4月10日晚，巴基斯坦警方在通往塞雷纳酒店的道路上设立检查站。 （路透社）

巴基斯坦官方星期六（4月11日）凌晨确认，美国和伊朗的谈判将于当天在巴首都伊斯兰堡的塞雷纳酒店举行。

《纽约时报》报道，由伊朗议长卡利巴夫和外长阿拉格齐率领的谈判代表团10日抵达伊斯兰堡。

美国副总统万斯已飞往伊斯兰堡，美国总统特朗普的特使威特科夫和特朗普女婿库什纳也随行。

目前两国同意停火两周，谈判双方能否最终达成一项持久的协议存在诸多的不确定性。

特朗普在美伊谈判前夕继续施压伊朗。

特朗普10日在社媒平台Truth Social发贴文：“伊朗人更擅长的是应对假新闻媒体和‘搞公关’，不是打仗！”

特朗普还写道：“伊朗人似乎没有意识到，除了利用国际水道对世界进行短期勒索，他们已经没有其他筹码。他们今天还能活下来，唯一原因就是为了谈判！

好几天没有公开露面的特朗普，10日下午在弗吉尼亚州出席一场政治活动前，与记者进行简短交谈。被问及要对即将与伊朗谈判的万斯说什么，特朗普说：“祝他一切顺利。”

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

2026-04-10 21:50:23 UTC / Reuters

By Jonathan Stempel

April 10, 2026 9:50 PM UTC Updated 56 mins ago

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The John Minor Wisdom United States Court of Appeals Building stands in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., February 7, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

April 10 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday declared unconstitutional a nearly 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling, calling it an unnecessary and improper means for ​Congress to exercise its power to tax.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of ‌Appeals in New Orleans ruled in favor of the nonprofit Hobby Distillers Association and four of its 1,300 members.

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They argued that people should be free to distill spirits at home, whether as ​a hobby or for personal consumption including, in one instance, to create ​an apple-pie-vodka recipe.

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The ban was part of a law passed during ⁠Reconstruction in July 1868, in part to thwart liquor tax evasion, and subjected violators ​to up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Writing for a three-judge panel, ​Circuit Judge Edith Hollan Jones said the ban actually reduced tax revenue by preventing distilling in the first place, unlike laws that regulated the manufacture and labeling of distilled spirits on which ​the government could collect taxes.

She also said that under the government’s logic, Congress could ​criminalize virtually any in-home activity that might escape notice from tax collectors, including remote work and ‌home-based ⁠businesses.

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“Without any limiting principle, the government’s theory would violate this court’s obligation to read the Constitution carefully to avoid creating a general federal authority akin to the police power,” Jones wrote.

The U.S. Department of Justice had no immediate comment. Another defendant, the ​Treasury Department’s Alcohol and ​Tobacco Tax and ⁠Trade Bureau, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Devin Watkins, a lawyer representing the Hobby Distillers Association, in an ​interview called the ruling an important decision about the limits of ​federal power.

Andrew ⁠Grossman, who argued the nonprofit’s appeal, called the decision “an important victory for individual liberty” that lets the plaintiffs “pursue their passion to distill fine beverages in their homes.”

“I look forward ⁠to ​sampling their output,” he said.

The decision upheld a July 2024 ​ruling by U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth, Texas. He put his ruling on hold so ​the government could appeal.

Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Bill Berkrot

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Iran regime uses former Soviet republic to dodge sanctions, fund war machine: report

2026-04-10T16:47:25-04:00 / Fox News

A Hudson Institute report says the Republic of Georgia’s turn toward the regime in Tehran could be problematic for US interests in the region

By Chris Massaro, Fox News

Published April 10, 2026 4:47pm EDT

With Iran increasingly isolated among its Gulf neighbors, recent reports say Tehran has been deepening its ties in the South Caucasus with the Republic of Georgia.

The former Soviet republic, which was until recently seen as an aspiring European Union and potential NATO member candidate, has slowly moved closer to Tehran.

“Iran has built a vast influence infrastructure in Georgia, which includes entities sanctioned by the U.S. government for links to extremism and viewed in Washington as fronts for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC),” Giorgi Kandelaki, former member of the Georgian Parliament, told Fox News Digital.

