Rahul Gandhi keeps Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat, Priyanka to contest from Wayanad
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Republicans fume over report part of $2.8B Afghan humanitarian funding went to Taliban
House Republicans are fuming at the Biden administration over reports that tens of millions of dollars of U.S. humanitarian aid to Afghanistan may have ended up in Taliban hands. During a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing last week, Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., opened his chairman’s remarks by listing off several State Department expenditures he found either egregious, lacking proper oversight or both. Mast pointed to a reported $2.8 billion in humanitarian funding being directed to Afghanistan following the disastrous 2021 withdrawal that claimed the lives of more than a dozen American service members and led to the Taliban retaking control of the Kabul government. After admonishing the State Department over a $500,000 grant he characterized as going to “promote atheism in Nepal,” Mast took aim at what reportedly happened to the billions the U.S. sent to help Afghan civilians after their country was upturned. GOLD STAR MOTHER TORCHES BIDEN’S ‘ABILITIES’ ON AFGHAN WITHDRAWAL ANNIVERSARY: ‘REFUSES TO HELP US’ “Another example is that the Biden administration has sent more than $2.8 billion to Afghanistan since the Taliban took power in August of 2021. The report shows tens of millions of dollars of that money going directly into the hands of the Taliban,” Mast said, calling the examples the “tip of the iceberg” in incompetent federal appropriations. In May, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued a statement on a federal inspector general’s findings that at least $10.9 million in U.S. taxpayer funds were at least indirectly provided to the Taliban. “It is unacceptable for any U.S. funding to benefit the Taliban,” McCaul said. “The Biden administration must take immediate action to prevent U.S. taxpayer dollars from going to the Taliban,” McCaul said in a statement praising the latest work of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). FLASHBACK: GOLD STAR FATHERS RIP BIDEN: HE CHECKED HIS WATCH AND TALKED ‘ABOUT HIS SON MORE THAN MY SON’ SIGAR was originally established in 2008. Its latest report found the nearly $11 million paid by State Department entities and other partners was “likely only a fraction” of what the Taliban ultimately received in forms like taxes, fees, duties and utilities. In his remarks, Mast called the Afghanistan funding issue along with his other cited examples “the epitome of ‘America Last.’” “Our country is competing for influence all across the globe with China, Russia and Iran and other enemies,” Mast said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Previously, the State Department pushed back on claims it intended to promote atheism in the Himalayas, as Mast’s second barb highlighted. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Verma testified before Congress in March that after looking at the grant and its materials, that promoting atheism was not what the grant was meant for and “that is not what the work would be for.” Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and State Department for further comment.
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West Bengal train collision: What led to Kanchanjunga Express accident that claimed 15 lives?
The government has announced an ex-gratia of Rs. 2 lakh from PMNRF would be given to the next of kin of each deceased in the railway mishap in West Bengal. The injured would be given Rs. 50,000.
Power outage at Delhi Airport, check-in, boarding facilities impacted
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With too few mental health providers, more patients turn to primary care
While primary care is experiencing its own workforce shortage, the profession is shouldering more mental health screenings to help bridge the behavioral health provider gap.
Biden campaign targets ‘convicted felon’ Trump with $50M media buy ahead of 1st debate
The Biden campaign released a new ad Monday morning as part of a $50 million ad blitz ahead of the first presidential debate later this month, highlighting former President Trump’s conviction, and saying “character” is the central dynamic of the 2024 presidential race. The new ad, titled “Character Matters,” highlights the verdict in New York v. Trump, when a jury found the former president and presumptive Republican nominee guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump pleaded not guilty to the charges and has vowed to appeal the decision. BLACK MALE VOTERS SOUR ON BIDEN, TRUMP: ‘TIRED OF BEING FORCED TO CHOOSE THE LESSER OF THE GREATER EVILS’ “This election is between a convicted criminal who is only out for himself, and a president who is fighting for your family,” the ad says, highlighting Trump’s legal challenges and saying the president has been focusing on “lowering health care costs and making big corporations pay their fair share.” The ad comes ahead of next week’s first presidential debate, which is set for June 27. The ad is part of the Biden campaign’s June $50 million paid media campaign. The campaign said the ad will run on general market television and Connected TV in all battleground states and on national cable. “Trump approaches the first debate as a convicted felon who continues to prove that he will do anything and harm anyone if it means more power and vengeance for Donald Trump,” Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler said. “That’s why he was convicted, that’s why he encouraged a violent mob to storm the Capitol on January 6, and it’s why his entire campaign is an exercise in revenge and retribution; because that man is blind to the people a president should be serving and will do absolutely anything for his own personal gain and for his own power.” Tyler stressed that, in the 2024 presidential campaign, “character matters, and the President of the United States should be someone who understands that the highest office in the land is about you and your family – not a vehicle to enrich yourself.” BLACK VOTERS UNHAPPY WITH BIDEN, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGISTS FEAR IT COULD ‘THREATEN HIS RE-ELECTION’: NY TIMES “That is the ethos Joe Biden puts into the job every day: to fight for safer communities, for the middle class, and to ensure that corporations are paying their fair share. It’s a stark contrast, and it’s one that matters deeply to the American people,” he said. “And it’s why we will make sure that every single day we are reminding voters about how Joe Biden is fighting for them, while Donald Trump runs a campaign focused on one man and one man only: himself.” The Trump campaign said the new ad “once again proves the sham trial was always meant to be election interference, but Americans see through it.” “Despite Biden’s failing campaign spending nearly $70 million on media buys, President Trump continues to crush Joe Biden in the polls, leading in every key battleground state and winning independents by double digits,” Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. “Crooked Joe Biden is down 20 points with Black voters in Pennsylvania and just needed to be led offstage by Obama in a room full of Hollywood elites. The contrast between President Trump’s strength and success versus Crooked Joe Biden’s weakness, failures, and dishonesty will be made clear on the debate stage next week.” The Biden campaign on Monday also said the media campaign will target voters in battleground states for June as part of its “aggressive and comprehensive efforts to engage and activate voters who will decide this election.” The ad blitz also includes a “historic” investment to reach Black, Latino, and Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander voters, with the campaign calling it the “largest investments to date.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The ad campaign comes after the Biden campaign raised a record $30 million at a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. Big names, including former President Obama and Hollywood actors George Clooney and Julia Roberts, were in attendance. The massive haul comes after Biden attended a star-studded fundraiser in New York City in April, where he raised more than $25 million. Meanwhile, the first presidential debate will be hosted by CNN on June 27 in Atlanta.
