Bengaluru: Man stabs trolley operator to death at airport over wife’s affair, held
A man has been held for allegedly stabbing a trolley operator at KIA airport in Bengaluru, said the police.
California Republican lawmaker reacts to ‘crazy’ bill that would give undocumented first-time homebuyers money
California Democrats are “crazy” for passing a progressive legislature that would give illegal immigrants up to $150,000 in first-time homeownership, officials said. The bill, AB 1840, would require the California Housing Finance Authority’s home purchase assistance program, or California Dream for All Program, to include illegal immigrants’ applications. The bill cleared the state Senate on Tuesday. CALIFORNIA CLOSE TO APPROVING $150K LOANS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO HELP PURCHASE HOMES In a statement to Fox News Digital, California Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher (R-Yuba City) argued that the legislation would exacerbate the border crisis, the housing crisis and the high cost of living in the Golden State. EX-CALIFORNIA SLAMS STATE BILL THAT GIVES ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS HOUSING LOANS: ‘ASININE’ “I didn’t know it was possible to make the border crisis and the housing crisis worse with just one vote, but Democrats found a way,” Gallagher said. “Giving taxpayer-funded housing subsidies to illegal immigrants will drive costs even higher and encourage more chaos at the border.” “This is crazy, and it needs to stop,” he said. The California Dream for All program passed despite funds running out just 11 days after being instituted in June, which was awarded to 1,700 first-time homebuyers at the time. Finding more funding for the program was the prime concern in floor debate. The program gives first-time homebuyers up to 20% of a home’s value or up to $150,000 as down payment assistance. The bill now heads back to the California state Assembly to go over revisions made by the state Senate. The bill passed by 12 votes, following the party line at 23-11. Some Democrats present did not vote. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP California Gov. Gavin Newsom has not said whether he will sign the bill into law if it clears the legislature before the Aug. 31 deadline. In a statement to Fox News Digital, Gov. Newsom’s press secretary said that the California governor will evaluate the legislation when it reaches his desk. Fox News Digital’s Jasmine Baehr contributed to this report.
Delhi-NCR rains: Overnight rainfall causes severe waterlogging, massive traffic jams in several areas
The waterlogging in the area has slowed down the traffic in the area. Commuters were wading through the waterlogged road while vehicles were struggling to cross the road.
Gujarat rains: Death toll rises to 26, IMD predicts more rainfall over next 2 days
The India Meteorological Department has forecast extremely heavy rains in isolated parts of districts in Saurashtra on Thursday.
Police motorcycle escorting Vice President Harris’s motorcade in Georgia crashes
A police motorcycle escorting Vice President Harris’s motorcade in Savannah, Georgia crashed shortly after departing a restaurant on Wednesday. In an email by a reporter from The Christian Science Monitor who was part of the vice-presidential pool, the reporter wrote that the motorcade slowed and went around a police motorcycle that had crashed. One person was on the ground where blood was visible. “At least one other person was tending to the person on the ground,” the reporter wrote. “There were two motorcycles stopped and one on the ground. It looked like the single motorcycle had lost control, not collided with something else.” HARRIS LAUNCHES 2-DAY SWING THROUGH CRUCIAL STATE HYPED BY GOP GOVERNOR AS MUST-WIN FOR TRUMP Fox News received a report from the pool saying, “At 1917 ET, our van drove by what appeared to be a police officer or trooper who sustained a motorcycle injury [,] and another officer or trooper attending to the victim on the ground.” According to the pool reporter, the motorcade stopped on the highway at 7:20 p.m. and started rolling again at 7:23 p.m., passing a white bus that was part of the motorcade but had since parked on the side of the road. Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House and Harris’s campaign team for additional information, including the status of the officer involved. THIS POPULAR GOP GOVERNOR SAYS HIS STATE’S A MUST WIN FOR TRUMP Just before the incident, Harris and her running mate, Wisconsin Gov. Tim Walz made a stop at Sandfly BBQ in Savannah, Georgia, where they greeted the owner of the restaurant, employees and some locals. On Wednesday, Harris and Walz kicked off a two-day bus swing through the southeastern portion of the key battleground state. The vice president’s message is that Georgia is once again in play in November’s election. Georgia has long been a reliably red state in White House elections, and Joe Biden narrowly edged then-President Trump in 2020 to become the first Democrat in nearly three decades to capture Georgia. Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
First Mumbai-Goa train on Western Railway to launch today: Check route, timings, stoppages and more
The train’s inaugural run will take place on August 29 from Borivali, a major station on WR, instead of Bandra Terminus, they said.
Dan Patrick starts Texas Senate leadership political action committee
New group plans to support policy goals of the conservative Senate majority.
