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韩咏红：美伊战争中国得利？

2026年4月3日 05:00 / 联合早报

美国总统特朗普星期四（4月2日）发表有关伊朗战争的全国讲话。不少观察人士注意到，特朗普在提到“胜利”时，竟没了他一贯的眉飞色舞的得意神态，反而流露出为难、泄气与受挫的神情。 （彭博社）

美国总统特朗普有关伊朗战争的全国讲话，亚洲时间星期四（4月2日）上午在全球瞩目下进行了19分钟，结果多数评价都认为，这场讲话“雷声大雨点小”，还一如既往的自相矛盾，全球油价应声上涨。

特朗普的上述讲话，其实并未超出他近日多次受访，以及在社媒发帖传达的内容，却让外界更确定了几件事：特朗普苦于难脱身，美军准备在未来两三周内痛击伊朗，之后有可能就设法鸣金收兵，留下烂摊子让海湾国家自己面对残局，包括伊朗控制的霍尔木兹海峡。当然，目前还不能完全排除美军继续攻打，这场战争打到哪里算个头，感觉连特朗普本人也不清楚。

不少观察人士注意到，特朗普在提到“胜利”时，竟没了他一贯的眉飞色舞的得意神态，反而流露出为难、泄气与受挫的神情。这清楚暴露出他陷入的困境：战争打了五个星期，伊朗的政权依然不倒，美国汽油均价却已然突破每加仑4美元，金融市场动荡，美国民众也大多反对军事打击伊朗。

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Artemis II crew clears Earth orbit, heads for the moon

April 2, 2026 / 7:58 PM EDT / CBS News
By William Harwood

The Orion capsule and its three-man, one-woman crew successfully broke out of Earth orbit and headed for the moon Thursday evening, hours after NASA’s mission management team cleared the Artemis II crew for a critical rocket firing.

The shuttle-era Orbital Maneuvering System engine at the base of the Orion capsule’s service module began firing for five minutes and 50 seconds starting at about 7:50 p.m. EDT as the spacecraft raced through the low point of its elliptical orbit.

The engine firing provided a slingshot-like boost to the Orion, speeding it up to some 25,000 mph, the velocity needed to break free of Earth’s gravitational clasp for a four-day trek to the moon.

NASA’s Mission Management Team had met earlier in the day, and after reviewing the Orion’s near-flawless performance, cleared the spacecraft and its crew for the critical trans-lunar injection, or TLI burn, a make-or-break milestone for the lunar fly-around.

“Hey, just to make it clear in the open here, we are go for TLI after the MMT concluded their deliberations a few minutes ago, and we’re going to proceed down that path and get ready for the burn here,” lead Flight Director Jeff Radigan radioed the crew.

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen replied: “We love those words. And we’re loving the view. We’re falling back to Earth real fast and looking forward to accelerating back to the moon.”

A spectacular view of the crescent Earth was beamed down by cameras on the Artemis II Orion capsule early April 2, 2026, as the spacecraft orbited Earth in a highly elliptical orbit at altitudes up to 40,000 miles or more. NASA

Launched from the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Hansen spent their first “day” in space testing their Orion capsule’s myriad systems.

They also tested the capsule’s maneuverability and adjusted its highly elliptical orbit to line them up for a trajectory to the moon, one that will carry them around the lunar far side Monday and then back to Earth late next week.

Wiseman and his crewmates are the first astronauts to fly aboard a Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft and the first to head for the moon since the final Apollo mission in December 1972.

In the process, they’re expected to travel farther from Earth than anyone before them, reaching a distance of some 252,455 miles as they fly behind the moon, beating a record set by the crew of Apollo 13 in 1970.

But the major goal of the flight, along with putting the Orion through its paces, is to test the planning, procedures and flight control techniques needed for managing upcoming moon landing missions after a half-century gap between the Artemis and Apollo programs.

The Artemis II flight is seen by NASA as a trailblazer, demonstrating that the Orion crew ferry ship can safely carry astronauts to the moon and back on a regular basis while setting the stage for one, and possibly two, landings near the moon’s south pole in 2028.

