以黎同意停火 但黎南战火未见消停

2026年6月4日 22:20 / 联合早报

6月3日，以色列和黎巴嫩的代表团在华盛顿进行谈判，由美国国务院主持。以色列驻美国大使莱特（左二起）、美国国务院办公厅主任霍勒、美国驻黎巴嫩大使伊萨和黎巴嫩驻美国大使哈马德。 （法新社）

（华盛顿／贝鲁特综合电）以色列和黎巴嫩谈判后同意停火，前提是黎巴嫩真主党彻底停止攻击，并从利塔尼河以南的黎南地区撤出武装人员。然而，黎南的战火未见平息迹象。

根据以色列和黎巴嫩以及斡旋方美国星期三（6月3日）发出的联合声明，以黎同意设立“试点区”，由黎巴嫩武装部队在这些区域行使专属控制权，排除所有非国家行为体。联合声明虽然没有点名，但明显是指黎巴嫩真主党。

黎巴嫩总统奥恩星期四（4日）说，以黎停火协议一旦获所有相关方核准，即可在24小时内生效。

在美国居中斡旋下，以色列和黎巴嫩的官员星期三在华盛顿举行第四轮直接谈判。双方将在6月22日的那周进一步谈判，以建立互信和解决其他悬而未决的问题，争取达成最终的全面协议。

不过，以色列国防部长卡茨星期四说，尽管以黎宣布达成新的停火协议，以军会继续在黎巴嫩展开军事行动，不会撤军。他还称获得美国支持，只要以色列被攻击，以军可以对贝鲁特展开反击。

卡茨在声明中表明，以军将继续驻扎在黎南大片占据地区。以色列政府称这些地区是“缓冲区”，作用是保护以色列北部居民免遭真主党袭击。

以色列极右派更是强烈抨击以黎达成停火。极右翼国家安全部长本-格维尔直指这个停火协议是个“严重错误”，批评总理内坦亚胡屈服于美国的压力。

本-格维尔说，以色列是个主权独立的国家，即使面对美国总统特朗普也必须敢说不，否则将面对更强大和更危险的真主党。

真主党领袖卡西姆也放话，要以色列从黎巴嫩撤军，并实现全面停火。他警告，只要黎巴嫩村庄继续遭到轰炸，以色列北部就不会安全。

实际上，黎南的战火仍在继续。在以黎达成停火这一天，真主党袭击以色列北部的士兵；同日，以军方说，拦截了一架敌方飞机和从黎巴嫩发射而来的两枚炮弹。

以军当天也攻击了黎南地区的20多个目标，导致至少九人丧命。黎巴嫩媒体报道，以军星期四凌晨和上午又对黎南展开一系列炮击、无人机袭击和空袭。

黎巴嫩卫生部星期三发布的数据显示，自3月2日以黎战火重燃以来，以色列袭击黎巴嫩已造成3516人死亡，1万零674人受伤。

星期三深夜，联合国驻黎巴嫩临时部队在黎南迈尔季欧云（Marjayoun）地区附近遭迫击炮弹袭击，一名维和士兵伤重不治，另有两名士兵受伤送医。

联黎部队隔天发声明说，近期监测到落入黎南的炮弹数量明显增加。

以黎达成停火协议当天早前，美国总统特朗普说，他希望把以黎冲突和美国与伊朗的谈判分开处理。不过，伊朗坚称这些冲突是相互关联的，美伊停战谈判必须涵盖以黎冲突，任何和平协议都必须包含黎巴嫩。

伊朗外长阿拉格齐同日警告，任何对贝鲁特的袭击，都将导致战争全面恢复。他表明，如果以色列攻击贝鲁特，伊朗军队必将回击。他重申，只有以军撤出黎巴嫩，战事才会结束。

Exclusive: John Bolton reaches plea deal over mishandling of sensitive national security documents

2026-06-04 10:18 AM ET / CNN

By Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins, Hannah Rabinowitz

Updated Jun 4, 2026, 10:45 AM ET

John Bolton, former US national security adviser, attends a forum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 29, 2025.

