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  • 贝尔法斯特爆发反移民暴力抗议,此前发生恶性持刀袭击事件


    2026年6月10日 / 美国东部时间凌晨5:44 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻(CBS News)

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    北爱尔兰贝尔法斯特—— 周二晚间,贝尔法斯特部分地区爆发反移民暴力抗议,多名蒙面示威者焚烧公交车、汽车、垃圾桶与民宅。极右翼人士此前在社交媒体上呼吁举行大规模抗议,此前一晚北爱尔兰首府发生恶性持刀袭击事件。

    一段记录该事件的实拍视频当天早些时候在网络上迅速传播,画面显示一名男子持刀砍向另一名男子的头部与颈部。北爱尔兰警察局已逮捕一名30多岁的苏丹裔男子,并以谋杀未遂、在公共场所携带刀具及威胁杀人的罪名对其提起诉讼。

    这名被告在申请庇护后进入英国半自治地区北爱尔兰,并于2023年获得了为期五年的英国签证。他将于周三出庭接受指控。

    警方表示,袭击受害者眼部、面部与背部受重伤,已被送往医院。

    尽管警方与各主要政党的政客都呼吁保持冷静,但数十名蒙面抗议者周二晚间在多处聚集,引发暴力骚乱。贝尔法斯特一名当地议员将此次事件称为“基于种族的大屠杀”。

    贝尔法斯特伦德里克街被抗议者点燃的车辆,因该市周一晚间的持刀袭击事件引发混乱

    英国议会贝尔法斯特选区议员、社会民主工党成员克莱尔·汉娜在接受BBC《新闻之夜》节目采访时表示,民众对持刀袭击事件“理所当然地感到反感与震惊”,但她谴责抗议者纵火行为,并指出部分人挨家挨户搜寻移民。

    BBC记者凯利·邦纳称,数百名蒙面男子在贝尔法斯特下纽敦阿兹路沿街行走,手持瓶子与砖块,高呼“滚出去外国人”,同时点燃垃圾桶。他们沿街敲打、踢踹房门并砸碎窗户。

    “有一次,我亲眼看到他们试图点燃一辆汽车,直到一名女子从家中出来告诉他们,这辆车属于‘本地人,不是外国人’,他们才停下,”邦纳报道称。

    汉娜表示,“网络上的负面势力以及根本不在乎北贝尔法斯特社区经历过什么的当地政客”,在网络上蓄意煽动了这场骚乱。

    “你所看到的是一场基于种族的大屠杀,”她说,并点名美国科技大亨埃隆·马斯克、特朗普的意识形态盟友、改革英国党领袖奈杰尔·法拉奇,以及英国极右翼活动家汤米·罗宾逊(本名斯蒂芬·亚克斯利-伦诺克斯),称这些知名人士传播了持刀袭击视频并呼吁举行大规模抗议。

    众多社交媒体账号呼吁民众走上街头,“抗议大规模移民涌入社区”。

    北爱尔兰首席大臣米歇尔·奥尼尔将这场骚乱场景称为“彻头彻尾的暴徒行径”。

    “蒙面男子团伙纵火将家庭赶出家门,无异于令人作呕的懦夫行为,”奥尼尔在社交媒体分享的一份声明中说道。

    2026年6月9日,贝尔法斯特利戈尼尔路一栋起火的房屋,因该市一起持刀袭击事件引发的反移民示威活动导致混乱

    BBC新闻播出的视频显示,贝尔法斯特北部多栋建筑起火后,多名居民逃离家园。北爱尔兰消防与救援服务部门表示,在当晚7点至午夜期间,他们共处理了62起事件。部分视频显示,在移民人口较多的社区发生火灾后,急救人员协助民众撤离。

    北爱尔兰议员约翰·芬努卡称这一场景“可耻且丢人”。芬努卡在社交媒体帖子中表示,他对引发抗议的袭击事件同样感到反感,但补充道:“任何人都无权散布恐惧、恐吓无辜家庭,或在我们的街道上引发无法无天的骚乱。”

    这段经CBS新闻验证的持刀袭击视频显示,一名男子遭到暴力袭击,头部与颈部被刺多刀。网络上广泛将其描述为“企图斩首”。警方表示,目前没有迹象表明这与恐怖主义有关,但调查仍在进行中,以确定作案动机。

    英国首相基尔·斯塔默称此次袭击“令人毛骨悚然”且“令人作呕”。

    “我绝对不能容忍街头出现如此令人憎恶的暴力场面,”他在X平台上说道,“我的思绪首先与受害者同在,我感谢急救人员,包括出手干预的民众。”

    贝尔法斯特东部被抗议者点燃的格莱德公交,因该市周一晚间的持刀袭击事件引发的反移民示威活动导致混乱

    周二晚间,哥伦比亚广播公司新闻在贝尔法斯特遇到的许多抗议者都对记者充满敌意,但两名仅希望以克里斯和约翰自称的男子表示,他们对持刀袭击视频感到震惊,觉得有必要站出来声援受害者,但他们拒绝街头的暴力与破坏行为。

    克里斯表示,他住在贝尔法斯特郊外,但在该市工作并参加教会活动。他和约翰来自北爱尔兰两大族群的不同阵营——广义上来说,民族主义者多为天主教徒,希望爱尔兰实现统一;联合主义者多为新教徒,希望北爱尔兰继续留在英国——这两个族群历史上存在敌意,经历了数十年的暴力冲突。两人表示,他们在袭击发生后一同前往该地区祈祷。

    “令人担忧的是,人们对此既感到意外,又不意外,”克里斯告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻,“看看南安普敦发生的事件,这只是众多案例之一,”他提到了本月早些时候在英格兰南部发生的亨利·诺瓦克谋杀案,该案引发了反移民抗议并与警方发生冲突。

    克里斯表示,民众对移民问题感到担忧,尤其是在工人阶级社区,那里的社会住房申请等待名单很长,国民医疗保健系统也面临压力。

    “他们只是想要一项合理的移民政策,希望这里的民众不会被置于最后一位,而因为人们的声音没有被听到,”他说,“这就是问题的根源:政客们不愿倾听,民众只是觉得必须站出来引起关注。”

    极右翼活动人士与政治人物将警方对诺瓦克案的处理方式作为所谓“双重标准执法”的例子——据称移民得到了比英国居民更好的待遇。涉及该事件的警方部门强烈驳斥了这一指控。

    美国副总统JD·万斯是批评诺瓦克案处理方式的知名人士之一。万斯在社交媒体帖子中声称,“如果过去几代欧洲精英能够坚守立场,对抗自我憎恨的政治观念和大规模移民涌入——其中许多人蔑视西方和热爱西方的人民”,白人青少年亨利·诺瓦克本可以还活着。

    维克拉姆·迪格瓦是英国出生的锡克教徒,他向警方谎称自己遭到了诺瓦克的种族袭击,随后刺死了诺瓦克。法庭认定该说法为虚假。当警方赶到现场时,他们将受伤的诺瓦克视为嫌疑人,无视他的求救请求,对他所说的自己被刺伤的说法表示怀疑,最终才发现他的伤势并试图进行复苏。

    迪格瓦上周被判处终身监禁,最低服刑刑期为21年。

    Violent anti-immigration protests erupt in Belfast after brutal stabbing attack

    June 10, 2026 / 5:44 AM EDT / CBS News

    By Joanne Stocker Verification producer
    Joanne Stocker is a verification producer for CBS News Confirmed. She was previously chief editor of Kurdistan 24 English and managing editor at The Defense Post. She has combined open-source investigation methods with on-the-ground reporting to cover conflict, terrorism, and misinformation for over 15 years.

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    Belfast, Northern Ireland — Violent anti-immigration protests erupted in parts of Belfast on Tuesday evening with some masked demonstrators setting fire to a bus, cars, trash cans and homes. Far-right figures had called on social media for mass protests after a brutal stabbing attack the previous night in Northern Ireland’s capital.

    A graphic video of the incident, showing a man slashing another man in the head and neck with a knife, spread quickly online earlier in the day. The Police Service of Northern Ireland detained and charged a Sudanese man in his 30s with attempted murder, possession of a knife in a public place and making threats to kill.

    The accused man entered Northern Ireland, a semi-autonomous region of the United Kingdom, after applying for asylum, and in 2023 he was granted a five-year U.K. visa. He is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday to face the charges.

    The victim of the attack was taken to the hospital with serious injuries to his eyes, face and back, police said.

    Despite calls for calm from the police and politicians from all major parties, dozens of fully masked protesters gathered in several places Tuesday evening and caused violent unrest, with one local lawmaker from Belfast calling it “a race-based pogrom.”

    Vehicles set on fire by protesters on Lendrick Street in Belfast, as disorder flared in response to Monday night’s stabbing attack in the city. PA/PA Images via Getty Images

    Claire Hanna, a member of the British parliament from Belfast with the Social Democratic & Labour Party, told BBC’s “Newsnight” program that people were “understandably revulsed and shocked” by the stabbing, but she condemned protesters for starting fires and said some had gone door to door looking for immigrants.

    BBC reporter Kelly Bonner said hundreds of masked men walked down a street on Lower Newtownards Road in Belfast carrying bottles and bricks, shouting “foreigners out” as they set trash cans alight. She said they walked down streets banging on and kicking doors and smashing windows.

    “At one point I witnessed them trying to burn a car until a woman came out of her home and told them it belonged to a ‘local and not a foreigner,’ and they stopped,” Bonner reported.

    Hanna said “negative actors online and politicians locally who don’t really care what communities in north Belfast have been through” had deliberately fomented the unrest online.

    “What you’re seeing is a race-based pogrom,” she said, naming U.S. tech magnate Elon Musk, President Trump’s ideological ally and Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage, and British far-right activist Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, as some of the prominent figures who spread the stabbing video and called for mass protests.

    Numerous social media accounts had urged people to take to the streets and “protest against mass immigration into their communities.”

    Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill called the scenes of unrest “outright thuggery.”

    “Groups of masked men burning families out of their homes is nothing less than disgusting cowardice,” O’Neill said in a statement shared on social media.

    Firefighters attend a house which caught fire on Ligoniel Road, Belfast, as disorder flared during an anti-immigration demonstration organized in response to a stabbing attack in the city, June 9, 2026. PA/PA Images/Getty

    Video aired by BBC News showed multiple people fleeing their homes in northern Belfast after the buildings were set on fire, and the Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue service said it had responded to 62 incidents between 7pm and midnight. Some videos showed first responders helping to usher people from their homes after fires were lit in neighborhoods with large immigrant populations.

    John Finucane, a lawmaker in Northern Ireland, called the scenes “shameful & disgraceful.” In a social media post, Finucane said he shared the revulsion of the attack that prompted the protest but added: “No one has the right to spread fear, terrorize innocent families or unleash lawless disorder on our streets.”

