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News outlets will ask judge to end Trump’s White House ban at hearing

2026-09-23T10:05:38.209Z / reuters.com

WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) – News ​outlets CNN, MS NOW and Politico will ask a federal judge on Wednesday to immediately restore their access to ‌the White House after President Donald Trump banned them in one of his most dramatic clashes with the media to date.

The outlets said the ban, which Trump announced on Friday on his social media platform Truth Social, is an illegal attack on their right to free speech under the US Constitution and violates ​their rights to due process.

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The three news organizations, he said, “shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when ​they’re covering the President of the United States.”

In a legal filing on the eve of the hearing, ⁠the Trump administration argued that access to the White House was a privilege, not an entitlement, and so the president had the ​authority to suspend the organisations’ access.

Trump has accused the media of trying to hurt Republicans ahead of the November midterm elections, as his sagging ​popularity threatens the party’s chances of retaining control in both houses of Congress.

“This ban could not be a more direct assault on the First Amendment nor a more blatant violation of our most fundamental constitutional principles,” the outlets said in their lawsuit, filed on Monday.

In a show of solidarity, major US television ​networks on Monday suspended their pooled coverage of Trump’s movements, upending a decades-long system that allows Americans to see their president’s public movements ​on TV.

MS NOW White House correspondent Vaughn Hillyard reports from a street corner just outside the White House after US President Donald Trump banned three major news outlets (CNN, MS NOW and Politico) from the White House, in Washington, D.C., US, September 21, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

With the press pool absent, Trump’s remarks on Monday were inaudible during the White House’s live stream of a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new helipad.

At ‌a 3:30 ⁠p.m. (1930 GMT) hearing in Washington, US District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, will consider a request to immediately reinstate the outlets’ access to the White House while the litigation unfolds.

Trump’s effort to ban the three news organizations from the White House is on shaky legal ground, according to free speech experts, who said US courts have long held that the government cannot condition press access on favorable coverage once ​it has opened a space ​to the media.

In a 2018 ⁠case that raised similar legal issues, Kelly ordered the White House to restore CNN correspondent Jim Acosta’s press pass, which had been revoked after a contentious news conference with Trump.

Kelly ruled in that case ​that the White House had not used fair and clear procedures to revoke Acosta’s credential, calling the ​process “shrouded in mystery.”

In ⁠a social media post on Monday afternoon, Trump indicated regret over appointing Kelly to the bench in 2017, during his first term, and said he was bracing for a loss.

Although past presidents have battled with the press, Trump’s campaign against the media has been unprecedented. He has upended ⁠decades of ​tradition by denying basic access to many major news organizations, launching personal attacks on ​journalists for their reporting, and elevating media outlets seen as more sympathetic to the administration. He also has filed lawsuits against multiple news outlets, including the New York ​Times, the Wall Street Journal and the BBC.

Reporting by Jan Wolfe and Jack Queen; Editing by Tom Hals, Noeleen Walder and Edmund Klamann

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消息：朝鲜测试新型高超音速武器 可规避防空反导系统

2026年9月23日 16:44 / 联合早报

9月20日，朝鲜领导人金正恩（右）在女儿金珠爱的陪同下，视察新型武器的测试。 （路透社）

消息称，朝鲜似乎测试一种能够规避导弹防御系统的高超音速武器，这种武器可能难以追踪和拦截。

法新社星期三（9月23日）引述分析人士报道说，这款武器似乎是朝鲜“火星炮-11Ma-1”高超音速短程弹道导弹的升级版。

朝鲜官方媒体发布的画面显示，领导人金正恩与女儿金主爱正在观看屏幕，屏幕显示的似乎是导弹的飞行轨迹，并标有“火星炮-11Ma-1飞行轨迹”的字样。

据朝中社报道，金正恩本星期曾警告说，这种武器取得的进展将让对手“头疼得无法治愈”，并遭受“非常残酷且无法避免的打击”。

首尔北韩大学前校长杨武辰（译音，Yang Moo-jin）说，这种高超音速导弹射程为450至600公里，“旨在在极短时间内打击朝鲜半岛各地的重要军事设施”。

来自朝鲜、现为研究人员的安灿日（译音，Ahn Chan-il）说：“朝鲜可能在夸大自身能力，但很明显它已经具备发射这一等级武器的能力。”

“我认为这些测试与其说是为了提升自身军事能力，不如说是在测试本国国防工业为满足俄罗斯战时需求而生产的武器。”

