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Good news for Noida residents! No long waits in Ghaziabad for passport; here’s why

Good news for Noida residents! No long waits in Ghaziabad for passport; here’s why

Often, residents of Noida have to endure long queues and wait at the Ghaziabad passport centre to get their passport-related work done. But no more, as Passport Seva Kendra at the Head Post office in Sector 19, Noida have been expanded. In the latest development, the process of passport applications and verifications will become hassle-free with the addition of a new machine, additional resources, and a new counter at the centre.

Big update on Talaq-e-Hasan: Supreme Court questions validity of Muslim divorce, says, ‘how are you promoting…’

Big update on Talaq-e-Hasan: Supreme Court questions validity of Muslim divorce, says, ‘how are you promoting…’

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a batch of pleas challenging certain forms of talaq prevalent among Muslims, which are allegedly discriminatory towards wives. After having heard arguments from two petitioners, a bench led by Justice Surya Kant listed the matter to be heard on November 26, Wednesday. The Court was hearing arguments in the case of journalist Heena Benazir, who is one among a batch of petitioners. Benazir has alleged that her husband attempted to divorce her through a Talaqnama sent by his lawyer, without pronouncing talaq himself. She argued that this method violates both Islamic practice and her rights.

Unearthed antisemitic, anti-Israel posts from Mamdani aide spark GOP outrage

Unearthed antisemitic, anti-Israel posts from Mamdani aide spark GOP outrage

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is facing heat from two New York lawmakers who spoke to Fox News Digital after a report showing a member of his transition team espoused vitriolic anti-Israel sentiments under the backdrop of Mamdani’s promises to combat antisemitism as mayor.  Hassaan Chaudhary, according to a New York Post report on Sunday, has a social media presence littered with anti-Israel posts, including calling the country “barbaric,” using the term “Jew” as a slur, and praising Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Chaudhary, who listed himself as a political director for Mamdani’s transition team, apologized for the remarks, saying the decade-old posts don’t represent his current views and that he looks back on them with “regret.” However, two lawmakers who spoke to Fox News Digital blasted Mamdani’s association with Chaudhary and warned that it shows the socialist mayor-elect is not being serious when he pledges to combat antisemitism in New York City.  PATRIOTS OWNER ROBERT KRAFT CALLS MAMDANI NYC ELECTION ‘SAD’ AND VICTORY SPEECH ‘DIVISIVE’ “Let’s be transparent — this isn’t some innocent staffing mistake,” New York Republican Assemblyman Jake Blumencranz told Fox News Digital. “This is who Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani is and what his transition team/incoming administration stands for.” “When the incoming Mayor surrounds himself with someone who uses language about Jews reminiscent of the 1930s, praises Ahmadinejad, and holds other abhorrent views, that’s not a red flag — that’s a flashing siren. Extremism isn’t a fringe element of Zohran Mamdani’s team; it’s the foundation he’s building/destroying City Hall on.” A Mamdani spokesperson told the New York Post that Chaudhary is a Muslim outreach director and not a political director, but did not say whether he would be fired.  “These comments from over a decade ago are reprehensible and in no way reflect the views of the mayor-elect or this transition,” a Mamdani spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “The mayor-elect has made this clear internally and consistently during the campaign and transition.” MAMDANI SLAMMED FOR JETTING TO ‘LUXURY RESORT’ FOR PUERTO RICO CONFERENCE DURING SHUTDOWN Inna Vernikov, a Republican New York City councilwoman, told Fox News Digital the situation shows that “useful idiots on the hard left have yet to realize that they’re just small pawns in a big and dangerous game.” Vernikov added, “The same agitators screaming in defense of Hamas would be thrown off a roof for their various gender identities. Zohran needs to get one thing clear: he is no longer a protester. He now has a city of 8 million to govern.” Mamdani faced heated criticism on the campaign trail for his long track record of criticizing Israel, dating back to his days in college, where he started his school’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter. Additionally, hundreds of rabbis signed onto a letter in the weeks before the election denouncing his campaign.  Despite the outrage, Mamdani cruised to an election victory and has repeatedly promised to represent all New Yorkers, including the massive Jewish community in the city.  “We will build a City Hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of antisemitism,” Mamdani said on election night, adding the next day that he takes the issue of antisemitism “incredibly seriously.” Still, Blumencranz told Fox News Digital that “personnel is policy” and that New Yorkers “better buckle up” if these are the type of people being recruited in the transition.  “You don’t ‘accidentally’ hire a person who has spent years spewing this kind of hate,” Blumencranz told Fox News Digital. “The fact that Mamdani hasn’t immediately removed him tells every New Yorker exactly what kind of administration we’re about to get — one where bigotry is tolerated, where antisemitism is normalized, and where the most hateful voices are welcomed into the Gracie Mansion and City Hall.” The Mamdani team did not comment on Chaudhary’s current employment status.  “Every resident of this city, Jewish or not, should be alarmed,” Blumencranz said. “This is dangerous, it’s divisive, and it’s a disgrace.”

