‘America-India is the AI power of…’: PM Modi tells Indian diaspora in New York
He also praised the Indian community for keeping up the tradition of “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” that means “the world is one family.”
Hillary Clinton celebrates decades of marriage to Bill after being ‘deeply hurt’: ‘We just have a good time’
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton celebrated her nearly 50-year marriage to former President Bill Clinton despite “dark periods” throughout their relationship. “I’ve said this for many years, nobody really knows what happens in a marriage except the two people in it. And every marriage I’m aware of has ups and downs – not public, hopefully for everyone else – and you have to make the decisions that are right for you. And I would never tell anybody else, ‘stay in a marriage, leave a marriage,’ whatever the easy answer is. And you know, for me and for us, I think it’s fair to say we are so grateful that at this stage of our life, we have our grandchildren. We have our time together,” Clinton told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview that aired Sunday morning. Clinton recently published her new memoir, “Something Lost, Something Gained,” which included excerpts on how “both my marriage and Bill’s presidency were imperiled” at the end of the 1990s. Bill Clinton’s presidency was rocked by a sex scandal in 1998, with the 42nd president admitting to having an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky later that year. Hillary Clinton did not cite Monica Lewinsky by name in her memoir or during her interview that aired Sunday, only referring to “dark periods” that threatened her marriage or “a very unfortunate” incident. HILLARY CLINTON CALLED OUT FOR SUGGESTING AMERICANS SHOULD BE ARRESTED OVER DISINFORMATION: ‘QUITE CHILLING’ “I write about how we start the morning playing spelling bee in bed. And, you know, Bill is like such a great player. He gets to Queen Bee almost immediately it feels like. We just have a good time. We have a good time sharing this life that we’ve lived together for now nearly 50 years of marriage. That’s what is right for us, and that’s really my, my message,” Clinton shared of her marriage during the interview. CNN COMMENTATOR BLASTS DEMOCRATS FOR HAVING BILL CLINTON AT DNC: ‘QUIT’ HIM, ‘FINALLY PLEASE!’ The couple married on Oct. 11, 1975, meaning they will celebrate their 50th anniversary next year. Bill Clinton was ultimately impeached over his affair with Lewinsky, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. Hillary Clinton said that during “one of the darkest periods” of the impeachment, she felt “deeply hurt” by the scandal, while “on the other hand,” she saw the incident as a “political ploy” to force her husband out of office. CLINTONS ENDORSE KAMALA HARRIS HOURS AFTER BIDEN DROPS OUT “I had to almost have a binary view of the world that I was living in my reality,” she reflected of how she was feeling during the impeachment. “My reality, on the one hand, I was deeply hurt, deeply confused, really upset, angry. And on the other hand, I knew that this was a political ploy to try to drive, you know, Bill out of office, and I thought he’d been a really good president, and I resented that as an American citizen, that these hypocrites, who, you know, had all kinds of their own stories about, you know, marriage and everything else, were going after him because of a very unfortunate, you know, incident in his life. BILL CLINTON RIPPED HILLARY’S CAMPAIGN AS NOT BEING ABLE TO SELL ‘P—- ON A TROOP TRAIN,’ NEW BOOK SAYS “So on the one hand, I’m trying to make a decision about my life, my marriage, my future, my child, my family, which only I could make. On the other hand, I saw the hypocrisy and cruelty of what those Republican, you know, members of Congress were doing, and that that is a reality that people on the outside could never have understood. “And you know, obviously I got tons of unsolicited advice from all sorts of observers, but my friends – and I have a whole chapter in there about how incredibly grateful I am to my friends – friends of a lifetime, friends you know, that have stood with me, have supported me, who, during that dark period showed up at the White House to be with me,” she said.
‘Namaste local se global…’: PM Modi tells diaspora in New York
Addressing the Indian diaspora in the US, PM Modi thanked the community for their love.
