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无人机坠毁后爆炸 两名以军士兵在加沙北部死亡

2026年9月25日 18:16 / 联合早报

以色列国防军两名预备役士兵在加沙操作一架小型无人机时，无人机因不明原因坠毁，并在两人捡起时发生爆炸，导致两人身亡。

《以色列时报》报道，这起事件发生于当地时间星期四（9月24日）下午。以色列国防军星期五（25日）证实，两名以军预备役士兵前一天在加沙北部死亡。

新华社引述以色列公共广播公司（Kan）报道，这架无人机属于“阿塔莱夫”系列（Atalef），可用作自杀式无人机，也被用于携带和投放炸弹。

以军称，此次坠毁并非由哈马斯的电子战或信号干扰所致。

“阿塔莱夫”系列无人机是2023年10月哈马斯突袭以色列后，由以方研制的新型无人机，以军在加沙和黎巴嫩的军事行动中广泛使用。

Trump continues voter data push despite repeated setbacks

2026-09-25T10:09:42.005Z / Reuters

Sept 25 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is pressing forward with an unprecedented push for his administration to obtain sensitive voter data ahead of the US midterm elections, despite repeated losses in court, in a hunt for noncitizens illegally registered to vote, though there has been no evidence of widespread fraud of this kind.

Responding to a legal challenge to ​a key element of Trump’s plans, Justice Department lawyers are set to ask a federal judge in Maryland on Friday not to block the Department of Homeland Security from creating lists of US citizens who are eligible to ‌vote. Trump’s fellow Republicans are fighting to keep control of Congress in the November 3 midterms.

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Greenbelt, Maryland-based US District Judge Paula Xinis is holding a hearing in a lawsuit by privacy advocates seeking to block the department’s plans to implement an executive order Trump signed in March. The order directed DHS to create the citizen lists using data housed throughout the federal government and share them with state election officials. Under the order, state officials could face criminal prosecution if ineligible people are found to have voted in their states.

The federal government has never previously compiled any such lists. The US Constitution assigns the administration of federal elections to ​individual states.

The plaintiffs argue that the DHS plan to create the lists would collect information on American citizens from other federal government entities including the Social Security Administration in ways that violate privacy laws.

Trump for years has made false claims about ​widespread voting fraud in the United States including his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Trump, who has said he is acting to protect the integrity of US elections, ⁠also has asserted that states are not doing enough to remove noncitizens and dead people from their voter rolls.

Critics have said Trump’s current drive is aimed at disenfranchising eligible Democratic-leaning voters.

They note that a federal immigration database known as SAVE, which is one of the sources ​that Trump’s executive order directs DHS to consult in building its lists of eligible voters, has mistakenly flagged as noncitizens some Americans who are naturalized US citizens and properly registered to vote. Several Republican-led states already have checked their voter rolls against SAVE.

25 LOSSES IN COURT

Most ​of the Trump administration’s efforts to collect voter data have not succeeded.

Trump’s proposed SAVE America Act, legislation that would require states to check their voter lists against the SAVE database, failed in the Republican-controlled Senate.

The Justice Department has lost 25 different lawsuits seeking to compel states to hand over their complete voter rolls, including sensitive information such as partial Social Security numbers used to identify people. And the US Supreme Court this month declined to allow his push to tighten mail-in voting, which would have required states to submit lists of eligible voters to the US Postal Service.

In a July speech, Trump said without providing evidence that hundreds ​of thousands of noncitizens and dead people were listed as active on voter rolls, and that he directed DHS to tell states to remove them.

“We have very important elections coming up. We want those elections to be honest,” Trump said.

In a statement, White House spokeswoman ​said Lauren Bis said: “Despite extreme Democrats and the media claiming it never happens, the evidence of noncitizens registering and voting in our elections continues to pile up.”

‘MASS DISENFRANCHISEMENT’

Democrats and voting rights advocates say the administration’s focus on obtaining voter data and checking for noncitizens is driven by a desire to ‌impose obstacles on ⁠Democratic-leaning voters, rather than a genuine concern about election security.