分析人士说，自俄罗斯2022年入侵乌克兰以来，朝鲜已成为克里姆林宫的重要盟友，向莫斯科派遣军队支援战争，以换取经济利益和军事技术。

首尔韩国军事事务研究院高级研究员洪成杓（译音，Hong Sung-pyo）说，如果用于攻击韩国，这种高超音速武器将构成严重威胁。

不过，他说，一次成功测试不足以证明这种武器的能力，但如果投入实战，将极难防御。“由于这种武器在飞行末段下降过程中能够进行机动，追踪和拦截难度比传统弹道导弹更高，尤其是在高超音速飞行状态下。”

韩国和日本说，朝鲜上周末从东部海岸向外海发射两枚短程弹道导弹，并谴责有关发射行动威胁地区和平与安全。

朝鲜没有说明所测试的武器型号，只说导弹总局“成功测试一种新型武器”，以展示“超现代防御技术”。

Trump-backed Iowa US Senate hopeful says Iran war must ‘be brought to a successful and immediate end’

Rep Ashley Hinson said, ‘Iowans are being squeezed and shouldn’t have to foot the bill at the pump or the checkout line for the war in Iran’

September 23, 2026 6:26am EDT / Fox News

Iowa Republican Senate candidate Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, discusses her highly competitive race against Democratic candidate Josh Turek and U.S. international trade policy on ‘The Story.’

As Americans endure elevated fuel costs with the midterm elections on the horizon, Rep. Ashley Hinson — a Republican running for U.S. Senate in Iowa — asserted in a post on X that the Iran war should “be brought to a successful and immediate end.”

“Iowans are being squeezed and shouldn’t have to foot the bill at the pump or the checkout line for the war in Iran. We need to use every option at our disposal to provide some relief from high prices,” Hinson said in the Monday post on X.

“That includes suspending the gas tax, pausing diesel exports, unleashing E-15 everywhere we can, reinstating the $1/gallon biodiesel tax credit, and creating a diesel relief program to help our farmers and truckers being crushed by the high costs,” she continued.

FOX NEWS POLL: 71% THINK TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LACKS PLAN TO END IRAN WAR

Republican Iowa U.S. Senate candidate Ashley Hinson is interviewed onstage at an Americans for Prosperity event at the Adventureland amusement park on Aug. 22, 2026 in Altoona, Iowa.(Leon Neal/Getty Images)

“While doing this, we should also ensure our highway trust fund is replenished, so that Iowans don’t suffer from crumbling roads and bridges while relief comes our way now. These actions to lower costs are needed ASAP, and the war needs to be brought to a successful and immediate end,” Hinson wrote.

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House on Wednesday.

Hinson announced a U.S. Senate bid last year on the same day that Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, announced that she would not run for re-election. President Donald Trump then endorsed Hinson for the Senate seat days later.

TRUMP-BACKED SENATE CANDIDATE SAYS ‘GROCERIES COST TOO MUCH,’ CALLS FOR IRAN WAR TO ‘END QUICKLY’

Iowa Republican U.S. Senate candidate, Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) plays the violin during her BBQ fundraiser at the Horizon Events Center on August 29, 2026, in Clive, Iowa.(Charlie Neibergall/Getty Images)

Hinson is running against Iowa state Rep. Josh Turek, who is backed by former President Barack Obama.

The congresswoman has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since early 2021.

SEVEN-FIGURE BLITZ AS GOP EMBRACES PUSH TO COMPETE WITH CHINA IN BOOMING NEW TECH SPACE

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During an address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump said, “But I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before … Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?”

Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.

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Battle over Missouri’s congressional map reaches US Supreme Court for third time

2026-09-23T08:14:44.244Z / Reuters

By Andrew Chung

September 23, 2026 8:14 AM UTC Updated 34 mins ago

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• Summary

• Republican-drawn map erased a Democratic-held district
• Missouri’s top court blocked new map pending referendum
• Federal courts issued rulings favoring Republican map
• Supreme Court has intervened in dispute twice already

Sept 23 (Reuters) – Challengers to a redrawn congressional map in Missouri aimed at ​favoring Republicans returned to the US Supreme Court on Tuesday, urging it to halt its use in November’s ‌midterm elections after a St. Louis-based federal court again ordered its reinstatement despite two previous Supreme Court orders to the contrary.

The latest emergency request involving the battle over the makeup of Missouri’s US House of Representatives districts marks the third time in September that the dispute ​has reached the nation’s top judicial body.

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On September 10, the Supreme Court blocked the Republican-drawn map, a decision thought ​to have settled the matter, at least for the November 3 elections. But the St. Louis-based ⁠8th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday ruled that the new map must be used, injecting still further ​confusion into the fight over the map.

President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans are striving to maintain control of both chambers of Congress.

With the ​midterms looming, the challengers, including a group opposed to the Republican-drawn map called People Not Politicians, asked the Supreme Court to block the 8th Circuit’s ruling.

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Missouri Republicans in 2025 adopted the new map, which dismantled a Kansas City-based House district held by longtime Democratic Representative Emanuel ​Cleaver, as part of a broader effort backed by Trump to redraw congressional districts in ways beneficial to Republican House ​candidates.

