March 30 or March 31 or April 1? When exactly will Eid-ul-Fitr be celebrated in India?
Eid-ul-Fitr marks the conclusion of the holy month of Ramadan, also called Ramzan, during which practicing Muslims fast daily for a month.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to how Congress may try to discipline judges who rule against Trump
Congressional Republicans are searching for a way to discipline or rein in federal judges, whom they believe have exceeded their authority. House Republicans will have to wrestle with a push by some conservatives to impeach judges who have ruled against President Donald Trump. Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, has drafted an article of impeachment for Judge James Boasberg over his suspension of some deportations. REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: IMPEACHAPlOOZA IS HERE TO STAY Some conservatives are pushing impeachment for Boasberg and several other judges they believe exceeded their authority. The House Republican leadership does not want to deal with impeachment, and it’s unclear if the House would ever have the votes to impeach. Conservatives could try to go over the heads of the GOP brass and put impeachment on the floor by making the resolution privileged. However, Republican leaders could try to euthanize that effort by moving to send the impeachment articles to committee. Thus, the vote is on the motion to send the articles to committee, not on impeachment. BUSH DOJ LAWYER WARNS TRUMP ADMIN AGAINST ‘TERRIBLE MISTAKE’ IN JUDICIAL STANDOFF That said, the administration appears to prefer a remedy offered by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. Issa’s bill would limit the scope of rulings by these judges. Moreover, it’s unclear that the House would ever have the votes to impeach, and even if they did, a Senate trial would end without conviction. It takes 67 votes to convict in an impeachment trial.
ICE nearing historic deal with IRS to aid in deportations: report
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are nearing an agreement that would permit ICE to access taxpayer information to locate illegal immigrants subject to deportation. A historic agreement would allow ICE to submit the names and addresses of illegal immigrants to cross-check against IRS tax records, a shift in longstanding IRS policy aimed at keeping taxpayer information strictly confidential, according to a report in the Washington Post. The current draft agreement, obtained by the Washington Post, would limit ICE to confirm the addresses of illegal immigrants who have final removal orders, while Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and acting ICE Director Todd Lyons would be the only two people authorized to submit requests to the IRS. COURT ORDER HALTING DEPORTATION FLIGHTS ‘UNCONSTITUTIONALLY IMPEDES’ EXECUTIVE BRANCH, TRUMP ALLIES ARGUE The draft agreement language authorizes address verification on individuals “subject to criminal investigation” for violating immigration law, taking advantage of a narrow exception to IRS privacy laws that allow for the use of taxpayer data to aid criminal investigations. The report notes that some veteran IRS officials have expressed concerns about the agreement, arguing that the narrow exception was meant only for criminal investigations and not for immigration enforcement. The officials also worry that the policy will hinder tax collection from illegal immigrants, who are still subject to federal taxes despite being in the country illegally. The IRS has for years given illegal immigrants assurances that their tax information is confidential, the report notes, a policy that has helped them collect over 5 million tax returns from undocumented migrants. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TELLS FEDERAL JUDGE IT MIGHT INVOKE STATE SECRETS ACT ON HIGH-PROFILE DEPORTATION CASE The news comes as President Donald Trump has continued to ramp up the deportation effort he promised on the campaign trail, with the president attempting to use every available resource in order to aid immigration officials. Longtime IRS employee Doug O’Donnell, who was serving as acting IRS commissioner last month, abruptly resigned after 38 years of working for the agency after rejecting a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) request for dates on more than 700,000 illegal immigrants. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP O’Donnell was replaced by Melanie Krause, whom the report notes has shown more willingness to partner with DHS. The agreement between the IRS and ICE has yet to be finalized. Neither agency immediately responded to a Fox News Digital request for comment.
