Noida International Airport: Ahead of inauguration by PM Modi, a look at Delhi-NCR’s new airport and its features
Phase I of Noida International Airport in Jewar is all set to be inaugurated on March 28 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The inauguration of the airport marks a significant milestone in India’s journey towards becoming a global aviation hub. The airport, envisioned as a major international gateway for the National Capital Region (NCR), represents a major step in strengthening the country’s airport infrastructure and enhancing regional and international connectivity.
Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami meets PM Modi, requests RRTS from Meerut to Rishikesh, construction of Delhi-Haldwani Expressway
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi today as a courtesy call. The CM expressed his gratitude for the continuous support and guidance provided by the Central Government for the development of Uttarakhand.
J-K Avalanche: At least 6 killed, several injured as multiple snow avalanches hit Srinagar-Leh highway, details here
A massive snow avalanche hit the Srinagar-Leh highway at Zoji La in Ladakh, claiming at least 6 lives, and left several injured. The multiple avalanches also buried a number of vehicles and blocked the strategic highway. According to IANS, a senior J&K Police officer has confirmed the deaths and said that the rescue operations are underway. As per officials, at least 15 vehicles were partially or fully buried under snow; however, further details are awaited.
Speaker Dustin Burrows lists data centers, property taxes and annexing slice of New Mexico among 2027 priorities
The Republican speaker’s interim charges also covered water resources, foreign threats and government accountability.
After Minnesota scandal, Texas reviewed its child care spending. It found little fraud.
An investigation ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott found that less than half a percent of federal money spent on child care scholarships in Texas was considered “improper.”
How a 27-year-old upstart unseated longtime Texas House Democrat Chris Turner
Junior Ezeonu, a Grand Prairie City Council member, defeated Turner in the Democratic primary, becoming the representative-elect for the southeast Tarrant County House district.
Long lines linger at Houston’s biggest airport as TSA agents miss work during partial government shutdown
Wait times at George Bush Intercontinental Airport are expected to worsen over the weekend as agents miss a second paycheck and increasingly call in sick.
Spanberger takes fire from all sides as Youngkin, Angel parent slam recent controversies
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger faced dueling controversies this week after her Republican predecessor publicly rebuked her over support for Democrats’ redistricting amendment, and an Angel Mom challenged her on immigration enforcement. Virginia has been ground zero for Democrats’ left-wing agenda since the former Henrico County congresswoman took office in January, from reversing Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s cooperation pact with DHS to supporting legislative Democrats’ alleged “power grab” to draw out every Republican congressman in the commonwealth except Rep. Morgan Griffith in the far southwest. During a visit to Culpeper, a largely but increasingly less rural population center between Front Royal and Richmond, Spanberger was pressed on her relative silence on the case of Stephanie Minter, a Fredericksburg mother allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant convict at a Fairfax County bus stop last month. As Spanberger was escorted to her car by security after an affordable housing event, local ABC reporter Nick Minock shouted a question about what Spanberger’s message would be to Minter’s family and others harmed by illegal immigrant felons. POLICE WARNED PROSECUTORS 3 TIMES ABOUT VIOLENT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT BEFORE HE ALLEGEDLY KILLED VIRGINIA MOTHER “My question would be why, when there was a [unintelligible word] deportation order, ICE did not deport,” she said as she was hastened into a car. “ICE had him in custody for 700 days, governor, and an immigration judge would not allow him be deported to Sierra Leone,” Minock attempted to respond as the car door shut. Minock said Minter’s mother, Cheryl, who headlined a vigil for her daughter in front of Spanberger’s office at the Capitol earlier this week, told him that ICE had been doing what it was supposed to under current law and that “Spanberger needs to check her story because it’s inaccurate and misleading.” That exchange came as Culpeper became the center of another case involving an illegal immigrant accused of heinous crimes, this time soliciting sexual imagery from children. Angel David Rubio Marin was charged March 16 with soliciting sexual content from children after two previous charges of public masturbation, according to a statement from DHS obtained by Fox News Digital. ANGEL MOM, GOP BLAME SPANBERGER AFTER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WITH 30 ARRESTS CHARGED IN KILLING Culpeper police arrested Rubio Marin, who, according to local authorities, was soliciting sexually explicit videos in exchange for “Roblox,” a popular gaming currency, from at least three children under the age of 10. He was previously arrested in Prince William County in 2024 for allegedly exposing himself in public but was released. Spanberger