彭博社：政府利用AI削减公务员规模阻力重重

2026年11月1日 22:01

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美国西雅图本周举办人工智能（AI）周会展，民间有人竖起布条抗议AI夺走就业机会。根据盖洛普一项调查，美国年轻人对AI的热忱已比一年前大幅降温。 （彭博社）

（伦敦彭博电）荷兰政府日前宣布，欲通过人工智能（AI）提高效率来裁减2万5000个公务员职位。这或许是全球政府至今利用科技削减薪资成本最具雄心的计划，但计划要奏效或在其他国家复制，恐怕都非易事。

荷兰的计划相当于裁减15%公务员岗位，寻求从2035年起每年节省35亿欧元（约50亿新元）。据彭博社计算，这在美国相当于削减15万公务员，在英国和法国则分别相当于7万5000和5万个公务员岗位。

在许多发达经济体，政府机构的规模已成为棘手政治议题。2018年至2025年间，荷兰公务员激增41%。过去10年，英国公务员增加逾三分之一，在野的保守党承诺扭转这一趋势，改革党更誓言采取更大力度。

然而，大幅裁员必将面对强力抵制。彭博社分析多个高收入国家数据显示，公务员加入工会的比率是整体劳动力的两倍以上。在美国，逾四分之一联邦雇员加入工会，而整体劳动市场只有10%。在韩国，两者分别为三分之二和13%。

自ChatGPT2022年推出以来，私人企业已宣布多轮由AI驱动的裁员潮，但政府的步伐明显滞后。经济合作与发展组织（OECD）去年的一份报告指出，各国政府对AI的应用落后于私人界，往往仍停留在试点阶段，未能借助AI承担更多工作，而且并不希望将许多任务交由AI完成。

与此同时，随着民众和企业纷纷拥抱AI，各国政府却发现AI反而增加公务员的工作量。

柏林赫尔蒂学院（Hertie School）今年8月发表的研究，在11个国家发现84起被称为“代理式信息洪流”（agentic flooding）的案例，即民众借助AI向政府大量提交投诉、诉讼及其他各种要求的现象。

即便AI在技术上能够胜任公务员的工作，应对民间海量的要求，政府也可能认定某些任务不应交由AI处理。

在欧洲，各国政府还面对AI主权问题。荷兰已表明将优先选择本国和欧洲的AI供应商，但欧洲自主研发的前沿AI模型寥寥无几。最终，各国恐怕并不愿将大量公务员工作外包给美国或中国。

在英国，企业对美国云端科技巨头的依赖已引起担忧，英国政府将国民保健服务合同交给美国的Palantir也引发数据安全争议。

英国AI部长纳拉扬（Kanishka Narayan）坦言：“英国人非常讨厌他们的私人敏感数据，尤其医疗健康数据落入外国亿万富翁手中。”

担忧老旧桥梁状态 伦敦桥提前进行安全检讨

2026年11月1日 22:18 / 新明日报

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随着外界对英国首都老旧跨河桥梁的状况日益担忧，伦敦桥（London Bridge）正比原计划提前接受一项关于结构安全的工程检讨。

彭博社星期天（11月1日）报道，负责管理泰晤士河上五座桥梁的慈善机构“伦敦城桥梁基金会”（City Bridge Foundation）在2025年至2026年度报告中指出，这项评估将加深对桥体内部缆索状况的了解。

机构在电邮声明中强调，初步调查并未发现任何缺陷。

德国城市德累斯顿（Dresden）的一座铁路桥在2024年9月坍塌坠入易北河，让工程师们纷纷探寻原因，也促使桥梁基金会提前展开检讨工作。

与德累斯顿的卡罗拉桥（Carola Bridge）一样，现有的伦敦桥同样建于1970年代初，并在设计上具有一些共同特征。

威斯敏斯特市议会此前发出警告，指滑铁卢桥（Waterloo Bridge）若无法获得必要的维修资金，恐被迫关闭，使伦敦的跨河桥梁日益受到关注。

桥梁基金会透露，当局也计划对黑衣修士桥（Blackfriars Bridge）、萨瑟克桥（Southwark Bridge）和伦敦塔桥（Tower Bridge）进行结构检讨。