    The video of the stabbing attack, which has been verified by CBS News Confirmed, shows a man being violently assaulted and stabbed multiple times around the head and neck. It has been widely described online as an attempted beheading. Police have said there’s no indication it was terror-related, but an investigation is ongoing to determine the motive.

    British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the attack “horrific” and “sickening.”

    “I have absolutely no tolerance for abhorrent scenes of violence like this on our streets,” he said on X. “My thoughts are first and foremost with the victim, and I thank the first responders, including members of the public who intervened.”

    A Glider bus, set fire by protesters, in east Belfast, as disorder flared during an anti-immigration demonstration organized in response to Monday night’s stabbing attack in the city. PA/PA Images via Getty Images

    While many of the protesters CBS News encountered in Belfast on Tuesday evening were hostile to journalists, two men, who wished to be identified only as Chris and John, said they were shocked by the stabbing video and felt compelled to come out and show solidarity with the victim, but they rejected the violence and destruction on the streets.

    Chris said he lives outside Belfast but works and attends church in the city. He and John are from different sides of Northern Ireland’s two communities — broadly, nationalists from largely Catholic families who want a united Ireland, and unionists, who tend to be Protestant and want the province to remain part of the U.K. — which have a history of animosity and decades of violence. The two men said they went to the area to pray together after the stabbing.

    “The worrying thing is that people are kind of surprised, but not surprised” by the attack, Chris told CBS News. “Look at the incident that happened in Southampton, and that’s just one of many,” he said, referring to the murder of Henry Nowak in southern England, which sparked anti-immigration protests and clashes with police earlier this month.

    Chris said people were worried about immigration, particularly in working class areas where there are long lists for social housing and the national healthcare system is under pressure.

    “They just want a sensible immigration policy, and for the people here not to be put last, and because people aren’t being heard,” he said. “This is what causes this: Politicians aren’t listening, and people just feel like they have to make a stand and be noticed.”

    The way police responded to the Nowak case was seized on by far-right activists and political figures as an example of what some called “two-tier” policing — with immigrants allegedly getting better treatment than British residents. The police force involved in the incident strongly rejected the accusation.

    Vice President JD Vance was among the prominent figures to criticize the handling of the Nowak case. Vance claimed in a social media post that the white teenager would still be alive, “if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the west and the people who love it.”

    Nowak was stabbed to death by Vickrum Digwa, a British-born Sikh who claimed to police that he was subjected to a racist assault by Nowak. A court found that claim was false. When officers arrived on the scene, they treated Nowak as a suspect as he lay wounded, dismissing his pleas for help and casting doubt as he said he had ben stabbed, before eventually seeing his injury and attempting to resuscitate him.

    Digwa was sentenced last week to life in prison, with a minimum term in prison of 21 years.

  • 比尔·盖茨因与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦关联面临众议院调查人员质询


    2026年6月10日 美国东部时间早上7:31 / 福克斯新闻频道

    微软创始人与爱泼斯坦在2011年至2014年间的往来通信出现在已公开的数百万份文件中

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    众议院议员正将注意力转向微软亿万富翁创始人比尔·盖茨,国会调查人员正推进对杰弗里·爱泼斯坦及其同伙吉斯莱恩·麦克斯韦的调查。

    盖茨将于周三自愿接受众议院监督委员会的约谈。委员会成员预计将向他抛出大量有关他与爱泼斯坦关系的问题,这段关系始于爱泼斯坦2008年因招揽未成年妓女入狱服刑多年之后。

    约谈将闭门进行,但预计稍后会公布约谈记录。


    众议院监督委员会主席、肯塔基州共和党议员詹姆斯·科默邀请盖茨在委员会作证,此前盖茨在联邦政府为调查爱泼斯坦刑事案件而公布的数百万份文件中多次出现。

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    爱泼斯坦事件余波愈演愈烈,司法部监管机构深入调查案件处理情况

    文件显示盖茨与爱泼斯坦存在通信往来,包括2011年至2014年间这位科技大亨的慈善工作和社交活动讨论。爱泼斯坦2019年在因联邦性贩运罪名被起诉后自杀身亡。

    根据文件内容,爱泼斯坦似乎发现了盖茨在与梅林达·弗伦奇·盖茨婚姻存续期间与两名俄罗斯女性的婚外情,这位科技大亨称此事并未涉及爱泼斯坦的受害者。

    盖茨未被指控有任何不当行为,并否认知晓爱泼斯坦针对未成年人的性犯罪。

    “我没有做任何违法的事,也没看到任何违法的事,”盖茨在接受《华尔街日报》审查的一场市政厅活动录音中说道,并补充说与爱泼斯坦交往是一个“巨大的错误”。

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    比尔·盖茨:与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦交往“愚蠢至极”

    盖茨的一名发言人此前告诉福克斯新闻数字频道,他欢迎有机会在委员会作证。

    “虽然他从未目睹或参与爱泼斯坦的任何非法行为,但他期待回答委员会的所有问题,以支持他们开展的重要工作,”该发言人说道。

    这位微软创始人是最新一位因爱泼斯坦调查而在监督委员会作证的知名人士。亿万富翁商人莱斯·韦克斯纳、前总统比尔·克林顿及其妻子、前国务卿希拉里·克林顿、前司法部长帕姆·邦迪以及商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克都已接受了委员会的约谈。

    前巴拉克·奥巴马政府白宫法律顾问凯瑟琳·鲁姆勒以及投资公司阿波罗全球管理联合创始人莱昂·布莱克预计将在未来几周接受约谈。

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    议员们将盖茨与爱泼斯坦的关联作为调查的重点,尤其是在爱泼斯坦定罪之后。

    “我们说过,无论你是共和党人、民主党人还是什么人,事实是,即使盖茨先生了解爱泼斯坦先生的定罪情况,也清楚他的所作所为,他仍然与爱泼斯坦先生保持联系,我认为这非常令人担忧,”众议院监督委员会排名成员、加州民主党议员罗伯特·加西亚周二对记者表示。“所以我们想知道盖茨先生知道什么,他的圈子里还有谁,以及盖茨先生为什么继续与爱泼斯坦先生保持联系。我认为这些都是重要的问题。”

    福克斯新闻的丹·斯库利为本报道撰稿。

    Bill Gates faces House investigators over Jeffrey Epstein ties

    June 10, 2026 7:31am EDT / Fox News

    The Microsoft founder’s correspondence with Epstein between 2011 and 2014 appeared in millions of released documents

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    Fox News chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s statements regarding his ties with Jeffrey Epstein on ‘The Will Cain Show.’

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    House lawmakers are turning their focus to billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates as congressional investigators press ahead with their probe into Jeffrey Epstein and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

    Gates will participate in a voluntary interview with the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. Members on the panel are expected to pepper him with questions about his relationship with Epstein, which occurred years after Epstein’s 2008 prison term for soliciting a minor for prostitution.

    The interview will take place behind closed doors, though a transcript is expected to be made available at a later date.

    House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., invited Gates to testify before the committee after he appeared multiple times across millions of documents released by the federal government as part of its criminal probe against Epstein.

    Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., invited tech billionaire Bill Gates to testify as part of the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the federal government’s handling of the criminal case against Epstein and powerful figures within Epstein’s orbit.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)

    EPSTEIN FALLOUT GROWS AS DOJ WATCHDOG DIGS DEEPER INTO HANDLING OF THE CASE

    Gates and Epstein were shown corresponding, including discussions about the tech billionaire’s philanthropy work and socializing between 2011 and 2014. Epstein later killed himself in 2019 after being indicted on federal sex trafficking charges.

    According to the files, Epstein appeared to discover Gates’ extramarital affairs with two Russian women during his marriage to Melinda French Gates, which the tech billionaire has said did not involve Epstein’s victims.

    Gates has not been accused of any wrongdoing and has denied knowledge about Epstein’s sex crimes against minors.

    “I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit,” Gates said, according to a town hall recording reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, adding it was a “huge mistake” to spend time with Epstein.

    Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates attends a dinner hosted by President Donald Trump with technology leaders in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 4, 2025.(Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

    BILL GATES: ‘FOOLISH’ TO SPEND TIME WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN

    A spokesperson for Gates previously told Fox News Digital that he welcomed the opportunity to testify before the committee.

    “While he never witnessed or participated in any of Epstein’s illegal conduct, he is looking forward to answering all the committee’s questions to support their important work,” the spokesperson said.

    The Microsoft founder is the latest influential figure to testify before the oversight panel in connection to the Epstein probe. Billionaire businessman Les Wexner, former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Attorney General Pam Bondi and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick have also participated in interviews with the committee.

    Kathryn Ruemmler, former White House counsel to former President Barack Obama, and Leon Black, co-founder of investment firm Apollo Global Management, are expected to sit for interviews in the coming weeks.

    Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released an image of Bill Gates and former Prince Andrew at a Malaria summit in April 2018 as part of their Jeffrey Epstein investigation.(House Oversight Committee Democrats)

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    Lawmakers have pointed to Gates’ association with Epstein after his conviction as a key focus of their inquiry.

    “We’ve said we don’t care if you are a Republican or a Democrat or who you are, the fact that Mr. Gates still had a relationship with Mr. Epstein, even after knowing about the conviction, knowing actually what he had done, I think is very concerning,” House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Robert Garcia, D-Calif., told reporters Tuesday. “So we want to know what did Mr. Gates know, who else was around that orbit and why Mr. Gates continued to have a relationship with Mr. Epstein. I think those are important questions.”

    Fox News’ Dan Scully contributed to this report.

