KDMC hospital assault case: Woman doctor attacked by Shiv Sena leader Ramesh Mhatre resigns
The assault incident had occurred on Monday (July 6) at a hospital in Shastri Nagar, which is run by the Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC).
PM Modi seals key deals on defence, nuclear energy during Australia visit: What are they?
In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs said that a total of 18 outcomes were achieved during PM Modi’s two-day visit to Australia. The outcomes range from a nuclear energy pact to deeper maritime security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.
What to know about Houston ICE shooting and other migrant deaths in Texas
Most migrant deaths in Texas have occurred while they were detained since President Donald Trump began his immigration crackdown. Several were from natural causes.
Texas’ ACA enrollment shrinks by 4% after tax credit expiration, new federal data shows
As of February, 21% of Texans who enrolled in a plan through the federal marketplace did not pay their first premium.
Planned Texas data centers could emit more greenhouse gases than many countries
Texas regulators are allowing AI data centers across the state to start up thousands of new pollution sources with no public notice or environmental reviews.
Trump says Democrats replacing Platner is ‘very hard for them to do’
President Donald Trump remarked that congressional Democrats would have a hard time replacing former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner after the embattled candidate suspended his campaign Wednesday. “It’s very hard for them to do. It’s really a question of whether or not you believe the woman. A lot of people say big falsehoods. It’s… he’s in a bind. He’s in a bind. But, should they be able to do it? Well, I guess he’s going to lose. I imagine he’s going to lose,” Trump said while speaking to reporters on Air Force One before returning to the United States from the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey. Platner suspended his campaign Wednesday evening after numerous Democrats and liberals who had previously backed him pulled their support and encouraged him to drop out of the race. PLATNER DROPS OUT OF CRUCIAL SENATE RACE AFTER BOMBSHELL RAPE ALLEGATION TORPEDOES CAMPAIGN The calls for his exit came after Politico published a bombshell report detailing rape allegations against Platner. In the story, Platner’s ex-girlfriend Jenny Racicot alleged he forced his way into her home and sexually assaulted her in 2021. The Politico report followed a New York Times story that described another physical abuse allegation against Platner, this one from Lyndsey Fifield, a digital strategist for Republican political campaigns and organizations. Trump alluded to Fifield’s allegations, wondering aloud why her allegations weren’t a catalyst for outrage in the same manner that Racicot’s were. PLATNER’S LATEST ACCUSER CLAIMS THE DEMOCRATIC SENATE CANDIDATE ‘ABSOLUTELY’ RAPED HER “It’s very interesting when the Republican woman came out with the same charge, nobody believed her… when this woman came out everybody believed her, right?” Trump asked reporters. Fifield criticized the New York Times’ handling of her accusations, spotlighting the paper’s focus on her history of working for Republicans. “I’m out here on my own, I’m the only one photographed and there’s 11 paragraphs of my work history. Like, what is this?” Fifield told Fox News Digital in a Wednesday interview. Platner maintained that his suspension was not an admission of guilt and denied the allegations. While Platner suspended his campaign Wednesday, he has not officially dropped out to clear a path for a new candidate. Under Maine state law, he would have to drop out by July 13 to allow the Democratic Party to put a new candidate on the ballot in his stead. Fox News Digital contacted the Platner campaign for comment. Fox News Digital’s Brian Flood and Joseph Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
Trump’s voter ID bill catches unlikely break as McConnell remains sidelined
An unlikely reason has chipped away, for now, at Senate Republican resistance against President Donald Trump’s flagship election priority. The Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act has hit brick wall after brick wall in the Senate, and has only twice mustered 50 votes. Still, Trump wants Republicans to pass it by any means necessary. Republicans, however, aren’t unified behind it. One lawmaker, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has routinely voted against the bill in its variety of iterations, earning the personal ire of Trump. MCCONNELL FACES FRESH CALLS TO COME CLEAN ABOUT HEALTH ISSUES “Mitch McConnell,” Trump told reporters last month. “He’s very disloyal to John Thune. You know, John Thune was a very good person for him. I mean, he’s a very loyal person, and Mitch McConnell’s against him almost all the time because he’s angry, I guess. Probably at me.” McConnell has been absent from the Senate, which is currently in recess, for almost three weeks due to health issues. When he will return still remains unclear. But without his resistance, that’s one less “no” vote that Republicans have to contend with. REPUBLICAN SAYS TRUMP’S