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被以色列驱赶 巴勒斯坦人另辟穴居园地

2026年9月24日 18:34 / 路透社

约旦河西岸的小村庄马萨费尔亚塔，住着约1100名巴勒斯坦人，当中许多都被以色列官方驱赶，家园毁于一旦。

33岁的艾马尔携家带眷住进附近一个石灰岩洞穴，他运用巧思布置出一番天地，还以太阳能板发电，将附近的井水引入。离洞穴不远处便是犹太定居者的地盘，偷窃、骚扰甚至攻击事件不时发生。他说，虽然巴勒斯坦人容身之地长年被压缩，但世代祖辈都在那里定居传承，让他们找到力量继续求存。

根据奥斯陆协议，这一带完全由以色列掌控，以军常以违建为由，将巴人的房屋拆毁驱走。不过艾马尔说，由于洞穴自古以来便存在，且不能轻易拆毁，军方允许他们继续穴居。（路透社）

Federal appeals court deals blow to Trump deportation agenda

September 24, 2026 7:41am EDT / Fox News

The First Circuit required ICE to give migrants a meaningful chance to challenge removal to unfamiliar countries

By Anders Hagstrom Fox News

DHS Chief Counsel James Percival said a group of federal district judges—not the judiciary as a whole—are repeatedly blocking deportations and Temporary Protected Status rollbacks despite SCOTUS rulings, calling it “naked political activism.”

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A federal appeals court formally struck down the Trump administration’s current format for deporting illegal immigrants to third-party countries on Tuesday.

The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued a ruling last week that endorsed a lower court order that Immigration and Customs Enforcement must allow migrants a meaningful chance to claim they would be endangered if deported to a third-party country.

This week, however, ICE officials attempted to move forward with deporting at least one migrant, who originally hails from Peru, to Ghana.

LIBERIA AGREES TO ACCEPT 1,200 THIRD-COUNTRY DEPORTEES FROM US WITHIN A YEAR

U.S. judges have repeatedly ruled that the Trump administration has violated due process by failing to notify the migrants of their imminent removals.(Getty Images)

The Trump administration has repeatedly used third-party countries for deportations to execute removal orders on migrants who claim they would be tortured if returned to their country of origin.

ICE argued the Peruvian migrant, identified as John Doe, could still be removed because the First Circuit had not formally issued a mandate striking down the policy, according to The American Prospect.

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Dozens of immigrants are detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents inside the Federal Plaza courthouse in New York City on Thursday, June 26, following their legal proceedings. The arrests, which took place shortly after court appearances, have sparked criticism from immigrant rights advocates, who say courthouse enforcement undermines due process and deters community members from seeking legal protection. (Photo by Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)(Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)

When asked for a clarification this week, the First Circuit formally issued that mandate, striking down a stay that had allowed third-party deportations to continue while the case was being litigated in higher courts.

“Consistent with this court’s September 18, 2026, Judgment, the March 16, 2026, stay pending appeal is dissolved,” the appeals court wrote in a brief order on Wednesday.

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The First Circuit’s ruling upheld a February 2026 decision from Judge Brian Murphy, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, who contended that the third-party deportations violated migrants’ due process rights because it could send them to unfamiliar or dangerous countries without their knowledge.

U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy in Massachusetts denied a request Monday, May 26, 2025, from the Department of Homeland Security to reconsider his order calling for the Trump administration “to take all immediate steps” to return a Guatemalan deportee to the U.S.(Reuters | Senate Judiciary Committee)

First Circuit Judge Seth Aframe, one of two Biden appointees on a three-judge panel that handed down last week’s ruling, argued that Murphy was “sensible” to require DHS to allow migrants a “meaningful” chance to raise concerns about a country to which they could be deported..

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“DHS’s proposed interpretation would deny access to that protection to a substantial swath of noncitizens who are sent to third ⁠countries with ​no notice of their destination,” Aframe wrote. “We decline to adopt such an interpretation.”

Reuters contributed to this report.