每天有许多通勤者步行穿过伦敦桥，前往伦敦金融城上班。为缓解交通拥堵，这座桥目前在工作日上午7时至晚上7时之间，已禁止一般车辆通行。

根据伦敦金融城政府此前的说法，伦敦桥曾在2020年完成基本维护工程，协助加强桥梁结构的防水性能，而最新一轮评估即是在此之后展开。

伦敦城桥梁基金会目前拥有约15亿英镑（约25.6亿新元）的资金。基金会主席马蒂内利（Paul Martinelli）近期发表声明说，尽管面临接管更多桥梁的压力，但基金会仍将继续仅管理现有职责范围内的桥梁。

马蒂内利说，基金会管理的五座桥梁“完全没花纳税人一分钱；如今它们都正常开放、安全且状况良好”。

他直言：“伦敦的其他桥梁归属其他机构管辖，我们无法包揽整条河的桥梁。”

Former President Obama endorses Charles Booker in Kentucky Senate race

November 1, 2026 / 9:00 AM EST / CBS News

Former President Barack Obama endorsed Democratic nominee Charles Booker in the Kentucky Senate race on Sunday, two days before Election Day.

“I’m proud to support Charles Booker for the U.S. Senate,” former President Barack Obama said in a statement shared first with CBS News. “Charles cares deeply about the people of Kentucky, and by sending him to Washington, working families across the Commonwealth would have a leader who understands their struggles and has what it takes to make real change.”

Booker said he was ‘humbled and honored” to receive the endorsement. He is running against Republican Rep. Andy Barr to succeed Senator Mitch McConnell. McConnell, 84, announced his retirement last year and is Kentucky’s longest serving senator.

“Mitch McConnell essentially built a career leveraging Kentucky to become one of the most powerful politicians in our country, and we know that by flipping Kentucky, we flip the U.S. Senate,” Booker told CBS News in an interview earlier this year.

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While Kentucky is not among the states listed in CBS News Senate battleground tracker, Booker’s campaign says it has internal polling that indicates the race could be tightening. The race is considered solid Republican by Cook Political Report.

Aides are also citing an increase in Democratic turnout during early voting last week as a sign of potential momentum. According to the Kentucky State Board of Elections, more than 267,000 individuals had cast ballots. At least 95,645 registered Democrats had already voted compared to 83,726, Secretary of State Michael Adams said in a post Friday.

“A lot of it has been encouraging people to pay attention and to know that there is a race here, that it is competitive, and that there is a path to win,” Booker said.

Booker challenged Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul in 2022 and lost by nearly 24 points. Although Kentucky is a deep-red, Democrats are hoping the national envorinment will help them make inroads in some unlikely places.

Barr has cast Booker as a “socialist experiment” and “the most extreme candidate in the history of our state.” President Trump has endorsed Barr and visited the Commonwealth last month.

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“He’s been an amazing congressman,” Mr. Trump said during an Oct. 17 rally in Highland Heights. “He’ll be one of the great US senators.”

Obama’s endorsement follows a slew of other high-profile endorsements for the Kentucky Democrat, including from a group of senators, including Sens. Michael Bennet, Mark Kelly, Lisa Blunt Rochester, Chris Van Hollen, Raphael Warnock and Elizabeth Warren, who announced their support on Saturday. Booker is also backed by Govs. J.B. Pritzker and Wes Moore and he stumped with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and DNC Chair Ken Martin last week.

The former president has issued nearly two dozen endorsements for Democratic candidates and rallied for Senate candidates in Georgia, Michigan and Ohio late last month. He has raised more than $15 million for party committees throughout the midterm cycle.

This story published first on CBS News at 9:00 a.m. on Nov. 1, 2026.

