Asaduddin Owaisi trains guns at Congress over abusive remarks against PM Modi: ‘Condemn as much as you want…’
During the ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in Bihar’s Darbhanga, a Congress worker purportedly used abusive remarks against PM Modi and his late mother, Heeraben, after which, the BJP demanded an apology from Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav.
SpiceJet Delhi-Srinagar flight makes priority landing after facing mid-air emergency, here’s what we know so far
A Srinagar-bound SpiceJet flight from Delhi made a priority landing on Friday after a cabin pressure warning triggered a mid-air emergency.
Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit India in December
Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to officially visit India in December, according to AFP, which cited the Kremlin as announcing. The announcement of Putin’s visit to India comes as the US has imposed 50% tariffs on India’s exports due to its large-scale trade of Russian oil.
Texas House clears bill that shields some police complaints
A previous effort went down in the Texas House over a technical error Monday. Gov. Greg Abbott revised his call for the bill a day later, clearing the way for it to be reconsidered.
Spared from dissolution, Texas Lottery gets a second chance under new management
After months of controversy, the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation must tackle poor sales and legislative scrutiny as it takes over the games on Sept. 1.
A rigorous accreditation program inspired Texas’ camp reforms. Here’s what that process looks like.
More than 75 Texas camps have met dozens of safety standards to become accredited by the American Camp Association, which can be a lengthy and costly process.
Trump’s Chinese student visa push sets off alarm bells amid rising CCP ‘influence’ in US
A China expert warns that President Donald Trump’s Chinese student visa push amid trade talks between the United States and China could exacerbate the growing CCP “influence” in American universities. China policy expert Michael Sobolik, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, explains where things stand right now, as several conservatives sounded the alarm on how the push could enable the Chinese Communist Party’s influence in the U.S. Sobolik explained that Chinese students in the United States can become a major national security liability, adding that the CCP has taken advantage of Chinese nationals to “advance malign influence operations.” TRUMP IGNITES CONSERVATIVE BACKLASH AFTER OPENING DOOR TO 600,000 CHINESE STUDENTS: ‘WHAT IS THIS MADNESS?’ “They do this by re-appropriating basic and applied research in American universities, taking it over to China, and stealing American innovations, essentially,” he said. “And they also will conduct espionage. They will silence Chinese students on American campuses and force them to either advance the CCP propaganda line or silence them. And that’s just unacceptable.” Sobolik continued by pointing out the history of the trade agreements between Trump and Xi Jinping. “I think it’s partially a function of the fact that [Trump’s] trying to get to a trade deal with Xi Jinping and he wants to smooth that road, make sure there aren’t any bumps along the way, much like he did in his first term when he was trying to get his phase one trade agreement with China negotiated,” he said. REP. GREENE RAISES RED FLAG AFTER TRUMP INDICATES US WILL ACCEPT 600,000 CHINESE STUDENTS President Donald Trump said in a Tuesday cabinet meeting that the “college system would go to hell very quickly” if the Chinese student visa policy were significantly altered. CLICK HERE FOR MORE IMMIGRATION COVERAGE “And it wouldn’t be the top colleges, so it’d be colleges that struggle on the bottom. And you take out 300,000 or 600,000 students out of the system,” Trump said. “I like having, and I told this to President Xi that we’re honored to have their students here. Now, with that, we check in with careful and we see who’s there,” the president continued. “President Trump isn’t proposing an increase in student visas for Chinese students. The 600K references two years worth of visas,” a White House official told Fox News on Thursday. “It’s simply a continuation of existing policy.” TRUMP OPENS DOOR TO 600,000 CHINESE STUDENTS AMID BEIJING TRADE TALKS Sobolik said universities will ultimately go along with the “repressive tactics of China,” as he says students are willing to attend American institutions for their full price. “It’s not just STEM programs and security risks. It is not just what China’s government is doing on these campuses. It’s how universities are complicit in it because they need that money. It’s all about the bottom line for them, and American values suffer in the process,” Sobolik added.