Trump official fires back at Dem’s Epstein donor claim: ‘Totally different person’

Trump official fires back at Dem’s Epstein donor claim: ‘Totally different person’

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin clapped back after Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said he had taken money from someone named Jeffrey Epstein. The congresswoman dropped Zeldin’s name while listing figures and entities she said had taken money from “somebody” by the name of Jeffrey Epstein. Noting that she had her “team dig in very quickly,” she rattled off the following list: “Mitt Romney, the NRCC, Lee Zeldin, George Bush, WinRed, McCain-Palin, Rick Lazio.” Zeldin fired back in a post to X, noting that the donation to one of his former campaigns had nothing to do with the notorious late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. FAR-LEFT FIREBRAND SPENDS EYE-POPPING AMOUNT OF CAMPAIGN CASH ON LUXURY HOTELS, ‘TOP-TIER’ LIMO SERVICES “Yes, Crockett, a physician named Dr. Jeffrey Epstein (who is a totally different person than the other Jeffrey Epstein) donated to a prior campaign of mine,” Zeldin wrote, reposting another person’s post that featured footage of Crockett’s comments. Zeldin then exclaimed in all caps, “NO [clap emoji] FREAKIN [clap emoji] RELATION [clap emoji] YOU [clap emoji] GENIUS!!!” CROCKETT LUKEWARM ON AOC PRIMARYING SCHUMER, SAYS SHE DOESN’T SUBSCRIBE TO ‘AGEISM’ Fox News Digital reached out to Crockett’s office for comment. Zeldin, a Republican, lost the 2022 New York gubernatorial contest to Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from early 2015 through early 2023, and he had previously served in the New York state Senate. TRUMP BLASTS REP. JASMINE CROCKETT AS ‘LOW IQ,’ JOKES SOMALIA SHOULD ‘TAKE BACK’ ILHAN OMAR CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP President Donald Trump has previously called Crockett “a very low-IQ person.”

Bipartisan plan aims to make the American Dream affordable again for millions of first-time homebuyers

Bipartisan plan aims to make the American Dream affordable again for millions of first-time homebuyers

A bipartisan pair of lawmakers is working on making housing costs cheaper for middle- and lower-income Americans across the country. House Main Street Caucus Chairman Mike Flood, R-Neb., is teaming up with Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., on legislation they hope will finally give millions of homebuyers some relief, as the dream of ownership remains a distant goal for many. It would do so by targeting the federal government’s HOME Investments Partnership Program, which provides grants to state and local jurisdictions to build affordable housing. That program, Flood said, has not been significantly amended since the early 1990s. TRUMP’S RUMORED HOUSING EMERGENCY WOULD BE A ‘GAME-CHANGER,’ KEY GOP LAWMAKER SAYS “Traditionally, the program that we’re remodeling… has favored multifamily. But an apartment is not the American Dream. The American Dream is a single-family home,” he said. “And with these changes to the program, it’s my hope that these dollars will leverage the building of new homes, it will leverage the rehab of dilapidated structures, including homes, and it will make some multifamily opportunities even more attractive.” Asked how it would help a young couple buy their first home in his own home state, for example, Flood pointed out that “increased demand” for housing developers to meet strict existing codes for sewer systems, paved streets and stormwater systems has resulted in housing lot prices rising dramatically — particularly with recent years’ high inflation. LIZ PEEK: WHY EVERY ‘AFFORDABLE’ PROMISE FROM DEMOCRATS ENDS UP COSTING YOU MORE Shifting those costs to the state and local governments, he said, would help lower those costs. “The cost of a lot, before you even buy the ground, there’s already $25,000 in there. If the city of Columbus, Nebraska, gets $2.5 million from the Home Partnership program, the city can go in and expand stormwater and sewer and maybe even pavement and streets,” he explained. “And suddenly, instead of being a $50,000 lot, it’s a $20,000 lot. Instead of being a $300,000 home, you know, it’s a $270,000 home because the cost of that was ultimately given to the city, and the city used it to build city infrastructure, not making the developer do that.” Another focus was expanding who can qualify for the program, adjusted by the average income in a certain area. TRUMP’S 50-YEAR MORTGAGE JUST INTRODUCES A NEW KIND OF DEBT “The other thing we’re really focused on is making sure that communities that have a median income, that average, aren’t kicked out of the process simply because they want to put in affordable housing,” he said. “So we’re taking the average median income standard from 80% of the county average to 100%, to make communities that have all the nice amenities able to participate in the program.” Cleaver said in a statement on the legislation last month, “By revamping and revitalizing the HOME Program—one of our greatest tools to expand the supply of affordable housing for working-class families—we can ensure that affordable housing and the American Dream of homeownership are once again attainable from the heartland to the coasts.” Housing affordability has been a growing issue for some time, reaching a fever pitch just this year when the National Association of Realtors revealed the median age for a first-time home buyer is now a record 40 years old. First-time home buyers made up just 21% of home sales this year, the lowest number since 1981, according to the National Association of Realtors. When speaking with Fox News Digital on Tuesday, Flood also credited President Donald Trump with pushing the issue to the forefront of the national conversation. “President Trump accelerated our success and our progress on this issue when he came out very forcefully earlier in the summer and said that housing affordability was one of the top goals of his administration,” he said.

