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泽连斯基：遭俄军袭击受损输油管 本月底前可恢复运作

2026年4月14日 22:23 / 联合早报

乌克兰总统泽连斯基星期二在记者会上说，一条经乌克兰向匈牙利和斯洛伐克输送俄罗斯原油、并在俄军袭击中受损的输油管道，将在4月底前恢复运作。 （法新社）

乌克兰总统泽连斯基说，一条经乌克兰向匈牙利和斯洛伐克输送俄罗斯原油、并在俄军袭击中受损的输油管道，将在4月底前恢复运作。

法新社报道，泽连斯基星期二（4月14日）在柏林告诉记者说：“关于这条输油管，正如我们所承诺的，它将在4月底前修复——虽然不是完全修复，但足以恢复运行。”

这条输油管的状况一直是泽连斯基与匈牙利看守总理欧尔班之间紧张关系的主要根源。泽连斯基希望所有欧盟国家停止购买俄国能源，而欧尔班则坚持继续进口。

尽管俄罗斯入侵乌克兰，欧尔班仍维持与俄罗斯总统普京的良好关系。但欧尔班在星期天（12日）的选举中惨败，结束了他长达16年的执政生涯。他在竞选期间把乌克兰作为核心议题之一，将基辅描绘成对匈牙利“怀有敌意”。

另据新华社报道，匈牙利蒂萨党主席马扎尔（Peter Magyar）赢得选举后表明，反对乌克兰加速入盟，认为接纳一个处于战争状态的国家并不可行。尽管马扎尔承诺将开启匈牙利政坛的新时代，但他表明反对欧盟向乌克兰提供军事援助。

泽连斯基说，他已在星期天投票结束数小时后祝贺马扎尔，并呼吁双方展开会谈。

他在与德国总理默茨的联合记者会上说：“我们已做好会晤准备。只要新总理准备好了，随时都可以。”

Dems unload on Trump’s latest DC update with ‘Christian Nationalist’ broadside, legal push

Sen Jack Reed and Gov Gavin Newsom’s office question the $15M cost as legal challenges mount

April 14, 2026 9:22am EDT / Fox News

By Ashley J. DiMella Fox News

Democrats are ramping up their battle against President Donald Trump’s planned installation of the Memorial Circle arch, pairing heated attacks with a legal push to stop the project in court.

“Democrats are opposed to anything that celebrates the greatness of our Country because they are America last losers,” said White House spokesperson Davis Ingle in a statement to Fox News Digital on Monday. “The Triumphal Arch in Memorial Circle is going to be one of the most iconic landmarks not only in Washington, D.C., but throughout the world.”

Democratic lawmakers are ramping up opposition to President Donald Trump’s proposed 250-foot arch, questioning its cost and symbolism after the design’s unveiling Friday, as legal challenges to presidential authority continue to play out.

“While you worry about healthcare and the price of gas [because] of Trump’s war, he’s busy designing a 250-foot arch he’s calling the ‘Arc d’Trump’ #allabouthim,” Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed posted on X.

WHITE HOUSE FIRES BACK AT CRITICS CALLING TRUMP’S MASSIVE ARCH ‘TOO BIG’

Rep. Huffman slams Trump’s triumphal arch, calling it a “Christian Nationalist monument.”(Harrison Design via the White House Commission of Fine Arts)

“Your taxes might be going up. But don’t worry — at least $15 million of it is going toward Trump’s arch project,” posted California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press office on X.

Meanwhile, California’s long-troubled high-speed rail project was approved in 2008 at an initial $33 billion price tag before ballooning to $126 billion in expected costs this year. The Department of Transportation canceled billions of dollars in federal grants for the project in the summer of 2025, citing it did not have a viable path forward for completion.

“A gold inscription reading ‘One Nation Under God’? That phrase came from Cold War propaganda, not our Founders,” California Rep. Jared Huffman wrote on X. “They built this country on freedom FROM religious tyranny. They wrote the First Amendment to keep religion out of the government.”

He added, “Trump stamping it in gold on his vanity arch tells you everything about what this project is: a Christian Nationalist monument, paid for with your tax dollars.”

