NEET UG 2024 re-exam results expected to be out today; direct link, steps to check
Out of the 1,563 eligible candidates, 813 chose to participate in the re-exam held last Sunday, while the remaining 48% opted to keep their original scores, minus the grace marks.
IMD Weather Update: Heavy rain likely in northwest, northeast India over 5 days, check full forecast
Torrential rains lashed several parts of north India on Saturday with the IMD predicting heavy to very heavy rain over the next four to five days.
Jill Biden’s ex-husband calls her out for defending ‘struggling’ Joe Biden, ‘keeping him in the race’
The first lady’s steadfast support of President Biden after his heavily criticized debate performance Thursday may seem admirable to some Americans, but not all of them. Bill Stevenson, who was married to Jill Biden from 1970 to 1975, candidly discussed his ex-wife in an interview with the New York Post Saturday. “The Dr. Jill Biden who I’ve seen on TV in the last five years is not the same person I married or that I recognize in any way,” Stevenson lamented. “She’s matriculated into a completely different woman.” On Thursday, the first lady gushed about her husband’s debate performance despite immediate calls for Biden to drop out of the race. EUROPEAN OFFICIAL APPEARS TO LIKEN BIDEN TO FAILED ROMAN EMPEROR AFTER DISASTROUS DEBATE PERFORMANCE “Joe, you did such a great job,” she told him at a debate after-party. “You answered every question. You knew all the facts.” According to Stevenson, Jill Biden’s support of her husband is far from helpful. “I just don’t understand why she is so adamant about defending him and keeping him in the race since it appears that he’s struggling,” Stevenson said. “It appears that he’s struggling with everybody these days. “I’ve been proud of her at certain moments. I have no hard feelings. … I’m just surprised to see her front and center in the middle of this battle after flying under the radar for so many years. She’s always been very driven. People say she’s the one who wants to be president now.” BIDEN AIMS TO CHANGE NEGATIVE NARRATIVE AFTER ROUGH DEBATE WITH TRUMP Stevenson, a staunch supporter of former President Trump, also accused the sitting president of lying habitually. “It makes me cringe every time he calls Trump a liar because I’m telling you right now, there is no better liar than President Biden,” Stevenson said. “He’s just a bad person. I’m probably one of the few people outside his family who has known him for 50 years.” Biden is facing increased public scrutiny after his appearance at the presidential debate Thursday, where he appeared frail and stumbled numerous times. On Friday, The New York Times editorial board called for the 81-year-old politician to drop out of the race. “Biden is not the man he was four years ago,” the editorial board wrote. “The president appeared on Thursday night as the shadow of a great public servant. He struggled to explain what he would accomplish in a second term. … [T]he greatest public service Mr. Biden can now perform is to announce that he will not continue to run for re-election.” The first lady’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial board calls for Biden to drop out ‘for the good of the nation’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) is calling for President Biden to step out of the presidential election after his debate debacle on Thursday night. The AJC Editorial Board is publishing a front page editorial Sunday arguing that Biden should bow out of the election “for the good” of the country and to defeat former President Trump. “The shade of retirement is now necessary for President Biden,” the board wrote. Biden, they argued, failed to convey a “competent and coherent vision for the future of America” at the first presidential debate in Atlanta on Thursday. “He failed to outline the most fundamental aspects of his platform,” they wrote. “He failed to take credit for the significant accomplishments of his 3½ years in office. And he failed to counter the prevarications of an opponent, who, according to CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale, lied 30 times during the course of the debate, approximately once every 90 seconds of his allotted time.” This is the second newspaper editorial board to call on President Biden to remove himself from the race. The New York Times called for Biden to drop out of the race Friday.
The Democrats’ social media account attempts to spin Biden’s debate debacle: ‘Did we watch the same debate?’
