Palestinians grieve loved ones killed in Mawasi tent camp attack
NewsFeed An Israeli attack on a tent camp for displaced Palestinians has killed at least 25 people and wounded 50 in Gaza’s Mawasi, according to local health officials. Loved ones took many of the dead to nearby Khan Younis. Published On 21 Jun 202421 Jun 2024 Adblock test (Why?)
Israel will be the ‘ultimate loser’ in war with Hezbollah, Iran says
Israel says it will soon ‘make the necessary decisions’ about confronting the Iran-allied Lebanese group. Iran says Hezbollah is capable of defending itself and Lebanon, warning Israel that it would be the “ultimate loser” in an all-out war with the Lebanese armed group. Tehran’s statement on Friday came as fears of a major Israeli offensive in Lebanon continued to mount. “Any imprudent decision by the occupying Israeli regime to save itself could plunge the region into a new war, the consequence of which would be the destruction of Lebanon’s infrastructure as well as that of the 1948 occupied territories,” Iran’s mission to the United Nations said in a social media post. “Undoubtedly, this war will have one ultimate loser, which is the Zionist regime. The Lebanese Resistance Movement, Hezbollah, has the capability to defend itself and Lebanon – perhaps the time for the self-annihilation of this illegitimate regime has come.” Israel also issued a threat to Iran-aligned Hezbollah on Friday with Foreign Minister Israel Katz saying “soon we will make the necessary decisions” about confronting the Lebanese group. “The free world must unconditionally stand with Israel in its war against the axis of evil led by Iran and extremist Islam. Our war is also your war,” Katz said. Israel cannot allow the Hezbollah terror organization to continue attacking its territory and citizens, and soon we will make the necessary decisions. The free world must unconditionally stand with Israel in its war against the axis of evil led by Iran and extremist Islam. Our… — ישראל כ”ץ Israel Katz (@Israel_katz) June 21, 2024 Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said this week that if the Israeli military goes to war in Lebanon, his group will use its rockets and drones to hit targets across the entire territory of Israel. He warned Hezbollah would wage a war with “no restraint and no rules and no ceilings”. Nasrallah also issued a threat to Cyprus, a European Union member that sits in the eastern Mediterranean west of the Lebanese and Israeli coasts. He said the group has information that Israel is conducting military exercises in Cyprus in terrain similar to southern Lebanon. Nasrallah added that Israel plans to use airports and bases in Cyprus for military purposes if its own infrastructure is targeted during a serious war. “Opening Cypriot airports and bases for the Israeli enemy to target Lebanon means the Cypriot government has become part of the war, and the resistance will deal with it as part of the war,” he said without elaborating. Cyprus said Nasrallah’s threat is not grounded in reality, stressing the country enjoys great relations with Lebanon. Still, the Hezbollah statement exacerbated concerns about an even larger regional war that could spill beyond Lebanon’s borders and pull Iran-allied groups – if not Tehran itself – as well as the United States into the conflict. Hezbollah started attacking military bases in northern Israel the day after the outbreak of the war on Gaza on October 7 in what it says is a “support front” to back Palestinian groups. Israel responded by bombing southern Lebanese villages and Hezbollah positions. While the near-daily clashes have displaced tens of thousands of people in Lebanon and Israel, they have been largely contained to the border areas. But the violence has escalated in recent weeks, especially after an Israeli air raid killed a top Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon last week. On Friday, Hezbollah claimed several military operations against Israel, including a drone attack it said targeted Israeli forces at a coastal base on the western side of the border. The US has pushed for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis while expressing concern about Hezbollah’s attacks. “We have made quite clear we do not want to see escalation of this conflict,” Department of State spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters on Thursday. For its part, Hezbollah has said it will continue operations against the Israeli military until Israel ends its war in Gaza, which has killed more than 37,000 Palestinians. Members of Hezbollah attend the funeral of a senior field commander [File: Mohamed Azakir/Reuters] Adblock test (Why?)
Can Putin’s diplomacy help him counter Western isolation?
