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Abraham Accords countries hold first official meeting since Oct. 7 attacks

September 24, 2026 / 11:12 PM EDT / CBS News

Ten blocks away from the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. diplomats quietly kickstarted the expansion of the Abraham Accords from the 43rd floor of a midtown Manhattan office tower.

On Thursday morning, State Department officials convened the first official meeting of the Abraham Accords countries — the United States, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco — since Oct. 7, 2023, when the Hamas attacks on Israel derailed the expansion of the Accords to more countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

A meeting of nations who are part of the Abraham Accords in New York City on Sept. 24, 2026. N7 Foundation handout to CBS News

The Abraham Accords countries were joined Thursday for the first time by officials from Kazakhstan, which expressed an interest in joining the Accords last year.

The U.S. delegation was led by a senior State Department official, Under Secretary of Political Affairs Allison Hooker.

“Nearly three years after October 7, the Abraham Accords countries are back together,” Hooker said, adding that President Trump brokered the historic agreements during his first term, and Thursday was an important signifier that the accords are “moving forward again.”

The meeting was hosted by the N7 Foundation, a U.S.-based organization that has convened multilateral meetings of the Abraham Accords countries since 2021.

“The next phase is about deepening the relationships that already exist and identifying practical opportunities for countries to work together,” said Jeffrey Talpins, founder of the N7 Foundation, who chaired the meeting. Ryan Arant, director of the N7 Foundation, was also present.

Another senior administration official who was not authorized to speak publicly told CBS News that Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s team and Steve Witkoff, the White House Special Envoy for Peace Missions, “are clearly prioritizing this effort.”

Also present at the meeting was Aryeh Lightstone, special adviser to Mr. Trump’s Board of Peace, an international coalition dedicated to peace and reconstruction in Gaza.

The Abraham Accords are a set of agreements that normalized diplomatic relations between Israel and several Muslim countries. The first of a series of agreements was signed in 2020, toward the end of Mr. Trump’s first term.

The UAE and Bahrain became the first two Gulf Arab countries to formally recognize Israel. Morocco soon followed.

Before the October 7th Hamas attack, momentum was building for Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries to join the accords, but the attack and the wars in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran that ensued stalled further expansion.

President Trump announced Kazakhstan’s intention to join the Abraham Accords during an Oval Office meeting with Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in November 2025.

“We will soon announce a Signing Ceremony to make it official, and there are many more Countries trying to join this club of STRENGTH,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social at the time.

An official with the Kazakhstan embassy told CBS News that Thursday’s gathering was a tangible step in the direction of expanding the accords.

“We are very excited about joining the Abraham Accords and all the partnership can do,” he said. “We are interested in collaborations in technology and transport. Together we can do more than each individual country could do alone.”

Participants discussed next steps to formalize cooperation among Abraham Accords countries, according to a person familiar with the meeting.

“The Abraham Accords have demonstrated what is possible when countries come together around shared interests with a common vision for a more integrated and prosperous region,” Talpins said.

法国拟召集七国集团商讨释放战略石油储备

2026年9月25日 11:41 / 联合早报

9月22日，法国总统埃马克龙在纽约联合国总部举行的联合国大会发表讲话。 （法新社）

法国拟召集七国集团（G7）成员国开会商讨释放战略石油储备，以稳定国际油价。

新华社报道，近期，美国和欧洲多国柴油价格均创下新高。法国总统马克龙星期四（9月24日）晚接受两家法国电视台联合采访时说，七国集团成员国可研究如何通过相互协调的方式向市场释放战略石油储备，从而降低油价。

马克龙说，伊朗局势是全球油价飙升的主要原因，法国将致力于推动地区恢复稳定。此外，俄乌冲突对油价也有影响，法国就此呼吁双方停止攻打彼此能源目标。

法国拟召集七国集团商讨释放战略石油储备

2026-09-25 11:41 / 联合早报

9月22日，法国总统埃马克龙在纽约联合国总部举行的联合国大会发表讲话。 （法新社）

法国拟召集七国集团（G7）成员国开会商讨释放战略石油储备，以稳定国际油价。

新华社报道，近期，美国和欧洲多国柴油价格均创下新高。法国总统马克龙星期四（9月24日）晚接受两家法国电视台联合采访时说，七国集团成员国可研究如何通过相互协调的方式向市场释放战略石油储备，从而降低油价。