巴黎示威者投掷汽油弹 法国展开“谋杀未遂”调查

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在星期六（10月31日）的巴黎的示威活动中，一枚烟弹在列队戒备的防暴警察旁冒出浓烟。 （路透社）

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法国检方称，当局已针对在周末巴黎抗议活动中有人向安全部队人员遭投掷汽油弹袭击一事，展开谋杀未遂调查。

法新社星期天（11月1日）引述法国检方说，在星期六（10月31日）的抗议活动中，有人向大约15名宪兵和警员投掷爆炸装置。

目前，检方已以“针对公职人员的谋杀未遂”罪名对这起事件立案调查。

巴黎警察总局指出，数百名暴徒向安全部队投掷包括汽油弹（Molotov cocktail）在内的投掷物。法国内政部长努涅斯谴责部分暴徒展现出“极其严重”的暴力程度。

包括法新社照片和视频在内的惊人画面显示，在巴黎东部，一枚自制燃烧装置在一名安全部队人员脚下爆炸，烈火瞬间吞噬了他的下半身。

遭汽油弹击中的宪兵向法国电视台讲述自己被烧伤的经历，形容当时“皮肤刺痛”，而投向他所属小队的投掷物如“雨点般”落下。

检方说，目前仍在评估伤者情况，并指通报的伤势包括二度烧伤，预计首批刑事控告将于星期天正式提出。

检方也说，“现阶段尚未就这起事件逮捕任何嫌犯”，调查人员正全力追查肇事者身份。

法国极右翼领袖勒庞（Marine Le Pen）在社交媒体X平台上发文，形容警员被火焰吞噬的画面“令人不忍直视”，并要求对这起汽油弹袭击的肇事者“予以最严厉的惩处”。

伊朗与卡塔尔调解员连续第三天会谈 寻求结束美伊战争

2026年11月1日 23:17

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伊朗谈判代表连续第三天与卡塔尔调解员举行会谈，旨在推动达成一项结束美国与以色列对伊朗战争的协议。

路透社引述一名听取会谈简报的官员报道，伊朗谈判代表星期天（11月1日）仍在多哈与卡塔尔调解员举行会谈。

这次会谈正值外界担忧美伊冲突可能在11月3日美国中期选举后再次升级之际。

美国总统特朗普此前说，美国不会在投票前对伊朗发动新袭击，并称与德黑兰的谈判富有成效，但他并未排除在选后采取进一步军事行动的可能性。

伊朗外交部长阿拉格齐（Abbas Araqchi）星期天说，这场“正在进行且取得进展”的会谈，目的是继续与卡塔尔调解员进行磋商，并强调德黑兰已做好防御与外交的两手准备。

阿拉格齐也向伊朗官方媒体说，有关一项“两天方案”的讨论仍在继续，但尚未达成最终结论。

卡塔尔半岛电视台引述阿拉格齐星期六（10月31日）受访时的谈话报道，伊朗和卡塔尔谈判代表已制定一项方案，拟在伊朗与华盛顿潜在协议达成后的两天内，重新开放霍尔木兹海峡。

阿拉格齐谈及与卡塔尔官员的会谈时说：“我们在这个过程中已尽最大努力，希望对方也能保持理性，优先考虑外交途径。”

这场已持续八个月的战争不断扰乱全球石油供应，并向整个中东地区外溢。伊朗多次表明，将通过打击邻国境内的美国和以色列目标，来回应任何新的袭击。

伊朗最高领袖穆杰塔巴星期六下令武装部队做好应对任何袭击的准备，军方随后也宣布采取措施加强战备。

美国国务卿鲁比奥星期六则说，特朗普尚未决定是否对伊朗发动新一轮打击，但更倾向于通过外交途径解决冲突。

美国招生政策改变 哈佛亚裔新生占比创新高

发布/2026年11月1日 22:05

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（纽约彭博电）美国哈佛大学美籍亚裔新生占比达到至少10年来最高水平，非裔新生占比则连续第三年下降。在美国最高法院禁止大学招生考虑种族因素后，哈佛新生的种族构成出现变化。

根据哈佛日前公布的招生数据，自我认同为亚裔美国人的学生占比从去年的41%升至43%；与五年前相比，占比增加近一倍。

与此同时，自我认同为非裔美国人或黑人的学生占今年新生的9.3%，低于去年的11.5%。国际学生在新生中的占比为15%，与去年持平。总体而言，今年申请人数增加15%，超过5万5000人。