FEDERAL JUDGE QUESTIONS TRUMP AUTHORITY ON WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM PROJECT

Huffman, along with other Democrat lawmakers, filed a court brief challenging the project last month, arguing that the president cannot erect the monument on federal land without congressional approval.

Fox News Digital reached out to Huffman’s office for comment.

“Permitting that Arch to be built without appropriate congressional authorization and review could lead to the unchecked proliferation of monuments, the erosion of public space, and serious constraints on future generations’ ability to memorialize their own losses and achievements,” the amicus brief reads.

President Trump has promised Americans he will make the nation’s capital “safe and beautiful.”(Alex Brandon/AP Photo)

TRUMP SAYS IT ‘IS TOO LATE’ TO STOP THE WHITE HOUSE BALLROOM CONSTRUCTION AMID LAWSUIT

President Trump has been on a mission to fulfill last year’s executive order titled, “Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful.”

“I will take care of our cherished Capital, and we will make it, truly, GREAT AGAIN! Before the tents, squalor, filth, and crime, it was the most beautiful Capital in the world. It will soon be that again,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post in August.

The released designs show a golden, winged Lady Liberty-style figure atop the arch flanked by two bald eagles crowning the monument. Underneath the sculptures across the top of the arch, “One Nation Under God” is written in gold. The back of the arch has a matching emblem, saying “Liberty and Justice for All.”

The arch is proposed to sit near the Lincoln Memorial at a roundabout between Memorial Bridge and Memorial Avenue near the Arlington Cemetery Metro Stop.

“It will enhance the visitor experience at Arlington National Cemetery for veterans, the families of the fallen, and all Americans alike, serving as a visual reminder of the noble sacrifices borne by so many American heroes throughout our 250 year history so we can enjoy our freedoms today,” Ingle continued in his comment to Fox News Digital.

Workers affix signage adding President Donald Trump’s name on the facade of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.(Al Drago/Getty Images)

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The legal threats and fiery rhetoric aimed at the proposed arch echo a broader wave of Democratic backlash to recent Trump-linked cultural and construction moves.

In December, Democrats erupted in outrage over the renaming of the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.

Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, along with other plaintiffs, filed a lawsuit to reverse the rebranding of “The Trump-Kennedy Center” and prevent the planned two-year closure.

The $400 million White House ballroom is navigating a legal battle after the National Trust for Historic Preservation sued in December claiming Trump exceeded his authority when he demolished the dated East Wing.

An appeals court ruled on Saturday that the renovation can continue until Friday, giving the president time to seek a Supreme Court review.

Ashley J. DiMella is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.

Exclusive: Trump’s son Eric to join father’s state visit to China

2026-04-14T14:33:12.693Z / Reuters

By Trevor Hunnicutt, Michael Martina and Antoni Slodkowski

April 14, 2026 2:33 PM UTC Updated 5 mins ago

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• Trump’s businessman son to join key China trip
• Spokesperson says Eric Trump going in personal capacity
• U.S. president criticized Biden’s son’s financial dealings

WASHINGTON, April 14 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald ​Trump’s son Eric Trump and his wife, Lara, will accompany the president on his trip next ‌month to China, a spokeswoman for the family organization told Reuters on Tuesday.

Two sources had told Reuters that members of Trump’s family, including Eric, were considering joining Trump on his highly anticipated May 14-15 visit, potentially to contribute to U.S.-China business relations.

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The spokeswoman ​said Eric, who manages his father’s business empire, would go in a personal capacity.

“Eric and Lara Trump are ​proud to accompany the president on his state visit,” said the Trump Organization spokeswoman, ⁠Kimberly Benza. “Eric is deeply proud of his father and the accomplishments of this term, and is attending in ​a personal capacity as a supportive son. He does not have business ventures in China nor plans on ​doing business in China. He will not be participating in private meetings, but will instead stand alongside the President to mark this historic occasion.”

The move could nonetheless raise concerns in Washington, given that the billionaire ex-developer’s personal wealth and business dealings are managed ​by his family.

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Trump had criticized his Democratic predecessor, President Joe Biden, for his son Hunter accompanying him to ​China when Biden was vice president. He accused the younger Biden of using his influence to secure China’s financial backing for his investments. In 2019, ‌Trump publicly invited ⁠China to open an investigation into his political rivals. The Biden family has denied wrongdoing.

