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阿布扎比金融峰会与会者护照信息外泄

2026年2月18日 07:00 / 联合早报

“阿布扎比金融周”于2025年12月8日至11日举行。图为阿联酋首都阿布扎比。 （路透社）

英国《金融时报》星期二（2月17日）报道，阿布扎比旗舰投资峰会数百名与会者的护照及其他身份证件在网上泄露，其中包括英国前首相卡梅伦和对冲基金亿万富豪霍华德。

报道引述多份文件说，由阿联酋政府赞助的阿布扎比金融周（简称ADFW）于去年12月举行，超过3万5000人与会。一名安全研究员在与阿布扎比金融周相关的一个未加密云存储服务器上，发现700多本护照和身份证扫描件。

发现此次泄露事件的自雇安全研究员兼顾问苏霍夫斯基（Roni Suchowski）说，这些数据可通过简单的网络浏览器访问。

报道称，卡梅伦、霍华德（Alan Howard）、美国投资者、前白宫通讯联络主任斯卡拉穆奇（Anthony Scaramucci）的身份证件均在曝光之列。

霍华德拒绝对报道置评，卡梅伦和斯卡拉穆奇尚未作出回应。主办方阿布扎比全球市场（Abu Dhabi Global Market）也尚未置评。

《金融时报》16日就泄露事件联系阿布扎比金融周后，服务器已得加固。

阿布扎比金融周向《金融时报》证实，第三方供应商管理的服务器存在漏洞，并称仅小部分与会者受影响。

As Iran talks drag on, questions emerge over how long Trump will indulge diplomacy

By Kevin Liptak, CNN

PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2026, 5:04 PM ET

After passing notes for three-and-a-half hours Tuesday, Iranian and American negotiators departed their indirect talks in Geneva with an agreement to keep talking. What they’re talking about, exactly, remains an open question.

It’s unclear if the two sides are focused just on Iran’s nuclear program or other issues like the country’s ballistic missiles. Iran’s top negotiator said only that they’d arrived at a “set of guiding principles.” An American official was more circumspect, acknowledging “there are still a lot of details to discuss.”

The readout hardly eased growing fears of an impending regional war. Some officials have started to wonder how long President Donald Trump will allow diplomatic efforts to proceed. Adding to the sense of malaise, Iran conducted military exercises with cruise missiles and boats as the talks were underway, briefly closing the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump “reserves the ability to say when he thinks that diplomacy has reached its natural end,” Vice President JD Vance said in a Fox News interview, hours after the talks concluded Tuesday. He added that the two sides “agreed to meet afterwards” but that the Iranians have not acknowledged certain “red lines.”

So far, Trump has authorized the incremental back-and-forth that often defines high-stakes international dealmaking, dispatching his envoys Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner to foreign compounds to exchange papers with Iranian diplomats through an Omani intermediary.

But Trump is also wary of being “tapped along” by an Iranian regime looking to play for time, according to people familiar with his thinking. His allies have warned him that could be Iran’s intent, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasized that argument in an urgently scheduled meeting last week.

Oman’s Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, right, meets with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, center, and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner ahead of the indirect US-Iran talks, in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 17, 2026.

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Trump is also acutely aware that every passing day without US military action is another day further from his initial promise — now nearly two months old — that he was coming to the assistance of Iranian protesters.

As the talks proceed, Trump has offered only loose deadlines.

“I guess over the next month, something like that,” he said when asked last Thursday if he envisioned a timeline. “Yeah, it shouldn’t take, I mean, it should happen quickly.”

Quickly, in diplomatic terms, can be relative. That is especially true when discussing the highly technical particulars of uranium enrichment, which in previous negotiations required the participation of nuclear physicists.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — the Obama-era deal that Trump harshly criticized as too weak on Iran and ultimately withdrew from — took more than two years of painstaking negotiations to finalize. Trump’s own grinding negotiations with the Iranians early last year lasted months before eventually falling apart, resulting in US military strikes on Iran’s uranium enrichment sites over the summer.

Administration officials believe Iran is now more motivated to agree to a deal than in the past because of the dire state of its economy, strangled by western sanctions. The major US military buildup Trump has ordered around Iran is also intended to apply pressure.

Yet so far, the Iranians do not seem willing to immediately accede.

