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Madison Chock says ice dance judges should “be vetted and reviewed” after France’s controversial win at Winter Olympics

February 12, 2026 / 6:34 PM EST / CBS News

The ice dance competition of the 2026 Winter Olympics may be over, but many fans can’t stop talking about Madison Chock and Evan Bates’ performance — or France’s controversial win after the judges’ scores left the Americans just 1.43 points shy of gold.

Asked by CBS News if there should be any changes in the way ice dance is judged moving forward, Chock said it would “definitely be helpful if it’s more understandable for the viewers, to just see more transparent judging and understand … what’s really going on.”

“I think it’s also important for the skaters, that the judges be vetted and reviewed to make sure that they are also putting out their best performance,” she continued, “because there’s a lot on the line for the skaters when they’re out there giving it their all, and we deserve to have the judges also giving us their all and for it to be a fair and even playing field.”

The Americans were the favorites going into the free dance on Wednesday, despite being 0.46 points behind France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron after the rhythm dance portion of the competition on Monday. They posted their world-best score in Monday’s program, earning 89.72 points, but were then topped by the French pair who scored 90.18.

Chock and Bates performed their free dance to “Paint It Black” from the dystopian sci-fi show “Westworld” and earned a score of 134.67. Fournier Beaudry and Cizeron then skated to the soundtrack from “The Whale” and scored 135.64, edging out the married American couple by less than a point.

Madison Chock and Evan Bates perform their free dance program at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Luo Yunfei/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images

During their free dance program, however, Cizeron made a mistake during an element called a twizzle — a one-footed moving spin — and their performance was generally seen as less clean than Chock and Bates’.

In the end, Beaudry and Cizeron’s 225.82 total edged out Chock and Bates’ 224.39. Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier took bronze, with 217.74.

Olympic ice dance silver medalists Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the U.S., gold medalists Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France, and bronze medalists Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Canada. Stephanie Scarbrough / AP

In ice dancing, every element has a base value, or the number of points it’s normally worth; there’s also a grade of execution, for which teams are scored positive for doing well and negative for doing poorly. The French weren’t marked down for the mistake during their twizzles, and there were other moments throughout their performance that might have appeared messy.

But their scores bested Chock and Bates’ marks for artistic presentation and interpretation of the music, as well. Another factor of subjective scoring: The French judge scored the Americans more than seven points lower than the French duo, which is a large margin in ice dance. Five of the nine judges favored the Americans in their scoring; the other three only slightly scored the French team higher.

Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France compete during the free dance event. Jean Catuffe / Getty Images

“It’s definitely a bittersweet feeling at the moment,” Chock said after the competition on Wednesday. “We have had the most incredible year — 15 years on the ice together; first Olympics as a married couple. And we delivered four of our best performances this week. I think we’re really proud of how we handled ourselves here and what we accomplished.”

Bates said Thursday it was their “absolute best performance.” He said he and Chock hadn’t studied the scores, adding that their performance “felt like a winning skate to us and that’s what we’re going to hold on to,” The Associated Press reported.

They’re still discussing their plans for the future. The 2026 World Figure Skating Championships are next month in Prague, and the Americans are the reigning world champs.

Silver medalists Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the U.S. perform during the free dance competition. Cheng Min/Xinhua via Getty Images

Fournier Beaudry and Cizeron have been a pair for less than a year. Cizeron previously won gold in the ice dance event at the 2022 Winter Olympics with then-partner Gabriella Papadakis, who retired in 2024. She has since accused Cizeron of abusive behavior, alleging he was “controlling” and “demanding,” CBS News partner BBC News reported. He countered that Papadakis had spread false information about him in a “smear campaign.”

Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron of France perform during the free dance competition. Xue Yuge/Xinhua via Getty Images

Fournier Beaudry was born in Montreal and has spent most of her career representing Canada, but she was granted French citizenship in November. She asked Cizeron to team up after her former partner, Nikolaj Sørensen, was suspended by Skate Canada after an American skater accused him of sexual assault. The suspension was overturned in June on jurisdictional grounds, but the case is still pending, The AP reported. Fournier Beaudry has also maintained his innocence, showing her support for her former partner as recently as earlier this month.

Kiki Intarasuwan and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Communications breakdown over El Paso airspace closure sparks finger pointing across Trump administration

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Police officers with K9 police dogs at El Paso International Airport after the Federal Aviation Administration lifted its temporary closure of the airspace over El Paso, in El Paso, Texas, on February 11.

