Trump’s court setbacks fail to blunt his campaign against media

2026-04-29T10:24:59.338Z / Reuters

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President targets Jimmy Kimmel in latest anti‑media salvo
Trump has filed at least nine media lawsuits since 2020
Courts repeatedly rule against Trump on First Amendment grounds
But appeals and outside pressure blunt media wins

NEW YORK, April 29 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has suffered a string of courtroom setbacks in his battles with the American media, but the rulings have done little to blunt a broader campaign of pressure and retaliation that extends beyond the ​press.

Courts have consistently sided with news organizations, rejecting Trump’s defamation lawsuits and blocking efforts by his administration to limit press access or defund public media, citing the robust free-speech protections ‌guaranteed by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

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But slow-moving litigation and multi-layered appeals have worked in favor of an administration that acts quickly, tests legal boundaries and shifts tactics after defeats.

Trump’s clash with ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel reflects a pressure campaign that extends beyond the courts. Even as judges affirm media protections, Trump demands firings and urges regulatory scrutiny, pressing companies outside formal legal channels.

TRUMP SEEN TO SLOW-WALK LITIGATION

“Trump can repeatedly lose individual court battles but still advance his broader agenda of weakening ​and destabilizing the press,” said Christina Koningisor, a professor at UC Law San Francisco, citing what she described as Trump’s strategy of slow-walking litigation.

A spokesman for Trump’s personal lawyers said the president would ​continue to pursue accountability for what he calls false reporting and defamatory claims. Separately, a White House spokesperson described Trump as the most open and accessible U.S. ⁠president ever, saying his administration has broadened press access in unprecedented ways.

Trump has filed at least nine lawsuits against major media companies since 2020, seeking tens of billions of dollars in damages for what he ​alleges are false or misleading reports.

Separately, his administration has acted to restrict press access to government agencies and threatened to use regulatory powers against critical outlets, drawing legal challenges by media outlets.

Trump’s latest setback came on April ​13, when a judge threw out his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and its parent company Dow Jones over a story describing a birthday letter to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein bearing Trump’s signature.

U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles said the complaint fell “nowhere close” to plausibly alleging the Journal knowingly published false information or recklessly disregarded the truth — the “actual malice” standard that makes defamation claims by public figures difficult to win.

Gayles nevertheless has allowed Trump to file a revised complaint, meaning Dow Jones could ​still face a costly and time-consuming court battle defending what it says was accurate reporting. Trump’s lawyers say they will file a revised suit.

Should the case survive another bid for dismissal, the subsequent discovery, trial and ​appeals could take years.

Trump’s 2022 lawsuit against CNN over its coverage of his false claims of election-rigging was tossed out in 2023. An appeals court upheld the ruling, but Trump could still seek Supreme Court review.

“The way our legal system works, ‌it can ⁠cost a lot of time and money, and the president is able to take advantage of that,” said Tre Lovell, a defamation law specialist.

SETTLEMENTS UNDERSCORE COST OF PROLONGED LEGAL FIGHTS

Two media companies have settled defamation suits brought by Trump that were deemed meritless by legal experts but could have been costly to fight in court.

ABC agreed to donate $15 million to Trump’s presidential library after he sued over inaccurate on-air comments about a civil case in which a jury found him liable for sexual abuse. CBS reached a similar settlement after Trump sued over edits to an interview with his 2024 election rival Kamala Harris.

Neither company admitted wrongdoing, though ABC agreed to apologize and ​said it regretted anchor George Stephanopoulos’ on-air description of ​the civil judgment.

Critics of the CBS deal said ⁠its parent, Paramount, may have settled to smooth the way to regulatory approval of its $8.4 billion merger with Skydance Media, which the Federal Communications Commission granted shortly afterward.

More broadly, challenges to Trump administration actions can be slow and costly, and even courtroom victories for the press have at times proved fleeting, stalled by appeals or ​arriving too late to have an impact.

COURT VICTORIES BUT WITH LIMITED CONSEQUENCES

In the last month, judges have blocked a Trump executive order cutting off federal funds ​for public broadcasting, reversed his ⁠attempts to dismantle the government-run Voice of America and twice invalidated Pentagon press access rules as unconstitutional.