Stacey Abrams-founded nonprofit faces crackdown threat from House GOP’s top tax writer
FIRST ON FOX: The House of Representatives’ top lawmaker on taxation is urging the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke the tax-exempt status of a nonprofit linked to former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. The Abrams-founded group, New Georgia Project, was recently fined $300,000 for violating state election laws in a ruling by the Georgia Ethics Commission. House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., called it “the largest penalty in the Ethics Commission’s history and possibly the largest ethics fine ever issued in the United States” in his letter to IRS Commissioner Melanie Krause. The commission unanimously charged the New Georgia Project with failing to disclose more than $4 million in campaign contributions and more than $3 million in expenditures while backing Abrams’ failed 2018 gubernatorial campaign. ‘WASTEFUL AND DANGEROUS’: DOGE’S TOP FIVE MOST SHOCKING REVELATIONS “As you know, under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3), organizations are strictly prohibited from participating in or intervening in any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office,” Smith wrote. “The IRS may revoke an organization’s tax-exempt status or assess excise taxes for certain types of violations if it determines the organization is noncompliant as it relates to political campaign intervention.” Abrams founded the New Georgia Project in 2013 to help boost voter registration efforts in the Peach State. However, she has not been involved with the group since 2017, and Smith pointed out that groups registered as 501(c)(3) nonprofits are prohibited from participating in or advocating for specific political candidates. TRUMP TO SIGN EXECUTIVE ORDER INSTRUCTING AGENCIES TO HUNT DOWN REGULATIONS THAT VIOLATE CONSTITUTION The New Georgia Project’s affiliated group, the New Georgia Project Action Fund, is able to endorse candidates, but donations are not tax-exempt. “The New Georgia Project’s intervention in the 2018 election cycle in support of Stacey Abrams and other candidates’ campaigns amounts to a clear violation of their tax-exempt status,” Smith wrote. “The GSEC’s findings show that the New Georgia Project has participated in activities and events outside of the organization’s tax-exempt purpose and should therefore lose its tax-exempt status and be reclassified as an ‘action organization.’” Smith conceded that such nonprofits are allowed “to engage in certain nonpartisan voter education activities that do not constitute prohibited political campaign activity, including public forums and publishing voter education guides,” but argued “it is clear that the New Georgia Project crossed the line into prohibited activity by intervening in the 2018 election cycle on behalf of Stacey Abrams and several other candidates.” “I request that you use your authority to make this referral a priority and make certain the IRS moves quickly to examine and revoke the tax-exempt status of the New Georgia Project,” he wrote. Fox News Digital reached out to the New Georgia Project and the IRS for comment but did not hear back by press time. New Georgia Project attorney Aria Branch told NBC News at the time of the commission’s ruling, “While we remain disappointed that the federal court ruling on the constitutionality of the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Act was overturned on entirely procedural grounds, we accept this outcome and are eager to turn the page on activities that took place more than five years ago.”
Grassley, 91, waves and smiles to booing, cursing protesters
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley was captured on video waving and smiling to booing protesters who were chanting “stand up to Trump” and repeatedly yelling “f— you!” outside of his town hall event. Footage posted on social media showed the 91-year-old Republican grinning and waving his arms as he waded into a hostile crowd that gathered outside the Franklin County Courthouse in Hampton on Friday. “Stand up to Trump! Stand up to Trump!” the crowd could be heard chanting as Grassley exited the building following the event, flanked by two men who appeared to be security members. An irate woman could then be heard yelling “traitor!” and “f— you!” over and over toward Grassley, who at one point gives a double thumbs up in response to the reaction. ‘CHAOS AND CONFUSION’: HOW DEMOCRATS INFILTRATED ‘THUNDEROUS’ GOP TOWN HALLS Grassley eventually stepped into a waiting vehicle as the crowd continued to boo and jeer him. More than 100 people attended the town hall event, during which Grassley was asked questions on topics including tariffs, annexing Canada and the future of Social Security and other federal programs, according to Radio Iowa. GOP REP SOUNDS ALARM OVER DEMOCRATS ‘INCITING FAR-LEFT ACTIVISTS’ AFTER PRIVATE LUNCHEON PROTEST TURNS PHYSICAL “Well, I think you can draw the conclusions, I win by landslides, but I don’t win by 100% of the vote, so having people disagree with you is what democracy is all about,” he was quoted by the outlet as saying. The incident happened following other recent protests at Republican town hall events, including one in North Carolina two weeks ago during which a man who identified himself as a veteran stood up and started shouting at Rep. Chuck Edwards, yelling “you don’t give a f— about me!” before being escorted away by police. “I just watched our GREAT Republican Congressman from North Carolina, CHUCK EDWARDS, hold a Town Hall in Asheville. He was a total gentleman, but the room was ‘littered’ with Radical Left Lunatics, mostly Democrats, and all they did was scream, shout and use filthy language,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social yesterday. “They were largely paid agitators, with fake signs and slogans, and were only there to make TROUBLE! Chuck put up with it, and was WONDERFUL!”