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An anti-war activist holds an Iranian flag during a march organized by Stop the War Coalition, calling for an end to hostilities amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in London on March 7, 2026.(Jack Taylor/Reuters)

Kandelaki, co-author of a recent report with the Hudson Institute titled Georgia’s Iranian Turn: Tehran’s Rapid Expansion of Influence in a Once-Committed U.S. Ally, said that Tbilisi’s turn toward Iran is bad for Georgians but also bad for U.S. interests in the region.

“Georgia has an overwhelmingly pro-U.S. public opinion committed to Western values with it also being viewed as a traditional U.S. ally in Washington. This reality presents a terrible precedent and reversing this trajectory is in the interest of both the U.S. but also Georgian society,” he added.

While Georgia has remained diplomatically neutral, the Hudson report details the budding ties between the two countries and how Iran uses Georgia as a network for intelligence infrastructure, penetrating Georgia’s religious, educational and cultural institutions to impact society.

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Supporters of the ruling Georgian Dream party attend a rally in the center of Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024.(Shakh Aivazov/AP)

As far back as 2007, Iran opened the Georgian branch of Al-Mustafa University, which is considered one of Iran’s main arms for the dissemination of Islamic Republic founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s ideology abroad, according to United Against a Nuclear Iran.

The U.S. Treasury Department stated in 2020 that Iran’s IRGC-Quds Force uses Al-Mustafa University in Georgia as an international recruitment network for Iran and acts as a conduit for the Islamic Republic’s ideological and security interests.

“Al-Mustafa has facilitated unwitting tourists from Western countries to come to Iran, from whom IRGC-Qud’s Force members sought to collect intelligence,” the Treasury Department said. It also said that the university facilitated student exchanges with foreign universities to develop intelligence sources.

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A portrait of the late Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sits at the entrance to the Iranian embassy in Tbilisi on March 6, 2026.(Vano Shlamov / AFP via Getty Images)

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A report from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies estimated the university’s annual budget is $100 million and has trained tens of thousands of emissaries across the world who spread Iran’s revolutionary ideology.

Iran has utilized sympathetic Georgians to commit international crimes to advance its domestic agenda.

While no links have ever been made with the Tbilisi government, a Georgian national, Agil Aslanov, who had ties to organized crime, was reportedly recruited by the Quds Forces to assassinate a prominent Jewish leader in Azerbaijan in 2022. In another case in 2025, Georgian national Polad Omarov was indicted in federal court in New York City and sentenced to 25 years in prison for attempting to assassinate prominent Iranian activist Masih Alinejad, a vocal critic of the Islamic Republic’s use of violence against peaceful protesters.

Georgia once made significant inroads to foster political and security ties with the United States following the Rose Revolution in 2003, becoming a bedrock of regional security in the Black Sea region. After decades of Soviet rule, Georgia aligned itself with the United States, contributing to missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and eventually signed a Strategic Partnership Charter with the United States in 2009.

In this photo taken from video released by Georgian Dream Party on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze speaks after the parliamentary election in Tbilisi, Georgia.(Georgian Dream Party/AP)

Tbilisi’s ties with Tehran have been expanded under the pro-Russia Georgian Dream party that took power in 2012. That bond, according to analysts, has tightened after Georgia’s pro-Western President Salome Zourabichvili finished her six-year term in office in 2024 and was replaced by Mikheil Kavelashvili, who was chosen as her successor by a newly established electoral college reportedly dominated by Georgian Dream supporters.

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Kavelashvili’s installment followed parliamentary elections in Oct. 2024 marred by some irregularities, according to the U.S. embassy in Tbilisi, in which the Georgian Dream declared victory.

A billboard depicting Iran’s supreme leaders since 1979: (L to R) Ayatollahs Ruhollah Khomeini (until 1989), Ali Khamenei (until 2026), and Mojtaba Khamenei (incumbent) is displayed above a highway in Tehran on March 10, 2026. Iran marked the appointment of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to replace his father as its supreme leader on March 9, 2026.(AFP via Getty Images)

Leadership ties between both countries have steadily grown since the Georgian Dream’s disputed 2024 parliamentary victory.

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze visited Iran in May 2024 for the funeral of Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter accident, and again in July to attend the inauguration of Iran’s current president, Masoud Pezeshkian, where Iranian news agencies reported both leaders praised the growing relationship between the two countries.

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Many Georgian companies are also importing oil and petroleum products from Iran, a key economic lifeline for the regime and its regional war efforts, according to Georgian NGO Civic IDEA. In 2024, Iranian oil export revenue was approximately $43 billion, which accounts for roughly 57% of Iran’s total export revenue.