In each case, courts said the Trump administration violated First Amendment prohibitions by discriminating against media outlets based on viewpoint.

But an administration willing to test legal limits and swiftly appeal losses has managed repeatedly to outmaneuver a judicial process that is slow and deliberative.

National Public Radio sued in May 2025 to block Trump’s executive order eliminating federal broadcasting funds. When U.S. District ⁠Judge Randolph Moss ​ruled for NPR last month, the agency that once financed it no longer existed, its funding exhausted by Trump’s actions and ​parallel moves by his Republican allies in Congress.

Voice of America won court relief on March 18, nearly a year after its journalists sued to block its dismantling.

Courts remain essential to protecting press freedom but cannot serve as the sole check on abuses, said First Amendment ​attorney Doug Mirell.

“Trump’s campaign against the media is one that is so multifaceted that the judicial efforts to control him are insufficient,” Mirell said.

Reporting by Jack Queen in New York; Editing by Noeleen Walder and Howard Goller

What the Fed has seen about the war’s impact on the economy so far

2026-04-29T10:14:13.831Z / Reuters

By Dan Burns

April 29, 2026 10:14 AM UTC Updated 2 hours ago

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• Summary

• Labor market shows minimal impact from war, jobless claims steady
• Inflation rises sharply, mainly due to gasoline prices; core measures less affected
• Growth outlook uncertain, retail sales and some manufacturing indicators up, but industrial output down

April 29 (Reuters) – Federal Reserve officials last met just over two weeks into the U.S.-led war on Iran and then had little data at their disposal beyond surging gasoline prices to assess its impact on the economy ​and the outlook for interest rates.

As they meet again this week, the data over the past six weeks has not done much to sharpen that picture, especially on the ‌topics most critical to their policymaking like the job market, inflation and overall activity.

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Here’s a snapshot of what figures were available to them since the war’s start when they met in mid-March and how those have evolved since.

EMPLOYMENT

The job market has shown almost no visible imprint from the war so far. Headline job growth figures have been distorted by one-time factors, such as a healthcare strike in California and bad weather, so have provided little signal. The jobless rate ticked lower in March but largely ​because of a decline in the workforce. Layoff activity as indicated by weekly reports on new claims for unemployment benefits – the most timely window into the state of the job market – has ​shown almost no change through eight readings over the course of the war so far, six of which have come in since Fed officials last met.

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Data Latest in ⁠hand March 17-18 New since
Nonfarm payrolls change February: -92k March: +178k

February (rev.): -133k
Unemployment rate February: 4.4%March: 4.3%
Jobless claims 2 weekly reports, little changed 6 weekly reports, little changed

INFLATION

Headline inflation readings have shot higher since the war’s onset, led by gasoline prices climbing by roughly a ​third to crest the $4-a-gallon mark on a national average. Measures such as the Consumer Price Index and Producer Price Index have shown prices accelerating by the most in three to four years. Stripping out food and especially ​energy costs shows broader price-growth pressures to be somewhat less aggravated so far.

The Fed has yet, however, to see a formal wartime reading of the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index that it uses to set its 2% inflation target and will not see a report for March, the first full month of the conflict, until Thursday, a day after this week’s meeting adjourns. But estimates based off the CPI and PPI readings suggest it has moved further above target since the war began ​at both the headline and core level.

Manufacturing input costs, which had soared in February according to the Institute for Supply Management’s benchmark monthly survey of purchasing managers, rose to a new three-and-a-half-year high in March.

Fed officials ​worry that the longer prices stay elevated – especially for products as influential as gasoline in shaping consumers’ outlooks for price changes – risks may grow that inflation expectations begin to become unanchored, and that would make their job of inflation containment ‌all the harder. ⁠Some more volatile measures of households’ inflation expectations, such as the University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Index survey, are notably higher since the war began. Other measures have remained more subdued to suggest expectations remain anchored for now, including the New York Fed’s Survey of Consumer Expectations and market-based gauges like Treasury Inflation Protected Securities breakeven inflation rates and a derivative of those known as the five-year, five-year forward rate.