Russian president visits North Korea and Vietnam to shore up alliances. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin wrapped up a two-nation Asia tour on a high. It was the first time in 24 years he’d set foot in North Korea – and left Pyongyang with a new defence pact to show for it. His two-day visit to Vietnam yielded several new trade agreements with the manufacturing hub. Putin’s latest state visits seem to be an attempt to bolster support amid increasing isolation over his war in Ukraine. But what do these countries stand to gain from closer ties with Moscow? And how is Washington reacting? Presenter: Laura Kyle Guests: Andrei Lankov – professor at Kookmin University and director of NK News, an online news source focused on North Korea Benjamin Young – assistant professor at the Virginia Commonwealth University; author of Guns, Guerrillas and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World Carlyle Thayer – professor emeritus University of New South Wales Canberra; former senior staff member at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies at the US Pacific Command Adblock test (Why?)
GST Council Meet today: What will be the agenda? Check here
The 53rd GST Council meeting is set for June 22, 2024, in New Delhi.
Ted Cruz calls for death penalty if 2 illegal immigrants accused of killing 12-year-old girl are convicted
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Friday called for two illegal immigrants charged with killing a 12-year-old Houston girl to be sentenced to death if they are convicted for the slaying. Cruz also blamed President Biden’s border policies for leading to the death of Jocelyn Nungaray, who was found Monday strangled to death in a creek. Johan Jose Martinez Rangel, 22, and Franklin Pena, 26, both from Venezuela, are each charged with capital murder. RACHEL MORIN MURDER: ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FROM EL SALVADOR CHARGED WITH RAPE, KILLING OF MARYLAND MOM OF 5 “This is horrifying. If guilty, both of these men should receive the death penalty for this horrible crime,” Cruz wrote on X. “These men are illegal aliens and Jocelyn Nungaray would still be alive and with her family if not for Joe Biden’s open border policies. The Biden administration is directly responsible. My heart goes out to Jocelyn’s family.” The pair were seen with Nungaray on Sunday night before she was killed near a bridge, police said Thursday. Investigators tracked their movements through surveillance footage. “In this case the defendant lured a 12-year-old under a bridge, where he and his co-defendant remained with her for over 2 hours, took her pants off, tied her up, and killed her, then threw her body into the bayou,” Harris County Assistant District Attorney Michael Abner wrote. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ARRESTED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT RAPE OF 13-YEAR-OLD IN NEW YORK PARK Both suspects entered the United States illegally through Texas, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said. “On March 14, Martinez was apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol near El Paso, Texas. That same day he was released on an order of recognizance with a notice to appear,” an ICE spokesperson said. “Pena was apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol on May 28 near El Paso. He was also released on an order of recognizance with a notice to appear the same day he was apprehended.” A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security stated to Fox News Digital: “Our hearts go out to Jocelyn Nungaray’s family. The Department cannot publicly comment on an ongoing criminal investigations. That said, anyone who commits a horrific and senseless crime, like the one these individuals are accused of, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent under the law.” On Friday, Cruz urged Biden to restore the Remain in Mexico policy, a Trump-era directive that required migrants applying for asylum to stay in Mexico while their cases play out in U.S. courts. “He must reinstate Remain in Mexico and end catch-and-release immediately, or we will lose more innocent life,” Cruz wrote. “There is no time for half measures – we need to look at what works, and do it now.” The slaying of Nungaray came amid a week of kidnappings, murders and rapes blamed on illegal immigrants across the country. Fox News Digital’s Greg Norman contributed to this report.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick pledges to pass Ten Commandments bill after Louisiana passes similar law
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is pledging to pass a bill that would require public school and college classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, days after a similar Louisiana measure became law. In a social media post, Patrick criticized Texas state House Speaker Dade Phelan, a Republican, for killing a state Senate bill that would have required the display of the Ten Commandments in schools. On Thursday, he vowed to bring the measure back. “SB 1515 will bring back this historical tradition of recognizing America’s heritage, and remind students all across Texas of the importance of a fundamental foundation of American and Texas law: the Ten Commandments,” Patrick wrote on X. “Putting the Ten Commandments back into our schools was obviously not a priority for Dade Phelan.” GOP ATTEMPTS TO DEFINE POSITION ON DISCARDING IVF EMBRYOS AMID PRO-LIFE STANCES The bill would require Texas public elementary and secondary schools to display the Ten Commandments in each classroom. No requirement is currently in place. Fox News Digital has reached out to Phelan’s office. Phelan and Patrick had feuded after Patrick presided over the impeachment trial this year of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. LOUISIANA CLASSIFIES ABORTION DRUGS AS CONTROLLED, DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES AFTER GOV. LANDRY GREENLIGHTS PROPOSAL “Texas WOULD have been and SHOULD have been the first state in the nation to put the 10 Commandments back in our