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HHS moves to debar EcoHealth Alliance president over failure to comply with grant procedures

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) commenced formal debarment proceedings against Dr. Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth Alliance – a firm that used taxpayer funds to conduct gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab before the COVID-19 pandemic began. The move took place on Tuesday evening, according to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, and came one week after HHS implemented an immediate, government-wide suspension on all funds allocated to EcoHealth Alliance. In a Tuesday letter to Daszak, a suspension and debarment official for HHS wrote, “This is to provide notification that, on behalf of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, I have suspended you and proposed you for debarment, related to your respective roles as the President of EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. and as Program Director/Principal Investigator on the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease… from participating in United States Federal Government procurement and nonprocurement programs.” In an action referral memorandum, which cited several examples of EcoHealth’s failure to comply with certain grant procedures, the same official wrote, “I find that the information in the record constitutes adequate evidence to demonstrate that the immediate suspension of Dr. Peter Daszak is necessary to protect the public interest provided his role as the President of EHA …” COVID ORIGINS: HHS SUSPENDS ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE GRANTS AFTER FINDING TAXPAYER FUNDS USED IN RISKY RESEARCH The memorandum also pointed to EHA’s work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) as a reason for the proposal of debarment proceedings against Daszak. A review of EcoHealth’s work, submitted two years late on Aug. 3, 2021, showed that work at the Wuhan Institute “had possibly yielded a greater” increase in viral activity, “in violation of the terms of the grant,” the memorandum said. Both EcoHealth and the Wuhan Institute were given “several opportunities to disprove this finding” by the National Institutes of Health, but “failed to do so,” the memorandum added. Because of the failure to adequately respond, the National Institutes of Health’s conclusion that the Wuhan Institute research “likely violated protocols regarding biosafety is undisputed,” the document stated. The memorandum noted that EHA’s role, as the prime grantee administrator, was to “provide adequate oversight of the activities of its subawardees” and that Daszak “did not adequately monitor” the Wuhan Institute’s compliance with the grant. Prior to the HHS effort to debar Daszak, congressional lawmakers said EcoHealth – a U.S.-based nonprofit with a stated mission of preventing pandemics – used taxpayer dollars “to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology” in China. HOUSE COVID COMMITTEE CALLING FOR CRIMINAL PROBE INTO GAIN-OF-FUNCTION VIRUS RESEARCH IN WUHAN “EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak’s personal debarment will ensure he never again receives a single cent from U.S. taxpayers nor has the opportunity to start a new, untrustworthy organization,” Committee Chair Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, said in a statement. “This step comes just two weeks after the Select Subcommittee released substantial evidence of Dr. Daszak’s contempt for the American people, his flagrant disregard for the risks associated with gain-of-function research, and his willful violation of the terms of his NIH grant. Last night, based partially on that evidence, HHS doubled down on its recent suspension of funds to EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. by commencing debarment proceedings against the head of the organization.” Wenstrup added, “Dr. Daszak’s impending debarment does not shield him from accountability to the American people. It appears that Dr. Daszak may have lied under oath about his relationship with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and his compliance with NIH grant procedures. The Select Subcommittee intends to hold Dr. Daszak accountable for any dishonesty and reminds him that this debarment decision does not preclude him from producing all outstanding documents and answering all the questions from this Congressional body.” In announcing the suspension of allocated funds to EcoHealth last week, HHS noted the nonprofit willfully violated the terms of a multimillion-dollar NIH grant. Fox News Digital previously reported that EcoHealth Alliance received millions of dollars in grants from the NIH. U.S. taxpayer funds flowed to Chinese entities conducting coronavirus research through EcoHealth Alliance. That money – at least $600,000 – was redirected to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and went toward research to assess the transmission of bat coronaviruses to humans. The research included conducting RNA extractions and DNA sequencing on bat samples as well as biological experiments on pathogen spillover from bats to humans. EcoHealth Alliance also received more than $200,000 that was redirected to Wuhan University and went toward disease surveillance research activities, including collection of biological samples from people in China with high levels of exposure to bats for Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct further screening. Former U.S. government officials, like former NIH Director Francis Collins, said the U.S. taxpayer money was not approved to conduct gain-of-function research, which involves modifying a virus to make it more infectious among humans. Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

