‘I Would Shoot Them’, ‘These Women Like To Be Raped’: Ex-BJP Intellectual Cell Chief TG Mohandas sparks outrage over Jantar Mantar remarks
In a video uploaded on the Pathrika Malayalam YouTube channel, former BJP Intellectual Cell state convener and RSS-linked political commentator TG Mohandas suggested that he would have shot protesters at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. He also threatened mass rape of protesting women.
CJP warns of fresh protest over alleged breach of agreement: ‘Hundreds of students arrested’
The CJP had ended its weekslong agitation on Saturday after the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan as the union education minister — one of the group’s key demands.
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Trump critic Massie joins Democrats in unprecedented bid to sue White House over Iran war
A lone House Republican is joining Democrats in an effort to get President Donald Trump sued over the Iran war. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., is one of the co-sponsors of a new resolution aimed at compelling House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to sue the Trump administration over allegations the president is violating federal law with the U.S. conflict in the Middle East. The bill is also being led by Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, as well as Reps. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., Gabe Amo, D-R.I., Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., Jason Crow, D-Colo., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif. Massie accused Trump and Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth of being “in blatant violation of two sections of the War Powers Resolution of 1973.” TRUMP AIMS TO RESET WAR POWERS CLOCK WITH CONTROVERSIAL BID TO BYPASS CONGRESS “For the first time since the law was enacted, a concurrent resolution has passed in accordance with 5(c) of the law, but the White House has ignored it. It seems they’ve assumed the law is unconstitutional, but no court has ever found that to be the case, so the law remains on the books while the White House flouts it. In the 1983 case INS v. Chadha, the Supreme Court did not opine on the 1973 War Powers Resolution. It’s time for the courts to settle this, and that’s what our legislation directs,” Massie said. “They’ve also violated section 5(b) of the law, but rather than ignore the law, they’ve perpetuated a ruse that the 60-day limit on Presidential military activity does not apply with respect to the Iran war, because each time they effect a temporary ceasefire, the statutory clock restarts. We believe no court would agree with this absurdity, and this should be litigated as well.” TRUMP-BACKED CANDIDATE ED GALLREIN CALLS KENTUCKY WIN A ‘DAVID VS. GOLIATH’ VICTORY AFTER DEFEATING MASSIE Massie was one of four House Republicans who voted with Democrats to rebuke Trump over the Iran war with a war powers resolution that passed last week. The resolution is largely symbolic, however, and has no practical effect. His open criticism of Trump also earned Massie a primary challenger backed by the president, who wound up defeating the sitting congressman and will likely take his place in the House of Representatives next year. But the new resolution to sue Trump over the Iran war is not likely to get a full House vote unless Massie or Democrats use maneuvers to force it over the objections of House GOP leaders. REP TOM BARRETT: IT’S UP TO CONGRESS TO PREVENT ANOTHER ENDLESS AMERICAN WAR In his comments to Fox News Digital, Massie also criticized congressional leadership for not doing more to block the war. “Unfortunately, Speaker Johnson has chosen to let the power of our institution atrophy and is doing harm to our constitutional authority by his inaction motivated by political expediency,” Massie said. “Although both Iraq wars and the war in Afghanistan were authorized by AUMFs [Authorization for Use of Military Force] from Congress, the Trump administration has sought no such Congressional authorization for the war in Iran, and is therefore operating unconstitutionally.” Johnson, for his part, told reporters last week that he did not believe an AUMF was necessary but suggested he wanted to see an end to the war. “The administration is working very hard. The commander in chief and the whole Department of War, they’re working very hard to bring this to a resolution. There’s a lot of discussions about how that will be done,” Johnson told reporters Tuesday. “We’re all closely watching those developments. Of course, I don’t think an AUMF is in order right now. I think we need to bring this to a resolution.” Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment.