Jason Bergman/Bloomberg/Getty Images

John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser-turned-adversary, is expected to plead guilty over mishandling classified documents, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

He intends to plead guilty to one felony count of illegal retention of sensitive national security documents, according to one of the sources. He has also agreed to pay a more than $2 million fine, according to one of the sources.

A conviction on one count of illegal retention comes with a sentence between 0 and 60 months in prison.

The Justice Department declined to comment and referred CNN to the court docket, which indicates a hearing was set for June 26.

Watch Katelyn Polantz discuss Bolton’s plea deal:

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/politics/john-bolton-guilty-plea-agreement-trump-critic

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The plea deal comes months after the top Trump foe was charged by prosecutors in Maryland for allegedly keeping diary entries from the first Trump White House in his home.

Prosecutors accused Bolton of sharing “more than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities” through his personal email account with two unauthorized individuals, who CNN has reported are his wife and daughter. The alleged transmission of classified information isn’t part of the charges he expects to plead guilty to.

Bolton, who served for one year in the first Trump administration, was originally charged with eight counts of transmission of national defense information and 10 counts of retention of national defense information.

Trump had long been long been calling for Bolton to be arrested over his 2020 memoir that was highly critical of the president, claiming Bolton should have gone to jail because classified information was contained in the book.

But unlike cases against Trump’s other perceived enemies, like FBI Director James Comey and the now-dismissed case against New York Attorney General Letitia James, Bolton’s case has maintained the support of career prosecutors and investigators, people briefed on the matter previously told CNN.

Trump’s first Justice Department opened criminal and civil investigations into the book in 2020, but it was closed within a year.

But the FBI opened a new inquiry into Bolton the next year, still during the Biden presidency, after his email was breached by suspected Iranian hackers, as investigators discovered “diary-like entries” containing top secret information from his time as national security advisor.

This story is developing and will be updated.

Trump plans to attend NBA Finals in New York City, sources say

June 4, 2026 10:37 AM EDT / CBS News

President Trump is planning to attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals in New York City between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs on June 8, according to sources familiar with the plans.

The president, a native New Yorker and self-described Knicks fan, said he was invited to attend a Knicks playoff game by the team’s owner, James Dolan, who has donated to Mr. Trump’s political campaigns.

CBS News has reached out to the White House and Madison Square Garden for comment. News of Trump’s planned attendance was first reported by The New York Post and The Athletic.

The Knicks won Game 1 of the finals in San Antonio Wednesday night, 105 to 95.

Law enforcement has been meeting and working on heightened security for the event, according to one law enforcement source. The arena is in the heart of Midtown Manhattan and sits above Penn Station, a major transit hub.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani also plans to attend Game 3, according to the New York Post. He has said that if he does, he will attend separately from Mr. Trump.

Mr. Trump told reporters in May that he planned to attend Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Knicks and the Cleveland Cavaliers. But there was no Game 5 because the Knicks swept the series in four games.

“Dolan’s entitled to a good team because he’s suffered a little bit,” Trump said in a May New York City radio interview, referencing the Knicks’ lousy record in recent decades.

Asked Wednesday about how the league prepares for “unique people” coming to championship games, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver made a reference to the president’s possible plans to attend.

“What’s really so special about sports in our society — and it’s a little bit of a cliché — but our increasingly divided society — and that goes to people who will be attending the first home game at Madison Square Garden — it truly brings people together,” Silver said. “It creates a sense of connectivity among people.”

Mr. Trump has attended numerous big sporting events throughout his second term at the White House, from the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans to this year’s College Football Playoff National Championship game in Miami.

Former President Barack Obama was the last sitting president to attend an NBA game, when he saw his hometown Chicago Bulls beat the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2015.

But Mr. Trump’s attendance at an NBA game is notable, given his past support of the league as a New York City businessman — and his criticism of it once he was in the White House.