The White House and the Chinese embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The White House has said Trump fully complies with financial ethics and reporting requirements.

Eric Trump is executive vice president of the Trump Organization, overseeing investments spanning ​real estate, golf and blockchain. ​Lara Trump, a former ⁠co-chair of the Republican National Committee, hosts Fox News Channel’s “My View with Lara Trump.”

A spokesman for Donald Trump Jr. said the president’s eldest son, who is also an ​executive vice president at the Trump Organization, would not join the trip.

The highly ​anticipated trip is ⁠the first by a U.S. president in eight years and is aimed at maintaining stable relations between Beijing and Washington. The world’s two largest economies agreed to a truce last year after a bruising period marked by Trump’s tariffs ⁠and ​China’s chokehold on rare-earth exports.

But some U.S. companies had also hoped Trump’s visit ​could go further than giving a green light for deals on Chinese purchases of soybeans and Boeing aircraft, which are already under consideration.

Reporting by ​Trevor Hunnicutt, Michael Martina and and Antoni Slodkowski; Editing by Andy Sullivan, Doina Chiacu, Chizu Nomiyama and Deepa Babington

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Utility companies to spend $1.4 trillion over the next 5 years amid data center boom

April 14, 2026 / 11:43 AM EDT / CBS News

U.S. utility companies are planning to invest $1.4 trillion over the next five years to update the nation’s ailing power grid as the data center boom intensifies the need for electricity.

That’s according to a new report released Tuesday by the nonpartisan nonprofit consumer education organization PowerLines, which analyzed capital spending plans from 51 investor-owned utilities. A majority of those companies, which serve 250 million U.S. customers, cited data centers as a top driver of capital expenditures in their earnings reports.

Developers are rushing to build power-hungry data centers across the country as tech companies look to expand capacity for artificial intelligence computing. The boom has sparked local opposition from communities that fear rising electricity demand will result in higher utility bills.

U.S. data centers consumed more than 4% of the country’s total electricity in 2023, according to the MIT Energy Initiative. That could rise to 9% by 2030, the research group projects.

Impact on consumers

Strengthening the grid against severe weather and replacing aging infrastructure were among the reasons utilities cited for future investments, according to the PowerLines report. The $1.4 trillion that the utilities plan to spend over the next five years is an increase of more than 20% from their 2025 projections.

Capital expenditure plans require approval from state utility regulators. The projected rise in spending could also translate into bigger bills for consumers, as utilities often pass costs onto households in the form of rate hikes, according to PowerLines. That means Americans could see their electricity bills go up at a time when they are already feeling squeezed by rising energy costs.

A separate report from PowerLines earlier this year found that 56 million Americans will face higher utility bills due to a series of rate hikes regulators approved in 2025. Average residential electricity prices are projected to increase 5.1% this year, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

If that trend continues, the nonprofit predicts residential customers could end up footing the bill for nearly half of planned utility capital spending from the 51 investor-owned utilities, or around $0.7 trillion.

While the threat looms large, rate increases are not inevitable, according to PowerLines. The nonprofit said it will be up to state regulators to conduct effective oversight of utilities’ spending plans to ensure the cost burden doesn’t fall too heavily on customers. Data centers can also play a role.

“New electricity consumers such as data centers can actually apply downward pressure on rates by providing utilities more sources of revenue while spreading fixed costs over a larger customer base,” the report says.

Edited by Aimee Picchi

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/nationwide-boom-in-ai-data-centers-stirs-resistance/

泽连斯基：遭俄军袭击受损输油管 本月底前可恢复运作

2026年4月14日 22:23 / 联合早报

乌克兰总统泽连斯基星期二在记者会上说，一条经乌克兰向匈牙利和斯洛伐克输送俄罗斯原油、并在俄军袭击中受损的输油管道，将在4月底前恢复运作。 （法新社）

乌克兰总统泽连斯基说，一条经乌克兰向匈牙利和斯洛伐克输送俄罗斯原油、并在俄军袭击中受损的输油管道，将在4月底前恢复运作。

法新社报道，泽连斯基星期二（4月14日）在柏林告诉记者说：“关于这条输油管，正如我们所承诺的，它将在4月底前修复——虽然不是完全修复，但足以恢复运行。”