Biden’s lead in New York drops to single digits as Trump vows to win state

President Biden’s lead over former President Trump in New York has dropped to single digits, according to a Wednesday poll from Sienna College. Biden maintains a lead over Trump with 47% of the vote, compared to the former president’s 38%. This is a slight narrowing of the gap since last month, when Biden led Trump 47%-37%. New York voters remain deeply polarized over the two candidates, however, with 32% of voters saying a Biden victory will “irreparably harm America,” and 41% saying the same about a Trump victory. Just 18% of voters, including between 16%-19% of Democrats, Republicans and Independents, say they are confident that America will survive and thrive regardless of the outcome, the poll also found. BIDEN MOCKED FOR APPARENT SMALL SHOWING OF SUPPORTERS IN DEM CITY: ‘NOBODY CARED’ Sienna conducted the poll from May 13-15, surveying 1,191 registered New York voters. The survey advertises a margin of error of 3.9%. The poll comes as Trump has spent roughly a month on trial in Manhattan delivering near-daily statements to the press outside the courtroom. Trump has vowed to win the Empire State, as well as his case. POLLS INDICATE DEADLOCKED RACE WITH SIX MONTHS UNTIL ELECTION DAY “The criminal justice system is on trial in New York,’” Trump said Monday morning. “I love this state. I love the people of the state. I’m running hard in New York.” “I think we’re going to win New York,” he added. A poll from the New York Times earlier this month saw Trump holding leads over Biden in five of six key battleground states. 2024 REMATCH: TRUMP AIMS TO EXPAND THE MAP IN HIS BATTLE WITH BIDEN Trump leads Biden among registered voters 49%-42% in Arizona, 49%-39% in Georgia, 49%-42% in Michigan, 50%-38% in Nevada, and edges the president 47%-44% in Pennsylvania, with Biden narrowly on top in Wisconsin 47%-45%, according to the poll. The surveys’ findings were similar when third-party and independent candidates were added to the mix, including Democrat-turned-independent White House contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The longtime environmental activist and scion of the nation’s most storied political dynasty was grabbing around 10% support across the six states. The polls suggested Kennedy was drawing roughly equally from both Biden and Trump.

Exclusive: Missouri AG torches Kansas City’s ‘retaliation’ against Chiefs kicker expressing Christian beliefs

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey isn’t holding back on his criticism of the Kansas City mayor’s office after it doxxed Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker in a post on X. The city’s official X account revealed the location of Butker’s residence in a now-deleted X post – something Bailey says was clear “retaliation” from the left – after the star kicker’s viral commencement speech at Benedictine College earlier this month. “Butker is the target of discrimination on the basis of his religion. This is a Christian of the Catholic faith who was giving a commencement address at a Catholic university, to an audience that was supportive of the message he was delivering. And the backlash has been discriminatory against him,” Bailey told Fox News Digital in an interview. DEGREE-HOLDING WOMEN DEFEND CHIEFS KICKER AMID COMMENCEMENT SPEECH BACKLASH: ‘MORE WIVES AND MOTHERS PLEASE’ “It’s prophetic. If you actually listen to the opening remarks he provides, he establishes that the left wants to silence Christian voices, wants to drive Christian thought, Christian ideals, expression of Christian beliefs from public discourse, from the public domain. And that’s exactly what the left has done in retaliation against Harrison Butker’s free exercise of religion,” he said. Bailey argued Butker was protected by the First Amendment, as well as the Missouri Human Rights Act, and vowed to hold Kansas City officials, including Mayor Quinton Lucas, accountable for the social media post. “It’s retaliation and bullying on behalf of a government official within the municipality of Kansas City,” Bailey said. FORMER MLB PITCHER MATT DERMODY BELIEVES HARRISON BUTKER ‘DID NOT PUT ANY WOMEN DOWN’ IN COMMENCEMENT SPEECH “We’ve demanded accountability within the mayor’s office in Kansas City as it relates to this social media account, and demanded certain documents so that we can have a better understanding of what control measures are in place to prevent this sort of thing from happening again, who has access to this account, what are the guidelines under which people are allowed to post on this account,” he said. Bailey added that “the woke left” acted as its own religion, that they “worship themselves,” and “worship an ideology that is infinitely self-destructive.” “They, of course, seek to eliminate any market competitor in the marketplace of ideas, and Christianity is a threat to their existence,” he said. “Whereas Christianity teaches love and potential salvation through Christ, the woke left rejects that and hates that and, and wants there to be more division, more divisiveness, more bigotry against Christians, and that’s what we’re fighting against.” CHIEF’S HARRISON BUTKER ‘SAID NOTHING WRONG’ DURING FAITH-BASED COMMENCEMENT SPEECH, RELIGIOUS GROUP SAYS Butker came under fire last week after delivering a speech to new graduates of the Catholic liberal arts college, focusing on the importance of being “unapologetically Catholic.” His address included barbs at President Biden for his pro-abortion stance and supporting young women in the “vocation” of marriage and motherhood. He also referred to pride month as a “deadly sin.” For Butker’s stances on faith and family, both the media and the NFL alike condemned the speech. The NFL explicitly distanced itself from Butker, saying “his views are not those of the NFL as an organization.” Others, however, including various elected officials and conservative groups, have come to his defense. Fox News Digital has reached out to the Kansas City mayor’s office for comment. Fox News’ Jasmine Baehr contributed to this report.