美国大学长期以来为提高学生构成的多样性，在招生审查中实施考虑申请人种族的“平权行动”政策。最高法院2023年6月裁定，这一做法违反宪法，被告之一的哈佛大学被指多年来在招生过程中歧视亚裔申请学生。

此后，哈佛大学成为总统特朗普重塑高等教育的主要目标之一。特朗普政府指责高校未能有效应对反犹太主义问题，同时批评各类多元化项目，并声称高校存在政治偏见。

美国司法部在针对其他高校的调查中，也援引最高法院的上述裁决。

上周，北卡罗来纳大学与政府达成和解，了结针对该校涉嫌种族歧视和反犹太主义展开的18项调查。校方无须支付和解金，也不必承认存在不当行为，并将继续保有获得联邦资金的资格。

华府曾试图切断对哈佛大学的联邦资助，并限制其招收国际学生，哈佛为此对特朗普政府提起诉讼。双方目前仍深陷于争端之中，当中还涉及一系列联邦调查。

Midterm elections preview: How might this year’s vote change Washington?

November 1, 2026 / 9:15 AM EST / CBS News

Every four years, we get to choose our own president. But every two years, we have other elections, where we choose all 435 members of the House of Representatives, and a third of our Senators, and a whole lot of governors.

This is a midterm elections year, our chance to steer the direction of the country.

“These are historically viewed as referenda on the job performance of a president,” said New Yorker politics columnist Susan Glasser. She believes Tuesday’s elections will be historic in a long list of ways.

First, there’s the matter of the president’s steadily sinking popularity. “The president is the most unpopular American president in the history of modern polling going into a midterm election,” Glasser said.

The main reason is the price of everything. “People are so angry,” Glasser said. “It’s symbolized in how much money they’re paying to put gas in their cars at the pump, or how much money they’re paying for groceries. But it’s obviously much, much broader than that.”

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Another historic factor: The number of political ads. “This will be a record-breaking year basically any way you slice it,” said Wesleyan University professor Erika Franklin Fowler, who studies political ads. “The amount of money that’s being spent is enormous.”

This year, midterm ad spending will be over $11 billion, a record. But do political ads actually change anybody’s mind? “Really not all that much,” Fowler said. “No amount of advertising is going to change citizens’ minds about the cost of goods in this type of economy.”

Also historic is the rise of artificial intelligence in the ads: Computer-generated scenes of candidates that look like real video. Fowler said, “It’s having candidates say things that they never said or do things that they never did. Those are particularly concerning because it’s not clear to the viewer that this never happened.”

How is that legal? “There’s no federal regulation of AI in advertising,” said Fowler, “so most of it actually doesn’t even carry a disclaimer.”

And with just days to go before the election, is any ad, or any rally, going to change a voter’s mind? “That might be the irony of it all – we’re seeing a lot more early voting this year,” Fowler said, “and so a lot of the advertising that’s on air now is actually too late to make a difference.”

The Trump factor

Pollster Anthony Salvanto, who conducts our CBS News polls, said, “We see, overall, the numbers shifting toward the Democrats. It’s not historically unusual for a president’s party to lose seats in a midterm.”

So, what is driving voters: The war? Corruption? Gas prices? Salvanto said, “It all of the above.”

Another big factor, according to Salvanto, is the president: “Two-thirds of folks tell us they’re going to the polls for Congress either to support him (26%), or, in more cases, to oppose his policies (41%).”

The president is a factor for the candidates, too. Most ads for Republican candidates don’t even mention Mr. Trump. Sometimes they even criticize his policies, such as Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers’ ad calling for an end to President Trump’s tariff war against Canada.

So at this moment, what’s the state of play for the House and the Senate? According to the latest CBS News House model, the Democrats are on pace to win 229 seats, giving them the majority.

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As for the Senate, Salvanto said, “At the start of the year, there weren’t many folks who gave Democrats a chance to take the Senate. Well, what we’ve seen over time is that a lot of those red Republican states have in fact come into play. Doesn’t mean the Democrats are going to win them, but they certainly look to be more competitive.”