Fetterman dodges questions on his, Harris’ previous stance on fracking
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman dodged questions about his and Vice President Kamala Harris’ previous comments against fracking during a Sunday interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It’s so strange why we keep talking about fracking,” the Democratic senator said when asked about Harris’ reversal on the issue over the last few years. “Back in 2020 I said it might be an issue but that it’s not going to be a defining issue, and now in 2024 we’re still trying about fracking.” The comments come as Harris has continued to face criticism for her reversal on the issue of fracking over the last few years, going from supporting a ban on the practice during her unsuccessful bid for president during the 2020 election to vowing not to support such a ban last month. FETTERMAN REAMS OUT NY TIMES FOR PLATFORMING TERRORIST PROPAGANDA AFTER INTERVIEW WITH SENIOR HAMAS OFFICIAL But Fetterman insisted that fracking is not an important issue during his interview Sunday, instead pivoting to attacking former President Trump and Ohio Sen. JD Vance for their comments on Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio. “The other side, they’re talking about eating cats and geese and dogs and saying absurd things,” Fetterman said. “Having a serious policy conversation when the other side is just absolutely on fire.” Fetterman was then confronted with his own reversal on the issue, including a quote from 2016 in which he called fracking a “stain” on the state of Pennsylvania and another in 2018 in which he said he doesn’t “support fracking at all.” But by 2022 Fetterman had changed his tune, NBC News pointed out, displaying a quote in which he said he “absolutely” supported fracking. FETTERMAN SETS POLITICS ASIDE AFTER TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, SAYS US MUST ‘TURN DOWN … THE TEMPERATURE’ “What exactly do you like about fracking,” Fetterman was asked. “It’s strange for some weird gotcha taking quotes out of context and here I am now, I am a United States senator I won by five points,” Fetterman responded. “I fully support fracking and so does Vice President Harris,” he continued, before again pivoting to attacking the Republican ticket for their claims on “eating dogs.” Fetterman’s home state of Pennsylvania, where fracking remains popular, figures to play a critical role in November’s election, with Trump having narrowly won the state in 2016 before a similarly narrow defeat at the hands of President Biden in the state in 2020. Fetterman acknowledged that the race between Trump and Harris will be “very close,” though he pushed back against the notion that the state’s vote would be “defined by fracking.” Harris currently holds a narrow lead in the state, according to the Real Clear Politics polling average, garnering 48.3% support to Trump’s 47.6%, a 0.7 point margin.
Kirby slams Hamas chief Sinwar as ‘the major obstacle’ to cease-fire, hostage release deal with Israel
White House national security spokesman John Kirby deemed the leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, “the major obstacle” to achieving a cease-fire deal in recent weeks. During an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” Kirby responded to The Wall Street Journal’s reporting that senior U.S. officials who hoped for months for a cease-fire and hostage release deal now do not expect Israel and Hamas to reach an agreement before the end of President Biden’s term. The report cited administration officials as saying Hamas makes demands and “then refuses to say ‘yes’ after the U.S. and Israel accept them.” “It’s certainly apparent to us that Mr. Sinwar remains the big obstacle here to getting a deal. And it certainly is the case that he has done nothing in the recent weeks to prove that he’s willing to move this forward in a good faith way. He is the major obstacle, no question about it,” Kirby said Sunday. “It’s tough to get them to say yes to things that he’s already said that he wanted. So it’s very, very difficult.” “But as the president said the other day, everything’s unrealistic until all of a sudden it’s not anymore. And we’re gonna keep trying at this,” Kirby added. “And this idea that we’re just throwing up our hands and ‘well, it’s not gonna happen before the end of the term,’ I can tell ya that’s not where the president is. It’s not where Jake Sullivan or Tony Blinken are. We still believe that there’s a possibility of moving this forward, and we’re gonna keep trying. Those hostages need an effort to get them home. We’re not going to give up on that.” ISRAEL SAYS IT CONDUCTED RETALIATORY STRIKES AGAINST HEZBOLLAH IN LEBANON, STRUCK HAMAS IN GAZA Kirby reiterated the administration’s position that Israel has a right to defend itself, but acknowledged that some of the criticism of how Israel is handling the conflict has come from the Biden administration as well. “They absolutely have a right to defend themselves. And we are still providing them the tools and capabilities to do that. But how they do it matters,” Kirby said. “President Biden has said that, Vice President Harris has said that to our Israeli counterparts. They need to be doing it in as precise and as discriminant a way to avoid damage to civilian infrastructure and more critically, to civilian life. So it does matter a lot to us.” “Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream also asked Kirby to respond to the death of Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Akil, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs Friday. Bream pointed to criticism from Trump administration Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who suggested Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in expressing fear of escalation to Israeli officials after the strike, was not grateful enough to Israel for taking out a man responsible for the death of hundreds of Americans during the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings. HEZBOLLAH IDENTIFIES SECOND TOP COMMANDER KILLED IN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE IN LEBANON “Nobody, including Secretary Austin, is shedding a tear over the death of Mr. Akil, who does have American blood on his hands. I think the world’s better for not having him walking around on the planet anymore. But that doesn’t mean we want to see a full out war. We don’t believe, again, that that’s in the best interest of the Israeli people,” Kirby said. Akil was one of the Lebanon-based terrorist group’s top military officials, in charge of its elite forces, and had been on Washington’s wanted list for years. The strike Friday came as the group was still reeling from an attack targeting Hezbollah communications earlier last week when thousands of pagers exploded simultaneously. The attack killed 12 people, mostly Hezbollah members, and injured thousands, according to Hezbollah officials. Israel is suspected of being behind that attack but has not claimed responsibility. As Hezbollah has been launching rockets into Israel since October 2023, Kirby said the U.S. has been working at “intense diplomacy here now for months to try to prevent an escalation in the conflict up at the blue line with Lebanon.” “We still believe that there should be a strong effort to work on that diplomacy and to try to get that – that escalation to stop, to get the situation to stabilize, ” Kirby said. Kirby also defended the Biden administration’s handling of Iran, despite criticism from Republicans. “Iran is one of the most heavily sanctioned countries in the world,” Kirby said. “And that’s in part, actually large part, to what President Biden has done. Six hundred sanctions alone just in this administration, 60 sanction regimes. So I don’t buy the argument that we somehow turned a blind eye and just given them cash.” The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Johnson unveils new plan to avoid shutdown amid tension in GOP, scraps Trump-backed election measure
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is unveiling a new plan for avoiding a partial government shutdown on Sunday after a House GOP rebellion derailed a more conservative measure last week. House leaders are aiming for a vote this week on a short-term extension of the current year’s government funding levels, called a continuing resolution (CR), to give congressional negotiators more time to hash out federal spending priorities for the new fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. The new measure, closer in line with what Senate Democrats and the White House had called for than his first plan, is likely to spark fury among the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus and its allies. But most Republicans are wary of the backlash of a potential government shutdown just weeks before Election Day. Johnson took a swipe at the upper chamber for failing to pass a single one of their 12 appropriations bills, writing to House GOP colleagues on Sunday that because “Senate Democrats failed to pass a single appropriations bill or negotiate with the House on an acceptable topline number for FY 2025, a continuing resolution is the only option that remains.” JOHNSON’S PLAN TO AVOID GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN GOES DOWN IN FLAMES AS REPUBLICANS REBEL The plan would keep the government out of a partial shutdown through Dec. 20. House GOP leadership staff told reporters on Sunday that Democratic requests for additional dollars were rebuffed, and extra disaster relief funds that were in Johnson’s initial plan have been removed. But it would include roughly an additional $187 million for the U.S. Secret Service (USSS), coupled with certain oversight measures, after a bipartisan push for more security following two foiled attempts on former President Trump’s life. Perhaps the most significant change is the removal of the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a bill requiring proof of citizenship in the voter registration process. That legislation, backed by Trump, passed the House earlier this year with all Republicans and five Democrats in favor. Johnson hoped that attaching it to a CR would force the Democratic-controlled Senate and White House – both of which have called it a nonstarter – to consider it, or at least that it would serve as a potent opening salvo in negotiations. CLUB FOR GROWTH POURS $5M INTO TIGHT HOUSE RACES AS GOP BRACES FOR TOUGH ELECTION But 14 Republicans – most opposed to a CR on principle – tanked the bill last week. Trump wrote on Truth Social ahead of the vote, “If Republicans don’t get the SAVE Act, and every ounce of it, they should not agree to a Continuing Resolution in any way, shape, or form.” “Our legislation will be a very narrow, bare-bones CR including only the extensions that are absolutely necessary,” Johnson pledged to colleagues Sunday. “While this is not the solution any of us prefer, it is the most prudent path forward under the present circumstances. As history has taught and current polling affirms, shutting the government down less than 40 days from a fateful election would be an act of political malpractice.” Government funding has been one of the most volatile fights in the 118th Congress, pitting even the most conservative House allies against each other. Johnson’s new plan is not likely to abate those tensions. Critics of a CR through December have argued it would leave them with no choice but to group their 12 annual appropriations bills into a massive “omnibus” spending bill, something nearly all Republican lawmakers oppose. MCCARTHY’S ‘FINAL STRUGGLES’ THREATEN TO HAUNT JOHNSON’S GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN FIGHT But House GOP leadership staff suggested it was more likely Congress would pass another CR into the new year rather than set new levels for fiscal year 2025 – lining up with Johnson’s original plan. The speaker’s previous proposal would have funded the government through March, something Democrats and some national security hawks opposed. Trump allies, however, wanted to see the government funding fight kicked into the new year in hopes that he would win the White House and usher in a fully Republican Congress.