“This does not mean that we can reach an agreement quickly, but at least the path has begun,” Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tuesday after noting the two sides agreed in their indirect talks to “move toward drafting the text of a possible agreement.”

Araghchi, who led Iran’s delegation in Geneva, said that no date had been set for future conversations. The American official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive negotiations, said the Iranians indicated they would “come back in the next two weeks with detailed proposals” to address the gaps in their negotiating positions.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, on the day he addresses a special session of the Conference on Disarmament at the United Nations, on the sidelines of US-Iran talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 17, 2026.

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That timeframe would loosely align with the time it will take the USS Gerald R. Ford — the world’s largest aircraft carrier — to sail from the Caribbean Sea to the Middle East, where it will join the massive buildup of US military assets Trump has ordered to be ready for potential confrontation.

Meanwhile, the two sides have struggled to even agree on what is up for discussion.

Heading into Tuesday’s discussions, Tehran had insisted it would only discuss its nuclear program as part of a deal that would lift sanctions and avoid a war with the United States. But some Trump administration officials, and Israel, say any deal must be more expansive, to include Iran’s ballistic missiles and its support for regional militant groups.

Vance, in the Fox interview, suggested it was the nuclear file that took precedence.

“There are a lot of ways in which they endanger America’s national security, but the most important way they could is if they acquired a nuclear weapon,” he said.

Some regional diplomats have floated a broader agreement that pairs concessions on the nuclear program and commitments on nonaggression with possible business deals, including granting the US privileged access to developing Iran’s oil, gas and rare earths resources, one source said.

Such an agreement would align with Trump’s interests in brokering grand deals that contain an economic upside for the United States. Still, if past negotiations with Iran are any guide, it is the technicalities of the nuclear concessions that will still prove to be the major hurdle.

Iran has signaled some willingness to make compromises on its nuclear program, which it has always insisted is intended for peaceful purposes. That includes offers to dilute its 60%-enriched uranium, which is a short technical step away from becoming weapons-grade, or temporarily suspend enrichment for up to three years, according to people familiar with the discussions.

Another possibility would be shipping its highly-enriched material to a third country, potentially Russia, as it did in the 2015 Obama-era deal.

Trump, however, continued to insist over the weekend that the US “doesn’t want any enrichment,” suggesting the US will not settle for a deal that allows even low-level uranium enrichment by Iran. That would seem to be a stubborn sticking point, given Iran’s longstanding position that enrichment is their right. But hardline positions going into negotiations can always change.

Lingering uncertainties around what the US might hope to achieve through military action in Iran may also motivate Trump to allow extended negotiations.

“The question (is) what happens to Iran the day after. If they had a clear answer to that, I think we already would have seen a military strike,” said Amos Hochstein, a special US envoy under President Joe Biden. “But all these talks and sending more military equipment is to gain time to figure that question out.”

“They’re going to have enough military equipment there, and personnel, very soon to be able to do whatever they feel they need to do,” Hochstein said. “The question is, is it wise to do it or not?”

Ultimately, whatever Iran agrees to will have to be approved by the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has both maintained a hardline on the nuclear issue and issued threats against the United States amid the military buildup.

“More dangerous than the American warship is the weapon that can send it to the bottom of the sea,” he said, ominously, ahead of Tuesday’s talks.

American officials say getting Khamenei’s sign-off would be the most difficult part of any negotiation, and that dealing with lower-level envoys that lack his authority has the effect of prolonging talks.

Trump, meanwhile, said last week that regime change in Iran — presumably including Khamenei’s ouster — would be the “best thing that could happen.”

Stephen Colbert slams CBS, says lawyers told him James Talarico interview could not air on “The Late Show”

Updated on: February 17, 2026 / 3:59 PM EST / CBS News

“The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert criticized CBS on Monday night, saying the network blocked his interview with U.S. Senate hopeful James Talarico from airing.

“You know who is not one of my guests tonight? That’s Texas State Representative James Talarico,” Colbert told his studio audience. “He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast. Then I was told in some uncertain terms that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on. And because my network clearly doesn’t want us to talk about this, let’s talk about this.”

Colbert said the reason CBS prevented “The Late Show” from broadcasting Talarico’s appearance was rooted in new guidance from the FCC for daytime talk shows and late-night TV programs, which requires the shows to provide equal time to opposing candidates.

While “The Late Show” didn’t air Talarico’s interview on TV, it did post it on YouTube, where FCC rules don’t apply.