Amid planning for those flights, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman says the agency will send up another Orion crew next year to rehearse rendezvous and docking procedures with moon landers being built by SpaceX and Blue Origin. That flight, Artemis III, will be carried out in low-Earth orbit.

Isaacman says NASA will spend $20 billion over the next seven years to speed up the launch rate to a moon landing every six months while building a base near the moon’s south pole.

中国召开电视剧健康审美座谈会：杜绝颜值崇拜

2026年4月3日 07:51 / 联合早报

“浙江宣传”评中国热播剧《逐玉》中男主角“粉底液将军”，称这种创作倾向可能错误解构传统文化形象。 （互联网）

中国热播剧《逐玉》男主演被批是“粉底液将军”后，官方星期四（4月2日）召开电视剧健康审美座谈会，强调要杜绝“颜值崇拜”，而且最基本的一点要求是“演什么要像什么”。

中国国家广播电视总局电视剧司在微信公众号公布，会议认为，电视剧作为人民大众喜闻乐见的文艺形态，在传递主流价值、传承中华优秀传统文化、引领审美风尚等方面发挥着重要作用。

会议称，近年来创作播出的一大批思想精深、艺术精湛、制作精良的优秀作品，充分展现了电视剧行业的责任与担当。同时也要清醒认识到，行业内还存在片面追求“颜值至上”的不良创作倾向，有的剧集出现演员妆容过度，部分服装化妆道具与人物性格、故事场景脱节等问题。

会议形容树立健康审美观念，是关乎文艺方向、关乎文化自信、关乎行业未来的重要命题。电视剧行业要坚持真善美的价值内核，让电视剧作品真正体现质朴之美、自然之美、内涵之美。

会议提出，深刻认识树立健康审美观念的重要意义。要把健康审美观念融入创作全过程，让电视剧作品成为彰显中国精神、中国价值、中国力量的生动载体。人民群众对电视剧的需求，从来不止于颜值“好看”，而在于故事“耐看”，在于作品的思想内涵、情感共鸣和文化滋养，实现艺术价值与社会价值相统一，既“娱人”，更“育人”。

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浙江宣传批热播剧《逐玉》男主演“粉底液将军”

会议强调，坚决摒弃畸形审美，坚守电视剧创作审美底线，坚定实现从“明星中心制”转向“剧本中心制”。要杜绝“颜值崇拜”，坚持“内容为王、人物为本”，让人物有血有肉、有温度、有灵魂，最基本的一点要求是“演什么要像什么”。要避免“颜值至上”和“流量依赖”，多关注演技和作品。要让服化道为人物塑造和故事表达服务，与人物形象相匹配，整体上呈现健康向上的精神特质，体现中国气派、中国风格，增强文化自信。

此外，会议也提出要通过行政管理部门、行业协会、制作机构、播出平台的协同发力、密切配合，加强专业指导和学习培训，将健康审美观念贯穿电视剧创作生产、播出、管理的全过程。

会议也强调，要坚守健康审美底线，用心用情用功打造更多无愧于时代、无愧于人民、无愧于民族的精品力作。

中共浙江省委宣传部早前发文，批评热播电视剧《逐玉》中的“粉底液将军”，称当前影视作品越来越以颜值为核心标准，“价值观在向颜值观让步”。

Pam Bondi was destined to fail. But she also made it worse

2026-04-02 5:25 PM ET / CNN

Analysis by

Aaron Blake

PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2026, 5:25 PM ET

Attorney General Pam Bondi leaving after the end of President Donald Trump’s remarks to reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Febuary 20, 2026, in Washington.

Alex Brandon/AP/File

Attorney general may be the most impossible job in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet.

Trump demands things that are not only ethically problematic, but also that reside somewhere in the space between highly difficult and impossible. Nobody has gotten the balance right. Jeff Sessions tried to be the institutionalist and quickly marginalized himself. William Barr then took some astoundingly politicized actions on Trump’s behalf, but then was unwilling to go quite as far as Trump demanded.

Pam Bondi went even further than Barr in the service of bending the Justice Department politically for Trump. But after her firing Thursday, she wound up serving the shortest tenure for a confirmed attorney general in 60 years.

Bondi was, in a lot of ways, destined to fail. But she also clearly made things worse for herself.

