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Scandal-ridden Cory Mills ousted in GOP primary in Florida’s 7th District

August 18, 2026 / 10:19 PM EDT / CBS News

By Caitlin Yilek Politics Reporter
Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.

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Ryan Elijah defeated Trump-backed Rep. Cory Mills in the GOP primary in Florida’s 7th Congressional District on Tuesday as the congressman faces numerous scandals, The Associated Press projects.

The embattled two-term congressman, who faced three primary opponents, struggled to raise money for his reelection bid as the House Ethics Committee investigates numerous allegations against him.

A former girlfriend accused Mills of threatening to release nude photos of her, prompting a judge to grant a restraining order against him last year. Police also investigated an incident early last year in which Mills was accused of physically assaulting another woman with whom he was in a relationship, though no charges resulted from the incident. The ethics panel is also looking into whether Mills violated campaign finance laws, misused congressional resources or improperly received gifts or special favors.

Mills has not been charged with any crime and has denied any wrongdoing.

But the allegations involving his treatment of women led some of his GOP colleagues to at one point consider possibly expelling him from the House.

Two of his Florida colleagues — GOP Reps. Anna Paulina Luna and Mike Haridopolos — recently endorsed Elijah in the race, calling for “leaders in Congress who serve with integrity, energy, and an unwavering commitment to the people who sent them there.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stated last week, “I have not endorsed Cory Mills and I do not support Cory Mills.”

The University of Virginia’s Center for Politics rates the race as likely Republican, though Democrats see the district as up for grabs in November, especially if Mills had been on the ballot.

Mills has lagged in fundraising and has less than $70,000 in the bank, according to the latest data from the Federal Election Commission, which showed Elijah with more than $186,000 cash on hand. Elijah’s Democratic opponent, Bale Dalton, has more than $475,000 cash on hand.

美媒：特朗普指示谈判团队停止与伊朗接触

2026年8月19日 10:35 / 联合早报

特朗普星期二（8月18日）晚发文说，目前没有与伊朗进行任何会谈，也没有安排任何会谈。一天之前，他还声称美国政府已与伊朗革命卫队建立秘密沟通渠道。 （彭博社）

美国媒体称，美国总统特朗普已指示谈判团队停止与伊朗方面接触。

美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）星期二（8月18日）引述美国官员说，特朗普对伊朗不愿满足他的要求感到不满，直到伊朗领导人释放新的意愿、表明愿意达成他所寻求的协议后，他才会与伊朗重新接触。

CNN认为，由于重启对话渠道的努力陷入僵局，加上各方对伊朗战事的质疑愈发强烈，特朗普正释放信号，表明他准备与伊朗战事“拉开距离”。

一名知情人士透露，白宫官员最近也向政治盟友指出，美方正调整策略，从原先的“尽快重创伊朗”转为“逐步扼杀伊朗”。

特朗普星期二晚在社媒发文说，目前没有与伊朗进行任何会谈，也没有安排任何会谈。一天之前，他还声称美国政府已与伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队建立了秘密沟通渠道。

特朗普在Truth Social写道：“目前没有与伊朗伊斯兰共和国进行任何会谈或对话，也没有安排任何会谈或对话。海上封锁仍然有效。霍尔木兹海峡开放通行。所有水雷都已被移除或引爆。”

美国财政部长贝森特上周警告，美国将在接下来一周宣布向伊朗实施“前所未见”的经济孤立措施，配合美国对霍尔木兹海峡的封锁，“阻止任何物资运入或运出伊朗港口”。

据报英伟达H200晶片获准小批量进入中国

2026年8月19日 10:46 / 联合早报

英国《金融时报》星期二（8月18日）报道，美国晶片巨头英伟达的H200晶片已获准小批量进入中国。

根据路透社，《金融时报》引述两名知情者报道，字节跳动和腾讯过去几周各获得约1万颗H200处理器，另外几家中国科技企业也可能很快获得批准，接收数量相近的H200处理器。

据彭博社7月报道，负责监管出口管制项目的美国官员证实，英伟达在获得美国政府批准后，少量H200晶片已交付给中国客户。

美国总统特朗普去年12月批准英伟达向中国出口H200晶片，标志着华盛顿大幅放宽了旨在遏制中国AI发展而实施的出口限制。

在英伟达2024年底推出新一代Blackwell系列晶片之前，H200凭借更大的内存容量和更高的带宽，一直是市场上性能最强的AI晶片。H200晶片可用于训练和运行大型AI模型。