TOP ELECTION PRIORITY ‘DEAD’ IN SENATE AS GOP FRACTURES AHEAD OF MIDTERMS Still, it doesn’t address the broader math problem in the Senate weighing down the chances of the SAVE America Act passing. Senate Democrats are unified against it, meaning Trump and the SAVE America Act’s biggest proponents can’t break through the 60-vote filibuster, which has, in part, fueled the president’s demands to nuke the filibuster. Senate Republicans don’t have the votes to do that, either. “The only way you could get there is to undo or get rid of the legislative filibuster, and there aren’t even close to the votes here in the United States Senate in order to achieve that,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said last month. There is the talking filibuster, which Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has pushed for months, which Republicans have yet to turn to, largely over concerns of floor time being eaten away and fractured unity leading to Democratic wins. Then there is the budget reconciliation route, which Trump has pushed Congress to consider. While Senate Republicans aren’t leaping at the prospect, the House is moving full steam ahead. GOP INFIGHTING OVER TRUMP’S VOTER ID BILL ERUPTS AS TOP SENATOR CALLS STRATEGY ‘FANTASY’ House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told Fox News’ Shannon Bream that he would move ahead with the reconciliation plan. “We passed it three times in the House. We’re going to try one more time on a budget reconciliation bill, and I think that will be the way to get it through the Senate, and finally, to the president’s desk.” Notably, though, House Republicans have not passed the version of the SAVE America Act that Trump desires, which would include a strict crackdown on mail-in balloting, a ban on transgender athletes in women’s sports and a ban on transgender surgical procedures for minors. But even the bill’s biggest backers see reconciliation as a far-fetched option. Lee last month told Fox News Digital that the SAVE America Act was “policy, it’s non-budgetary. Therefore, SAVE America itself is not eligible for consideration in a third reconciliation.” There could be alterations, like giving states federal funding to start doling out enhanced REAL IDs with citizenship verification in a reconciliation package, while separately passing a voter ID bill. However, Lee believed that there was “no evidence that there is a viable path to a third reconciliation bill.” “I hope there is. I would love to be wrong on that. I want us to do that. I think we should do that. But the schedule that we’ve got, to my great disappointment, is not — it doesn’t accommodate any of it.”
Jeb Bush praises Trump for crippling Iran’s military, but warns of ‘threat’ to US from reported drones in Cuba
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush praised President Donald Trump for his efforts in crippling the Iranian regime, but warned that Cuba is now believed to have hundreds of explosive drones from Tehran. Bush made the statement at a United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) event on Wednesday, standing next to an Iranian Shahed-136 drone. The Shahed family of drones are cheap but effective kamikaze weapons that Iran has used extensively in the Middle East, in addition to shipping them to Russia for use against Ukraine. “We have decimated Iran’s capability to make mischief in the region. There’s no doubt about it,” said Bush, who is UANI’s chairman, adding that he applauds the Trump administration for their work. “I also want to point out that the press reports are that there are 300 of these in Cuba,” Bush said, gesturing toward the drone. TRUMP SAYS IRAN CEASEFIRE IS ‘OVER’ AFTER IRANIAN ATTACKS TRIGGER MASSIVE US RESPONSE “We have very good defense capabilities, so this is not a press conference to scare the bejesus out of people. The United States does have capabilities of defending the homeland, for sure,” Bush qualified before saying the drones nevertheless pose “a threat.” Bush was joined at the event by Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., who warned attendees that while Shahed drones are a “terror weapon,” they are also the future of how wars are going to be fought. CUBA PLUNGES INTO THIRD MAJOR BLACKOUT THIS YEAR AS POWER CRISIS WORSENS “This is the face of warfare,” he said of the drone, noting that AI capabilities were drastically advancing the effectiveness of drones. “This is how war is going to be carried out in the future, and it’s being carried out right now.” Gimenez emphasized the effectiveness of drones in the war in Ukraine, where Kyiv’s forces have manufactured millions of small explosive drones for their defense, and to great effect. Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mark Wallace, now CEO of UANI, also spoke at the event, calling the Shahed drone “the ubiquitous terror weapon of mass destruction in modern warfare.” “This drone has struck our allies across the region, killed American troops, our allies across the region … and has been raining terror across the Middle East at our bases and the like,” Wallace said. Wallace told Fox News Digital that the drones in Cuba were transferred years ago, before the current conflict between the U.S. and Iran.