这条输油管的状况一直是泽连斯基与匈牙利看守总理欧尔班之间紧张关系的主要根源。泽连斯基希望所有欧盟国家停止购买俄国能源，而欧尔班则坚持继续进口。

尽管俄罗斯入侵乌克兰，欧尔班仍维持与俄罗斯总统普京的良好关系。但欧尔班在星期天（12日）的选举中惨败，结束了他长达16年的执政生涯。他在竞选期间把乌克兰作为核心议题之一，将基辅描绘成对匈牙利“怀有敌意”。

另据新华社报道，匈牙利蒂萨党主席马扎尔（Peter Magyar）赢得选举后表明，反对乌克兰加速入盟，认为接纳一个处于战争状态的国家并不可行。尽管马扎尔承诺将开启匈牙利政坛的新时代，但他表明反对欧盟向乌克兰提供军事援助。

泽连斯基说，他已在星期天投票结束数小时后祝贺马扎尔，并呼吁双方展开会谈。

他在与德国总理默茨的联合记者会上说：“我们已做好会晤准备。只要新总理准备好了，随时都可以。”

意大利总理：暂停续签与以色列的防务协议

2026年4月14日 22:46 / 联合早报

意大利总理梅洛尼呼吁国际社会继续努力推进美国和伊朗之间的和平谈判。 （路透社）

意大利总理梅洛尼星期二说，意大利已暂停自动续签与以色列的防务协议。

综合法新社和新华社的报道，梅洛尼星期二（4月14日）在意北部城市维罗纳出席活动时说，“鉴于当前局势，政府已决定暂停自动续签与以色列的防务协议”。

梅洛尼同时呼吁国际社会继续努力推进美国和伊朗之间的和平谈判，稳定局势并重新开放对能源等供应至关重要的霍尔木兹海峡。

报道说，意大利国防部长克罗塞托已告知以色列国防部长卡茨，暂停意大利与以色列之间的防务协议。

这项协议于2016年4月13日生效，每五年续签一次，内容包括军事装备、技术研究交流等国防合作。

以色列外交部发言人马莫尔斯坦周二则说：“我们与意大利之间没有防务协议，我们有一份多年前签署的谅解备忘录，其中未包含任何实质性内容。这不会影响以色列的安全。”

过去一周，意以两国紧张关系加剧，此前意大利政府指责以色列军队在黎巴嫩向一支意大利联合国维和部队车队开枪示警。

Bodycam video shows St. Louis police officer shooting teen in back of head

Updated on: April 14, 2026 / 11:18 AM EDT / CBS/AP

Body camera video released Monday shows a St. Louis police officer fatally shooting a 17-year-old in the back of the head as he fled, contradicting an earlier police statement that the teen pointed a gun at officers.

“We recognize that the use of deadly force is difficult for everyone involved and for the community,” said St. Louis Police Department spokesperson Mitch McCoy in a statement acknowledging the new video. “We are committed to being as transparent as possible, even in dynamic and rapidly evolving situations.”

Al Watkins, an attorney for the family of Emeshyon Wilkins, obtained the video as part of the discovery process in a federal lawsuit against the police department. Watkins said his office tried and failed to get the video through a records request.

“They fought that video issue for over a year,” Watkins told The Associated Press. “We had to file a federal lawsuit to get it. That’s not transparent. That’s not integrity. Indeed, it’s irresponsible.”

In a statement, Watkins said residents of St. Louis and broader Missouri, as well as Wilkins’ family members, “deserve better than this.”

“The nation is watching. Indeed, the world is looking at St. Louis. It is a vulnerable time in the U.S., one which requires adults in the room to act responsibly and without delay or gamesmanship,” Watkins said, adding that “time is of the essence” and “the lives of our children are at stake.”

Wilkins’ family said authorities still have not provided a full explanation as to what happened.

“I’m still waiting, I need answers,” Wilkins’ mother, Shaina Wilkins, told CBS affiliate KMOV. She told the outlet that her son “should still be here.”

Wilkins was shot and killed in June 2024, just two weeks after he turned 17. He had no prior criminal history, Watkins said. Wilkins was Black.

Police said it all started when detectives attempted to stop an SUV that was reported stolen. Police said there was a brief pursuit; Watkins described it as a slow-speed chase. He said the SUV was only going around 10 mph.