  • 比尔·盖茨将就与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的关联接受国会调查人员问询


    2026-06-10T09:00:07.995Z / 美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)

    • 比尔·盖茨将于周三在国会山闭门作证,讲述他与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的关系。
    • 美国司法部公布相关文件后,众议院监督委员会寻求盖茨的自愿配合,文件中披露了二人之间未经证实的指控以及慈善合作情况。
    • 盖茨强烈否认爱泼斯坦文件中提及的指控,并为自己结识这位已故金融大亨一事表示懊悔。

    AI生成的摘要已由CNN编辑审核。

    在今年杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的相关文件公布后,有关这位亿万富翁与这位已故定罪性犯罪者的关联引发质疑,比尔·盖茨将在周三于国会山闭门作证——这是迄今为止国会调查人员面前最受关注的露面场合之一。

    众议院监督委员会在司法部公布的一批文件中发现了一系列露骨的未经证实指控,以及盖茨与爱泼斯坦之间比此前所知更为详尽的慈善合作内容,随后寻求盖茨自愿配合调查。盖茨将接受该委员会的第15次约谈,预计会面临两党议员就他与这位已故大亨关系程度的提问。

    盖茨是爱泼斯坦人脉圈中众多有权势的人物之一——从霍华德·卢特尼克到比尔·克林顿——均出现在司法部从案件档案中公布的视频或照片里。

    正如CNN此前报道的,早期公布的文件中最具爆炸性的内容涉及爱泼斯坦本人似乎在2013年7月撰写的两封草稿邮件。在这些充满拼写错误和尖酸刻薄言辞的意识流笔记中,爱泼斯坦似乎声称他为盖茨安排了性接触,并帮助盖茨向妻子隐瞒治疗性传播感染的药物。

    目前尚不清楚保存在爱泼斯坦邮箱中的2013年草稿邮件是谁撰写的,也不确定这些邮件是否曾被发送过,但它们是爱泼斯坦发给自己的。尽管这些邮件暗示二人友谊当时出现裂痕,但在此期间二人仍保持会面和邮件往来。

    爱泼斯坦在其中一封邮件中声称,他帮助盖茨获取药物“以应对与俄罗斯女孩发生性关系以及与已婚女性进行不正当幽会的后果”。这封邮件还提到盖茨曾要求爱泼斯坦为桥牌比赛提供阿德拉尔。

    另一封草稿邮件则指控盖茨含泪请求爱泼斯坦删除提及性传播疾病的信息、“你要求我提供你可以秘密交给梅琳达的抗生素”,并删除有关他生殖器的露骨个人细节。

    草稿邮件中的指控均未经证实且未得到佐证。没有迹象表明这封邮件曾被分享给盖茨或其他人,这位微软联合创始人也未被指控涉及与爱泼斯坦相关的任何刑事不当行为。

    盖茨强烈否认了这些指控,盖茨的一名代表此前告诉CNN:“这些指控完全荒谬且纯属虚假。这些文件唯一能证明的是,爱泼斯坦因未能与盖茨保持持续关系而感到沮丧,以及他为了设局诽谤会不择手段。盖茨先生承认与爱泼斯坦会面是判断上的严重失误,但他明确否认与爱泼斯坦以及爱泼斯坦所参与的可怕活动有任何不当行为。盖茨先生从未去过爱泼斯坦的私人岛屿,从未与他一起参加派对,也未参与任何与爱泼斯坦相关的非法活动。”

    今年2月,盖茨在接受CNN澳大利亚合作媒体九号新闻采访时被问及最新公布的文件。
    “显然是杰弗里给自己写了一封邮件。那封邮件从未发送过,你们也知道,那封邮件是假的。我不知道他当时是怎么想的。这只能提醒我,我和他相处的每一分钟都让我后悔,我也为自己当初那么做而道歉,”盖茨说道。

    他补充道:“事实确实是,我只和他吃过晚餐,你们知道,我从未去过那个岛。我从未见过任何女性。所以,你们知道,随着更多信息被披露,事情会越来越清楚:尽管那段时间是个错误,但这与那种行为毫无关系。”

    盖茨此前也曾表示,他后悔与爱泼斯坦会面,并在2021年告诉CNN的安德森·库珀:“花时间和他在一起,给他带去在场的公信力,这是一个巨大的错误。”

    众议院监督委员会主席詹姆斯·科默在盖茨露面之前告诉CNN,周三的闭门采访的提问范围没有任何限制。

    “我们只是有问题要问。我并没有指控比尔·盖茨有任何不当行为。我们知道他花了很多时间和爱泼斯坦先生在一起。我们只是想问问他知道什么,以及他是否看到了某些事情,”科默周二说道。

    “所有问题都在考虑范围内,”这位肯塔基州共和党人补充道,并指出尽管盖茨可能并不“急切”作证,但他“愿意”配合发言。

    司法部公布的300多万页文件中包含数百处提及盖茨的内容,其中包括详细记录会面、用餐、拟议通话以及爱泼斯坦试图安排与盖茨会面的多封邮件。所有有记录的与盖茨的互动都发生在爱泼斯坦2008年因卖淫相关指控被定罪之后,无论是2010年二人共进晚餐,还是2012年8月在挪威的会面。

    “我非常享受这次早餐,”盖茨在2014年12月写给爱泼斯坦的信中说道。

    爱泼斯坦在回信中部分写道:“和往常一样,每个人都非常喜欢你”,并在结尾邀请盖茨前往他的私人岛屿,而盖茨一直坚称自己从未去过那里。没有迹象表明盖茨接受了邀请。

    在盖茨前往国会山作证之前,众议院监督小组的资深民主党议员罗伯特·加西亚表示,盖茨在这位已故性犯罪者定罪后仍与其保持联系“非常令人担忧”。

    “我们说过,我们不在乎你是共和党人、民主党人,或者你是谁。事实上,盖茨先生在了解到定罪情况,了解到他实际所做的事情之后,仍然与爱泼斯坦先生保持关系,我认为这非常令人担忧。所以我们想知道盖茨先生知道什么,这个圈子里还有谁,以及盖茨先生为什么继续与爱泼斯坦先生保持关系,”加西亚周二说道。

    Bill Gates to face congressional investigators about ties to Jeffrey Epstein

    2026-06-10T09:00:07.995Z / CNN

    • Bill Gates will testify behind closed doors on Capitol Hill Wednesday about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
    • The House Oversight Committee sought Gates’ voluntary cooperation after documents released by the Justice Department revealed unverified allegations and philanthropic coordination between the two men.
    • Gates has strongly denied allegations made in the Epstein files and has expressed regret for knowing the late financier.

    AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.

    Bill Gates will testify behind closed doors on Capitol Hill on Wednesday after the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files this year raised questions about the billionaire’s ties to the late convicted sex offender — marking one of the most high-profile appearances before congressional investigators to date.

    The House Oversight Committee sought Gates’ voluntary cooperation after a tranche of documents released by the Department of Justice revealed a series of graphic, unverified allegations, as well as a degree of philanthropic coordination between Gates and Epstein that was more detailed than previously known. Marking the committee’s 15th interview, Gates is expected to face questions from Republicans and Democrats alike about the extent of his relationship with the late financier.

    Gates is among the many powerful figures in Epstein’s orbit — from Howard Lutnick to Bill Clinton—– who have appeared in video or photos released by the Justice Department from its case files.

    As CNN previously reported, the most explosive elements of the earlier document release involved two draft emails Epstein appears to have written himself in July 2013. In these stream-of-consciousness notes, riddled with typos and vitriol, Epstein appears to claim he facilitated sexual encounters for Gates and helped him obtain medication to hide a sexually transmitted infection from his wife.

    It’s not clear who wrote the draft messages from 2013 saved in Epstein’s email account or whether they were ever sent, but they are addressed from Epstein to himself. Though the emails suggest at the time some sort of break in their friendship, meetings and email exchanges continued during this time.

    Epstein claimed in one email he helped Gates get drugs “in order to deal with consequences of sex with russian girls” and “illicit trysts, with married women.” The email also references Gates asking Epstein to provide Adderall for bridge tournaments.

    The other draft email alleges that Gates tearfully asked Epstein to delete messages referencing an STD, “your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda,” and to delete explicit personal details about his penis.

    The allegations contained in the draft email are unverified and uncorroborated. There is no indication the message was ever shared with Gates or anyone else, and the Microsoft co-founder has not been accused of any criminal wrongdoing related to Epstein.

    Gates has strongly denied the claims and a representative of Gates previously told CNN: “These claims are absolutely absurd and completely false. The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein’s frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame. While Mr. Gates acknowledges that meeting with Epstein was a serious error in judgment, he unequivocally denies any improper conduct related to Epstein and the horrible activities in which Epstein was involved. Mr. Gates never visited Epstein’s island, never attended parties with him, and had no involvement in any illegal activities associated with Epstein.”

    Gates was asked about the latest documents in an interview with CNN affiliate Nine News in Australia in February.

    “Apparently Jeffrey wrote an email to himself. That email was never sent, the email is you know, false. So I don’t know what his thinking was there. It just reminds me, you know, every minute I spent with him I regret and I, you know, apologize that I did that,” Gates said.

    He added: “It’s factually true that I was only at dinners, you know, I never went to the island. I never met any women. And so, you know, the more that comes out, the more clear it’ll be that although the time was a mistake, it had nothing to do with that kind of behavior.”

    Gates has also previously said he regrets meeting with Epstein, telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper in 2021: “It was a huge mistake to spend time with him, to give him the credibility of being there.”

    House Oversight Chair James Comer told CNN ahead of Gates’ appearance that there were no limitations in terms of the scope of questions for Wednesday’s closed-door interview.

    “We just have questions. I’m not accusing Bill Gates of any wrongdoing. We know that he spent a lot of time with Mr. Epstein. We just want to ask what he knew and if he saw certain things,” Comer said Tuesday.

    “Anything’s on the table,” the Kentucky Republican added, noting that while Gates may not be “eager” to testify, he is “willing” to speak.

    The over 3 million pages released by the DOJ contain several hundred references to Gates, including numerous emails detailing schedules with meetings, meals, proposed phone calls, and attempts by Epstein to set up meetings with Gates. All of the documented interactions with Gates occurred after Epstein’s 2008 conviction on prostitution-related charges, whether it was a dinner the pair shared in 2010 or a meeting in Norway in August 2012.

    “I enjoyed the breakfast a lot,” Gates wrote Epstein in December 2014.

    Epstein replied by saying in part, “as usual everyone liked=you alot” and concluded by inviting Gates to his private island, which Gates has maintained he never visited. There’s no indicated Gates accepted the invite.

    Ahead of Gates’ appearance on Capitol Hill, Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House oversight panel, said it is “very concerning” that Gates maintained a relationship with Epstein after the late sex offender’s conviction.

    “We’ve said we don’t care if you are a Republican or a Democrat or who you are. The fact that Mr. Gates still had a relationship with Mr. Epstein even after knowing about the conviction, knowing actually what he had done, I think is very concerning. So we want to know what did Mr. Gates know, who else was around in that orbit, and why Mr. Gates continued to have a relationship with Mr. Epstein,” Garcia said Tuesday.