Hillary Clinton condemns anti-Israel campus protests, says ‘outside’ groups influenced students: ‘Nasty’
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reflected on how students at Columbia University, where she teaches a class, “morphed” from holding “respectful” dialogue on the war in Israel into holding “nasty” protests against the nation that she said were “not student-led.” “We basically sat down and answered questions for 45, 50 minutes, and the questions were really raw. I mean, we had a student from Palestine, a Palestinian student. We had a student from Israel, we had students from across the Middle East. We had students from Asia and obviously the rest of the world, struggling to understand what all of it meant. But it was a respectful, informative, open dialogue, and literally at the end of it, the students applauded,” Clinton told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview that aired Sunday morning of a class she held last year when war broke out in Israel. Clinton co-teaches a political course at Columbia University, titled “Inside the Situation Room,” where she joined Columbia University students on the Wednesday following Oct. 7, when Hamas launched attacks on Israel and sparked the ongoing war. Clinton said following the “open dialogue” on campus, she witnessed rhetoric on campus “morph into something that was not student-led.” “Within a few days, we were doing an event, and we started being protested – the dean and I and our guests – and being screamed at, being called, you know, all kinds of names. What happened in that period? And the best I can sort of unpack it, is that there, there were already existing groups within our country, and particularly on certain campuses like Columbia, who had talking points, they had a plan for protest and disruption, and I watched it sort of morph into something that was not student led, even though students participated, but which had outside funding, outside direction,” she said. HILLARY CLINTON CALLED OUT FOR SUGGESTING AMERICANS SHOULD BE ARRESTED OVER DISINFORMATION: ‘QUITE CHILLING’ Clinton added that “to this day,” she’s still not sure how the outside funding and outside influence swayed college students to join the anti-Israel protests. During the 2023-24 college school year, agitators and student protesters flooded college campuses nationwide to protest the war in Israel, which also included spiking instances of antisemitism and Jewish students publicly speaking out that they did not feel safe on some campuses. HILLARY CLINTON RECALLS SEEING MELANIA TRUMP AT ROSALYNN CARTER’S FUNERAL: LIKE ‘KID’ OUTSIDE BIRTHDAY PARTY Agitators on Columbia’s campus, for example, took over the school’s Hamilton Hall building, while schools such as UCLA, Harvard and Yale worked to clear spiraling student encampments where protesters demanded their elite schools completely divest from Israel. The former secretary of state went on to say that when she pressed college students about their anti-Israel views, they lacked historical context surrounding politics in Israel and the Middle East. HILLARY CLINTON SAYS IT’S A ‘DOUBLE STANDARD’ TO ASK HARRIS ABOUT HER POLICIES “A lot of the videos on social media gave not just a one-sided view of the conflict, but a totally anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, not just pro-Palestinian view. And for me, it was distressing, because, look, I have my own opinions formed over many years. I am willing to sit down and have a conversation with anybody, but it’s difficult to have conversations with people who hold strong opinions with no factual and historical basis,” she said. “And so in trying to talk to students, not just at Columbia, but elsewhere, I would be met with slogans. I would be met with attacks, and, you know, very inflammatory language. And when I would ask, ‘Well, what about, do you know what happened in 2000 at Camp David?’ ‘No.’ ‘Do you know what happened in 1947?’ ‘No.’ ‘Do you know how difficult the relationships have been?’ ‘No.’ ‘Do you know that there are Arab Israelis, and some are serving in the IDF?’ None of that. And this whole chanting of, you know, ‘from the river to the sea.’ What does that mean? What river, what sea? That’s what bothered me,” Clinton said. HILLARY CLINTON REVEALS INITIAL REACTION TO BIDEN WITHDRAWING FROM RACE: ‘THIS IS EXCITING!’ Clinton said that so far this year, it “has been much quieter” with “a much more educational environment.” She condemned the harassment on college campuses against Jewish students, saying the temperature quickly changed from holding “legitimate” dialogue among students disagreeing with a country’s foreign policies to open antisemitism. “This was screaming at students who were Jewish, it was blocking their entry into classes or into club activities. It was nasty. And so there was something else going on here that was very troubling. And we now, you know, have seen evidence of, you know, obviously foreign money, foreign influence, the algorithms on TikTok, which were anti-Israel right off the bat. And so I think that a university particularly has an obligation to, of course, protect free speech, but also to protect students against harassment and against the kind of behavior that interfered with their learning,” she said. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