JD Vance claims Kamala Harris is running a ‘copycat campaign’ during stop in major swing state
Ohio Sen. JD Vance told battleground state voters that Vice President Kamala Harris is running a “copycat campaign” after her staffers revealed the Democratic presidential nominee was shifting her stance on several key policies, including an electric vehicle mandate. Vance held a campaign event in Erie, Pennsylvania, Wednesday to deliver remarks on the American trucking industry, energy policy and the economy. The Republican criticized electric vehicle mandates and claimed Harris wants to “to raise the price of diesel, raise the price of gasoline and have every trucker in this country drive an electric vehicle.” Harris led the Electric Vehicle Charging Action Plan in December 2021, an effort to ensure 50% of car sales were electric vehicles by 2030. Additionally, the Biden-Harris administration finalized one of its latest environmental regulations in 2024 to require half of all new car and truck sales to be electric. HARRIS DODGING FLIP-FLOP ATTACKS AS FACELESS SURROGATES FLIP KEY POSITIONS: ‘PLAYING POLITICS’ Ammar Moussa, the Harris campaign’s rapid response director, wrote in a “fact check email” Tuesday that the vice president “does not support an electric vehicle mandate” despite her past push for more EV sales. “If you look at her campaign, the past week and half, she pretends that she agrees with Donald J. Trump on every issue. She is running a copycat campaign,” Vance told the attendees. Staffers for Harris’ campaign announced over the past several weeks the vice president had changed her stance on several other key issues such as fracking, an automatic weapons buyback program, border wall construction and Medicare for all. HARRIS CAMPAIGN SAYS DEM NOMINEE ‘DOES NOT SUPPORT’ ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE IN ATTEMPT TO FLIP THE SCRIPT “We have a vice president, Kamala Harris, who wants to be president, who thinks that our truckers, we ought to put them out of business, and that our truckers should all learn computer code,” Vance said in Pennsylvania. “If you force all these great truckers to buy electric trucks instead of the trucks they’re currently using, you’re going to make this inflation crisis way worse than it currently is.” The senator added that a Trump-Vance administration would “stop ridiculous job-killing regulations like the EV mandate.” “We do not have an economy unless American truckers are able to do what they do so well,” he said. In response to accusations of copying Trump’s policies, a spokesperson for the Harris campaign highlighted several key policy areas where the two campaigns distinctly differ. “Unlike Donald Trump and JD Vance, Vice President Harris supports abortion rights instead of ripping them away, cutting middle-class taxes instead of raising them by nearly $4,000 and bringing Americans together instead of dividing them,” the spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Most importantly, she opposes Donald Trump and JD Vance’s dangerous Project 2025 agenda.” Vance’s event in Pennsylvania marks the campaign’s latest battleground state stop, one day after he spoke to rural voters in Big Rapids, Mich.
Ex-California resident slams state bill that gives illegal immigrants housing loans: ‘Asinine’
Longtime multi-generational California resident Faith Lersey, her husband and four kids packed up and moved to South Carolina to become first-time home buyers in May. The cost of owning a home in California was unattainable, so they set their sights elsewhere. Now, the Golden State’s progressive legislature is advancing a bill that would give illegal immigrants up to $150,000 in first-time homeownership loans — a bill that, if passed and signed into law, would give first-time homebuyers up to 20% of a home’s value or up to $150,000 as down payment assistance. “That just, that just seems asinine to me,” Lersey, who moved from Los Angeles County, told Fox News Digital in an interview. CALIFORNIA CLOSE TO APPROVING $150K LOANS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO HELP PURCHASE HOMES “Why would you assist a population that is undocumented to attain homeownership in a place where citizens who, like me, had been in an area for a long time, a generational history, they are having enough trouble achieving that milestone,” Lersey said. “It just that really makes me want to question where is the motive coming from for that, whose interest is at heart there, and what is the long-term play?” Lersey added her current home in South Carolina is three times less expensive than the homes she and her husband were contemplating in California. CALIFORNIA WOMAN HEAD NEARLY $500K WORTH OF STOLEN GOOD FROM DRUG STORES: POLICE The bill, AB 1840, would require the California Housing Finance Authority’s home purchase assistance program, or California Dream for All Program, to include illegal immigrants’ applications. The bill cleared the state Senate on Tuesday. The California Dream for All program passed despite funds running out just 11 days after being instituted in June, which awarded 1,700 first-time homebuyers at the time. Finding more funding for the program was the prime concern in floor debate this week. Meanwhile, California remains in billions of dollars of debt, and droves of residents have left the state in the last four years, citing a high cost of living. 5 CALIFORNIA TAXES KAMALA HARRIS COULD USE TO CRUSH THE MIDDLE CLASS A spokesman for California’s Department of Finance confirmed to KCRA 3 on Tuesday that the California Dream for All has no money left to supply the program. The measure comes amid the backdrop of a national election in which immigration has taken center stage, the report notes, with the Trump campaign attempting to tie Vice President Kamala Harris to Biden administration border policies that have proven unpopular with voters. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has been one of President Biden’s and now Harris’ top surrogates on the campaign trail, has not said whether he will sign the bill into law if it clears the legislature before the Aug. 31 deadline. Fox News Digital’s Jasmine Baehr and Michael Lee contributed to this report.