took more incoming from the typically mild-mannered Youngkin, who was term limited when he left office in January. After releasing a short video calling on Virginia voters to “vote yes” on State Senate President L. Louise Lucas’ new map that draws about half of Virginia’s districts into the densely Democratic D.C. suburbs, Youngkin responded on X. “This is a lie. A blatant lie. Not to mention a complete reversal of your campaign promises,” Youngkin said after Spanberger spoke out in the video to say the new map is “temporary” and is “directly in response to what other states decide to do and to a president who said he’s, quote, entitled to more Republican seats before this year’s midterms.” Spanberger previously publicly criticized the idea of mid-decennial redistricting while in Congress, which Youngkin was referring to. “This unconstitutional power grab will permanently rig Virginia’s congressional maps and disenfranchise millions of Virginians. Virginia, vote no,” he said. Rep. Jennifer Kiggans, R-Va., whose Eastern Shore and Virginia Beach district is expected to be drawn partially into the liberal cities of Hampton Roads, similarly blasted Spanberger’s flip-flop highlighted by Youngkin. “I have no plans to redistrict Virginia,” Kiggans said, quoting Spanberger and citing a report dated Aug. 25. “I am tired of the blatant lies to our face. The lack of truthfulness from this administration and the Democrat Party needs to wake up Virginians,” Kiggans added. “Don’t tell us one thing and then do another.” “Whatever happened to affordability,” she said on Instagram. Youngkin’s interjection was also met by supportive surprise from other recent Virginia Republican leaders, including former Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. “Wow. Unusually strong language from Glenn Youngkin and of course, he’s correct on all points,” Cuccinelli said in a statement on social media. TRUMP ADMIN ASKS SPANBERGER, VIRGINIA OFFICIALS NOT RELEASE ILLEGAL CHARGED WITH GROPING HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS The Virginia Republican Party, chaired by James City County GOP Committeeman Jeff Ryer, added that “some things never change.” “Abigail Spanberger shamefully deflects blame for Democrat sanctuary and soft-on-crime policies that keep dangerous criminals like Abdul Jalloh on Virginia streets,” Ryer said in reference to the illegal immigrant accused of murdering Minter. “No sympathy for the victims. No accountability for how her own party allowed this tragedy to occur. Virginians deserve better.” Fox News Digital reached out to Spanberger for comment.
Vance says Biden admin ‘turned off’ anti-fraud protections, debuts new task force with focus on Somali schemes
Vice President JD Vance on Friday hosted the first anti-fraud task force meeting, where he delivered opening remarks saying the Biden administration “turned off” anti-fraud protections that “existed in our government for a very long time.” Vance was joined by Cabinet and administration officials, including White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller, Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. The vice president, Ferguson and Miller delivered brief opening remarks before the meeting was closed to the press to further privately discuss their planned actions to combat fraud nationwide. “We think fraud has been a problem for a long time,” Vance explained. “It became a massive, massive problem under the Biden administration. We’re going to do a number of things. First of all, we’re going to turn back on those anti-fraud protections so that all of these Cabinet officials are looking at what’s going on and focusing on it.” President Donald Trump established the task force through an executive order last week, naming Vance to lead the team that will be focused on identifying and recovering Medicare, Medicaid and other areas of fraudulent usage of federal funds across the U.S. LABOR DEPT DEPLOYS ‘STRIKE TEAM’ TO CALIFORNIA OVER $21B UNEMPLOYMENT DEBT, FRAUD CONCERNS Trump indicated that fraud is “usually in blue states,” which was reiterated by Miller during Friday’s opening meeting. “I think that most citizens probably assume that there’s some verification process that takes place for the receipt of most federal benefits,” Miller said. “The reality is that there is not. This is particularly true in blue states, willfully true in blue states, in which all of these programs are operated entirely on the honor system.” Minnesota has been the leading focus of the Trump administration after a multibillion-dollar fraud scheme involving child daycare and autism centers was exposed, leaving dozens indicted and many convicted. JD VANCE SPEARHEADS ‘WAR ON FRAUD,’ PROMISES TO ROOT OUT TAXPAYER MONEY ‘STOLEN’ BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS Many of those implicated in the fraud scheme come from the Somali community in Minnesota. “I think that the autism scam that we’ve seen in the Somalian parts of Minnesota really illustrates well what’s been going on across whole layers of our government,” Vance explained Friday. “What we’ve seen is Somali fraudsters at an industrial scale, taking advantage of that program to the tune of millions and millions of dollars,” Vance added. “And there are two separate tragedies there. The first tragedy is that you have people who pay into the federal government, who pay into the IRS, who pay their taxes, expecting that those taxes will go to help their fellow citizens.” DEPUTY AG TODD BLANCHE