House avoids unprecedented four-member expulsion week as Swalwell and Gonzales resign instead

April 15, 2026 12:02am EDT / Fox News

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick and Cory Mills still face potential ouster but uneven ethics timelines complicate any vote

By Chad Pergram Fox News

Senators call on Swalwell to resign just moments before disgraced congressman announces decision to leave U.S. House of Representatives

Democrats in the upper chamber of Congress give curt responses about the allegations surrounding the former California gubernatorial frontrunner. (Credit: Nicholas Ballasy for Fox News Digital)

It may have been possible to bequeath this as “expulsion week.”

Instead, this might be “resignation week.”

The House has only expelled six Members in the history of the republic. But it was possible as recently as Monday that the House was primed to wrestle with a mind-boggling four expulsions.

It takes a two-thirds vote to expel a Member. The House last expelled one of its own in late 2023: former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.). Before that, you have to go back to 2002 when the House kicked out late Rep. Jim Traficant (D-Ohio).

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Here was the chopping block:

Calls to expel former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) piled up after reports surfaced that he sexually assaulted a former aide and several other women. Swalwell initially said he would fight the allegations. Then he dropped his bid to become governor of California after a host of once close allies abandoned their support. Swalwell has now resigned, avoiding the ignominious scene of an expulsion.

Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., appeared on MS NOW 26 times and on CNN 24 times in 2026 alone, according to the Media Research Center.(Ronaldo Bolaños/Getty Images)

Then there was former Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas). At first, Gonzales denied an affair with an aide who committed suicide by setting herself on fire. Gonzales was locked in a tough primary runoff against Republican Congressional candidate Brandon Herrera. But after pressure, Gonzales finally dropped out of the runoff and isn’t standing for re-election. However, Gonzales intended to stay on until his term expired on January 3 next year. But now Gonzales is out the door, too.

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So two down, two to go.

This is where things grow complicated.

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) could face expulsion soon. In late March, the House Ethics Committee held a rare “trial,” declaring she improperly obtained an astonishing $5 million in COVID relief funds. The Ethics panel will likely recommend a punishment for Cherfilus-McCormick next week. The full House doesn’t have to consider or adhere to the prescribed discipline. The congresswoman proclaims her innocence. She faces a criminal trial in Florida in February 2027.

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“The facts are indisputable at this point and so I believe it will be the consensus of this body that she should be expelled,” forecast House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said lawmakers should expel Rep. Sheila Cherfilius-McCormick, D-Fla., after a House ethics panel found her guilty of more than 25 ethics violations.(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images; Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Rep. Greg Stuebe (R-Fla.) filed a resolution to bounce Cherfilus-McCormick from the body a few months ago.

And for the Republicans, there’s Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.). Mills is accused of “stolen valor” and exaggeration of his military record. But what triggered the current expulsion push is an allegation that the congressman struck his girlfriend in early 2025. A judge imposed a restraining order against Mills. However, police never charged the congressman. The Ethics Committee is also investigating whether he violated federal campaign rules. But the formal ethics probe of the Florida Republican isn’t as far along as the Cherfilus-McCormick inquiry.

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Johnson is mindful of that fact.

“With regard to Mills, I’m not sure the status of the Ethics Committee investigation and that’s one of the things I’ll be looking into today,” said Johnson.

Four troubled Members. Two Democrats and two Republicans. It was that parity which may have primed the House to take the unprecedented step of expelling those four Members before Swalwell and Gonzales announced their resignations. But a push to expel Cherfiulus-McCormick and not Mills creates a host of problems in the House.

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It’s about the math.

The House swore-in Rep. Clay Fuller (R-Ga.) on Monday night. Fuller won a special election last week to succeed former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) who resigned. That GOP gain is likely offset by an anticipated victory by Democratic Congressional candidate Analilia Mejia in a Thursday special election in New Jersey. This is a Democratic seat which has been vacant since New Jersey Gov. and former Congresswoman Mikie Sherill (D) resigned from the House last fall.

Republican congressional candidate Clay Fuller, left, speaks next to President Donald Trump, during a visit to the Coosa Steel Corporation in Rome, Georgia, Feb. 19, 2026.(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

With Swalwell and Gonzales out and Fuller in, the current breakdown is 431 Members: 217 Republicans and 213 Democrats. Rep. Kevin Kiley (I-Calif.) dropped his affiliation with the GOP. The addition of Fuller and presumed win by Meija would make the breakdown 217 to 214 and one independent – with one vacancy, covering 432 Members. After the Swalwell and Gonzales resignations, the remaining open seat is a solidly Republican district in northern California, long held by late Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.). He died in January.