“You can’t do mass disenfranchisement without a voter file,” said voting rights lawyer Marc Elias, whose firm frequently represents the Democratic Party in court.

John Hill, a lawyer at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which is representing the plaintiffs challenging the DHS plans on Friday, said Trump’s threat of prosecution of state officials implied that his administration would try to coerce states to use DHS’s citizenship lists to purge voters.

Justice Department lawyers have told the judge that the lawsuit is premature because DHS has not yet activated the online portal through which it intends to share voter data with the states.

GLITCHES AND CLERICAL ERRORS

A Reuters review published on Wednesday found that software glitches and clerical errors in a dozen US states run by both Democrats and Republicans may have added more than ​30,000 self-declared noncitizens to the nation’s voter rolls since 2000. Reuters ​was not able to determine how many of the noncitizens ⁠voted. Experts said the number was too small to impact elections.

In an example that Trump’s White House has cited to argue that Democrats are wrong to suggest noncitizen voting is not a concern, New Jersey said in July that a technology glitch added 6,600 noncitizens to voter rolls in 2023 and 2024. The state said fewer than 400 of them actually voted, and that there was no evidence that ​the results of any elections were swayed.

State audits and independent studies have found voter fraud is very rare. A Reuters investigation published in July found that just 129 people had been prosecuted for ​noncitizen voting since a law criminalizing it ⁠was passed in 1996. The Justice Department charged an additional 20 people this month.

The Department of Homeland Security has obtained voter rolls from at least 47 of the 50 US states and is reviewing them to identify noncitizens who are registered, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing an internal email.

It remains unclear how many of those were redacted, public versions as opposed to a full accounting. Those public versions often lack key personal identifying information like partial Social Security numbers, dates of birth and driver’s license numbers. DHS is using information from a commercial data broker to supplement the records, though ⁠it is not clear ​how much personally identifying information the department now possesses.

Even if the Trump administration prevails in court in the case being heard on Friday, it is not clear ​whether the DHS effort to create citizenship lists would have any impact on who is eligible to vote in November. Trump’s executive order directed DHS to share the lists with state election officials at least 60 days before each federal election. That would have been September 4.

In addition, a federal judge in a separate case has blocked ​the use of a revamped version of SAVE to check voter eligibility. The administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow the use of the revamped SAVE database, but the justices have not yet ruled.

Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; editing by Amy Stevens and Will Dunham

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Donalds rips opponent’s ‘complete 180’ as Dem’s own 2016 words come back to haunt him in tightening gov race

2026-09-25T05:00:24-04:00 / Fox News

Florida has not elected a Democrat governor since the 1990s

By Andrew Mark Miller Fox News

Published September 25, 2026 5:00am EDT

‘Complete 180’: Rep. Byron Donalds hits Democratic gubernatorial opponent on ‘flip flops’

Fox News Digital spoke to Donalds about his tightening race for Florida governor against Democrat David Jolly, a former Republican.

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Florida gubernatorial candidate, Republican Congressman Byron Donalds, is taking aim at his Democratic opponent David Jolly over his shifting political positions and party affiliation, in a contest that is resurfacing themes from the 2016 congressional race between Jolly and Charlie Crist.

“You were pro-choice, then you were pro-life, then you were pro-choice. It was only after you switched parties that you switched your position. This was not a matter of conviction for you; it was for political convenience,” Jolly said about Charlie Crist when Jolly was a Republican running against Crist, a Democrat, for Congress in 2016.

Ten years later, Jolly is now a Democrat running for Florida governor and facing the same criticism for allegedly changing his positions for political gain, this time, in his race for governor against Donalds.

“The shift in positions by David Jolly is not because of personal conviction, it is purely because of political convenience,” Donalds told Fox News Digital, referencing that 2016 exchange.