WATCH: Omar-backed mayor mocks outrage over Somalia July 4th trip with sarcastic ‘apology’
St. Louis Park Mayor Nadia Mohamed, who made history as the first Somali American elected mayor of a U.S. city, fired back at critics who criticized her Fourth of July weekend trip to Somalia during the country’s 250th anniversary weekend. The controversy began after local news outlet Alpha News reported that Mohamed, who has repeatedly been praised by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was in Somalia over the semi-quincentennial Fourth of July weekend, citing a Somali news outlet that reported on her visit she made alongside the country’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. Video from the Somali president’s X account highlighted the visit and, according to Alpha News, photos appeared to show the mayor’s arrival with “a large welcoming party waving American and Somali flags.” WALZ, MINNESOTA BOARD OF PARDONS CLEARS CONVICTED ILLEGAL ALIEN CHILD SEX OFFENDER FACING DEPORTATION “Allow me to offer my sincerest apology for daring – for having the audacity – to take vacation time to see family members I have not seen in 10 years,” Mohamed sarcastically said in a video posted to her social media accounts following criticism for not being stateside. “Allow me to apologize for utilizing the federal holiday that we have, and the time off that we have to be able to go see my grandmothers – in which I have not seen in 10 years, in which six of those years I have worked diligently to serve the good people of St. Louis Park – I am so sorry. How inconsiderate of me! How treacherous – is it treacherous? Treacherous of me!” A LOOK AT WHAT’S INSIDE THE AMERICA 250TH TIME CAPSULE BURIED IN PHILADELPHIA “If you must know, I also met with the president of Switzerland, the then-president of Switzerland, but nobody asked me about that one,” she continued. “I would’ve loved to have told you about that. I would have loved to have had an entire news article written about that. I will do better next time. I will.” Mohamed remains in Somalia, according to the city, which told Fox News Digital the trip is personal, privately funded and unrelated to city business. However, the city did not provide a return date when asked, saying only that Council Member Yolanda Farris is currently performing the mayor’s duties as designated mayor pro tem. Mohamed concluded her “apology” video by calling the complaints about her trip “bullying.” “Reading the comments on this post,” she said, while trying to contain laughter. Honestly, it’s the way that people do not fall for this s—. It’s the way that people do not fall for this propaganda. It is the way that people do not fall for this bullying – because that’s what this is.” It’s all about “clicks” off the backs of “hating” Somali people, Mohamed argued. “The minute they mention Somali people, their clicks and views go up,” she said before the video cut.
Trump to ask Supreme Court to rehear birthright citizenship case after ‘insane decision’
President Donald Trump will ask the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision on the birthright citizenship case, he announced on Wednesday. Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social that the court’s decision to uphold birthright citizenship, even in the case of children of illegal immigrants and those in the U.S. temporarily, was “absolutely insane.” The president said he was already seeing examples of the ruling being exploited. “Signs and Billboards are being put up all over our Southern Border, and Mexico, advertising BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP, with ‘Deliveries starting at $4000.’ Likewise, similar signs going up all over our Country. Billions of Dollars will be illegally made by this SCAM, with Citizenship going to anyone willing to pay,” Trump wrote. ABBOTT ORDERS PROBE AFTER TEXAS HOSPITAL ADVERTISES ‘BIRTH PACKAGES’ IN MEXICO: ‘CITIZENSHIP IS NOT FOR SALE’ “I will be asking for a Rehearing by the United States Supreme Court, IMMEDIATELY. This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they don’t change their absolutely insane decision,” he added. The court’s ruling allows the losing party to file a petition for a rehearing within 25 days of the ruling being handed down. However, a majority of justices on the court would have to agree to rehearing in order for it to be considered again. TRUMP SUFFERS MAJOR SUPREME COURT DEFEAT AS JUSTICES UPHOLD BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP The 6-3 decision, handed down on the court’s final day of session, saw Chief Justice John Roberts writing that all children born on U.S. soil “to parents unlawfully or temporarily present” are “citizens at birth” under the 14th Amendment. Conservatives have sought a way to move forward against birthright citizenship in the days since the ruling, with some saying a constitutional amendment may be necessary. TRUMP’S ‘HERO’ JUSTICE OFFERS ROADMAP AFTER SUPREME COURT REJECTS BIRTHRIGHT ORDER Others have pointed to arguments from justices like Bret Kavanaugh, who sided with the majority, but did not outright state that the Constitution enshrines birthright citizenship. Kavanaugh argued in a concurring opinion that Trump’s mistake was imposing limits via executive order, but said those limits might rightfully be imposed by an act of Congress. House Speaker Mike Johnson has said Republicans are exploring such a legislative push, but there has been no public progress since the ruling.