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But what happens if the House moves against Cherfilus-McCormick and not Mills? That creates an imbalance between the parties – something which was lost when the potential expulsion of four Members was on the table.

“What about this issue of parity,” yours truly asked House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.).

“The issue of parity hasn’t been something that we’ve had a conversation about. We’ve been working through what’s in front of us today and that’s what we’re going to continue to do,” replied Jeffries.

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I followed up.

“But isn’t that a concern, though, if they take action against Cherfilus-McCormick? Her ethics process is further along than Mr. Mills,” I asked.

“The ethics process is still incomplete and we’ll see what the Ethics Committee has to recommend next week,” replied Jeffries.

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That’s in reference to the upcoming ethics panel meeting, recommending punishment for the Florida Democrat.

It was one thing if the House may have bounced four Members, two Republicans and two Democrats, all at once. But it’s dicier now that Gonzales and Swalwell stepped aside. It’s further complicated considering the uneven status of the ethics inquiries regarding Cherfilus-McCormick and Mills.

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., speaks after being sworn in during a ceremony in the Broward County Commission chambers in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Jan. 27, 2025.(Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

It seems that Congress is now in a period of establishing new precedents on a regular basis. A record-breaking government shutdown – only superseded by another record-breaking government shutdown. In addition, the House is experiencing a dramatic increase in the raw number of “censures” which it doles out to Members. Censure is the second-highest mode of punishment in the House, just below expulsion.

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The House censured late Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) in late 2010. Prior to that, the House last reprimanded late Reps. Gerry Studds (D-Mass.) and Daniel Crane (R-Ill.) in 1983. But since 2021, the House has censured five Members: Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) – when he served in the House – Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), former Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Al Green (D-Texas).

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) recently characterized the censure explosion as the “political” weaponization of the ethics process.

It’s possible the House might not take any immediate action regarding Cherfilus-McCormick and Mills. Lawmakers from both sides may be more willing to expel one of their own – and maybe take one for the team on their side – if a similar outcome is guaranteed across the aisle.

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With such a tight majority, Republicans may not want to cede power to Democrats if the House expels a GOP Member as they try to cling to the majority. By the same token, it’s doubtful Democrats are willing to absorb a hit when they are within sneezing distance of the majority – if they don’t see a political equilibrium and document consequences for the Republican majority.

Moreover, tracking where the votes lie for disciplinary action is nearly impossible. What further complicates this is whether any expulsion motion actually comes to a true, up/down vote. There are often motions “to table” or kill any resolution to impose discipline against a Member. The same with motions “to refer” or dispatch allegations against a Member to the Ethics Committee for additional scrutiny. For instance, the Ethics panel is all but done probing Cherfilus-McCormick and is investigating Mills. So it’s unclear what would happen with any possible motion “to refer.”

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And let’s be frank: some lawmakers either really want to be on the record voting to discipline one of their colleagues or want no part of it at all. Resolutions to sit in judgment of a colleague is one of the hardest votes lawmakers take. Right up with a vote to go to war. That’s why some prefer the political fig leaf of a “motion to refer” or “motion to table” to an actual up/down vote to punish one of their own.

So this could have been “expulsion week” on Capitol Hill. It’s certainly “resignation week.” And if there’s no other disciplinary action, some lawmakers will be resigned to that outcome.

Chad Pergram currently serves as Chief Congressional Correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC). He joined the network in September 2007 and is based out of Washington, D.C.

英媒：中国间谍卫星助伊朗打击美国军事基地

2026年4月15日 14:29 / 联合早报

这张3月29日发布在社媒的照片显示，美以与伊朗冲突期间，沙特苏丹王子空军基地遭伊朗打击，一架美国波音E-3“望楼”空中预警机受损。 （路透社）

英国媒体报道，伊朗秘密获取了一颗中国间谍卫星，助其在近期的战争中打击美国在中东的军事基地。

据路透社，《金融时报》星期三（4月15日）引述泄露的伊朗军方文件报道，这颗名为TEE-01B的卫星由北京沐美星空科技有限公司（Earth Eye Co）建造，于2024年底在中国发射升空后，被伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队航空航天部队获取。

