Delhi water crisis: Supreme Court directs Himachal Pradesh to release surplus water, Haryana to facilitate flow
Supreme Court also directed Haryana to facilitate the flow of the surplus water from Hathnikund to Wazirabad uninterruptedly to Delhi to mitigate the drinking water crisis.
Hunter Biden trial enters day 4 after wild testimony from exes on rampant drug use, trashed hotel rooms
WILMINGTON, DEL. — Details about Hunter Biden’s relationship with a 24-year-old stripper, his need for crack cocaine every 20 minutes and how his spiraling addiction torpedoed his first marriage were on full display for the jury as it considers the first son’s three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018. “He would want to smoke the second he woke up,” Biden’s ex-girlfriend, Zoe Kestan, testified Wednesday. She met Biden when she worked at a gentleman’s club in New York City when she was 24 and he was 48. The court heard continued testimony from FBI special agent Erika Jensen Wednesday and from Biden’s ex-wife Kathleen Buhle, Kestan and gun shop employee Gordon Cleveland, as prosecutors worked to prove to the jury Biden lied about his drug addiction when he filled out a federal form to buy a Colt revolver gun in 2018. Biden is facing charges of making a false statement in the purchase of a gun, making a false statement related to information required to be kept by a federally-licensed gun dealer and possession of a gun by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance. HUNTER BIDEN TRIAL ENTERS 3RD DAY WITH CROSS-EXAMINATION OF FBI AGENT Biden pleaded not guilty in the case. The total maximum prison time for the three charges could be up to 25 years. Each count carries a maximum fine of $250,000 and three years of supervised release. Kestan detailed in her testimony that she met Biden in December 2017 after he booked a private room for 30 minutes at the strip club where she worked, ultimately sparking a relationship with the man she described as “charming and charismatic.” Kestan, who testified under immunity, walked the jury through Biden’s rampant drug abuse throughout the course of their relationship, including him smoking crack in hotel rooms, stealing away to public bathrooms to smoke crack and even how she helped pick up drugs for him. She said the crack cocaine he purchased often was the size of a “ping pong ball,” which he broke into pieces and lit up in glass pipes. ‘LIKE A SON’: FORMER TOP BIDEN ADVISER WITH DEEP BUSINESS TIES TO CHINA SPOTTED INSIDE HUNTER BIDEN GUN TRIAL Kestan described to the court that Biden was a “super charming” man when she first met him and that she was “confused” how he was able to appear coherent and cognizant after smoking the hard drug. “I didn’t notice it. Sometimes I think that’s because I was catching feelings for him,” she told the court. Kestan said their whirlwind relationship was a “distraction” for Biden, as he allegedly smoked less with her when they were hidden away, sometimes for days at a time, in ritzy hotel rooms such as New York City’s Four Seasons location or in a bungalow at Los Angeles’ Chateau Marmont. Kestan wore a colorful scarf while detailing to the court the rise and fall of their relationship, including how he called on her to clean up one of the trashed hotel rooms that was littered with crack residue, pipes, snacks and alcohol and asking her to pick up his car after it was towed in Los Angeles in 2018. HUNTER BIDEN’S WIFE LASHES OUT AT FORMER TRUMP AIDE DURING COURT APPEARANCE: ‘PIECE OF S—‘ Accompanying Kestan’s testimony were photos depicting crack pipes in hotel rooms often sitting next to bottles of liquor or beer, a photo of a bare-chested Biden in a bubble bath with Kestan and a screenshot of a FaceTime video showing Biden’s back tattoo that resembled claw marks. The jurors were told amid Kestan’s remarks that Biden learned how to cook crack cocaine and were shown a photo of baking soda in one hotel room used to cook cocaine into crack. Kestan said Biden often spoke about how he was an addict and wished to get sober, including his attempt to purge his body of drugs with frog venom called “kambo.” HUNTER BIDEN’S DRUG USE: WHAT THE PROSECUTION NEEDS TO PROVE AND WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW Though Kestan knew Biden before and after the purchase of the Colt revolver in October 2018, the pair did not speak the month of the purchase, rekindling their relationship in November 2018 before it officially ended. Hunter’s ex-wife of more than 20 years, Kathleen Buhle, with whom he shares three daughters, also took the stand Wednesday. Buhle and Biden divorced in 2017, after Buhle found a crack pipe on the side porch of their home in Washington, D.C., in 2015, she told the court. Buhle was soft-spoken and appeared emotional during her