Data Latest in hand March 17-18 New since
CPI February:

0.3% m/m

2.4% y/y

Core (ex-food, energy):

0.2% m/m

2.5% y/yMarch:

0.9% m/m

3.3% y/y

Core:

0.2% m/m

2.6% y/y
PPI January:

0.5% m/m

2.9% y/y

Core (ex-food, energy, trade):

0.3% m/m

3.4% y/y March:

0.5% m/m

4.0% y/y

Core:

0.2% m/m

3.6% y/y

February:

0.5% m/m (rev.)

3.4% y/y (rev.)

Core:

0.5% m/m

3.5% y/y

January (rev.):

0.6% m/m

3.1% y/y

Core:

0.5% m/m

3.5% y/y
PCE January:

0.3% m/m

2.8% y/y

Core:

0.4% m/m

3.1% y/y February:

0.4% m/m

2.8% y/y

Core:

0.4% m/m

3.0% y/y
ISM prices ​paid index February: 70.5 March: 78.3
UMich inflation expectations February:

3.4% 1-year

3.3% 5-year March:

3.8% 1-year

3.2% ​5-year

April:

4.7% 1-year

3.5% 5-year
New York Fed SCE inflation expectations February:

3.0% ⁠1-year

3.0% 3-year March:

3.4% 1-year

3.1% 3-year
TIPS brekevens March 16:

2.64% 5-year

2.36% 10-year

2.14% 5Y5Y fwd April 27:

2.65% 5-year

2.45% 10-year

2.23% 5Y5Y fwd

GROWTH & CONSUMPTION

Fed officials will not see a gross domestic product report covering even part of the conflict period until after this week’s meeting. The latest-available figures still refer to the fourth quarter of 2025, a period when growth was restrained by ​a record-long federal government shutdown. Economic growth is expected to have rebounded to 2.3% in the first quarter, according to economists polled by Reuters, but ​the range of estimates from minus ⁠0.2% to plus 3.9% is unusually wide given the uncertainty over the war’s impact. The growth recovery is owing in part to the effects of the Republican tax cuts enacted last year, which resulted in larger individual tax refunds this filing season that appear to be buoying household spending and faster business investment depreciation that is seen lifting corporate capital expenditures.

As with GDP, Fed officials still have not seen a full consumer spending report that includes the ⁠conflict period, but ​other measures of consumption like retail sales have risen at both the headline and core levels.

Data Latest in hand March 17-18 New since
GDP Q4 ​2nd read:

0.7%Q4 3rd read:

0.5%
Retail sales January:

-0.2%

Control:

0.3%March:

1.7%

Control:

0.7%

February:

0.7% (rev.)

Control:

0.6% (rev.)

January (rev.):

0.0%

Control:

0.5%
Consumer spending January:

0.4%February:

0.5%

January (rev.):

0.3%

INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY

Some measures of manufacturing activity have seen a lift thanks in part to customers trying to build goods stockpiles in anticipation of shortages as global supply chains get gummed up by the war. But the Fed’s own industrial output ​data flipped from reporting the biggest gain in a year in February to the biggest drop in 18 months in March.

Data Latest in hand March 17-18 New since
Industrial production February:

0.2%March:

-0.5%

February (rev.):

0.7%
Manufacturing output February:

0.2%March:

-0.1%

February (rev.):

0.4%
ISM manufacturing index February:

52.4 March:

52.7

Reporting by Dan Burns; Editing by Andrea Ricci

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台湾股市总市值超加拿大 成为全球第六大股市

2026年4月29日 19:13 / 联合早报

台湾股市总市值超加拿大 成为全球第六大股市

图为2026年4月21日台湾证券交易所的台北加权指数（TAIEX）显示屏。 （路透社）

（香港彭博电）受人工智能相关股票强劲需求，以及晶片巨头台湾积成电路公司（台积电）的迅速崛起推动，台湾股市的总市值已超越加拿大股市，成为全球第六大股市。

彭博社汇编的数据显示，今年以来，台湾上市公司的总市值飙升超过35%，达到4.47万亿美元（5.71万亿新元），而加拿大股市的总市值则增长约5%，达到4.44万亿美元。台积电在台湾股市基准指数中占比近45%，其市值在此期间飙升至1.8万亿美元。