DESANTIS ENDORSES FLORIDA GOP SLATE INCLUDING BYRON DONALDS IN GOVERNOR’S RACE

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., takes aim at gubernatorial opponent David Jolly’s decades-long history of changing parties and political positions in an interview with Fox News Digital.(Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images ; Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Some of the shifts in Jolly’s positions include issues like abortion, immigration and drilling off the coast of Florida.

As a Republican, Jolly said he believed “life begins at conception,” authored legislation to defund Planned Parenthood and co-sponsored fetal-personhood legislation. He also voted for a federal 20-week abortion ban. Now running as a Democrat, Jolly calls himself “pro-choice,” supports codifying the Roe v. Wade framework and says he would veto legislation restricting abortion access as governor.

Jolly’s immigration views have also shifted sharply as he attempts to run for governor in a state that voted for Trump each of the last three presidential cycles by wide margins, with many voters motivated by Trump’s immigration policies.

As a Republican, he campaigned on securing the border, supported tighter screening for Syrian and Iraqi refugees and voted for the American SAFE Act. Today, he says the country should have “wide gates” for people coming to work or seek asylum, argues that crossing the border without legal status should not necessarily be treated as a crime in those circumstances and has called the Republican link between immigration and crime “gross,” “immoral” and “wrong.”

As voters consistently say that affordability is a top-of-mind concern, Donalds is also hitting Jolly’s record on healthcare as an example of inconsistency that shows a lack of credibility on the issue.

NEVER-TRUMP REPUBLICAN IS TOP DEM CHOICE IN CRUCIAL FLORIDA PRIMARY

Former Republican Representative David Jolly, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Florida, speaks during the National Action Network (NAN) 35th Anniversary Convention in New York on Thursday, April 9, 2026.(Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“When David Jolly was in Congress, he opposed Obamacare,” Donalds said. “Now trying to run for governor, he wants to expand Obamacare in Florida. I mean, these are just some of the complete shifts that we’ve seen in what he stands for.”

Another issue Donalds is taking issue with involves the period after the devastating Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which sent oil and tar balls washing ashore along roughly 178 miles of Florida coastline, contributed to an estimated loss of 1.88 million planned recreational visits in northwest Florida and cost the region $1.3 billion in visitor spending, $2.04 billion in economic output and more than 20,000 job-years.

Within a year of the spill, Jolly’s lobbying firm represented a client that publicly advocated for legislation that could have expanded offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Three Bridges Advisors listed H.R. 909, the Roadmap for America’s Energy Future, among the subjects of its 2011 lobbying activity for the Free Enterprise Nation, which supported the bill. Jolly also wrote a post on the group’s website stating that Free Enterprise Nation was “advocating for” the legislation.

BYRON DONALDS SHUTS DOWN BILL MAHER’S CLAIM ON GOP PRIMARY RACISM, SAYS ‘FLORIDA IS A MERITOCRACY’

Rep. Byron Donalds, a Republican from Florida and gubernatorial candidate, won Florida’s Republican primary for governor on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, in Orlando, Fla., easily fending off challengers after receiving an early endorsement from President Donald Trump.(Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Jolly said he had “never lobbied for offshore drilling,” but PolitiFact rated that claim “Mostly False” after finding that Jolly acknowledged attending a meeting where the bill was discussed, which lobbying experts said technically counted as lobbying.

Donalds cited the controversy to Fox News Digital saying, “Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of America, David Jolly went and became a lobbyist for more oil drilling off the coast of Florida, that is a fact and so, what we’re seeing is a history of somebody who does everything possible, will say whatever, will be paid by whomever that are only in the interest of David Jolly.”

With polls showing a tightening race, the RealClearPolitics average gives Donalds a nearly 4-point lead. The candidates are also sparring over debate scheduling: Donalds has agreed to three proposed debates, while Jolly, who previously accepted two other debate invitations, has now ruled out participating in debates this cycle.

“Now he’s ducking debates,” Donalds told Fox News Digital. “He won’t debate me because he knows that on a debate stage, I will hold him accountable for these things.”