  • 曾是政坛新星,南希·梅斯在州长竞选中遭遇惨败


    2026-06-10T09:00:00.000Z / https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/10/nancy-maces-trashing-south-carolina-governors-race-caps-rough-downfall/

    联邦众议员南希·梅斯在周二南卡罗来纳州州长初选中的惨败,给这位曾冉冉升起的共和党新星带来了沉重打击。这位政客曾因戏剧性的政治转变而备受全国关注。

    梅斯曾拥有真正的政治天赋与前途,但十余名南卡罗来纳州和华盛顿的前助手、同事及支持者在采访中表示,多年来肆无忌惮的政治投机、不惜一切代价博取媒体关注、拒绝顾问建议以及与众多盟友反目,最终导致她倒台并陷入孤立。

    根据非官方计票结果,她在本次竞选中排名第五,甚至连自己的家乡县和选区都未能拿下。

    梅斯于2020年翻棋盘Charleston地区选区席位当选国会议员,此后以温和派形象示人,吸引摇摆选民支持。她曾投票支持将同性婚姻权利写入法律,自称“支持跨性别权利”,并敦促共和党与民主党在堕胎问题上“寻求中间立场”。但到了去年,梅斯开始多次用“变性妖”(trannies)这类词汇嘲讽跨性别群体,并在社交媒体上贬低同性伴侣关系。近期,梅斯还暗示本州州长竞选的一名共和党对手“来自印度的贫民窟”。

    她与前总统唐纳德·特朗普的关系同样反复无常。就职后不久,她便与特朗普保持距离,在2022年躲过了特朗普将其赶下台的企图,随后将自己重塑为“让美国再次伟大”(MAGA)阵营的斗士,在爱泼斯坦文件事件上与特朗普唱反调,并在州长竞选中寻求他的背书,最终却眼睁睁看着特朗普转而支持了竞争对手。没有一位知名共和党人为她的竞选活动背书。

    梅斯的转变常常发生在她刻意吸引镜头的场合:电视采访、社交媒体上的自拍视频以及国会听证会上的激烈交锋。她的公开表现变得愈发好斗且怪异。

    “我唯一的希望是她能得到所需的帮助,”前众议院共和党议长凯文·麦卡锡告诉《华盛顿邮报》,他表示近年来亲眼目睹梅斯“政治和个人生活分崩离析”。

    麦卡锡曾在2020年帮助梅斯击败民主党人乔·坎宁安成功当选,但她在2023年出人意料地投票支持罢免他的议长职务,与右翼强硬派和民主党人站在一起,突然与他反目。此后,她在国会大厦外走动时,衬衫上佩戴了一枚巨大的鲜红色“A”字,称自己因那次投票被“妖魔化”。

    “我帮她赢下了选举。但我只能看着她一路改变,”麦卡锡说道,他在2024年曾支持针对梅斯的一次未能成功的初选挑战。“有些人在她还是早期候选人时就警告过:‘小心点,她不太正常。’我当时没当回事。”

    前助手们表示,梅斯很享受被描述为“孤身一人的核心小组”、身处“孤独政治孤岛”的形象。

    梅斯和她的竞选团队未回复置评请求。她此前曾指责前助手管理资金不善并监视她,并驳斥了有关她过度关注吸引注意力的批评。

    “我将永远感激南卡罗来纳州人民对我的信任,与我并肩作战,拒绝视而不见,”梅斯在周二晚间败选后在社交媒体上发帖称。“这不是战斗的终结。只是这个篇章的结束。”

    公开失态行为

    多年来,梅斯因刻意博取关注而在华盛顿引发诸多争议,例如她在与一名寄养权益活动家握手时佩戴手臂吊带,指责对方实施“跨性别暴力”——导致该男子因袭击罪名被捕,最终检方撤销了指控。在州长竞选前几个月,她的行为愈发令旁观者困惑不解。

    在与前未婚夫分手期间,梅斯于2025年2月在众议院议事厅发表了近一小时的演讲,指控他和另外三名男子强奸及其他性犯罪,这些男子均否认了指控。数月后,在一场关于监视问题的国会听证会上,她展示了一张自己的“裸体剪影”照片,称照片是在未经她同意的情况下拍摄的。

    2025年4月,梅斯在一家化妆品店拍摄了一段视频,视频中她反复咒骂一名询问她计划何时举办下次市政厅会议的选民。

    一周半后,副总统JD·万斯访问南卡罗来纳州休格市的一家钢铁厂时,梅斯当面质问坐在当地民选官员身旁的侄子约翰·梅斯·麦格拉思。她站在他面前,用手指着他的脸,斥责他接受了州司法部长艾伦·威尔逊在当地党主席竞选中的背书——而威尔逊正是她在冗长的众议院演讲中多次批评的对象,后来还将与她竞争州长职位。

    “你接受艾伦的背书是犯了错,总有一天你会为此付出代价,”梅斯对这位26岁的年轻人说道,据两名目睹了2025年5月1日这一场景的人士透露,该场景此前从未被报道过。这两人要求匿名,称不想引来梅斯更多的怒火。

    败选后,梅斯背书了威尔逊参加州长 runoff 选举,尽管过去一年来她多次指责威尔逊是“恋童癖保护者”。

    最引人注目的一次失态发生在去年10月,查尔斯顿机场官员报告称,梅斯因对安检陪同安排存在误解,辱骂机场工作人员和警察。一份该事件的警方报告描述了一场充满脏话的咆哮,她称机场警察“他妈地无能”。

    她所在选区的数十名当地民选官员联名写信谴责她的行为,该州共和党参议员蒂姆·斯科特和林赛·格雷厄姆也批评了她的举动。梅斯拒绝道歉,威胁起诉机场诽谤,并称该事件报告是“捏造的”。

    “人们可以说她疯了,但他们依然在谈论她,”奥斯汀·麦卡宾说道,他曾是梅斯的政治顾问,因在竞选决策和薪酬问题上存在分歧而于去年12月辞职。“这种情况有点像,只要你的名字拼写正确,那就万事大吉了。”

    不断转变的政治形象

    这位前州议员进入国会几天后,在2021年1月6日国会山遇袭事件后批评特朗普,称他在共和党中已没有未来。

    时任梅斯通讯总监娜塔莉·约翰逊告诉《邮报》,在骚乱发生期间,梅斯曾告诉助手,她想出去“被暴徒打一顿,这样就能上电视”。但约翰逊表示,几个月后,梅斯委托的一项民调显示她对特朗普的批评在其选区不受欢迎,于是她开始减少对特朗普的批评。

    “我不知道有谁会像南希·梅斯这样,时刻盯着风向看哪边吹,”该州资深共和党政治操盘手贾斯汀·埃文斯说道,他曾支持梅斯竞选州众议院议员,如今为帕姆·埃维特工作。埃维特获得特朗普背书,在周二的州长初选中排名第一。“她曾是一位外形出众、善于沟通的人才,拥有社交媒体粉丝,具备成功候选人应有的所有特质。只是她完全丧失了道德准则。”

    就职后不久,梅斯就展现出了强大的政治影响力,她的身世经历极具感染力:16岁时遭遇强奸,高中辍学后曾在华夫饼屋做服务员,后来成为毕业于The Citadel军校的首位女性毕业生。

    多尔切斯特县共和党主席CJ·韦斯特福尔曾参与梅斯2022年连任竞选的竞选活动,称她鼓舞人心且工作努力。他将梅斯当年的胜选归功于共和党人认为她是“独立声音”,尽管特朗普对此表示反对。

    韦斯特福尔表示,自那以后,梅斯的戏剧化倾向愈发明显,并称她是一个“爱哭的霸凌者”,喜欢挑起争议,然后在有人反击时“扮演受害者”。

    败选后,梅斯称她敢于挑战权势,哪怕这会让她在政治上付出代价。

    “我投出的每一张票、召集的每一场听证会、发起的每一场斗争——始终都是为了你们,”她在社交媒体帖子中写道。“我见过好人保持沉默会发生什么。也见过好人挺身而出会发生什么。我每次都会选择后者。”

    国会中的紧张盟友关系

    2023年秋季梅斯投票罢免麦卡锡后不久,众议员唐·培根(内布拉斯加州共和党人)在雷伯恩食堂遇到了几名正在吃午餐的梅斯的国会助手,询问他们为谁工作。

    “我以前真的很喜欢她,”培根说道。“现在不了。我们没法和她共事。”

    他告诉《邮报》,梅斯刚进入众议院时他和她相处得不错,但她投票罢免议长“对我们很多人来说都是难以接受的打击”。

    有时,梅斯会与自由派民主党人结盟,包括加州众议员罗·卡纳和马里兰州众议员杰米·拉斯金。

    “她与民主党人的互动方式是很少有共和党人能做到的,因为她曾站在性暴力和性骚扰受害者一边,”拉斯金说道。“共和党方面的很多人都想迅速把这些事情掩盖起来,而南希在她更思想开放、不受拘束的时刻,愿意站在民主党人这边。”

    梅斯和卡纳曾共同创立了一个聚焦于负担得起的儿童保育的联合核心小组,但在梅斯开始执着于跨性别议题后,两人基本停止了联合亮相。针对2024年首位公开跨性别身份的议员萨拉·麦克布莱德(特拉华州民主党人)的当选,梅斯提出了一项决议,禁止跨性别女性在国会大厦使用女性洗手间。

    不过,梅斯去年签署了卡纳和肯塔基州众议员托马斯·马西发起的一项成功请愿书,要求公开与被定罪性犯罪者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦相关的联邦调查文件。

    她称希望为爱泼斯坦的受害者伸张正义,尽管特朗普最初反对公开这些文件。但梅斯的这一决定让她日益缩减的助手团队感到意外,因为当时她一心想要获得总统对其州长竞选的背书。

    争取特朗普背书

    据一位熟悉两人沟通情况的人士透露,2025年8月梅斯宣布竞选州长前几天,她曾试图致电特朗普提前告知此事。她给总统留下了一条语音留言,特朗普随后给她发了一条表示祝福的短信。但当特朗普同时转发了两项民调,显示她在假想竞选中处境艰难时,梅斯慌了神。几天后,梅斯委托自己的民调,结果显示她在参选阵营中领先,且知名度最高。

    梅斯将这份民调发给了总统,总统当月便在Truth Social上发布了该民调,未加任何评论——政治操盘手们表示,这为她尚处于起步阶段的竞选活动增添了可信度。

    在竞选的最后几天,梅斯多次表示,她支持公开爱泼斯坦文件是特朗普未背书她的原因。总统并未公开批评她支持该行动。

    梅斯的国会办公室人员流动频繁,一些人是被她解雇的,另一些人则以工作条件恶劣为由辞职。有一次,在她投票罢免麦卡锡后的三个月内,她的九人团队全部换了一遍。

    梅斯还难以维持政治盟友关系。她曾谈及对前州长妮基·黑利的喜爱,黑利在2022年艰难的连任初选中支持过梅斯。但第二年,当黑利寻求她在2024年总统竞选的背书时,梅斯却保持沉默,随后在为特朗普竞选时猛烈抨击黑利。

    “我认为南希·梅斯这辈子见过的每一座桥,都被她烧光了,”她的前通讯总监威尔·汉普森说道。

    汉普森表示,他的前老板清楚自己正处于孤立无援的境地,但不确定她是否意识到这是自己造成的。

    “她既是自己最好的武器,”他说道,“也是自己最糟糕的敌人。”

    艾琳·考克斯为本报道撰稿。

    Once a rising star, Nancy Mace suffers resounding defeat in governor’s race

    2026-06-10T09:00:00.000Z / https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/10/nancy-maces-trashing-south-carolina-governors-race-caps-rough-downfall/

    Rep. Nancy Mace’s trouncing in Tuesday’s South Carolina gubernatorial primary dealt a blunt defeat to a once rising GOP star, a politician who had basked in national attention during her dramatic political transformation.

