Year: 2025

Air India issues travel advisory after multiple flights delayed, Airline says, ‘Third party glitch…’

Air India has issued an advisory after multiple flights of multiple airlines were delayed due to a glitch in check-in systems at various airports. It has advised passengers to check and confirm flight details beforehand to prevent any inconvenience at the airports.

India releases new seismic map, places entire Himalayan arc in highest-risk zone, here’s what you need to know

India has released an updated seismic zonation map under the new Earthquake Design Code, which is a significantly revised map showing earthquake-prone areas among which the country has placed the entire Himalayan arc as part of highest-risk Zone VI

DNA TV SHOW: Russian President Putin ‘locks’ deal with India ahead of his visit, unveils ‘2026 Model of Friendship’ between Moscow and New Delhi

Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to visit India on December 4-5, 2025. With less than 48 hours left for the Russian leader’s visit to New Delhi, many reports claims that Putin has already ‘locked’ the deal of the key agreements that are to be signed during his visit.

Michael and Susan Dell donate $6.25 billion to encourage families to claim “Trump Accounts”

The Texas billionaires want to incentivize parents to claim investment accounts created under President Donald Trump’s tax and spending legislation.

First lady Melania Trump rolls out AI audiobook of first memoir in Spanish: ‘Amazing journey’

EXCLUSIVE: First lady Melania Trump is launching a Spanish-language edition of the audiobook of her memoir using artificial intelligence (AI) audio technology to bring her story to millions of Spanish-speaking listeners, Fox News Digital has learned. The first lady released her first memoir, “Melania,” last year and released the English-language audiobook in May. On Tuesday, the first lady released her first foreign-language edition of the audiobook—powered by AI. Fox News Digital has learned that additional foreign-language AI audiobooks will be announced in the coming weeks. AI MELANIA: FIRST LADY EMBARKS ON ‘NEW FRONTIER’ IN PUBLISHING WITH AUDIOBOOK OF MEMOIR “Today, we launch the very first foreign-language version of my audiobook, beginning with Espanol, built with artificial intelligence,” the first lady told Fox News Digital. “This release is inspired directly by the Spanish-speaking community, whose enthusiasm and heartfelt requests encouraged me to make my story accessible to Spanish speakers everywhere.” The Spanish language edition features an AI-generated voice of Mrs. Trump—expertly created by ElevenLabs—to deliver the audiobook in a way that maintains the first lady’s “mannerism, purpose, and authenticity,” while bringing her story to millions of Spanish-speaking listeners. Meanwhile, billboards to promote the audiobook will be up in Times Square in New York City.  Upon the release of the English audiobook, the first lady told Fox News Digital she was “proud to be at the forefront of publishing’s new frontier – the intersection of artificial intelligence technology and audio.” MELANIA TRUMP TO RELEASE ‘COLLECTOR’S EDITION’ OF MEMOIR FEATURING IMAGES PHOTOGRAPHED BY FORMER FIRST LADY The first lady said ElevenLabs AI developed “an AI-generated replica of my voice under strict supervision, which will establish an unforgettable connection with my personal story, in multiple languages for listeners worldwide.” ElevenLabs AI CEO Mati Staniszewski told Fox News Digital earlier this year that they are “excited that Melania Trump trusted our technology to power this first-of-its-kind audiobook project.” The Spanish and English versions of the audiobook are available on MelaniaTrump.com. Upon the release of the memoir last year, the first lady told Fox News Digital that writing her story was “an amazing journey filled with emotional highs and lows.” “Each story shaped me into who I am today,” she said. “Although daunting at times, the process has been incredibly rewarding, reminding me of my strength, and the beauty of sharing my truth.”  “Melania” is the first lady’s first book. She released the original book along with a special collector’s edition that includes photos hand-selected by the first lady, many of which she photographed herself of her home and of various trips she has taken around the world.  Meanwhile, MELANIA, the film, will debut exclusively in theaters worldwide on January 30th, 2026. The first lady will be the subject of the upcoming documentary.