testimony as she detailed her suspicions of his rampant drug use after he was discharged from the Navy Reserves for testing positive for cocaine and the subsequent death of their marriage. HUNTER BIDEN TRIAL: 9 KEY FIGURES WHO MAY TESTIFY “I was definitely worried, scared,” she said, describing how she would scour his car for drugs and drug paraphernalia to ensure their daughters would not drive the vehicle around with the substances. Buhle said following the discovery of a crack pipe at their home in 2015, they participated in couple’s therapy before the marriage ended. Buhle said she does not remember the date they officially terminated their marriage, only saying it occurred on Good Friday of 2017. Buhle was on the stand the shortest amount of time among witnesses and deeply exhaled as she quickly left the courtroom Wednesday morning. Jurors were apparently rapt by Buhle’s presence in the court following relatively dry continued testimony from Jensen, who discussed Wells Fargo bank records early Wednesday morning. Nearly all the jurors were jotting down notes or at least holding their notepads and pens when Buhle first took the stand. Following testimony from Hunter’s ex-wife and ex-girlfriend, prosecutors next called on Gordon T. Cleveland, the gun shop employee who sold Biden the revolver in October 2018. US V HUNTER BIDEN: OPENING STATEMENTS TO BEGIN IN FIRST SON’S FEDERAL GUN TRIAL AFTER
‘Back in time’: House lawmakers parachuting from WWII-era plane in Normandy to mark D-Day
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday by parachuting out of a World War II-era plane over Normandy, France, just as Allied airborne forces did on June 6, 1944. The 10 legislators – nine Republicans and one Democrat, all veterans of the armed forces – will don World War II military uniforms and jump into Normandy from a U.S. C-47 military transport plane that was extensively used during the war. “The fact that we’re in Normandy, and you’re wearing that uniform … and you’re jumping from that plane that isn’t what we’re used to from our [service], you’re stepping back in time in a way, and you’re really trying to think about how many sacrifices that were made,” Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., one of the lawmakers participating, told Fox News Digital. “This is one of the greatest opportunities that I’ve had since I’ve been in Congress: to be able to literally recreate and reenact what they had done in 1944,” he said. “And so, [what is] really going to be one of those things I think about is how many we lost and then also how lucky we truly are as Americans.” US AGENCY IDENTIFIES 3 SOLDIERS WHO WENT MISSING DURING THEIR SERVICE Asked what he’ll be thinking about as he jumps out of the plane, Mills joked, “This is either going to be a great jump or we might not be the majority any longer.” He also noted that it’s likely one of the last D-Day anniversaries that will actually have the aging veterans of that war in attendance. Mills and his companies are part of a wider group of lawmakers that will be in Normandy along with President Biden to mark the anniversary of what’s widely considered to be the turning point of the war in Europe, when Allied forces went on to defeat the Axis powers led by Germany and its leader, Adolf Hitler. MASSACHUSETTS SAILOR KILLED AT PEARL HARBOR FINALLY GETS PROPER BURIAL AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., who had previously done the jump alongside Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., and will do so again, told Fox News Digital, “It’s a real honor to be able to observe and honor the veterans in the way that we are.” Crow, a former Army Ranger, said he, like Mills, served in the 82nd Airborne Division; both units played critical roles in the June 6, 1944, operation. “To be able to honor the veterans who served in those units before me, actually conducting the jump, is certainly a real privilege,” he said. The Colorado Democrat said he and Waltz first came up with the idea on the House floor: “I thought that it would be a good way, both as former paratroopers, to actually participate and honor our veterans.” AMERICAN WWII VETERANS TRAVEL TO FRANCE TO BE HONORED FOR 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY Another participant, Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, quipped to Fox News Digital, “It’s probably not the smartest thing to do at my age. But you know what? I’m going to do it.” “It’s just awesome. I mean, it’s going to be one of the last D-Day anniversaries where you actually have, you know, veterans that were there,” Jackson said. Other lawmakers participating are Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., Rich McCormick, R-Ga., Keith Self, R-Texas, and House Homeland Security Chair Mark Green, R-Tenn.
