳回，但决胜盘‌可可凭着更充沛的体能和更稳定的发球，以6比2胜出。‌‌

赛后，可可坦承她的发球状态起伏明显，面对排名66位的奥索里奥的顽强抵抗，多次在长多拍中依靠稳定的反手和大角度救球才稳住局面，尤其在对手挽救两个赛点的情况下，及时调整状态拿下胜利，对自己的心态调整能力感到满意。

可可说：“这也是我美网之后的第一场比赛，所以我就是希望能够尝试着让自己进入比赛的模式。我觉得赛季到了这么一个阶段，真的就是最后一搏了。所以我觉得今天这样的一场比赛，是对我亚洲赛季一个很好的开始。”

第三轮，可可将对阵持外卡参赛的中国16岁小将孙心然。后者次轮以6比4、7比5挑落27号种子克里斯蒂娜·布克沙（Cristina Bucsa），跻身32强。

本赛季，孙心然表现出色，连续打进法网、温网、美网青少年女单决赛，并在美网夺冠，目前位居ITF青少年女单世界第一。展望与可可的比赛，她说：“我知道她是很棒的球员，大满贯冠军。我很期待与她的对决，竭尽全力争夺每一分。”

对于中国一姐郑钦文来说，中网就是她心中的第五大满贯，即使她在与15号种子俄罗斯“微笑的美丽杀手”安娜·卡林斯卡娅（Anna Kalinskaya）对决中，首盘以6比7（4）失利后没有气馁，斗志昂扬，迅速调整自己的比赛状态，以6比4扳平盘数。第三盘她以3比0领先时，对手因身体不适为由选择退赛。

赛后在总结本场比赛时，郑钦文说：“打得很不容易。第一盘5比3领先，又有发球优势，也有很多破发点，是我自己的原因让比赛变得更困难，更复杂了。”

首轮轮空的头号种子哈萨克斯坦好手伊莲娜·莱巴金娜（Elena Rybakina）星期六晚间在钻石球场压轴亮相。她的对手是亚美尼亚的阿丽娜·查拉耶娃（Alina Charaeva）。前两盘双方战平，世界第一以6比3拿下首盘，阿丽娜以6比4扳回一程，第三盘后者以6比3爆冷胜出。

浮萍蔓延染绿比利时古城水道

2026年10月3日 23:13 / 联合早报

比利时古城根特的利斯河长满浮萍，水道仿佛铺上一层绿地毯。 （法新社）

比利时著名古城根特（Ghent）的运河近日被一层厚厚的鲜绿色浮萍覆盖，原本清澈的水道宛如铺上一层绿地毯。专家指出，这一前所未有的奇景是欧洲经历了史上最热夏天后，持续的酷热与少雨天气所诱发的极端生态现象。

据法新社报道，比利时与欧洲绝大部分地区在过去几个月遭受了一连串罕见的热浪袭击，今年夏天更是比利时史上最炎热的夏天。异常高温加上降雨严重减少，即使步入秋季，当地9月的气温仍频繁突破20摄氏度，为浮萍（Duckweed）的爆发性生长提供了绝佳条件。

根特游船船长西迪（Davide Siddi）受访时说：“我们在根特从来没见过这种景象。这种状况已经持续三周到一个月。”

运河水流停滞致浮萍暴增 专家警告或持续数周

法兰德斯水路局（Flanders Waterways）局长韦梅斯（Geert Weymeis）解释，这种现象主要影响了从法国北部流出，并穿过根特的利斯河（Lys River）。

“通常情况下，浮萍只会在静止的死水中生长，但目前它在各地大规模扩散。这是我们首次在这里看到如此大规模的爆发。”