The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously ruled on September 3 that under state law the Republican-drawn map could not be used in the midterms ‌until it ⁠is first put to a voter referendum.

Missouri officials asked the US Supreme Court to intervene, but were rebuffed on September 8 in a decision made by conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Soon after, US District Judge Stephen Clark in St. Louis, a Trump appointee, issued a temporary order barring any map except for the redrawn 2025 one because those congressional district lines were already ​used in Missouri’s August 4 ​party primary elections.

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Clark acted ⁠in a lawsuit by Republican US Representative Bob Onder of Missouri and other plaintiffs after the unfavorable ruling by the state’s top court.

The map’s opponents then turned to the US Supreme ​Court, which on September 10 blocked Missouri from using the redrawn map. No justice publicly ​dissented from that ⁠brief order, which was unsigned and gave no explanation. Following that action, Republican officials said the midterms would be held using the state’s previous congressional map, passed in 2022.

But the 8th Circuit proceeded with an appeal of Clark’s now-blocked temporary order, and ⁠on Monday ​it upheld Clark’s decision. The 8th Circuit panel, which included two judges ​appointed by Trump and a third by another Republican president, also ordered Clark to make his temporary order permanent — a move that would require renewed ​Supreme Court intervention.

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国际银行警告：使用AI购物助手可能增加诈骗风险

2026年9月23日 17:17 / 联合早报

多家国际银行警告，使用AI助手进行网络购物，可能会面临更高的诈骗风险。 （路透社示意图）

（巴黎路透电）随着人工智能（AI）助手在生活的方方面面越来越普及，多家国际银行发出警告，提醒使用AI助手进行网络购物，可能会使用户的个人信息和支付信息安全面临更大的风险。

包括苏格兰国民西敏斯银行（NatWest）、美国银行（Bank of America）、荷兰国际集团（ING）、奥克兰储蓄银行（ASB bank）和澳大利亚联邦银行（Commonwealth Bank of Australia）在内的多家银行和金融业者，星期二（9月22日）发布联合报告，警告这个风险。

OpenAI、Anthropic、谷歌和Meta等科技公司，正在大力推广将AI聊天机器人作为购物工具，让它们代表用户挑选商品并完成下单。与此同时，各大零售业者也正试图左右AI的推荐结果。

联合报告警告，目前这项技术的发展速度，已经超越了行业标准和消费者保护措施的完善速度。这意味着，AI不一定能够充分维护消费者的利益，例如买错东西、花冤枉钱，甚至让消费者的钱财落入诈骗分子的手中。

潜在的风险包括AI可能会把消费者的支付信息输入到第三方网站中，或引导消费者使用安全保障较弱的支付方式。

这些银行正计划与政策制定者讨论一系列保障措施，包括标注有AI参与的交易、提高AI推荐的透明度，以及建立保护客户数据的安全屏障等。

另据科技媒体GeekWire报道，电商巨头亚马逊已禁止顾客使用Meta的AI购物助理Muse进行网购，理由是Muse没有披露自己是AI代理，并且存在保存客户资料和交易信息的行为，进而带来隐私和安全风险。

韩国7月出生人口同比增11.1% 2019年以来创同月新高

2026年9月23日 17:22 / 联合早报

韩国国家数据处星期三（9月23日）发布的7月人口动向资料显示，今年7月出生人口为2万4275人，使得今年前七个月累计出生人口突破17万人，增幅创历年同期新高。 （档案照片）

韩国今年7月出生人口为2万4275人，同比增加11.1%，自2019年以来创下同月新高。

韩联社报道，韩国国家数据处星期三（9月23日）发布的7月人口动向资料显示，今年7月出生人口为2万4275人，使得今年前七个月累计出生人口突破17万人，同比增加14.7%，增幅创历年同期新高。

7月婚姻登记量也同比增加9.3%，为2万2282对新夫妻，是自2015年以来创下同月新高。

今年前七个月累计婚姻登记量为14万6656对，为2018年以来的同期最高值。

另一方面，7月死亡人数同比增加3%，为2万8921人。

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Venezuela opposition leader María Corina Machado blocked from entering country 3 times in 24 hours, team says

September 23, 2026 / 5:54 AM EDT / CBS/AFP

Caracas— Venezuela’s opposition leader, 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria Corina Machado, was prevented from returning to the South American country from her exile in Panama, a source from her political party told AFP on Tuesday. Machado is considered a fugitive by the Venezuelan government, which accuses her of calling for military intervention against the country.

She has been unable to return to Venezuela since being covertly sneaked out of the country in December by a private U.S. rescue team to accept her Nobel Prize in Norway.