Ronald Reagan’s principles, patriotism remembered 20 years after his death at legacy celebration
As the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation commemorates the 20th anniversary of the former president’s death, both the pressing challenges facing Americans in 2024 and the milestone 80th anniversary of D-Day are front of mind for foundation leaders. “It’s valuable to reflect on the tremendous successes of the Reagan presidency and to draw lessons for today,” foundation President David Trulio told Fox News Digital in an interview. “So, it’s important to recall that President Reagan won the Cold War. He unleashed an enormous economic boom. He helped restore America’s pride in itself, and he restored and earned the respect that other countries had for the United States.” ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, NOVEMBER 4, 1980, RONALD REAGAN ELECTED PRESIDENT, HERALDING ‘MORNING AGAIN IN AMERICA’ Trulio said the dawn of the Reagan era – the late 1970s into the early ’80s – was a time of “very significant economic challenges” in which “inflation was terrible” and a communist mindset began to seep into America’s consciousness. “There was an assertive, expansionist, communist-led Soviet Union that was threatening America’s way of life, and there was a sense among many Americans that America’s best days were behind her,” Trulio said. “Those are really striking parallels, not a one-for-one comparison, but there are striking parallels to that era, to today where Americans feel the effects of inflation, of a challenging economy, a sense that the American Dream is under challenge or that our best days are behind us now.” The foundation will feature several key political figures over the course of its two-day celebration of Reagan’s 20th anniversary and the 80th anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. KT McFarland, former deputy national security adviser under former President Trump; Reagan administration budget official Stephen Moore; Carol Thatcher, daughter of late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; and Ben Mulroney, son of the late Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney are among the panelists at the foundation’s commemoration of Reagan. Reagan gave two speeches in Normandy on June 6, 1984, when he delivered one of his most famous speeches highlighting the heroic actions of the “boys of Pointe du Hoc.” “It’s really striking, going over those speeches today, how relevant they were not only in terms of what happened 80 years ago, not only in terms of how relevant they were to 1984, but how relevant they are today,” Trulio said. “He was a man of great principle who was able to work with people with whom he disagreed to get major legislation done and advance the interests of the American people.” ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, FEBRUARY 6, 1911, RONALD REAGAN IS BORN IN ILLINOIS Reagan, the country’s 40th president, died on June 5, 2004, at age 93 after a decade-long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Known as “The Great Communicator,” he was elected to office in a landslide victory over incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter in 1980 and is credited with revitalizing the country’s stagnant economy and forcing the end of the Cold War during his two terms in office from 1981 to 1989. Ascending to the presidency on a pledge to restore “the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism,” Reagan – a former actor and two-term California governor – remade the Republican Party in his own image of fiscal and social conservatism. Reagan brought a grandfatherly warmth to Republican issues and values that attracted supporters across a broad political spectrum. He successfully implemented most of his key campaign promises: reducing government bureaucracy and regulation, cutting taxes and building up a strong national defense while fighting the spread of communism. Reagan secured an even wider margin of victory with his 1984 re-election, winning 49 states. Aside from the District of Columbia, Reagan only lost Minnesota, which was the home state of his Democrat rival Walter Mondale, by a few thousand votes. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, NOVEMBER 4, 1980, RONALD REAGAN ELECTED PRESIDENT, HERALDING ‘MORNING AGAIN IN AMERICA’ “The conflicts in the Middle East, the violence there, and in addition to that, there’s the war in Ukraine, and then we also have an expansionist People’s Republic of China led by the Chinese Communist Party,” Trulio said. “So, the keys to applying President Reagan’s principles involves understanding that it is crucial to be strong in order to deter the potential threats, and … if one can’t deter, then … be strong in order to prevail.” “And part of what President Reagan spoke about in Normandy 40 years ago was the importance of having allies and that having allies is part of that strength,” Trulio added. “Allies who share those principles of freedom and democracy, we are stronger with allies who share our values. It’s always important to stay strong, because by staying strong, you really reduce the risk of having to embark on another terrible war, such as the one afflicting the world 80 years ago and the tremendous death and suffering that resulted from that.” Previous Fox News reporting was incorporated into this report.
