Merchant Navy officer’s wife found dead in suspicious circumstances, family alleges murder
A 32-year-old woman, married just five months back to a Merchant Navy Officer, has been found dead under suspicious circumstances at her residence in Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow.
Vaishno Devi Katra-Amritsar Vande Bharat train launch date REVEALED, to run 6 days weekly, check timings and other details
Vande Bharat train No. 26406 will run from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra to Amritsar. How long will it take to reach its destination?
Good news for passengers as Noida Airport teams up with this company for enhanced last-mile connectivity; check details
The ride-hailing platform will operate dedicated pick-up zones within the airport. Check out all other features, which will be offered by the firm.
DGCA suspends designated examiner of this Indian airline due to…
India’s aviation watchdog has taken action against a designated examiner. The examiner in question has been suspended for a period of six months. Designated examiners notably play a key role in certifying pilot competency and thereby ensuring passenger safety. Read on to know more on this.
India’s STRONG response to Trump’s 25% additional tariffs: ‘Unfair, unjustified, unreasonable’
In a brave response to the President Donald Trump-led United States administration imposing an additional 25 percent tariff on India, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal called the move “unfair, unjustified and unreasonable”.
House Democrats helped Dustin Burrows win the gavel. Their departure from the state marks a pivotal moment for him.
The situation is an opportunity for the speaker to bolster his credibility with the right, but he has limited tools to combat a prolonged Democratic absence.
Hundreds of old EV batteries have new jobs in Texas: Stabilizing the power grid
After reaching the end of their automotive lives, the batteries are being reused to provide lower-cost grid energy storage.
Local Texas election officials concerned about software vendors’ financial scare
Votec, maker of voter registration management software used in Texas’ largest counties, has thrown election officials for a loop with mixed messages about its financial viability.
Trump blasts Schumer, Democrats as ‘country-hating thugs’ amid blockade on Senate nominees
President Donald Trump lashed out at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday, accusing the lawmaker of “extortion” for holding up Trump’s nominees in the Senate. Trump made the statement from his Truth Social account, arguing that never in U.S. history have so many of a president’s nominees been bottlenecked in the Senate. Senate Republicans had been negotiating with Schumer to speed up the nomination process this week, but the talks broke down. “Politically embattled Senator, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, wants the Republicans to pay, as extortion, two billion dollars in order for the radical left Democrats to approve the hundreds of Trump appointments who have been waiting for months, and are raring to go,” Trump wrote. “This has never happened before. There has never, in U.S. history, been such a delay. They are extortionists! Republicans must create legislation in order to get out of the grasp of these country-hating thugs. Move quickly!” he added. TRUMP TELLS SCHUMER TO ‘GO TO HELL’ OVER SENATE NOMINEE DEAL FUNDING DEMANDS AFTER NEGOTIATIONS COLLAPSE Lawmakers left Washington on Monday without a deal, leaving Republicans deeply frustrated with Schumer and Senate Democrats for their unprecedented filibustering of every one of Trump’s nominees. Only Secretary of State Marco Rubio received a smooth confirmation. Schumer and the Democrats had demanded that Trump free up billions in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and foreign aid, accounting for Trump’s claims of a $2 billion “extortion.” GRIDLOCK CRUMBLES AS SENATE ADVANCES SPENDING BILLS IN RACE AGAINST SHUTDOWN Republicans are now discussing a rule change that would block Democrats from filibustering the nominees, allowing them to clear the Senate with just a simple majority. “I think that way is going to happen anyways, because of what Schumer has done. He’s forced this, and it’s ridiculous that he’s doing this,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., said Tuesday. “And so, whatever, we’re at this point, and we’ll do, you know what they say, every action requires an equal [reaction], and that’s what we’re at right now.” Currently, over 1,200 positions go through Senate confirmation. Senate Republicans have been able to confirm over 130 of Trump’s picks so far, but there are over 140 nominees still pending on the Senate’s calendar. “I think they’re desperately in need of change,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters on Tuesday. “I think that the last six months have demonstrated that this process, nominations, is broken. And so I expect there will be some good robust conversations about that.” Fox News’ Alex Miller contributed to this report
Mamdani’s past ‘visceral disdain’ for police ‘scares a lot of New Yorkers’ for good reason: NYC crime expert
New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s past stances on policing are a legitimate reason for New Yorkers to be concerned, despite his recent walkbacks, according to a New York City crime expert who spoke to Fox News Digital. “I think what scares a lot of New Yorkers about the policy positions taken by Zohran Mamdani over the years is that he has exhibited not just a lack of appreciation for the men and women that stand on that [police] line, but a visceral disdain for them, which has led him to push for things like defunding and dismantling the police,” Rafael A. Mangual, senior fellow and head of research for policing and public safety at the Manhattan Institute, told Fox News Digital, shortly after a gunman killed four people in midtown Manhattan, including a NYPD police officer. “It’s not so much as just that he said, well, I wanna allocate some of this money to other places. He has gone so far as to say that we should dismantle the entire department.” Mamdani recently attempted to walk back some of his past anti-police comments during a press conference in the aftermath of the shooting, but Mangual, who wrote an op-ed on the walkback for the New York Post, says he still has concerns despite the attempt to clarify past comments. MAMDANI PREACHES FROM PULPIT OF RADICAL PASTOR PUSHING REPARATIONS, ABOLISHING POLICE: ‘BROTHER AND FRIEND’ “Even if he doesn’t necessarily follow through on the most radical positions that he has taken in the very recent past, he has expressed support for a lot of initiatives that would erode public safety in lots of different ways, including and especially in the communities that deal with the brunt of our nation’s gun violence problem,” Mangual said. Mangual pointed to several possible scenarios under a Mamdani mayorship that could lead to problems for security in the city, including potentially working with the city council to eliminate the NYPD gang database, which Mangual said would be an “absolute disaster” for the city. NEW YORK LAWMAKER SOUNDS ALARM ON POTENTIAL ‘DEVASTATING’ EFFECTS OF MAMDANI VICTORY: ‘CHAOS’ “The other thing that Mamdani mayoralty might get us is an NYPD that’s even less equipped than the current NYPD, which is certainly operating well below the ideal level in terms of force size,” Mangual explained. “It’s approaching skeleton crew status. The NYPD at the turn of the century had about 41,000 officers in its ranks, whereas now I think below 33,000 are just right around that mark. That’s a really big change, especially given how many more 911 calls that department is fielding on an annual basis and how much more it has to do in a post-9/11 world where the department kind of took on these additional counter-terrorism and intelligence aspects to it. So, you run the risk of creating a situation in which a department that is already starved for recruits is going to become even more unattractive to people who are considering work in that department.“ Mangual explained that Mamdani was part of a “legislative landscape” as a state assemblyman that pushed bail reform and discovery reform that “have essentially made it significantly less likely that perpetrators who are arrested will be, A, prosecuted and B, held to account in a meaningful way.” Mangual said he is concerned that Mamdani’s resume will hurt police recruiting and eventually make the city less safe as the NYPD struggles to achieve full staffing. “So, now you have a situation in which you might have a mayor who has just set himself up for a terrible relationship with the police department who is signaling that he’s going to cooperate with an increasingly radical city council who wants to take even more away from that police department, who is then going to send a signal that, ‘Hey, you are not going to have a good time working here,’” Mangual said. Fox News Digital reached out to the Mamdani campaign for comment.