And that’s especially the case when it comes to two sticking points between her and Trump: the Epstein files and Trump’s thus-far-fruitless retribution campaign.

Epstein files

The most damaging aspect of Bondi’s tenure was undoubtedly the Epstein files.

Trump and his campaign did Bondi no favors by playing up Trump’s promise to release the files back in 2024. Then Trump seemed to suddenly turn against releasing them in mid-2025, and he’d go on to fight their release for months before Congress forced him to relent.

That switch is tough to message to a highly invested public. Bondi made it actively worse.

In February, she distributed “Epstein Files” binders to conservative influencers at the White House. Except the binders contained almost no new information. Some of the influencers balked at what amounted to a pretty substance-free photo op.

She also made a series of dumbfounding claims about what was contained in the files, in ways that clearly came back to bite the administration.

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein stand as US Attorney General Pam Bondi is questioned during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Justice Department, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 11.

Kent Nishimura/Reuters

When asked about a rumored Epstein client list, for instance, she said it was “sitting on my desk right now,” creating great anticipation. She also said there were “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with children or child porn.”

But when the administration reversed course on its promises of transparency, it walked those claims back. And based on what’s been released so far, there’s still nothing to back them up.

(Bondi claimed later that she hadn’t been specifically referring to a client list, but rather more Epstein documents in general.)

In truth, Bondi’s claims were going to be problematic regardless of what came of the files. But she ramped up expectations about something that the administration later wanted to downplay.

By the end of the Epstein saga, Bondi was effectively sidelined from even talking about the files — a job which often fell to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who is now temporarily leading the Justice Department. (And Blanche, it’s worth mentioning, has his own Epstein issues.)

And after some almost comedically overwrought February testimony, in which she avoided even Republicans’ questions about the subject, she was greeted with a highly unusual bipartisan subpoena to revisit the issue with the House Oversight Committee later this month.

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles summed it up in comments published in December by Vanity Fair. Bondi “completely whiffed” on the Epstein files, Wiles said, and there was apparently no use in pretending otherwise.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche speak to the media following a closed-door briefing for members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein investigation and compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 18.

Nathan Howard/Reuters

Targeting Trump’s enemies

Arguably, Bondi had even higher hurdles to jump when it came to Trump’s retribution campaign.

While Trump floated efforts to investigate his foes in his first term, he’s made clear in his second that he wants real probes, charges and prosecutions against his perceived political foes — particularly after he was personally indicted four times and convicted in the only case that went to trial.

Perhaps most striking was a later-deleted Trump social media post from September that addressed Bondi by name and urged her to indict former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Sen. Adam Schiff of California.

Just days later, Trump forced out a US attorney who resisted and Comey was indicted. About two weeks after that, James was indicted.

But both indictments were based on flimsy evidence — this has become a trend, which we’ll get to — and the replacement US attorney was found to have been illegally appointed. So the cases fell apart.

Save for a more by-the-book indictment of another Trump foe, John Bolton (who had also been investigated by the Biden Justice Department), nobody else has been indicted over the past five and a half months.

But it hasn’t been for lack of trying by Bondi’s department:

• The DOJ has repeatedly failed in its efforts to get grand juries to re-indict James.
• It also failed to get a grand jury to indict six Democratic members of Congress over their comments urging members of the military not to obey illegal orders.
• The DOJ has also probed the third person Trump mentioned in that September post, Schiff.
• An investigation of former CIA director John Brennan has gained steam recently.
• Trump wrote an executive order demanding investigations of two foes from his first term, Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor.
• Trump publicly called for an investigation of former President Bill Clinton’s ties to Epstein, which Bondi quickly agreed to.
• And the DOJ’s investigation of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, another figure Trump has frequently targeted, has caused even many Republicans to publicly cry foul.

That last one is telling.

At a hearing just last week, a Justice Department attorney was forced to make a remarkable admission: that the department had no real evidence of criminality against Powell.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gestures while addressing students at Harvard University, Monday, March 30, 2026, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Charles Krupa/AP

The known evidence in most of the other cases is, likewise, remarkably thin.

But Bondi and her department have still given it the old college try, over and over again, because Trump demanded it.