Anders Hagstrom is a reporter with Fox News Digital covering national politics and major breaking news events.

Election year “poop water” claims lead wealthy suburb to drop recycling plan

2026-09-24 06:46 EDT / CBS News / AP

Scottsdale, Ariz.— A Phoenix suburb ditched a plan to send recycled water from toilets and other sources directly to residents’ taps after political candidates made unproven claims that the water is contaminated “poop water.”

The affluent city of Scottsdale mainly uses purified water from the city’s liquid waste to recharge aquifers that can be drawn from when other sources are running low. But in June, as criticism mounted, the city council replaced funding for the recycling program and other water projects with a vague $100 million allocation for new water sources and supplies.

The recycling program has become a strange wedge in a three-way race for two seats on the council in the November election. One candidate supports adding purified wastewater to the drinking supply. Meanwhile, a former Republican state lawmaker and a conservative incumbent say they’re skeptical and question the safety and cost of meeting new state regulations.

Water flows through part of the standard wastewater treatment A+ effluent tertiary filter system at the Scottsdale Water Campus in Arizona on Sept. 9, 2026. AP Photo / Ross D. Franklin

The city says the candidates’ claims of “toilet to tap” — or untested poop water — marginalize the science behind the treatment program. Less than 1% of the city’s liquid waste comes from toilets, water officials said.

The budget change killed a plan to add purified wastewater that exceeds federal drinking water standards directly to Scottsdale’s supply by 2027.

Some experts and residents said the budget change, along with a council majority that frowns on wastewater reuse, could weaken resilience at a time when the West is mired in drought and cities are facing significant cuts to allocations of Colorado River water.

Scottsdale pioneered the wastewater recycling system in 1998. The city’s recycling facility is big enough to serve 60,000 households.

That expertise is vital for water officials elsewhere in Arizona who are looking to replicate the work in at least four other facilities.

“It’s so important to protect and reuse water in the Southwest,” said Bryan Cassens, an assistant senior director for Scottsdale Water, which runs the recycling program. “Here we already know it all. We’ve been doing it for 28 years.”

Bryan Cassens, assistant senior director at the Scottsdale Water Campus, walks through the site on Sept. 9, 2026, in Scottsdale, Arizona. AP Photo / Ross D. Franklin

The city of 250,000 gets 70% of its water from the Colorado River, more than any other city with the same population or larger in Arizona and California.

Scottsdale Water employees said that reliance and decades of population growth pushed them to recycle to defend against drought. All wastewater is treated through intensive steps — like ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis and ultraviolet photolysis, officials said.

Some was sold to breweries to make beer. Around 7,500 people tried the water after facility tours and other events, but no residents received it through their taps at home.

With the program expansion stalled, officials with Scottsdale Water said they’ll be prepared to present options to the council in October.

Political lines drawn

Former state lawmaker Michelle Ugenti-Rita, who is running for the city council, has been the most vocal opponent of the advanced water purification program.

She and actor Rob Schneider held up a glass of clear water and a glass of brown liquid in a May campaign ad that accused her opponents of pushing Scottsdale residents to drink sewage water, which her opponents denied.

A month later, the council approved the $100 million budget change.

Incumbent Councilman Barry Graham said the program is costly and an “alarmist” overreaction to drought.

Water officials in Scottsdale, Phoenix and Tucson also said some new state requirements on mixing purified water into the drinking water supply — like tracking chemicals and contaminants that are not federally regulated — unnecessarily raise costs.

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is making the new rules easier to follow but won’t be finished until early 2027, said Randall Matas, who leads the department’s Water Quality Division.

Despite the debates, Cassens said the facility is operating as normal.

Ugenti-Rita didn’t respond to repeated requests for comment from The Associated Press. Graham said advanced water purification would be a last resort in a water crisis, not now.

“I can’t just assume that every visitor and resident is going to trust the experts and is even going to listen to the experts,” Graham said.

Concerns rise as water levels fall

The criticism in Scottsdale comes as two key barometers of the Colorado River’s health — Lake Mead and Lake Powell — hit record lows this summer.