报道援引标注时间的坐标清单、卫星影像及轨道分析称，伊朗军方指示这颗卫星监控美国在中东的主要军事设施。路透社无法独立核实这篇报道。

据悉，这颗卫星于3月13日、14日和15日对沙特阿拉伯的苏丹王子空军基地进行了成像。

3月14日，美国总统特朗普证实，上述基地内的美军飞机曾遭遇打击。

此外，在伊朗军方声称对相关地区设施发动袭击的前后，这颗卫星也对约旦的穆瓦法克萨尔蒂空军基地、巴林首都麦纳麦附近的美国第五舰队海军基地，以及伊拉克埃尔比勒机场附近区域进行了监测。

报道也称，作为交易的一部分，伊朗军方获得了北京航天驭星科技有限公司（Emposat）运营的商业地面站的使用权。

这家中国卫星控制与数据服务提供商的网络覆盖亚洲、拉丁美洲等多个地区。

美国媒体上周报道，中国准备在未来几周向伊朗交付新的防空导弹系统。中国外交部星期一（13日）反驳相关报道，表示反对无根据的抹黑或恶意关联，坚称北京在军品出口方面一贯采取慎重负责任态度。

伊媒：伊朗中部遇袭美制通信设备集体“失灵”

2026年4月15日 14:57 / 联合早报

4月3日视频截图显示，伊朗中部伊斯法罕省巴哈雷斯坦地区遭空袭，空气中弥漫浓烟。 （法新社）

伊朗媒体称，在伊朗中部伊斯法罕省遇袭期间，伊朗境内大量美国制造的通信设备突然失灵，操作系统崩溃。

新华社引述伊朗法尔斯通讯社星期二（4月14日）报道，出现故障的通信设备全部来自美国的思科（CISCO）、飞塔（Fortinet）、朱尼珀（Juniper Networks）等品牌。

伊朗网络安全专家分析认为，伊朗的通信网络此次可能遭受四种恶意攻击。一是隐藏访问：相关产品中包含即使没有互联网连接也能激活的“后门”，能够破坏设备；二是恶意数据包：从网络内部发送特殊数据，致使系统瞬间瘫痪；三是潜伏式“僵尸网络”：潜伏多年的恶意软件，在特定事件发生时被激活；四是生产链污染：硬件和软件在进入伊朗前已被篡改，即使更换操作系统也无法解决问题。

报道说，此次事件表明，一个国家网络安全的支柱不能依赖外国设备。真正的安全始于自主拥有和生产本土技术。发展国产设备不再是一句口号，而是在网络战中生存的必要条件。

熟悉网络安全的消息人士告诉法尔斯通讯社，伊朗的网络实验室将在近期公布更多证据和信息，表明相关设备制造企业与美国和以色列政府之间存在技术合作。

伊媒：伊朗中部遇袭美制通信设备集体“失灵”

2026年4月15日 14:57 / 联合早报

4月3日视频截图显示，伊朗中部伊斯法罕省巴哈雷斯坦地区遭空袭，空气中弥漫浓烟。 （法新社）

伊朗媒体称，在伊朗中部伊斯法罕省遇袭期间，伊朗境内大量美国制造的通信设备突然失灵，操作系统崩溃。

新华社引述伊朗法尔斯通讯社星期二（4月14日）报道，出现故障的通信设备全部来自美国的思科（CISCO）、飞塔（Fortinet）、朱尼珀（Juniper Networks）等品牌。

伊朗网络安全专家分析认为，伊朗的通信网络此次可能遭受四种恶意攻击。一是隐藏访问：相关产品中包含即使没有互联网连接也能激活的“后门”，能够破坏设备；二是恶意数据包：从网络内部发送特殊数据，致使系统瞬间瘫痪；三是潜伏式“僵尸网络”：潜伏多年的恶意软件，在特定事件发生时被激活；四是生产链污染：硬件和软件在进入伊朗前已被篡改，即使更换操作系统也无法解决问题。

报道说，此次事件表明，一个国家网络安全的支柱不能依赖外国设备。真正的安全始于自主拥有和生产本土技术。发展国产设备不再是一句口号，而是在网络战中生存的必要条件。

熟悉网络安全的消息人士告诉法尔斯通讯社，伊朗的网络实验室将在近期公布更多证据和信息，表明相关设备制造企业与美国和以色列政府之间存在技术合作。

US allies won’t join Trump’s war — but they can’t escape the fallout

2026-04-15 12:00 AM ET / CNN

Analysis by Stephen Collinson

President Donald Trump arrives at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 12.

Annabelle Gordon/Reuters

It’s not their war. But it’s becoming their political and economic nightmare.