马克龙说，伊朗局势是全球油价飙升的主要原因，法国将致力于推动地区恢复稳定。此外，俄乌冲突对油价也有影响，法国就此呼吁双方停止攻打彼此能源目标。

【图集】特朗普设国宴款待习近平 美国商界领袖陆续抵达

2026年9月25日 06:35 / 联合早报

苹果公司董事会主席库克星期四（9月24日）抵达白宫，出席美国总统特朗普与第一夫人梅拉尼娅为中国国家主席习近平及夫人彭丽媛举行的国宴。图为库克面对媒体镜头时做出手势。 （路透社）

美国总统特朗普定于美东时间星期四（9月24日）晚在白宫设国宴款待中国国家主席习近平，多名美国科技界和金融界领袖已陆续抵达现场。

英伟达首席执行长黄仁勋星期四（9月24日）抵达白宫，出席美国总统特朗普与第一夫人梅拉尼娅为中国国家主席习近平及夫人彭丽媛举行的国宴。（路透社）

亚马逊创始人贝索斯星期四（9月24日）抵达白宫，出席美国总统特朗普与第一夫人梅拉尼娅为中国国家主席习近平及夫人彭丽媛举行的国宴。（彭博社）

截至发稿时，苹果的库克、英伟达的黄仁勋、亚马逊的贝索斯、OpenAI的奥尔特曼、花旗集团的范洁恩、谷歌的皮查伊、摩根大通的戴蒙等已到场。习近平与夫人彭丽媛预计于傍晚6时45分返回白宫出席国宴。

美国人工智能巨头OpenAI首席执行官奥尔特曼于美东时间星期四（9月24日）抵达美国总统特朗普为中国国家主席习近平举办的国宴。（路透社）

谷歌及母公司Alphabet首席执行官皮查伊抵达华盛顿出席国宴。（路透社）

花旗集团首席执行官范洁恩抵达国宴现场。（路透社）

摩根大通首席执行官戴蒙抵达华盛顿的国宴现场。（路透社）

美国福克斯新闻台主持人和保守派政治评论员瓦特斯出席在白宫举行的国宴，他是出席国宴名单中少有的媒体人。（路透社）

据美国官员透露，预计出席的宾客还包括特斯拉的马斯克、迈克尔·戴尔等。

目前尚不确定是否有中国企业高管出席。香港《南华早报》星期四报道，数名中国企业高管已自行抵达华盛顿，等候国宴邀请。他们持有美国签证，但未随习近平的官方代表团出行，也未搭乘他的专机。能否出席国宴及参与其他国事访问活动，仍有待最后阶段的外交磋商敲定。

白宫当天公布的国宴菜单包括前菜、主菜和甜点，以美国食材为主，并融入中国元素，展现两国的烹饪传统。

不过，商界领袖云集，未必意味着双方能在经贸和科技问题上取得突破。路透社引述了解美方计划的人士说，特朗普很可能继续维持严格的美国技术出口管制，而中国则希望美方放宽限制。

星期四稍早，特朗普与习近平在白宫会晤约三小时。路透社分析认为，这场峰会的象征意义大于实质成果，目前没有迹象显示，两人的闭门会谈在人工智能（AI）、贸易、台湾及伊朗战争等棘手议题上取得突破。

美国财政部长贝森特星期三晚说，中美已同意将原定11月10日到期、为期一年的贸易休战协议延长两个月，至明年1月10日。

习近平夫妇抵达白宫出席国宴

2026年9月25日 07:18 / 联合早报

中国国家主席习近平（左二）和夫人彭丽媛（左一）于美东时间星期四（9月24日）傍晚抵达白宫，出席国宴。美国总统特朗普（右二）和夫人梅拉尼娅（右一）在白宫北门廊迎接两人。 （路透社）