Iranian flags fly as fire and smoke from an Israeli attack on Sharan Oil depot rise, following Israeli strikes in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2025.(Majid Asgaripour/WANA)

According to Civic IDEA, between 2022 and 2025, 72 companies registered in Georgia imported Iranian oil and petroleum, including eight inked to donors of the ruling Georgian Dream party, boosting Iran’s revenue stream even while heavily sanctioned by Western nations.

“Georgia has become Iran’s primary sanctions-evasion hub . . . funneling hard currency back to Tehran’s war machine and the IRGC through specific schemes in oil imports,” Nicholas Chkhaidze, national security and strategic communications analyst based in Tbilisi, told Fox News Digital.

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Chkhaidze said these Georgian companies that import Iranian oil pay in cash and can bypass international banking sanctions.

“The scale is massive, as Tehran uses the revenue from these schemes to fund its regional operations,” Chkhaidze claimed.

Telephone and email requests for comment sent to the government of Georgia were not returned. A spokesman for Iran’s mission to the United Nations would not comment on the relations between the two countries.

IMF chief concerned about cybersecurity risks posed by Anthropic’s AI model Mythos: “Time is not our friend”

April 10, 2026 / 4:47 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington — The head of the International Monetary Fund said she is concerned about a powerful new AI model from Anthropic that poses major cybersecurity risks, warning “time is not our friend on this one.”

Kristalina Georgieva, the IMF’s managing director, said in an interview set to air Sunday on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that the world does not have the ability “to protect the international monetary system against massive cyber risks.”

“The risks have been growing exponentially,” Georgieva said. “Yes, we are concerned. We are very keen to see more attention to the guardrails that are necessary to protect financial stability in the world of AI.”

On Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent held an urgent meeting with Wall Street leaders to discuss the cybersecurity risks posed by Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, sources told CBS News.

A Treasury Department spokesman said in a statement that “additional coordination meetings by Treasury are planned across a number of regulators and institutions on an ongoing basis to address these developments, as well as a host of other issues.”

In a blog post earlier this week, Anthropic said the model has demonstrated “a leap” in the ability to spot cybersecurity vulnerabilities — some of them decades old — and exploit them. Anthropic is only releasing the model to select partners so they can use it to harden their systems.

“Mythos Preview has already found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser. Given the rate of AI progress, it will not be long before such capabilities proliferate, potentially beyond actors who are committed to deploying them safely. The fallout — for economies, public safety, and national security — could be severe,” the company said.

Georgieva said key financial institutions, including central banks, need to “work together” and be “very attentive” in managing the risks of cyberattacks.

“It is an issue that easily can present itself in other parts of the world, and that is why we need people to cooperate,” she said.

Watch more of the interview on Sunday on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”

消息：白宫忧影响脆弱停火 未安排特朗普全国电视讲话

2026年4月11日 07:43 / 联合早报

4月10日，美国总统特朗普乘空军一号到弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔。 （路透社）

路透社星期五（4月10日）引述三名要求不具名的美国官员称，美国总统特朗普7日宣布与伊朗达成停火协议，白宫内部曾考虑安排特朗普在当天发表全国电视讲话，但最终决定不这么做。

报道称，特朗普的一些助理和顾问私下担心，他通过全国电视讲话宣布此消息，可能会过度宣传这项仍处于萌芽阶段的协议。

这一决定表明，特朗普政府设法采取一种平衡策略，虽然白宫希望展现对美伊暂时停火和开放霍尔木兹海峡协议的信心，但特朗普的幕僚也承认停火协议的脆弱性。

消息人士说，特朗普被劝阻后放弃在7日发表全国电视讲话。其中一名消息人士说，特朗普曾“执意”要发表全国电视讲话，但由于停火协议的细节仍不明确，白宫最终没有推进此事。

白宫在一份声明中驳斥有关报道为“假新闻”，称“我们从未与总统讨论过此事”。

分析人士认为，11日在巴基斯坦首都伊斯兰堡举行的美伊谈判，能否将暂时停火转变为一项解决冲突的持久协议，目前仍是一个未知数。

Raskin calls for Trump to take cognitive test in wake of Iran threats as Democrats question president’s fitness

2026-04-10T20:10:27.890Z / CNN

By Annie Grayer

PUBLISHED Apr 10, 2026, 4:10 PM ET

Ranking Member Jamie Raskin speaks at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2026.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin is calling on the White House physician to conduct a cognitive test of President Donald Trump amid his heightened rhetoric about the US war with Iran.