‘Worse than doing nothing’: GOP rips into Schumer-backed border bill

Senate Republicans tore into Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Democrats for reviving a “sham” border bill, which was already rejected by the GOP conference, for another test vote this week. A group of Republican lawmakers, led by Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., held a press conference Wednesday as they prepare for the Senate to once again consider the border bill. “This bill is worse than doing nothing,” explained Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who pointed to several issues with the Democrat-backed bill. BIDEN BORDER CHIEF MAYORKAS IN HOT SEAT OVER JORDANIAN NATIONALS WHO TRIED TO BREACH QUANTICO He noted that rather than focusing on fortifying the border, the measure would “more efficiently encounter, process, and disperse illegal migrants,” which the Wisconsin Republican described as counterproductive. Several of the Republican senators reiterated that President Biden currently has all the authority necessary to strengthen and secure the southern border, claiming he just is not willing to do so. In fact, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., pointed out that “they bragged about undoing” former President Trump’s border policies via executive action. MCCONNELL-ALIGNED GROUP SHREDS SEN BROWN’S ‘HANDOUTS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS’ IN OHIO SPOT The senators additionally criticized their Democratic counterparts for failing to take up a House-backed border bill that addresses Republican priorities, known as H.R. 2. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., called the measure a “great solution” that the Democrats are unwilling to work on. Per Marshall, Americans will not be convinced by the Democrats’ attempt to flip the script on the southern people, noting that citizens are not “stupid.” “They see the blood on Democrats’ hands,” he said. UNUSED COVID-19 FUNDS WOULD BUILD BORDER WALL UNDER NEW SENATE BILL Blackburn claimed the bill’s return to the floor this week was motivated by Schumer’s desire to retain the majority in the Senate and protect several vulnerable incumbents. She called it an “election year political stunt” to give the party the appearance of caring about the border and acting to fix it. In floor remarks on Wednesday, Schumer previewed the bill’s consideration on Thursday, explaining, “The only way we are going to fix the border is through bipartisan legislation.” The majority leader slammed H.R. 2, which Republicans pushed him to take up instead, calling it “a very partisan bill.” BIDEN ADMIN SKEWERED BY GOP FOR RULE DESIGNED TO ‘INTENTIONALLY HARM’ GUN INDUSTRY “Our bipartisan border bill represented a real chance – in fact, the best chance in decades – to act on border security. To make a law and not just to make a political point,” he claimed. The measure is expected to fail a test vote on Thursday. It initially failed to garner 60 votes on a key procedural vote in February, dooming its potential inclusion in a foreign aid package at the time. Now, Republicans are poised to once again oppose the bill, with additional Democratic lawmakers coming out against it as well. Democrats face one of the most difficult Senate election maps in years, with five incumbents up for re-election in some of the most competitive races in the country. Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., Bob Casey, D-Penn., Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., are each competing for survival in their respective races in swing states and red states.