中国国家主席习近平和夫人彭丽媛当地时间星期四（9月24日）傍晚抵达白宫，出席美国总统特朗普招待的国宴。

特朗普夫妇在白宫北门廊迎接习近平夫妇，随后一行人前往东厅。

根据现场直播画面，习近平身穿黑色中山装，彭丽媛则身着红色长礼服。预计习近平和特朗普将在国宴上发表讲话。

这是习近平和彭丽媛继当天上午出席欢迎仪式及闭门会谈后，再次来到白宫。特朗普此前形容上午的会谈是一次“很棒的会面”。

出席国宴的美国商界领袖包括苹果公司董事会主席库克库克、OpenAI首席执行官奥尔特曼、花旗集团首席执行官范洁恩、谷歌首席执行官皮查伊、摩根大通首席执行官戴蒙、亚马逊创办人贝佐斯，以及英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋等。

目前尚不确定是否有中国企业高管出席。香港《南华早报》星期四报道，数名中国企业高管已自行抵达华盛顿，等候国宴邀请。

白宫星期四公布的国宴菜单包括前菜、主菜和甜点，以美国食材为主，并融入中国元素，展现两国的烹饪传统。

另一方面，美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）一名记者和一名制片人在习近平抵达国宴现场时被拦在门外。此前，一名法官已下令恢复CNN、MS Now和Politico的采访权限，CNN记者贝齐·克莱因当天中午也一度获准进入白宫范围。

特朗普当天在社交媒体发文称，CNN和MS Now“拒绝报道”上午的欢迎仪式，因为这场活动“非常适合电视转播”，而两家媒体不愿让他因此获得正面评价。

白宫在习近平夫妇抵达时一度提供他们与特朗普夫妇步入白宫的画面，但直播信号随后中断。

目前也没有电视新闻网获得联播池画面。数十年来，由五家电视新闻网组成的联播池一直为美国总统活动提供共享直播画面，但这一机制当晚陷入停摆。特朗普此前禁止CNN、MS Now和Politico参与，而其他电视新闻网也未接替空出的名额。

Trump, US House speaker and tech CEOs to meet on AI on September 29, source says

2026-09-24 23:23:28 UTC / Reuters

By Courtney Rozen and Kanishka Singh

September 24, 2026 11:23 PM UTC Updated 20 mins ago

“AI Artificial Intelligence” words, a keyboard and a robotics hand in this illustration taken, September 23, 2026. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump, Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson and tech CEOs will hold a meeting on artificial intelligence on September 29, a source familiar with the planned meeting said late on Thursday.

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• The world’s leading artificial intelligence companies have warned ⁠of the risks posed by AI to humanity, appealing for governments to work together to manage the increasingly powerful technology.
• Governments around the world have struggled to keep pace with rapid advances in AI.
• The planned meeting was reported earlier by Axios. Further details were not immediately available.
• The United States and China, the two leading powers in AI development, have taken different approaches to oversight.
• Trump has argued the US does not need new AI-specific regulations, while China has imposed rules governing AI algorithms and training data, including requirements that AI-generated content be clearly labeled.
• Trump told world leaders at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday he “rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control” AI, describing the technology as amazing but noting the US would be careful.

Changes attribution to source, adds background on AI

Reporting by Courtney Rozen and Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Chris Reese

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【视频】特朗普向习近平展示直升机停机坪

2026-09-25 07:44:52 / 联合早报

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美国总统特朗普与中国国家主席习近平当地时间星期四（9月24日）在白宫会晤。

特朗普在白宫南草坪以高规格仪式欢迎习近平，陪同检阅仪仗队并观看飞行表演，还向习近平展示新建的直升机停机坪，并邀请他登上总统直升机。

特朗普在欢迎致辞中称两人的关系是“真正伟大的友谊”，并说双方已经取得“巨大进展”。（视频来源：WHITEHOUSE.GOV）

Oklahoma must allow taxpayer-funded religious charter school, judge rules

2026-09-24T20:18:58.813Z / Reuters

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• Summary

• Judge rejects Oklahoma nonsectarian charter-school mandate
• Jewish school can now pursue state-funded charter status
• Supreme Court split 4-4 in similar Oklahoma case in 2025

Sept 24 (Reuters) – A federal judge in Oklahoma cleared the way on Thursday for a Jewish organization to establish the nation’s first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in a case over religious rights in American education that could eventually reach the US Supreme Court.