“The network says I can’t give you a URL or a QR code, but I promise you, if you go to our YouTube page, you’ll find it,” Colbert said.

Talarico, a Democrat, has served as a Texas state representative since 2018 and is campaigning in the Democratic primary to represent his state in the U.S. Senate.

CBS said in a statement: “THE LATE SHOW was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview with Rep. James Talarico. The show was provided legal guidance that the broadcast could trigger the FCC equal-time rule for two other candidates, including Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and presented options for how the equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled. THE LATE SHOW decided to present the interview through its YouTube channel with on-air promotion on the broadcast rather than potentially providing the equal-time options.”

CBS News has reached out to the FCC for comment.

FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, who was nominated by former President Joe Biden, said Tuesday that CBS is protected under the First Amendment “to determine what interviews it airs.”

“That makes its decision to yield to political pressure all the more disappointing,” Gomez wroteon social media. “Corporate interests cannot justify retreating from airing newsworthy content.”

The FCC issued a notice last month that daytime talk shows and late-night programs must give equal time to opposing candidates. The announcement hinged on a decades-old federal law requiring any FCC-licensed broadcaster that lets a political candidate appear on its airwaves to also offer “equal opportunities” to all other candidates running for the same office. The law exempts “bona fide newscasts” and news interviews from the equal time rule.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who was appointed by President Trump and is an ally of the president, wrote on X as he shared the notice: “For years, legacy TV networks assumed that their late night & daytime talk shows qualify as ‘bona fide news’ programs – even when motivated by purely partisan political purposes. Today, the FCC reminded them of their obligation to provide all candidates with equal opportunities.”

On “The Late Show” Monday, Colbert said, “Well, sir, you’re chairman of the FCC, so FCC U, because I think you are motivated by partisan purposes yourself.”

“Let’s just call this what it is: Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV, OK? He’s like a toddler with too much screentime. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diaper,” Colbert said.

CBS News has reached out to the White House for comment.

Talarico shared a clip on social media early Tuesday, saying, “This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.”

Tuesday marked the first day of early voting in Texas for the March 3 primary, in which Talarico faces U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett and businessman Ahmad Hassan. They are facing off to take on the winner of the Republican primary, in which longtime GOP Sen. John Cornyn is being challenged by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt. Both races could go to runoffs if no candidate in either party gets 50% of the vote.

Networks, individual shows and talk show hosts have come under fire by Mr. Trump for what he has claimed is their politically biased programming. Mr. Trump has at times called for broadcasters to lose their FCC licenses.

After taking over “The Late Show” from David Letterman in 2015, Colbert is preparing to wrap his final season as its host in May, when CBS will retire the late-night franchise. Although many suggested the cancellation was politically motivated, as Colbert has been an outspoken critic of Mr. Trump and his administration, the network insisted its decision was purely financial.

Joe Walsh contributed to this report.

美国副总统：美方向伊朗划定“红线”

2026年2月18日 07:07 / 联合早报

美国副总统万斯强调，美总统特朗普在处理伊朗核问题上有多种选项，包括外交谈判和军事手段。 （法新社）

美国副总统万斯说，美国和伊朗在瑞士日内瓦举行的谈判在部分议题上进展顺利，双方同意继续接触。美方向伊方划定一些“红线”，但伊方“尚未真正认可并愿意协商解决”。

综合新华社和法新社报道，美国和伊朗第二轮间接谈判星期二（2月17日）在日内瓦举行。万斯同日接受福克斯新闻频道一档节目采访时指出，美国已向伊朗明确划定“不可逾越的红线”，核心目标是“不希望伊朗拥有核武器，不希望核扩散”。

他强调，美总统特朗普在处理伊朗核问题上有多种选项，包括外交谈判和军事手段。美方“非常希望”通过外交谈判来解决这个问题，但特朗普“保留在他认为外交努力已到尽头时宣布谈判结束的权利”。

伊朗外交部长阿拉格齐在谈判结束后说，目前双方立场仍存在差距，需要进一步沟通，但谈判前景较此前“更加清晰”。双方还就一系列“指导性原则”达成总体共识。

阿拉格奇17日接受伊朗国家电视台采访时说，双方已就一系列指导原则达成广泛的共识，这些原则将纳入最终的协议。他说：“我可以肯定地说，与上一轮会谈相比，本轮会谈更加严肃认真，也更具有建设性。”