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Jolly has hit Donalds on the campaign trail on a variety of issues as he tries to become the first Democrat to win a governor’s race in Florida since Lawton Chiles won re-election in 1994. Primarily, Jolly has focused on data centers and labeled Donalds as a candidate more interested in partisan culture-war battles than addressing Florida’s rising housing, insurance and healthcare costs.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Jolly campaign for comment.

Donalds told Fox News Digital that Jolly’s flips on both party registration and the issues are things his campaign will continue to focus on.

“What you find with David Jolly is somebody who’s done a complete 180 simply to run for office again and to gain relevance again and the people of Florida simply cannot trust David Jolly because we cannot afford David Jolly’s flip-flopping when it comes to the great state of Florida,” Donalds said.

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Sen. Duckworth slams Trump’s “foolhardy plan” to make triumphal arch a military complex

September 25, 2026 7:00 AM EDT / CBS News

By
Kris Van Cleave

Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois is demanding the Pentagon and Federal Aviation Administration reject President Trump’s call to convert plans for a massive triumphal arch into a “top grade Military Complex” equipped with snipers and with the capability to store, launch and land drones while in the flight path of Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport.

“The FAA and DoD must reject this foolhardy plan and instead focus on increasing the safety of the airspace,” Duckworth, who lost both legs while serving in the Iraq War, wrote in a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford.

The FAA determined last week that the 250-foot arch, which is being constructed near Arlington National Cemetery, poses no hazard to flights coming into and departing from Reagan Airport.

The letter was exclusively obtained by CBS News. She called Mr. Trump’s announcement, made in a Truth Social post over the weekend, “bizarre, unhinged early morning social media rants.”

In the letter sent Friday, Duckworth, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Subcommittee on Aviation, Space, and Innovation, took Trump administration officials to task for “wasting time, energy and taxpayer dollars on yet another Trump vanity project.”

She called it “particularly outrageous” after what she described as the “joint failure” of the FAA and Defense Department “to effectively implement corrective actions that were recommended” by the NTSB following the January 2025 midair collision near Reagan Airport that killed 67 people.

The NTSB made 52 safety recommendations following the collision between a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet that was landing at Reagan Airport.

Thirty-five recommendations were directed to the FAA, only three of which have been closed. The NTSB said earlier this month the FAA’s responses to 11 of the recommendations were unacceptable. All 13 recommendations directed at the Pentagon remain open.

“It is disturbing to see Federal officials devote enormous attention to an unnecessary, proposed structure while the NTSB and the public are still demanding action on recommendations intended to prevent another catastrophic collision in our skies,” Duckworth wrote. “The American people cannot afford to stand witness to Trump’s risky plan to place a 250-foot structure along a busy approach path, especially if he follows through on plans to station snipers on the arch and fly drones … in the already congested airspace.”

Sen. Duckworth’s letter to the FAA and Defense Department on the triumphal arch

While calling the FAA’s review of the proposed arch “incomplete,” Duckworth, a former Army helicopter pilot, is demanding answers to a host of questions, including if the FAA considered the use of the arch as a military complex during its safety assessment.

She is also calling for Hegseth to disclose “which military entity, if any, requested that the arch be converted into a ‘Military Complex,’ and what threat assessment supports that request?”

She requested answers by Oct. 5.

In a statement earlier this week, Democratic Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia wrote that “putting a drone launching site directly in the landing path for DCA is a stupid, dangerous, and unworkable idea.”

The FAA and Defense Department declined to comment on the arch, referring inquiries to the White House.

Eleanor Watson contributed to this report.