World leaders who opposed the US-Israeli attack on Iran are being torn between Donald Trump’s ire at their failure to join the conflict and electorates who are deeply hostile to the war and America’s president.

Their dilemma is shifting the dynamic between the US and its allies. Leaders who once tried to appease and flatter the world’s most powerful man are now daring to criticize him and seeking distance. They are doing so not just out of antipathy to American foreign policy, but also because of war-related pressures threatening the livelihoods of their people, and therefore their own governments and careers.

Even leaders who tried to shape Trump’s second-term behavior are reacting to his contempt. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Monday said Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo XIV were “unacceptable.” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whose friendship with Trump shattered over the war, said last week he was “fed up” that Britons were facing higher energy bills because of Trump’s actions.

Leaders are reacting to war consequences they can’t control, epitomized by an International Monetary Fund warning Tuesday that the world is trending toward an “adverse” scenario of only 2.5% growth this year, down from 3.4% in 2025.

Countries reliant on Middle East gas and oil supplies could fare worse. The IMF downgraded its growth forecast for Britain to 0.8% in 2026, down from a previous projection of 1.3%. That would be a disaster for Starmer’s imperiled government, which has failed to honor its pledge to reignite the economy.

President Donald Trump meets with Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in the Oval Office of the White House on March 19.

Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

Another key US ally, Japan, is also under duress because it relies on Middle Eastern energy. Higher shipping costs are pushing prices higher and threatening a modest rise in wages. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi never expected to face such headwinds soon after her historic election victory in February.

Even before the Iran war, Trump was deeply unpopular in many allied nations. A Pew Research survey last year showed the president’s approval ratings in more than a dozen countries at 35% or below. His approval was higher than former President Joe Biden in only a few countries, including Israel and Nigeria.

The disconnect does not merely represent a breach that will last through the rest of the Trump administration. It threatens the alliances that multiplied US political and economic power for decades. Trump’s antipathy to NATO, meanwhile, has left its mutual defense guarantees looking shaky even if he doesn’t decide to withdraw the US altogether.

The Trump White House has made clear in its rhetoric and foreign policy documents that it sees the application of US unilateral power as the best way to protect US interests in the 21st century. The president seems to regard NATO not as a defensive alliance but as a tool for him to advance his foreign policy interests — for instance in a war of choice in Iran. He has little tolerance for allies that rely on the US defense umbrella but refuse to join his wars.

But signing up to fight is politically impossible for many allied leaders. They face electorates that view the Iran war as unwise, unlikely to succeed and an infringement of international law. Trump’s disparagement of heavy allied war losses in the post 9/11 wars only deepened their voters’ antipathy to the president.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni waits for the arrival of President of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides at Chigi Palace in Rome, Italy, on February 26.

Remo Casilli/Reuters/File

How the war strained a key Trump relationship with Europe

The IMF forecasts made clear that the Iran conflict is more than a distant foreign policy crisis for allied governments. It has become a domestic and political threat. This, combined with growing antagonism between allied leaders and the US president, means that standing with him would be a liability.

Italy’s Meloni leads a populist, right-wing party, and is one of the European leaders most ideologically compatible with Trump. She had therefore positioned herself as a bridge between the White House and European allies. But her own popularity has been hit by war-induced fuel price rises.

Meloni also has a unique role in a nation that has more than 40 million Roman Catholics and a special relationship with the Vatican. She therefore had no real political choice but to criticize Trump’s attacks on the Pope. But her shift may have ruined more than a year of painful diplomacy and relationship-building.

“I’m shocked by her. I thought she had courage. I was wrong,” Trump was quoted as saying by the Italian-language Corriere della Sera in an interview. “She is the one who is unacceptable, because she does not care whether Iran has a nuclear weapon and would blow Italy up in two minutes if it had the chance.”

Meloni is learning what it’s like to be on the end of a verbal Trump barrage. That was already part of life for leaders in Canada, where the challenge of dealing with Trump has transformed domestic politics. Were it not for Trump, it’s unlikely that Prime Minister Mark Carney — a former central banker and political outsider — would even be in the job. But his election victory last year on an anti-Trump platform followed the president’s attacks on Canadian sovereignty.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during the 2026 Liberal National Convention in Montreal, Canada, on April 11.

Andrej Ivanov/AFP/Getty Images

On Monday, Carney solidified his mandate and turned a minority administration into a majority government following two special election wins and several defections from opposition parties. At his Liberal Party convention this month, he alluded to Trump’s expansionist designs. “United, we will build Canada strong, a Canada for all, a Canada strong that no one can ever take away,” he said.