Trump’s criticism of the NBA as president

Throughout his first term, Mr. Trump routinely criticized NBA players who took a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality.

“People are tired of watching the highly political @NBA. Basketball ratings are WAY down, and they won’t be coming back,” he wrote in September 2020.

Trump also feuded publicly with NBA superstar LeBron James, after the White House withdrew an invitation to the 2017 NBA champion Golden State Warriors. The Warriors’ best player, point guard Stephen Curry, was noncommittal about attending the traditional championship visit to the White House.

“U bum @StephenCurry30 already said he ain’t going! So therefore ain’t no invite. Going to White House was a great honor until you showed up!” James wrote. James has endorsed all of Mr. Trump’s Democratic presidential opponents: Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

After a CNN interview with James, Mr. Trump tweeted that James “was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made Lebron look smart, which isn’t easy to do.”

“I like Mike!” Mr. Trump wrote, in reference to the public debate over whether James or Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time.

And he claimed Warriors coach Steve Kerr and former Spurs coach Gregg Popovich were hypocrites, after they refrained from criticizing China amid a backlash over former Houston Rockets owner Daryl Morey’s show of support for Hong Kong’s anti-government protesters.

“They talked badly about the United States. But when they talk about China, they don’t want to say anything bad,” Mr. Trump said in October 2019. “I thought it was pretty sad, actually, to see them pandering to China. It will be very interesting.”

Spurs’ star Victor Wembanyama, who was born and raised in France, has been critical of the president’s immigration policies throughout his second term.

“Every day I wake up and see the news and I’m horrified. I think that it’s crazy that some people make it sound like it’s acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable,” Wembanyama said in January, after the shootings of two civilians, Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Trump’s friendlier times with NBA and Knicks

Mr. Trump’s relationship with the NBA was not always fraught.

Before his first term in the White House, Mr. Trump was a big fan of both the NBA and James.

In 2012, he posted that “as one of Miami’s largest landowners,” he was rooting for then-Miami Heat player James and then congratulated them on their NBA championship that year. “Lebron’s time is now! @KingJames,” Trump wrote. He also congratulated the San Antonio Spurs in 2014 after their championship win.

And in New York, he was a courtside staple for the Knicks at Madison Square Garden for multiple playoff games throughout his decades in the city. He attended Game 3 of the 1994 NBA Finals, where the Knicks lost to a different Texas team: the Houston Rockets.

Mr. Trump was also part of a 2010 recruiting campaign organized by Dolan to lure James to join the Knicks, according to journalist Pablo Torre.

“The real winners of the world want to be here. They come here, they want to come to New York,” Trump said in the video. “This is the place the real winners want to be.”

The Associated Press noted that during a halftime interview at a 2010 Knicks game, Mr. Trump declined to rule out a run for the presidency in 2012 (or an appearance on “Dancing with the Stars”).

In 2012, he supported the “Linsanity” run of former New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin. Mr. Trump last posted on the Knicks in December 2013, when the team had five wins and 15 losses.

“It’s amazing how badly the Knicks and Nets are playing. Everybody predicted they would be top teams with all of the money spent. Too bad!” he wrote on Twitter.

US weekly jobless claims increase to four-month high; worker productivity revised down

2026-06-04 12:39:38 / Reuters

WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits increased more than expected last week, touching their highest level in four months, but the underlying trend remained consistent with a stable labor market.

Economists shrugged off the rise in weekly jobless claims reported by the Labor Department on Thursday as volatility related to ​last Monday’s Memorial Day holiday. Claims tend to rise around public holidays. They said there were no signs yet the Middle East conflict was having a noticeable impact on the labor market, ‌though uncertainty was growing.

“The big picture remains that the trend in both initial and continuing claims still is very subdued,” said Oliver Allen, senior U.S. economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. “It would be unwise, however, to conclude that all is fine and well with the labor market simply because claims are low. Low fire, low hire remains an apt description of labor market conditions, and only around one of four of those unemployed make a claim.”