Socialist group ‘By Any Means Necessary’ escalates campaign to ‘stop’ Turning Point USA

Socialist group ‘By Any Means Necessary’ escalates campaign to ‘stop’ Turning Point USA

In a Sunday afternoon meeting called a “tribunal,” Yvette Felarca, a Berkeley, Calif., public school teacher and a local fixture among self-professed “anti-fascist” agitators, joyfully led about 40 members of the socialist organization By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) in an after-action report on the group’s “victory” last week in a bloody battle at the University of California, Berkeley against supporters of Turning Point USA.  At the meeting’s end, Fox News Digital learned Felarca, once arrested for inciting a riot, moved for a vote on the next phase of the operation: to “stop” Turning Point USA chapters, not only on college campuses but also in public K–12 schools, beginning with Berkeley High School, where she teaches. The motion passed unanimously to “stop fascist recruiting in schools” by amplifying the work of “By Any Means Necessary,” which collects tax-deductible donations under the 501(c)(3) nonprofit umbrella of the Detroit-based nonprofit, Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality. The members closed the 90-minute meeting with one-word salutations. UC BERKELEY TPUSA MEMBERS NAVIGATE POLARIZED CAMPUS FOLLOWING PROTESTS AND ARRESTS “Solidarity!” said Felarca. This year, Democratic activists and far-left groups have increasingly exploited the term “fascist” as a sweeping label to justify denying political opponents their constitutional rights. The word was allegedly scrawled on the bullet casing left by the man arrested for killing Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, in a chilling reminder of how language can be weaponized to rationalize violence. In November 2019, the Sacramento district attorney dismissed felony assault charges and misdemeanor rioting charges against Felarca and two co-defendants after requiring them to complete 90 hours of volunteer work. A video from a protest showed Felarca hitting and yelling at a man she opposed as a “Nazi” and “White nationalist” until he fell and Felarca’s allies pummeled and kicked him. At Sunday’s meeting, Felarca told fellow members that her response to Turning Point USA organizing at Berkeley HIgh School was, “What, no, no way.” Using the “fascist” term to vilify youth, Felarca continued: “And so, you know, I just think it’s super incumbent on us to, like, work, talk to, obviously, other teachers, but also, most importantly, students to really stop this and prevent Turning Point or any fascist organizing to take place.” The group talked about a protest activated this month against a new youth Turning Point USA chapter at Royal Oak High School in Royal Oak, Mich. Representatives from Berkeley High School and Berkeley Unified School District didn’t respond to requests for comment. ANTIFA VIOLENCE EXPOSES UC BERKELEY’S HYPOCRISY ON FREE SPEECH AND TOLERANCE “I know it’s possible to stop it, and if we take the same approach that we took to protesting Turning Point last week – to not just ignore this, because then they’ll just go away or, you know, but to also use collective action, and it was crazy, like, find ways to express collectively the power of the movement and not just leave it and hope that the administration will take care of it, because they’re clearly not,” Felarca said. “They’ve already approved the group. Then it’s super, super important that we do that.” The group’s members also voted unanimously to move forward with a plan to “stop and block” law enforcement officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In one plan, they agreed to order “ICE whistles,” increasingly used in neighborhoods in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City to alert residents that ICE officers are in the area. Felarca said they would brand the whistles with the “By Any Means Necessary” name. The escalation comes at a moment of intense scrutiny from the Trump administration, which has opened a federal investigation into whether “By Any Means Necessary” and allied groups engaged in an organized conspiracy to deny Turning Point USA participants their free speech rights through coercion and disruption at last week’s UC Berkeley event. Far from a spontaneous gathering, Fox News Digital reporting reveals the protest was premeditated and coordinated by a network of seven organizations, most of them enjoying tax-free benefits, at least six days before it occurred, signaling advance coordination.  U.S. Assistant Attorney for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, who flew to Berkeley to lead the civil rights investigation into the case, is well familiar with Felarca and “By Any Means Necessary.” In 2018, her former law practice, Dhillon Law Group, won a lawsuit against Felarca for filing a frivolous restraining order against then-Berkeley College Republican president, Troy Worden, as Felarca led protests on campus against Trump, and an Alameda County Superior Court commissioner ordered Felarca to pay Worden $11,100 in legal fees. Earlier, in February 2017, “By Any Means Necessary” leaders bragged that they got right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos canceled from a talk on the campus of UC Berkeley.  Andrew Kolvet, executive producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show” and spokesman for Turning Point USA, said the new escalation by Felarca and “By Any Means Necessary” is “fundamentally un-American” and represents a “conspiracy to silence the free speech of others.” CALIFORNIA WOMAN CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH DISRUPTING APRIL TURNING POINT USA EVENT ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS “Turning Point USA has grown over the years not because we tried to silence others or that we engaged in some operation to shut the voices of others,” said Kolvet, who was a close friend of Kirk. “We grew because Charlie believed that our ideas were better, and that if more young people heard them they would be convinced and persuaded to believe them too.” Kolvet directly addressed the campaign by leaders of “By Any Means Necessary” against the constitutional rights of Turning Point USA members, saying, “Any organization formed or animated by a guiding mission to harass, heckle and attack events hosted by other groups — just because they don’t agree with their ideas — is fundamentally un-American and is engaging in a conspiracy to silence the free speech of others. This is especially egregious given that Turning Point USA’s events involve minors. These are young kids being

