为伊战辩护 赫格塞斯坚称美国没陷战争泥潭

2026年4月30日 09:24 / 联合早报

为伊战辩护 赫格塞斯坚称美国没陷战争泥潭

美国战争部长赫格塞斯星期三在众议院军事委员会作证时，与民主党议员激烈交锋。这是赫格塞斯自伊朗战事开始以来首次接受国会质询。 （路透社）

美国战争部长赫格塞斯周三在国会发表措辞激烈的讲话，试图为伊朗战争辩护。他称这场战争并非泥潭，并抨击批评这场战争的民主党议员“软弱无能”。

这是自美国和以色列对伊朗发动军事行动以来，赫格塞斯首次接受国会质询。

赫格塞斯星期三（4月29日）在众议院军事委员会作证时，猛烈抨击民主党议员“鲁莽、软弱、悲观”。“你们竟然称之为泥潭，把宣传拱手让给敌人？你们这种说法真可耻！”

在这场长达四个多小时的听证会上，赫格塞斯面对民主党人关于战争开支不断飙升、关键弹药储备大幅削减、美国民众生活成本被推高等一系列质疑。

但赫格塞斯回应称，这些批评是“政治性的”，并拒绝回答伊朗战事还会持续多久或耗资多少的问题。

延伸阅读

美国在伊朗战争迄今耗资250亿美元
赫格塞斯：美国在“全球”对伊朗进行封锁

同日，五角大楼代理主计长赫斯特出席众议院军事委员会听证会时说，美国在伊朗战争迄今已花费250亿美元（约320亿新元），这笔资金大部分用于采购弹药。这是美方首次公布战争费用的官方估算。

OpenAI sued by families of school shooting victims in Canada’s Tumbler Ridge

April 29, 2026 / 8:28 PM EDT / CBS News

Several families of victims of a mass shooting in Canada earlier this year are suing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging the company’s generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, played a role in the February shooting and that the company should have taken steps to prevent it.

“The Tumbler Ridge attack was an entirely foreseeable result of deliberate design choices OpenAI made with full knowledge of where those choices led,” the seven suits filed in federal court in San Francisco on Wednesday claim.

The lawsuits claim the shooter had extensive conversations spanning multiple days about scenarios involving gun violence. Few details about the chats have been made public so far.

Police said the shooter, identified as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, killed five students and a teacher, as well as two family members at home, and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the rampage on Feb. 11.

Police said the shooter had previously been held under British Columbia’s Mental Health Act, which allows police to detain someone experiencing a mental health crisis that might need treatment. The complaints allege authorities had also temporarily removed firearms from the shooter’s home.

OpenAI has previously acknowledged that it banned Van Rootselaar’s ChatGPT account last June — eight months before the shooting — for violating its usage policies. The company told CBS News the account was flagged by the company’s automated abuse detection tools and human investigators.

Last week, Altman issued an apology letter to the small community of Tumbler Ridge, in British Columbia, for not alerting law enforcement to the ChatGPT account of the shooter. “I am deeply sorry that we did not alert law enforcement to the account that was banned in June,” Altman said.

In February, OpenAI told CBS News it had weighed whether to alert law enforcement about the account, but concluded that the account did not pose any credible risk of serious physical harm, and thus did not meet the threshold for referral.

But the lawsuits filed this week allege that despite multiple OpenAI team members’ recommendations to contact Canadian police, the company decided not to report the account in an effort to protect the company’s reputation.

“OpenAI knew the Shooter was planning the attack and, after a contentious internal debate, made the conscious decision not to warn authorities,” the lawsuits allege.

Among those who filed lawsuits are the family of an education assistant at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School who was fatally shot in front of her students — including her daughter — and the family of a 13-year-old killed outside the school library. “His family, friends, teammates, and fellow community members have lost someone with a larger-than-life smile and a loud and proud laugh,” the lawsuit says.

OpenAI said in a statement to CBS News that the company has strengthened its safeguards to improve how ChatGPT responds to signs of distress by connecting people with local support and mental health resources.

“The events in Tumbler Ridge are a tragedy,” OpenAI said. “We have a zero-tolerance policy for using our tools to assist in committing violence.”

OpenAI also said it is strengthening how it assesses and escalates the response to potential threats of violence and is improving the detection of repeat policy violators.

The lawsuits cite other incidents last year where ChatGPT was allegedly used to prepare for real-world violence. In January 2025, the suit alleges, the chatbot was used for advice on how to use explosives by a man who detonated a Tesla Cybertruck in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. Four months later, the chatbot was queried about stabbing tactics by a Finnish teenager who carried out a stabbing attack at his school, according to the lawsuits.