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 13,000 to a seasonally adjusted 225,000 for the week ended May 30, the ​highest level since the first week of February. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 213,000 claims for the latest week. The four-week moving average of claims, which irons out week-to-week volatility, increased only 6,500 to 214,750.

Last ​week’s rise pushed claims to the upper end of their 190,000-230,000 range for this year. Applications could remain higher in the weeks ahead as the school year ends.

“Some states ⁠allow school workers who are off for the summer to claim unemployment benefits and that can lead to a rise in headline claims that isn’t always captured by the seasonal factors,” said Nancy Vanden Houten, lead U.S. economist at ​Oxford Economics.

Seasonal factors are the model used by the government to strip out seasonal fluctuations from the data.

Layoffs remain low by historical standards, despite high-profile job cuts by technology firms related to the adoption of artificial intelligence. U.S.-based employers announced 97,006 ​job cuts in May, about 39% of them in the technology sector, a separate report from global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas showed on Thursday. That was up 16% from April.

Still, planned job cuts rose only 3% compared to the same period last year. Though employers have not responded with mass layoffs to rising shortages and inflation stemming from the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, now in its fourth month, economists said that could change, the longer the conflict drags on.

The Federal Reserve’s Beige Book report on Wednesday said employment showed “little to ​no change” in May, and that “most districts described a low-hire, low-fire environment.” It added that “hiring remained selective and primarily focused on critical roles or attrition replacement.”

For now, low layoffs are anchoring the labor market. The number of people receiving unemployment ​benefits after an initial week of aid, a proxy for hiring, fell 8,000 to a seasonally adjusted 1.777 million during the week ended May 23, the claims report showed.

LABOR MARKET REMAINS STABLE

The claims data have no bearing on the closely watched employment report ‌for May, due ⁠to be released on Friday, as they fall outside the survey period.

Nonfarm payrolls likely rose by 85,000 jobs in May after rising 115,000 in April, a Reuters survey of economists predicted. The unemployment rate is forecast unchanged at 4.3%.

The Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS report, on Tuesday showed hiring decreased and layoffs fell in April, suggesting the increase in payrolls that month was due to lower layoffs. A stable labor market allows the Federal Reserve to focus on inflation. Financial markets expect the U.S. central bank to keep its benchmark overnight interest rate in the 3.50%-3.75% range into 2027.

U.S. stocks opened lower. The dollar slipped against a basket of currencies. U.S. Treasury yields fell.

A third report from the ​Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics showed worker productivity growth ​slowed faster than initially thought in the first ⁠quarter, but the underlying trend remained strong and a boost is expected from businesses adopting artificial intelligence for many roles.

Nonfarm productivity, which measures hourly output per worker, increased at a downwardly revised 0.3% annualized rate last quarter. That was the slowest since the first quarter of 2025. Productivity was previously estimated to have risen at a 0.8% pace last quarter. Economists ​had expected productivity growth would be revised down to a 0.5% pace.

Productivity grew at a 2.8% rate from a year ago, instead of the 2.9% pace estimated last ​month. It has grown at ⁠a 2.1% rate from the fourth quarter of 2019 through the first quarter of 2026. The softness in the first quarter was flagged by last week’s downgrade to gross domestic product growth to a 1.6% rate from the previously reported 2.0% pace. Productivity grew at an unrevised 1.6% rate in the October-December quarter.

Economists believe the rising integration of AI will boost productivity and rein in labor costs.

Unit labor costs – the price of labor per single unit of output – increased at a 1.8% rate last quarter. That ⁠was a downward ​revision from the 2.3% pace reported last month. Fourth-quarter growth in unit labor costs was lowered to a 2.1% rate from the previously ​reported 4.6% pace.

Economists had expected unit labor costs to increase at a 2.5% rate last quarter. They grew at a 0.5% rate from a year ago. Hourly compensation increased at a 2.1% rate last quarter and grew at a 3.3% pace from a year ago.

“Normally, unit labor costs would ​rise when productivity is revised lower,” said Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics. “Obviously, there is a basis effect at work here.”