The idea that Texas and Kansas might elect Democratic Senators is definitely historic. Glasser said, “The last time that Democrats won a Senate seat in Kansas was in the 1930s. The last time a Democrat was elected to the U.S. Senate from Texas was Lloyd Bentsen in 1988.”

What comes after the election?

So, if the Democrats win control of both houses of Congress, does that change anything? According to Susan Glasser, “I think you would see efforts to restrain the Defense Department from spending more money, for example on Trump’s war with Iran. I think you might see very aggressive oversight and investigation hearings. I think you’ll see them issue subpoenas.”

But Glasser has more immediate concerns about what happens after the elections: “Donald Trump said that he won’t accept the results of any election that he personally does not think were conducted the way he wanted them to be.”

Asked if she thinks the president might try to invalidate or interfere with the results, Glasser laughed: “I don’t think that’s a speculative question. Remember that Donald Trump is the only president in all of American history ever to refuse to accept his defeat in a legitimate election. One of the things that Trump and his allies might try to do is to delay or block certification of incoming members of the Senate in close races.”

Already, the Trump administration has ordered a criminal investigation into Alaska’s Senate race, where Democrats are alleged to have recruited a candidate with the same name as the Republican opponent.

But even if the ride is bumpy, the midterm elections – especially these midterm elections – are a critical part of the American system of government. “I think it’s absolutely a crucial midterm,” Glasser said. “This is what the system was built to do, to balance and to constrain and to check among the different branches of government. I think we’d be looking at very different paths for our country depending on the outcome on Tuesday night.”

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Everything to know about House and Senate control, ballot measures and 2026 Election Day poll closing

Republicans defend slim congressional majorities as 145 ballot measures on abortion, voter ID and taxes go before voters

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Published November 1, 2026 9:00am EST

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In two days, Americans voting in the midterm elections will decide control of the U.S. House and Senate for the next two years.

Republicans are defending their slim congressional majorities, but President Donald Trump predicts the GOP will hold the House and Senate.

“If you elect a Republican House and a Republican Senate on November 3rd, we will continue to put America first every single day,” the president pledged on the campaign trail last week. And he claimed if the Democrats take control, “this country will go to hell.”

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President Donald Trump (L) looks on as Kentucky Republican congressional candidate Ed Gallrein speaks during a midterm rally at Truist Arena on the Northern Kentucky University campus on Oct. 17, 2026, in Highland Heights, Ky.(Eric Lee/Getty Images)

Republicans are fighting political history, as the party in power in Washington has traditionally lost seats during midterm election years. The GOP also faces a challenging political climate fueled by persistent inflation tied in part to what polls show is an unpopular war with Iran and Trump’s increasingly negative approval ratings.

Also up for grabs in this year’s midterm elections — governorships in 36 of the 50 states (as well as the territories of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Plus, all but four states are holding legislative elections. And voters will also weigh in on 145 statewide ballot measures in states from coast to coast.

Here’s a closer look at what’s up for grabs on Election Day 2026.

SENATE

Republicans currently control the chamber 53-47, with the final Fox News Power Rankings ahead of Election Day rating the race for Senate control a toss-up.

Both parties are three seats short of a majority, according to the forecast. Democrats are favored in 48 seats and Republicans are ahead in 47. The GOP needs to hold 50 seats to retain control of the chamber, since Republican Vice President JD Vance is the tie-breaking vote in the Senate.

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Fox News Power Rankings on Senate forecast.(Remy Numa/Fox News)

If Democrats ride a blue wave to victory by winning most or all of the competitive races, they could potentially come away from the midterms with up to 54 seats. But if Republicans have a good night and defy expectations, the GOP could hold the majority with up to 52 seats, according to the forecast.

Republicans are playing defense in Alaska, Iowa, Maine, South Carolina and Texas, which are all rated toss-ups in the Power Rankings. They’re also defending seats in competitive races in Kansas, which is rated Lean Republican, and Ohio, which is rated Lean Democrat.