While chatbots often take on an affirming tone with users, several of the lawsuits point to a controversial model called GPT‑4o that was known for being especially sycophantic. The model was rolled out in May 2024 and retired on Feb. 13 of this year.

The lawsuits allege GPT-4o used its memory feature to build a comprehensive profile of Van Rootselaar over months of interaction, tracking their grievances and expressing empathy in a way that mimicked a human relationship without pushing back like an actual human might. OpenAI’s design played a substantial role in the shooter’s “access to a product that validated and elaborated violent ideation,” one suit claims.

“For an eighteen-year-old growing increasingly isolated and fixated on violence, ChatGPT morphed into an encouraging coconspirator,” the lawsuit alleges.

The lawsuits come as OpenAI faces growing scrutiny over its chatbot’s connection to several high-profile crimes.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI earlier this month after a review of messages between ChatGPT and a Florida State University student accused of fatally shooting two people and wounding several others on campus last April.

Uthmeier later said he would be expanding the investigation to include the killings of two University of South Florida graduate students, after prosecutors said the suspect in that case asked ChatGPT questions about disposing of a human body and owning an unlicensed firearm in the days before the crime.

Uthmeier has issued subpoenas to OpenAI requesting records of company policies and training materials for when users make threats to harm themselves or others and for cooperating with law enforcement and reporting possible crimes.

In statements to CBS News, OpenAI called the crimes in Florida “terrible” and said it will continue to support and cooperate with law enforcement.

为伊战辩护 赫格塞斯坚称美国没陷战争泥潭

2026年4月30日 09:24 / 联合早报

为伊战辩护 赫格塞斯坚称美国没陷战争泥潭

美国战争部长赫格塞斯星期三在众议院军事委员会作证时，与民主党议员激烈交锋。这是赫格塞斯自伊朗战事开始以来首次接受国会质询。 （路透社）

美国战争部长赫格塞斯周三在国会发表措辞激烈的讲话，试图为伊朗战争辩护。他称这场战争并非泥潭，并抨击批评这场战争的民主党议员“软弱无能”。

这是自美国和以色列对伊朗发动军事行动以来，赫格塞斯首次接受国会质询。

赫格塞斯星期三（4月29日）在众议院军事委员会作证时，猛烈抨击民主党议员“鲁莽、软弱、悲观”。“你们竟然称之为泥潭，把宣传拱手让给敌人？你们这种说法真可耻！”

在这场长达四个多小时的听证会上，赫格塞斯面对民主党人关于战争开支不断飙升、关键弹药储备大幅削减、美国民众生活成本被推高等一系列质疑。

但赫格塞斯回应称，这些批评是“政治性的”，并拒绝回答伊朗战事还会持续多久或耗资多少的问题。

延伸阅读

美国在伊朗战争迄今耗资250亿美元
赫格塞斯：美国在“全球”对伊朗进行封锁

同日，五角大楼代理主计长赫斯特出席众议院军事委员会听证会时说，美国在伊朗战争迄今已花费250亿美元（约320亿新元），这笔资金大部分用于采购弹药。这是美方首次公布战争费用的官方估算。

Louisiana governor plans to suspend May primary to redraw US House map, Washington Post reports

April 30, 2026 3:53 AM UTC / Reuters

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April 29 (Reuters) – Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry told Republican House candidates on Wednesday that he planned to ​suspend next month’s primary elections to allow state lawmakers to ‌pass a new congressional map, the Washington Post reported, citing two people with knowledge of the calls.

The Republican governor’s announcement to suspend the May 16 ​primary could come as early as Friday, a day before ​early voting is set to start, the Washington Post ⁠report said.

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Reuters could not immediately verify the report. Landry did not ​immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Landry’s move follows a 6-3 ​ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that blocked an electoral map that had given Louisiana a second Black-majority U.S. congressional district. Black people make up roughly ​a third of the population of Louisiana, which has six ​U.S. House districts.

The Supreme Court ruling gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights ‌Act ⁠making it harder for minorities to challenge electoral maps as racially discriminatory under the landmark civil rights law.

With November congressional elections looming, the decision could encourage Republican-led states to seek to redraw electoral ​maps in an ​effort that ⁠could put at risk U.S. House of Representatives seats considered safely Democratic. Black voters tend to support ​Democratic candidates.

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The Supreme Court issued its ruling as Republican-governed and Democratic-led ​states ⁠around the country battle over the redrawing of electoral maps to change the composition of U.S. House districts for partisan advantage ahead of ⁠the November ​elections.