A federal proposal for the Colorado River outlines combined water cuts for Arizona, California and Nevada that could serve more than 25 million people annually through 2036.

“It’s not really a good time to start being selective,” said Cynthia Campbell, a former water resource management adviser for Phoenix. “Are you really going to play political games with the one thing that makes it possible to live in the desert?”

Since last year, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has committed to investing more than $300 million in advanced water purification projects in the arid West.

In Arizona, just over half of voters in the 2022 midterm election said they were “very” or “somewhat” confident that the state would have enough water over the next 10 years, according to AP VoteCast, which surveyed more than 3,000 Arizona voters. The other half, 47%, said they were “not too” or “not at all” confident.

Communities shouldn’t abandon long-term investments in public health and sustainability for short-term gain, said Ben Grumbles, the executive director of the Environmental Council of the States, a nonpartisan group of state and local environmental agency leaders.

“It can be frustrating when there are politicians scoring a cheap, fast point,” Grumbles said. “I hope that over time, the facts will bear out.”

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被以色列驱赶 巴勒斯坦人另辟穴居园地

2026年9月24日 18:34 / 路透社

约旦河西岸的小村庄马萨费尔亚塔，住着约1100名巴勒斯坦人，当中许多都被以色列官方驱赶，家园毁于一旦。

33岁的艾马尔携家带眷住进附近一个石灰岩洞穴，他运用巧思布置出一番天地，还以太阳能板发电，将附近的井水引入。离洞穴不远处便是犹太定居者的地盘，偷窃、骚扰甚至攻击事件不时发生。他说，虽然巴勒斯坦人容身之地长年被压缩，但世代祖辈都在那里定居传承，让他们找到力量继续求存。

根据奥斯陆协议，这一带完全由以色列掌控，以军常以违建为由，将巴人的房屋拆毁驱走。不过艾马尔说，由于洞穴自古以来便存在，且不能轻易拆毁，军方允许他们继续穴居。（路透社）

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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear pushes to flip a Republican-friendly House seat in test of his political reach

2026-09-24T09:00:29.089Z / CNN

As the midterms near, potential 2028 presidential candidates are looking to prove their appeal in a range of House districts across the country. For Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, it’s all about his state’s 6th Congressional District.

Beshear is making an all-out push to help a former aide, Zach Dembo, flip the Republican-friendly seat, a win that would further burnish the governor’s reputation as a Democrat who can win in red territory.

Beshear’s political action committee is spending about a quarter-million dollars on TV ads; Beshear has headlined a fundraiser for Dembo and is slated to do two more; he has filmed two ads with Dembo; and he has helped convince the state party to invest in the race.

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Beshear even personally reached out to Hakeem Jeffries and other House Democratic leaders to ask for Dembo to be added to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Red to Blue program, according to two sources familiar with the outreach. The DCCC did so last month, and a spokesperson for the committee told CNN that Beshear has been a “major asset” in the race.

“We’re helping in every way – fundraising, campaigning in person, some other things that you’ll see soon,” Beshear told CNN in an interview, noting he was born in the district and that it was “well-represented” by a Democrat — Ben Chandler — until 2013. “It’s time to have a voice that will actually support the district, and I know Zach Dembo pretty well.”

Dembo is a former federal prosecutor who worked as a policy adviser to Beshear and legislative director. His Republican opponent is Ralph Alvarado, a former state senator who won his primary with the help of an endorsement from President Donald Trump.

The Central Kentucky seat is open because the GOP incumbent, Andy Barr, is running for Senate.

While Trump carried the district by 15 percentage points in 2024, Beshear won it by about 20 points in his reelection campaign a year earlier. Dembo noted in a recent interview with CNN that the district has “a ton of people who voted for Andy Beshear and then voted for Donald Trump.”

Mark Riddle, a Democratic strategist from Kentucky, said Beshear’s heavy involvement could “make a big difference” in the race.

“It’s definitely a place where cost of living is hitting people, and I think politically getting a big win in Kentucky would send a strong message,” Riddle said.