这一交叉点表明指数构成如何影响各国股市的走势。台湾以科技股为主的市场搭上了全球半导体和人工智能热潮的顺风车，而加拿大以资源和金融为主导的基准指数则在商品价格波动和经济增长放缓的背景下，收益较为温和。

反贪会调查发现，2014年至2019年间，一些在国外注册的公司的银行户头持有人和董事，涉嫌通过在巴巴多斯的银行户头接收、隐瞒、转移和挪用涉及一马公司的非法所得。 （马新社）

（吉隆坡综合讯）马来西亚反贪污委员会最近获得庭令，冻结加勒比海国家巴巴多斯两个银行户头内超过170万美元（约217万新元）。这笔钱据信是遭挪用的一个马来西亚发展有限公司资金。

这是反贪会最新一笔冻结的一马公司涉案资金。

反贪会主席阿占巴基星期二（4月28日）发文告说，吉隆坡高庭法官阿兹哈阿都当天根据《2001年反洗钱、反恐怖主义融资和非法活动收益法令》，批准反贪会的申请，签发冻结上述资金的庭令。

根据庭令，遭冻结的是两家离岸投资公司在巴巴多斯（Barbados）一家银行内的资金。这两家公司分别是Lambasa Global Opportunity Fund BV，遭冻结5万6285美元，以及Universal Ventures Fund SCC，遭冻结164万9118美元，总数170万零5403美元。

反贪会调查发现，2014年至2019年间，一些在国外注册的公司的银行户头持有人和董事，涉嫌通过在巴巴多斯的银行户头接收、隐瞒、转移和挪用涉及一马公司的非法所得。

延伸阅读

拉菲兹前助理到反贪会助查安谋案 拉菲兹否认被传召录供 反击指安华为合作案决策者

阿占巴基也说，尽管还有约两周他就要卸任，但这无阻他全力追回一马公司流失的资金。

阿占巴基将在5月12日任期届满后卸任，由前高庭法官阿都哈林接任反贪会主席职。

马来西亚前经济部长拉菲兹的前特别事务官蔡镇燊星期三（4月29日）再次前往布城反贪会总部录供。（星洲日报）

另一方面，马国前经济部长拉菲兹的前特别事务官蔡镇燊星期三（29日）再度前往布城反贪污委员会总部录供。这是他连续两天到反贪会协助当局调查涉及约11亿令吉（约3亿5500万新元）的英国晶片巨头安谋（ARM）合作项目。

反贪会3月4日说，正在调查拉菲兹是否在此案涉及滥权和欺诈。

深圳放宽核心区限购政策 提高贷款额度

2026年4月29日 19:26 / 联合早报

深圳放宽核心区限购政策 提高贷款额度

深圳放宽福田、南山、宝安等核心区的限购。图为2024年拍摄的深圳前海。 （林煇智摄）

深圳发布优化房地产新政，放宽福田、南山、宝安等核心区的限购，并提高公积金贷款额度。

深圳市住房和建设局星期三（4月29日）印发《关于进一步优化调整本市房地产相关政策的通知》，自2026年4月30日起施行。

《通知》明确，深圳市户籍居民家庭、自购房之日前在深圳连续缴纳社会保险或个人所得税满一年及以上的非本市户籍居民家庭，在执行现有住房限购政策基础上，可在福田区、南山区和宝安区新安街道范围内增购一套商品住房。

持有有效深圳经济特区居住证的非深圳户籍居民家庭，可在福田区、南山区和宝安区新安街道范围内购买一套商品住房，无需提供缴纳社会保险或个人所得税证明。

《通知》同步提高住房公积金贷款额度，以个人申请的，贷款额度从60万元（人民币，下同，11万2100新元）提高至70万元，缴存职工家庭申请的，贷款额度从110万元提高至130万元。