    Mace had real political talent and promise,but her downfall and isolation followed years of brazen political opportunism, a hunger for media attention at any cost, rejecting advisers’ counsel and turning on many allies, more than a dozen former aides, colleagues and supporters in both South Carolina and Washington said in interviews.

    She finished fifth in the contest, according to unofficial returns,solidly losing even her own home county and district.

    Mace arrived in Congress after flipping a Charleston-area district in 2020 and built a reputation as a moderate who appealed to swing voters.She voted to codify same-sex marriage rights, called herself “pro transgender rights” and urged her party to “meet in the middle” with Democrats on abortion. By last year, Mace had begun repeatedly mocking transgender people as “trannies” and disparaged gay relationships on social media. In recent days, Mace suggested a Republican opponent in the governor’s race came from “a slum in India.”

    Her relationship with President Donald Trump was similarly mercurial. She distanced herself from him soon after taking office, survived his attempt to oust her in 2022, rebranded herself as a MAGA warrior, defied Trump on the Epstein files and sought his endorsement in the governor’s race, only to watch him back a rival. No high-profile Republican endorsed her campaign.

    The spectacle of Mace’s transformation often unfolded on the cameras she gravitated toward in television interviews, selfie videos posted on social media and dramatic exchanges in committee hearings. Her public appearances grew increasingly combative and bizarre.

    “The only thing I hope is she gets the help she needs,” former Republican House speaker Kevin McCarthy told The Washington Post, saying he watched as her “political and personal life unraveled” in recent years.

    Mace, whom McCarthy had helped unseat Democrat Joe Cunningham in 2020, cast an unexpected vote for his ouster as speaker in 2023, joining right-wing hard-liners and Democrats as she abruptly turned on him. She later walked around the Capitol wearing a large scarlet “A” on her shirt, because she said she had been “demonized” for that vote.

    “I helped her win. But I just watched her change along the way,” said McCarthy, who supported an unsuccessful primary challenge to Mace in 2024. “Some people warned when she was an early candidate, ‘Watch out, she’s not all there.’ I didn’t.”

    Former staff said Mace embraced stories about her being a “caucus of one”on a “lonely political island.”

    Mace and her campaign did not return requests for comment. She previously accused her former staff of mismanaging money and spying on her, and has dismissed criticism that she is overly focused on getting attention.

    “I will always be grateful for the people of South Carolina who trusted me, fought with me, and refused to look the other way,” Mace posted on social media after her loss Tuesday evening. “This isn’t the end of the fight. It’s just the end of this chapter.”

    Public outbursts

    Mace raised eyebrows in Washington year after year for drawing attention to herself, such as wearing an arm sling after accusing a foster care activist of “trans violence” during a handshake — having him arrested on assault charges only for prosecutors to drop the case. Her behavior in the months preceding her gubernatorial run became even more confounding to those observing it.

    In the throes of her split from her ex-fiancé, Mace in February 2025 spoke on the House floor for nearly an hour, accusing him and three other men of rape and other sex crimes, which the men denied. During a congressional hearing on surveillance months later, she showed a “naked silhouette” photo of herself, saying it was taken without her consent.

    In April 2025, Mace posted a video she took at a makeup store where she repeatedly cursed out a constituent who asked when she planned to host her next town hall.

    A week and a half later, Mace confronted her nephew John Mace McGrath as he sat next to local elected officials during Vice President JD Vance‘s visit to a steel plant in Huger, South Carolina. She stood over him and pointed her finger in his face as she upbraided him for accepting an endorsement in a local party chairman race from state Attorney General Alan Wilson, whom she had also criticized during her lengthy House floor speech and would later run against her for governor.

    “You f—ed up taking Alan’s endorsement, and you’re going to pay for that someday,” Mace said to the 26-year-old, according to two people who witnessed the May 1, 2025,scene, which has not previously been reported. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity, saying they did not want to attract any additional wrath from Mace.

    After conceding Tuesday, Mace endorsed Wilson in the gubernatorial runoff, despite repeatedly accusing him in the last year of being a “pedophile protector.”

    The highest-profile eruption took place in October, when officials at Charleston airport reported that Mace had berated airport staff and police after a misunderstanding about her security escort preferences. A police report of the encounter described an expletive-laced tirade where she called airport police “F—ing incompetent.”

    Dozens of local elected officials in her district signed a letter condemning her behavior, and the state’s Republican senators, Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham, criticized her actions. Mace refused to apologize, threatening to sue the airport for defamation and claiming the incident report had been “fabricated.”

    “People can say she’s crazy, but they’re still talking about her,” said Austin McCubbin, Mace’s former political adviser who resigned in December after disagreements about campaign decisions and compensation. “It’s kind of one of those things where just so long as you spell my name correctly, that’s all that matters.”

    Shifting political persona

    Days after the former state lawmaker entered Congress, Mace criticized Trump in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, saying she did not believe he had a future in the Republican Party.

    As the insurrection unfolded, Mace told aides she wanted to go out and get punched by rioters “so she could get on TV,” Natalie Johnson, her communications director at the time, told The Post. But Mace months later decided to pare back criticisms of Trump after a poll she commissioned showed they were unpopular in her district, Johnson said.

    “I don’t know of anybody who puts their finger in the wind and tries to see which way it’s blowing more than Nancy Mace,” said Justin Evans, a longtime GOP political operative in the state who supported her state House run and now works for Pam Evette, the Trump-endorsed candidate who placed first in Tuesday’s gubernatorial primary. “She was a good-looking, talented communicator, had the social media following, had all the ingredients that a successful candidate should have. It’s just her moral compass was completely missing.”

    Soon after entering office, Mace had shown herself to be a powerful force in politics who told a compelling backstory. A rape survivor at 16 and high school dropout who once worked as a Waffle House waitress, she became the first woman to graduate from The Citadel.

    CJ Westfall, chairman of the Dorchester County Republican Party who worked on Mace’s 2022 general election campaign, described her as inspiring and hardworking. He credited her win that year to Republicans believing she was an “independent voice,” despite Trump’s opposition.

    Since then, Westfall said her penchant for drama became clear and described her as a “crybully” who liked to provoke controversy and then “play the victim” when someone pushed back.

    After her defeat, Mace said she challenged the powerful even if it cost her politically.

    “Every vote I cast, every hearing I called, every fight I picked — it was always for you,” she wrote in a social media post. “I’ve seen what happens when good people stay quiet. And I’ve seen what happens when they don’t. I would choose the latter every single time.”

    Strained alliances in Congress

    Soon after Mace’s vote to oust McCarthy in fall 2023, Rep. Don Bacon (R-Nebraska) greeted several of Mace’s congressional staff eating lunch at the Rayburn cafeteria and asked who they worked for.

    “I used to really like her,” Bacon replied. “Not anymore. We can’t work with her.”

    He told The Post he got along with her during her early time in the House, but her vote to push the speaker out “was a tough pill for many of us to swallow.”

    At times, Mace allied with liberal Democrats including Reps. Ro Khanna of California and Jamie Raskin of Maryland.

    “She would interact with Democrats in a way very few Republicans do, because she has sided with victims of sexual violence and sexual harassment,” Raskin said. “A lot of the people on the GOP side want to quickly brush those subjects under the rug, and Nancy, in her more freethinking, uninhibited moments, is willing to side with Democrats.”

    Mace and Khanna, who had founded a joint caucus focusing on affordable child care, largely stopped their joint appearances after Mace fixated on transgender people.Mace introduced a resolution to ban transgender women from using women’s restrooms in the Capitol, in response to the 2024 election of Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Delaware) as the first openly transgender member.

    Mace, however, signed on to a successful petition last year by Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) to release federal investigation files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

    She said she wanted justice for Epstein’s victims, even though Trump initially opposed the release of the files. But Mace’s decision surprised her own dwindling team of aides because she was bent on getting the president’s endorsement for her gubernatorial run.

    Wooing Trump

    A few days before Mace announced her run for governor in August 2025, she tried calling Trump to give him a heads-up. She left a voicemail for the president, who later texted her with well wishes, according to a person familiar with their communication who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.But Mace panicked when Trump also passed along two polls that showed her struggling in a hypothetical race. Mace commissioned her own poll days later that showed her leading the field and with the highest name recognition.

    Mace sent the poll to the president, who then posted it to Truth Social that month without comment — which political operatives said lent credibility to her nascent campaign.

    In the final days of the race, Mace repeatedly said her support for releasing the Epstein files was the reason Trump did not endorse her. The president did not publicly criticize her for supporting the effort.

    Mace’s congressional office frequently shed staff,some of whom she forced out, while others resigned citing difficult work conditions. At one point, in a three-month span after her McCarthy vote, her entire nine-member staff had turned over.

    Mace also struggled to maintain political allies. She spoke of her love for former governor Nikki Haley, who backed Mace in the difficult 2022 reelection primary. But Mace went silent the next year when Haley sought her endorsement in her 2024 presidential run, and proceeded to blast Haley while campaigning for Trump.

    “I don’t think Nancy Mace has ever seen a bridge in her life that she hasn’t burned down,” said Will Hampson, one of her former communications directors.

    Hampson said his former boss was self aware that she was on an island. But he’s not sure if she recognizes she put herself there.

    “She was her own best weapon,” he said, “and own worst enemy.”

    Erin Cox contributed to this report.