Nikki Haley announces her father’s death on Father’s Day
Nikki Haley announced on Sunday that her father, Ajit Singh Randhawa, has died. The announcement came as the U.S., as well as Canada and the United Kingdom, celebrated Father’s Day on the third Sunday of June. “This morning I had to say goodbye to the smartest, sweetest, kindest, most decent man I have ever known,” Haley wrote in an X post, sharing a February 2023 photo from a campaign event in her native South Carolina, where she announced that she was running for president. “My heart is heavy knowing he is gone,” Haley continued Sunday. “He taught his kids the importance of faith, hard work, and grace. He was an amazing husband of 64 years, a loving grandfather and great grandfather, and the best father to his four children. He was such a blessing to all of us. Happy Father’s Day Dad. We will miss you dearly.” HALEY, CHRISTIE STAY QUIET ON TRUMP GUILTY VERDICT AS GOP OUTRAGE GROWS OVER ‘UN-AMERICAN’ SILENCE The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations did not disclose her father’s age or cause of death in the post. Haley was the last Republican primary presidential contender to drop out of the 2024 race, eventually bowing out and giving a clear path to former President Trump in March. In January, Haley briefly left the campaign trail to visit her father in the hospital in South Carolina, Politico reported. Reports at the time said he had an unspecified type of cancer. NIKKI HALEY SILENT ON TRUMP’S NYC CONVICTION AS OTHER PROMINENT REPUBLICANS SPRING TO HIS DEFENSE Randhawa, who was originally from India’s Punjab region, first moved to Canada to get a Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia, then moved to South Carolina in 1969 and taught at Voorhees College, according to Politico. Haley, who would go on to become the state’s governor, was born three years later.
Maryland Gov Moore to pardon 175,000 Marijuana convictions in massive executive order
Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore plans to pardon more than 175,000 marijuana convictions on Monday in one of the most sweeping rollbacks of drug policy in the country. Moore’s plan would apply to some 100,000 people who were convicted of low-level marijuana possession charges. Marijuana has been increasingly legalized across the country as both a medicinal and recreational drug. “I’m ecstatic that we have a real opportunity with what I’m signing to right a lot of historical wrongs,” Moore said. “If you want to be able to create inclusive economic growth, it means you have to start removing these barriers that continue to disproportionately sit on communities of color.” Moore’s office says the wave of pardons is timed to coincide with Wednesday’s Juneteenth holiday. EXPERTS PREDICT INFLATION ELECTION TROUBLE FOR BIDEN: ‘TOO LATE’ TO FIX Maryland has fully legalized the cannabis trade within its borders since 2023, though its nearby neighbors like Washington, D.C. and Virginia still have some restrictions. Neither of the latter jurisdictions have issued pardons for marijuana-related crimes. Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown, a Democrat, praised Moore’s pardon. TRUMP RALLY DRAWS SWING STATE VOTERS ANGRY OVER ‘SHAM’ CONVICTION: ‘BIGGEST SCAM EVER’ “While the pardons will extend to anyone and everyone with a misdemeanor conviction for the possession of marijuana or paraphernalia, this unequivocally, without any doubt or reservation, disproportionately impacts — in a good way — Black and Brown Marylanders,” Brown said. BIDEN CAMP JABS AT TRUMP’S ‘FAILED’ BUSINESS RECORD AS FORMER PRESIDENT LOOKS TO SWAY NATION’S TOP CEOs “We are arrested and convicted at higher rates for possession and use of marijuana when the rate at which we used it was no different than any other category of people,” he added. Maryland officials clarified that none of the pardons will result in people being released from prison because none are currently incarcerated, according to the Washington Post. The Associated Press contributed to this report.