在深圳住房公积金贷款原本最高可贷额度的基础上，提高额度上浮比例。购买首套住房的，上浮比例从40%提高至60%；新增初婚初育居民家庭购买深圳住房上浮情形，上浮比例为50%，有两个及以上子女的居民家庭购买本市住房的，上浮比例从50%提高至70%。

今年以来深圳楼市出现回暖迹象，但同比跌幅仍未完全修复。

上海易居房地产研究院副院长严跃进点评，深圳在“五一”假期前夕出台新政，旨在响应4月28日中央政治局“努力稳定房地产市场”的总体要求，支持居民刚性和改善性住房需求，推动今年二季度及后续楼市积极向好。

严跃进表示，本次政策调整聚焦于核心区域限购的精细化松绑与住房公积金贷款额度的显著提升，体现出对不同购房群体的差异化支持。特别是对改善型购房需求、职住平衡购房需求、多子女家庭、初婚初育家庭等居民家庭相关群体，给予了较大力度的政策倾斜。

他说，政策力度和精准度超出市场预期，有望激活核心区的改善型需求，并降低特定群体的购房成本。

King Charles to visit New York to commemorate 9/11 victims

2026-04-29 10:03:41 UTC / Reuters

By Jonathan Allen and Maria Tsvetkova

April 29, 2026 10:03 AM UTC Updated 1 hour ago

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• Charles to visit Harlem community project, Camilla to host Winnie the Pooh event
• King’s speech to Congress emphasized UK-US ties and NATO’s importance
• Charles met Trump and tech leaders in Washington amid UK-US tensions over Iran war

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, April 29 (Reuters) – Britain’s King Charles and his wife Queen Camilla arrive in New York on Wednesday to commemorate victims of ‌the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the city, part of a four-day state visit to the U.S.

The king and queen’s scheduled arrival in New York follows a packed day in Washington on Tuesday, when Charles delivered a speech to the U.S. Congress, held private meetings with President Donald Trump amid tensions ​between the U.S. and UK over the Iran war, and sat down with leaders of the U.S. tech industry.

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At a White ​House state dinner on Tuesday night, Trump suggested Charles told the president he supported an end ⁠to Iran’s nuclear program. The king is not a spokesman for the UK government and it could not be confirmed that Charles ​made the statement to Trump. Downing Street and Buckingham Palace did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Charles and Camilla will begin ​their day in New York with a ceremony at the 9/11 memorial in lower Manhattan, where the twin towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed by al-Qaeda suicide bombers on September 11, 2001, an attack that killed nearly 2,800 people.

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Charles is expected to meet with New York City’s mayor, Zohran ​Mamdani, at the ceremony.

The king will then head to Harlem to visit a grassroots community organization that created a sustainable after-school ​urban farming initiative in an effort to combat food insecurity, according to local media. Such projects have been a passion of the king’s for decades.

Meanwhile, ‌Camilla ⁠will celebrate the 100th birthday of A.A. Milne’s fictional character Winnie the Pooh on behalf of her charity, The Queen’s Reading Room, which Buckingham Palace is calling a “literary engagement” event.

Charles and Camilla’s visit to New York comes on the third day of their state visit to the U.S. during a tense time in relations between the U.S. and the UK, after Trump has repeatedly criticized UK Prime ​Minister Sir Keir Starmer for what ​Trump says is his lack ⁠of help in prosecuting the Iran war.

In his speech to the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, Charles stressed the historical military and cultural ties between the UK and U.S., in a visit which officially ​is to celebrate the 250th anniversary of America’s declaration of independence from British rule.

Yet the king ​also stressed the ⁠importance of NATO, at a time when Trump has been critical of the Western military alliance’s reluctance to provide military help to the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, and warned against American isolationism.

“I pray with all my heart that our lands will continue to defend our shared ⁠values with ​our partners in Europe and the Commonwealth, and across the world, and that ​we ignore the clarion calls to become ever more inward-looking,” Charles told the joint meeting of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives.