“During the last 24 hours, María Corina Machado has been denied entry into Venezuela three times,” the politician’s senior adviser David Smolansky said in a statement shared with CBS News’ Margaret Brennan and other journalists early Wednesday morning. “She has attempted to enter the country by air and sea but has been turned away each time.”

The opposition leader has made several failed attempts to return to her home country, including during the aftermath of the devastating June 24 double earthquakes.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado receives an anniversary T-shirt as she meets members of Vente Panama, an organization formed by Venezuelans living abroad to support Machado’s “Vente Venezuela” political movement, at the Vente Panama headquarters in Panama City, Panama, May 24, 2026. Enea Lebrun/REUTERS

The latest instances come as Venezuela’s interim leader Delcy Rodriguez met with President Trump on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.

Venezuela suffered a wave of repression after former President Nicolas Maduro’s widely disputed claim to have won re-election in July 2024. The crackdown on opposition has eased since the United States seized Maduro in a lightning raid on the capital Caracas in January.

Colombian broadcaster NTN24 and Spanish newspaper ABC reported that Machado’s latest attempt to return to Venezuela was thwarted by a combination of air travel restrictions, last-minute cancellations and mechanical failures.

Machado was not invited to U.S.-backed transition talks that are underway between the interim Venezuelan government and selected parts of the opposition, although she has said she would not interfere in the process.

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南非三武装人员枪杀宴会宾客 致11死三伤

2026年9月23日 17:27 / 联合早报

南非东部海滨城市发生枪击事件，三名武装人员向参加家庭聚会的宾客开枪，造成至少11人死亡、三人受伤。

路透社报道，南非警方通报，这起案件发生于当地时间星期二（9月22日），地点位于夸祖鲁-纳塔尔省（KwaZulu-Natal）知名港口城市德班（Durban）的一个镇区。

当天参加家庭聚会的宾客包括一名据信怀有身孕的女性，以及13名男性。包括这名妇女在内的10名受害者当场死亡；其余四人送院，其中一人宣告不治。

目前尚不清楚袭击动机，但警方表示初步调查显示，部分受害者为警方熟知的人员。

南非的谋杀率位居世界前列，平均每天发生60起谋杀案。

An ancient wall discovered beneath a Paris hotel could confirm the city’s origins: “Major breakthrough”

2026-09-23T06:36:00-0400 / CBS News

An ancient wall discovered beneath Paris was described as a “major breakthrough” on Wednesday by France’s culture ministry, with the archaeological find possibly confirming the location of the city’s original settlement.

A roughly 65-foot wall dating from the Gallo-Roman period was discovered in Paris this summer beneath a hotel on the Ile de la Cite, a stone’s throw from Notre Dame Cathedral in the heart of the City of Light.

The stone-and-wood find is thought to be a fragment of the ramparts of Lutetia — the ancient name for Paris — built by the Gallic Parisii tribe which lived along the river Seine in the Iron Age.

The Ile de la Cite has traditionally been regarded as the center of Lutetia, but a rival theory, backed by archaeological research, contends that it was in Nanterre, a suburb to the west.

“We may be looking at one of the most important remains ever discovered for understanding Gallic Lutetia,” Culture Minister Catherine Pegard said in a statement from her ministry which was sent to AFP.

Paris Mayor Emmanuel Gregoire visits an archaeological site following the discovery of a Gallo-Roman era wall of Lutetia under the Hotel-Dieu hospital on the Ile de la Cite in central Paris, on September 22, 2026. SIMON WOHLFAHRT /AFP via Getty Images

“Scientific caution still requires that we verify its function and its chronology, but the convergence of evidence is particularly remarkable at this stage,” she added.

Lutetia was first mentioned in book seven of Roman leader Julius Caesar’s “Gallic Wars” series, where it was said to be on an island in the river Seine — a vague description that has given rise to many theories about its location.

The wall, uncovered in the course of excavations beneath the Hotel-Dieu, also bears traces of fire, which may correspond to Caesar’s account that the Gauls set fire to their town before the Battle of Lutetia against the Romans.

Through carbon dating technology, the charred evidence is estimated to date from 10-200 B.C., the ministry said in its statement — a timeframe that includes the Battle of Lutetia in 52 B.C.

The Ile de la Cite, home to Notre Dame cathedral, is the largest island in the river Seine in the Paris region and became the center of the Roman settlement of Lutetia.

Notre Dame itself has yielded numerous archaeological finds. In June, officials announced the discovery of multiple artifacts, including a fourth-century coin and mysterious inscriptions.

In 2022, several tombs and a sarcophagus likely dating from the 14th century were uncovered by archaeologists at the cathedral.

The news of the ancient wall comes less than a year after a massive prehistoric stone wall was found in the sea off the coast of France near the Île de Sein.