SHEDS LIGHT ON NEW DOJ FRAUD DIVISION TO ADDRESS ‘INSANE’ PROBLEM Ferguson noted that the misuse of funds goes as far as to create public mistrust in Americans paying taxes that go toward welfare. “Americans have turned over trillions of their tax dollars to social welfare programs to help their neighbors and fellow citizens through hard times,” Ferguson said. “They’ve done so on the basis of social trust, the belief that their governments, state and federal, will do the right things with their dollars and that their fellow citizens will honestly participate in these programs.” Friday’s task force meeting is the first of what is expected to be many meetings following the Trump administration’s push to root out fraud in the U.S. Prior to the meeting, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services identified and suspended 70 hospice and home health providers in Los Angeles last month. The hospice and home health providers were flagged as high-risk fraudulent providers. The 70 hospice and home health providers had their funding paused in just one week after being identified by the task force and CMS, Fox News Digital learned. “You have families who need these services who are unable to get them because people are getting rich off of fraud schemes,” Vance said during Friday’s meeting. “Instead of making sure that autistic children and their families get access to these resources.”
House conservatives rage against Senate DHS shutdown deal
House conservatives are ripping into a Senate-passed deal that would end the 42-day Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, citing concerns that the bill fails to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. The House Freedom Caucus said Friday it will withhold its support for the DHS funding measure until Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are given full-year appropriations. The conservative group also wants voter ID requirements added to the bill. “We can’t believe that the Senate abdicated its responsibility this morning of not funding the child sex trafficking investigation division of ICE, that they didn’t fund the Border Patrol,” HFC chairman Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., told reporters. “The only thing we’re going to support is adding that funding into the bill, adding voter ID, sending it back to the Senate, make them come back in and do their work.” “The bottom line is … this deal is bad for America,” Harris continued. TWO DOZEN HOUSE REPUBLICANS GO TO WAR WITH SENATE GOP OVER SAVE AMERICA ACT The Senate-passed product provided funding for all of DHS minus ICE and parts of the Border Patrol, enraging some conservatives who viewed the agreement as a capitulation to Democrats. “Republicans must also make sure this never happens again,” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital, adding that he opposed the funding deal. The measure, however, did not include a bevy of immigration reforms demanded by Democrats — a notable win for Republicans. Scott and other Senate Republicans have teased a forthcoming budget package that would give an infusion to Trump’s immigration agenda. The conservative opposition to the Senate’s spending agreement comes as House GOP leadership has also not committed to passing the funding measure. “We just have the number one main objective to see that we can get the entire Department of Homeland Security properly funded,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told Fox News on Friday. “There’s a lot of threats out there.” House Democrats, however, are indicating they will support the Senate’s DHS legislation. “We support reopening the parts of the Department of Homeland Security that Donald Trump and Republicans recklessly shut down,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said Friday. “We support paying TSA agents, and we support ending the chaos at airports.” TED CRUZ UNLEASHES ON DEMS FOR ‘RISKING AMERICAN LIVES’ WITH DHS SHUTDOWN House conservatives’ opposition complicates House GOP leadership’s path to steering the measure through the chamber. A traditionally partisan “rule” vote teeing up the legislation for a vote on final passage would almost certainly fail if Democrats withhold their support. Meanwhile, House rules prohibit Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., from advancing the measure through a suspension vote — requiring a two-thirds majority — between Thursday and Sunday. House conservatives are also voicing frustration that the SAVE America Act has stalled in the Senate due to bipartisan opposition from all Senate Democrats and a handful of moderate Republicans. The Senate left Washington on Friday for the Easter recess rather than continue to debate the Trump-backed election integrity bill. “We the House should AMEND the Senate bill, ADD VOTER ID AND FORCE A VOTE in the SENATE,” Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., wrote on social media Friday morning. Senate Democrats notably filibustered a voter ID measure sponsored by Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, on Thursday. Conservative GOP lawmakers have also argued that because Trump took executive action to fund beleaguered Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents on Thursday, delaying the passage of a DHS funding measure would not worsen air travel disruptions. “The president has already said he’s going to fund TSA out of funds he has,” Harris said Friday. “It’s not going to affect the airports if we don’t do this today.