Beshear already has his hands full as the chair of the Democratic Governors Association, a role that regularly takes him to states with competitive governors’ races. But a win in Kentucky’s 6th District would give him an achievement in the fight for control of Congress to tout in the nascent 2028 field.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, for example, has gone all in on trying to flip four of his state’s House seats as he runs for reelection himself.

Beshear has not shied away from the 2028 speculation surrounding him. He said during a book tour stop Tuesday in Washington, DC, that he was “not sure” he was done running for office, prompting a standing ovation. He later suggested to the moderator — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, another potential 2028 contender — that they would “make a pretty good team.”

Back in Kentucky, Republicans have not publicly treated the 6th District race as competitively as Democrats have. But a super PAC linked to Trump is spending $840,000 on advertising there, according to AdImpact, and Democrats were previously encouraged the race was in play when Alvarado overhauled his campaign website to downplay his ties to Trump.

Alvarado’s campaign mocked Beshear’s support for Dembo in a statement for this story.

“It’s too bad Zach Dembo isn’t his own person and needs his political sugar daddy to hold his hand in the final stretch of this campaign,” Alvarado campaign manager Andy Westberry said.

Beshear has a personal history with Alvarado. Alvarado was the running mate for Republican Gov. Matt Bevin in 2019 when Beshear, then the state’s attorney general, defeated Bevin in a narrow and bitter contest. Beshear refers to Bevin as “Trump Lite” in his new book and still points to his 2019 race as a blueprint for Democrats.

The first ad in the race from Beshear’s PAC, In This Together, attacks Alvarado over his ties with Bevin, saying he “stood side-by-side with Bevin” when he pardoned a man convicted of raping a child in 2019. It was part of an 11th-hour flurry of pardons that Bevin issued days before he left office, drawing bipartisan backlash.

“Time and again, Alvarado chose his buddy Matt Bevin over protecting Kentucky families,” a narrator says.

Alvarado’s campaign responded to the ad by saying he “condemned Matt Bevin’s grotesque pardons” at the time, according to Louisville Public Media, though the outlet noted it could not find evidence of the condemnation.

中国据悉计划扩大陆港互换通机制 增加标准化利率衍生品

2026年9月24日 15:40 / 联合早报

知情人士透露，中国打算扩大香港与大陆利率互换市场互联互通机制，将两种标准化利率衍生品纳入全球投资者可以参与的范围。

据彭博社报道，知情人士称，中国外汇交易中心（CFETS）、上海清算所与香港场外结算有限公司正在研究在“互换通”中新增境内标准利率互换和标准债券远期的交易和清算业务，目标在2028年上线。

他们还称，相关讨论是在中国央行的指导下进行的。由于事未公开，知情人士要求匿名。

报道称，该计划标志着有关部门向外资进一步开放中国债市，这也是中国全面推动人民币全球使用及提升香港作为最大离岸人民币交易中心地位的最新举措。归功于高效的交易结算以及更加精准的风险对冲功能，这两种在岸利率衍生品产品近年大受欢迎。

中国央行、CFETS未立即回应置评请求。上海清算所不予置评。香港场外结算的母公司香港交易所在给彭博社的书面回复中称：“香港交易所仍致力于与监管机构和市场基础设施合作伙伴密切合作，持续完善互换通机制，支持其长期可持续发展并进一步增强香港在推动人民币国际化方面的作用。”

“互换通”于2023年推出，已成为全球投资者在中国市场的固定收益敞口对冲利率波动风险的重要渠道。

与交易对手之间通过场外交易达成定制化合约的传统利率互换相比，标准利率互换在定价基准、到期日和期限等方面采用统一要素。目前，在中国境内市场，标准利率互换以银行同业存单发行利率作为参考利率。标准债券远期则挂钩于国家开发银行和中国农业发展银行发行的高流动性政策性金融债。

这两种境内标准化衍生品工具采用集中但匿名的报价竞价机制，通常能够吸引更好的流动性。

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