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The Federal Aviation Administration’s abrupt and unexplained closure of airspace above El Paso, Texas, early Wednesday has given way to a blame game inside the administration, with key senior officials asserting they hadn’t been alerted to the decision beforehand, according to several people familiar with the matter.

The White House, which was furious with the FAA for the decision, blames the agency for failing to alert the appropriate people in the West Wing of its plan to shut down the airspace for 10 days, two senior administration officials told CNN. Senior aides to President Donald Trump view this as a FAA “f**k-up,” not a Pentagon one, one of the officials said.

Elsewhere in the administration, top officials were pointing fingers at the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon for using new counter-drone technology in civilian airspace without first alerting the FAA, sources familiar with the talks said.

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And one source disputed that the White House was kept in the dark, asserting that the FAA notified senior National Security Council staffers and the Homeland Security Council Tuesday evening that the airspace was going to be restricted and that they would issue the temporary flight restriction. The source said it was unclear if the officials who had been notified informed their agency’s principals.

The intense finger-pointing inside the administration more than 24 hours after the airspace had reopened underscored both the concerns raised by the series of events and the rush to find someone to blame for it.

The episode was met with heightened frustration as it threatened to taint the entire administration with a pall of incompetence and seemed to reveal communications problems among critical areas of Trump’s government, one official said. The White House was particularly concerned about the uncertainty created by the vague nature of the airspace closure notice, which classified the area around El Paso as “(National) Defense Airspace” and said pilots who violated the restriction could be intercepted.

Much of the internal White House frustration is now being directed at Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, whose agency houses the FAA, the two senior officials said.

Duffy was aware ahead of time the FAA was going to be shuttering the airspace, “but he didn’t tell anyone,” one of the officials told CNN. He later told top White House officials that he knew about the announcement ahead of time, the official said. But another administration official blamed FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford, saying that he “decided to close the airspace without alerting White House, Pentagon, or Homeland Security officials.”

A separate source familiar with the process strongly defended Duffy and disputed that the FAA kept the White House in the dark.

“It’s baffling that White House officials are upset with Duffy for protecting the airspace and not the folks who launched the laser,” the source familiar with the talks said, blaming the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon for shooting “into commercial air space.”

Despite many White House officials being “furious” with the FAA and Duffy, as one of the senior administration officials characterized it, it is unclear whether Trump will move to hold any specific individuals accountable.

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There is a broad feeling in the Trump administration that the breakdown in communications was, in part, a result of the heavy distrust between the FAA and the Pentagon, which has existed ever since a military helicopter collided midair with a commercial plane in Washington, DC, last year, sources said. One of the sources said the Pentagon does not have a great track record when it comes to training operations in open airspace, referencing the DC crash that killed 67 people.

The administration officially blamed the closure on an incursion of drones from Mexican drug cartels. Duffy was among the first to do so publicly, saying on social media “the threat has been neutralized.”

But incursions along the southern border are extremely common, and historically do not prompt such airspace closures. And one of the administration officials denied that a Mexican drug cartel drone and the US response prompted any real danger to commercial travel, telling CNN that “at no point in the process of disabling these cartel drones were civilian aircraft in danger as a result of the methods used by DOW to disable the drones.”

The reality of the closure appeared more complicated.

Officials told CNN on Wednesday the decision to close the airspace was prompted after Customs and Border Protection officials deployed a high-energy counter-drone laser on loan from the Pentagon without having coordinated with the FAA about potential risks to civilian flights. A source told CNN the technology was used to shoot down four mylar balloons this week. In the minds of some, its use raised immediate concerns for civilian traffic arriving and departing El Paso International Airport.

A source familiar with the process said the FAA had learned after the fact that the laser had been operationalized. It was only then that the FAA decided to issue the restriction on El Paso’s airspace.

Previously, the FAA, Pentagon, NSC and DHS had been engaged in back-and-forth discussions over the new counter-drone technology and what they deemed as its safe use, officials said. But the conclusion of those discussions appeared to be in dispute Wednesday.

According to a source familiar with the discussions, the FAA told the agencies that if they chose to use the technology without first allowing the FAA to test it in commercial airspace, then the FAA would have to restrict the airspace. “The Pentagon refused,” the source said.