The Maryland Democrat joins a growing chorus of Democratic lawmakers – and some right-wing personalities – who have expressed concern in recent days over the president’s approach to, and public statements on, the conflict. Democrats, in particular, have questioned Trump’s fitness for office.

“In recent days, the country has watched President Trump’s public statements and outbursts turn increasingly incoherent, volatile, profane, deranged, and threatening,” Raskin, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, wrote in a letter obtained by CNN.

Raskin pointed to a number of reasons for raising his concern, including Trump’s expletive-ridden Easter Sunday post calling on Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, his comments to children about the Iran war at the White House Easter Egg Roll and his statement that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran did not agree to his terms of a deal under deadline.

While unlikely to yield much of a result – the president, after all, often boasts about acing cognitive tests and the White House physician declared him in “excellent health” at his annual physical – the letter comes as many in the Democratic Party, and even some notable MAGA figures, have gone so far as to suggest Trump should be removed through the 25th Amendment or impeachment.

To successfully remove Trump as president, a majority of his Cabinet and his vice president would have to move to invoke the 25th Amendment. And there are no indications any Cabinet officials are considering it, or that Vice President JD Vance would be on board. Raskin was set to lead a briefing for House Democrats about the 25th Amendment on Friday.

“At a time when our country is at war—especially when the war was initiated by the President without congressional declaration or consent—the American people must be able to trust that the Commander-in-Chief has the mental capacity to discharge the essential duties of his office,” Raskin wrote. “I therefore request that you conduct a comprehensive cognitive assessment of President Donald Trump, provide those results to Congress, and make yourself available to brief Congress on your findings.”

CNN has reached out to the White House for comment.

Raskin argued that Republicans had helped set a precedent for him to make such a request.

House Republicans, he wrote, had focused on former President Joe Biden’s apparent cognitive decline and interviewed Biden’s White House physician.

“Republicans and Democrats alike have recognized that presidential cognitive fitness is a matter of urgent and essential public concern and that it warrants rigorous congressional oversight. Calling former President Joe Biden’s mental acuity ‘one of the greatest scandals in our nation’s history,’ Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer actually subpoenaed the White House physician and issued a comprehensive staff report on the subject,” Raskin wrote.

He continued: “Judiciary Committee Chairman Jordan declared that a president who is not cognitively fit ‘isn’t fit for office.’ I trust that both Chairmen will stand by this important principle today with the country in an uproar over the President’s recent fulminations and mad threats.”

CNN’s Donald Judd and Aaron Blake contributed to this report.

Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell denies sexually assaulting former staffer

April 10, 2026 / 7:25 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington — Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, who is running for California governor, denied allegations that he sexually assaulted a former staffer.

“These allegations are false and come on the eve of an election against the frontrunner for governor,” Swalwell said in a statement. “For nearly 20 years, I have served the public — as a prosecutor and a congressman and have always protected women.”

Swalwell threatened to take legal action against the woman, who detailed the alleged encounters to the San Francisco Chronicle, which published a story Friday.

“My focus in the coming days is to be with my wife and children and defend our decades of service against these lies,” Swalwell said.

The woman, who was not named, said Swalwell started pursuing her shortly after she was hired to work in his district office in Castro Valley in 2019.

She alleged he sent her inappropriate photos of himself via Snapchat, requested nude photos of her and asked her to perform oral sex on him in a parking lot. She also alleged that after going out for drinks with Swalwell in September 2019, she woke up naked in his hotel bed with little recollection of the night.

Five years later, in 2024, when she no longer worked for Swalwell, she said she met him for drinks after a charity gala in New York. She said she became intoxicated and only remembers parts of the night, including allegedly pushing him away and telling him “no” while he forced himself on her. She said she woke up the next morning with vaginal bleeding and bruises.

The Chronicle said it reviewed texts the woman sent to a friend three days after the alleged incident, in which she wrote she was “sexually assaulted” by Swalwell.

“This happened one other time when I was working with him, but I convinced myself I was an equal party in it even though same pattern: I blacked out and he had sex with me,” she wrote, according to the Chronicle, referring to the alleged 2019 incident.