FLASHBACK: Vulnerable Dem senator chalked up Trump’s popularity to ‘racism’ from ‘scared white voters’
Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, who at times has cozied up to Donald Trump as he tries to win re-election in a state the former president won by 16 points in 2020, has a long history of blaming Trump’s popularity on racism. Tester, a lifelong farmer in Montana, has attempted to portray himself as a moderate in his Senate race against GOP challenger Tim Sheehy and has often touted how many times he has worked with Trump. However, Tester also has a long track record of denouncing Trump’s support as a result of racism. “As Trump spoke directly to rural America, most Democrats ignored it. Trump elevated white voters who had struggled for years as their mostly white communities suffered, as jobs and opportunities disappeared, and as businesses boarded up,” Tester wrote in his 2020 book “Grounded: A Senator’s Lesson on Winning Back Rural America.” “Trump turned to the old but effective strategy of lifting them up by pushing down others; by stirring up race-based fears and by giving angry and scared white voters permission to distrust other religions, other cultures, and other people. Trump tapped into the deep, gnarly root of racism in rural America. While we can’t uproot it overnight, we can’t ignore it either.” MONTANA SUPREME COURT RULING ON GREEN PARTY CANDIDATE COULD SPELL TROUBLE FOR JON TESTER, POLLING REVEALS In the same book, Tester claimed that a reason people stood by Trump no matter what was because “racial tension was its undercurrent.” “Trump brought charisma to the politics of millions of ordinary people, making himself relatable, tough, and believable,” Tester wrote. “That’s why, when his own policies hurt American farmers and manufacturers, they marched in lockstep behind him, even despite their own self-interest. And there’s no denying that racial tension was its undercurrent.” Tester also told the New York Times in 2020 that he “can’t figure out” Trump’s appeal with rural America. KEY SENATOR REPORTEDLY BEHIND HARRIS’ RISE TO POWER WITHHOLDS HIS ENDORSEMENT FOR PRESIDENT “There’s no doubt about it, he has an appeal in rural America,” Tester said. “I can’t figure it out, but there’s no denying it. But I will also tell you I think there’s a long-term structural issue. And by the way, I’ve had this conversation with Chuck Schumer several times – that we have to do a better job developing a message so that rural Americans can say, ‘Yeah, those guys, they think like I do.’ Because that’s what Trump has right now.’” Monica Robinson, a spokesperson for Montanans for Tester, told Fox News Digital that Tester “has been ranked one of the most effective and bipartisan senators because he’ll work with anyone to get things done for Montana.” “No matter who is in the White House, Jon Tester always does what’s right for Montana,” she added. “It’s why Jon has consistently stood up to the Biden administration on many issues – from securing the border to protecting Montana from bureaucratic rules that would hurt rural America – and it’s why President Trump signed more than 20 of his bills into law.” In a statement to Fox News Digital, National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesperson Maggie Aboud said, “Jon Tester hates Donald Trump, that’s why he routinely insults Trump’s voters and even called for Trump to be physically assaulted.” “Montanans can see right through Two-Faced Tester’s shameless attempts to tie himself to Trump now that he needs his voters.” Many experts believe Montana is the best chance Republicans have to take back control of the Senate in 2024 and recent polling suggests Sheehy has a slight edge. The Cook Political Report, an independent nonpartisan election handicapper, recently shifted the race from “toss-up” to “lean Republican,” while Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics moved the race to “leans Republican.” Fox News Digital’s Aubrie Spady contributed to this report
Bystander Intervention: Powerful Tool for Combating Gender-Based Violence AsWellAs Saving Victims of Road Accidents
Over the past two decades, Breakthrough has consistently championed bystander intervention through campaigns such as Bell Bajao.
Uday Bhanu Chib appointed Indian Youth Congress Chief, succeeds Srinivas BV
Uday Bhanu Chib was serving as the general secretary of IYC and is a former president of the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Youth Congress.