他警告，如果未来几周气温没有显著下降，这层绿毯可能还会维持数周之久。

尽管浮萍对人体无害，游客仍可安全乘船游览沿岸的中世纪教堂与历史建筑，但这种水生植物会遮挡阳光，对水下的其他野生动植物造成伤害。

同时，浮萍暴增也给游船业者带来困扰。西迪透露，大量浮萍极易堵塞游船发动机的冷却系统，导致引擎过热，在过去一个月里，已经有几艘游船因此发生故障。

面对蓝天与碧绿运河形成的鲜明视觉对比，许多游客与市民纷纷停下脚步拍照留念，但在赞叹奇观的同时，也不禁对全球气候变化带来的深远影响感到担忧。

‘Activist judge’ rules Congress cannot bar noncitizens from voting in federal elections

October 3, 2026 8:00am EDT / Fox News

U.S. District Judge David Leibowitz dismissed charges against a Jamaican-born woman who voted in the 2020 election

By Elaine Mallon Fox News

A Biden-appointed judge is being labeled an “activist judge” by conservative critics after ruling that the federal government’s application of a law barring noncitizens from voting in elections violates the Constitution in a federal criminal case.

In a 31-page ruling, U.S. District Judge David Leibowitz of the Southern District of Florida dismissed federal charges against Chelsea Cox, a woman originally from Jamaica who voted in the 2020 presidential election, despite not being a U.S. citizen. The ruling comes as the Trump administration has intensified efforts to prevent noncitizens from voting, including through federal prosecutions and attempts to verify citizenship on state voter rolls, sparking legal battles with Democratic-led states and voting-rights groups. President Donald Trump’s election integrity efforts have been driven in large part by his and his allies’ belief that the 2020 election was “stolen” — an unproven claim he continues to maintain.

Leibowitz ruled that the Constitution gives states — not Congress — the authority to determine who qualifies to vote in elections, effectively ruling that a provision of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) criminalizing noncitizen voting in federal elections is unconstitutional as applied to Cox.

“The Constitution commits to the States, and the States alone, the general power to set voter qualifications in federal elections,” Leibowitz wrote in his ruling. “This is clear from both the text of the document and the debates at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.”

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The ruling garnered sharp blowback from Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, who is co-author of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which is currently being stalled in the Senate and unlikely to be passed before the midterm elections.

“This insane ruling will certainly be overturned,” Lee wrote on X. “But it gives the game away: Democrats pretend we don’t need the SAVE Act because non-citizen voting is already illegal… while activist judges try to destroy laws banning non-citizens from voting!”

Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow with Advancing American Freedom, agreed that Leibowitz’s ruling will most likely be “squashed” by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

“Judge David Leibowitz’s opinion that the federal law barring aliens from voting is unconstitutional is patently wrong,” Spakovsky told Fox News Digital. “It is true that states have the constitutional authority to set the qualifications of citizens who are eligible as voters in federal elections. But he ignores the fact that in Article I, Section 8, Congress is given 100% authority over naturalization.”

Spakovsky said the Constitution gives Congress authority to decide how noncitizens enter the country and what activities they may engage in once here.

“That gives the federal government the authority to ban aliens from voting or otherwise in any way participating in the democratic process,” Spakovsky said.

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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is calling out resistance to the SAVE America Act after Reuters reported that more than 30,000 noncitizens were discovered on U.S. voter rolls.(Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

Spakovsky pointed to Bluman v. FEC , a 2011 decision written by then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh and later summarily affirmed by the Supreme Court, which upheld restrictions on foreign nationals’ campaign spending. The opinion said the government may exclude noncitizens from activities tied to democratic self-government.

“The Supreme Court has long held that the government (federal, state, local) may exclude foreign citizens from activities that are part of the democratic self-regulation in the United States,” Kavanaugh wrote. “For example, the Supreme Court has ruled that the government may bar aliens from voting, serving as jurors, working as police or probation officers, or teaching at public schools.”

However, Bluman v. FEC involved campaign contributions and expenditures, not a federal criminal prosecution for voting.

Anhishek Kambil, a partner at Holtzman Vogel Law Firm, said he’d be “surprised” if the federal government did not prevail in its appeal.

