Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency, UP: Jitin Prasada vs Bhagwat Gangwar vs Anis Khan in key contest
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Trump campaign demands Biden debate him ‘much earlier’ and more often
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump campaign is calling for additional 2024 presidential debates and for them to take place “much earlier” than initially proposed by the debate commission, with former President Trump telling Fox News Digital that he is “totally committed” to debating President Biden “anytime, anywhere, anyplace.” Fox News Digital exclusively obtained a letter Trump co-campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita sent Thursday to The Commission on Presidential Debates co-chairs Frank Farenkopf Jr. and Antonia Hernandez. Wiles and LaCivita told the commission they were writing “in agreement with the pending letter,” reported by The New York Times, “from television networks advocating for presidential debates to occur in 2024.” “While the Commission on Presidential Debates has already announced three presidential debates and a vice-presidential debate to occur later this year, we are in favor of these debates beginning much earlier,” they wrote. TRUMP CALLS FOR DEBATES WITH BIDEN ‘ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE’ First, Wiles and LaCivita said “voting is beginning earlier and earlier, and as we saw in 2020, tens of millions of Americans had already voted by the time of the first debate.” “Specific to the Commissions proposed 2024 calendar, it simply comes too late,” they wrote, adding an estimate of how many Americans will have already voted by the date of each scheduled debate. “By the date of the first proposed debate, September 16, 2024, over 1 million Americans will have likely voted,” they wrote. “By the date of the second proposed debate, October 1, 2024, the number of Americans who will have likely cast a ballot will be over 3 million, an increase of 225%.” BIDEN SAYS DEBATING TRUMP ‘DEPENDS ON HIS BEHAVIOR’ By the third proposed debate date on Oct. 9, 35 days from Election Day, Wiles and LaCivita estimated that “approximately 8.7 million Americans will have already voted.” The Trump campaign argued that in 2020, Americans “were robbed of a true and robust debate,” with the commission only hosting two debates that took place “much too late in the election calendar despite voting timelines having moved up exponentially.” In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital on Thursday, Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said it is “very important to have the debates now because the country is doing so badly.” Trump listed the crisis at the southern border, national security, America’s standing on the world stage, rising crime, the economy and more. “The country is in such trouble,” Trump told Fox News Digital. “What are Biden’s plans?” “I would fully accept any debate, anywhere, anytime, anyplace,” he continued. When asked if he thought Biden, too, would commit to a debate against him on the issues that matter most to voters, Trump replied: “Perhaps he will, perhaps he won’t. I really don’t care,” he said. “I am totally committed to debating him anytime, anywhere, any place.” As for the debate schedule, Trump told Fox News Digital “the earlier the better.” “I think it is important that we debate and the earlier the better because people have to find out what is going on with America,” he explained. “We are no longer respected around the world. There are so many things that are happening.” He added: “It’s not the same country that we had just four years ago.” Meanwhile, in their letter to the debate commission, the Trump campaign said that in 2020, the commission “ceded to the wishes of the Biden campaign on every front.” “Fairness in such a setting is paramount and the Commission must ensure that the 2024 Commission-sponsored debates are truly fair and conducted impartially,” they wrote. “The Commission must move up the timetable of its proposed 2024 debates to ensure more Americans have a full chance to see the candidates before they start voting, and we would argue for adding more debates in addition to those on the currently proposed schedule,” they wrote. “We have already indicated President Trump is willing to debate anytime, anyplace, and anywhere—and the time to start these debates is now.” “Former President Abraham Lincoln and former U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas held seven debates in their storied 1858 U.S. Senate battle in Illinois,” they added. “Certainly today’s America deserves as much.” Biden and his campaign have yet to commit to debates against Trump. When asked last month if he would debate the former president, Biden said it was dependent on Trump’s “behavior.” “Depends on his behavior,” Biden said. Earlier this year, Biden addressed previous calls for earlier debates with Trump. “If I were him, I would want to debate me, too,” Biden told reporters in Nevada when asked about Trump wanting to debate him earlier in the election cycle. “He’s got nothing else to do,” Biden said.