FAA and Pentagon officials had been scheduled to meet February 20 to review potential impacts and mitigation measures for a test of the laser system, a technology the Pentagon has been testing in more remote areas of the country, multiple sources said. But, in their telling, the Defense Department sought to use the system sooner around El Paso, and the FAA imposed the temporary flight restriction until that coordination could occur.

A senior administration official, though, said the Pentagon gave DHS the authorization to use the laser technology, and that they had been practicing and discussing the operation for months. The official argued that DOD and DHS did not need FAA approval to operationalize it.

On the morning the airspace was closed, officials in the West Wing, the FAA and the Pentagon held early meetings and exchanged urgent communications, and senior White House officials made clear the airspace needed to reopen, sources said. The aviation agency soon announced the closure was lifted.

“When everyone saw the news, we called the FAA and told them to reverse course. And so that’s what they did,” one of the senior administration officials said.

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Area lawmakers from El Paso — with a population of nearly 700,000 — have bemoaned that the closure notice came without any warning.

“What we were told was everything is grounded, and there was no information. But our city was going to be shut down for ten days, and that’s all the information we got and still today, we have no information and we have no correspondence with the FAA,” El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson told CNN on Thursday.

“9/11 shut down our airport for only two days, but a drone was going to shut down our community for 10 days? It just doesn’t make sense to us here. We haven’t heard any good reasons of why they didn’t coordinate with us.”

And some Democrats from the El Paso area, which is hub of cross-border commerce alongside neighboring Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, are now accusing the Trump administration of being duplicitous in the aftermath of the incident.

“The amount of misinformation being spread — including by the White House — is alarming and unhelpful,” Rep. Veronica Escobar wrote on social media. “This was the result of incompetence at the highest levels of the administration.”

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初步计票显示 孟加拉民族主义党赢得过半议席

2026年2月13日 07:57 / 联合早报

2月12日，孟加拉民族主义党主席塔里克·拉赫曼在达卡投票后，向媒体发表讲话。 （路透社）

孟加拉媒体星期五（2月13日）报道，各选区初步计票结果显示，在12日举行的国民议会选举中，民族主义党已赢得一半以上议席，党主席、前总理卡莉达·齐亚之子塔里克·拉赫曼有望出任总理。

新华社报道，截至发稿时，孟加拉媒体报道的得票情况显示，民族主义党（BNP）已获得151个议席，主要竞争对手、由伊斯兰大会党（Jamaat-e-Islami）领导的联盟获得43席。

塔里克·拉赫曼（Tarique Rahman）的竞争对手为伊斯兰大会党的沙菲克·拉赫曼（Shafiqur Rahman）。两人并无血缘关系。

本次选举共有2028名候选人角逐议会300个席位中的299席。孟加拉选举委员会此前宣布，因一个选区有候选人去世，根据相关法律，这个选区投票取消，空缺议席将择日补选。

孟加拉国民议会议员以直接选举方式在所属选区产生，任期五年。若一个政党或联盟获得议会300个席位的半数以上，即可组建政府并提名总理。

EXCLUSIVE: A trio of Republican senators are moving to overhaul how federal childcare funds are distributed after what they call “mass fraud” in Minnesota exposed a system that paid providers before verifying children were ever in the room.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, joined by senators Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rick Scott, R-Fla., is introducing the Payment Integrity Act, legislation that would require states to distribute federally funded childcare dollars based on verified attendance, not enrollment claims.

“Programs in Minnesota for welfare and childcare were designed to channel resources into protecting vulnerable children but were treated like an open ATM by criminals,” Cruz told Fox News Digital.

“The mass fraud in Minnesota shows that American taxpayers can no longer rely on local and state politicians to prevent abuses because those politicians often have electoral and partisan incentives to look the other way. My legislation reduces the risk of the waste and fraud we’ve seen and ensures that resources are provided to children and families who need it.”

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Quality Learning Center in Minnesota was at the center of an alleged childcare fraud scandal in the state.(Madelin Fuerste/Fox News Channel)

The bill would reverse a 2024 Biden administration rule requiring states to pay childcare providers before attendance verification. Under Cruz’s proposal, providers would be paid only after services are confirmed, shifting from enrollment-based payments to attendance-based billing.

Cruz’s bill comes as the outspoken Texan led a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on alleged Somali fraudsters last week. There, lawmakers heard directly from David Hoch, a journalist who accompanied blogger Nick Shirley to sites claiming to be Somali daycare centers.