Hegseth erupts over WaPo ‘fake stories’ smear, vows to stop ‘poisoning of the American people’

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth chastised the press following media reports that he signed off on a second strike against an alleged drug boat after the first one left survivors.  The Trump administration has come under renewed scrutiny for its strikes in the Caribbean targeting alleged drug smugglers, after the Washington Post reported on Friday that Hegseth verbally ordered everyone onboard the alleged drug boat to be killed in a Sept. 2 operation. The Post reported that a second strike was conducted to take out the remaining survivors on the boat.  On Monday, the White House confirmed that a second strike had occurred, but disputed that Hegseth ever gave an initial order to ensure that everyone on board was killed, when asked specifically about Hegseth’s instructions. Hegseth said that he watched the first strike live, but did not see any survivors at that time amid the fire and the smoke — and blasted the press for their reporting. HEGSETH BACKS SPECIAL OPS CHIEF’S ‘COMBAT DECISIONS’ IN DEADLY CARIBBEAN STRIKE AHEAD OF CLASSIFIED BRIEFING  “This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don’t understand,” Hegseth told reporters at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. “You sit in your air-conditioned offices or up on Capitol Hill and you nit pick, and you plant fake stories in the Washington Post about ‘kill everybody’ phrases on anonymous sources not based in anything, not based in any truth at all. And then you want to throw out really irresponsible terms about American heroes, about the judgment that they made.”  Hegseth said that after watching the first strike, he left for a meeting and later learned of the second strike. The White House said Monday that Hegseth had authorized Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley to conduct the strikes, and that Bradley was the one who ordered and directed the second one.  At the time of the Sept. 2 strike, Bradley was serving as the commander of Joint Special Operations Command, which falls under U.S. Special Operations Command. He is now the head of U.S. Special Operations Command. TRUMP SAYS HE BELIEVES HEGSETH ‘100%’ ON VENEZUELAN DRUG BOAT STRIKE DENIAL AMID ALLEGATIONS  According to Hegseth, carrying out a subsequent strike on the alleged drug boat was the right call.  “Admiral Bradley made the correct decision to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat,” Hegseth said Tuesday.  Meanwhile, reports of the second strike have attracted even more scrutiny from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill and calls for greater oversight, amid questions about the strikes’ legality.  “This committee is committed to providing rigorous oversight of the Department of Defense’s military operations in the Caribbean,” Reps. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., and Adam Smith, D-Wash., who lead the House Armed Services Committee, said in a statement on Saturday. “We take seriously the reports of follow-on strikes on boats alleged to be ferrying narcotics in the SOUTHCOM region and are taking bipartisan action to gather a full accounting of the operation in question.” Hegseth said Tuesday that although there has been a pause in strikes in the Caribbean because alleged drug boats are becoming harder to find, the Trump administration’s campaign against the influx of drugs will continue.  “We’ve only just begun striking narco-boats and putting narco-terrorists at the bottom of the ocean because they’ve been poisoning the American people,” Hegseth said.  The Trump administration has carried out more than 20 strikes against alleged drug boats in Latin American waters, and has bolstered its military presence in the Caribbean to align with Trump’s goal to crack down on the influx of drugs into the U.S.

Vance, Trump unleash on Democrats’ affordability ‘scam’: ‘Fixing what [they’ve] broken’