That was always bound to make her look bad. While Trump gets great political leverage out of lobbing thinly constructed conspiracy theories against his foes, that doesn’t work in a court of law.

If anything, the whole thing has actually backfired on the administration. Yes, it has created costly headaches for those targeted, but it’s also made it pretty clear that there is no equivalence between what Trump was indicted for and what he accuses his foes of.

Perhaps it was simply impossible for Bondi to dissuade Trump. But the cases have gone poorly for Bondi and her department, almost without fail. They apparently haven’t made Trump happy, either.

And similar to the Epstein files, Bondi’s legacy at the DOJ will include the most significant breakdown of the wall between the president’s personal politics and department business since at least Watergate.

Whoever succeeds her will inherit that same tension between pleasing Trump and doing what’s ethical and feasible. Perhaps Trump will find someone more adept at navigating that.

But if past is prologue, they’ll be hard-pressed to solve this riddle.

People walk in heavy rain near the Department of Justice building in Washington, DC, from which hangs a new banner depicting US President Donald Trump, on February 20.

Ken Cedeno/Reuters/File

美国宣布对进口专利药及制药成分加征100%关税

2026年4月3日 07:04 / 联合早报

美国宣布对进口专利药及制药成分加征100%关税

白宫4月2日发布公告说，美国总统特朗普当天签署文件，依据《1962年贸易扩展法》第232条款，美国将对进口专利药和制药成分加征100%的关税。 （彭博社）

美国政府宣布对某些进口药品征收最高达100%的关税，但有几项关键的豁免条款。此举旨在施压制药商在美国生产更多药品。

彭博社报道，美国白宫星期四（4月2日）发布公告说，美国总统特朗普当天签署一份文件，依据《1962年贸易扩展法》第232条款，美国将对进口专利药和制药成分加征100%的关税。

这一措施同时提供豁免或下调关税的路径，旨在迫使制药企业与白宫就药品价格和产业回流等达成协议。

这项新关税适用于与美国没有关税协议的国家生产，且生产公司未与美国政府签订最惠国定价协议的专利药品。

根据白宫声明，某些大型公司生产药品的关税将在120天后生效，小型公司生产的药品将在180天后开始生效。

声明称，与白宫达成协议的主要经济体，包括欧盟、韩国、日本、瑞士、列支敦士登的进口药品关税上限为15%。

英国同意在未来10年内，将政府用于新药研发的支出占国内生产总值（GDP）的比例提高一倍。这是英国4月2日达成的另一项协议的结果，因此英国进口药品的关税税率将更低。

白宫说，承诺在美国进行部分药品生产的公司，它们的进口药品将按20%的税率征收关税；如果这些公司与美国签订最惠国待遇协议，药品税率将降至零。这项免税政策将持续到2029年1月20日。

Energy markets start tuning Trump out after repeated Iran war whiplash

2026-04-02 4:00 PM ET / CNN

By Adam Cancryn

President Donald Trump has repeatedly sought to tamp down the surging price of oil by telling investors what they’re eager to hear: The war in Iran is almost over.

But after hearing that message for weeks, with fighting ongoing and no plan for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, they’re increasingly tuning him out.

Nearly two weeks after Trump’s sudden declaration of “productive” talks with Iran sent a premature jolt of optimism through the oil markets, energy analysts and traders say the president’s attempts to jawbone investors into lowering prices have cost him his credibility — and convinced them that the war’s economic consequences are only set to worsen.

“He’s now been saying a version of the same thing for the last two weeks,” said Gregory Brew, a senior analyst on Iran and the energy sector at political risk firm Eurasia Group. “But what he’s talking about doesn’t matter, because he’s continuing the war and the Iranians aren’t buying it.”

After Trump again claimed Wednesday that Iran was seeking a ceasefire, oil markets exhausted by days of head fakes barely reacted. And that night, Trump’s insistence that the war was “nearly complete” was quickly overshadowed by his vow to intensify the US’ bombing campaign and then leave it to other countries to try to reopen the strait.

Oil prices have since surged more than 11% in response — a sharp move likely to push the cost of gas beyond the $4-per-gallon level and deepen the affordability concerns that threaten to cost Trump and Republicans control of Congress come November.