Reporting by Lucia Mutikani; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Andrea Ricci

以黎同意停火 但黎南战火未见消停

2026年6月4日 22:20 / 联合早报

AI摘要

• 以黎在美国斡旋下同意停火，要求真主党撤出利塔尼河以南并停止攻击，设立由黎军控制的“试点区”。
• 黎总统称协议获核准后24小时内生效，但以军方表示将继续在黎南军事行动，维持“缓冲区”。
• 真主党与以色列互相袭击未止，停火当日双方仍有交火，以军空袭致多人死伤。
• 伊朗强调以黎冲突与美伊谈判不可分割，警告若贝鲁特遭袭将全面回击。

本摘要由AI辅助生成，仅供参考

6月3日，以色列和黎巴嫩的代表团在华盛顿进行谈判，由美国国务院主持。以色列驻美国大使莱特（左二起）、美国国务院办公厅主任霍勒、美国驻黎巴嫩大使伊萨和黎巴嫩驻美国大使哈马德。 （法新社）

（华盛顿／贝鲁特综合电）以色列和黎巴嫩谈判后同意停火，前提是黎巴嫩真主党彻底停止攻击，并从利塔尼河以南的黎南地区撤出武装人员。然而，黎南的战火未见平息迹象。

根据以色列和黎巴嫩以及斡旋方美国星期三（6月3日）发出的联合声明，以黎同意设立“试点区”，由黎巴嫩武装部队在这些区域行使专属控制权，排除所有非国家行为体。联合声明虽然没有点名，但明显是指黎巴嫩真主党。

黎巴嫩总统奥恩星期四（4日）说，以黎停火协议一旦获所有相关方核准，即可在24小时内生效。

在美国居中斡旋下，以色列和黎巴嫩的官员星期三在华盛顿举行第四轮直接谈判。双方将在6月22日的那周进一步谈判，以建立互信和解决其他悬而未决的问题，争取达成最终的全面协议。

不过，以色列国防部长卡茨星期四说，尽管以黎宣布达成新的停火协议，以军会继续在黎巴嫩展开军事行动，不会撤军。他还称获得美国支持，只要以色列被攻击，以军可以对贝鲁特展开反击。

延伸阅读

联黎部队遭袭 塞尔维亚维和士兵死亡
伊朗外长警告：任何对贝鲁特袭击都将引发中东战争全面重启

卡茨在声明中表明，以军将继续驻扎在黎南大片占据地区。以色列政府称这些地区是“缓冲区”，作用是保护以色列北部居民免遭真主党袭击。

以色列极右派更是强烈抨击以黎达成停火。极右翼国家安全部长本-格维尔直指这个停火协议是个“严重错误”，批评总理内坦亚胡屈服于美国的压力。

本-格维尔说，以色列是个主权独立的国家，即使面对美国总统特朗普也必须敢说不，否则将面对更强大和更危险的真主党。

真主党领袖卡西姆也放话，要以色列从黎巴嫩撤军，并实现全面停火。他警告，只要黎巴嫩村庄继续遭到轰炸，以色列北部就不会安全。

实际上，黎南的战火仍在继续。在以黎达成停火这一天，真主党袭击以色列北部的士兵；同日，以军方说，拦截了一架敌方飞机和从黎巴嫩发射而来的两枚炮弹。

以军当天也攻击了黎南地区的20多个目标，导致至少九人丧命。黎巴嫩媒体报道，以军星期四凌晨和上午又对黎南展开一系列炮击、无人机袭击和空袭。

黎巴嫩卫生部星期三发布的数据显示，自3月2日以黎战火重燃以来，以色列袭击黎巴嫩已造成3516人死亡，1万零674人受伤。

星期三深夜，联合国驻黎巴嫩临时部队在黎南迈尔季欧云（Marjayoun）地区附近遭迫击炮弹袭击，一名维和士兵伤重不治，另有两名士兵受伤送医。

联黎部队隔天发声明说，近期监测到落入黎南的炮弹数量明显增加。

以黎达成停火协议当天早前，美国总统特朗普说，他希望把以黎冲突和美国与伊朗的谈判分开处理。不过，伊朗坚称这些冲突是相互关联的，美伊停战谈判必须涵盖以黎冲突，任何和平协议都必须包含黎巴嫩。