Democrats are on defense in Michigan, which is rated a toss-up, and in Minnesota and New Hampshire, which are listed as Lean Democrat.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

The GOP is hanging on to a razor-thin majority in the House, and the Power Rankings point to the Democrats retaking control of the chamber.

A good night for the Democrats could see them ending up with as many as 240 seats in the 435-seat chamber. But if Republicans have a good night, they could end up with 212 seats. That’s six short of a majority, but enough to make life difficult for the next Democratic House Speaker, who would have to balance the demands of the moderate and far-left wings of the party.

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Fox News Power Rankings on House forecast.(Remy Numa/Fox News)

The earliest-closing districts on election night will give some sense of the House’s future.

“Keep an eye on Kentucky’s 6th district, which covers Lexington and a large central area of the state. Trump here by 15 points in the last presidential election. Thanks to a combination of left-leaning college voters and farmers grappling with higher costs, it looks close this cycle,” Remy Numa, a Fox News contributor who steers the network’s Power Rankings, said.

GOVERNORS

There are currently 26 Republican and 24 Democratic governors.

The Power Rankings list three states where the GOP controls the governor’s office – Alaska, Nevada, and Georgia – as toss-ups. Wisconsin, which has an open-Democratic controlled governor’s office, is also rated a toss up.

The gubernatorial races in red states Florida, Kansas, and Texas are rated Lean Republican, according to the Power Rankings.

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Fox News Power Rankings on gubernatorial forecast.(Remy Numa/Fox News)

Four other races are also seen as competitive and rated Lean Democrat. They are Arizona, Michigan, and Oregon, where Democrats are playing defense, and Iowa and Ohio, where the GOP is defending open governor’s offices.

BALLOT MEASURES

Referendums requiring voters to present identification when they show up the polls, or bans on noncitizen voting, are on the ballot in 11 states: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota and West Virginia.

Voters in Alaska will also decide if they want to repeal the state’s ranked choice voting system, open primaries and a campaign finance disclosure rule. Voters approve the current system in 2020 and narrowly kept it in 2024.

But the voting system has come under fresh scrutiny amid the controversy over a potential spoiler candidate in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race.

Voters in Virginia will decide whether the right to vote should be restored to convicted felons upon their release.

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More than a dozen states are holding ballot measures on Election Day that are related to voting.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

California’s Proposition 40 is making national headlines.

The measure, the first of its kind, would slap a one-time 5% tax on wealth for Californians worth over $1 billion, with the vast majority of the revenue generated going to pay for healthcare.

Also in the spotlight is millionaires tax in Washington State. If passed, the referendum would repeal a 9.9% tax on income over $1 million a year, which state lawmakers recently approved. Washington State currently does not have a personal income tax.

Voters in Maryland, Missouri, and Colorado weigh in on ballot measures on congressional redistricting, as the mid-decade redistricting fight between Democrats and Republicans will be waged again in 2028.

Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, and Washington State have referendums on transgender students’ participation in sports. Colorado also has a referendum on blocking gender transition surgeries for minors and preventing state or federal funding from being used for those operations.

Voters in Missouri weigh in on repealing a right to abortion and banning gender transition medical care for children. Meanwhile, and Idaho initiative would overturn one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans, while Virginia and Nevada voters decide on establishing a right to abortion in their state constitutions.

California, Colorado, and Arizona hold ballot measures on policy around energy, transportation and development.

POLL CLOSINGS

The first poll closings come at 6pm ET on Election Day, with the final poll closings happening at 1am ET.

6pm ET: Polls close in parts of Kentucky and Indiana.

7pm ET: Polls close in Georgia, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia. The final polls in Kentucky and Indiana close. And most polls in Florida and New Hampshire close.

7:30 pm ET: Polls close in North Carolina, Ohio, and West Virginia.

8pm ET: Polls close in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Washington, D.C. The remaining polls in Florida and New Hampshire close. Most polls close in Texas, Michigan, Kansas, North Dakota and South Dakota.

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Voters across the country will cast ballots on Election Day.(Rawpixel/Getty Images)

8:30pm ET: Polls close in Arkansas.