Within the energy industry, officials are now preparing for several more months of elevated oil and gas prices regardless of how and when Trump eventually decides to withdraw from the war, as the damage to global stockpiles becomes irreversible and reverberates across continents.

Iran’s retaliatory closure of the Strait of Hormuz roughly a month ago has already caused a massive economic shock, but the strain on economies around the world is just beginning. Key Middle East production facilities that cut output to avoid a pileup of oil in the Persian Gulf will need months to ramp back up if and when traffic through the strait returns to normal.

And while Trump during Wednesday’s primetime address claimed the US is insulated from the fallout due to its own vast stores of oil, the energy crisis rippling through the rest of the world is still bound to make all manner of goods and services — from fertilizer to flights to plastic products — more expensive for Americans. Even if Trump pulled out of the Middle East immediately, investors believe it could take months or even years to see oil return to pre-war prices.

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on Thursday.

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

President Donald Trump departs after speaking about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House on Wednesday.

Alex Brandon/AP

“We’ve lost huge amounts of oil from the system,” said Rory Johnston, an oil market researcher who writes the energy newsletter Commodity Context. He pegged the cost of the conflict so far at roughly a half-billion barrels of oil.

“In no scenario do I see us exiting this war in a healthier environment than we began it,” he added.

The stark economic reality has alarmed Trump allies who were already concerned about the political risks of going to war. It has prompted an ongoing search for fresh ways to blunt the impact on US prices.

Some Trump friends and allies — aware of the president’s diminished ability to simply talk the markets down — have urged him to wrap up the war as soon as possible and shift his attention back to the domestic concerns shaping voters’ views ahead of the midterm elections.

And despite the White House’s insistence that gas prices will “plummet” as soon as the fighting ends, administration officials have signaled differently in private. They’ve pressed industry representatives over whether US companies have any new sources of oil they can tap in the coming months, a person involved in the discussions said. Those conversations have yielded little in the way of promising leads.

“It’s having a negative effect now for sure,” Stephen Moore, a former economic adviser to Trump, said of the war’s drag on the US economy. “So it’s got to get over with as quickly as possible.”

In a statement, White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said Trump’s “energy dominance agenda prepared us to meet this moment.”

“The President made clear that the Operation Epic Fury is in its final stages and we are quickly achieving our military goals,” she said. “In the meantime, the Administration has taken several significant actions to mitigate short-term disruptions and stabilize the energy markets.”

Still, among traders and analysts who once hung on Trump’s every word, there’s far less willingness to buy into his optimism now that they’re seeing more real-world impact.

If Trump declares victory and leaves the Middle East in the next few weeks without reopening the strait, he will effectively cede one-fifth of the world’s oil supply to Iran. That would put the regime on even stronger financial footing than before, allowing Iran to charge oil tankers a hefty toll to use the strait — and determine which country’s shipments get through.

Under that scenario, analysts project, oil prices are expected to remain above $90 per barrel well beyond the end of the war, or roughly one-third higher than where prices sat before the conflict began.

But other options could yield even worse outcomes. If Trump instead chooses to escalate and follow through on his threats to bomb Iran’s energy infrastructure, it would immediately worsen the oil shortage and fan fears of widespread retaliation — which could effectively shatter the global energy trade and push prices to never-before-seen highs.

Either way, energy experts said, oil prices are going to stay significantly higher than the $60-per-barrel level the US enjoyed earlier this year — and no amount of reassurances from Trump is likely to change that at this point.

“I don’t think there’s any going back to pre-war gas prices, at least not this year and probably not for a couple years,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. “With each passing day, and the longer the hostilities continue, the more damage is done.”

President Donald Trump departs after speaking about the Iran war from the Cross Hall of the White House on Wednesday.

Alex Brandon/AP

Gas prices over five dollars a gallon are displayed at gas station near the US Capitol on Tuesday.

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Barring a sudden diplomatic breakthrough, those scenarios also provide little assurance that the Strait of Hormuz will fully reopen — a development that could dramatically alter the way oil flows around the world.

Top Trump officials have increasingly acknowledged that the strait will remain under Iranian control for the foreseeable future, potentially setting the stage for a second operation to seize it that would raise the odds of yet more disruption without any greater guarantee of success.