Carney has made a fateful choice. While he hopes to work with the US, his foundation of power is confirmed by an electoral mandate and rests on a foundation of resistance to Trump. He’s therefore in better shape politically than many other allied leaders. But his popularity will still be tested by factors he can’t fully control, such as war-related economic damage; US tariffs; and what is looming as a bitter renegotiation of a North American trade agreement.

Trump was once seen as a hero for European populists, many of whom assumed his reelection on a harsh anti-immigration stance predicted their own political rise. That all changed in Hungary this weekend. Trump, Vice President JD Vance and the MAGA movement campaigned for populist strongman Viktor Orbán as though he were a GOP senator in a swing state. But stunning general election results ousted Orbán after 16 years in power.

The defeat is likely to accelerate a trend of populist leaders in Europe distancing themselves from MAGA for their own political good.

The paradox caused by Trump’s pressure on allied leaders

The Trump White House has never shown much concern about the political problems that Trump’s unusual style causes for allied leaders. It seems to have contempt for modern Europe. It enshrined support for populist groups there fighting to take down more centrist leaders in its national security strategy. Vance has argued that traditional Europe and its values could be lost to immigration from mainly Muslim Middle Eastern and North African nations.

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House on April 11.

Alex Brandon/AP

Trump seems to believe he’s popular abroad and argues that his displays of American power have made the United States more feared and respected than ever as the “hottest” nation on the planet.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the tip of the spear of Trump’s trade wars with allied nations, on Tuesday sought to minimize the impact of the Iran war on non-combatant nations, saying that the IMF “probably overreacted.”

European leaders might be becoming more overt in their criticisms of Trump. But they have only so much rope. Their positions are frequently undercut by their greatest liability in relations with the US — their weakened militaries.

When Trump complained that NATO allies didn’t send ships to open the Strait of Hormuz, he hit a sore point. It was not just that allied leaders didn’t have the political backing to do so: Non-US NATO powers probably don’t have the capability anymore to pull off such a mission after years of defense cuts.

When Trump mulls withdrawing from NATO, he is playing a significant card: Serious rearmaments in Europe could break governments because of the unpopular cuts in health and social programs they would entail.

So even as they turn on Trump for their own political preservation, his estranged European counterparts cannot risk a total break with the United States.

But the more the president demands their entry into an unpopular war, the less political room they have to help him end it.

韩国确定到今年底 引进2亿7300万桶原油

2026年4月15日 15:18 / 联合早报

韩国确定到今年底 引进2亿7300万桶原油

丽水国家产业园区是韩国最大、最具代表性的石化及重化学工业基地，坐落于全罗南道丽水市。 （法新社）

韩国政府已确定到今年年底共引进2亿7300万桶原油，以及最多210万吨石脑油。

韩联社报道，韩国总统秘书室室长（幕僚长）姜勋植星期三（4月15日）在总统府青瓦台召开记者会，谈到他近期作为总统战略经济合作特使访问中亚和中东地区的成果。他说，以去年为准，2亿7300万桶原油在经济正常运行的情况下可保障三个月以上供应，210万吨石脑油相当于去年单月进口量。

姜勋植说，此次落实的原油和石脑油将通过不受霍尔木兹海峡封锁影响的替代供应渠道引进，预计将对国内供应链稳定提供直接且实质性的帮助。

韩国确定到今年底 引进2亿7300万桶原油

2026年4月15日 15:18 / 联合早报

韩国确定到今年底 引进2亿7300万桶原油

丽水国家产业园区是韩国最大、最具代表性的石化及重化学工业基地，坐落于全罗南道丽水市。 （法新社）

韩国政府已确定到今年年底共引进2亿7300万桶原油，以及最多210万吨石脑油。

韩联社报道，韩国总统秘书室室长（幕僚长）姜勋植星期三（4月15日）在总统府青瓦台召开记者会，谈到他近期作为总统战略经济合作特使访问中亚和中东地区的成果。他说，以去年为准，2亿7300万桶原油在经济正常运行的情况下可保障三个月以上供应，210万吨石脑油相当于去年单月进口量。