Exodus from Speaker Johnson’s office: 4 top aides unveil departure plans

Four top aides in House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office announced plans to depart within 24 hours of each other, roughly seven months since he took the helm of the House of Representatives. Johnson policy advisers Brittan Specht, Jason Yaworske and Preston Hill are leaving the Louisiana Republican’s office to join Michael Best Strategies, a lobbying firm with offices in Washington, D.C., Wisconsin, Colorado, Texas, and other states, the speaker’s office confirmed to Fox News Digital. Specht, Yaworske and Hill had also worked in ousted former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s office. A fourth staffer, Raj Shah, told Fox News Digital he was planning to leave the speaker’s office as well, but that his exit is not finalized. The former Trump administration deputy press secretary and Fox Corporation executive is serving as Johnson’s deputy chief of staff for communications. AOC, ‘BABY GIRL’ MARJORIE TAYLOR GREEN TRADE BARBS IN FIERY GARLAND HEARING: ‘ARE YOU FEELING HURT’ Shah, one of Johnson’s early major hires as speaker, said he wanted to have matters set with his team in Johnson’s office before leaving. The policy advisers’ exits were first reported in Punchbowl News on Tuesday morning. Shah’s planned departure was reported by Axios late Tuesday evening. Shah referred Fox News Digital to his statement in Axios, “It’s an honor to serve Speaker Johnson, especially through such an historic time. He has shown tremendous leadership navigating the conference through difficult issues. Speaker Johnson has developed an authentic brand of a strong leader willing to make tough calls and place our nation and the institution first.” SPEAKER JOHNSON RIPS ‘ATROCITIES’ AGAINST TRUMP AT MANHATTAN HUSH MONEY TRIAL Multiple people suggested to Fox News Digital that Shah’s news was unrelated to the three policy advisers. However, it is a significant staff overhaul for a relatively new leadership office that also comes less than six months before the November 2024 elections. House Republicans face an uphill battle to hold onto their razor-thin majority, particularly in the wake of a congressional term that has been marked by bitter infighting. SPEAKER JOHNSON TO ATTEND TRUMP TRIAL IN MANHATTAN IN SHOW OF SUPPORT A survey by The Economist and YouGov taken earlier this month found that Democrats would narrowly lead Republicans if the elections were held today. When asked who they would support on a generic ballot in their districts, 45% of respondents said they would support a Democrat, compared to 42% who said they would vote for a Republican. There is still 9% of people who are undecided, according to the poll.

Speaker Johnson’s office exodus: 4 top aides unveil departure plans

Why are Kenyan forces set to intervene in Haiti and how is the US involved?