DOJ permits attorneys without immigration case experience to be temporary judges amid major backlog
In an apparent effort to address the millions of backlogged immigration cases, the Justice Department made a rule change to allow attorneys without immigration law experience to act as temporary immigration judges. The DOJ’s Office of Immigration Review published the rule in the federal register Thursday, which removes the requirement that temporary immigration judges have substantive prior experience in immigration law. Jurists who are approved by Attorney General Pam Bondi may serve as immigration judges, which represents a tide change after more than 100 judges were fired or bought out by the Trump administration earlier in 2025. The DOJ hopes that by expanding the net as to who may hear immigration-related cases, the more than three million case backlog may finally be assuaged. DOJ FACES OFF WITH ENTIRE MARYLAND FEDERAL BENCH OVER AUTOMATIC PAUSES IN DEPORTATION CASES The “department no longer believes the restriction of TIJs to current department employees with a threshold level of immigration law experience serves EOIR’s interests,” the entry in the federal register read. “Immigration law experience is not always a strong predictor of success as an (immigration judge) and EOIR has hired individuals from other federal agencies and Department components without prior immigration experience who have become successful and exemplary (immigration judges),” it went on. TRUMP ADMIN SEEKS TO OVERTURN FEDERAL RESTRAINING ORDER LIMITING ICE OPERATIONS IN LOS ANGELES The rule further stated that there is no clear reason why attorneys who have argued before prominent courts on nonimmigration matters or clerked for the Supreme Court should be disqualified from serving in an immigration-related capacity. The “need for assistance in fairly and efficiently adjudicating immigration cases has only increased since EOIR first adopted a plan to utilize TIJs in 2014. However, that original plan has proven largely ineffectual, requiring the agency to update it in order to ensure a more robust applicant pool to provide the assistance EOIR needs,” the rule later stated, adding it allows for the “greatest degree of flexibility” in finding highly qualified temporary immigration judge candidates. Dozens of immigration judges were fired as of July, with some filing formal appeals of their dismissals. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Some of those sent packing claimed that prior decisions, gender discrimination and, in one case, a courthouse tour given to Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., are behind the decisions. The Justice Department referred Fox News Digital to a background section in the federal register that said that the rule change is meant to “assist with the immigration courts’ substantial caseload.” “The EOIR director, with the approval of the attorney general, may designate or select TIJs, which have the authority of an IJ to adjudicate assigned cases and administer immigration court matters,” it continued in part. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
What leads someone to commit a mass shooting? Trump admin, RFK Jr plan to find out
Two children were killed and 17 others were injured when a shooter opened fire during a morning Mass for a Minneapolis Catholic school, with the nation subsequently reeling from the tragedy and reigniting debate about ways to prevent such horror in the future. “This kind of violence is very recent. It’s a new thing in human history,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during a Thursday morning interview on “Fox & Friends.” “There was no time in the past when people would walk into a church or a classroom and start shooting people. And it’s not really happening in other countries. It’s happening here, and we need to look at all of the potential culprits that might be contributing to that.” The FBI is investigating the shooting, which FBI Director Kash Patel called “an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics,” while Trump administration officials are offering prayers and looking at ways to address the nation’s ongoing mental health crisis. John Lott, the founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told Fox News Digital about some of the top variables involved in such shootings, including killers seeking to gain as much media attention as possible by targeting areas where people are unarmed. MELANIA TRUMP CALLS FOR ‘PRE-EMPTIVE INTERVENTION IN IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL SCHOOL SHOOTERS’ “You read these manifestos and diaries. Over and over again, these guys know that they’re going to commit suicide,” Lott said. “They know or they believe they’re going to die. People have always wanted to commit suicide, but someplace along the line, people who felt unappreciated, who didn’t think people knew what a great person they were, or whatever, realized they could get national and international attention by killing lots of people.” The Minneapolis shooter committed suicide during the Wednesday morning rampage. “They know if they go to a place where their victims are defenseless, they’re going to be able to go and kill more people and get more media attention,” Lott said. “And so the thing to stop these attacks is to take away this notoriety that they