Mamdani keeps Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner

Mamdani keeps Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is keeping Jessica Tisch as commissioner of the New York City Police Department. “Today, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced the appointment of Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch to serve as the New York City Police Commissioner in his incoming administration,” Mamdani’s office said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that the pair will “advance a coordinated approach to public safety built on partnership and shared purpose.” “That includes ensuring police officers remain focused on serious and violent crime, while strengthening the city’s response to issues like homelessness and mental health. A new Department of Community Safety will support this work while collaborating closely with the NYPD,” the office added. “As the 48th Commissioner of New York City Police Department, Commissioner Tisch has rooted out corruption in the upper echelons of the NYPD and led a department-wide focus on accountability and transparency, while delivering historic reductions in violent crime,” it also said. NYC MAYOR-ELECT MAMDANI DOUBLES DOWN ON NETANYAHU ARREST PLEDGE In his own statement, Mamdani said, “I look forward to working with Commissioner Jessica Tisch to deliver genuine public safety in New York City.  “I have admired her work cracking down on corruption in the upper echelons of the police department, driving down crime in New York City, and standing up for New Yorkers in the face of authoritarianism,” Mamdani continued. “Together, we will deliver a city where rank-and-file police officers and the communities they serve alike are safe, represented, and proud to call New York their home.” MAMDANI’S FATHER SAYS HE WILL KEEP ‘ARM’S LENGTH’ FROM SON’S UPCOMING ADMINISTRATION “Thanks to the men and women of the NYPD, the strategies we deployed this year have delivered historic reductions in crime,” added Tisch. “I’ve spoken to Mayor-elect Mamdani several times, and I’m ready to serve with honor as his Police Commissioner. That’s because he and I share many of the same public safety goals for New York City: lowering crime, making communities safer, rooting out corruption, and giving our officers the tools, support, and resources they need to carry out their noble work.” Tisch was sworn in as NYPD commissioner in November 2024 by current New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Mamdani’s office said under her leadership, murders are down “nearly 20 percent citywide year-to-date” and “more than 4,800 illegal guns [were] removed from the city’s streets in 2025.” Fox News’ Maria Paronich contributed to this report.