Reporting by Tim Reid, Jonathan ​Allen and Maria Tsvetkova. Writing by Tim Reid. Additonal reporting by Michael Holden and William James in London; Editing by Lincoln Feast.

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NBA季后赛：马刺淘汰拓荒者晋级 76人掀翻绿衫军“续命”

2026年4月29日 19:29 / 联合早报

马刺球星文班亚马（右）在克服脑震荡伤病复出后，连续两场贡献两双，助球队闯入季后赛次轮。 （法新社）

（圣安东尼奥综合电）美国职业篮球赛（NBA）季后赛星期三（4月29日）决出又一支晋级队伍。圣安东尼奥马刺（San Antonio Spurs）主场以114比95轻取波特兰拓荒者（Portland Trail Blazers），大比分4比1闯入次轮。

上场比赛，马刺在一度落后19分的情况下逆转取胜，本场比赛则开局强势，以65比45结束上半场。拓荒者第四节打出一波11比0的进攻潮，将分差缩小至九分，但马刺迅速稳住局势，最终全程保持领先，轻松晋级。

马刺当家球星文班亚马（Wembanyama）在因脑震荡缺席系列赛第三场后，上场比赛一复出就豪砍27分和12个篮板的两双，此役再贡献17分、14个篮板和多达6次封盖，帮助马刺自2017年以来首次闯入季后赛第二轮。

谈到一度被缩小分差，马刺主帅约翰逊（Johnson）说：“我们确实有点放松警惕。NBA比赛很漫长，但这不是借口，我们必须做得更好。不过，整场比赛没有出现领先更替，这一点很关键……我们还有很多需要提升的地方，但我们已经准备好迎接挑战。”

作为西岸二号种子，马刺正冲击队史第六座总冠军奖杯，也是自2014年以来的首冠。他们将在西岸半决赛对阵丹佛金块（Denver Nuggets）或明尼苏达灰狼（Minnesota Timberwolves），后者目前以大比分3比2领先。

76人客场爆冷胜凯尔特人

同日，东岸七号种子、费城76人客场以113比97爆冷击败东岸二号种子、“绿衫军”波士顿凯尔特人（Boston Celtics），将大比分追至2比3。

在4月9日才接受阑尾切除手术的76人中锋恩比德（Embiid），在复出的第二战闪耀全场，砍下33分和8记助攻。他说：“我在复出前只进行了一次简单的往返跑训练。通过这场和上一场比赛，我在逐渐找回状态。”

恩比德在下半场贡献18分，并在末节两队陷入纠缠时，与队友马克西（Maxey）联手得分，最终拉开分差，锁定胜局。马克西全场得到25分和10个篮板的两双数据。系列赛第六场将在星期五（5月1日）回到费城进行。

凯尔特人方面，当家球星塔图姆（Tatum）拿下24分和16个篮板，布朗（Brown）空砍22分。绿衫军在末节仅得11分，写下本赛季单节最低得分。

作为18届NBA总冠军，凯尔特人已经连续五年晋级季后赛次轮，目前正在冲击三年内的第二冠。而76人自2023年横扫布鲁克林网队（Brooklyn Nets）以来，尚未赢得一轮季后赛系列赛。

其他场次，纽约尼克斯（New York Knicks）主场以126比97大胜亚特兰大鹰（Atlanta Hawks），系列赛以3比2领先。尼克斯主将布伦森（Brunson）在第四节独得17分并送出8次助攻，最终砍下全场最高的39分，中锋唐斯（Towns）贡献16分和14个篮板。

工教院启用安保训练新设施 学员在逼真环境实战受训

2026年4月29日 19:45 / 联合早报

主管回教事务代部长兼内政部高级政务部长费绍尔副教授（右一）出席开幕仪式时，在安保行动训练指挥中心“检查”车辆内是否有可疑物品。 （谢智扬摄）

工艺教育学院启用新安保训练设施，通过逼真的情境设计，模拟多种安保运作场景，让近300名修读保安运作工读专业文凭的学员在逼真环境中学习和受训。

工教院星期三（4月29日）宣布为全新的“安保行动训练指挥中心”（Security Operations Training Facility）揭幕。指挥中心占地约353平方米，与行业合作伙伴共同打造，设有多个还原真实运作环境和工作流程的训练区域。