Media executive overcomes Trump endorsement in race to succeed Byron Donalds in ‘circus-like primary’

Catalina Lauf loses to Jim Schwartzel in Florida’s 19th Congressional District primary despite president’s backing

August 18, 2026 8:45pm EDT / Fox News

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Florida media executive Jim Schwartzel won the GOP nomination to succeed Rep. Byron Donalds despite President Donald Trump endorsing his opponent.

President Donald Trump endorsed Catalina Lauf, who served in the Department of Commerce during his first term in office, Aug. 13, upending the race just days before voters headed to the polls in Florida’s 19th Congressional District. Tuesday night’s results bucked a trend of Trump-endorsed candidates fairing well in primary contests.

As of mid-July, 97% of candidates endorsed by the president had won their primaries.

Trump’s endorsement success rate has remained at 93% or higher since 2018, according to Ballotpedia’s election tracker.

TRUMP MAY HAVE ENDORSED DARLINE GRAHAM, BUT GOP SENATE HOPEFULS AREN’T BACKING DOWN

Catalina Lauf, left, and Jim Schwartzel(David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire; Schwartzel for Congress)

Lauf and Schwartzel weren’t the only candidates to throw their hats into the race to be Donalds’ successor.

The field in Florida’s 19th Congressional District also included former Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who lost his North Carolina seat after a series of scandals in 2022; former Rep. Chris Collins, a former New York congressman convicted of insider trading; and Jim Oberweis, a wealthy former Illinois state senator.

The unusual cast of characters running in the election attracted amusement and ridicule from the national media. Axios dubbed the race “the GOP’s carpetbagger primary” and wrote that “whoever claws their way through the circus-like primary is almost guaranteed a ticket to Washington.”

TLAIB UNDER FIRE FOR WORKING TO UNSEAT TWO JEWISH HOUSE DEMOCRATS IN FLORIDA

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One Aug. 9, 2026, at Morristown Airport in Morristown, N.J.(Eric Lee/Getty Images)

On the campaign trail, Schwartzel attacked Lauf for running for Congress twice in Illinois before recently moving to Florida, arguing that his ties to the state ran deeper than hers.

Lauf responded that she is a “blue state refugee,” not a “carpetbagger.”

“I came here, I didn’t have a choice to be born and raised in Illinois but I have a choice to live here,” she said during a July debate.

SOCIALIST INSURGENCY HEADS TO TRUMP’S BACKYARD, TARGETS PRO-ISRAEL DEMOCRAT

President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One for departure on Aug. 7, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md.(Getty Images)

Lauf accused Schwartzel of being behind the firing of a popular local meteorologist. Schwartzel responded that although he owns several local media stations, he did not have an ownership stake in the network that fired the meteorologist.

Schwartzel said his supporters expressed anger after Trump endorsed Lauf.

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“The president endorsed my opponent tonight. You’re hearing it from me before you hear it anywhere else,” he said on the night of the endorsement.

​​”But let’s be precise about where that anger belongs. Not with President Trump. I’ve supported him from the beginning, and I’ll support him after Tuesday.

“It belongs with the operation that worked this for months: the out-of-state super PACs that have poured millions into this district, the Washington consultants who packaged a candidate who ran for Congress twice in Illinois and sold her as Southwest Florida’s choice, the people who decided our seat shouldn’t be settled in a room a thousand miles from here.”