  • 联合国报告:全球海洋变暖加速北极冰川融化


    2026年6月10日 18:38 / 联合早报

    AI摘要

    • 联合国报告警告,北冰洋可能在2030年代出现首个无海冰的9月,夏季无冰或成常态。
    • 海洋吸收了90%以上多余热量和30%二氧化碳,热含量近五年激增,海平面升速翻倍。
    • 珊瑚礁因海洋热浪频发濒临崩溃,升温1.5℃将致90%消失;鱼类被迫迁徙,部分物种无处可去。
    • 北极融冰重塑地缘政治,引发大国航道竞争;深海采矿威胁亦引担忧。
    • 报告呼吁未来十年紧急减排、扩大海洋保护区,但强调海洋修复仅能贡献2%气候目标,需系统性变革。

    本摘要由AI辅助生成,仅供参考


    3月16日,在格陵兰岛旅游城市伊卢利萨特(Ilulissat),夕阳映照着冰封的北极圈海面。 (法新社)


    (巴黎综合电)联合国星期一(6月8日)发布的《第三次世界海洋评估》报告指出,到本世纪中叶,北冰洋可能出现第一个没有海冰的9月,在所有排放情景下,这种情况最早可能在2030年代出现。

    报告首席作者、海洋生物学家巴特勒说:“我们正在认真考虑在未来10到20年内,北冰洋一年中的部分时间将完全无冰。”

    一般而言,北冰洋冰量每年夏季开始后减少,9月中旬达到最小值。

    法新社报道,北极冰川的融化也在重塑地缘政治格局,开辟此前无法通行的航道,并加剧包括美国、俄罗斯和中国在内的大国之间的竞争。

    除了北冰洋,南极海冰面积虽在1979年至2015年间逐渐增加,但自2016年以来却“迅速缩减”。

    根据这份由来自86个国家的600名科学家共同编写的报告,海洋正处于不断加深的危机中:海洋正在变暖并以更快速度上升,冰层覆盖减少,海洋生态系统承受越来越大的压力,因此急须全球立即采取紧急行动。

    报告指出,自1955年以来记录的海洋热含量总增幅中,约16%是在2018年之后产生的。燃烧化石燃料而释放到大气中的多余热量和二氧化碳分别有90%以上和30%被海洋吸收。

    海平面仍在以不断加快的速度上升,从2015年前每年不足2毫米,上升至2023年的4.3毫米,增加逾一倍。

    气候变化也影响海洋生物,一些鱼类为了生存而迁徙到更冷或更深的水域。巴特勒说:“一些鱼类根本没有未来,因为它们无处可去。”

    珊瑚礁是受威胁最严重的生态系统之一。报告说,海洋热浪和风暴一再卷土重来,“几乎没给珊瑚礁留下复原时间”。

    自2018年以来,珊瑚白化事件已造成大范围珊瑚死亡。 它警告,如果全球变暖幅度比工业化前水平高出1.5摄氏度,90%珊瑚礁可能会消失。

    它也强调对深海采矿日益担忧,批评人士担心目前处于勘探阶段的深海采矿一旦实现全面商业化,其产生的废弃物会使海洋生物窒息,重型机械的噪音则会扰乱海洋生物的迁徙。

    绿色和平组织说:“这份报告必须成为各国政府采取行动保护海洋的紧急警钟。”

    报告指出,尽管海洋面临巨大压力,但解决方案依然存在,包括减少温室气体排放、扩大海洋保护区范围以及推广基于自然的解决方案。

    不过,它强调,即使海洋生态系统得到全面恢复,也只能为全球气候减缓目标贡献约2%,因此必须推动更广泛的系统性变革。

    它警告,未来10年是关键时期,如果缺乏迅速且协调一致的全球行动,海洋健康将持续恶化,并进一步威胁气候稳定、生物多样性、粮食安全以及数十亿人的福祉。

    联合国报告:全球海洋变暖加速北极冰川融化

    2026年6月10日 18:38 / 联合早报

    AI摘要

    • 联合国报告警告,北冰洋可能在2030年代出现首个无海冰的9月,夏季无冰或成常态。
    • 海洋吸收了90%以上多余热量和30%二氧化碳,热含量近五年激增,海平面升速翻倍。
    • 珊瑚礁因海洋热浪频发濒临崩溃,升温1.5℃将致90%消失;鱼类被迫迁徙,部分物种无处可去。
    • 北极融冰重塑地缘政治,引发大国航道竞争;深海采矿威胁亦引担忧。
    • 报告呼吁未来十年紧急减排、扩大海洋保护区,但强调海洋修复仅能贡献2%气候目标,需系统性变革。

    本摘要由AI辅助生成,仅供参考

    3月16日,在格陵兰岛旅游城市伊卢利萨特(Ilulissat),夕阳映照着冰封的北极圈海面。 (法新社)

    (巴黎综合电)联合国星期一(6月8日)发布的《第三次世界海洋评估》报告指出,到本世纪中叶,北冰洋可能出现第一个没有海冰的9月,在所有排放情景下,这种情况最早可能在2030年代出现。

    报告首席作者、海洋生物学家巴特勒说:“我们正在认真考虑在未来10到20年内,北冰洋一年中的部分时间将完全无冰。”

    一般而言,北冰洋冰量每年夏季开始后减少,9月中旬达到最小值。

    法新社报道,北极冰川的融化也在重塑地缘政治格局,开辟此前无法通行的航道,并加剧包括美国、俄罗斯和中国在内的大国之间的竞争。

    除了北冰洋,南极海冰面积虽在1979年至2015年间逐渐增加,但自2016年以来却“迅速缩减”。

    根据这份由来自86个国家的600名科学家共同编写的报告,海洋正处于不断加深的危机中:海洋正在变暖并以更快速度上升,冰层覆盖减少,海洋生态系统承受越来越大的压力,因此急须全球立即采取紧急行动。

    报告指出,自1955年以来记录的海洋热含量总增幅中,约16%是在2018年之后产生的。燃烧化石燃料而释放到大气中的多余热量和二氧化碳分别有90%以上和30%被海洋吸收。

    海平面仍在以不断加快的速度上升,从2015年前每年不足2毫米,上升至2023年的4.3毫米,增加逾一倍。

    气候变化也影响海洋生物,一些鱼类为了生存而迁徙到更冷或更深的水域。巴特勒说:“一些鱼类根本没有未来,因为它们无处可去。”

    珊瑚礁是受威胁最严重的生态系统之一。报告说,海洋热浪和风暴一再卷土重来,“几乎没给珊瑚礁留下复原时间”。

    自2018年以来,珊瑚白化事件已造成大范围珊瑚死亡。 它警告,如果全球变暖幅度比工业化前水平高出1.5摄氏度,90%珊瑚礁可能会消失。

    它也强调对深海采矿日益担忧,批评人士担心目前处于勘探阶段的深海采矿一旦实现全面商业化,其产生的废弃物会使海洋生物窒息,重型机械的噪音则会扰乱海洋生物的迁徙。

    绿色和平组织说:“这份报告必须成为各国政府采取行动保护海洋的紧急警钟。”

    报告指出,尽管海洋面临巨大压力,但解决方案依然存在,包括减少温室气体排放、扩大海洋保护区范围以及推广基于自然的解决方案。

    不过,它强调,即使海洋生态系统得到全面恢复,也只能为全球气候减缓目标贡献约2%,因此必须推动更广泛的系统性变革。

    它警告,未来10年是关键时期,如果缺乏迅速且协调一致的全球行动,海洋健康将持续恶化,并进一步威胁气候稳定、生物多样性、粮食安全以及数十亿人的福祉。

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    联合国报告:全球海洋变暖加速北极冰川融化

    2026年6月10日 18:38 / 联合早报

    3月16日,在格陵兰岛旅游城市伊卢利萨特(Ilulissat),夕阳映照着冰封的北极圈海面。 (法新社)

    (巴黎综合电)联合国星期一(6月8日)发布的《第三次世界海洋评估》报告指出,到本世纪中叶,北冰洋可能出现第一个没有海冰的9月,在所有排放情景下,这种情况最早可能在2030年代出现。

    报告首席作者、海洋生物学家巴特勒说:“我们正在认真考虑在未来10到20年内,北冰洋一年中的部分时间将完全无冰。”

    一般而言,北冰洋冰量每年夏季开始后减少,9月中旬达到最小值。

    法新社报道,北极冰川的融化也在重塑地缘政治格局,开辟此前无法通行的航道,并加剧包括美国、俄罗斯和中国在内的大国之间的竞争。

    除了北冰洋,南极海冰面积虽在1979年至2015年间逐渐增加,但自2016年以来却“迅速缩减”。

    根据这份由来自86个国家的600名科学家共同编写的报告,海洋正处于不断加深的危机中:海洋正在变暖并以更快速度上升,冰层覆盖减少,海洋生态系统承受越来越大的压力,因此急须全球立即采取紧急行动。

    报告指出,自1955年以来记录的海洋热含量总增幅中,约16%是在2018年之后产生的。燃烧化石燃料而释放到大气中的多余热量和二氧化碳分别有90%以上和30%被海洋吸收。

    海平面仍在以不断加快的速度上升,从2015年前每年不足2毫米,上升至2023年的4.3毫米,增加逾一倍。

    气候变化也影响海洋生物,一些鱼类为了生存而迁徙到更冷或更深的水域。巴特勒说:“一些鱼类根本没有未来,因为它们无处可去。”

    珊瑚礁是受威胁最严重的生态系统之一。报告说,海洋热浪和风暴一再卷土重来,“几乎没给珊瑚礁留下复原时间”。

    自2018年以来,珊瑚白化事件已造成大范围珊瑚死亡。 它警告,如果全球变暖幅度比工业化前水平高出1.5摄氏度,90%珊瑚礁可能会消失。

    它也强调对深海采矿日益担忧,批评人士担心目前处于勘探阶段的深海采矿一旦实现全面商业化,其产生的废弃物会使海洋生物窒息,重型机械的噪音则会扰乱海洋生物的迁徙。

    绿色和平组织说:“这份报告必须成为各国政府采取行动保护海洋的紧急警钟。”

    报告指出,尽管海洋面临巨大压力,但解决方案依然存在,包括减少温室气体排放、扩大海洋保护区范围以及推广基于自然的解决方案。

    不过,它强调,即使海洋生态系统得到全面恢复,也只能为全球气候减缓目标贡献约2%,因此必须推动更广泛的系统性变革。

    它警告,未来10年是关键时期,如果缺乏迅速且协调一致的全球行动,海洋健康将持续恶化,并进一步威胁气候稳定、生物多样性、粮食安全以及数十亿人的福祉。

  • 特朗普提名的司法部长人选面临参议院确认重重障碍


    2026-06-10T09:00:00.000Z / 《华盛顿邮报》

    唐纳德·特朗普总统的提名人选托德·布兰奇为一项为声称遭受不公起诉的人士提供赔偿的有争议基金辩护。

    2026年6月10日 美国东部时间凌晨5:00 今日 美国东部时间凌晨5:00

    ![Todd Blanche has found himself at the center of the Justice Department’s biggest controversies as deputy attorney general. (Allison Robbert/AP)]

    作者:西奥多里克·迈尔与佩里·斯坦

    唐纳德·特朗普总统提名托德·布兰奇出任司法部长的决定,将在今年夏季引发一场确认战,考验越来越不安分的共和党参议员们是否愿意在这位高调提名人选问题上违抗特朗普。

    Trump’s attorney general pick stares down Senate confirmation hurdles

    2026-06-10T09:00:00.000Z / The Washington Post

    President Donald Trump’s nominee, Todd Blanche, defended a controversial fund to compensate people who claim they were unfairly prosecuted.

    June 10, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. EDT Today at 5:00 a.m. EDT

    Todd Blanche has found himself at the center of the Justice Department’s biggest controversies as deputy attorney general. (Allison Robbert/AP)

    By Theodoric Meyer and Perry Stein

    President Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Todd Blanche as attorney general sets up a confirmation battle this summer that will test whether a handful of increasingly restive Republican senators are prepared to defy Trump on a high-profile nominee.