9:00pm PT: Polls close in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Wisconsin and Wyoming. The final polls close in Texas, Michigan, Kansas, North Dakota and South Dakota.

10pm ET: Polls close in Montana and Utah. Most polls also close in Idaho and Oregon.

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11pm ET: Polls close in California and Washington State, with the remaining polls in Idaho and Oregon also closing.

Midnight ET: Polls in all of Hawaii and most of Alaska close, with the remaining polls in Alaska closing at 1am ET.

Paul Steinhauser covers the national campaign trail from coast to coast for Fox News

担忧老旧桥梁状态 伦敦桥提前进行安全检讨

2026年11月1日 22:18

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图为10月12日，通勤者在晨光中步行穿过伦敦桥，前往伦敦金融城上班。 （法新社档案照片）

随着外界对英国首都老旧跨河桥梁的状况日益担忧，伦敦桥（London Bridge）正比原计划提前接受一项关于结构安全的工程检讨。

彭博社星期天（11月1日）报道，负责管理泰晤士河上五座桥梁的慈善机构“伦敦城桥梁基金会”（City Bridge Foundation）在2025年至2026年度报告中指出，这项评估将加深对桥体内部缆索状况的了解。

机构在电邮声明中强调，初步调查并未发现任何缺陷。

德国城市德累斯顿（Dresden）的一座铁路桥在2024年9月坍塌坠入易北河，让工程师们纷纷探寻原因，也促使桥梁基金会提前展开检讨工作。

与德累斯顿的卡罗拉桥（Carola Bridge）一样，现有的伦敦桥同样建于1970年代初，并在设计上具有一些共同特征。

威斯敏斯特市议会此前发出警告，指滑铁卢桥（Waterloo Bridge）若无法获得必要的维修资金，恐被迫关闭，使伦敦的跨河桥梁日益受到关注。

桥梁基金会透露，当局也计划对黑衣修士桥（Blackfriars Bridge）、萨瑟克桥（Southwark Bridge）和伦敦塔桥（Tower Bridge）进行结构检讨。

每天有许多通勤者步行穿过伦敦桥，前往伦敦金融城上班。为缓解交通拥堵，这座桥目前在工作日上午7时至晚上7时之间，已禁止一般车辆通行。

根据伦敦金融城政府此前的说法，伦敦桥曾在2020年完成基本维护工程，协助加强桥梁结构的防水性能，而最新一轮评估即是在此之后展开。

伦敦城桥梁基金会目前拥有约15亿英镑（约25.6亿新元）的资金。基金会主席马蒂内利（Paul Martinelli）近期发表声明说，尽管面临接管更多桥梁的压力，但基金会仍将继续仅管理现有职责范围内的桥梁。

马蒂内利说，基金会管理的五座桥梁“完全没花纳税人一分钱；如今它们都正常开放、安全且状况良好”。

他直言：“伦敦的其他桥梁归属其他机构管辖，我们无法包揽整条河的桥梁。”

The issue that could tip the scales in the Texas Senate race

November 1, 2026 / 9:37 AM EST / CBS News

This year’s midterm elections in Texas are on track to cost a billion dollars, with more than half of it spent on the U.S. Senate campaign – what could be the most expensive non-presidential race in American history. But whatever the price tag, it’s certainly one of the most combative.

Republican State Attorney General Ken Paxton’s campaign bus displays a rally cry from the 19th century Texas revolution against Mexico: “Come and take it.” Paxton, whose government tenure has been marked by controversy, is President Trump’s hand-picked candidate. At a rally October 23, Paxton exhorted the crowd: “Do you believe in protecting Texas and stopping Sharia law? So do I. Do you believe that parents, not the government, should raise your children? So do I.”

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In Texas, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton and Democratic State Representative James Talarico are running for U.S. Senate. CBS News

Paxton’s opponent is a Presbyterian seminarian and former middle-school teacher, State Representative James Talarico. Going into Election Day, polls show the two locked in a tight race.

Talarico draws his campaign’s closing theme from the TV show about Texas high-school football, “Friday Night Lights.” He told a crowd in San Antonio Oct. 24, “To win this election, we have to execute. We have to leave it all on the field. We have to win.”