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“There are few crimes more morally repugnant than stealing from vulnerable children. Every dollar stolen is a meal not eaten, a doctor’s visit missed and a future diminished,” Cruz said, adding that such fraud “plunders our children’s potential.”

Gesturing toward a photo of the “Quality Learing Center” in Minneapolis during the hearing, an alleged fraudulent childcare provider Cruz called “emblematic” of the crisis, he said the fraud was occurring not in “some distant or lawless place, but in the heart of America’s Midwest.”

Co-sponsor Lee said support for childcare should “go to real kids, not empty rooms.”

“Fake childcare operations are stealing funding from the ones who are actually taking care of America’s children in need. Our bill will address this massive fraud by granting funding based on actual attendance rather than reported enrollment and allowing states to pay retroactively instead of in advance,” Lee said, adding such “diligence” should have been the law all along.

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The Payment Integrity Act also puts into law the January rule from Health and Human Services that established attendance-based billing procedures.

That rule, according to Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s deputy, Jim O’Neill, was also spurred by what has been happening in Minnesota.

“We’ve seen credible and widespread allegations of fraudulent daycare providers who were not caring for children at all. The reforms we are enacting will make fraud harder to perpetrate,” O’Neill said in a statement.

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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison during a Senate hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026.(Tom Brenner/AP)

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The Payment Integrity Act amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act signed into law by President George H.W. Bush, to include such “attendance-based billing.”

“Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to require a lead agency to make a payment to a child care provider prior to the provision of child care services,” the bill states in a direct reversal of the prepayment system Cruz says allowed fraud to flourish.

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FBI releases first description of suspect in Nancy Guthrie case, increases reward to $100,000

Updated on: February 12, 2026 / 8:21 PM EST / CBS News

Authorities on Thursday released the first physical description of a male suspect wanted in connection with the Arizona disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie. The suspect was seen on the front porch camera of Nancy Guthrie’s home the morning she is believed to have been abducted.

The suspect is described as having an average build and an approximate height of 5-foot-9 or 5-foot-10, the FBI said in a statement posted to social media. In the Nest doorbell camera video taken at Nancy Guthrie’s home outside Tucson, he was wearing a black-colored 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack backpack, the FBI said.

The FBI provided photos of a similar backpack for reference. The new details were based on a “forensic analysis of the doorbell camera footage,” the FBI said.

A black colored 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack backpack similar to one that the suspect in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie is believed to have been seen carrying outside Guthrie’s home on the morning of her disappearance. FBI

This marks the first time in the case that officials have described the person seen in the security video as a suspect.

The FBI also said it has increased its reward from $50,000 to $100,000 for information leading to either the location of Nancy Guthrie, and/or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance.

The FBI said it has received over 13,000 tips so far in the case, and had previously said it received more than 4,000 tips in the 24 hours since it released the Nest camera images.

Two of the images released by the FBI of a subject seen on surveillance video in the Nancy Guthrie case. FBI

Earlier Thursday, sources told CBS News that a pair of black gloves had been found during the search for Guthrie. The gloves,seen in imagesreleased by the New York Post, resembled one seen on the hand of the suspect. The gloves are being tested for DNA.

Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen on Jan. 31. The suspect was seen on security video at her home in the early morning hours of Feb. 1.

According to a timeline provided by officials, on the night of Jan. 31, Nancy Guthrie had dinner at her daughter Annie’s home. Afterward, she was dropped off at her own home by her son-in-law a little before 10 p.m.

She was reported missing the following day, Feb. 1, after she failed to show up for church.

Law enforcement officials had previously disclosed the Google Nest doorbell camera at Nancy Guthrie’s home disconnected at 1:47 a.m. on Feb. 1, and the camera detected activity from a person at 2:12 a.m. Guthrie’s pacemaker app disconnected from her phone at 2:28 a.m.

It was not until Tuesday, 10 days after Nancy Guthrie went missing, that the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Departmentreleased surveillance videos and photosfrom the doorbell camera showing the masked suspect on Guthrie’s porch in those early morning hours of Feb. 1. They said the images were recovered from “residual data located in backend systems.”

Also Tuesday, a manwho later told reporters he was a person of interest in the case was detained following a traffic stop in Rio Rico, Arizona, a community about 12 miles from the Mexican border. He was released from custody early Wednesday, however, telling reporters that he was innocent.

Authorities have also been investigating ransom demands that have requested payment in Bitcoin.