姜勋植说，此次落实的原油和石脑油将通过不受霍尔木兹海峡封锁影响的替代供应渠道引进，预计将对国内供应链稳定提供直接且实质性的帮助。

皮尤研究中心3月进行的调查显示，约27%的美国人对中国持好感，较去年上升六个百分点，较2023年低点几乎翻倍。 （路透社档案照）

皮尤研究中心发布的最新调查显示，超过四分之一的美国人对中国持正面看法，几乎是三年前历史低点的两倍。

皮尤研究中心3月进行的调查显示，约27%的美国人对中国持好感，较去年上升六个百分点，较2023年低点几乎翻倍。

据彭博社报道，在2023年，一起被指为中国“间谍气球”的事件，在贸易战和冠病疫情的背景下，进一步加剧中美关系恶化。

调查显示，美国人对美中关系的看法也在发生变化。将中国视为美国敌人的比例由2025年的33%降至28%，认为中国是竞争对手的比例则由56%升至60%。约十分之一的受访者认为，中国是美国的伙伴。

调查还显示，年轻美国人对中国的看法较年长者更为正面。约三分之一的50岁以下成年人（34%）对中国持好感，而50岁及以上人群中，这一比例仅为19%。

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皮尤调查：中国国际声誉上升美国反降 对习近平信心以微弱优势首反超特朗普

彭博社报道认为，去年美国总统特朗普与中国国家主席习近平在韩国会晤后，令不断升级的贸易战有所降温，美中关系随之趋于稳定。两位领导人计划于今年5月在北京会晤，并可能在年内稍后再次会面。

根据皮尤研究中心的调查，对中国持好感的民主党人比例较去年上升八个百分点，而共和党人的看法几乎没有变化。不过，自2023年以来，两党内部的好感度均显著上升。

调查也显示，与2025年相比，民众对习近平“做正确事情”的信心上升四个百分点，而对特朗普在对华政策上作出妥善决策的信心则下降六个百分点。

相关结果基于今年1月和3月进行的两项调查，这两项调查共访问了数千名美国成年人。

4月15日，乌克兰第聂伯罗市一栋公寓楼遭俄罗斯无人机袭击而严重受损。 （路透社）

乌克兰官员称，俄罗斯连夜出动数百架无人机和三枚弹道导弹袭击乌克兰，目标是南部的港口基础设施，造成至少七人受伤。

路透社报道，乌克兰空军指，自星期二（4月14日）傍晚6时以来，俄罗斯发射324架无人机和三枚弹道导弹。乌克兰防空部队击落或摧毁309架无人机，但仍有导弹和13架无人机击中九处目标。

乌克兰第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克州州长汉扎说，俄军连夜对首府第聂伯罗的空袭导致三人受伤。这次袭击也对一栋九层楼公寓和一行政大楼造成损坏。

此前，第聂伯罗星期二遭遇导弹袭击，造成五人死亡、近30人伤。

切尔卡瑟州州长塔布列茨则说，俄军对切尔卡瑟市的连夜空袭，造成四人受伤送医治疗。

扎波罗热州州长费多罗夫说，星期三（15日）凌晨，首府扎波罗热在炮击中有一名妇女遇难。

此外，乌克兰南部黑海沿岸的敖德萨港基础设施再次遭到无人机袭击，行政大楼和仓库建筑均受损。基辅地区官员也指，基辅遭到无人机袭击。

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4月15日，乌克兰第聂伯罗市一栋公寓楼遭俄罗斯无人机袭击而严重受损。 （路透社）

乌克兰官员称，俄罗斯连夜出动数百架无人机和三枚弹道导弹袭击乌克兰，目标是南部的港口基础设施，造成至少七人受伤。

路透社报道，乌克兰空军指，自星期二（4月14日）傍晚6时以来，俄罗斯发射324架无人机和三枚弹道导弹。乌克兰防空部队击落或摧毁309架无人机，但仍有导弹和13架无人机击中九处目标。

乌克兰第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克州州长汉扎说，俄军连夜对首府第聂伯罗的空袭导致三人受伤。这次袭击也对一栋九层楼公寓和一行政大楼造成损坏。

此前，第聂伯罗星期二遭遇导弹袭击，造成五人死亡、近30人伤。

切尔卡瑟州州长塔布列茨则说，俄军对切尔卡瑟市的连夜空袭，造成四人受伤送医治疗。

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扎波罗热州州长费多罗夫说，星期三（15日）凌晨，首府扎波罗热在炮击中有一名妇女遇难。

此外，乌克兰南部黑海沿岸的敖德萨港基础设施再次遭到无人机袭击，行政大楼和仓库建筑均受损。基辅地区官员也指，基辅遭到无人机袭击。