回应特朗普新领土地图 伊朗外交官贴加州属伊朗地图

2026年8月19日 11:26 / 联合早报

伊朗驻印度海得拉巴总领事馆张贴一张美国地图，以蓝色凸显加州，并以全大写英文字母配文“伊朗新领土”。 （取自伊朗驻印度海得拉巴总领事馆X账号）

美国总统特朗普在社媒平台Truth Social发布地图，将霍尔木兹海峡标示为“美国新领土”。伊朗外交官随后发布一张美国地图，标题为“美利坚合众国（加利福尼亚州除外）”。

美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）星期二（8月18日）报道，伊朗驻印度海得拉巴总领事馆在X平台张贴一张美国地图，以蓝色凸显加州，并以全大写英文字母配文“伊朗新领土”。

美国总统特朗普星期二（8月18日）在Truth Social上传一张地图，标注霍尔木兹海峡为“美国新领土”。（取自特朗普Truth Social）

虽然这个帖子显然是在嘲讽特朗普，但根据移民政策研究所的数据，加州是美国伊朗裔移民人口最多的地区，而且大多数居住在洛杉矶地区。

许多波斯裔居民甚至将洛杉矶戏称为“德黑兰矶”（Tehrangeles）——这是由“德黑兰”（Tehran）和“洛杉矶”（Los Angeles）两个名称合成而成。

美国和以色列对伊朗发动的战争，在伊朗裔群体中引发分歧，一些人希望这场战争能导致伊朗现政府垮台，但另一些人担心战争会引发反效果。

回应特朗普新领土地图 伊朗外交官贴加州属伊朗地图

2026年8月19日 11:26 / 联合早报

伊朗驻印度海得拉巴总领事馆张贴一张美国地图，以蓝色凸显加州，并以全大写英文字母配文“伊朗新领土”。 （取自伊朗驻印度海得拉巴总领事馆X账号）

美国总统特朗普在社媒平台Truth Social发布地图，将霍尔木兹海峡标示为“美国新领土”。伊朗外交官随后发布一张美国地图，标题为“美利坚合众国（加利福尼亚州除外）”。

美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）星期二（8月18日）报道，伊朗驻印度海得拉巴总领事馆在X平台张贴一张美国地图，以蓝色凸显加州，并以全大写英文字母配文“伊朗新领土”。

美国总统特朗普星期二（8月18日）在Truth Social上传一张地图，标注霍尔木兹海峡为“美国新领土”。（取自特朗普Truth Social）

虽然这个帖子显然是在嘲讽特朗普，但根据移民政策研究所的数据，加州是美国伊朗裔移民人口最多的地区，而且大多数居住在洛杉矶地区。

许多波斯裔居民甚至将洛杉矶戏称为“德黑兰矶”（Tehrangeles）——这是由“德黑兰”（Tehran）和“洛杉矶”（Los Angeles）两个名称合成而成。

美国和以色列对伊朗发动的战争，在伊朗裔群体中引发分歧，一些人希望这场战争能导致伊朗现政府垮台，但另一些人担心战争会引发反效果。

U.S., South Korea cut short their joint military drills at Trump’s direction

2026-08-18T22:26:00-0400 / CBS/AP

The South Korean and U.S. militaries have agreed to shorten their drills at the United States’ request, officials for both nations acknowledged Wednesday, days after President Trump ordered cuts to the exercises.

The allies’ summertime Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises began Monday morning for an 11-day run, just after Mr. Trump ordered they be scaled back. Mr. Trump cited what he said was a good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korea’s refusal to join the U.S. war against Iran.

A Defense Department official told CBS News in a statement Tuesday evening that, at the direction of Mr. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the joint drills had been “substantially reduced” and would end Friday, one week earlier than had been originally scheduled.

“Associated live-training events have been reduced, with certain events canceled or converted to simulations,” the official said. “These adjustments preserve essential readiness and training objectives. There will be no degradation to U.S. training objectives.”

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed in a separate statement the reduced timeline came at the request of the U.S. It said the allies also agreed to downsize some joint field training exercises.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff added that, going forward, the two nations would “discuss and implement various measures aimed at achieving the objectives of the UFS exercise and establishing a combined defense posture.”

Many experts say Mr. Trump’s move threatens to hurt combined U.S.-South Korean readiness and eventually weaken their decades-long alliance.

Ulchi Freedom Shield is largely a computer-simulated command post exercise meant to hone the allies’ ability to deal with potential regional security threats like North Korean aggression. The two countries usually hold field training exercises during the command post exercise period.

The drills and a similar springtime exercise are a central pillar of the U.S.-South Korea alliance, which dates to the 1950-53 Korean War. But they’re also a long-running source of tensions with North Korea, which has denounced the exercises as a rehearsal for war and responded with provocative missile tests.