伊朗外长阿拉格齐同日警告，任何对贝鲁特的袭击，都将导致战争全面恢复。他表明，如果以色列攻击贝鲁特，伊朗军队必将回击。他重申，只有以军撤出黎巴嫩，战事才会结束。

德国汉莎航空波音787客机前起落架坍塌 多人受伤

2026年6月4日 22:25 / 联合早报

德国汉莎航空波音787客机前起落架坍塌 多人受伤

6月4日。一架由德国汉莎航空公司运营的波音787型飞机前起落架坍塌，停在德国法兰克福机场的登机口。 （彭博社）

德国汉莎航空公司说，一架波音787客机在法兰克福机场登机口附近发生前起落架意外坍塌事故，造成多名工作人员受伤。

汉莎航空发言人星期四（6月4日）通过电子邮件发声明说：“乘客尚未登机。”声明还补充，事发时机组人员和地勤人员都在机上。彭博新闻社率先报道了这起事故。

汉莎航空补充道：“多名工作人员受伤，目前正在接受治疗。”

路透社摄影记者看到，这架双引擎宽体客机部分机腹着地，周围停放着多辆紧急救援车辆。

汉莎航空说，事故发生在下午12时45分（新加坡时间傍晚6时45分），航班原计划执飞LH450航班，目的地为洛杉矶。

公司补充道：“我们目前正与相关部门调查具体情况。”

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Former Trump adviser Bolton to pay $2.25 million to settle classified document charges, sources say

2026-06-04T14:36:18.903Z / Reuters

By Steve Holland, Andrew Goudsward and Jana Winter

June 4, 2026 2:36 PM UTC Updated 12 mins ago

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June 4 (Reuters) – John Bolton, a ​prominent critic of U.S. President Donald Trump who once served ‌as his national security adviser, will pay a fine of $2.25 million to settle charges of mishandling classified documents, three sources said on Thursday.

Bolton ​will plead guilty to one count of retaining ​classified information based on his diary entries at a ⁠court hearing on June 26, said the sources, who spoke ​on condition of anonymity. He could face up to five ​years in prison. The news was first reported by CNN.

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Bolton is accused of sharing sensitive information with two of his relatives for possible ​use in a book he was writing, including notes on ​intelligence briefings and meetings with senior government officials and foreign leaders. He ‌pleaded ⁠not guilty to 18 criminal charges last year.

The Justice Department and a Bolton spokesperson declined to comment.

Bolton served as White House national security adviser during Trump’s first term before emerging ​as one of ​the president’s ⁠most vocal critics. He described Trump as unfit to serve as president in a memoir.

One ​source familiar with the settlement, speaking on condition ​of ⁠anonymity, said the plea deal alleges no wrongdoing with regard to Bolton’s book, but that Bolton was acknowledging that he made ⁠a ​mistake.

Reporting by Steve Holland, Jana Winter, Andrew ​Goudsward, Bhargav Acharya, Ismail Shakil, Nathan Layne, Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff and Luc Cohen; ​Editing by Andy Sullivan, Daphne Psaledakis, Doina Chiacu and Bill Berkrot

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Thune: ‘Hard to say’ whether Blanche can win confirmation as attorney general

2026-06-04 11:49 AM ET / CNN

By Sarah Ferris, Manu Raju

In this April 28 photo, acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche announces a second indictment of former FBI Director James Comey during a press conference at the Justice Department in Washington, DC.

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Summary

• Senate Majority Leader John Thune said it is “hard to say” whether Todd Blanche can win confirmation as attorney general.
• Blanche, Trump’s former personal attorney now serving as acting attorney general, faces uncertainty from key Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee.
• Sen. Thom Tillis said his views on the January 6 Capitol riot and the controversial “anti-weaponization” fund could be potential obstacles.