can get.” Lott has long called for the obliteration of “gun-free zones,” and said the Trump administration has the opportunity to “harden” schools by removing such zones, as well as the signs designating them, which essentially advertise that no one inside a facility has a firearm. Instead, Lott said, schools and other common “soft targets” should install signs noting that select teachers and staff are armed with concealed weapons to protect students and others. Wednesday’s shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church unfolded as young students of the church’s parochial school attended mass during their first week back in classrooms. The tragedy ultimately left two children, aged 8 and 10, dead and 17 other students and people injured. GUNS USED BY MINNEAPOLIS CHURCH SCHOOL SHOOTER ROBIN WESTMAN WERE PURCHASED LEGALLY, POLICE SAY Police identified the shooter as 23-year-old Robin Westman, who allegedly used a trio of legally purchased firearms, including a rifle, a pistol and a shotgun, to carry out the devastation. Court records previously reported by Fox News show that a Minneapolis juvenile named Robert Westman acquired a legal name change to Robin Westman in 2019. Patel confirmed that the shooter was born Robert and later identified as Robin. Local police additionally reported they were aware the shooter released a manifesto on YouTube, though the video has been taken down and is now under investigation. The White House held a Thursday press conference during which press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Kennedy’s Health and Human Services was investigating potential prescription drug links to mass tragedies, and that the health arm of the federal government had an ongoing focus on the nation’s mental health woes. “I know the Secretary of Health and Human Services this morning said that HHS is investigating perhaps links between some of these drugs and these prescription drugs that some of these minors may be taking in an increase in violence,” Leavitt said. “And obviously, we have mental health problems in this country that this administration and Secretary Kennedy will continue to speak out about and the work that we’re doing to solve it.” In response to Kennedy floating a potential tie between shootings and certain prescription intake, senior advisor to America First Legal Ian Prior told Fox Digital that the conservative group uncovered FDA “documents showing the government knew puberty blockers increase depression and suicidal thoughts.” “Yet they still pushed them on vulnerable kids. We are flooding children with drugs that destabilize their minds— from puberty blockers to SSRIs — and then acting surprised when tragic violence erupts,” he said. “Instead of protecting kids, federal regulators have created a generation struggling with instability that endangers both themselves and the public. If we want to end mass shootings, we must confront these underlying causes head-on.” Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow Amy Swearer told Fox News Digital that the Trump administration should end the U.S.’s historic and “absurd focus” on gun control in reaction to school shootings as it maps out next steps to address such tragedies. “Focusing on this through the lens of gun control is generally not conducive to actually solving any problems here, especially when we’re talking about school shooters in particular,” Swearer said. “Generally, when we see school shooters, you either have individuals who are underage, who can’t legally buy guns, who are taking them from parents or other family members,” she continued. “Or you’re dealing with individuals like we saw in Minneapolis, who fall into the broader category of adult mass public shooters, who unfortunately, the problem isn’t that they were prohibited people who are circumventing our laws. … It’s that they were mentally unstable, showed signs of being a danger to themselves or others, but hadn’t yet committed a disqualifying felony or misdemeanor offense.” TWINS DENOUNCE FATAL SHOOTING AT MINNESOTA CATHOLIC CHURCH AS ‘INCOMPREHENSIBLE’ ATTACK Democratic lawmakers have come out in force to voice support for additional gun control following the shooting while
Meet the radical anti-Israel activists joining ‘Squad’ Dem Tlaib at Detroit confab
A controversial pro-Palestinian gathering in Detroit is drawing scrutiny for featuring speakers with extremist views—including two former Israeli prisoners released in a Hamas deal—alongside Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., a prominent anti-Israel congresswoman. The conference in Detroit will be the second annual “People’s Conference for Palestine,” which is being organized by a dozen different pro-Palestinian groups. Rep. Tlaib will speak alongside several individuals accused of espousing antisemitic rhetoric, including a professor who has compared Jews to Nazis, a journalist who quipped about Hamas kidnapping “several dozen hipsters” at “some sort of rave” on Oct. 7, 2023, and a high-profile activist who once said Israel is “built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everyone else” and lost her position on the board of a major philanthropic organization amid antisemitism complaints. DNC SUMMER MEETING DERAILED AFTER TENSIONS FLARE OVER DUELING RESOLUTIONS: ‘LOSING OUR FUTURE’ Tlaib, herself, has been no stranger