其中就包括同移民与关卡局合作打造的“关卡”，配备了自动通关闸机、X光扫描机、车辆检查区，以及违禁和受控物品展示区。

学员也可通过实时信息仪表板、警报监控系统、智能建筑系统、GPS追踪和虚拟巡逻等功能，模拟在压力环境中作判断。设施也会设置不同的突发情境，让学员练习判断风险、分工合作和应对问题。

此外，中心设有混合现实和人工智能区域，可模拟复杂和高压的安保情况。中心内也设置问询室，供学员进行角色扮演，学习如何在碰到棘手情况时有效沟通。

主管回教事务代部长兼内政部高级政务部长费绍尔副教授出席推介仪式时说，安全环境如今更为多变和更具挑战。在人力持续短缺的情况下，安全需求却在不断增长，我国必须确保有源源不断的安保专业人才。

“自2023年以来，移民与关卡局已通过工读专业文凭招募了200多名官员 。监狱署也加入了这一行列，首批学员已于2026年4月入学 。内政团队中，工读文凭课程已成为吸引和培养工教院毕业生的重要途径。”

幼教转行前线人员 边学边参与前线工作

周诗瑶（21岁）早前完成了幼教专业高级国家工艺教育局证书（Higher Nitec），但之后决定转向执法行业发展。她目前修读保安运作工读专业文凭，同时也是移民局的风险评估与调查员。

周诗瑶在往返关卡时对移民与关卡局人员的工作逐渐产生兴趣，常和母亲提起自己有意从事相关工作。（谢智扬摄）

周诗瑶说，自己从小看电视节目《绳之以法》长大，对执法工作产生了向往，也在往返关卡时，对移民局的岗位产生了兴趣。

课程期间，她一边在安保行动训练指挥中心接受训练，一边在关卡前线工作，把课堂所学应用到实际工作中。

“守护国家边境让我感到很有使命感，也让我更加确定，这就是我一直想从事的工作。”

Johnson scrambles as Trump, Senate Republicans pressure House to fund DHS

April 29, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News

Senate Majority Leader Thune voiced frustration after month of House inaction on DHS bill

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DHS secretary Mullin says his department will run out of money by the end of the month with emergency funds depleted

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin discusses the department remaining unfunded after 10 weeks and the impact of the partial government shutdown on national security on ‘The Will Cain Show.’

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Congressional Republicans entered the record-breaking Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown united — 75 days later, and they are increasingly at odds over how to end it.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is now floating a change to the Senate’s DHS bill funding most of the department after declining to put the measure on the floor for more than a month.

The new demand comes as the department’s vital security role was spotlighted on Saturday when the Secret Service stopped a gunman from storming the ballroom where he allegedly planned to assassinate President Donald Trump and members of his Cabinet.

The Secret Service is among several agencies under the DHS umbrella that are currently operating without full-year funding. The assassination scare notably spurred Trump to demand that DHS funding, and the forthcoming budget reconciliation process, be wrapped up soon.

A Secret Service agent holds a weapon in the lobby of the Washington Hilton after shots were heard during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C., on April 25, 2026.(Alex Wroblewski/AFP)

DEMOCRAT WHO BROKE WITH PARTY SAYS HIS DHS FUNDING VOTE A ‘MISTAKE’ AFTER 2ND MINNEAPOLIS ICE SHOOTING

Now, Johnson’s new tactic is to modify the Senate bill, which he claims “has some problematic language because it was haphazardly drafted.”

“We have a modified version that I think is going to be much better for both chambers,” Johnson told reporters on Monday.

“It makes sure that we’re not going to orphan two of the primary agencies of DHS,” he added. “We have to make sure that immigration law is enforced and that the border is safe and secure. Democrats don’t want to have any part of that, so unfortunately, we have to do that on our own.”

But the White House, in a memo to House Republicans obtained by Fox News Digital, demanded that Johnson pass the Senate’s bill as is, and warned that unless the House took action, the remaining DHS funding would soon dry up.