Harris launches 2-day swing through crucial state hyped by GOP governor as must-win for Trump
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Vice President Kamala Harris appears to be making a statement by choosing Georgia for her first campaign trail swing following last week’s Democratic National Convention. Harris on Wednesday kicked off a two-day bus swing through the southeastern part of the key battleground state accompanied by her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Walz will head off to North Carolina for a Thursday evening fundraiser while Harris plans on “energizing thousands of Georgians at a rally in Savannah,” according to her campaign. The vice president’s message is that Georgia is once again in play in November’s election. THIS POPULAR GOP GOVERNOR SAYS HIS STATE’S A MUST WIN FOR TRUMP Georgia has long been a reliably red state in White House elections, and Joe Biden narrowly edged then-President Trump in 2020 to become the first Democrat in nearly three decades to capture Georgia. Fast-forward to this year’s election, and Trump saw his slight edge in the polls in Georgia over Biden grow to a solid single-digit lead after the president’s disastrous performance in their one debate, a late June showdown in Atlanta. But in the 5½ weeks since the vice president replaced her boss atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket, polls indicate that it’s once again a margin-of-error race in the Peach State. 2024 COUNTDOWN: TRUMP CRISSCROSSING CAMPAIGN TRAIL WITH 10 WEEKS UNTIL ELECTION DAY Georgia’s popular two-term conservative governor agrees. “Certainly this is a battleground state,” Gov. Brian Kemp emphasized in an exclusive Fox News Digital interview Tuesday. “I’ve been saying for a long time that the road to the White House is going to run through Georgia. And there’s no path for former President Trump to win, or any Republican … to get to 270 without Georgia,” Kemp said. But he added that Georgia “should be one that we win if we have all the mechanics that we need. And I’m working hard to help provide those in a lot of ways and turn the Republican vote out and make sure that we win this state in November.” HEAD HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS POLLING IN 2024 ELECTION So are the Democrats. “The Georgia Democratic coordinated campaign is running the largest in-state operation of any Democratic presidential campaign cycle, with over 190 Democratic coordinated campaign staff in 24 coordinated offices across the state,” the Harris campaign touted hours ahead of the vice president’s arrival in Savannah. This is Harris’ second stop in Georgia since taking over for Biden as the party’s standard-bearer. She previously hosted a large rally in downtown Atlanta. But this time around, Harris is barnstorming through the southern part of the state, far from Atlanta and its growing suburbs, which make up nearly 60% of Georgia’s population. The traditional route for Democrats to win statewide in Georgia is to concentrate on metropolitan Atlanta. But Quentin Fulks, who was principal deputy campaign manager under Biden and has remained in that role with Harris, is following the playbook from two years ago when he steered Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock’s narrow re-election victory over GOP challenger Hershel Walker. The strategy is to not only win big in Atlanta and its suburbs, but also to stay competitive in the rest of the state. “We have to make sure that we are competing everywhere across the state,” Fulks said Tuesday in an interview on MSNBC. “We’re going to continue to run in rural counties. …. We have to be statewide in that state and even compete in counties that Democrats don’t traditionally go. That is how you win statewide in Georgia.” WASH, RINSE, REPEAT: WHY JD VANCE IS CONCENTRATING ON THESE 3 STATES The Harris campaign noted that “campaigning in Southeast Georgia is critical as it represents a diverse coalition of voters, including rural, suburban and urban Georgians — with a large proportion of Black voters and working-class families.” The Harris campaign appears to enjoy a large organizational advantage over Trump’s team in Georgia. And Republican strategists agreed that to recapture Georgia, Trump will need assistance from Kemp’s well-oiled and funded political machine to turn out GOP voters. Trump last week praised Kemp as he worked to patch up differences he’s had with the Georgia governor dating back to the 2020 election. Kemp on Thursday will join his wife, Georgia first lady Marty Kemp, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who served in the Trump administration, to headline a fundraiser in Atlanta for the former president. “It’s my belief that we cannot afford four more years of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris or Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, which I think would probably be worse than even Biden and Harris were,” the governor argued. “I believe Republicans need to stay focused on litigating Kamala Harris and Joe Biden’s record. … We need to be telling people why they should vote for us, what we’re going to do to make things better than they are right now.” Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.