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance hit Democrats during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, saying that the current administration is working to fix the mess left by former President Joe Biden.  “The word ‘affordability’ is a Democrat scam. They say it, and then they go into the next subject and everyone thinks they had lower prices. No, they had the worst inflation in the history of our country,” Trump said during his opening remarks at the meeting. He also said affordability was a “con job by the Democrats.” The president boasted that since he took office, his administration has “stopped inflation in its tracks,” but said their work is not over. He said that while inflation is at “a very good level” now, he would like to see it drop even further without putting the country at risk of seeing deflation. DOUBLING DOWN: TOP HOUSE DEMOCRAT SAYS FOCUS ON HIGH PRICES ‘ABSOLUTELY GOING TO CONTINUE’ On Saturday, when boasting on Truth Social about lowering drug prices, Trump declared himself to be the “affordability president,” possibly signaling his administration’s focus on reclaiming the term. Vance, who spoke later in Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, touted the administration‘s work on the economy and predicted that “2026 is going to be the year when this economy really takes off.” “I think for congressional Democrats in particular, if they want to talk about affordability, they ought to look in the mirror. We are fixing what [they’ve] broken,” Vance said. The vice president also pointed out that under the Biden administration, the American family lost over $3,000 of household income, while they gained over $1,000 of household income under Trump. TRUMP FLIPS DEMS’ ‘AFFORDABILITY’ SCRIPT, TURNING BUZZWORD INTO MAGA MATERIAL AS MAMDANI VISIT LOOMS Several leading Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have increasingly centered their message on affordability in recent months, even pointing to the issue as a decisive factor in last month’s Democratic victories across the country. “Republicans have failed the American people on the economy. The cost of living in the United States of America is completely and totally out of control,” Jeffries said during a news conference last month. “Republicans promised to lower the high cost of living on day one. Costs have not gone down, they’ve gone up.” Jeffries’ remarks came one day after Schumer made similar comments about what Senate Democrats called the “Republican Affordability Crisis.” He said that affordability was “the most important issue keeping Americans up at night” and that Trump and Republicans made it worse. “Donald Trump may think affordability is some kind of Democratic ‘con job,’ as he recently called it, but the opposite is true. Americans are fed up with high costs, and they need a lifeline, while Donald Trump is tossing them an anchor,” Schumer said. NEWT GINGRICH: THE SIMPLEST WAY TO MAKE AMERICAN LIFE AFFORDABLE AGAIN In November, the Democrats saw a string of major victories, including New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill, Virginia Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. All three candidates focused on affordability in their campaigns. After Sherrill and Spanberger’s victories, the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) said that they “ran and won on the economy.” “With cost-of-living concerns top-of-mind for Americans nationwide, Sherrill and Spanberger were laser-focused on affordability, releasing their Affordability Agenda and Affordable Virginia Plan, respectively, as they ran on platforms centered around bringing down the costs of health care, housing, and energy costs,” the DGA statement read. Mamdani’s campaign was focused on affordability in the city.  After his meeting with Trump, Mamdani said he would work with the administration — not against it — to make life more affordable for New Yorkers, citing his and the president’s mutual love of the city.

State Department yanks visas from Mexican executives in migrant smuggling crackdown

FIRST ON FOX: The State Department is yanking visas from Mexican executives it says helped move unlawful migrants toward the U.S. border, Fox News Digital has learned. The department revoked visas and imposed travel restrictions on six individuals who worked at an air travel company, along with their immediate family members. U.S. officials say the group collaborated with smuggling networks to coordinate transportation and provide fraudulent travel documents for migrants — including minors — from the Caribbean and other regions, routing them through Central America before many attempted to reach the United States. The department did not name the company involved.  Mexican officials were notified of the revocations, which were carried out under Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. That authority allows the U.S. to bar foreign nationals when their entry is deemed to carry potential foreign-policy risks. Any previously valid visas held by the individuals have been canceled, and they are now prohibited from entering the country. STATE DEPARTMENT ‘IMMEDIATELY’ HALTS ALL AFGHAN PASSPORT VISAS FOLLOWING DEADLY NATIONAL GUARD ATTACK A State Department official said investigators determined the executives “actively supported operations that facilitated the movement of aliens, including minors,” enabling travel that ultimately fed illegal border crossings. Deputy principal spokesperson Tommy Pigott said the United States “will not allow those who enable or profit from illegal immigration to evade responsibility,” calling the actions part of a broader push to disrupt smuggling networks and protect the integrity of U.S. borders. The State Department has revoked some 80,000 non-immigrant visas since the start of the Trump administration as of last month.  STATE DEPARTMENT REVOKED MORE THAN 80K NONIMMIGRANT VISAS THIS YEAR, INCLUDING 8K STUDENT VISAS Visa restrictions that extend to immediate relatives are part of a strategy to cut off the benefits of U.S. travel — schooling, shopping, business — that many upper-tier executives rely on. It’s intended to signal consequences for the individuals directly involved. In recent years, U.S. officials have increasingly warned that migrant-smuggling networks are relying on commercial air routes to move people from the Caribbean, South America and Africa into Central America before they head north by land. The strategy has become a preferred alternative to the dangerous Darién Gap, allowing smugglers to sell “travel packages” that include airfare, ground transportation and forged documents needed to continue the journey toward the U.S. border. Still, border apprehensions have tanked under the Trump administration’s crackdown on unlawful immigration. October saw 30,561 total encounters nationwide, the lowest figure of any October on record. 