Kambil pointed to Oregon v. Mitchell, in which the Supreme Court ruled the the government had the authority to set voting age in federal elections, which would be a voter qualifier.

“So the Supreme Court has held, in an instance, that there is federal government authority to regulate in certain instances some types of qualifications of voters, but the way that this judge read it kind of made everything a mess,” Kambil told Fox News Digital.

Leibowitz rejected the federal government’s argument that the Constitution grants Congress total authority over regulating immigration and noncitizens.

President Donald Trump arrives to host a dinner in the Rose Garden of the White House on Sept. 2, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Trump invited Republicans running in competitive races ahead of the November elections.(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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While he acknowledged that Congress has “broad, undoubted power” over immigration and noncitizens; he said those powers are not “a series of blank checks” and cannot override the Constitution’s “foundational constitutional constraints” assigning voter-qualification authority to the states.

The judge also rejected the federal government’s reliance on the Elections Clause, which allows Congress to regulate how states conduct federal elections, including by passing laws to combat voter fraud. Leibowitz said the statute at issue was not designed to regulate election procedures or prevent fraud but instead created a federal voter qualification by determining who could vote.

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While Leibowitz ruled that the federal government cannot continue prosecuting Chelsea Cox, Florida would still have the authority to bring state charges.

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President Joe Biden nominated Leibowitz to the federal bench in 2024. The Senate confirmed him, 64-33, in a bipartisan vote, with then-Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., voting in favor. Thursday’s ruling is his most politically consequential decision from the bench to date.

Elaine Mallon is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business covering national politics.

国际能源署：各国至今已释出3.25亿桶储备石油

2026年10月3日 20:39 / 联合早报

特朗普早前威胁将禁止出口柴油，导致欧洲燃油价格大涨。图为英国伦敦的一处加油站。 （彭博社）

国际能源署（IEA）星期六（10月3日）说，成员国迄今已从战略储备中释放3亿2500万桶原油及石油衍生产品，这低于各成员国在今年3月共同承诺的4亿桶。

七国集团（G7）在星期五（2日）与IEA协调一致，同意立即释放1亿桶柴油和原油，以缓解美伊战争引发的全球能源供应担忧。不过G7未说明，这1亿桶是否包含在今年3月与IEA达成的协议中、尚未落实的7500万桶，还是在原本的基础上额外释放。

G7是在美国总统特朗普持续施压，包括恫言美国将禁止柴油出口的威胁下，同意做出最新的释放，以协助缓解美国高涨的柴油价格。

美伊战争爆发后，IEA32个成员国在3月达成协议，承诺从战略储备中合计释放4亿桶石油以缓解石油紧缺局面。其中美国承诺提供1亿7200万桶，华盛顿刚在周二（9月29日）宣布释出最后一批4000万桶原油。

国际能源署：各国至今已释出3.25亿桶储备石油

2026年10月3日 20:39 / 联合早报

特朗普早前威胁将禁止出口柴油，导致欧洲燃油价格大涨。图为英国伦敦的一处加油站。 （彭博社）

国际能源署（IEA）星期六（10月3日）说，成员国迄今已从战略储备中释放3亿2500万桶原油及石油衍生产品，这低于各成员国在今年3月共同承诺的4亿桶。

七国集团（G7）在星期五（2日）与IEA协调一致，同意立即释放1亿桶柴油和原油，以缓解美伊战争引发的全球能源供应担忧。不过G7未说明，这1亿桶是否包含在今年3月与IEA达成的协议中、尚未落实的7500万桶，还是在原本的基础上额外释放。

G7是在美国总统特朗普持续施压，包括恫言美国将禁止柴油出口的威胁下，同意做出最新的释放，以协助缓解美国高涨的柴油价格。

美伊战争爆发后，IEA32个成员国在3月达成协议，承诺从战略储备中合计释放4亿桶石油以缓解石油紧缺局面。其中美国承诺提供1亿7200万桶，华盛顿刚在周二（9月29日）宣布释出最后一批4000万桶原油。