Kenyan President William Ruto is in the United States for a three-day state visit in the first such trip for an African leader since 2008. When Ruto meets his counterpart Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday, at the top of their agenda will be a multinational security intervention in the troubled Caribbean nation of Haiti – a mission that Kenya is leading and Washington is backing. While the US has refused to contribute forces to the United Nations-backed initiative, Washington has nonetheless become Kenya’s loudest supporter and the mission’s biggest funder even as Nairobi faces domestic challenges over the strategy. The planned deployment of police to Haiti – a first for the East African country outside the continent – has sparked fierce debates in Kenya’s Parliament and in its courts. Here’s what we know about the planned mission, how Kenya got involved and why some are fiercely against it: Kenyan President William Ruto [File: Monicah Mwangi/Reuters] What’s the backdrop to the Haiti crisis? The Caribbean nation has been racked by violence in recent months after gangs declared war on the government of former Prime Minister Ariel Henry in February. The UN says more than 2,500 people were killed or injured across the country from January to March while at least 95,000 people have fled the capital, Port-au-Prince. Henry had pleaded with the UN Security Council last year to deploy a mission that would bolster Haiti’s fragile security forces and help clamp down on rampant gang violence. For months, the Security Council failed to find a country to step up and lead such a mission after a previous UN mission to Haiti was beset by controversies. By mid-2023, it emerged that the US was considering backing a Nairobi-led police mission and Kenyan officials were weighing the proposal. It came as a surprise to many: Kenya has sent troops on missions inside and outside Africa, but no African country has ever led a security mission outside the continent, and an army deployment is more traditional, rather than a police mission. Kenyan officials highlighted historic connections between Haiti and Africa. “Kenya stands with persons of African descent across the world,” then-Foreign Minister Alfred Mutua said. Residents of the Lower Delmas area carry their belongings as they flee their homes due to gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on May 2, 2024 [Ralph Tedy Erol/Reuters] What is the MSS? On October 2, the UN Security Council voted in favour of motions by the US and Ecuador to deploy the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) in Haiti. It is not a UN mission but is being referred to as a “UN-backed initiative”. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the mission “pivotal”. Washington has pledged $300m in funding while Canada has pledged $123m to Haiti with $80.5m allocated to the mission. The 2,500-strong force will be led by 1,000 Kenyans from the Administrative Police Unit and the battle-trained paramilitary General Service Unit, called the Recce commandos. The commandos were previously tasked with quelling domestic riots and participating in operations against al-Shabab in neighbouring Somalia. Several other countries have also pledged police, including Benin, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh and Chad. Hundreds of Kenyan police have reportedly been undergoing training and taking French classes in preparation for their deployment. Kenyans speak English, Swahili and other Indigenous languages while Haitian French and Creole are the official languages of Haiti. This week, an advance team of Kenyan forces touched down in Haiti, according to Kenyan media reports, coinciding with Ruto’s meeting with Biden. The MSS will work in collaboration with Haiti’s police. They will look to rapidly wrest back key government infrastructure from the control of gangs. High-ranking Kenyan police commander Noor Gabow will reportedly lead the mission. Why is Kenya getting involved in Haiti and who opposes the MSS? The deployment faces fierce pushback from Kenya’s opposition lawmakers, human rights groups and lawyers, but Ruto has pressed ahead with it. In January, he told reporters it is because the mission was “a bigger calling to humanity”. Had a telephone conversation with United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the developments in Haiti. @SecBlinken briefed me on the decision of the Summit of Caribbean Countries (Caricom) and the US, together with other partners, on the political situation in Haiti.… — William Samoei Ruto, PhD (@WilliamsRuto) March 13, 2024 Opposition legislators accuse Ruto’s government of failing to secure Kenya and say the country is part of the initiative only for monetary gains. They also say authorities are deploying police in contradiction to the constitution, which allows only military deployments. After one lawmaker challenged the mission in the courts, a judge declared in January that the government did not have the jurisdiction to deploy the police and a special security arrangement with Haiti would be required. It was that agreement that Henry was in Nairobi to sign in February when the gangs declared war in the then-Haitian prime minister’s absence, forcing him to resign and remain in exile in Puerto Rico. Ruto’s government temporarily paused the MSS deployment in March after Henry’s resignation but resumed plans after the recent appointment of a new transitional governing council in Haiti under new Prime Minister Fritz Belizaire. Despite Ruto’s manoeuvring, however, opposition lawmakers in Kenya filed another lawsuit to be heard in June. Meanwhile, human rights activists point out that Kenya’s police force has long been accused of extrajudicial killings and torture. In July, the police opened fire on people protesting higher taxes and rising living costs, killing at least 35. Many in Haiti are also wary of foreign interventions. The 15-year-long UN mission there has a tainted legacy, dogged with sexual abuse allegations against peacekeepers and accusations they introduced cholera to the country. Former Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, second from left, after giving a lecture at United States International University in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 1, 2024 [Anrew Kasuku/AP] Why did the US nominate Kenya and why is it not in the MSS? Washington