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俄执政党国会选举议席领先 获宪法多数席位

2026年9月25日 18:47 / 联合早报

俄罗斯9月18日至20日举行俄乌战争爆发以来的首次国家杜马选举，改选所有450个席位。图为位于莫斯科的俄国家杜马大楼。 （路透社）

俄罗斯国会选举结果显示，执政党统一俄罗斯党赢得349个议席，获得宪法多数地位。

新华社报道，俄罗斯中央选举委员会主席帕姆菲洛娃（Ella Pamfilova）星期五（9月25日）公布第九届国家杜马（国会下院）选举结果，总统普京所在的统一俄罗斯党（统俄党）以349个席位，获得宪法多数地位。

帕姆菲洛娃说，根据统计数据，俄罗斯联邦共产党获得37席，位居第二；俄罗斯自由民主党获得23席，位列第三；新人党和公正俄罗斯党分别获得19席和17席。此外，祖国党获得一席，另有四名独立候选人获得四席。

帕姆菲洛娃还说，本届选举中，共有46名参与特别军事行动（即对乌克兰战争）的人员成为议员，其中41人来自统俄党。

俄罗斯9月18日至20日举行俄乌战争爆发以来的首次国家杜马选举。国家杜马是俄常设立法机构，由450名代表组成。

据介绍，本届选举席位设置延续传统模式，450个国家杜马议席中，225席依据政党名单按比例分配，剩余225席通过全国单席位选区以相对多数投票制产生。

俄执政党国会选举议席领先 获宪法多数席位

2026年9月25日 18:47 / 联合早报

俄罗斯9月18日至20日举行俄乌战争爆发以来的首次国家杜马选举，改选所有450个席位。图为位于莫斯科的俄国家杜马大楼。 （路透社）

俄罗斯国会选举结果显示，执政党统一俄罗斯党赢得349个议席，获得宪法多数地位。

新华社报道，俄罗斯中央选举委员会主席帕姆菲洛娃（Ella Pamfilova）星期五（9月25日）公布第九届国家杜马（国会下院）选举结果，总统普京所在的统一俄罗斯党（统俄党）以349个席位，获得宪法多数地位。

帕姆菲洛娃说，根据统计数据，俄罗斯联邦共产党获得37席，位居第二；俄罗斯自由民主党获得23席，位列第三；新人党和公正俄罗斯党分别获得19席和17席。此外，祖国党获得一席，另有四名独立候选人获得四席。

帕姆菲洛娃还说，本届选举中，共有46名参与特别军事行动（即对乌克兰战争）的人员成为议员，其中41人来自统俄党。

俄罗斯9月18日至20日举行俄乌战争爆发以来的首次国家杜马选举。国家杜马是俄常设立法机构，由450名代表组成。

据介绍，本届选举席位设置延续传统模式，450个国家杜马议席中，225席依据政党名单按比例分配，剩余225席通过全国单席位选区以相对多数投票制产生。

Fear of democratic socialists drives November turnout plans for some Trump voters

2026-09-25 10:06:23 / Reuters

• Summary

• Some Trump voters say they fear progressive candidates would push socialist or communist policies
• Seven of 18 interviewed Trump voters say left-wing gains make them more motivated to vote
• Several battleground-state voters dislike Republican nominees but aim to block Democratic majorities

Sept 25 – Don Jernigan, a retiree in Virginia Beach, is disappointed by most politicians, Democrat and Republican. That includes President Donald Trump, whom he helped elect in 2024.

But Jernigan, 76, says he plans to “hold his ​nose” and vote for Republican candidates in November’s midterm elections. In his view, “the Democrats are now being controlled by the democratic socialists,” he said, “and we’ve fought wars to keep that away ‌from us.”

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While many analysts argue that Trump’s low approval ratings could dampen Republican turnout in November, conversations with 18 Trump voters, including Jernigan, suggest electoral victories by progressive Democrats have energized some conservatives – even those disappointed by Trump.

Conducted with a group of Trump voters who have spoken with Reuters regularly since he returned to office, the interviews do not point to broad enthusiasm for Republican candidates themselves.

Dissatisfaction with Republican nominees for national or statewide office was rife among the group, particularly among voters in battleground states with races that could prove pivotal ​in deciding which party controls Congress. Chief among their concerns were the Iran war and Trump’s handling of the economy.