Trump on Wednesday night careened between insisting that the strait would “open up naturally” after the war and urging US allies to take responsibility for reopening it by force.

“The hard part is done, so it should be easy,” he said at one point.

Yet that’s offered little comfort to industry officials who have noted that even Trump’s own military doesn’t appear to concur; US officials have continued to assess that the strait is far too dangerous for the US Navy to begin escorting tankers, according to people involved in the discussions.

“Had the war been three or four days, then there would’ve been a sharp price increase and then a very sharp price fall,” said Brew. “But we’re way past that given that Hormuz has been shut now for over a month, and given that the credibility of Hormuz reopening any time soon is very suspect.”

Hegseth ousts Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George

April 2, 2026 / 6:05 PM EDT / CBS News

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, sources familiar with the decision told CBS News.

One of the sources said Hegseth wants someone in the role who will implement President Trump and Hegseth’s vision for the Army.

Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement that George “will be retiring from his position as the 41st Chief of Staff of the Army effective immediately. The Department of War is grateful for General George’s decades of service to our nation. We wish him well in his retirement.”

A senior Defense Department official told CBS News, “We are grateful for his service, but it was time for a leadership change in the Army.”

George previously served as the senior military assistant to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin from 2021 to 2022, during the Biden administration, after decades of service. A career infantry officer and West Point graduate, George first served in the first Gulf War and the more recent conflicts of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Army chief of staff typically serves a four-year term. George was nominated for the position by President Joe Biden and confirmed by the Senate in 2023, meaning he would typically have held the position until 2027.

The current vice chief of staff of the Army, Gen. Christopher LaNeve, who was formerly Hegseth’s military aide, will be acting Army chief of staff. He previously served as the commanding general of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division from 2022 to 2023.

Parnell said LaNeve is “a battle-tested leader with decades of operational experience and is completely trusted by Secretary Hegseth to carry out the vision of this administration without fault.”

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point posted photos on social media on Thursday of George, saying he “shared experience-driven guidance with cadets preparing to lead” during a visit on March 25.

According to his biography on the Army’s website, George received his commission as an infantry officer from West Point in 1988 and deployed during Operation Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Before serving as Army chief of staff, he was vice chief of staff of the Army from 2022 to 2023.

Hegseth has fired more than a dozen senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. C.Q. Brown, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Slife and the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse.

The ouster follows Hegseth’s X post lifting the suspension of the aircrew that flew by Kid Rock’s house in Nashville last weekend. After the Army announced the suspension of the aviators involved and an administrative review, Hegseth overruled the Army, writing on his personal X account, “No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, patriots.”

Hegseth’s decision to ask George to exit wasn’t related to the helicopter incident, one of the sources said.

Appeals panel orders resentencing of ex‑Colorado clerk over voting machines

2026-04-02 21:04:46 UTC / Reuters

By Brad Brooks

April 2, 2026 9:04 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago

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Tina Peters, the Mesa County, Colorado, clerk indicted on multiple felony counts stemming from an election security breach, poses in a jail booking photograph in Grand Junction, Colorado, U.S. March 9, 2022. Mesa County Sheriff’s Office/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

April 2 (Reuters) – A Colorado appeals court on Thursday overturned the nine-year prison sentence, but not the conviction, given to Tina Peters, a former county clerk convicted of ​tampering with voting machines in her pursuit of claims the 2020 presidential election ‌had been stolen from Donald Trump, as Trump repeatedly and falsely claimed.

Trump has taken up the case of Peters, a fellow Republican, in recent months and put pressure on state courts and Colorado Governor Jared ​Polis, a Democrat, to free her, saying she is a political prisoner. Polis ​last month signaled he may be willing to consider clemency for Peters.

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A ⁠three-judge appeals court panel ordered a lower court to resentence Peters, who remains jailed. ​The panel upheld her conviction on all seven counts, which include attempts to influence a ​public servant and violation of duty, among others.

In its ruling, the panel said the lower court judge Matthew Barrett improperly punished Peters based on her protected speech – her claims of election fraud, which she ​maintained throughout her 2024 trial. The panel cited several things Barrett said at trial, ​including calling Peters a “charlatan” who continued to peddle “snake oil that’s been proven to be junk time and ‌time ⁠again.”