U.S. President Donald Trump and his ​fellow Republicans hope to retain the party’s razor-thin majorities in the House and Senate.

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2025年10月13日，在埃及沙姆沙伊赫举行的世界领导人峰会上，美国总统特朗普（右）和德国总理默茨在合影时交谈。 （路透社档案照片）

对德国总理默茨涉伊朗言论不满的美国总统特朗普周三宣称，正在研究削减驻德美军人数的可能性。

特朗普星期三（4月29日）在自家社媒平台Truth Social发文说：“美国正在研究和评估减少驻德美军人数的可能性，并将在近期内作出决定。”

据美国战争部数据，截至2025年底，美军共有超过3万6000人驻扎在德国。

这是特朗普连续第二天在社媒发布涉及德国的帖子。他前一天发文称：“默茨认为伊朗拥有核武器没问题，他根本不知道自己在说什么。”

特朗普还说，德国现在“无论是在经济还是其他方面都表现得如此糟糕”。

默茨周一（27日）批评美国在伊朗的军事行动“缺乏计划”，称美国“正受到伊朗领导层羞辱”。

默茨：与特朗普关系依然良好

不过默茨周三说，尽管他与特朗普近期因伊朗战事产生言语交锋，但彼此关系依然良好。

默茨周三在柏林出席记者会时说，他与特朗普仍保持良好对话关系，只是从一开始，他就对这场战事的发起存有疑虑。

默茨还说，德国和欧洲正承受着伊朗战事带来的严重后果。他呼吁尽快解决相关冲突。

Trump weighs pulling US troops from Germany amid clash with chancellor over Iran war

April 29, 2026 8:01pm EDT / Fox News

More than 36,000 active US service members are stationed in Germany, more than any other European country

By Alexandra Koch Fox News

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday the U.S. is weighing a potential drawdown of American troops in Germany, opening a new front in his escalating feud with the country’s leadership just days after he blasted Chancellor Friedrich Merz over Iran.

In a Truth Social post Wednesday afternoon, Trump said the U.S. is “studying and reviewing the possible reduction of Troops in Germany.”

He said a determination will be made “over the next short period of time.”

The announcement comes after the president on Tuesday criticized German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, saying he “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” regarding Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington on April 1, 2026.(Alex Brandon/Pool/AP)

TRUMP VOWS TO HIT IRAN ‘VERY HARD’ AFTER OBLITERATING NEARLY ’90 PERCENT’ OF REGIME MISSILES

“The Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Tuesday. “He doesn’t know what he’s talking about! If Iran had a Nuclear Weapon, the whole World would be held hostage.

“I am doing something with Iran, right now, that other Nations, or Presidents, should have done long ago. No wonder Germany is doing so poorly, both Economically, and otherwise!”

The president’s comments were seemingly in response to Merz’s speech in Marsberg Monday, where he said the U.S. was being “humiliated by the Iranian leadership.”

President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz met in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 3, 2026, to discuss issues, including recent U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.(Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Merz added he hopes the war ends “as quickly as possible.”

During both of Trump’s terms, the leaders have publicly clashed on issues, including tariffs and defense.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz predicted the protests in Iran would lead to an early fall of the regime during his three-day trip to India.(Kay Nietfeld/Picture Alliance)

Earlier this month, Merz said he did not believe NATO should be involved in the war with Iran as Trump urged allies to secure the Strait of Hormuz.

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As of December 2025, there were more than 36,000 active U.S. service members stationed in Germany, more than any other European country, according to the Defense Manpower Data Center.

It is unclear how much the president may slash troops.

Fox News Digital’s Emma Bussey contributed to this report.

Alexandra Koch is a Fox News Digital journalist who covers breaking news, with a focus on high-impact events that shape national conversation.

She has covered major national crises, including the L.A. wildfires, Potomac and Hudson River aviation disasters, Boulder terror attack, and Texas Hill Country floods.