Israel bombs UNRWA school in Gaza, kills 32 displaced Palestinians
Israeli forces have bombed a United Nations-linked school in central Gaza, killing at least 32 displaced Palestinians and injuring dozens more, according to officials and local media. Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, condemned the predawn attack on Thursday as a “horrible massacre” and said many women and children were among those killed and wounded. The Palestinian Wafa news agency put the death toll at 32. The agency said that thousands of displaced Palestinians were sheltering at the Nuseirat camp’s al-Sardi school, which is linked to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), when it came under attack. Ismail al-Thawabta, a spokesman for Gaza’s Government Media Office, said “huge numbers of dead and wounded” were arriving at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza. “This horrible massacre committed by the Israeli occupation is clear evidence of genocide, ethnic cleansing against civilians, including women and children and displaced people in the Gaza Strip,” he told reporters. The dead and wounded were overwhelming the hospital, “which is filled with wounded patients three times beyond its clinical capacity”, he added. “This portends a real disaster that will lead to an even greater increase in the number of martyrs.” ‘Apocalyptic’ violence Israel’s military confirmed the bombing, saying its fighter jets struck a “Hamas compound embedded inside an UNRWA school in the area of Nuseirat”. It claimed the bombing “eliminated terrorists who were planning to carry out attacks” against its forces. Hamas rejected the Israeli statement. “The occupation uses lying to the public opinion through false, fabricated stories to justify the brutal crime it conducted against dozens of displaced people,” al-Thawabta told the Reuters news agency. The attack on al-Sardi came as Israeli forces stepped up their bombardment of Gaza even as the United States and mediators continued to press ahead with an effort to secure a ceasefire deal. Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, said prior to the latest attack on Nuseirat, Israeli forces had killed at least 102 people in 24 hours. These included attacks on the Bureij and Maghazi refugee camps, also located in central Gaza. Doctors Without Borders, in a statement earlier on Wednesday, described the situation in Gaza as “apocalyptic”. The group, which is known by its French acronym MSF, said the Al-Aqsa Hospital had received 70 dead people and more than 300 injured since Tuesday, and that the majority of the casualties were women and children. “The odour of blood in the hospital’s emergency room this morning was unbearable. There are people lying everywhere, on the floor, outside … bodies were being brought in plastic bags. The situation is overwhelming,” said Karin Huster, an MSF official. The “insane escalation of violence” across the Gaza Strip and the closure of the Rafah border crossing – which has halted most humanitarian deliveries into the Palestinian enclave – has stretched the health system to the “point of collapse”, she said. “This man-made catastrophe needs to stop now,” she added. At least 36,586 Palestinians have been killed and 83,074 have been wounded in Israel’s eight-month war on Gaza. The brutal assault, which some countries and UN experts say amounts to genocide, began after Hamas fighters launched attacks inside Israel on October 7 of last year, killing at least 1,139 people and taking dozens of others captive. Ceasefire talks Efforts to end the war have so far made little headway, however. William Burns, the director of the CIA, was in Qatar’s capital, Doha, on Wednesday to discuss a three-phase truce proposal touted last week by US President Joe Biden. The first phase calls for a six-week ceasefire, during which Hamas would free some of the captives and Israeli forces would withdraw from Gaza’s population centres and negotiations would continue for a permanent truce. Regional and international powers have backed the proposal, but sticking points remain. Hamas has insisted on a permanent ceasefire and full withdrawal of Israeli troops. Israel, however, has rejected those demands, saying it is prepared to discuss only temporary pauses until Hamas is defeated. Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, on Wednesday reiterated the group’s stance. “The movement and factions of the resistance will deal seriously and positively with any agreement that is based on a comprehensive ending of the aggression and the complete withdrawal and prisoners swap,” he said. Meanwhile, Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said there would be no halt to the fighting. “Any negotiations with Hamas would be conducted only under fire,” Gallant was quoted as saying as he flew on board a plane to inspect the Israeli offensive in Gaza. Adblock test (Why?)
India election: Why did Modi’s BJP lose in Uttar Pradesh, its fortress?