US District Judge David Russell in Oklahoma City issued a

preliminary injunction blocking the state from excluding the National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation from Oklahoma’s charter program. State law requires charter schools to be nonsectarian.

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Charter schools are considered public schools under Oklahoma law and draw taxpayer funds from the state government.

The judge said the restriction expressly discriminates against otherwise eligible schools solely because of their religious character in violation of the US Constitution’s First Amendment protection for the right to exercise one’s religion freely without government interference, known as the “free exercise clause.”

“A long line of Supreme Court precedent supports plaintiffs’ position,” wrote Russell, an appointee of Republican former President Ronald Reagan.

Another provision of the First Amendment, called the “establishment clause,” restricts government officials from establishing or endorsing any particular religion or promoting religion over nonreligion.

Set up as alternatives to traditional public schools, charter schools typically operate under private management and often feature small class sizes, innovative teaching styles or a particular academic focus.

The judge blocked the Republican-led state from enforcing its state law. Several Oklahoma taxpayers and families intervened to defend the law after the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board, which had denied Ben Gamla’s application, opted not to oppose a ruling against the nonsectarian mandate.

Daniel Chen, a lawyer for Ben Gamla at the religious rights legal group Becket, said in a statement that the ruling will ensure it “now gets what it should have had from the start: a fair shot to serve Oklahoma families.”

“The Constitution doesn’t permit the state to welcome every kind of charter school except a religious one,” Chen said.

Lawyers for the interveners at groups including Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the American Civil Liberties Union in a joint statement said the ruling marked “a dangerous sea change for our democracy.”

“We will continue to fight for all Oklahomans, who deserve public schools that are secular and open to all students,” they said.

The ruling came a year after the Supreme Court split 4-4 on whether to overturn an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that had prevented two Catholic dioceses from establishing a taxpayer-funded charter school in the state. The court was unable to resolve the issue after conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused herself from the case.

In ruling in favor of Ben Gamla, Russell cited a 2022 ruling that the Supreme Court delivered that further reduced the separation of church and state by siding with two Christian families who challenged a Maine tuition assistance program that excluded private religious schools.

Russell said that, similar to Maine, Oklahoma had by law “created a generally available benefit: the opportunity to apply for and contract with a sponsor to establish a charter school.”

“But the state categorically excludes religious institutions from participating,” the judge wrote.

Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by Will Dunham

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Nate Raymond reports on the federal judiciary and litigation. He can be reached at nate.raymond@thomsonreuters.com.

‘Love Me’: White House airs government-funded ad praising Trump

2026-09-24 6:10 PM ET / CNN

By Patrick Svitek

Updated 1 hr 57 min ago

Updated Sep 24, 2026, 6:10 PM ET

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2026, 4:40 PM ET

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With the midterm elections approaching, the White House is airing a new TV ad promoting President Donald Trump and his policies that says it is “Paid for by the U.S. Government.”

The unusual 30-second commercial shows rapidly edited pictures and video of Trump over audio of him denouncing communism and socialism, with text on the screen that touts his administration’s accomplishments, such as “reigniting American manufacturing.” The spot is set to the song “Love Me” by JMSN.

The ad ends with a clip of UFC President Dana White praising Trump as the “toughest, most resilient person that I’ve ever met.”

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The commercial started airing Wednesday across the country on cable TV, including Fox News, as well as connected TV, according to AdImpact. The ad-tracking service said the government has spent just over $14,000 to run the ad so far.

That is a small amount of money compared to the tens of millions of dollars that are flooding the airwaves in the final weeks of the midterms, and the ad doesn’t mention any races or candidates. But it marks an atypical use of taxpayer dollars at a time when Trump has sought to make himself front and center in the elections, even though he is not on the ballot.

The White House declined to elaborate on how the ad is being funded but defended it as part of “public service announcements” to promote national pride.

“The ad is educational and unapologetically patriotic,” a White House spokesperson said in a statement. “We should be proud of our country.”

JMSN, the singer-songwriter whose song is the soundtrack of the ad, suggested on X that the administration used “Love Me” without his permission.

“I am looking at lawyers and handling this internally,” JMSN wrote.