The pursuit ended with Wilkins fleeing the vehicle on foot, with two officers in pursuit. One officer held a taser; another a firearm, the suit says.

The video shows the officer armed with a gun yelling at the teen to get on the ground as he raises the firearm. The officer can be heard telling the teen to drop a gun. The teen keeps running, and then the officer fires.

One of the four bullets struck the teen in the back of the head, killing him, the suit says. In the teen’s pocket was a firearm, but it was disassembled, in multiple pieces, and incapable of being fired, the suit says.

The video didn’t show the teen holding the firearm in his hand or pointing it at the officer.

“There was no threat to the public, and you look at the video, and there were no furtive movements,” Watkins said.

Police acknowledged Monday, following the release of the video, that “information provided by a third-party to investigators in the immediate aftermath of the incident was not consistent with the actual events or what was initially shared with the community.”

The department said it has updated its internal protocols since the shooting “to better position [St. Louis Police] to provide accurate and timely information.” Now, a member of the department’s body-worn camera unit “responds directly” to the scene so that investigating commanders can review footage before receiving detailed accounts from the public.

“In this case, an earlier review of body-worn camera footage would have provided greater clarity than what was available in the initial moments following the incident,” the statement says.

Shaina Wilkins, the mother of Emeshyon Wilkins, grieves on June 18, 2024, in St. Louis, after a St. Louis police officer shot and killed her son. Christian Gooden/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP

St. Louis still bears the scars from the 2014 fatal shooting by a white police officer of 18-year-old Michael Brown — who was Black and unarmed — in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. Some witnesses said Brown had his hands up in surrender. The Ferguson officer was cleared of wrongdoing and resigned, and Brown’s death led to months of protests.

Watkins said the public was assured change would happen. But now he said the police officer who killed Wilkins was placed on desk duty, with pay. He questioned why the process is taking so long.

“The family needs answers, and the only way answers can be given is if there is justice that is open and transparent,” Watkins said.

The St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office said it received the police investigative report in October. But the statement says the office also completes its own “review of the evidence and law to determine whether there is a basis for criminal liability.”

“The CAO is committed to reviewing each matter as expeditiously as possible while ensuring that all available evidence and legal considerations are carefully and thoroughly evaluated,” the statement says.

意大利总理：暂停续签与以色列的防务协议

2026年4月14日 22:46 / 联合早报

意大利总理梅洛尼呼吁国际社会继续努力推进美国和伊朗之间的和平谈判。 （路透社）

意大利总理梅洛尼星期二说，意大利已暂停自动续签与以色列的防务协议。

综合法新社和新华社的报道，梅洛尼星期二（4月14日）在意北部城市维罗纳出席活动时说，“鉴于当前局势，政府已决定暂停自动续签与以色列的防务协议”。

梅洛尼同时呼吁国际社会继续努力推进美国和伊朗之间的和平谈判，稳定局势并重新开放对能源等供应至关重要的霍尔木兹海峡。

报道说，意大利国防部长克罗塞托已告知以色列国防部长卡茨，暂停意大利与以色列之间的防务协议。

这项协议于2016年4月13日生效，每五年续签一次，内容包括军事装备、技术研究交流等国防合作。

以色列外交部发言人马莫尔斯坦周二则说：“我们与意大利之间没有防务协议，我们有一份多年前签署的谅解备忘录，其中未包含任何实质性内容。这不会影响以色列的安全。”

过去一周，意以两国紧张关系加剧，此前意大利政府指责以色列军队在黎巴嫩向一支意大利联合国维和部队车队开枪示警。

Unearthed emails expose how Obama-era EPA plotted ‘massive’ energy regulations from day one: watchdog

2026-04-14T08:00:50-04:00 / Fox News

A government watchdog is accusing Obama’s EPA of pre-determining the legal basis for several regulations

By Leo Briceno, Fox News

Published April 14, 2026 8:00am EDT | Updated April 14, 2026 9:04am EDT

A government watchdog is accusing the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of pre-determining the legal basis for its climate framework.

In an amicus filing before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Government Accountability and Oversight (GAO), a nonpartisan nonprofit, and Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT), another government accountability watchdog, unearthed communications from inside the EPA in 2009.