NY assemblyman calls for DOJ to investigate Mamdani, protect Jewish New Yorkers after stabbing attacks
A New York State assemblyman called on the U.S. Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation into New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani following a pair of stabbings on Manhattan’s Upper West Side that are being looked at as potential hate crimes. New York State Assemblyman Michael Novakhov, who represents District 45 in Brooklyn, called for action during an End Jew Hatred rally in New York City on Sunday. “If the DOJ stepped in to protect Jewish students at Columbia, it must now step in to protect Jewish New Yorkers,” Novakhov wrote in a post on Instagram with video of the announcement, referencing a federal probe into alleged antisemitism at the university. SUSPECT ARRESTED AFTER ALLEGEDLY YELLING ‘ALLAHU AKBAR,’ STABBING 2 MEN IN NYC ATTACK Novakhov said he was sending the DOJ a formal letter requesting an investigation into New York State, New York City “and most importantly to investigate Mamdani’s hatred against the Jewish population of New York City and New York State.” Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani’s office for comment but did not immediately hear back. The victims in Thursday’s stabbing attacks were identified in media reports as Chok Sung, 57, and Moshe Grunhaus, 50. New York Attorney General Letitia James said both victims are currently in stable condition. The suspect, identified as Raul Morales, 51, is accused of yelling “Allahu Akbar” while stabbing two men on Thursday afternoon, according to officials. The Upper West Side is known as a neighborhood with a large Jewish population, and Thursday was Tisha B’Av, a day when Jews fast in mourning for the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. MAMDANI’S LATEST NETANYAHU REMARKS DEEPEN CONCERNS AMONG JEWISH LEADERS “Jewish New Yorkers should not have to hide their Stars of David, tuck away their kippahs, or fear walking their own streets,” Novakhov wrote. “The Jewish community deserves answers. No one is above the law,” his post read. Jewish leaders have recently spoken out against Mamdani’s comments on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling Netanyahu “a war criminal” and “the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people.” Mamdani had added that while City Hall lacks the authority to arrest Netanyahu, he believes the prime minister should be held accountable under the International Criminal Court’s warrant. This, despite the ICC not having any jurisdiction in the United States, as the U.S. is not a member of the international body. Fox News Digital’s Greg Norman-Diamond and Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.
Scalise warns ‘Bolshevik revolution’ taking over Dem Party after socialist primary wins
The No. 2 leader in the House of Representatives is hammering Democrats after a slate of far-left primary victories ahead of the November midterms, warning a “civil war” is in store for their party. “There’s like this Bolshevik revolution that has taken over the Democrat Party. It’s scary to see because many of them are espousing communist viewpoints — very, very radical viewpoints — and they’re winning. They’re beating liberals,” Scalise told Fox News Digital in an interview. Republicans are seizing on wins by candidates affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) as proof that Democrats as a whole are shifting further left than where most American voters are. FAR-LEFT SURGE: MAMDANI-BACKED CANDIDATES OUST DEM ESTABLISHMENT INCUMBENTS “This is surely not your father’s Democrat Party,” Scalise said. “There’s never been a sharper contrast between Republicans who believe in freedom and individual opportunity and Democrats who are moving toward socialism.” It comes after several DSA-linked candidates toppled incumbent progressive Democrats in recent weeks. Reps. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., and Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., both lost primaries to candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, himself a DSA member. Goldman’s challenger Brad Lander, however, left the DSA after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack in Israel. MAMDANI-BACKED SOCIALIST WINS IN NEW YORK EXPOSE GROWING RIFT BETWEEN DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT, INSURGENT LEFT Another DSA-backed candidate in Denver toppled longtime Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo. Those victories in safe blue seats mean all three will have a glide path to the House of Representatives come November. “The liberals in the Democrat Party are being beaten in primaries by socialists and that’s foreboding for kind of this civil war that’s going on in the Democrat Party,” Scalise said. “I think if you go through most of middle America, and I go there a lot, all of those districts, they don’t want socialism — and yet that’s what’s on the ballot.” Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Chair Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., leader of House Democrats’ campaign arm, told Fox News Digital in response that her party was focused on lowering costs and panned the GOP criticism as “desperate.” “The midterms will ultimately be a referendum on who is going to lower costs and help improve the lives of everyday Americans — which House Republicans have failed spectacularly to do. In the purple, majority-making districts — Democratic candidates are running substantive campaigns focused on lowering costs, saving health care, and fighting to make life affordable for working families,” DelBene said. “Republicans already know they’ve lost the American people, and that’s why they are resorting to desperate attacks that aren’t actually about the pocketbook issues, but just baseless spin that falls flat with voters who are eager to reject Republicans.” Republicans are facing an uphill battle to keep control of the House in November, given historic trends that show the president’s party traditionally faces significant losses halfway through the White House term. But GOP leaders are hopeful that they can reverse that as lawmakers get ready to spend the entire month of August in their home districts making their case to Americans.