特朗普：在研究削减驻德美军可能性

2026年4月30日 09:50 / 联合早报

特朗普：在研究削减驻德美军可能性

2025年10月13日，在埃及沙姆沙伊赫举行的世界领导人峰会上，美国总统特朗普（右）和德国总理默茨在合影时交谈。 （路透社档案照片）

对德国总理默茨涉伊朗言论不满的美国总统特朗普周三宣称，正在研究削减驻德美军人数的可能性。

特朗普星期三（4月29日）在自家社媒平台Truth Social发文说：“美国正在研究和评估减少驻德美军人数的可能性，并将在近期内作出决定。”

据美国战争部数据，截至2025年底，美军共有超过3万6000人驻扎在德国。

这是特朗普连续第二天在社媒发布涉及德国的帖子。他前一天发文称：“默茨认为伊朗拥有核武器没问题，他根本不知道自己在说什么。”

特朗普还说，德国现在“无论是在经济还是其他方面都表现得如此糟糕”。

默茨周一（27日）批评美国在伊朗的军事行动“缺乏计划”，称美国“正受到伊朗领导层羞辱”。

默茨：与特朗普关系依然良好

不过默茨周三说，尽管他与特朗普近期因伊朗战事产生言语交锋，但彼此关系依然良好。

默茨周三在柏林出席记者会时说，他与特朗普仍保持良好对话关系，只是从一开始，他就对这场战事的发起存有疑虑。

默茨还说，德国和欧洲正承受着伊朗战事带来的严重后果。他呼吁尽快解决相关冲突。

美国拟首次在中东部署高超音速导弹 以备打击伊朗

2026年4月30日 11:06 / 联合早报

目前美国和伊朗陷入“不战不谈判”的对峙僵局。图为4月29日，一些伊朗民众在德黑兰举行集会表达团结。 （路透社）

知情人士透露，美国中央司令部已制定一项针对伊朗的打击计划，并且已经向陆军申请，将“暗鹰”（Dark Eagle）高超音速导弹部署至中东地区，意在打破当前的谈判僵局。

如果获得批准，这将是美国首次部署高超音速导弹。这款导弹的研发进度严重滞后，且尚未宣布完全投入使用，而俄罗斯和中国均已部署了各自的同类导弹。

一名知情者透露，美国中央司令部提出这项请求的理由，是伊朗已将发射装置移出精确打击导弹的射程范围。精确打击导弹的射程超过300英里。

这名知情者称，陆军尚未就相关请求作出决定。美国中央司令部拒绝置评。

“暗鹰”又称远程高超音速武器，据报射程超过1725英里，但具体性能仍属机密。这种武器设计用于以超过五倍音速的速度滑翔至目标，并可进行机动以规避拦截。

另据《华尔街日报》星期三（4月29日）报道，特朗普政府正在要求其他国家加入一个名为“海事自由建构”（Maritime Freedom Construct）的新国际联盟，通过分享信息、协调外交和落实制裁，来推动霍尔木兹海峡恢复航运。

报道指出，美国国务院已向各地使馆发送内部电讯，要求外交官敦促各国政府加入联盟，显示特朗普政府希望其他国家参与海峡当前和未来的管理。

美国拟首次在中东部署高超音速导弹 以备打击伊朗

2026年4月30日 11:06 / 联合早报

美国拟首次在中东部署高超音速导弹 以备打击伊朗

目前美国和伊朗陷入“不战不谈判”的对峙僵局。图为4月29日，一些伊朗民众在德黑兰举行集会表达团结。 （路透社）

知情人士透露，美国中央司令部已制定一项针对伊朗的打击计划，并且已经向陆军申请，将“暗鹰”（Dark Eagle）高超音速导弹部署至中东地区，意在打破当前的谈判僵局。

如果获得批准，这将是美国首次部署高超音速导弹。这款导弹的研发进度严重滞后，且尚未宣布完全投入使用，而俄罗斯和中国均已部署了各自的同类导弹。

一名知情者透露，美国中央司令部提出这项请求的理由，是伊朗已将发射装置移出精确打击导弹的射程范围。精确打击导弹的射程超过300英里。

这名知情者称，陆军尚未就相关请求作出决定。美国中央司令部拒绝置评。

“暗鹰”又称远程高超音速武器，据报射程超过1725英里，但具体性能仍属机密。这种武器设计用于以超过五倍音速的速度滑翔至目标，并可进行机动以规避拦截。

特朗普：同伊朗的谈判正通过电话进行 特朗普：伊朗最好“放聪明点”

另据《华尔街日报》星期三（4月29日）报道，特朗普政府正在要求其他国家加入一个名为“海事自由建构”（Maritime Freedom Construct）的新国际联盟，通过分享信息、协调外交和落实制裁，来推动霍尔木兹海峡恢复航运。

报道指出，美国国务院已向各地使馆发送内部电讯，要求外交官敦促各国政府加入联盟，显示特朗普政府希望其他国家参与海峡当前和未来的管理。

House Republicans unlock reconciliation process to fund ICE and Border Patrol without Democrats

2026-04-29 22:53:21 EDT / Fox News

White House warns DHS personnel could go unpaid starting in May if funding isn’t restored

By Adam Pack, Chad Pergram, Krista Garvin, Fox News

Published April 29, 2026 10:53pm EDT

Tom Emmer on WHCD dinner shooting, DHS funding dispute amid political violence

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer details his experience during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, where he needed assistance due to a foot injury.