  • 美国国际贸易法院敦促政府加快退还关税


    2026年6月10日 19:05 / 联合早报

    美国最高法院早前裁定美国政府征收关税属于非法,国际贸易法院法官伊顿星期二(6月9日)敦促美国政府加快退还关税。 (法新社档案照片)

    (纽约综合电)美国国际贸易法院法官伊顿敦促,美国政府官员加快退还关税。

    这些关税是特朗普政府此前征收的,后来被美国最高法院裁定为非法,但伊顿星期二(6月9日)并未发布新的命令强制政府退款。

    伊顿指出,美国政府对3月4日的裁决提出上诉,导致部分退税处理延误,加剧大型进口商和小型企业之间的不平等,因为大型企业可聘请报关行协助处理退税,而小企业却没能力这么做。

    他说:“(政府)现在是时候退还所有关税了,而实现这个目标的一个方法是政府不要对我的命令提出上诉。”

    伊顿3月4日下令政府退还已清算的关税,但他暂缓执行相关裁决,以便政府有时间建立处理退款的系统,但政府对此提出上诉,让伊顿质疑政府是否真的打算处理这些退款。

    美国海关与边境保护局在星期二的听证会上说,第一阶段的退税可能高达1270亿美元(约1635新元),其中230亿美元退税已送交财政部,将由财政部分发给进口商。

    美国国际贸易法院敦促政府加快退还关税

    2026年6月10日 19:05 / 联合早报

    美国最高法院早前裁定美国政府征收关税属于非法,国际贸易法院法官伊顿星期二(6月9日)敦促美国政府加快退还关税。 (法新社档案照片)

    (纽约综合电)美国国际贸易法院法官伊顿敦促,美国政府官员加快退还关税。

    这些关税是特朗普政府此前征收的,后来被美国最高法院裁定为非法,但伊顿星期二(6月9日)并未发布新的命令强制政府退款。

    伊顿指出,美国政府对3月4日的裁决提出上诉,导致部分退税处理延误,加剧大型进口商和小型企业之间的不平等,因为大型企业可聘请报关行协助处理退税,而小企业却没能力这么做。

    他说:“(政府)现在是时候退还所有关税了,而实现这个目标的一个方法是政府不要对我的命令提出上诉。”

    伊顿3月4日下令政府退还已清算的关税,但他暂缓执行相关裁决,以便政府有时间建立处理退款的系统,但政府对此提出上诉,让伊顿质疑政府是否真的打算处理这些退款。

    美国海关与边境保护局在星期二的听证会上说,第一阶段的退税可能高达1270亿美元(约1635新元),其中230亿美元退税已送交财政部,将由财政部分发给进口商。

  • 美国国际贸易法院敦促政府加快退还关税


    2026年6月10日 19:05 / 联合早报

    美国国际贸易法院敦促政府加快退还关税

    美国最高法院早前裁定美国政府征收关税属于非法,国际贸易法院法官伊顿星期二(6月9日)敦促美国政府加快退还关税。(法新社档案照片)

    (纽约综合电)美国国际贸易法院法官伊顿敦促,美国政府官员加快退还关税。

    这些关税是特朗普政府此前征收的,后来被美国最高法院裁定为非法,但伊顿星期二(6月9日)并未发布新的命令强制政府退款。

    伊顿指出,美国政府对3月4日的裁决提出上诉,导致部分退税处理延误,加剧大型进口商和小型企业之间的不平等,因为大型企业可聘请报关行协助处理退税,而小企业却没能力这么做。

    他说:“(政府)现在是时候退还所有关税了,而实现这个目标的一个方法是政府不要对我的命令提出上诉。”

    伊顿3月4日下令政府退还已清算的关税,但他暂缓执行相关裁决,以便政府有时间建立处理退款的系统,但政府对此提出上诉,让伊顿质疑政府是否真的打算处理这些退款。

    延伸阅读

    特朗普:最高法院关税裁决应写入“已支付政府税款不必偿还” 美国5月11日前后发放首批关税退款

    美国海关与边境保护局在星期二的听证会上说,第一阶段的退税可能高达1270亿美元(约1635新元),其中230亿美元退税已送交财政部,将由财政部分发给进口商。

    美国最高法院早前裁定美国政府征收关税属于非法,国际贸易法院法官伊顿星期二(6月9日)敦促美国政府加快退还关税。 (法新社档案照片)

    (纽约综合电)美国国际贸易法院法官伊顿敦促,美国政府官员加快退还关税。

    这些关税是特朗普政府此前征收的,后来被美国最高法院裁定为非法,但伊顿星期二(6月9日)并未发布新的命令强制政府退款。

    伊顿指出,美国政府对3月4日的裁决提出上诉,导致部分退税处理延误,加剧大型进口商和小型企业之间的不平等,因为大型企业可聘请报关行协助处理退税,而小企业却没能力这么做。

    他说:“(政府)现在是时候退还所有关税了,而实现这个目标的一个方法是政府不要对我的命令提出上诉。”

    伊顿3月4日下令政府退还已清算的关税,但他暂缓执行相关裁决,以便政府有时间建立处理退款的系统,但政府对此提出上诉,让伊顿质疑政府是否真的打算处理这些退款。

    延伸阅读

    特朗普:最高法院关税裁决应写入“已支付政府税款不必偿还” 美国5月11日前后发放首批关税退款

    美国海关与边境保护局在星期二的听证会上说,第一阶段的退税可能高达1270亿美元(约1635新元),其中230亿美元退税已送交财政部,将由财政部分发给进口商。

  • 缅因州与南卡罗来纳州初选核心收获:“这是属于我们的运动”


    这位饱受丑闻困扰的退伍军人将与共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯展开对决,这场选举或将决定参议院控制权归属

    2026年6月10日 美国东部时间凌晨4:00 / 福克斯新闻
    作者:保罗·施坦豪泽

    格雷厄姆·普拉特纳在缅因州民主党联邦参议员初选获胜后,于选举夜派对上发表讲话。

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    缅因州布鲁因希尔——左翼进步派、唐纳德·特朗普以及格雷厄姆·普拉特纳似乎都成为了周二缅因州与南卡罗来纳州备受瞩目的初选的大赢家。

    普拉特纳是一名养蚝户、退伍军人,此前因不断升级的争议饱受批评,周二在左翼倾向的缅因州顺利赢得民主党提名,接下来将与长期担任温和派共和党议员的苏珊·柯林斯展开关键对决,这场选举是有望决定共和党能否在中期选举中保住参议院多数席位的少数几场关键竞选之一。

    与此同时在坚定红色州南卡罗来纳州,获得特朗普背书的参议员林赛·格雷厄姆在参议院共和党初选中赢得多数选票,无需与右翼初选挑战者进行决选。

    而在该州共和党州长初选中获得总统背书的副州长帕梅拉·埃维特在一众竞争者中脱颖而出,将在两周后与获得第二名的南卡罗来纳州总检察长艾伦·威尔逊展开决选。

    以下是我们从6月9日这场关键初中学到的要点。

    2026年民主选举:关注福克斯新闻选举中心获取最新动态

    2026年6月9日,格雷厄姆·普拉特纳与妻子在缅因州布鲁因希尔赢得民主党参议员初选后,登台向支持者挥手致意(保罗·施坦豪泽/福克斯新闻)

    左翼势力反攻

    普拉特纳获得了左翼核心支持者、佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯、马萨诸塞州参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦以及加州众议员罗·康纳的背书,此次大胜是左翼在与民主党建制派的党内交锋中又一重要成果。

    就在一周前,获得参议院民主党领袖查克·舒默长期支持的艾奥瓦州众议员约翰·图雷克赢得民主党参议员初选,将在另一场至关重要的中期选举对决中对阵共和党众议员阿什利·辛森。
    身为轮椅篮球运动员且曾斩获两枚残奥会金牌的图雷克击败了更偏进步派的候选人、州参议员扎克·瓦尔兹。这场分歧严重、耗资巨大的初选被视为民主党建制派与反建制派之间的代理人战争。

    时隔一周,普拉特纳的得票表现进一步壮大了左翼声势。普拉特纳倡导经济民粹主义议程,抨击企业势力,主张维护工人阶级利益。

    “民主党建制派与强势利益集团花了数月时间试图阻止格雷厄姆·普拉特纳。但他们的举动反而证明,缅因州乃至全美选民都希望选出能够打破体制陈规的局外人,”进步变革竞选委员会联合创始人亚当·格林强调道。
    格林还警告称,普拉特纳的胜利“应该给民主党建制派敲响警钟,他们长期以来低估了经济民粹主义与局外人政治的吸引力”。

    饱受争议的普拉特纳赢得民主党初选,为关键中期对决铺路

    2026年5月24日,参议员伯尼·桑德斯与民主党联邦参议员候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳在缅因州奥罗诺市缅因大学科林斯艺术中心举行的“对抗寡头政治”巡回造势活动中同台亮相(乔·雷德尔/盖蒂图片社)

    争议缠身?

    近几周来,普拉特纳的联邦参议员竞选之路遭遇了最艰难的阶段。
    过去一个月来,这位候选人一直忙于应对多重争议。其中包括他在Reddit上发表的煽动性网络评论、被广泛报道后又试图掩盖的类似纳粹标志的胸前纹身、近期曝光的他婚内与多名女性交换露骨色情信息的丑闻,以及上周有前女友指控他存在强奸幻想、酗酒暴力史。普拉特纳称最新的暴力指控不实。

    周一,也就是初选前一天,普拉特纳竞选团队的一名前高级幕僚在《华盛顿邮报》撰文称,普拉特纳“不适合为缅因州乃至美国服务”。
    尽管不断升级的争议让华盛顿的一些民主党人质疑普拉特纳已沦为“受损候选人”,需要更换人选,但这位候选人上周末还是感谢缅因州选民继续支持他。

    “十年前我在网上发表的伤人言论被曝光时,我正分享自己通过创伤后应激障碍疗愈、反思与成长的个人历程,缅因州民众站在了我这边。”普拉特纳周五在缅因州东部沿海地区家乡附近的一场集会上说道,“如今,我的过往经历与心路历程被一一翻出、炒作、用作政治武器,你们依然站在我这边。当出于政治动机提出严重且虚假的指控时,缅因州民众依然支持我。”

    威胁民主党候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳缅因州参议员竞选的争议清单

    2026年6月9日,民主党联邦参议员候选人格雷厄姆·普拉特纳与妻子在缅因州布鲁因希尔的胜选庆祝活动上向支持者致意(保罗·施坦豪泽/福克斯新闻)

    普拉特纳在胜选演讲中称,媒体对其过往劣迹的报道与这场参议院选举无关,并表示:
    “他们费尽心机想抹黑我,却没明白这根本无关乎我个人。这是一场属于我们的运动,关乎那些辛苦劳作却依然深陷困境的万千民众。”