Biden moves to require more gun sellers to run background checks
President Biden’s administration is preparing to enforce a new rule that would greatly expand the number of people who sell firearms who are required to carry out background checks on buyers The administration rule would apply to thousands of dealers who make sales at gun shows and other venues outside traditional gun stores. “This is going to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers and felons,” Biden said in a statement. “And my administration is going to continue to do everything we possibly can to save lives. Congress needs to finish the job and pass universal background checks legislation now.” Attorney General Merrick Garland offered details on the new rule on Wednesday. He said anyone who sells a firearm predominantly for profit must be federally registered and conduct a background check on the customer. GUN RIGHTS IN BATTLEGROUND STATE TAKE CENTER STAGE AHEAD OF 2024: ‘SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED’ The administration predicts that the rule will force some 20,000 firearms dealers to start conducting background checks, on top of the 80,000 federally-registered dealers that were already doing so. While Biden’s administration says it is confident the rule is legal, it is nevertheless a prime target for legal challenges by gun rights groups. As of Thursday morning, however, no legal challenges had been filed. “This final rule does not infringe on anyone’s Second Amendment rights, and it will not negatively impact the many law-abiding licensed firearms dealers in our nation,” Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Director Steve Dettelbach said in a statement. “They are already playing by the rules.” TRUMP LASHES OUT AT FORMER VP PENCE WHO CRITICIZED HIS LUKEWARM ABORTION STATEMENT The rule comes roughly a month after Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, introduced legislation aimed at protecting gun dealers from Biden’s “gun-grabbing agenda.” ABORTION ADVOCATES IN MI LOBBY FOR ENDING PARENTAL CONSENT FOR MINORS, SAY LAW HAS ‘NO BENEFIT’ TO THE CHILD The bill, introduced in late February, would “provide firearm licensees an opportunity to correct statutory and regulatory violations, and for other purposes,” and says the “Attorney General may not bring an enforcement action to revoke, or deny a renewal of, a license for a violation of any provision of this chapter or any implementing regulation thereof on the basis of a self-reported violation.” Ernst said the bill aims to ensure the government works with gun dealers to comply with the law rather than shut them down. “For years, the Biden administration has cracked down on law-abiding gun dealers to advance its gun-grabbing agenda, even preventing small businesses from making a living. Rather than helping dealers comply with the law, Biden’s ATF has created more hurdles to legally sell guns, so it can turn around and revoke licenses for inconsequential, so-called ‘violations.’ While Joe Biden’s ATF has avoided critical oversight on its FFL abuse for over a year, I am proud to stand up for law-abiding Iowa gun dealers.” The Associated Press contributed to this report
GOP governor signs bill allowing local authorities to arrest certain migrants, ‘enforce immigration laws’
Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law Wednesday evening a measure that allows local police to arrest illegal immigrants in the Hawkeye State who have previously been deported or denied admission. Senate File 2340, which makes it a crime for an illegal immigrant to enter or re-enter the state if he or she has previously been deported or denied admission to the United States, is similar to a Texas law that has become the target of a high-profile legal challenge from the Biden administration. In a statement announcing her signing of the measure, Reynolds said, “The Biden Administration has failed to enforce our nation’s immigration laws, putting the protection and safety of Iowans at risk.” “Those who come into our country illegally have broken the law, yet Biden refuses to deport them,” she added. “This bill gives Iowa law enforcement the power to do what he is unwilling to do: enforce immigration laws already on the books.” CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS COVERAGE ON IMMIGRATION The new law, which passed through both chambers of the state legislature last month, is slated to take effect on July 1. The law specifically makes it an aggravated misdemeanor offense, which is punishable by up to two years in prison, for migrants in the state who have outstanding deportation orders, who were previously deported or previously prohibited from entering the country. The crime is raised to a felony offense, according to the new law, if the immigrant’s removal orders pertained to misdemeanor convictions for drug-related crimes, crimes against people, or prior felony convictions. The law, however, prevents police from arresting migrants suspected of violating the law at places of worship, medical facilities or schools. The illegal immigrants who are arrested, according to the law’s text, may be permitted to leave the country by a judge and forgo facing charges. Similar proposals to crack down on illegal immigration have moved forward in recent weeks in Louisiana, New Hampshire, Tennessee and Oklahoma. The most high-profile similar legislation is in Texas, where Gov. Greg Abbott signed S.B. 4 into law in December, allowing police to arrest illegal immigrants and for judges to order them deported. The Texas law is part of Abbott’s Operation Lone Star effort. ANOTHER RED STATE MOVES A STEP CLOSER TO ENACTING TEXAS-STYLE ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION BILL The Biden administration sued in January, arguing the law encroaches into federal territory, citing a 2012 Supreme Court ruling that shut down parts of an Arizona law that sought to empower state and local officials. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the law from going into effect, but it was briefly allowed to go into effect by the Supreme Court, which kicked it back down to the appeals court without ruling on the merits. The 5th Circuit has since blocked it again, and the two sides presented oral arguments late last month. A similar measure, which makes it a new crime for an illegal immigrant to enter or re-enter the state after having been deported, was introduced in the Louisiana Senate last month. The measure, Senate Bill 388, was introduced by GOP state Sen. Valarie Hodges. Should the bill pass and be signed into law, violations would be punishable by imprisonment of up to a year and a fine of up to $4,000. As part of the bill, Louisiana’s governor would also be authorized to create an interstate compact with Texas to help control the “influx with respect to illegal immigration that consequently threatens the safety and security of Louisiana citizens.” SB 388 was approved by a Senate committee last month and was received in the House this week. It is expected to receive approval from the Republican-controlled legislature and Republican Gov. Jeff Landry. Hodges, a Republican, said the move is necessary due to the “open border” and inaction from the federal government.