The government-funded ads come as Trump’s political operation has started unloading its massive war chest in the midterms. MAGA Inc., the main pro-Trump super PAC, entered September with $416 million cash on hand, according to a recent campaign finance filing.

The ad drew scrutiny from some Democrats in Congress and the government watchdog group Common Cause, which suggested it could violate rules against using taxpayer dollars for “propaganda.”

“I don’t think you have to be a legal scholar and wonder why the president has to use taxpayer funds to promote his image” this close to an election, Carol Evans, the vice president for policy at Common Cause, told CNN.

This story has been updated with additional details.

DOJ says it’s moving to end more than 50 decades-old school desegregation cases

September 24, 2026 / 7:24 PM EDT / CBS News

The Justice Department said Thursday it was seeking to end more than 50 long-standing consent decrees dating back decades that sought to curb unlawful racial segregation that was prevalent during the Jim Crow era.

Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said her office was “ending prolonged federal oversight of these school districts” because the effort “does not reflect the reality of those classrooms today.”

Dhillon described the consent decrees as “onerous and outdated.”

A Justice Department spokesperson shared a list of dozens of desegregation cases with local school districts that have been dismissed, including cases in Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi, Georgia and Connecticut.

In some other cases, the Justice Department has sought dismissal but a judge has not yet ruled, the spokesperson told CBS News. A federal judge must agree to dismiss a consent decree.

At the end of Reconstruction, many states — particularly in the Deep South — enacted what were known as “Jim Crow” laws that enforced racial segregation at public facilities. These laws were spawned by an 1896 Supreme Court decision known as Plessy v. Ferguson, which created the “separate but equal” doctrine that allowed for racial segregation.

In those states, Black children were forced to attend separate schools that often lacked adequate resources and were not easily accessible by public transportation.

A landmark Supreme Court decision in the 1954 civil rights case of Brown v. Board of Education overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine, making it unlawful for public schools to discriminate on the basis of race.

For decades since that decision, the Educational Opportunities Section of the Civil Rights Division has brought legal actions to protect students from unlawful racial discrimination, often through court-monitored consent decrees with those schools. Some of those consent decrees have remained in effect for decades, dating back to the 1960s and 1970s.

In some cases, the agreements struck by the Justice Department required school districts to change how students are assigned to different schools or modify other policies to prevent students from being segregated by race.

As of May 2022, the Justice Department still represented the federal government in some 140 school desegregation cases, according to an archived press release.

Since last year, the Justice Department has filed court papers seeking to dismiss desegregation cases in several school districts. Federal officials said the districts had achieved “unitary status,” meaning they had eliminated the vestiges of Jim Crow-era racial desegregation and no longer needed further federal monitoring.

The Justice Department said on Thursday it is undertaking a “case-by-case review” of all pending desegregation cases that were filed in the 1960s and 1970s.

“After concluding that a school district has achieved unitary status, the Department will seek dismissal of the case,” the department said.

Kristen Clarke, the former assistant attorney general of the Civil Rights Division who is now the general counsel at the NAACP, told CBS News: “This administration’s relentless campaign to dismantle work done to end racial segregation in our nation’s public schools is a stain on our democracy.”

“Brown vs. Board of Education stands as the singularly most important decision ever issued by the Supreme Court and it has taken continued partnership between the government and school districts to keep school systems on track. Carefully-negotiated consent decrees provide important protections for children today who face discrimination and barriers,” Clarke said. “No doubt, this Justice Department’s actions threaten to fuel resegregation and discrimination in public schools, to the peril of all of our children.”

Regan Rush, director of the Red Line for Civil Rights project at Democracy Forward, argued the Civil Rights Division “has walked away from enforcement work it spent decades building.”

Dhillon has largely upended the Civil Rights Division since her arrival last year by dismissing or declining to pursue the types of race-related discrimination cases that had historically been its focus. More than 75% of the division’s staff have resigned or retired early, CBS News has previously reported.

Dhillon has hewed closely to President Trump’s policy directives. Her division has launched investigations into diversity, equity and inclusion policies at universities, filed lawsuits to prohibit transgender athletes from playing on girls’ and women’s sports teams, and litigated against dozens of states in an effort to access unredacted copies of their voter registration lists.