The Democrats’ social media account got roasted in the comment section after asserting President Biden won Thursday night’s presidential debate. “The winner of tonight’s debate,” The Democrats declared in a X post Thursday night following the first presidential debate. The post included an image — notably not from the debate — of a grinning President Biden wearing his signature aviator sunglasses. Voters quickly took to the comment section, sharply criticizing the social media post. “Did you watch the same debate as I did?” one person wrote. BIDEN DEBATE DEBACLE: 10 EYE-OPENING MEDIA RESPONSES, FROM MSNBC PANIC TO ‘THE VIEW’ CALLING FOR REPLACEMENT “Your entire party is out of touch with reality,” another wrote. “When CNN calls Biden’s performance abysmal you know something is wildly wrong with Biden’s performance.” “You lose all credibility when you lie to people,” another wrote. “Funny, I am pleased you still have your sense of humor,” one person wrote. Others called out the account for “gaslighting” voters. “This gaslighting won’t work,” one person wrote. BIDEN’S ‘DISASTER’ DEBATE PERFORMANCE SPARKS MEDIA MELTDOWN, CALLS FOR HIM TO WITHDRAW FROM 2024 RACE “You guys are seriously gaslighting a lot of people into turning to Trump,” another wrote. Following the debate, Democrats and liberal media figures were in reported “panic” after Biden’s performance. The optics led to a full-on meltdown in Democrat-friendly media, with journalists at various outlets reporting on dozens of Democratic Party officials who said the 81-year-old Biden should consider refusing his party’s nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August. BIDEN’S INNER CIRCLE SILENT AS PARTY REELS FOLLOWING ‘EMBARRASSING’ DEBATE PERFORMANCE Biden gave no indication he would step down at his first rally following the debate Friday in Raleigh, North Carolina, insisting he is capable of beating Trump. “I can do this job, because, quite frankly, the stakes are too high,” Biden energetically said. “Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation.” President Biden also addressed his stumbling performance, saying, “I don’t debate as well as I used to.” “I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done,” he told a roaring crowd that chanted “Four more years.” Biden has about four more months and a second debate — to be hosted by ABC News Sept. 10 — to make his case against Trump before Americans head to the polls in November. Fox News Digital has reached out to Biden’s campaign for comment. Fox News Digital’s Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
European official appears to liken Biden to failed Roman emperor after disastrous debate performance
A top Polish official recently appeared to draw an unflattering comparison between President Biden’s Thursday debate performance and the decline of ancient Rome. Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski made the comment in an X post Friday. The statement was posted in English, which hinted it was intended for English-speaking audiences because Sikorski usually posts in Polish. In the X post, Sikorski took aim at Marcus Aurelius’s son, Commodus, whose reign marked the end of Pax Romana, an era of peace and prosperity in ancient Rome. “Marcus Aurelius was a great emperor but he screwed up his succession by passing the baton to his feckless son Commodus (He, from the Gladiator),” Sikorski wrote. “Whose disastrous rule started Rome’s decline. BIDEN AIMS TO CHANGE NEGATIVE NARRATIVE AFTER ROUGH DEBATE WITH TRUMP “It’s important to manage one’s ride into the sunset.” Biden’s recent debate performance has sparked commentary across the world, prompting increased concern about his advanced age and declining cognitive abilities. Media publications in Russia, China, Iran and other countries all covered the debate and used it as an opportunity to criticize the U.S. HERITAGE FOUNDATION WORKING ON ELECTION LEGAL CHALLENGES IN CASE BIDEN PULLED FROM DNC NOMINATION Rebekah Koffler, a strategic military intelligence analyst and author of “Putin’s Playbook,” told Fox News Digital most foreign publications “are derogatory of both candidates and mocking America.” “Bottom line, Moscow feels confident that the societal crisis that has engulfed the U.S. is good for Russia,” Koffler said. Fox News Digital reached out to Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs for additional comment but did not immediately hear back. Fox News Digital’s Peter Aitken contributed to this report.
Odessa residents face another water outage
The fast-growing Permian Basin city has faced years of water problems due to crumbling infrastructure. The system last shut off in May.