The Chronicle also spoke with the man who was the woman’s boyfriend at the time of the 2024 incident. The then-boyfriend said he encouraged the woman to report Swalwell to the police, but the woman said she did not do so because she was afraid they would not believe her because she had already showered and thought it would be unlikely that an examination would find evidence.

Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez of California, a campaign chair for Swalwell’s gubernatorial bid, called on him to drop out of the race, calling the information “shocking” and said the story contains “the ugliest and most serious accusations imaginable.”

“The congressman should leave the race now so there can be full accountability without doubt, distraction, or delay,” Gomez said, adding that he was cutting ties with Swalwell’s campaign “effective immediately.”

Democratic Sens. Ruben Gallego of Arizona and Adam Schiff of California also said they were withdrawing their endorsements.

“What is described is indefensible,” Gallego said. “Women who come forward with accounts like this deserve to be heard with respect, not questioned or dismissed. I regret having come to his defense on social media prior to knowing all the information. I am equally as shocked and upset about what has transpired.”

Schiff said he was “deeply distressed” by the accusations and called on Swalwell to withdraw from the race.

Swalwell also lost the support of the California Teachers Association, which called the allegations “incredibly disturbing and unacceptable.”

美国载人绕月飞船返回舱即将进入大气层

2026年4月11日 07:57 / 联合早报

美国载人绕月飞船返回舱即将进入大气层

4月10日，美国海军潜水员前往加州圣地亚哥海岸附近的太平洋，准备接回阿耳忒弥斯2号的宇航员。 （法新社）

新华社报道，执行美国“阿耳忒弥斯2号”载人绕月飞行任务的“猎户座”飞船，于美东时间星期五（4月10日）晚成功完成服务舱与返回舱分离，返回舱即将进入大气层。

Exclusive: ICE launches new effort to uncover US ‘birth tourism schemes’

2026-04-10 18:56:01 UTC / Reuters

By Kristina Cooke and Ted Hesson

April 10, 2026 6:56 PM UTC Updated 39 mins ago

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An ICE officer is seen in this file photo in San Diego, California, U.S. May 18, 2018. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo

• Summary

• Immigration agents ordered focus on new ‘Birth Tourism Initiative,’ according to an email reviewed by Reuters
• Republicans have highlighted allegations of birth tourism as a reason to limit access to U.S. citizenship
• People who engage in alleged birth tourism could be prosecuted for fraud or other related crimes

WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration plans to crack ​down on networks it says help pregnant women lie on visa applications in order to secure U.S. citizenship for their U.S.-born babies, an issue that ‌Trump has highlighted to justify his attempts to restrict birthright citizenship.

In an internal email sent Thursday and reviewed by Reuters, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ordered investigative agents around the country to focus on a new “Birth Tourism Initiative.” The operation will seek to root out networks that help pregnant foreign nationals come to the U.S. to give birth so their children can receive citizenship, it said.

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Trump, a Republican, has kicked ​off an aggressive push to reduce both legal and illegal immigration after taking office in January 2025. His administration has used the threat of birth tourism ​as a rationale for attempting to restrict the practice of granting automatic citizenship to children born on U.S. soil.

“Uninhibited birth tourism poses a tremendous ⁠cost to taxpayers and threatens our national security,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in a statement, adding that most nations do not provide automatic citizenship at birth.

The U.S. ​Department of Homeland Security, ICE and the U.S. Department of Justice did not respond to requests for comment.

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No U.S. law outright bars birth tourism, but a federal regulation implemented in 2020 during ​Trump’s first term prohibits using temporary tourist and business visas for the primary purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for a newborn. People who engage in birth tourism schemes could be prosecuted for fraud or other related crimes.

BIRTH TOURISM USED AS RATIONALE TO LIMIT CITIZENSHIP

There are no official figures tallying the number of foreigners who come to the U.S. for the explicit purpose of giving birth and obtaining citizenship for ​their children, or the cost to taxpayers.

The Center for Immigration Studies, which supports lower levels of immigration, estimated in an analysis in 2020 that between 20,000-25,000 mothers came to the ​U.S. for birth tourism in a year-long period between 2016-2017.

There were 3.6 million births in the U.S. in 2025 and birth tourism likely represents a fraction of total births.

Republicans have highlighted allegations of birth ‌tourism as ⁠a reason to limit access to U.S. citizenship, which has long been conferred at birth under an amendment to the Constitution.

Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office that instructed U.S. agencies not to recognize the citizenship of children born in the U.S. if neither parent is an American citizen or legal permanent resident, a sharp break from legal precedent spanning more than a century.

Multiple federal judges blocked the order, sending the case to the Supreme Court for oral arguments last week. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer, representing the ​Trump administration, said automatic citizenship had encouraged “a sprawling ​industry of birth tourism.”

Sauer said the ⁠promise of citizenship for those born in the U.S. had encouraged thousands of people from “potentially hostile nations” to come to give birth, “creating a whole generation of American citizens abroad with no meaningful ties to the United States.”

ICE AIMS TO FIND FRAUD

ICE’s new birth tourism effort – spearheaded ​by its Homeland Security Investigations arm – aims to surface cases of fraud, but it is unclear how many cases they might ​find.

“HIS is advancing efforts to ⁠protect the integrity of U.S. immigration and identification systems, specifically targeting fraudulent activities associated with birth tourism schemes,” the email said. The agency said it would seek to disrupt “fraud, financial crimes, and organized facilitation networks that exploit lawful immigration processes.”

In one federal case in 2019, more than a dozen people were charged in a scheme to operate “birth houses” in Southern California that catered to wealthy ⁠women from ​China.

In the case — billed by ICE at the time as the first U.S. prosecution against birth tourism — Chinese ​national Dongyuan Li pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with the scheme. She was sentenced to 10 months in prison and released in December 2019.

Another Chinese national, Chao “Edwin” Chen, was sentenced to three years in prison ​in 2020 but had already fled the U.S. for China, according to ICE.

Reporting by Kristina Cooke in San Francisco and Ted Hesson in Washington; Editing by Michael Learmonth and Alistair Bell

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Prince Harry sued by charity in Africa he co-founded in honor of Princess Diana

April 10, 2026 / 3:09 PM EDT / CBS/AP

A charity that Prince Harry co-founded in Africa to honor his late mother, Princess Diana, is suing him for defamation after he stepped down as a patron last year.

Sentebale, which Harry co-founded with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho in 2006 and helps youths with HIV in southern Africa, filed suit last month in London’s High Court, according to court records reviewed Friday.

Online filings show Harry and his friend, Mark Dyer, a trustee at the charity, are being sued for either libel or slander. No documents were available.

“The charity seeks the court’s intervention, protection, and restitution following a coordinated adverse media campaign conducted since 25 March 2025 that has caused operational disruption and reputational harm to the charity, its leadership, and its strategic partners,” Sentebale said Friday in a statement on its website.

In the local language of Lesotho, where the charity is based, Sentebale means “forget-me-not.”

Britain’s Prince Harry, right, flanked by Lesotho’s Prince Seeiso in June 2016. Matt Dunham/AP

Disagreements surfaced in 2023 over a new fundraising strategy. Harry and Seeiso stepped down as patrons of the charity in March 2025.

At the time, they said the relationship between the board and its chair, Sophie Chandauka, was beyond repair and that they were stepping down in solidarity with five trustees who resigned over an internal dispute that had broken into public view.

“What’s transpired is unthinkable. We are in shock that we have to do this, but we have a continued responsibility to Sentebale’s beneficiaries, so we will be sharing all of our concerns with the Charity Commission as to how this came about,” Harry and Seeiso said in a joint statement at the time.

Chandauka later accused Harry of orchestrating a campaign of bullying and harassment to try to force her out.

She told Sky News in March that Harry’s resignation had blindsided her and was “an example of harassment and bullying at scale.” She said he also had interfered with a whistleblower complaint she filed against the charity.

“So it’s a cover-up, and the prince is involved,” she said.

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The Charity Commission for England and Wales investigated and criticized both sides for allowing the issue to be played out in public and damaging the organization’s reputation, but found no evidence of widespread bullying or misogyny at Sentebale.

“Sentebale’s problems played out in the public eye, enabling a damaging dispute to harm the charity’s reputation, risk overshadowing its many achievements, and jeopardizing the charity’s ability to deliver for the very beneficiaries it was created to serve,” commission CEO David Holdsworth said in a statement in August 2025.

Harry’s spokesman had criticized the commission’s report while Chandauka welcomed it.

Messages seeking comment sent Friday to the office of the Duke of Sussex were not immediately returned.