Trump meets everyday Americans at Chick-fil-A while Biden fine dines with Clintons, billionaires in DC
While former President Trump was out on the campaign trail meeting with everyday Americans at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Georgia on Wednesday, President Biden was fine dining with the Clintons and other prestigious guests at the White House. In Atlanta, Trump met with locals and had unscripted conversations, bought them “the Lord’s chicken” and urged them to support his third bid for the presidency. More than 500 miles away, in Washington, D.C., Biden hosted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a White House State Dinner. Some notable attendees of the dinner included: Bill and Hillary Clinton, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and his fiancee Lauren Sanchez, Apple CEO Tim Cook, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, BlackRock CEO Laurence Fink, actor Robert DeNiro and his girlfriend Tiffany Chen, former president of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards and others. Several of Biden’s family also attended. These included the president’s daughter, Ashley Biden and her husband, Dr. Howard Krein, and Hunter Biden’s daughters, Finnegan Biden and Naomi Biden Neal. TRUMP VISITS ATLANTA CHICK-FIL-A, BUYS CUSTOMERS CHICKEN AND SHAKES Several lawmakers and state executives also attended the distinguished dinner, including Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin, and Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina. “Today, without question, our alliance is literally stronger than it’s ever been,” Biden said at the dinner, referencing the U.S.-Japan relationship. “Tonight, we pledge to keep going. We stand at an inflection point where the decisions we make now are going to determine the course of the future for decades to come. A future that the kids of our two families and children of our two countries remember. But I also know that Japan and the United States stand together and everyone should know that as well, committed to each other and committed to keeping building the future worthy of the highest hopes.” The Japanese prime minister also shared brief remarks, saying he and his wife were “speechless” by the number of “huge number of prominent American and Japanese guests.” “Mr. President. Dr. Biden. Distinguished guests and ladies and gentlemen, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to you for hosting such a wonderful dinner and your warm welcome and hospitality,” Kishida said. “First and foremost, to be honest, my breath is taken and I’m speechless in front of such a huge number of prominent American and Japanese guests. And my wife Yuko, also left breathless, just told me that it was hard to tell who the guest of honor is.” Fox News Digital made repeated attempts to reach out to the Trump and Biden campaigns for a statement but did not immediately receive a response. In contrast, the presumptive Republican nominee joined everyday Americans at a Chick-fil-A restaurant, where he chatted with staff and treated customers inside the store to chicken and milkshakes. “Can I have 30 milkshakes and some chicken?” Trump can be heard asking the employees. “We’re going to take care of the customers.” BIDEN, HARRIS ANNOUNCE NEW CAMPAIGN PUSH FOR LGBTQ SUPPORT, CALL MEMBERS ‘A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH’ In various videos of the exchange, Trump is seen surrounded and conversing with a group of people. The former president flattered crew members and asked if they were making “a lot of money.” “Business is good?” the former president asked, prompting nods from the workers. “Making a lot of money? Getting rich, right? That’s wonderful.” He then took photos with the various customers and asked if everyone was having a good time. “We don’t care what the media says, we support you,” one woman can be heard saying. The former president responded kindly, hugging the woman, who added: “Tell my mom that I made it.” TRUMP COULD HAUL IN MASSIVE AMOUNT OF CAMPAIGN CASH DURING ATLANTA, ORLANDO FUNDRAISING SWING: WHAT TO KNOW Trump also praised the Chick-fil-A brand, saying, “They do very well.” He also joked that he knew the menu better than the employees. Trump then instructed the staff that he was going to hand them out to the customers and take some for his entourage. The videographer then jokingly said, “It’s the Lord’s chicken,” and Trump agreed. “It’s the Lord’s chicken, you’re right,” he said. “It’s good chicken, too.” After his visit to Georgia, Trump is expected to go to Orlando, Florida. The former President and Biden are expected to be certified as their respective party’s official nominees over the summer ahead of their 2020 rematch in November. Fox News’ Greg Wehner contributed to this report.