尽管双方已开始朝着达成协议的方向迈进，但阿拉格奇表示，“这并不意味着我们能迅速达成协议。”

美国已在中东地区部署一个航空母舰打击群，第二个航母打击群正在增派途中。特朗普16日称，他将“间接”参与美伊谈判，如达不成协议，伊朗将承担“后果”。

伊朗政府在本轮谈判前重申，愿达成公正平衡的协议，进而解除伊朗所遭制裁，但伊方有两条“红线”：一是和平利用核能的权利不可剥夺，二是导弹能力不容谈判。

Legal experts and conservatives are taking aim at newly published ethics guidelines that allow federal judges to speak out on certain issues, arguing the guidance issued by the court’s policy-making body is hypocritical and has been unfairly applied.

At issue is new ethics guidance published this month by the U.S. Judicial Conference, the national body led by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in his official capacity and tasked with setting policy for the federal courts.

It is unclear whether Roberts himself was directly involved in the guidance, but critics assailed it all the same. Article III Project founder Mike Davis told Fox News Digital that Roberts is “giving judicial saboteurs new tools” for the courts to overstep.

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JUDGES V TRUMP: HERE ARE THE KEY COURT BATTLES HALTING THE WHITE HOUSE AGENDA

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Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks alongside President Donald Trump on recent Supreme Court rulings in the briefing room at the White House.(Getty Images)

In a departure from earlier guidance, the new advisory opinion states that judges may engage in a “measured defense” of the judiciary, including defending against “illegitimate forms of criticism and attacks” that risk “undermining judicial independence or the rule of law,” and doing so “regardless of whether these comments rise to the level of persecution,” according to a copy of the opinion reviewed by Fox News Digital.

It goes on to list four areas of illegitimate activity identified by Chief Justice Roberts in his 2024 year-end report, including activities that “either threaten the judges themselves” or threaten the rule of law: “Violence, intimidation, disinformation and threats to defy court orders.”

“It does not follow, however, that every activity that involves the law or the legal system is considered permissible activity,” the report said.

The new guidance comes as Trump has assailed so-called “rogue” or “activist” judges who have paused or blocked some of his biggest policy priorities from taking effect during his second term as president.

It also comes as threats against federal judges saw a sharp uptick in 2025 compared to the previous 12-month period, according to federal data, including increases in online harassment, threats of physical violence and “doxxing” incidents targeting judges and their families.

The guidance in question seemingly attempts to give judges a forum to dispel some of the criticism against them.

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EX-JUDGES BLAST TOP TRUMP DOJ OFFICIAL FOR DECLARING ‘WAR’ ON COURTS

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Judge James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the Federal District Court in D.C., stands for a portrait at the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, D.C., on March 16, 2023.(Washington Post via Getty)

But it also invited fresh backlash from Trump allies, conservative commentators and court watchers, who argued the guidance is being unfairly applied to protect certain members of the judiciary.

“The first thing to note” about the new guidance is its timing, said Josh Blackman, a constitutional law professor at the South Texas College of Law, in an interview.

“It is clearly a response to conservative criticism of liberal judges,” Blackman said. “We didn’t see much of this in the last four years, [when] there were routine death threats against conservative judges.”

The timing, he added, “is a bit unfortunate, because it gives a sense that only [certain] criticisms warrant a response.”

Davis went further. In a statement, he railed against the ethics guidance as “sabotaging the exercise of core Article II powers of the duly-elected president,” and another example in which he argued the federal judiciary has overstepped its powers.

“Friendly reminder: when federal judges take off their judicial robes, climb into the political arena, and throw political punches, they should expect powerful political counterpunches,” Davis said.

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FEDERAL JUDGE LAUNCHES SCATHING BROADSIDE OF TRUMP’S EFFORTS TO DEPORT PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS

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White House adviser Stephen Miller and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts are seen in a side-by-side split image.(Getty Images)

The opinion comes as dozens of former judges have voiced concern over the Trump administration’s rhetoric towards the federal court judges, describing them in a series of interviews with Fox News Digital as unnecessarily inflammatory and amounting to “pouring oil” on an already fast-burning fire.

The new guidance also stressed that judges “should avoid sensationalism” and commentary that “may result in confusion or misunderstanding of the judicial function or detract from the dignity of the office.”