North Korea hasn’t responded to Mr. Trump’s overture. But earlier Wednesday, its state news agency, KCNA, published commentary slamming the U.S.-South Korean military drills as “frantic” and “extremely dangerous” and vowing to completely frustrate its rivals’ hostilities.

Experts said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, now emboldened by his advancing nuclear program and expanding military cooperation, won’t likely embrace Mr. Trump’s overture anytime soon unless he’s promised bigger concessions. In response to Mr. Trump’s previous outreach, Kim suggested last year that he can return to talks only after the U.S. drops its demand of a North Korean denuclearization as a precondition for diplomacy.

Mr. Trump and Kim met three times from 2018-2019 but their high-stakes diplomacy eventually fell apart over wrangling over a North Korean demand for extensive sanctions relief in return for limited denuclearization steps.

特朗普推迟三天对加拿大加征50%关税

2026年8月19日 11:30 / 联合早报

6月16日，美国总统特朗普（左）和加拿大总理卡尼（右）在法国举行的七国集团峰会会面。 （路透社）

美国总统特朗普深夜宣布，推迟三天对加拿大部分商品加征50%的关税。

特朗普星期二（8月18日）深夜作出上述宣布。这项关税措施原定于美东时间星期三（19日）正式生效。

7月20日，特朗普签署行政命令，对多种加拿大商品加征50%新关税，并指责加拿大在酒类、汽车和乳制品等领域，对美国商品实施“歧视性待遇”。

特朗普这次援引一项从未实际动用过的法律依据《1930年关税法》（Tariff Act of 1930）第338条，作为征收新关税的法律基础。

当时白宫称呼，新关税将在8月19日生效，涵盖葡萄酒、冰球杆和水泥等多种商品，但不适用于能源、钾肥和那些已被征收行业专项关税的商品。不过，在美墨加贸易协定（USMCA）下获得保障的商品，这次也被纳入征税范围。

美国对加拿大商品加征50%新关税 面对美国关税威胁 加总理：必要时或采取报复措施

美国贸易代表办公室说，这些关税将适用于价值近200亿美元（约258亿新元）的加拿大进口商品。

根据美国普查局的数据，美国在2025年从加拿大进口价值3820亿美元的商品，这约占其中的5.2％。

Trump picks White House adviser Heidi Overton to run FDA, source says

2026-08-19T00:25:00.65Z / Reuters

Aug 18 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has chosen White House policy aide Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration, ​a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, months after previous chief Marty ​Makary quit.

If approved by the Senate, Overton will take over an FDA that has lost more than 3,000 staff, including division heads, over the past year, and is under pressure to rebuild confidence among industry and public-health groups amid concerns ​the regulator has become too political.

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The White House, the FDA and Overton did not immediately ​respond to Reuters’ requests for comment.

Overton, a doctor by training, is currently deputy ​director of the White House domestic policy council and has previously worked at the America First Policy ​Institute, a conservative think tank.

She received her medical degree from the University of New Mexico, trained in ​general surgery at Johns Hopkins, and pursued clinical-investigation research training at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Last week, Overton appeared at a White House event where Trump announced an executive order that calls for reducing the childhood vaccine ​schedule and splitting the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three separate shots, which could take drug ​developers years to achieve.

Overton was among three candidates, including oncologist Jeffrey Vacirca and Pentagon health official Stephen Ferrara, the administration ​focused ​on for Trump to nominate as FDA commissioner, Reuters reported earlier.

Kyle Diamantas has been running the agency as acting chief since May, when Makary resigned 13 months into the job after clashing with top White House and health advisers and drawing scrutiny for a series of controversial agency decisions.

Makary drew criticism for his ​handling of the reintroduction of ​flavored vapes into the ​U.S. market, a stalled abortion-pill review and public disagreements with drugmakers such as Replimune

(REPL.O), Sarepta

(SRPT.O) and Moderna

(MRNA.O) over reviews of potentially lifesaving medicines and vaccines.

Since Diamantas ​took over as acting chief, the FDA has reversed course or reopened ​regulatory paths for ​rare-disease therapies from Regenxbio

(RGNX.O), uniQure

(UQ1.F) and Replimune

(REPL.O).

It also launched steps aimed at speeding up drug research by pairing sponsors with qualified research institutions to shorten the time from drug identification to first-in-human studies.