Trump signs Medal of Honor Act to raise pensions for America’s military heroes

President Donald Trump signed into law the Medal of Honor Act, which directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to “increase the rate of the special monthly pension payable to living Medal of Honor recipients,” the White House said. The move “ensures Medal of Honor recipients are rightfully compensated with an increase to their pension after their military service is over,” according to the White House. “Medal of Honor recipients truly embody the best of our nation,” Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, who sponsored the legislation, said Monday after Trump signed it. The 63 living Medal of Honor recipients receive a special pension of $16,880 annually, but the Medal of Honor Act now increases that pension “to around $67,500 annually, a nearly fourfold increase,” the Republican’s office said. PURPLE HEART RECIPIENT AND VETERAN ADVOCATE SGT. MICHAEL VERARDO LAID TO REST WITH HONORS AT ARLINGTON “They never ask for special recognition or demand special treatment. Many of the living Medal of Honor recipients spend most of their time traveling our country, telling their stories inspiring the next generation of America’s heroes,” Nehls added in a statement. “My bill, the Medal of Honor Act, eases their financial burden by increasing their special pension — ensuring they know that America is grateful for all they’ve done to serve our country and defend our freedoms.” RETIRED ARMY CAPTAIN DEDICATES HIS MEDAL OF HONOR AWARD TO FELLOW SOLDIERS IN AFGHANISTAN “I am beyond grateful to President Trump, our Commander in Chief, for signing my bill into law,” Nehls also said. “The least we can do is lift the financial burden off of these selfless warriors who continue to serve our great nation.”   The first Medal of Honor was given to Army Private Jacob Parrott in 1863, according to Nehls’ office. There have been 3,528 total recipients, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society said. “These individuals are heroes. The Medal of Honor recipients are extraordinary,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said in a video posted on Instagram Monday. “We see you. We remember you. We are grateful for you.”

Trump torches Dems’ ‘fake affordability’ pitch – but GOP panic in deep red state hints voters aren’t buying it