Biden cancels $7.7bn more in student debt for 160,000 borrowers

The move brings the total number of students benefitting from the president’s debt relief push to 4.75 million. United States President Joe Biden has announced his administration is cancelling a total of $7.7bn in student debt for another 160,000 borrowers. The latest action on Wednesday brings the total number of people to benefit from the president’s debt relief push to 4.75 million, according to the US Department of Education. Biden, keen to shore up waning support among young people ahead of the November presidential election, had pledged last year to find other avenues for tackling debt relief after the Supreme Court in June blocked his broader plan to cancel $430bn in student loan debt. The president said beneficiaries of the newest measures include people in three categories who meet certain milestones that make them eligible for cancellation, including 54,000 borrowers enrolled in Biden’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) repayment plan, 39,000 enrolled in earlier income-driven plans and about 67,000 people who are eligible through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness programme. “Today’s announcement comes on top of the significant progress we’ve made for students and borrowers over the past three years,” Biden said in a statement. “I will never stop working to cancel student debt – no matter how many times Republican elected officials try to stop us.” The statement added that each of the borrowers had an average of $35,000 of debt written off. Wednesday’s announcement brings total debt relief approved by the Biden administration to $167bn. The issue remains high on the agenda of younger voters, many of whom have concerns about Biden’s foreign policy on Israel’s war in Gaza and fault him for not achieving greater debt forgiveness. The campaign of former President Donald Trump, Biden’s Republican challenger in the White House race, criticised in March the student loan cancellation as a bailout that was done “without a single act of Congress”. Republicans have called Biden’s student loan forgiveness approach an overreach of his authority and an unfair benefit to college-educated borrowers while other borrowers received no such relief. As of the end of 2023, 43.2 million US student loan recipients had over $1.6 trillion in outstanding loans, according to the website of Federal Student Aid (FSA), an office of the US Department of Education. Higher education debt has tripled since the 2008 financial crisis. Adblock test (Why?)

Speculation mounts of an early UK election as Sunak fails to quell rumours

Rumours have swirled around parliament that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was poised to call an election. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has failed to stem growing speculation that he might call an election in July after ministers cancelled events and either curtailed or delayed foreign trips to attend a government meeting. On Wednesday, rumours swirled around parliament that the British leader was poised to call an election. The political editor of the Guardian, citing sources, said Sunak would call an election on July 4. Earlier, when asked about the rumours, Sunak stuck to his wording that a national election would be held in the second half of 2024. But then foreign minister David Cameron cut short a trip to Albania and the defence minister delayed a foreign visit to attend a cabinet meeting of senior ministers. That fuelled speculation that the meeting could be required to sign off on a decision to call an election earlier than the October or November dates that most obsservers had seen as most likely. “Spoiler alert: there is going to be a general election in the second half of this year,” Sunak told parliament. Sunak’s press secretary declined to be drawn on the rumours. “I know there is a lot of interest in this, as there has been pretty much every week over the last five months. I will just say the same thing I have always said, which is that I am not going to rule anything in or out,” she told reporters. British elections must be held at least every five years, but the timing is the prime minister’s choice. If Sunak were to announce one, he’d make a courtesy call on King Charles III, then set a date for the dissolution of Parliament, the formal end of its term. An election would be held 25 working days later. The strategy is risky. Sunak’s Conservatives are running way behind Labour in the opinion polls, and despite hailing a decline in inflation and an increase in defence spending, they have failed to make a dent in the opposition party’s lead. Sunak is the third Conservative prime minister since the last election in 2019. He managed to steady the economy, but without boosting the Conservatives’ popularity with the public. He may take heart from figures released Wednesday showing inflation in the UK fell sharply to 2.3 percent, its lowest level in nearly three years on the back of big declines in domestic bills. But Labour has held a lead over the Conservatives of around 20 points in opinion polls since late 2021 – before Sunak took office in October of that year. The party said on Wednesday it was more than ready for an election. “We are fully ready to go whenever the prime minister calls an election. We have a fully organised and operational campaign ready to go and we think the country is crying out for a general election,” Labour leader Keir Starmer’s spokesperson told reporters. Adblock test (Why?)

Pune Porsche Horror: Court cancels bail of teen who killed two with car, sends him to observation home till…

Juvenile Justice Board had on Sunday granted bail to the teen hours after the accident while asking him to write a 300-word essay on road accidents.

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