Those communications, the GAO argued, show that climate-minded officials treated Obama’s Endangerment Finding as a foregone conclusion and later used it as the foundation for vehicle emission standards, power plant regulations and permitting restrictions. In particular, GAO pointed to communications from Lisa Heinzerling, who served as the climate policy counsel at the EPA at the time.

In a 2009 email, she claimed the right findings would create a legal mandate for regulation.

HOUSE GOP LAUNCHES PROBE INTO ALLEGED CLIMATE GROUP INFLUENCE ON FEDERAL JUDGES

Former President Barack Obama during a campaign event on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025.(Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“We expect to be able to issue a proposed finding of endangerment for greenhouse gases within the next 100 days,” Heinzerling wrote on Feb. 8. “Within the same document, we expect to find that certain major categories of greenhouse gases — in particular motor vehicles — cause or contribute to air pollution which endangers public health and welfare.”

“An endangerment finding … will trigger regulatory obligations under the Clean Air Act,” Heinzerling added.

Her email was sent just two weeks after President Barack Obama’s inauguration.

Michael Chamberlain, the director of Protect the Public’s Trust, said the communications appear to telegraph a pre-determined outcome.

“The records from that time period merely confirm what many had suspected. The Obama administration’s Endangerment Finding was flawed from the start. It is clear that the new EPA appointees entered office determined to enact this massive bureaucratic overreach,” Chamberlain said.

The unearthed communications come as the Trump administration has made moves to end Obama-era energy regulations.

In February, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency would be rescinding the 2009 Endangerment Finding.

JIM JORDAN PRESSED TO SUBPOENA CLIMATE GROUP ACCUSED OF ‘JUDICIAL MANIPULATION’

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin attends a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House on March 13, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“[It] has been the source of 16 years of consumer choice restrictions and trillions of dollars in hidden costs for Americans,” Zeldin said in a February press release.

However, the Trump administration’s effort ran into legal challenges from a handful of organizations, including the American Public Health Association, the American Lung Association and the Environmental Law & Policy Center.

They argued that Trump is arbitrarily trying to suspend scientific findings. The matter is currently before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Despite the ongoing debate over the Trump administration’s efforts, the GAO believes the origins of the Endangerment Finding itself should be enough to decide the matter.

In its amicus brief, GAO continued to highlight what it saw as a process inconsistent with deliberative requirements under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).

GAO highlighted another memo from Heinzerling — this time to President Obama.

“We have a political fraught but scientifically and legally straightforward decision ready to go: that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare and that mobile sources contribute to the pollution that is dangerous,” Heinzerling wrote in March 2009.

In a separate memo to the White House, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson urged the president to issue the Endangerment Finding for political reasons.

“If Earth Day passed without a finding, the domestic and foreign criticism would begin immediately and mount steadily. When, eventually, your administration makes the finding — something that, I will be so bold to say, is a near-certainty — it would be described as more the result of criticism than of leadership,” Jackson wrote.

EPA SCRAPS BIDEN COAL RESTRICTIONS AS ADVOCATES SAY MOVE WILL RESTORE AMERICAN DOMINANCE

Former President Barack Obama reacts as he leaves 10 Downing Street in central London, on March 18, 2024.(Adrian Dennis/AFP)

The GAO’s filing blasted the phrasing.

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“There is no evidence that at any time it was an open question whether the Endangerment Finding would be issued,” the GAO wrote.

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美国财政部长贝森特星期二称，在中东战争期间，中国大量囤积石油并限制部分商品出口，是一个不可靠的全球合作伙伴。 （法新社）

美国财政部长贝森特称，在中东战争期间，中国大量囤积石油并限制部分商品出口，与冠病疫情期间囤积医疗物资的做法类似，是一个不可靠的全球合作伙伴。

路透社报道，贝森特星期二（4月14日）对记者说，他已就此问题与中国官员进行沟通。

当被问及这是否会影响美国总统特朗普的访华计划时，贝森特未正面回应，但强调特朗普与中国国家主席习近平有非常良好的工作关系。

他说：“我认为这次访问传递的信息是稳定。自去年夏天以来，两国关系一直非常稳定；这种稳定是自上而下体现出来的。我认为沟通是关键。”