The issues in Texas mirror concerns across the country: high prices, immigration, government corruption, and the power of big tech and billionaires. As the song goes, “The eyes of Texas are upon you.” And now, all eyes are on Texas.

“A big, messy, complicated election”

Sarah Adler Hartman and Matthew Watkins are the CEO and editor-in-chief of the Texas Tribune, a non-profit and non-partisan news organization. We invited them to the historic Salt Lick restaurant, just outside Austin, for some Hill Country barbecue, and a little politics.

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Matthew Watkins and Sarah Adler Hartman of the Texas Tribune. CBS News

Asked whether all the attention on Texas is inflating the egos of Texans to be the center of the political universe, Hartman replied, “Everything’s bigger in Texas!”

Hartman acknowledges that despite the popular image of Texas, the state has a growing Asian American population, a growing Latino population, and more people moving here from around the country.

“Texas is very different than the caricature that people paint of Texas from outside of the state,” she said, “and I think you see this, and you see some of the growing pains, the cognitive dissonance in this.”

Watkins noted, “There’s more Democratic voters in Texas than there are in Massachusetts. There’s traditionally Democratic voters in rural areas of the Rio Grande Valley who are very socially conservative. There’s, you know, really liberal white people in Austin. That’s how we get into a big, messy, complicated election like we’re in now.”

“These races are all about turnout”

Last weekend, “Sunday Morning” followed Paxton and Talarico as both stumped in and around San Antonio, and spoke to some of their supporters.

Paxton’s backers say the race is about what it means to be a true Texan. One man said of Democrats moving to the state, “They don’t understand. They’re bringing their point of views here, and it’s going to ruin it. It’ll be just like California if something doesn’t change.”

Another woman said she doesn’t see Talarico as a Democrat: “He is more for Communism and taking away the rights that we have been founded on in this country,” she said, adding he “alarms” her.

Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz has been on the trail campaigning for Paxton. “Look, this race is neck-and neck; it is a dead heat,” Cruz said. “These races are all about turnout. The left is going to show up. They hate Donald Trump. They’re going to show up. The question is, does everybody else? Do regular people come out and vote? If regular people come out and vote, we’ll win Texas and have a good election.”

“There are a lot more decent people”

Talarico supporters say GOP attacks on their candidate, over the border and transgender rights, are not working.

One woman doesn’t buy the argument that Latino voters in Texas are turned off by Talarico on cultural issues: “I mean, I’m Latina, so I’m Brown and proud,” she said. “I just voted this morning for James Talarico, so I am very excited to see, hopefully, the change that’s going to happen.”

That change won’t come easy. Conservative republicans have run Texas for decades. But some Democrats feel their time has come. One woman got emotional telling us, “I’m hoping that this election will see that there are decent people, there are a lot more decent people than there are corrupt and cruel people. It’s not about being Republican, it’s not about being Democrat right now. It is good versus evil.”

Congressman Joaquin Castro, a San Antonio Democrat, says economic concerns are paramount, even if the culture fights get the headlines. “Prices are so high, you know, people are really feeling it economically. They feel like they don’t have time for [cultural issue fights]. I mean, all these attacks on transgender or all this other culture stuff? It’s like, I can’t pay my bills, I can’t afford gas.

“Also, you know, James Talarico, he really is a generational talent,” Castro said. “I know you hear that. But he’s somebody who’s trying to unify people.”

Although diners back at the Salt Lick didn’t appear to give it much notice, rising costs – of beef and gas, and housing – could be the deciding factor here and nationwide.

“There are a lot of people nationwide who view Texas as sort of the beating heart of conservatism for the country,” said the Texas Tribune’s Matthew Watkins. “There are people on the right who say, ‘We can’t lose Texas or else we lose the country’; there are people who on the left who say, ‘Man, if we win Texas, like, this is a big deal.’ There’s this sort of psychological weight that is on it that makes people feel like, Okay, we can’t lose this, or, What if we win this? That is causing people to really take interest in this race”

Story produced by Ed Forgotson. Editor: George Pozderec.

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