President Donald Trump unleashed on Democrats for their “affordability” messaging that drove support for left-wing candidates in the 2025 election cycle, calling it a “fake narrative” that “doesn’t mean anything to anybody.” “You just say it. Affordability. I inherited the worst inflation in history. There was no affordability. Nobody could afford anything. The prices were massively high,” Trump said Tuesday during his administration’s monthly Cabinet meeting – the final such meeting for 2025.  “But the word affordability is a con job by the Democrats,” Trump continued.  The Cabinet meeting marked Trump’s ninth in his second term, matching the number of all the full Cabinet meetings former President Joe Biden held during his four years in the Oval Office.  SURVEY SAYS: ISSUE THAT HELPED TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS IN 2024 HURT THEM NOW Affordability was the top campaign platform for the handful of high-profile elections held last month during the off-year cycle. Democrats emerged from the 2025 election cycle victorious, including socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani notching a win to become the next mayor of New York City, as well as Democrats winning the only two gubernatorial elections this year, which were held in Virginia and New Jersey.  In New Jersey, voters reported that the state’s notoriously high taxes and the economy were their top issues heading into the polling stations, according to Fox News Voter Poll data last month. In Virginia, half of voters reported that the economy was their top issue, more than double the number who reported healthcare as their top concern, according to Fox polling data.  In New York City, affordability was by far voters’ top concern in the notoriously expensive Big Apple, according to previous Fox News Voter Poll data.  This week, left-wing Democrats and Republicans are in a fierce battle to win a congressional seat in Tennessee where the Democratic nominee, known as the “AOC of Tennessee,” is building support among voters in the deep red state.  Trump railed during the Cabinet meeting that his administration is lowering prices for citizens after inheriting “the worst inflation in history” under the Biden administration, including by making massive deals with foreign industries to create jobs in the U.S. and his tariff policies that aim to bring parity to the U.S.’ chronic trade deficit with foreign countries.  “Our prices now for energy, but for gasoline, are really low. Electricity is coming down. And when that comes down, everything comes down. But the word affordability is a Democrat scam. They say it and then they go into the next subject and everyone thinks, ‘Oh, they had lower prices.’ No, they had the worst inflation in the history of our country,” Trump continued.  In Tennessee, Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and other high-profile Republicans have made a mad dash to rally support for Trump-backed congressional candidate Matt Van Epps as he faces off against Democratic Tennessee state Rep. Aftyn Behn, who has been compared to socialist politicians, including Mamdani and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The Tennessee race is a special election to fill Republican Rep. Mark Green’s seat in the 7th Congressional District following his resignation from Congress in July. Republicans have previously easily won the seat in the deep red state, but recent left-wing wins during November’s elections built Democratic momentum to flip the seat blue.  Johnson headlined rallies in the state for Van Epps and Trump called into rallies, as well as posted social media messages promoting that Tennessee voters reject the Democrat candidate.  “The whole world is watching Tennessee right now, and they’re watching the district,” Trump said during one call.  TRUMP FLIPS DEMS’ ‘AFFORDABILITY’ SCRIPT, TURNING BUZZWORD INTO MAGA MATERIAL AS MAMDANI VISIT LOOMS Polls suggest a close contest between Van Epps and Behn in a race that will again serve as a bellwether ahead of the highly anticipated 2026 midterm races.  Behn, similar to her Democrat colleagues in November’s elections, has made affordability one of her top campaign platforms.  “Angry about high grocery prices? Worried about health care costs? Feeling burned by tariffs? Then Dec. 2 is your day to shake up Washington,” she said in her campaign’s final ad.  “That struggling to afford groceries, healthcare, and rent is the life we have to accept,” Behn wrote in a Substack post in November. “We have the opportunity through this election to tell those in power that we’re done begging for crumbs, we’re done being sold out, and we’ve had it with the cost of living and the chaos.” SETTING THE STAGE: WHAT THE 2025 ELECTIONS SIGNAL FOR NEXT YEAR’S MIDTERM SHOWDOWNS Meanwhile, Democrats such as Ocasio-Cortez and former Vice President Al Gore have backed Behn’s campaign, making Tennessee an unlikely epicenter for another campaign showdown that pits a left-wing candidate promoting affordability against a Republican.  When asked about Democrats’ affordability messaging and if Trump’s messaging is falling flat with voters considering the Tennessee race, the White House argued Democrats don’t have “have a leg to stand on when it comes to affordability.” “The idea that Democrats, who spent four years during the Biden presidency creating the worse inflation crisis in a generation, have a leg to stand on when it comes to affordability is beyond laughable. Americans remember how President Trump’s agenda created historic job, wage, and economic growth during his first term, and Americans know that this same agenda is again restoring working-class prosperity in President Trump’s second term,” White House spokesman Kush Desai told Fox Digital. Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.