schools,” Patrick wrote on X. “But, SPEAKER Dade Phelan killed the bill by letting it languish in committee for a month assuring it would never have time for a vote on the floor.” This week, Louisiana became the first state to require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms. The American Civil Liberties Union and other civil rights groups said they plan to challenge the law. Notre Dame Law School Professor Richard W. Garnett, who is the director of the school’s Program on Church, State & Society, said it is likely several states will make efforts to mirror Louisiana. “It remains to be seen whether these kinds of measures are permissible,” he told Fox News Digital. “The Supreme Court’s doctrine has changed in some areas, but it hasn’t changed in all areas.” A key question for the high court will be whether a display like the Ten Commandments “has a coercive effect” on children given their age and that it’s in a classroom setting, Garnett said. He noted that challengers of such laws will most likely point out that the U.S. is a religiously diverse nation and that public schools are run by the government for a “pluralistic people” despite the country’s founding being inspired by some individuals’ Christian convictions. In a joint statement announcing their opposition to Louisiana’s law, the ACLU and civil rights groups noted that religion is a private matter. “The First Amendment promises that we all get to decide for ourselves what religious beliefs, if any, to hold and practice, without pressure from the government,” the statement said. “Politicians have no business imposing their preferred religious doctrine on students and families in public schools.”
U.S. Supreme Court blocks the state’s Rio Grande water deal with New Mexico
Water law experts say the Supreme Court’s recent decision will set a precedent for the federal government to intervene in water conflicts between states moving forward.
US v Trump: First day of Florida hearing wraps in classified docs case
Former President Trump’s first day in court for a hearing to determine the lawfulness of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s appointment in the classified document investigation concluded Friday without a decision being made. Friday’s hearing inside a courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida, ended around 2:30 p.m. after the court heard arguments from the defense and prosecution as well as constitutional lawyers supporting either side’s analysis. Prior to concluding for the day, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon heard an argument from a lawyer backing up the Trump defense team’s claims. Josh Blackman of Landmark Legal Foundation argued that Smith did not wield the proper authority to exercise the powers he had been given. TRUMP CLASSIFIED DOCS JUDGE TO WEIGH ALLEGED ‘UNLAWFUL’ APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH The arguments were centered on whether the law authorizes the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel, such as Smith. The discussions during the hearing were policy-heavy, as each side sought to prove what is truly meant by the law and what authority is ultimately bestowed on Garland and Smith. Matthew Seligman, a constitutional lawyer and scholar, argued on behalf of the DOJ during the hearing, pointing to one specific word in a statute that backs Garland’s appointment of Smith in the classified documents case. The word “appoint” is used in section 533, he pointed out to Cannon. This is significant, he explained, as ordinary employees are not installed via appointment. The word is used in the context of government officials, who are put in place by appointment. According to Seligman, who is part of a group of constitutional lawyers called Defenders of Democracy, the statute is abundantly clear in granting the attorney general the authority to appoint such officials, or special counsels, to prosecute crimes in the U.S. DEM STAFFER BLASTED FOR SPENDING HABITS AFTER GOING VIRAL FOR THANKING BIDEN FOR ERASING $8K STUDENT DEBT Trump’s lawyers argued that because Smith was unlawfully appointed and not confirmed by Congress, the case should be thrown out. Defense attorney Emil Bove used the phrase “shadow government” while arguing against the validity of Smith’s appointment. Bove mentioned the term while describing a situation in which inferior officers, unconfirmed by the Senate, are put in power. “These are the risks we are running,” he said. DOJ prosecutor James Pearce argued for Smith’s team and opened by telling Cannon that the Trump team’s legal analysis is, “foreclosed by precedent” and that it could lead to “pernicious consequences.” Smith’s team maintains that Garland has the statutory authority to appoint a special counsel, pointing to US Code 28 Section 516, which gives the AG the authority to prosecute criminal matters and puts the AG in charge of any litigation on behalf of the United States. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Pearce also told Cannon that while Smith’s team is operating independently on a day-to-day basis, DOJ regulations allow the AG to ask for an explanation of any step taken by the special counsel. Cannon was reportedly very active during the hearing, asking questions of both sides, including asking Bove about the text of Section 533, “What is a special attorney or assistant? What is the difference?” At the end of the hearing, after hours of arguments on dense and complicated legal issues, Cannon seemed to home in on one issue: whether Garland had any direct role in Trump’s indictment. Cannon asked Pearce if there had been any oversight by Garland on Smith’s team in relation to the issue that Garland has repeatedly assured Congress that Smith is acting independently and that there has been no coordination with the Biden White House. Pearce assured the judge that Smith’s team had complied with all the DOJ regulations governing the special counsel. Cannon is expected to issue a written order in the coming days. Fox News Digital’s Julia Johnson and Jamie Joseph contributed to this report.