Savannah Guthrie and her two siblings have released several social media videos pleading directly to the abductor or abductors. In one such video released last weekend, the family indicated they were willing to pay for Nancy Guthrie’s safe return.

Jordan Freiman, Sarah Lynch Baldwin, Alex Sundby, Pat Milton and Jonathan Vigliotti contributed to this report.

OpenAI：深度求索通过“提炼”美国模型训练自身AI

发布/2026年2月13日 08:38

路透社看到的一份备忘录显示，美国人工智能公司OpenAI已向美国立法者发出警告，称中国AI初创公司深度求索（DeepSeek）通过“提炼”OpenAI和美国AI实验室的信息来训练自身模型。

OpenAI是聊天机器人ChatGPT的开发者。

所谓提炼（distill）技术是指利用一个更成熟、更强大的AI模型来评估一个新模型生成答案的质量，从而有效转移旧模型的经验。

OpenAI在提交给美国众议院中美战略竞争特别委员会的备忘录中写道：“我们观察到与DeepSeek员工相关的账户正在开发绕过OpenAI访问限制的方法，并通过混淆的第三方路由器和其他掩盖来源方式访问模型。”

备忘录还写道：“我们也知道DeepSeek员工开发了代码，以程序化方式访问美国的AI模型并获取输出结果，用于提炼。”

DeepSeek及母公司幻方量化（High-Flyer）尚未回复路透社的置评请求。

2025年年初，DeepSeek推出了一系列AI模型，这些模型不仅能与美国最优秀的产品相媲美，开发所需的算力却少得多，令市场为之震动。这加剧了华盛顿的担忧，即尽管美国限制向中国出售高性能计算晶片，中国还是可能在AI竞赛中迎头赶上。

Why even some conservatives are now calling on AG Pam Bondi to step down | CNN Politics

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拨款法案未获推进 美国土安全部面临“停摆”

2026年2月13日 09:01 / 联合早报

2月12日，在美国国会山，一名抗议者举标语，要求对国土安全部移民执法行动展开调查。 （路透社）

美国参议院未能推进对国土安全部的拨款法案。由于给国土安全部的临时拨款即将到期，这个部门将很快面临“停摆”。

新华社报道，美国参议院星期四（2月12日）对国土安全部拨款法案的表决结果为52票赞成、47票反对，没有达到推进法案所需的60票。

参议院民主党人对白宫提供的最新谈判条件表示不满。参议院民主党领袖舒默说：“民主党人的立场非常明确：我们不会支持（在移民执法上）维持现状。”

由于参众两院马上开始休会数日，美国媒体报道普遍认为，这使得国土安全部陷入“停摆”几成定局。不过，参议院共和党领袖图恩说，如果两党就拨款法案达成协议，参议员需要在24小时内返回国会大厦。

今年1月，两名美国公民在明尼苏达州被国土安全部下辖机构执法人员在针对非法移民的行动中开枪打死，这加剧了民主、共和两党在移民执法问题上的分歧。

2月3日，众议院通过一项已获参议院通过的拨款法案，为相关联邦政府部门在本财年剩余时间内提供资金，但仅按现有水平向国土安全部提供临时拨款至2月13日，以便两党在此期间就改进国土安全部的运作进行谈判。

At 87, he can’t afford his rent without a roommate. He’s far from alone.

February 12, 2026 / 8:16 PM EST / CBS News

Alan Ferber shares a fourth-floor walk-up apartment in New York City with a roommate. At 87, escalating rent costs have become harder to afford on his own.

“It’s gone insanely crazy,” Farber said.

He splits the $2,000 monthly rent for a 500-square-foot apartment with Daniel Yafet, a 69-year-old avid biker who sleeps in the loft.

When asked if he could retire, Yafet said, “I wouldn’t be in New York if I retired.”

The roommates connected through the New York Foundation for Senior Citizens, a nonprofit that matches seniors looking to share housing costs. When the foundation started matching people in 1981, most of the participants were looking for companionship. Now, almost everyone is seeking affordability.

“I was by myself for a bit, and I thought I should get a roommate just to help,” Yafet said.

The nonprofit offers a free matching service that pairs “hosts” who have extra bedrooms with responsible, compatible “guests” across all five boroughs of New York City. One of the sharemates, either the host or the guest, must be at least 60 years old.