Trump admin targets woke schools accused of hiding students’ gender transitions from parents
FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Education is taking enforcement actions on National Parents’ Day against two school districts accused of hiding students’ gender transitions from parents — a move that could now could cost them federal funding. The action reinforces President Donald Trump’s campaign against radical left-wing gender ideology and the push for more parental rights in the classroom. “As a mother and a grandmother, it is unconscionable that any school district would hide the most sensitive information about children in their care from their own parents. This is not only an affront to basic moral principles, but also to parents’ rights under federal law,” Secretary of Education (ED) Linda McMahon exclusively told Fox News Digital. VIRGINIA SCHOOL DISTRICT SUED OVER ALLEGED POLICY OF KEEPING STUDENTS’ GENDER TRANSITIONS HIDDEN FROM PARENTS “Today, ED and DOJ are putting districts on notice that we will use every tool available to hold them to account for this egregious behavior,” McMahon added. “Under the Trump Administration, ED and DOJ are working together to vigorously uphold parents’ federal protections, and we will work to ensure that no parent is ever kept in the dark about important matters relating to their children.” The Education Department is working with the Department of Justice to investigate Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) violations against Anne Arundel County Public Schools in Maryland and Ann Arbor Public Schools in Michigan. The investigations concern allegations that the districts hid information from parents about their own children’s health and wellbeing, and could result in federal funding being withheld from the schools, Fox News Digital has learned. FERPA is a federal law that gives parents the right to see their child’s school records, ask for mistakes to be corrected and generally control who can access that information about their child. The Trump administration is looking into whether the schools violated FERPA. LOUDOUN COUNTY PARENTS NOT ‘SATISFIED’ AFTER SCHOOL OFFICIALS TESTIFY ON TRANSGENDER POLICIES One case the administration is investigating involves a Maryland family who says they were blindsided after discovering school staff presented their daughter as male during the school day without their knowledge or consent. The parents only learned what was happening after receiving an email that referred to their daughter using male pronouns. According to the Education Department, school administrators refused to provide the parents with additional information, with the assistant principal declining to turn over records related to their child’s gender transition. The department is also looking into a policy at Ann Arbor Public Schools that allows teachers to help students hide their “transgender status” from parents. The school district has a policy that directs school officials to maintain records related to a “gender identity” in a separate filing system. TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OPENS FOUR TITLE IX INVESTIGATIONS INTO MICHIGAN AND NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL DISTRICTS Ann Arbor Public Schools must justify their policy to the Education Department by Aug. 11, 2026 or else risk losing its federal funding. Fox News Digital reached out to the school districts in Maryland and Michigan for comment but did not hear back at time of publication.
Exposed Fauci diary shows he estimated COVID-19 death rate to be much lower than what he told Congress
Entries from early 2020 in a now-exposed personal diary kept by Dr. Anthony Fauci during the COVID-19 pandemic show that he privately estimated the death rate from the illness was significantly lower than what he told Congress under oath only weeks later. Fauci, 85, has come under intense scrutiny for years regarding his approach leading the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, and his alleged links to the Chinese lab where the virus originated. He will return to Capitol Hill on Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to speak about his newly publicized personal records. “The stated mortality over all of this when you look at all the data including China is about three percent. It first started off as two and three,” Fauci said in testimony before the House Oversight Committee on March 11, 2020, according to a transcript of the hearing. LEGACY MEDIA IGNORES MASSIVE ANTHONY FAUCI DOCUMENT RELEASE ALLEGING HE MISLED CONGRESS ON COVID ORIGINS During the hearing just weeks into the virus reaching the U.S., he was asked by Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, to compare the mortality from COVID-19 to the mortality of the seasonal flu. “I think if you count all the cases of minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic infection, that probably brings the mortality rate down to somewhere around one percent, which means it is 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu,” Fauci continued. “I think that is something that people can get their arms around and understand.” But on Feb. 8, 2020, about a month before that congressional testimony, Fauci expressed privately that he believed the virus’s mortality rate was much lower than what he later told lawmakers. “[Former CDC Director] Tom Frieden called me this AM and we discussed various aspects of the outbreak,” Fauci wrote. “He and I are on the same page in thinking tht [sic] this is acting like a bad influenza in its transmissibility and that the denominator is much greater than 34,867 (above) making the case fatality rate (CFR) more like 0.2-0.3 % rather than 2.0%.” FAUCI’S NEWLY RELEASED COVID DIARIES REVEAL BIZARRE FIXATION ON FAME AS PANDEMIC DEATHS MOUNTED At that time, Fauci had counted 34,687 cases of the virus and 724 fatalities, according to his diary, which equals just over 0.2%. Fauci was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) during the pandemic, and first became the face of combatting COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic during President Donald Trump’s first term, and remained in the role under President Joe Biden until retiring in 2022. The very influential position wasn’t lost on Fauci. His diary entries tracked his rising influence and press appearances, and he meticulously kept track of how he was portrayed. “Big front page article abut me appeared in the Washington Post. Very flattering. The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable,” he wrote in a diary entry on May 21, 2020. “It is not hyoperbole [sic] to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable peson in the world,” he continued. INSIDE FAUCI’S PRIVATE DIARY: WHAT HE WROTE ABOUT TRUMP, TV PERSONALITIES AND CELEBRITIES Fauci noted that he was developing a “very unique and interesting relationship” with Trump. His diary is adorned with screenshots of headlines that mentioned him, including a New York Times story from March 2020 titled, “Not His First Pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci Sticks to the Facts.” He referenced another Washington Post article in his diary on Aug. 8, 2020, titled, “As Fauci battles the pandemic and politics, his grateful neighbors celebrate him as a hero.” Fox News Digital reached out to Georgetown University and the Georgetown University Department of Public Health, where Fauci serves as a distinguished professor at the university’s school of medicine, seeking comment on the journal entries versus public statements. Fox News Digital also reached out to Paul’s office but did not hear back by time of publication.