Who is Vaibhav Pandya, Hardik Pandya’s stepbrother arrested for allegedly cheating cricketer of Rs 4.3 crore?
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Stefanik slams Harvard for ‘cultural rot,’ allowing suspect in antisemitic attack to graduate
FIRST ON FOX – House GOP Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., penned a scathing letter to the leaders of Harvard University, alleging that by slow-walking its investigation into the assault of a Jewish student on campus in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, the Ivy League school will effectively allow one of the perpetrators to graduate “despite having committed a well-documented antisemitic hate crime.” The letter, addressed to Dr. Alan Garber, interim president of Harvard University, and Penny Pritzker, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, referenced how on Oct. 18, 2023, Harvard’s Palestine Solidarity Committee staged a “die-in” at Harvard Business School where students protested Israel’s efforts to defend itself following the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack, displaying a sign stating, “From the river to the sea.” “During this event, an Israeli Harvard Business School student recorded the act and was quickly surrounded by a mob of anti-Israel protesters, who assaulted and harassed him,” Stefanik wrote. “These assailants blocked his path, repeatedly grabbed him, and shouted ‘Shame! Shame! Shame!’ at him. This assault is well documented and was denounced by many alumni who were rightly outraged by the actions of these protesters and called for accountability.” Stefanik cited documents obtained by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce showing that Harvard engaged the law firm of Jenner & Block to conduct an independent investigation of the Oct. 18 incident. Jenner & Block met with the victims’ attorneys at the law firm Holtzman Vogel in early January 2024 and received relevant video evidence of the incident, Stefanik said. HOUSE REPUBLICAN SUBPOENAS HARVARD LEADERS FOR ‘FAILING TO PRODUCE’ SUFFICIENT DOCS IN ANTISEMITISM PROBE “Further information shows that local prosecutors are currently in the process of negotiating court dates with two of the Harvard students who assaulted the victim. On March 25, Holtzman Vogel learned that the ‘Clerk’s Hearing’ in the criminal case has been postponed to May 7,” Stefanik wrote. “One of the assailants in the incident, a Harvard Divinity School graduate student, is scheduled to graduate in May 2024. Due to this postponement, the assailant will gain the lifelong distinction of being an alumnus of Harvard despite having committed a well-documented antisemitic hate crime against a fellow student.” “Justice for this incident should have been served quickly, and the delay of justice that specifically allows an antisemitic student to graduate is an affront to accountability and demonstrates the cultural rot of Harvard University’s leadership that has allowed antisemitism to continue,” Stefanik wrote. Stefanik noted that when now-former Harvard President Claudine Gay failed to say that calls for genocide against Jews violated school regulations while testifying before Congress in December, she also claimed “disciplinary processes are underway” against those who committed antisemitic acts. “This has proven to be false, with Harvard producing no evidence of punishment against those who have committed crimes and violated Harvard’s code of conduct.” HOUSE COMMITTEE THREATENS HARVARD SUBPOENA, ACCUSES IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL OF ‘OBSTRUCTING’ ANTISEMITISM PROBE “This same lack of accountability applies to a faculty member who recently threatened a Jewish student yet is still employed by the university,” the House GOP chair added. “This recent case of Harvard protecting those who hate Jews is disgusting. As an alumna of Harvard University, allowing this student to gain the title of Harvard graduate disgraces all who have come before him and erodes the distinction of a once sought after degree. At a time when support and applications for Harvard have fallen, university leadership has continuously chosen to side with those who hate Jewish students and faculty and failed to keep them safe.” In a separate March 22 letter to Jenner & Block, Holtzman Vogel demanded to know why “the internal University process appears to have stalled entirely” and the outside investigation initiated by Jenner & Block “has not progressed,” despite the incident having happened five months prior. Fox News Digital obtained a redacted version of the letter blocking out the names of the students involved. “Indeed, you first contacted our offices over two months ago seeking additional information, and when we discussed this matter, you indicated that the University wanted to address it promptly. The time to act is now as one of the students rapidly approaches the potential of being awarded a degree at Harvard,” the letter says, charging that Harvard University “has not taken a single disciplinary action against any of the students involved in the wrongful treatment” of their client, with the exception of one student at the Harvard Divinity School (HDS), who reportedly lost his proctor privileges at Harvard College. The firm goes on to say the Jewish student seen being assaulted “on video by multiple cameras at several different angles” further reported the incident to the school but continues to face online harassment. “Meanwhile, defamatory posts authored in the wake of the incident and directly targeting remain online as of today and are easily accessible to you at this precise moment,” the letter says. “In fact, Harvard PSC [Palestine Solidarity Committee] continues to maintain our client’s photograph on its official X feed, which has been retweeted more than 21,000 times and ‘liked’ by more than 45,000, which certainly implies approval of Harvard University. In addition, at least two postings by a current business school student on HBS affinity chats remain posted, though they refer to our client as ‘a Zionist aggressor’ and include his photograph.” Fox News Digital reached out to Harvard for comment, but they did not immediately respond.