The news comes as several judges have been criticized formally for overstepping their duties on the bench, and for otherwise making overtly political comments.

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The Supreme Court last year condemned U.S. District Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, for failing to respect the commander-in-chief in repeated opinions that assailed Trump as a bully, and as being laser-focused on “retribution.”

He has also accused the administration of “racial discrimination” and “discrimination against the LGBTQ community,” and asked in one order, “Have we no shame?”

Breanne Deppisch is a national politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering the Trump administration, with a focus on the Justice Department, FBI and other national news. She previously covered national politics at the Washington Examiner and The Washington Post, with additional bylines in Politico Magazine, the Colorado Gazette and others. You can send tips to Breanne at Breanne.Deppisch@fox.com, or follow her on X at @breanne_dep.

Trump blames Maryland, D.C. and Virginia for massive sewage spill, offers help if they ask “politely”

February 17, 2026 / 4:06 PM EST / CBS News

Washington— President Trump is blaming government leaders in the metro Washington, D.C. area, among them Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, following a massive sewage spill into the Potomac River in the Washington, D.C. area, perhaps the largest in American history.

President Trump said in a post on Truth Social Tuesday that the federal government would help clean up the spill, which occurred in mid-January, if local leaders ask “politely,” though he had said Monday in another post that he would direct federal authorities to “immediately provide all necessary management, direction and coordination” to protect the Potomac.

After Moore indicated the federal government bears the responsibility for maintaining the collapsed 60-year-old Potomac Interceptor behind the spill, Mr. Trump said in his post that Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. were responsible for the “massive sewage spill,” and if they can’t fix it, “they have to call me and ask, politely, to get it fixed.” He added that the “federal government is not at all involved with what has taken place, but we can fix it.”

A section of the sewer line collapsed in January in Montgomery County, Maryland, sending more than 200 million gallons of wastewater into the Potomac. Although DC Water — the public utility that’s responsible for the District’s drinking water, wastewater collection and sewage treatment — has diverted the wastewater spill and is working to sanitize the water, it didn’t manage to do so before the wastewater severely tainted the Potomac with high levels of E. coli and other bacteria. DC Water is overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency.

“This is a Radical Left caused Environmental Hazard,” the president wrote in his post Tuesday. “With all of their talk about carbon footprints and everything else, they’re allowing hundreds of tons of sewage to pour into the Mighty Potomac, making it much less mighty. ACT FAST. I am awaiting your call.”

The president placed most of the blame for the spill squarely on Moore and Democratic officials in Maryland. He said over the weekend that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is responding to the incident, but that the ongoing funding lapse for its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, is affecting the agency.

But on Tuesday, Moore said it’s the federal government that has long been responsible for the sewage project.

“I know this is breaking news to everyone, but the president is not telling the truth,” Moore told reporters in Maryland. “Because what you’re looking at with the Piedmont sewage project, that’s not something that the federal government has had responsibility for for the past year; it’s not something that the federal government has had responsibility for the past decade — in fact, the federal government has had responsibility for that for the past century.”

He added that Maryland Department of the Environment workers were, in fact, among the first to respond to the spill, testing the water quality and sewage. And Moore said the EPA declined to join a congressional briefing that Maryland officials had invited the agency to join.

“Now that it is essentially 99% contained, I love the fact that the president of the United States is finally realizing that this was his job, and he hasn’t been doing it for the past month,” Moore added. “So I say, ‘Listen, we’d welcome you to help to address the remaining 1% that hasn’t been complete while we’ve been doing your job.’”

Mr. Trump has made it clear recently he’s no fan of Moore. The Maryland governor is one of two Democrats whom Mr. Trump deemed “not worthy” to be invited to an annual White House meeting and dinner with governors from both parties this week. Moore discussed the slight with CBS News during a “Things That Matter” town hall that aired Sunday night.

He shrugged off the White House snub, saying that “if the point of the meeting is to turn it into name-calling … I will not go.”

In another social media post, the president called Moore “foul mouthed,” criticized his performance as Maryland governor and accused him of lying about receiving a military medal. Moore said Mr. Trump’s post was “full of lies” and “unhinged.”

“I will work with anyone. But I will bow down to no one,” Moore told CBS News. “And I think the president has a problem with that.”

CBS News has reached out to DC Water, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office, the Maryland Department of Environmental Quality, Moore’s office, Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s office, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and the EPA for comment.