    特朗普迎来丰收夜

    尽管总统本人并未出现在南卡罗来纳州的选票上,但他在该州共和党参议院与州长初选中利害攸关。
    就在一周前,特朗普在高关注度共和党初选中的背书连胜被打破,此次南卡罗来纳州选举再次考验了总统对共和党的巨大影响力。
    而特朗普轻松通过了这场考验。

    在该州共和党州长初选中获得特朗普背书的副州长帕梅拉·埃维特在一众候选人中拔得头筹,锁定了该党提名的其中一个席位。

    特朗普盟友林赛·格雷厄姆在共和党反建制派挑战中成功连任

    埃维特多次强调特朗普的背书支持,接下来将在两周后的共和党决选中与获得第二名的南卡罗来纳州总检察长艾伦·威尔逊展开对决,角逐即将卸任的共和党州长亨利·麦克马斯特的继任者职位。

    2024年2月24日,南卡罗来纳州州长亨利·麦克马斯特、共和党总统候选人唐纳德·特朗普与副州长帕梅拉·埃维特在南卡罗来纳州哥伦比亚市州博览会场的选举夜观选活动中同台亮相。特朗普在南卡罗来纳州共和党初选中击败妮基·黑利(温·麦克纳米/盖蒂图片社)

    由于没有候选人获得超过50%的多数选票,埃维特与威尔逊将在6月23日的决选中争夺提名,获胜者将被视为这个坚定红色东南部州大选的热门人选。

    与此同时据美联社报道,在南卡罗来纳州共和党参议院初选中,长期作为特朗普盟友的林赛·格雷厄姆赢得多数选票,无需进行决选。
    获得特朗普背书的格雷厄姆面临五名候选人的挑战,其中包括保守派商人马克·林奇,后者曾批评格雷厄姆对伊朗战争的支持立场。林奇得到了一些批评特朗普的“让美国再次伟大”运动领袖的支持。

    格雷厄姆的竞选团队与相关政治团体斥资近2000万美元强调特朗普的背书支持。总统也在初选前一晚与格雷厄姆和埃维特共同参加了电话造势活动。

    过去一个月来,总统的背书影响力在共和党初选中展露无遗,他背书的候选人在印第安纳州、路易斯安那州、肯塔基州与得克萨斯州的对决中击败了他指定要淘汰的在任议员,引发了全国广泛关注。

    但一周半前,特朗普在爱荷华州的最后时刻背书共和党众议员兰迪·芬斯特拉——当天他也同时背书了埃维特——却未能帮助这位三届众议员赢得选举。商人、农场主兼前政治策略师扎克·拉恩以微弱优势击败了芬斯特拉,拉恩获得了“让美国再次健康”运动(与特朗普时期卫生部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪结盟的“让美国健康 Again”运动缩写)政治分支以及由已故查理·克里共同创立的保守派强势组织“转折点美国”的支持。

    在南卡罗来纳州共和党州长初选中,主要候选人长期以来一直强调自己对特朗普及其议程的支持,以期获得他的背书。

    特朗普此前数月一直保持中立,之后才背书埃维特,称赞她是“‘美国优先’爱国者”与“赢家”。
    在初选之夜的演讲中,埃维特感谢了总统,并标榜自己是“获得特朗普背书的女商人和保守派人士,将与激进左翼展开斗争”。

    保罗·施坦豪泽是常驻摇摆州新罕布什尔州的政治记者,全程报道横跨美国东西两岸的竞选活动。

    Top takeaways from the primary elections in Maine and South Carolina: ‘Movement about us’

    The scandal-plagued combat vet will now face GOP Sen. Susan Collins in a race that could determine Senate control

    June 10, 2026 4:00am EDT / Fox News

    By Paul Steinhauser

    Graham Platner speaks after winning Maine’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary at an election night party.

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    BLUE HILL, Maine – Graham Platner, the progressive left, and Donald Trump appear to be the big winners in Tuesday’s high-profile primaries in Maine and South Carolina.

    Platner, the oyster farmer and military combat veteran who has been facing plenty of incoming fire amid mounting controversies, cruised to the Democratic nomination Tuesday in left-leaning Maine and will now face longtime moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins in a key race that is among a handful which will likely determine if Republicans hold their Senate majority in the midterm elections.

    Meanwhile, in solidly red South Carolina, Trump-backed Sen. Lindsey Graham won a majority of the vote in the Senate GOP primary and will avoid a runoff against a primary challenger from the right.

    And the candidate the president endorsed in the state’s Republican gubernatorial primary, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, finished on top of a crowded field of contenders and will advance to a runoff election in two weeks against longtime South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, who came in second.

    Here’s what we learned in the key June 9th primaries.

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    Graham Platner and his wife wave on stage to supporters after winning the Democratic Senate primary in Maine, on June 9, 2026 in Blue Hill, Maine(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

    The left storms back

    The convincing victory by Platner, who was backed by progressive champions Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Rep. Ro Khanna of California, looks to be another feather in the cap for the left in their intra-party face-off with the establishment.

    The primary in Maine was held a week after Iowa state Rep. John Turek, who was supported by longtime Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, won the Democratic Senate primary and will face Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson in another crucial midterm showdown.

    Turek, a wheelchair basketball player who won two Paralympic gold medals, defeated the more progressive candidate, state Sen. Zach Wahls. The divisive and expensive primary battle was viewed as a proxy war between the establishment and anti-establishment wings of the party.

    Fast-forward a week and the ballot box performance by Platner, who promotes an economically populist agenda as he takes aim at corporate influences and advocates for the working class, gives a boost to the left.

    “The Democratic establishment and powerful interests spent months trying to stop Graham Platner. Instead, they demonstrated that voters in Maine and across America want to elect shake-up-the-system outsiders,” Progressive Change Campaign Committee co-founder Adam Green emphasized.

    And Green warned that Platner’s victory “should be a wake-up call for a Democratic establishment that has spent too long underestimating the appeal of economic populism and outsider politics.”

    EMBATTLED PLATNER WINS DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY TO TEE UP CRUCIAL MIDTERM SHOWDOWN

    Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner stand together during a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour stop at the Collins Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus in Orono, Maine, on May 24, 2026.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

    What controversies?

    Platner in recent weeks has been facing one of the roughest stretches of his bid for the U.S. Senate.

    The candidate has been playing defense the past month, amid multiple controversies. They include inflammatory online comments made on Reddit, a well-publicized and now covered-up tattoo on his chest that resembled a Nazi symbol, recent reports that he exchanged sexually explicit messages with several women while married, and new allegations last week from ex-girlfriends of a history of rape fantasies, heavy drinking and violent episodes. Platner has called the latest allegations of violence untrue.

    On Monday, a day before the primary election, a former high-level staffer from the Platner campaign wrote in the Washington Post that Platner “is not someone who would be good for Maine or for the country.”

    While the mounting controversies triggered some Democrats in the nation’s capital to question whether Platner was damaged goods and needed to be replaced, the candidate this past weekend thanked Maine voters for continuing to support him.

    “When hurtful things I said on the internet a decade ago came out into the public as I shared my personal journey through PTSD and darkness of recovery and accountability and growth. Maine had my back,” Platner said at a rally Friday not far from his hometown in Down East Maine. “Now, as every single piece of that past and journey gets dug up, litigated, and weaponized, you have my back. And when politically motivated, serious and false accusations are made against me. Maine, you have my back.”

    THE GROWING LIST OF CONTROVERSIES THREATENING DEMOCRAT GRAHAM PLATNER’S MAINE SENATE BID

    Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner and his wife greet supporters after he won his party’s nomination, at his victory celebration in Blue Hill, Maine on June 9, 2026.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

    And voters in Maine’s Democratic Senate primary seemed to shrug off the controversies.

    “In trying so hard to understand me, they failed to understand that this is not about me at all,” Platner said in his victory speech as he dismissed news reports about his past misdeeds as immaterial to the Senate election.

    “This is a movement about us, about the far too many working far too hard and struggling far too much.”

    Trump has a big night

    The president wasn’t on the ballot in South Carolina, but he had plenty on the line in the GOP Senate and gubernatorial primaries.

    One week after Trump’s endorsement-winning streak in high-profile Republican primaries was snapped, the president’s immense clout over the GOP was on the line again, this time in South Carolina.

    And the president easily passed the test.

    The candidate Trump endorsed in the Palmetto State’s GOP gubernatorial primary, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, finished first in a crowded field of candidates and clinched one of the two tickets in the race for the nomination.

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    Evette, who repeatedly spotlighted Trump’s support, now advances to a Republican runoff election in two weeks against South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, the second place finisher, in the race to succeed term-limited GOP Gov. Henry McMaster.

    South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, and Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette stand on stage during an election night watch party at the State Fairgrounds in Columbia, S.C., on Feb. 24, 2024. Trump defeated Nikki Haley in the South Carolina Republican primary.(Win McNamee/Getty Images)

    Since no candidate topped 50% of the primary vote to land a majority, Evette and Wilson will battle for the nomination in the June 23 runoff, and the winner will be considered the clear favorite in the general election in the solidly red southeastern state.

    Meanwhile, in the South Carolina GOP Senate primary, longtime Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham did win a majority of the vote, and will avoid a runoff, the Associated Press reported.

    Graham, who was endorsed by Trump, was facing primary challenges from five candidates, including conservative businessman Mark Lynch, who took aim at the senator over his support for the war in Iran. Lynch was backed by some MAGA leaders who have been critical of the president.

    Graham’s campaign and allied political groups spent nearly $20 million to highlight Trump’s support. And the president joined Graham and Evette for a primary eve tele-rally.

    The brute force of the president’s endorsement power has been on display in GOP primaries over the past month, with his candidates ousting incumbents he targeted in showdowns in Indiana, Louisiana, Kentucky and Texas that grabbed plenty of national attention.

    But his 11th-hour endorsement of Republican Rep. Randy Feenstra of Iowa a week and a half ago — which came on the same day he also backed Evette — in the race to succeed retiring GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds wasn’t enough to muscle the three-term congressman to victory.

    Feenstra was narrowly edged by Zach Lahn, a businessman, farmer and former political strategist who was backed by the political wings of MAHA — the acronym for the Make America Healthy Again movement aligned with Trump Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and Turning Point USA, the powerful conservative organization co-founded by the late Charlie Kirk.

    In the South Carolina GOP gubernatorial primary, the major contenders had long been highlighting their support for Trump and his agenda, in hopes of landing his support.

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    Trump, after staying neutral for months, endorsed Evette, praising her as an “America First Patriot” and a “WINNER” in his announcement.

    In her primary night speech, Evette thanks the president and touted that she’s a “Trump-endorsed businesswoman and conservative who’s going to take the fight to the radical left.”

    Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.