More than 1 million Americans over the age of 65 lived with roommates they aren’t related to in 2024 — a 16% increase from 2019, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

At the same time, seniors are facing growing financial strain amid increased costs for basic necessities.

In the 50 largest U.S. cities, the rent for a one-bedroom apartment climbed an average of 41% between 2020 and 2025, according to a recent study from loan marketplace LendingTree. New York had the largest monthly rental increase on the list, rising $854 for a one-bedroom over the last five years.

Meanwhile, the average American worker has less than $1,000 saved for retirement, according to a new report from the National Institute on Retirement Security. The analysis also found that workers from all age groups are lagging behind recommended benchmarks for retirement savings.

When asked if he could cover all of his expenses using Social Security without a roommate, Ferber said, “Barely. What really helps naturally is working at Costco three days a week.”

Yafet believes the trade-off is worth it, saying, “I’m better off, certainly, with having a roommate.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/87-year-old-lives-with-roommate-to-help-cover-rent-in-new-york/

Bipartisan opposition over inflammatory comments likely to sink Trump State Dept. nominee

By Jennifer Hansler, Christian Sierra
1 hr 51 min ago
PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2026, 7:30 PM ET

Jeremy Carl, the Trump administration’s pick for a top State Department position, is unlikely to get the job after a bipartisan group of senators grilled him over his history of racist, sexist and reported antisemitic comments and posts.

Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah said in a statement following the heated Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing Thursday that he would not support Carl’s nomination for assistant secretary of state for international organizations.

“After reviewing his record and participating in today’s hearing, I do not believe that Jeremy Carl is the right person to represent our nation’s best interests in international forums, and I find his anti-Israel views and insensitive remarks about the Jewish people unbecoming of the position for which he has been nominated,” Curtis said.

The Republican’s opposition is likely to sink Carl’s nomination – if all Democrats on the committee also vote no, he will not have the votes to advance. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has also opposed his nomination.

A White House official told CNN on Thursday evening that Carl is still the nominee.

CNN’s KFile uncovered in September 2025 that Carl deleted thousands of social media posts, many demonstrating a history of inflammatory commentary – including incendiary posts about race, claims that “peaceful coexistence” with Democrats is impossible, and even a call for a political opponent to face the death penalty.

Carl also repeatedly wrote about the “Great Replacement,” a conspiracy theory that posits there is a plot to intentionally bring non-White immigrants into Western countries to “replace” White populations.

In his hearing Thursday, Carl was pressed on those past comments and others, including a 2024 podcast appearance in which he reportedly said, “Jews have often loved to play the victim,” and that “the Holocaust dominates so much of modern Jewish history,” according to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat.

Shaheen, the ranking member of the committee, said that since his nomination, Carl had “tweeted more than 850 times, appeared on five podcasts and repeated this language.”

“This is a pattern,” she said.

“It’s hard to understand how we can trust you if you can’t even restrain yourself during the period in which you’ve been nominated,” she told him.

Carl argued that he understands “the importance of restraint and conduct.”

“I unfortunately have to balance that with my current job which involves advocacy. I can’t, as I’ve explained, just totally put away my day job,” he said. Carl is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank. He served as a former deputy assistant secretary at the Interior Department during President Donald Trump’s first term.

In an exchange with Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, Carl said he regretted some of his past comments about Jewish people.

“I made some comments in interviews about minimizing the effect of the Holocaust that were absolutely wrong. And I’m not going to sit here and defend them here,” he said.

However, pressed on whether he regretted comments he has made about other races, Carl said he was “echoing” Trump that “unity rather than diversity is a strength.”

Sen. Chris Murphy said that Carl’s nomination was “heartbreaking,” calling him “wildly unqualified” for the position. The Connecticut Democrat spent several minutes questioning Carl on views about “anti-White discrimination” and “the erasure of White culture.”

Carl struggled to answer Murphy’s questions on what constitutes “White culture,” but alluded to “mass immigration” erasing “common American culture” and saying that it “weakens us.”

Curtis, the Utah Republican, pressed Carl on how he would be able to stand up to alleged anti-Israel bias at the United Nations given his previous comments.

And Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen, who is Jewish, called Carl’s past comments “vile” and said his nomination “should alarm every Senator who believes in basic decency.”

CNN has reached out to the State Department about Carl’s nomination. In September 2025, spokespeople for both the department and the White House defended the nominee.

CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski, Em Steck and Morgan Rimmer contributed to this report.