New Delhi, India – It was April 1, All Fools’ Day. India’s elections were yet to start, but Delhi-based columnists were already calling the verdict on the biggest prize of all: Uttar Pradesh (UP), the northern state that is the country’s largest and that sends the largest chunk of legislators to the nation’s parliament. The state’s 80 members of parliament in a house of 543 often make or break the national government. In 2014 and 2019, they made the Bharatiya Janata Party’s fortunes, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party winning 71 and 62 seats in those two elections. The columnists were predicting a repeat, a done deal for the BJP. But Hakim Sahib, a full-time mendicant and a part-time politician from Meerut, a western Uttar Pradesh (UP) city, wasn’t amused. “BJP will not win more than 40 seats in UP as there is a strong undercurrent against the party,” he told this writer. Two months later, when the results were declared on June 4 after seven stages of a staggered poll, Sahib, it turns out, had been prescient, unlike the vast majority of pollsters who had predicted a sweep for the BJP in UP and India. As the election campaign unfolded across the state of more than 200 million people, the signs were there: Modi and the BJP were clearly a powerful force, but there was a palpable, seething rage too, among many voters — including traditional supporters — over high unemployment and inflation. A clever strategy by the opposition INDIA alliance turned a BJP campaign slogan seeking 400 seats in parliament into a narrative against the governing party: The opposition claimed that the BJP could take away constitutional rights of historically disadvantaged communities such as Dalits — who sit at the bottom of India’s caste hierarchy — with such a large mandate. All of that fructified into the outcome that Sahib had predicted: The BJP ended up with just 33 seats, with its allies winning three more. The regional Samajwadi Party, a member of the Congress Party-led INDIA alliance, won 37 seats. The Congress itself won six more. That result, along with losses in the western state of Maharashtra, has forced the BJP to rely on alliance partners to form a government, short of a national majority on its own. The rumblings that led to this moment weren’t restricted to traditional BJP critics. Some ordinary voters who led to its rise felt let down too. Fall in Ayodhya, drop in Varanasi In 1992, the BJP led a campaign that culminated in the demolition of the 16th-century Babri mosque in the UP temple town of Ayodhya. On December 6 that year, when images of the shrine being pulled down stunned the rest of India and shocked the world, Mohan was at the site, a part of the mob that smashed the mosque into rubble. In January this year, Modi consecrated a grand Ram temple at the same spot: The Hindu deity Ram, according to ancient scriptures, was born in Ayodhya. It was a moment that — like the 1992 demolition — was screened across the world, and that emerged as the launchpad of Modi’s 2024 re-election campaign. But when this writer spoke to Mohan — who requested that his last name not be used — in April, he was clear that he had given up on the BJP. He has an unemployed son, who was initially tempted to join the Modi government’s scheme to send Indian workers to Israel as labourers amid the war on Gaza. The son eventually turned down that option. “This time the BJP will not come to power in the parliament elections. I will call you on June 4 to confirm this,” Mohan declared. He was partially wrong — the BJP is poised to form the next government, with its allies. Yet in Faizabad, the constituency that includes the Ram temple, the BJP lost. And Mohan’s comments were mirrored in sentiments that voters shared even in Modi’s own parliamentary constituency of Varanasi. His imprimatur is visible in the infrastructure development work throughout the city: a highway to the airport; cleaned up banks of the Ganges; widened roads to Varanasi’s biggest attraction, the Kashi Vishwanath Temple. But these changes have robbed the city of its identity, said, Vishambhar Mishra, a professor at the city’s Indian Institute of Technology and the head of the Sankat Mochan Trust that campaigns for cleaning up the Ganges. “Varanasi used to be the city of lanes and bylanes. People could start from wherever and negotiate the lanes to reach the ghats to take a dip in the Ganges,” he said. Meanwhile, the Ganges remains dirty, despite multiple promises from the government to clean it up — a contradiction he routinely highlights in posts on social media platform X. On the Ganges, boatman Bhanu Chaudhary, who took this writer for a ride, said: “There is a lot of anger in people as there are no jobs.” Chaudhary is a graduate but is forced to row boats for visitors to the city because he has no other work. That anger showed on June 4. Modi won the seat, but with his margin dramatically slashed, from 480,000 votes in 2019 to 152,000 this time. Many of the constituencies near Varanasi, which the BJP had hoped to win riding on Modi’s presence in the city, went to the INDIA alliance. People beat drums in front of a vehicle carrying a large garlanded portrait of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Indian constitution, as they celebrate his birth anniversary in Mumbai, India, April 14, 2024. Ambedkar, a Dalit, and a prominent Indian freedom fighter, outlawed discrimination based on caste. Analysts believed the Dalit move shifted away from the BJP in the just-concluded election [Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo] Losing the Dalit vote But the biggest reason for voters shifting away from the BJP may have been the party’s own statements, say observers. The slogan insisting that the BJP-led alliance would win 400 seats spooked many Dalits,
Hunter Biden’s ex-girlfriend details his crack cocaine addiction at trial
