今日快讯。回家了“美国特使史蒂夫·威特科夫周三在圣彼得堡与俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京会晤时表示，俄罗斯已释放一名因被指控在乌克兰作为雇佣兵作战而入狱的美国退休教师。”
Today’s edition of quick hits. headed home“Russia has released a retired American teacher who had been imprisoned on charges of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said Wednesday at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg.”
相关新闻“特使史蒂夫·威特科夫周三在圣彼得堡对俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京大加赞赏，这是乌克兰和欧洲试图让华盛顿加大对俄罗斯施压以结束战争正在失败的最新迹象。……‘你一直谈论我的总统、特朗普总统是一位人道主义者。先生，您也是一位人道主义者，我为此致敬、赞扬，并再次感谢您，’威特科夫说。”
related news“Special envoy Steve Witkoff heaped praise on Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, the latest sign that Ukrainian and European efforts to get Washington to ramp up pressure on Russia to end the war are failing. … ‘You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being a humanitarian. You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that, I commend you, and I thank you again,’ Witkoff said.”
一些共和党人批评威特科夫对最初监禁哈伯德的政府首脑过分赞扬：“见鬼了，史蒂夫？去查查‘人道主义者’的定义吧，”参议员汤姆·蒂利斯（共和党-北卡罗来纳州）在X上发帖。“你应该回乌克兰去，问问普京绑架和谋杀的那些儿童的家属，他们是否同意你的朋友普京是‘人道主义者’。”参议员约翰·科宁（共和党-得克萨斯州）回应道，“普京是冷酷的杀手。”
中东“美国官员告诉路透社，美国国务院已下令部分外交官及家属从其在沙特阿拉伯的使团撤离，并计划让家属从海湾地区的其他多个美国使团撤离。”
some Republicans criticized Witkoff’s gushing praise for the head of a government that imprisoned Hubbard in the first place: “WTF, Steve? Look up the definition of ‘humanitarian,’’’ Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., posted on X. “You should go back to Ukraine and ask the families of the children Putin has kidnapped and murdered whether they agree your friend Putin is a ‘humanitarian.’” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, responded, “Putin is stone cold killer.”the Middle East“The US State Department has ordered some diplomats and family members to depart from its missions in Saudi Arabia and is planning to move out family members from a number of other US missions in the Gulf, US officials told Reuters.”
在疾病控制与预防中心“加利福尼亚州和华盛顿州的卫生官员在今春面临麻疹疫情爆发，于5月请求疾病控制与预防中心验证一种可在八小时内诊断500例病例的检测方法。两个月内他们未收到回复。”
at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention“Health officials in California and Washington, facing outbreaks of measles this past spring, asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in May to validate a test that can diagnose 500 cases in eight hours. They did not hear back for two months.”
气候紧急状况“在应对气候变化的斗争中失去更多阵地，人类正走向比专家去年预测的更热的世界——而美国是造成这一结果的一个重要原因，一份新的联合国报告称。”
climate emergency“Losing more ground in the fight against climate change, humanity is heading for a hotter world than experts projected last year — and the United States is a big reason for that, a new United Nations report says.”
为卡根发声点赞：“随着美国人将在11月的中期选举中决定国会的权力平衡，大法官埃琳娜·卡根正提醒全国，最高法院的裁决是如何塑造选票的。据奥巴马任命的这位大法官周二在华盛顿天主教大学法学院的发言，这是一种反民主的塑造。”
Good for Kagan for speaking out: “With Americans deciding the congressional balance of power in November’s midterm elections, Justice Elena Kagan is reminding the nation of how the Supreme Court’s decisions have shaped the ballot. It’s an antidemocratic shape, according to the Obama-appointed justice’s remarks Tuesday at Catholic University’s law school in Washington.”
在这一问题上“大多数美国人认为人工智能对社会是件坏事，约三分之二反对在美国建设新的数据中心，反对在自己社区建设数据中心的比例甚至更高，根据ABC新闻/《华盛顿邮报》/益普索使用益普索‘知识面板’进行的一项民意调查。”
on this one“A majority of Americans say artificial intelligence is a bad thing for society and about two-thirds oppose the construction of new data centers in the U.S., with opposition even higher to building data centers in people’s own communities, according to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel.”
Facebook的母公司“Meta终于被迫为其近十年来关于‘剑桥分析’丑闻的虚假陈述买单，该丑闻导致数百万用户的数据被收集用于政治目的。周三，新墨西哥州的一名法官在陪审团于9月下旬认定该公司高管在丑闻曝光后作出的明知故犯的虚假陈述违反了州法律后，下令这家社交媒体公司支付250亿美元的罚款。”
Facebook’s parent company“Meta is finally being forced to pay for its near-decade-old falsehoods about the Cambridge Analytica scandal that saw millions of users’ data harvested for political purposes. On Wednesday, a judge in New Mexico ordered the social media company to pay a $25 billion penalty following a jury’s determination in late September that the company’s executives broke state laws with knowingly false statements they made in the wake of the scandal.”
说到新墨西哥州州检察长劳尔·托雷斯“已对杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的私人律师达伦·印迪克和会计师理查德·卡恩提起民事诉讼，指控他们协助促成并掩盖了爱泼斯坦的性贩运活动。”明天见。《周三迷你报告，10.21.26 MS NOW》
Speaking of New Mexico state Attorney General Raúl Torrez “has filed a civil lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s personal lawyer, Darren Indyke, and accountant, Richard Kahn, accusing them of helping to facilitate and conceal Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.”See you tomorrow. The post Wednesday’s Mini-Report, 10.21.26 MS NOW