Gold Star family speaks out after Biden falsely claims no troops have died on his watch: ‘Shame on you’
President Biden is facing criticism from Gold Star families after falsely claiming during Thursday’s CNN Presidential Debate that he’s the “only president this century, this decade, that doesn’t have any troops dying anywhere in the world.” Biden, after denying that 13 American service members were lost in Afghanistan, also said during the debate that “when he [Trump] was president, they were still killing people in Afghanistan. And he didn’t do anything about that.” Darin Hoover, Gold Star father of Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover who was one of those 13 American service members killed in action on August 26, 2021, in Kabul, Afghanistan, had a strong reaction to Biden’s debate claims. The younger Hoover, 31, was engaged to be married when he was killed. It was his third tour in Afghanistan. VOTERS REACT AFTER BIDEN FALSELY CLAIMED THAT NO TROOPS HAD DIED UNDER HIS WATCH “I knew Afghanistan was going to come up sooner or later,” said Hoover in an interview with Fox News Digital, recalling the debate. “You know, the stumbling, bumbling buffoon that we have in the White House had the audacity to say that under his watch that no military members have died.” In a statement to Fox News Digital after the initial publication of this story, a White House spokesperson said, “President Biden cares deeply about our service members, their families, and the immense sacrifices they have made. That’s why the President attended the dignified transfer of the 13 brave service members who lost their lives in Afghanistan on August 26, 2021; as well as, of the three who lost their lives in Jordan earlier this year.” “As he said then and continues to believe now: Our country owes them a great deal of gratitude and a debt that we can never repay, and we will continue to honor their ultimate sacrifice,” the spokesperson added. The Gold Star dad added, “the rage, the absolute disgust that I got, from hearing him say that–I started yelling back at the TV. Just out of frustration. He’s never acknowledged, not one time, any of our kids. He’s never said their names. Even to this day, I doubt very seriously that he even knows their names.” Taylor’s mother, Kelly Barnett, had this to say to Biden: “What I would say to them is shame on you using our children as a pawn. It just makes me sick.” HEROES OF KABUL: STAFF SGT. DARIN TAYLOR HOOVER HANDED OUT AMMO TO HIS MEN DESPITE FACING MORTAL INJURIES “It’s sickening, but it goes to the way that we’ve been treated the past three years. It’s three years–we’re going on three years now. And it’s just disrespect after disrespect. This is probably the cherry on top.” Hoover said the Biden administration sent the 13 Afghanistan Gold Star families letters – a year later. “All the 13 families get a canned letter. It said the same exact same thing. And it looked like it was a photocopy of all of that. It was basically, we’re sorry that your service member had died, and that’s been it. We’ve had absolutely nothing before, nothing since,” Hoover added. Hoover has made efforts to meet with Biden on behalf of the 13 lost on August 26, 2021. He said, “as much as we tried it in the past, when we’ve been going before Congress to try and get a meeting, it’s been denied because he’s a chicken.” “[Biden] doesn’t want to deal with us. He knows that we’re in his face, but he doesn’t want to deal with us,” said Hoover. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP According to the St. Charles County Veterans Museum in Missouri, Hoover was bestowed awards including the Purple Heart and the Afghanistan Campaign Medal after 11 years of service to the Marine Corps.
Iraq: 5 big ISIL bombs found hidden in Mosul’s al-Nuri Mosque
Iraqi authorities requested UNESCO halt all reconstruction operations at al-Nuri Mosque and evacuate the entire complex until the devices are disarmed. Five large bombs were discovered hidden in the walls of the historic al-Nuri Mosque in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, a remnant of the armed group ISIL’s (ISIS’s) rule over the region. The mosque – famous for its 12th-century leaning minaret – was destroyed by ISIL in 2017 and has been a focal point of the UN cultural agency UNESCO’s restoration efforts since 2020. The UN agency said five large-scale explosive devices, designed for significant destruction, were found inside the southern wall of the Prayer Hall on Tuesday. “These explosive devices were concealed within a specially rebuilt section of the wall,” a UNESCO statement said on Saturday. “Iraqi authorities were promptly notified, secured the area, and the situation is now fully under control. One bomb has been defused and removed while the remaining four are interconnected and will be safely disposed of in the coming days.” Iraqi authorities requested UNESCO halt all reconstruction operations at al-Nuri Mosque and evacuate the entire complex until the devices are disarmed. ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared “a caliphate” from the mosque a decade ago on June 29, 2014, leading to its destruction when fighters blew it up during the battle to liberate Mosul in 2017. Mosul remains in ruins The discovery of the bombs underscores ongoing challenges in clearing Mosul of explosives and revitalising its devastated urban areas. International efforts, supported by the United Nations, focus on mine clearance and aiding in the city’s recovery. Despite progress, much of Mosul’s old city remains in ruins, marked by minefield warning signs, highlighting the complexity of post-conflict reconstruction. UNESCO aims to complete the full reconstruction of al-Nuri Mosque by December, “finally erasing the stigma of the Daesh occupation,” the statement said, using the Arabic acronym for ISIL’s name. A decade after the armed group declared its caliphate in large parts of Iraq and Syria, ISIL no longer controls any land, lost many prominent leaders, and is mostly out of the news headlines. Still, the group continues to recruit members and claim responsibility for deadly attacks around the world, including lethal operations in Iran and Russia earlier this year that left many dead. Adblock test (Why?)