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The House of Representatives approved a budget blueprint funding immigration enforcement for the rest of President Donald Trump’s term over Democrats’ fierce objections on Wednesday.

Lawmakers voted 215-211 along party lines to take a critical step toward ending the record-breaking Department of Homeland Security funding lapse that began on Feb. 14.

Rep. Kevin Kiley, I-Calif., who caucuses with Republicans, voted present. House Democrats united in opposition to the immigration enforcement measure while every Republican present voted in support.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., could spare just a handful of defections with Republicans’ slim majority.

REPUBLICANS CAN FUND ICE FOR AN ENTIRE DECADE WITHOUT A SINGLE DEM VOTE: SEN CRUZ

ICE agents depart the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building on Feb. 4, 2026, in Minneapolis.(John Moore/Getty Images)

The House’s approval of the Senate-passed budget framework unlocks the partisan budget reconciliation process, which Republicans are using to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection without support from congressional Democrats.

Trump has given Republicans a June 1 deadline to send a budget reconciliation bill to his desk, giving GOP leadership little room for error.

“We have a real sense of urgency about getting this done,” Johnson told Fox News Wednesday.

The successful vote came after more than a dozen GOP lawmakers ranging from conservatives to farm-state and Midwestern Republicans withheld their votes over concerns unrelated to the budget framework.

Republican leadership held the vote open for more than five hours to win over the numerous holdouts and six GOP lawmakers who voted “no” before flipping to “yes.”

Those lawmakers included Reps. Max Miller, R-Ohio, Andy Harris, R-Md., Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., and Michael Cloud, R-Texas.

“This is why they say lawmaking is like watching sausage be made,” Johnson told reporters Wednesday. “That’s what this is, but we’ll get it done.”

The budget resolution teeing up funding for Trump’s immigration agenda is just one piece of Republicans’ DHS funding strategy.

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House GOP leadership has not specified when it plans to take up a Senate-passed measure funding the rest of the department.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., agreed on a two-track approach to fund DHS by steering around Democratic opposition weeks ago. But Johnson has so far declined to put the Senate’s partial DHS bill on the House floor over concerns that it zeroes out funding for immigration enforcement.

Johnson said earlier this week that some “modifications” to the measure may be necessary but has not gone into detail about specific changes.

The White House on Tuesday sent Hill offices an internal memo, obtained by Fox News Digital, urging passage of the Senate’s partial DHS bill, raising the pressure on Johnson to act.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., successfully steered a budget blueprint through the House of Representatives teeing up three years of funding for President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda on Wednesday.(Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg)

Many rank-and-file House Republicans want ICE and the Border Patrol funded before the rest of the department, which could mean a delay for several more weeks.

“I think that there’s a serious problem with the bill in that it zeroes out, ICE and CBP,” Rep. Eric Burlison, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told Fox News. “It’s one thing to not do the funding, but it’s a whole other thing to put zeros in the bill.”

“I know that the speaker’s working on making sure that we have all the assurances and even maybe the cash in hand in terms of reconciliation being wrapped up, finalized before we take the 95% of the rest of Homeland Security,” House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, said.

Meanwhile, the White House is warning that it will be short on funds to pay the department’s hundreds of thousands of employees beginning in May.

“If this funding is exhausted, the Administration will be unable to pay DHS personnel beginning in May, which will once again unleash havoc on air travel, leave critical law enforcement officers—including our brave Secret Service agents—and the Coast Guard without paychecks, and jeopardize national security,” the White House memo published Tuesday states.

House Republicans’ approval of the Senate blueprint also effectively shuts the door on adding other GOP priorities to the budget package. Some GOP lawmakers had floated adding affordability-focused provisions, defense supplemental funding and the SAVE America Act to the bill.

House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, said Wednesday that the House of Representatives is unlikely to pass the Senate’s partial DHS bill until more progress is made toward funding immigration enforcement.(Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg)

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GOP leadership had argued for weeks that a larger bill risked derailing the budget reconciliation process.

“We’re focused on funding Homeland Security and stopping the Democrat shutdown and, in particular, using reconciliation to fund ICE and CBP because Democrats refused to fund it,” Arrington said. “Everything else is not germane to this conversation.”