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“The trial court’s comments about Peters’s belief in the existence of 2020 election fraud went beyond relevant considerations for her sentencing. Her offense was not her belief, however misguided the trial court deemed it to be, in the existence of such election fraud; it ​was her deceitful actions ​in her attempt to ⁠gather evidence of such fraud,” the panel wrote.

The panel gave no suggestion of what Peters’ sentence should be.

Peters was indicted in 2022 following ​an election security breach at her office that led to voting ​equipment passwords ⁠being posted on a right-wing blog. She denied wrongdoing.

Two attorneys for Peters, Peter Ticktin and John Case, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Trump pardoned Peters in December in a ⁠move that ​was considered symbolic since Peters is not in ​federal custody. The Colorado appeals court panel, in its ruling, wrote that a president’s federal pardon powers do not ​reach state offenses.

Reporting by Brad Brooks in Colorado; editing by Donna Bryson and Chris Reese

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特朗普解除司法部长邦迪职务

2026年4月3日 07:05 / 联合早报

去年8月11日，邦迪出席白宫新闻发布会，就华盛顿特区犯罪问题发表讲话，特朗普也在场。 （法新社）

美国总统特朗普宣布解除司法部长邦迪职务，曾担任特朗普多起案件辩护律师的副司法部长布兰奇将暂代司法部长一职。

路透社报道，邦迪成为特朗普第二个总统任期内第二名被解职的内阁成员。

特朗普星期四（4月2日）在社交媒体Truth Social宣布此消息，并赞扬邦迪是“伟大的美国爱国者和忠诚的朋友”，称她主导了一场“大规模打击犯罪”行动。

特朗普说，邦迪将加入私营企业，但没有透露详情。

邦迪也在社媒发文，称“能够在特朗普总统为保障美国安全而采取历史性且非常成功的努力中扮演领导角色”，是她“毕生荣幸”。她说，将下来一个月把工作交接给布兰奇。

美国媒体报道，特朗普对邦迪的不满已持续数月。特朗普认为她对爱泼斯坦档案处置不力、对打击他的政治对手不够强硬。

3月17日，众议院监督与政府改革委员会向邦迪发出传票，要求她就爱泼斯坦案接受国会闭门质询。根据传票要求，邦迪定于4月14日接受委员会质询。此前，邦迪已出席过相关听证会，但未能消除国会两党多名议员对司法部的质疑与批评。

在邦迪之前，饱受争议的国土安全部长诺姆于3月5日被特朗普撤换。特朗普提名参议员马林接替诺姆职务，参议院已投票确认马林的提名。

司法部长提名也须参议院确认。目前共和党议员在参议院占据多数席位。

New weight loss drug to be sold on Trump’s pharmaceutical cost comparison platform

April 2, 2026 / 4:33 PM EDT / CBS News

By Olivia Rinaldi

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A first-of-its-kind weight loss pill will become the latest drug to be offered on President Trump’s cost comparison platform “Trump Rx,” CBS News exclusively learned.

Foundayo, a GLP-1 drug, is a first-of-its-kind weight loss pill that doesn’t need to be taken on an empty stomach, expanding access for those who are needle averse.

A White House official says TrumpRx, the low-cost pharmaceutical comparison website launched by the administration in February, will provide coupons for Foundayo to Americans without insurance starting at $149 for the first dose.

The refills will be marked at $199 and future prescriptions will be $299.

The pill will also be sold at a similar price on Eli Lilly’s direct to consumer platform “Lilly Direct.”

Though the prices are the same, a White House official tells CBS news they believe TrumpRx has a greater reach than the drugmaker’s platform and serves as a “one stop shop” for consumers to evaluate all GLP-1s on the market.

The cost for Americans on Medicare will be around $50 and Americans on private insurance for about $25.

A White House official told CBS News that the pill could be featured on TrumpRx as soon as Thursday.

Foundayo is also the first new drug approved under the FDA’s priority voucher program. The program, which was announced last June, was intended to shorten the time it takes to review drugs from 10 to 12 months down to just two months.

The FDA approved the Eli Lilly drug just 50 days after filing. The company plans to start shipping the pill on April 6.