“The damaged portion of sewage infrastructure is owned and operated by DC Water, and the location of the break is in Montgomery County, MD,” the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality told CBS News.

The Potomac Interceptor was built as a result of a law Congress passed in 1960 that authorized the District of Columbia to construct, operate and maintain a sewer line connecting Dulles to the Washington, D.C. sewer system, according to DC Water.

Man in tactical vest with loaded shotgun arrested after charging US Capitol, police say

By Holmes Lybrand | Updated 1 hr 8 min ago | Published Feb 17, 2026, 3:26 PM ET

An 18-year-old who charged the US Capitol with a loaded shotgun while wearing a tactical vest was quickly arrested Tuesday, February 17, 2026, US Capitol Police said.

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An 18-year-old in a tactical vest who charged the US Capitol with a loaded shotgun Tuesday was quickly arrested, US Capitol Police said.

Police identified the man as Carter Camacho of Smyrna, Georgia, and said he acted alone. They are working to determine a motive.

Capitol Police Chief Michael Sullivan said Camacho, armed with the loaded shotgun and carrying additional rounds, drove a white Mercedes SUV near the Capitol before exiting and running toward the building.

He was intercepted by Capitol Police, who drew their firearms and told him to drop his gun and get on the ground, Sullivan said. Camacho complied and laid down before being arrested and taken into custody.

“Who knows what could have happened if we didn’t have officers” at their posts, Sullivan said.

An photograph of a shotgun, released by US Capitol Police on Tuesday.

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“This individual had a tactical vest on,” the chief said, as well as “tactical gloves.” A Kevlar helmet and gas mask were found in the man’s car, Sullivan said. Police found the car in front of the US Botanic Garden, near the Capitol. They said the vehicle was not registered in his name.

Police have charged Camacho with carrying a rifle without a license, having an unregistered firearm and ammunition, as well as unlawful activities. He was not previously known to Capitol Police, they said.

Law enforcement temporarily closed traffic and cautioned people to stay away from the area during the incident.

The Capitol was quieter than usual on Tuesday, with lawmakers away from Washington this week on a pre-scheduled recess.

This story has been updated with additional information.

秘鲁总统私会中国商人 被国会罢免

发布时间：2026年2月18日 07:29 | 来源：联合早报

赫里是以国会主席身份接任秘鲁总统职位，国会只需取得半数以上赞成即可同时解除他的国会主席职务和总统职务。 （法新社）

上任仅四个月的秘鲁总统赫里，因卷入与一名中国商人进行未公开会面的丑闻而被国会罢免。

路透社报道，秘鲁近10年来因总统频繁更迭、国会与政府冲突加剧、高层腐败丑闻，陷入严重的政治动荡。

秘鲁国会星期二（17日）召开特别全体会议，以75票赞成、24票反对、3票弃权的表决结果，通过对总统赫里的弹劾动议。

代理国会主席罗斯皮廖西宣布星期三（18日）举行国会主席选举，进而确认接任总统职务的人选。

秘鲁国会共130个席位，按照法律规定，弹劾总统动议需要至少87名议员支持才能获得通过。不过，赫里是以国会主席身份接任总统职位，只需半数以上赞成即可同时解除其国会主席职务和总统的职务。

2025年10月9日，秘鲁国会召开特别全体会议，通过对时任总统博鲁阿尔特的弹劾动议，解除其总统职务。次日，秘鲁国会主席赫里根据秘鲁法律规定宣誓就任总统。

根据秘鲁宪法，总统不能履行职责时，应由副总统接替。但由于近年来秘鲁第一副总统和第二副总统的职位一直空缺，总统职位如空缺则由国会主席接任。

CBS host Stephen Colbert says network barred airing interview with Texas US Senate candidate

February 17, 2026 5:43 PM UTC / Reuters

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WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) – CBS late-night show host Stephen Colbert said on Monday that the network’s lawyers barred him from airing an interview with Democratic Texas State Representative James Talarico, who is running for his party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate.

“Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV,” Colbert said on Monday’s broadcast of “The Late Show.”

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The Republican-led FCC said last month that daytime and late-night TV talk shows are no longer considered “bona fide” news programs that are exempt from equal time rules that require them to give air time to the views of opposing candidates.

Colbert criticized FCC Chair Brendan Carr and the network’s lawyers, saying they were unilaterally enforcing Carr’s directive for “purely financial reasons.”