to criticism about her anti-Israel views either. She was censured in 2023 by her colleagues in Congress over alleged inflammatory rhetoric about the Israel-Hamas war. The censure followed several comments from Tlaib that drew backlash, including her use of the phrase “From the river to the sea,” a slogan that many Israel supporters consider a call for the destruction of Israel. Tlaib also came under fire in 2023 for being part of a secret Facebook group for many years that glorified terrorists following the attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023. The congresswoman will be joined at the conference by two former prisoners held by Israel who gained their freedom through an Israeli prisoner swap with Hamas. One of those individuals, Hussam Shaheen, was sentenced by Israeli authorities to almost 30 years in prison during the early 2000s for murder and conspiracy to commit murder. The other former prisoner, Omar Assaf, was formerly an official of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). The DFLP is not a U.S.-designated terror group, but it has been targeted by U.S. sanctions. WHITE HOUSE DEMANDS ALL GAZA HOSTAGES RETURN HOME ‘THIS WEEK’ AMID STALLED TALKS Other attendees of this weekend’s conference include Raja Abdulhaq, who is listed on the conference’s website as the co-founder of the Quds News Network (QNN), which was suspended from Twitter in 2019 for alleged ties to terrorism, a company spokesperson reportedly told the Times of Israel. Subsequently, other major social media platforms, like Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, all took steps to restrict QNN’s presence on their platforms. Wesam Ahmed, another speaker, is listed as a “human rights advocate” with Al-Haq, an entity accused by the Israeli government of having ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Meanwhile, Michigan-area activist and former candidate for Congress, Huwaida Arraf, is also slated to speak. Arraf is known for being a co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), which has previously been investigated by the FBI for possible ties to terrorists. In 2021, Arraf also penned an article which promoted using violent tactics against Israelis. “The Palestinian resistance must take on a variety of characteristics — both nonviolent and violent,” she wrote at the time. “But most importantly it must develop a strategy involving both aspects.” However, when reached for comment, Arraf shot back at criticism that she may be antisemitic, arguing any accusations of such are “meant to smear and silence Palestinians and anyone who dares to speak up for their rights.” “My record is clear,” she added. “I have spent my life opposing all forms of racism, discrimination, and oppression. Conflating criticism of a government with hatred of a people is dishonest and dangerous—it weaponizes antisemitism instead of confronting it.” A Michigan high school principal was forced to apologize to students and parents in 2023 after Arraf went off script at a “diversity assembly” and reportedly attacked Israel. TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DEMANDS $1B SETTLEMENT FROM UCLA OVER CAMPUS ANTISEMITISM CLAIMS Multiple university professors accused of antisemitism will also be at the event with Tlaib. One of them, Hatem Bazian, came under fire by his university, the University of California – Berkley, in 2017 after he shared an anti-Israel cartoon that drew widespread backlash for comparing Jews to Nazis, among other tropes. “Mom, look! I is chosen! I can now kill, rape, smuggle organs & steal the land of Palestinians yay #Ashke-Nazi,” read the caption of a political cartoon shared by Bazian, the chairman of American Muslims for Palestine and the co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine. The caption was layered over an image of an orthodox Jewish individual who was juxtaposed next to an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un wearing a kippah and other traditional Jewish garb. That photo was also layered with its own caption: “Donald Trump: Now my nukes are legal & I can annex South Korea & you need to start paying me 34 billion a year in welfare.” In 2015, Bazian, whose SJP group has fueled anti-Israel riots on college campuses, raised alarm bells when he called for an “intifada in this country that changes fundamentally the political dynamics in here,” which is widely interpreted as calling for violence against Jews. He went on to say, “They’re gonna say some Palestinian being too radical – well, you haven’t seen radicalism yet.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Another speaker at the event, journalist Eugene Puryear, has been slammed for trivializing Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attacks that killed over a thousand innocent Israelis. “As you might have seen, there was some sort of rave or desert party where they were having a great time, until the resistance came in electrified hang gliders and took at least several dozen hipsters,” Puryear said on Oct. 8, one day after the attack, according to a report from the Anti-Defamation League. Linda Sarsour, who had to walk-back her remarks after stating Israel “is built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everyone else,” and lost her seat on the board of the Women’s March amid allegations of antisemitism, will