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Hours after President Donald Trump nominated Todd Blanche to permanently lead the DOJ, the top Senate Republican could not say whether Blanche could survive a nomination fight on Capitol Hill.

Asked about whether Blanche would have difficulty being confirmed, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said it was “hard to say.”

“I think obviously most of our members are pretty deferential to who the president wants in these key positions. He’s already serving in the role already, and clearly has experience in it,” Thune said. “But this is an environment where nothing is a safe or sure bet.”

The comments come the morning after President Donald Trump announced at a private dinner at the White House that he intended to nominate Blanche – who was installed as acting attorney general after Pam Bondi was fired – to the role permanently. In a video Trump adviser Dan Scavino posted a video on X, Trump noted the confirmation process was “complicated” but predicted it would play out “very quickly.”

Blanche is Trump’s firebrand former personal attorney who had been serving as the No. 2 Justice Department official before Bondi’s firing. The president has repeatedly lauded him, and his securing of indictments of some of Trump’s political opponents – like former FBI director James Comey – have helped him win favor in the White House.

But his tenure has also seen controversy. Bondi recently testified that Blanche was in charge of the department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files – which created a significant political headache for the White House. His expected nomination also comes in midst of a GOP revolt over the proposed $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund to compensate people who say they were wrongly prosecuted by the government.

Thune said Blanche would now go to the Senate Judiciary Committee, where “they’ll have to go through a normal confirmation process.”

But it’s unclear whether Blanche has enough votes to get out of committee.

Sen. Thom Tillis, who is on the committee and has been a roadblock to other Trump nominees, told CNN he would oppose Blanche if he equivocates on condemning the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol.

“I don’t vote for people just because I like them. I vote for them because they meet my criteria. One of my criteria is no equivocation on January 6,” Tillis said.

The North Carolina Republican said he thought passing legislation to eliminate Trump’s “anti-weaponization” fund would improve Blache’s chances – but a confirmation hearing could be complicated if the future of the fund is still being debated.

“If this is still out there, can you imagine what the Democrats are going to do to that man during a confirmation hearing? Can you imagine how that could potentially influence a couple of our members? We take this off the table, Todd’s chances of becoming confirmed as the AG go up,” he said.

Asked if he could support confirming Blanche if the Senate does not completely kill the fund, Tillis said, “We’re looking at it. I haven’t made a decision yet.”

Another of the committee members, GOP Sen. John Cornyn, told CNN’s Manu Raju on Thursday morning that he remains undecided about whether he’ll vote for Blanche.

“I’m looking forward to the process. I’ve got some questions for him. Being attorney general is probably one of the hardest jobs in the cabinet because you’re working for the president, but you’re also supposed to be able to tell the president no, as the lead lawyer for the country. So need to talk about that,” Cornyn told CNN.

“I’m going to let the process work out.”

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德国汉莎航空公司说，一架波音787客机在法兰克福机场登机口附近发生前起落架意外坍塌事故，造成多名工作人员受伤。

汉莎航空发言人星期四（6月4日）通过电子邮件发声明说：“乘客尚未登机。”声明还补充，事发时机组人员和地勤人员都在机上。彭博新闻社率先报道了这起事故。

汉莎航空补充道：“多名工作人员受伤，目前正在接受治疗。”

路透社摄影记者看到，这架双引擎宽体客机部分机腹着地，周围停放着多辆紧急救援车辆。

汉莎航空说，事故发生在下午12时45分（新加坡时间傍晚6时45分），航班原计划执飞LH450航班，目的地为洛杉矶。

公司补充道：“我们目前正与相关部门调查具体情况。”

汉莎航空运营的787系列飞机为787-9型，主要用于长途航线，对于集团而言，787系列飞机相对较新。汉莎航空计划逐步淘汰效率较低的机型，简化机队。

Both parties target Trump’s $2B fund as ICE funding package enters danger zone

June 4, 2026 10:22am EDT / Fox News

Senators from both parties want to eliminate the anti-weaponization fund as vote-a-rama kicks off

By Alex Miller Fox News

Fox News chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on the pushback against President Donald Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization fund’ on ‘The Bottom Line.’