Fox News Politics: No Guns for Abusers
Welcome to Fox News’ Politics newsletter with the latest political news from Washington D.C. and updates from the 2024 campaign trail. What’s happening… -White House announces new clean energy subsidies -Democrats not ‘enthusiastic’ about Biden -Chicago hides crime woes when Democrat VIPs come to town The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal law that bans guns for those subject to domestic violence restraining orders (DVROs) in the first major test of the Second Amendment at the high court this term. In an 8-1 opinion authored by Chief Justice Roberts, the court’s majority said, “[W]e conclude only this: An individual found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another may be temporarily disarmed consistent with the Second Amendment.” Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone dissenter. Both liberal and conservative justices agreed with the Biden administration that there was a history and tradition of keeping firearms from dangerous persons, despite the lack of any specific ban that may have been in place when the Constitution was enacted in the 1790s. SEAFOOD TOWERS: Dem staffer who praised Biden for hooking taxpayers with his student debt blasted for spending habits …Read more ‘RAINBOW LIPSTICK’ ON A PIG: Log Cabin leader blasts Biden for assuming LGBT vote in the bag for Dems …Read more ‘LYNCH MOBS’: Biden admin official who bashed the police as racist, called to defund ICE, earns big promotion …Read more RULES ‘GREEN LIT’: WH announces new boost to clean energy subsidies …Read more ISRAEL WAR: Senate Dems express uncertainty over attending Netanyahu speech to Congress …Read more ‘GOING TO OWN IT’: Embattled Bowman sorry for calling Oct. 7 rapes ‘propaganda’ …Read more RALLYING CRY: Trump spotlighting ‘angel families’ of those killed by illegal immigrants …Read more ‘POOR POLLING’: Democrats, commentators dismiss Trump’s polling gains among Black voters …Read more ‘A DISCONNECT’: Democrats ‘not enthusiastic’ about Biden, warn party strategists …Read more MIND BOGGLING DONATIONS: Bloomberg shells out millions to boost Biden while billionaire banking heir dishes out millions to back Trump …Read more CASH DASH: Biden, Trump campaigns tout huge fundraising hauls …Read more ‘MUCH CLOSER’: Burgum touts his family’s relationship with Trump, fueling VP speculation …Read more ‘BAR IS SO LOW’: Biden’s secret weapon in previous national debates may again be a factor during showdown with Trump …Read more ‘MAYBE SOMEDAY’: Trump mocks RFK Jr for not making debate stage …Read more ‘UNLAWFUL APPOINTMENT’: Trump classified docs judge to weigh alleged ‘unlawful’ appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith …Read more ‘FIGHT BACK’: AG to sue New York over ‘unconstitutional lawfare’ against Trump …Read more HEARINGS BEGIN: Hearings in Trump classified documents case begin in Florida …Read more ‘HAIL MARY’: Georgia DA desperate to prevent discovery of her ‘misconduct’: Trump lawyers …Read more ‘TEMPORARILY DISARMED’: Supreme Court rules on key Second Amendment law …Read more FOX NEWS POLL: Americans weigh in on new border restrictions …Read more MATTER OF FAITH?: Louisiana lawmaker gets into fiery debate with CNN anchor over Ten Commandments law …Read more BACK BEHIND BARS: ICE arrests illegal immigrant previously convicted of child rape, multiple DUIs …Read more ‘BRAZEN’: Rachel Morin’s accused killer was hiding in plain sight: prosecutors …Read more ‘WINDOW DRESSING’: Chicago to hide crime woes when Dem VIPs come to town …Read more BLOOD MONEY: Deadly drug cartel leaders hit with financial sanctions …Read more AIR DEFENSE: US to redirect air defense missiles to Ukraine instead of the countries that ordered them …Read more BOOTLEGGING: Illegally brewed liquor kills at least 34 with dozens hospitalized in southern India …Read more RUSSIAN INJUSTICE: American ballerina accused of spying stands trial in Moscow for $51 donation to Ukraine …Read more THE TAXMAN COMETH: Democrats gleeful as California high court kills effort to limit taxes …Read more Subscribe now to get Fox News Politics newsletter in your inbox. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more on FoxNews.com.