Even so, many of those critical of the president said they would do all they can to deny Democrats control of ​either house of Congress.

Nearly all of the 18 voters said they were alarmed by the prospect of far-left candidates winning more seats in Congress; many expressed deep concern ⁠that progressives, if elected in meaningful numbers, would attempt to enact what they view as a socialist – or even communist – agenda in which the government tightly restricted citizens’ choices about where to spend and earn money.

Seven said that ​concern alone left them more motivated to vote for a conservative candidate in November.

Trump and other Republicans have falsely accused Democrats of embracing communist ideology, a charge Democrats reject as a deliberate misrepresentation of their policies.

Democratic socialists advocate pursuing ​progressive policies, such as government-run universal health insurance or wealth taxes, through democratic processes. In contrast, communism seeks to abolish private ownership of property and create a classless society – ideas that the democratic socialists seeking election reject.

FEARS OF SOCIALISM AND SHARIA

In Georgia, where voters will elect a governor and US senator in November, David Ferguson said he hasn’t found any candidates in either party whom he can “strongly get behind” in the general election.

Yet Ferguson, 54, a mechanical engineer and account manager for an industrial supply company, said he ​fears that if progressive and socialist candidates got more power in Congress, they would try to exert “way too much control over markets and things that the government does not need to be involved in.”

On the other side of ​the state, near Savannah, insurance firm employee Amanda Taylor was so disappointed by this year’s candidates that she didn’t vote in Georgia’s primary election. But she said the rise of democratic socialists nationwide would “absolutely” help push her to the polls in November, ‌even though she ⁠wasn’t aware of any such candidates on her ballot.

Like Ferguson, Taylor, 53, worried such movements would pull the US “towards communism, where your government is dictating the groceries that you can get and you’re waiting in lines for bread” and that they would require schools, bathrooms and sports teams to recognize the gender identity of transgender individuals.

Trump and other Republican leaders have pumped up their attacks on socialism and communism this campaign season after a series of left-wing Democratic primary victories, including a win by Michigan US Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, whom the president called a “Communist loser.”

El-Sayed, who faces former US Representative Mike Rogers in November, describes himself as a progressive candidate and not a socialist.

But Trump’s messaging appears to be ​sticking – even with Republicans unhappy with the party’s leadership.

In ​Grand Rapids, Michigan, Terry Alberta said he expects to ⁠split his ballot between Democratic and Republican candidates in November, because he leans Republican but mistrusts any candidate with an endorsement from Trump, whom he sees as increasingly volatile and prone to “silly games” with other countries.

“I don’t like the radicalism on either side,” said Alberta, 65, a pilot. He said his vote will also be motivated by concern that El-Sayed ​secretly supports policies he has publicly disavowed, such as imposing Islamic sharia law on the US.

STRATEGIC VOTING

Some voters in the group saw opportunity in the rising popularity of progressive candidates ​on the left. In Wisconsin’s ⁠August primary election, recent college graduate William Brown, 21, cast a “strategic” vote for Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist candidate, who narrowly lost her bid to become the state’s Democratic nominee for governor.

Had Hong won, Brown thought the Republican nominee could have defeated her more easily than a moderate Democrat – and her agenda seemed so radical that “not only would she not have been able to pass a lot of it through the legislature, but a lot of it would have been court challenged,” Brown ​said.

Others viewed the ​recent success of left-wing candidates as a warning sign about the increasingly extreme nature of US politics.

“My biggest fear is that it ​will be a constant impeachment of Donald Trump,” said Lesa Sandberg of St. George, Utah, who runs an accounting business, rents properties and works for a Republican political action committee.

Sandberg, 58, expects the Senate to remain under Republican control, preventing new progressive US representatives from actually pushing through ​a socialist agenda. But for the sake of national unity, she said, she hopes Democrats “won’t elect their extreme left, just like I hope we don’t elect our extreme right.”