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President Donald Trump’s nearly $70 billion immigration enforcement package has entered uncertain waters as the Senate embarks on a marathon of votes that could blow up the legislation.

At the heart of the issue is the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) now-defunct nearly $2 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. It’s another rare instance where both sides of the aisle are frustrated with the administration, and it could spell doom for the broader bill.

That’s because Democrats and Republicans are lining up amendments to ensure the fund is dead, to varying degrees.

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Senate scraps border and ICE funding vote

GOP ADVANCES ICE FUNDING PACKAGE AFTER FORCING TRUMP’S CONTROVERSIAL $2B FUND INTO RETREAT

President Donald Trump listens to members of his Cabinet during a meeting in the White House Cabinet Room in Washington, D.C., on May 27, 2026.(Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Senate Republican leadership is hopeful that they can prevent those amendments from surviving during the newly launched “vote-a-rama,” but success isn’t guaranteed. One positive for the GOP is that every Republican voted for the package in its first procedural hurdle Wednesday afternoon.

“I feel good going into it,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said. “But, you know, you got a lot of conversations with our members [who] understand what’s at stake, how critical it is that we defeat amendments that would be corrosive to the bill or undermine in any way its privilege.”

One issue is that should an amendment targeting the fund pass, it could remove the reconciliation package’s ability to advance with just a simple majority of votes. That would effectively give Democrats a win in killing the package outright.

Whether the amendments will be considered under a simple majority or 60-vote threshold could change the landscape and will ultimately be up to the Senate rules referee to determine whether they comply with the Byrd rule, which undergirds the reconciliation process.

GOP DEMANDS TRUMP KILL CONTROVERSIAL $2B FUND BEFORE REVIVING ICE FUNDING PACKAGE

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Trump administration not moving forward with ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

Republicans believed that those add-ons would hit that 60-vote mark, giving them a little bit of breathing room.

“I mean, you never know with 100% accuracy,” Thune said. “There are a lot of creative ways of drafting amendments, but we feel pretty confident that most of those would be at 60.”

The fund, announced last month as part of a settlement between the Trump family and the Internal Revenue Service, received strong pushback from Republicans who feared that without proper guardrails, people convicted of assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on Capitol Hill could access the taxpayer funds.

Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., whose main job is to wrangle and twist the arms of wary Republicans to vote for the package, put the primary blame on Senate Democrats as fractures in the GOP simmered.

GOP LEVERAGES ICE FUNDING PACKAGE TO MAKE TRUMP’S CONTROVERSIAL $2B FUND ‘NEVER EXIST’

“The Democrats continue to talk about everything they want to talk about, except actually securing the border and protecting the American people,” Barrasso said. “They’re gonna come with all sorts of things, all in an effort to delay our efforts to support the American people and keep them safe and secure.”

But there are Republicans who will have their own anti-weaponization fund amendments. So far, Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., two lawmakers who are increasingly prone to break with Trump, have teed up add-ons to address the fund.

There is the option to deal with the fund outside of reconciliation, too.

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Cassidy, who Trump successfully just ousted from office, didn’t say which route he would prefer, but wanted “something which just makes it sure that somebody doesn’t change their mind in the White House, it doesn’t come back.”

Tillis contended that there were enough Republicans with concerns over the fund that something needed to be done, but wanted it to be a GOP-led initiative. He’s not picky about whether his amendment gets a shot either.

“I don’t care about my own personal amendment,” Tillis said. “There’s a few out there, as long as one touching on the issue gets there. I’m not gonna slow leadership down. I wouldn’t do anything to make it as corrosive to the underlying bill so that it loses privilege. But we gotta do this.”

Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.