Those words echoed the explanation Paramount provided when it announced in July that Colbert’s program would go off the air in May as it was seeking approval from the Federal Communications Commission for its $8.4 billion merger with Skydance Media.

Reuters and other outlets reported earlier this month that the FCC is opening an investigation into whether ABC’s “The View” daytime talk show violated equal time rules for interviews with political candidates after an appearance by Talarico.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly pushed Carr to take action against U.S. broadcasters and criticized networks for what he views as one-sided coverage.

Colbert posted the interview on the program’s YouTube page, where it has about 1 million views as of 11 a.m. ET.

CHANGING LANDSCAPE FOR TALK SHOWS

Until January, talk shows were deemed to have qualified for the equal opportunities exemption as genuine news interviews, ever since the FCC Media Bureau granted an exemption to the interview portion of Jay Leno’s “The Tonight Show” in 2006.

Networks have relied on the ruling as a precedent for recent interviews with political candidates.

Carr, Paramount Skydance and CBS did not respond to requests for comment on Colbert’s remarks. The White House declined to comment.

FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, a Democrat, criticized CBS’s decision not to air the interview, calling it censorship. She said the FCC has no lawful authority to pressure broadcasters for political purposes and CBS has free speech rights to air the interview.

“This is yet another troubling example of corporate capitulation in the face of this administration’s broader campaign to censor and control speech,” Gomez said. “It is no secret that Paramount, CBS’s parent company, has regulatory matters before the government, but corporate interests cannot justify retreating from airing newsworthy content.”

Paramount Skydance is seeking to buy Warner Bros Discovery.

Carr faced bipartisan criticism after pressuring broadcasters to take ABC late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel off the air in September, warning they could face fines or loss of licenses, and said “it’s time for them to step up.”

Two major broadcasters said they would pull Kimmel off the air and Disney briefly suspended Kimmel before restoring the show. In December, Democratic U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin told Carr, “you used your position within the federal government to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air in a clear attempt to chill free speech.”

Reporting by David Shepardson Editing by Bill Berkrot

US releases another $77 million in frozen New York tunnel funding

By David Shepardson
February 17, 2026 5:39 PM UTC Updated 51 mins ago

Item 1 of 4 People work at the site of the Gateway Project in New York City, U.S., February 17, 2026. REUTERS/Adam Gray

[1/4]People work at the site of the Gateway Project in New York City, U.S., February 17, 2026. REUTERS/Adam Gray

WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) – The Trump administration has released another $77 million in frozen federal funding for the $16 billion Hudson Tunnel Project, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said on Tuesday, as a political battle over the critical infrastructure continued.

New York and New Jersey sued after the U.S. Department of Transportation withheld $205 million in funding for the project since October 1. The funding freeze triggered a halt to construction that put 1,000 workers out of work.

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USDOT released $30 million on Friday, bringing the total released to $107 million. A spokesperson for USDOT said the agency is following the court order.

The Gateway Development Commission, which is overseeing the project, said on Tuesday that construction remained paused and it was working to “get workers back on the job to resume some construction as soon as possible.”

Republican President Donald Trump offered last month to unfreeze the funds, a source said, in return for support from Democrats to rename Washington Dulles Airport and New York’s Penn Station after him. Democrats strongly criticized the suggestion.

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The Hudson Tunnel Project aims to build a new commuter rail tunnel connecting Manhattan and New Jersey and repair a century-old tunnel used by more than 200,000 travelers and 425 trains daily.

The existing Hudson Tunnel, heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, needs frequent emergency repairs that disrupt travel on the nation’s most heavily used passenger rail line.

Trump said on social media on Monday that he opposed the project, and was worried about billions of dollars in cost overruns.

“Gateway will likewise be financially catastrophic for the region, unless hard work and proper planning is done, NOW, to avoid insurmountable future cost overruns,” Trump said.

Hochul said she called Trump on Monday after his post and told him the project was not facing cost issues.

“It is urgent that we build this tunnel and do it now and stop these political delays,” Hochul said, calling on the administration not to impact future funding. “Imagine if something happens and this tunnel fails?”

U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas ordered the federal government to release funds for the project earlier this month.

The project was allocated about $15 billion in federal support under then-President Joe Biden, a Democrat. Nearly $2 billion has been spent so far.

Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Nia Williams

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