Before Makary’s exit, the FDA’s biologics ​division chief ​Vinay Prasad departed in April amid controversy over vaccine trial ​revisions and rare-disease drug rejections.

Bloomberg News reported first that Trump picked Overton to lead the FDA.

Reporting by Yasmeen Abutaleb in Washington, Carlos ​Méndez in Mexico City, Christy Santhosh in Bengaluru; Editing by Jacqueline Wong, Tom Hogue and Sonali Paul

Trump says he paused 50% tariffs on some Canadian goods as deal being finalized

2026-08-18T22:40:00-0400 / CBS News

Updated on: August 18, 2026 / 11:26 PM EDT / CBS/AP

President Trump said Tuesday he has paused the 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian goods that were set to take effect Wednesday.

“I have paused the 50% Tariffs against Canada, that were scheduled to kick in tomorrow morning for a three day period, based on the fact that Canada and the U.S.A., subject to the finalization of documents, have a DEAL!” Mr. Trump said in the Truth Social post.

On Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters that the U.S. and Canada were “negotiating.”

“The negotiations are very intense and delicate. This is not the time to talk about negotiations in public,” Carney told reporters Monday, speaking in French.

The 50% tariffs would affect $20 billion worth of Canadian products, ranging from hockey sticks to tongue depressors.

But the political impact would likely have been bigger than the economic one. Canada had threatened to retaliate against any new tariffs with levies of its own, aggravating a trade fight between countries that sold each other $880 billion worth of goods and services last year.

Canadian officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press Tuesday night.

Carney and Mr. Trump had spoken twice by phone in the past two days about the ongoing negotiations, including a call Tuesday afternoon, Carney’s office said, underscoring the last-minute push for a deal.

In announcing the tariffs last month, the White House accused Canada of taking “unreasonable, unequal, and discriminatory actions” by imposing tariffs or import restrictions on certain American goods, including measures introduced after Mr. Trump’s initial round of tariffs on Canada last year.

Both countries had reason to step back from the brink. Nearly72% of Canada’s goods exports last year went to the United States. And the Trump administration would be taking a risk by imposing a hefty new tariff — paid by U.S. importers who try to pass along the cost to consumers via higher prices — ahead of November’s midterm elections. U.S. voters are already frustrated with the high cost of living.

“I don’t think either side really wants these tariffs to come into effect,” Ryan Majerus, a partner at King & Spalding and a former U.S. trade official, said before the delay was announced. “There’s a pretty strong push on both sides to find an off-ramp here.”

The Trump administration currently imposes a 10% tariff on goods from Canada, the U.S.’s second-largest trading partner after Mexico, though most Canadian imports are exempt because they comply with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a trade deal signed during Mr. Trump’s first term.

Mr. Trump has had a tense relationship with Canada due to trade, NATO, a dispute over aDetroit-area bridgeand his threats to make Canada the U.S.’ 51st state.

The president has made tariffs the centerpiece of his second-term economic agenda. Last year, he imposed double-digit import taxes on almost every country, justifying them by declaring the longstanding U.S. trade deficit a national emergency. The Supreme Court in February ruled that he’d overstepped his authority, striking down those tariffs and setting the stage for the federal government to pay refunds to importers.

So Mr. Trump has looked for other legal authority to impose tariffs.

To hit Canada, he reached back to the Great Depression, invoking Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to threaten 50% tariffs on products that account for about 5% of Canadian exports to the United States.

Nearly a century ago, with the U.S. and world economies in collapse, Congress passed the 1930 tariff law, imposing taxes on imports from around the world. Known as the Smoot-Hawley tariffs, named for their congressional sponsors, they are notorious among economists and historians for limiting world commerce and making the Great Depression worse.

Section 338 tariffs have never been used before.

Section 338 authorizes the president to impose tariffs of up to 50% on imports from countries that have discriminated against U.S. businesses. No investigation is required to justify the levies. Nor is there any limit on how long the tariffs can stay in place.

The U.S. is renegotiating a North American trade pact — the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement — that Mr. Trump strong-armed America’s neighbors into accepting in his first term. The threat of Section 338 tariffs gives the U.S. leverage to seek fresh concessions from Ottawa.

contributed to this report.