“It is imperative that Congress immediately fund DHS and its critical operations to protect the homeland,” the memo stated.

The Senate bill and a separate budget reconciliation bill funding immigration enforcement are part of a two-track approach that congressional Republicans are pursuing to end the funding lapse.

Johnson has long reflected the view of many in the GOP by voicing objections to the Senate bill because it zeroes out funding for ICE and CBP.

But Senate Republicans are frustrated with their House colleagues who continue to sit on the bill that would reopen most of DHS while teasing forthcoming modifications. Any substantial alteration to the bill outside a minor technical correction would kick the bill back to the Senate for reconciliation.

Trump has not weighed in on the Senate’s partial DHS bill, but has urged the House to quickly approve the Senate-passed budget blueprint funding immigration enforcement.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., are clashing over how to resolve the Department of Homeland Security shutdown. President Donald Trump is largely staying out of it.(Getty Images)

GOP INFIGHTING REPLACES CLASH WITH DEMS, DERAILS PATH TO END HISTORIC DHS SHUTDOWN

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., noted that it had been nearly 30 days since he and the speaker put out a joint statement supporting the Senate’s funding bill.

“I guess my question is, what was the alternative? And that’s what I said to them at the time, and you tell me, give me a better option, ’cause I’m open to ideas,” Thune said Tuesday. “But I don’t think anybody had one, and we had a bunch of agencies that weren’t being funded.”

Congressional Democrats have ripped Johnson for holding up the Senate bill, though Republicans note that Congress would not be in the funding stalemate if Democrats had agreed to a full-year spending bill for the department.

“Johnson can just take up the bill that was passed unanimously in the Senate and we’d be funding all of DHS except for ICE and CBP, and then we could work on that,” Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-N.M., told Fox News on Tuesday.

“The fact that he has failed to do so is outrageous and it’s on him that we are not paying the rest of DHS,” she added.

Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-N.M., and the members of House Democratic leadership have blamed House Republicans for the prolonged DHS shutdown.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images)

Meanwhile, Senate Democrats, who voted unanimously alongside Republicans twice on the funding deal, are scratching their heads about what exactly Johnson is trying to do.

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Democrats have also signaled a possible return of the funding standoff that dominated the upper chamber for over a month.

“They’re just stuck so they come up with — we need some technical changes,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said. “Hold up national security for technical changes? It’s absurd.”

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

Tourist dies after being bitten at snake-charming show while on family vacation in Egypt

April 29, 2026 / 6:38 AM EDT / CBS/AFP

A German tourist has died after a snake crawled into his pants and bit him as he watched a show in Egypt on a family vacation, German police said Monday.

The 57-year-old man was watching the snake-charming show at a hotel in Hurghada, a popular beach holiday destination on the Red Sea, in early April.

The two reptiles involved, reported to be cobras, were draped over the necks of audience members, police in southern Bavaria state said.

“The ‘snake charmer’ then let one of the snakes crawl into the trousers” of the German man and it bit him in the leg, they said in a statement.

The victim showed “clear signs of poisoning” and had to be resuscitated before being taken to hospital, but he later died, it said.

The man — who was not named in the statement — came from the Unterallgaeu district in Bavaria and was on holiday with two relatives.

German police and prosecutors are investigating his death and are awaiting the results of a toxicology test.

When contacted by AFP, Egyptian authorities said they were not aware of the incident.

An estimated 5.4 million people worldwide are bitten by snakes each year and up to 138,000 people die globally from the bites, according to the World Health Organization. The majority of fatal snake bites occur in India.

At least three people have died from snake bites in Southern California in just the past two months, CBS Los Angeles reported.

Earlier this month, a woman died after being bitten by a rattlesnake while picking flowers in Palos Veres Estates. In March, a 25-year-old man died after he was bitten by a rattlesnake while biking in Irvine, and a 46-year-old woman died after she was bitten while hiking in Thousand Oaks.

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/video/woman-bitten-by-rattlesnake-in-palos-verdes-estates-as-california-experiences-increase-in-encounters/