SCOTUS rejects woman’s claim she has constitutional right to visa for husband with MS-13 ties
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that an American citizen, who sued the U.S. State Department to give her noncitizen MS-13-member husband a visa, has no constitutional basis to bring such a lawsuit. In 2010, Sandra Muñoz — an American citizen — married Luis Asencio-Cordero, a citizen of El Salvador. The couple eventually sought to obtain an immigrant visa for Asencio-Cordero so that they could live together in the United States. Muñoz filed a petition with U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to have Asencio-Cordero classified as an immediate relative but was denied. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that Muñoz, as a citizen, had a constitutionally protected liberty interest in her husband’s visa application. Because of that interest, the court said, the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution required the government to give Muñoz a “facially legitimate and bona fide reason” for denying her husband’s visa. But in a 6-3 decision on Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that “[t]he bottom line is that procedural due process is an odd vehicle for Muñoz’s argument.” SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS FEDERAL GUN BAN FOR THOSE UNDER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESTRAINING ORDERS It also said that court precedent “does not support it” and that “[w]hatever else it may stand for,” that precedent “does not hold that a citizen’s independent constitutional right (say, a free speech claim) gives that citizen a procedural due process right to a ‘facially legitimate and bona fide reason’ for why someone else’s visa was denied. And Muñoz is not constitutionally entitled to one here.” In the opinion, authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the court explained that Asencio-Cordero guessed that he had been denied a visa based on a finding that he was a member of MS–13, a transnational criminal gang. So he disavowed any gang membership, and he and Muñoz pressed the consulate to reconsider his case. When he was denied, Muñoz argued that “the right to live with her noncitizen spouse in the United States is implicit in the ‘liberty’ protected by the Fifth Amendment; the denial of her husband’s visa deprived her of this interest, thereby triggering her right to due process; the consular officer violated her right to due process by declining to disclose the basis for finding Asencio-Cordero inadmissible; and this, in turn, enables judicial review, even though visa denials are ordinarily unreviewable by courts.” “Muñoz’s argument fails at the threshold,” Barrett wrote. “Her argument is built on the premise that the right to bring her noncitizen spouse to the United States is an unenumerated constitutional right.” ICE ORDERED TO STOP KNOCK-AND-TALK TACTICS FOR IMMIGRATION ARRESTS “To establish this premise, she must show that the asserted right is ‘deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.’ She cannot make that showing. In fact, Congress’s longstanding regulation of spousal immigration—including through bars on admissibility—cuts the other way,” Barrett wrote. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented from the majority and cited the same-sex marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges as part of their rationale. “‘The right to marry is fundamental as a matter of history and tradition,’” Sotomayor wrote, quoting the Obergefell opinion. “The majority could have resolved this case on narrow grounds under longstanding precedent. This Court has already recognized that excluding a noncitizen from the country can burden the constitutional rights of citizens who seek his presence,” she continued. “Instead, the majority today chooses a broad holding on marriage over a narrow one on procedure,” she said. “It holds that Muñoz’s right to marry, live with, and raise children alongside her husband entitles her to nothing when the Government excludes him from the country. Sotomayor also invoked the Dobbs v. Jackson opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade. SOME OF 49 MIGRANTS FLOWN TO MARTHA’S VINEYARD BY THE STATE OF FLORIDA ARE NOW ABLE TO LEGALLY WORK IN US “Despite the majority’s assurance two Terms ago that its eradication of the right to abortion ‘does not undermine . . . in any way’ other entrenched substantive due process rights such as ‘the right to marry,’ ‘the right to reside with relatives,’ and ‘the right to make decisions about the education of one’s children,’ the Court fails at the first pass,” she said. “Muñoz may be able to live with her husband in El Salvador, but it will mean raising her U. S.-citizen child outside the United States. Others will be less fortunate. The burden will fall most heavily on same-sex couples and others who lack the ability, for legal or financial reasons, to make a home in the noncitizen spouse’s country of origin,” she said. “For those couples, this Court’s vision of marriage as the ‘assurance that while both still live there will be someone to care for the other’ rings hollow,” Sotomayor concluded.