‘Scan to see scam’: DMK’s ‘Ji-Pay’ poster attack on PM Modi
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Bastar Lok Sabha constituency, Chhattisgarh: Polling date, candidates list, past results and more
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Biden DOJ sides with Native American tribe in court filing ripping Canadian pipeline as trespassing
The Biden administration’s Department of Justice sided with a Native American tribe in claiming a massive underground pipeline carrying fuel from Wisconsin to Canada is trespassing on tribal lands. In an amicus brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, DOJ lawyers agreed with the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians in arguing that Enbridge Energy Company, is “liable for trespass” due to its operation of Line 5, a pipeline that moves millions of gallons of crude oil and natural gas liquids each day between Superior, Wisconsin and Sarnia, Ontario, Roughly 12 miles of Line 5 cross into the Reservation of the Bad River Band in northern Wisconsin, and the pipeline was constructed along “rights-of-way” obtained by the Department of Interior in the 1950s and renewed multiple times over the following decades. Enbridge’s rights-of-way for 12 parcels of land that are at the center of the lawsuit expired in 2013, and the tribe did not consent to their renewal. After the tribe sued in 2019, the Department of Interior denied the energy company’s request for renewal in 2020. “Since Enbridge has not obtained renewed rights-of-way, it lacks any legal right to remain on those lands and thus is in trespass,” the brief says. A lower court, the Western District of Wisconsin, “correctly rejected Enbridge’s arguments that the Administrative Procedure Act or the 1992 agreement authorizes it to remain on these lands,” Biden administration lawyers wrote. BIDEN ADMIN OKS MAJOR PACIFIC NORTHWEST GAS PIPELINE IN BLOW TO ENVIRONMENTALISTS, DEMS The Justice Department added that the district court did not properly consider “the potential removal or rerouting of an active international pipeline that falls under a treaty between the United States and Canada regarding transit pipelines.” Under the Pipeline Safety Act, “Congress directed the Department of Transportation to adopt and enforce nationwide safety standards for pipeline transportation and facilities, including standards to prevent and mitigate potential environmental damage pipeline operators may cause,” the brief says. The DOJ argues the appeals court should reevaluate Judge William Conley’s decision to close the pipeline by 2026. “The United States also has a strong interest in ensuring that courts properly consider whether injunctive orders affecting the operation of Line 5 may risk exposing the United States to claims that it has violated its obligations under the Transit Pipeline Treaty and that seek potentially substantial monetary damages, and may affect the United States’ trade and diplomatic relations with Canada — in addition to considering the implications of the Band’s treaty rights,” the brief says. THE BIGGEST CORPORATE WELFARE SCAM EVER IS GREEN The Biden administration supported a total restitution award of roughly $5 million “for a nearly ten-year trespass – while in the same period Enbridge earned well over $1 billion in net profit from Line 5.” “The intricacy of the equitable factors associated with injunctive relief in this unique case make it all the more important that the court’s monetary award adequately serves the goals of restitution,” the brief says. “We are grateful the US urged the court not to let Enbridge profit from its unlawful trespass. But we are disappointed that the US has not unequivocally called for an immediate end to Enbridge’s ongoing trespass, as justice and the law demand,” Bad River Band Chair Robert Blanchard said in a statement. “Enbridge should be required to promptly leave our Reservation, just like other companies that have trespassed on tribal land. We are hopeful that the appeals court will put an end to Enbridge’s shameful decade of trespass and not condone its exploitation of our land and sovereign rights.” “Shutting down Line 5 before relocating the pipeline outside the Reservation would violate the 1977 Transit Pipeline Treaty between the U.S. and Canada. The Government of Canada has made its position clear,” a spokesperson for Enbridge told The Hill. “Such a shutdown is not in the public interest as it would negatively impact businesses, communities and millions of individuals who depend on Line 5 for energy in both the U.S. and Canada.”