March for Nahel Merzouk a year after his killing by French police
Honourary rally comes a day before France heads to the polls in the first round of the snap elections with racism taking centrestage in the vote. A year after a French teenager with North African roots was killed by a policeman, his mother led a march to pay homage to her son that ended at the scene where he was gunned down without provocation. Several hundred family members, friends, and supporters gathered in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on Saturday to remember Nahel Merzouk, 17, who was shot dead at point-blank range by a police officer at a traffic stop on June 27, 2023 – a killing that sparked shock and days of rioting across France. His mother, Mounia, spoke to the crowd, then broke away in tears. Friends wore white T-shirts with Merzouk’s photo and residents of his housing project held a banner reading “Justice for Nahel”. The march ended at the spot where he was killed and an imam sang and read a prayer. While there was no visible police presence, organisers recruited guards to ensure security for the event. The procession came at a politically fraught time when hate speech blights campaigning for snap parliamentary elections on Sunday. And when an anti-immigration party – that wants to boost police powers to use their weapons and has historical ties to racism and anti-Semitism – is leading in the polls. Merzouk’s mother asked politicians to stay away from the march to avoid tensions. “I don’t have Nahel any more. I just want justice for my son,” she told the crowd. Assa Traore, 39, who has fought for justice since her brother, Adama, died in police custody in 2016, said, “This march is a powerful symbol”. “It means that history can’t write itself without us. We, from the working-class neighbourhoods, are the firsthand victims of these elections. We realised from an early stage the National Rally and far-right parties were a danger for our country and will weaken it,” said Traore, who has roots in Mali. People take part in the march in Nanterre in honour of Nahel Merzouk [Julien de Rosa/AFP] ‘Racial profiling is our daily life’ Reporting from Nanterre, Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith noted: “Nahel’s death fed a narrative that French police use excessive force and get away with it. The office of the UN Commissioner for Human Rights said the shooting was a ‘moment for the country to seriously address the deep issue of racism and racial discrimination in law enforcement’.” On Sunday, French voters head to the polls in the first round of voting for the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, which could lead to the country’s first far-right government since the World War II Nazi occupation. Citing “security concerns”, notably in housing projects and other impoverished areas in French suburbs – or “banlieues” – the far-right National Rally (RN) party wants to give a specific new legal status to police. If police officers use weapons during an intervention, they would be “presumed” to have acted in self-defence. Currently, police officers share the same legal status as all French citizens, and must prove they acted in self-defence after discharging a firearm. Meanwhile, the left-wing coalition New Popular Front wants to ban the use of some police weapons and dismantle a notoriously violent police unit. “People fear a victory of the RN party. People from working-class neighbourhoods are afraid every day that our sons, brothers, or husbands will be killed. Racism and racial profiling are our daily life,” Traore said. ‘Conflicting loyalties’ On Friday, the RN faced new accusations of racism with a senior parliamentarian declaring a former education minister of Moroccan descent should never have got the job because of her origins. Lawmaker Roger Chudeau declared that Najat Vallaud-Belkacem’s appointment to the education portfolio in 2014 was “not a good thing” for France, saying her French and Moroccan citizenship meant she had “conflicting loyalties”. The incidents have done little to dent the popularity of the National Rally, however. Opinion polls suggest the RN party could dominate the next parliament after the July 7 second round of voting and secure the prime minister’s position. In that scenario, Macron would retain the presidency until 2027 but in a sharply weakened role. Adblock test (Why?)