Jurors were told Biden would spend days in hotel rooms getting high in the months leading up to his 2018 gun purchase. Hunter Biden’s former girlfriend has testified about his near-constant crack cocaine use at luxury hotels at the criminal trial where prosecutors are trying to prove that US President Joe Biden’s son lied about his addiction to illegally buy a gun. Zoe Kestan told jurors that Hunter Biden would prepare crack at the ritzy Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles or spend days in hotel rooms getting high in the months leading up to his 2018 gun purchase. “He would want to smoke as soon as he woke up,” Kestan told the court on Wednesday, as she described meetings with a “scary” drug dealer and hunting for instructions on the internet to cook powder cocaine into crack. Kestan testified at the first trial of a US president’s child, where prosecutors are trying to prove that Hunter Biden knowingly lied about his drug use on screening paperwork when he bought a revolver in October 2018. Kathleen Buhle, who divorced Hunter Biden in 2017, also testified for about 20 minutes to describe how she first discovered he was using drugs. Prosecutors also said they plan to call Hallie Biden, the widow of Hunter’s late brother Beau. Hunter Biden, 54, has pleaded not guilty to three felony charges accusing him of failing to disclose his use of illegal drugs when he bought the gun and of illegally possessing the weapon for 11 days. Biden has publicly acknowledged his past drug use, including in his memoir. He told the judge in the case at a 2023 hearing that he had been clean since 2019. Defence says no intent to deceive The defence lawyer, Abbe Lowell, has countered that Hunter Biden was not using drugs at the time of the purchase and did not intend to deceive. Lowell pressed an FBI agent to acknowledge that prosecutors had evidence of Hunter’s addiction only before or after rather than during the time he owned the gun. The trial follows another historic first – last week’s criminal conviction of Donald Trump, the first US president to be found guilty of a felony. Trump is the Republican challenger to Joe Biden, a Democrat, in the November 5 election. Kestan also described a message from Hunter Biden in which he said a month after the October 2018 gun purchase that he might get sober but “I’ll always be an addict”. The defence has worked to show that prosecutors have not presented much evidence that Hunter Biden was using drugs at the time he bought the gun. Under questioning from Lowell, Kestan said she did not see him in the weeks before and after the gun purchase. She also acknowledged that when he described himself as always being an addict, he was using the language associated with people who are recovering from substance abuse. Hunter Biden is charged with lying about his use of illegal drugs when he bought a Colt Cobra .38-calibre revolver and illegally possessing the weapon for 11 days in October 2018. The trial comes after a plea deal that would have settled the case fell apart in July last year. If convicted on all charges in the Delaware case, Hunter Biden faces up to 25 years in prison, though defendants generally receive shorter sentences, according to the US Department of Justice. Adblock test (Why?)
How Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi scripted Congress’ revival
The credit for this stunning revival goes to the campaigning strategy which was designed and led by Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi.
What BJP may have to give Nitish Kumar, Chandrababu Naidu, Chirag Paswan, Eknath Shinde to make Modi 3.0 a reality
For the first time in his 22-year political career, Modi will not have the absolute majority that has allowed him to make decisions independently.
Trump campaign accelerates vetting of potential running mates
With the start of the Republican Party’s presidential nominating convention less than six weeks away, former President Donald Trump’s campaign is picking up the pace in vetting the potential running mates. The process has started in earnest with documents being requested from several prospective contenders for the 2024 GOP vice presidential nomination, sources on Wednesday confirmed to Fox News. They add that paperwork is being exchanged and note that they are entering a different phase of the running mate search. The sources say that among those being vetted by the Trump campaign are three names that often come up – North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, and Sen. JD Vance of Ohio. TRUMP HEADS TO BLUE BASTION TO RAISE CAMPAIGN CASH IN HIS REMATCH WITH PRESIDENT BIDEN But people close to the campaign and to the former president add that the list is longer than just those three names. They say that also being vetted are Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Tim Scott of South Carolina, Reps. Byron Donalds of Florida and Elise Stefanik of New York, and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who served as Housing and Urban Development secretary in the Trump administration. THIS IS HOW MUCH A TOP PRO-TRUMP SUPER PAC HAULED IN LAST MONTH Asked if the Trump campaign had reached out to him regarding vetting, Donalds in an interview Tuesday night with Fox News Digital in Philadelphia, said “I’m not going to comment on that. I’m going to leave that one alone.” Highly placed sources say the list of potential running mates will continue to winnow down, but it is fluid. As for the timing of the Trump decision on his running mate, the sources say the former president likely won’t announce his choice until just before or even during the convention, which starts on July 15 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. That’s in line with a handful of interviews in which the former president has said there’s “probably a pretty good chance” that he’ll announce his running mate “in Milwaukee.” Asked to comment on the reporting from Fox News and other news organizations regarding the vetting process, Trump campaign senior adviser Brian Hughes said “anyone claiming to know who or when President Trump will choose his VP is lying, unless the person is named Donald J. Trump.” Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.