‘Corrupt, dangerous’: GOP Rep moves to impeach judge who blocked Trump federal funds freeze
FIRST ON FOX: Georgia Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde is formally introducing his articles of impeachment against a Rhode Island judge who previously ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds. The articles, first shared with Fox News Digital, charge Chief U.S. District Judge John James McConnell Jr. with abuse of power and conflicts of interest, stating he “knowingly politicized and weaponized his judicial position to advance his own political views and beliefs.” If McConnell is found guilty of such charges, the articles read, he should be removed from office. SCOOP: IMPEACHMENT ARTICLES HIT JUDGE WHO ORDERED TRUMP TO STOP TREN DE ARAGUA DEPORTATION FLIGHTS McConnell is currently overseeing a lawsuit brought by 22 states and the District of Columbia that challenges the Trump administration’s move to withhold federal grant funds. After McConnell ordered the administration to comply with a restraining order, the government appealed to the First Circuit – which refused to stay the orders. “The American people overwhelmingly voted for President Trump in November, providing a clear mandate to make our federal government more efficient,” Clyde told Fox News Digital. “Yet Judge McConnell, who stands to benefit from his own injunction, is attempting to unilaterally obstruct the president’s agenda and defy the will of the American people. Judge McConnell’s actions are corrupt, dangerous, and worthy of impeachment.” COURT ORDER HALTING DEPORTATION FLIGHTS ‘UNCONSTITUTIONALLY IMPEDES’ EXECUTIVE BRANCH, TRUMP ALLIES ARGUE Clyde announced plans to draft impeachment articles in early February, after McConnell ordered the Trump administration to reinstate paused federal grants and loans. The articles formalize the charges. McConnell has also come under fire from Trump supporters and conservatives in recent weeks after a 2021 video resurfaced in which he warned that courts must “stand and enforce the rule of law … against arbitrary and capricious actions by what could be a tyrant or could be whatnot.” The articles cite that video, claiming McConnell “has allowed his personal, political opinions to influence his decisions and rulings,” and that he has demonstrated a “bias that would warp his decision” in the federal freeze case. In a statement, Clyde said “judicial activism” is “the Left’s latest form of lawfare.” REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: IMPEACHAPALOOZA IS HERE TO STAY “Congress bears the responsibility and the constitutional authority to hold activist judges accountable through impeachment,” he continued. “I applaud the work of my colleagues to hold other rogue judges accountable, and I hope we see swift action on this critical matter in the House very soon.” When contacted, the court declined to comment. Clyde’s impeachment resolution follows a similar move by Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, who earlier filed articles of impeachment against U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg. The Washington, D.C.-based federal judge is overseeing a separate case challenging President Donald Trump’s use of an 18th-century wartime law to deport Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador who were linked to the violent gang Tren de Aragua. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Gill accuses Boasberg of abusing his power by pausing the deportation order under the 1789 law. The mounting criticism of lower court judges who have ruled against the Trump administration prompted U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to issue an unusual statement in response this month. “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts said. “The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.” Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.
Trump calls ’60 Minutes’ George Clooney segment a ‘puff piece’
President Donald Trump dismissed George Clooney’s interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” as a “puff piece” after the actor-director lodged criticisms at the commander-in-chief in between discussing his debut on Broadway. “Why would the now highly discredited 60 Minutes be doing a total ‘puff piece’ on George Clooney, a second rate movie ‘star,’ and failed political pundit,” Trump wrote on TRUTH Social. “He fought hard for Sleepy Joe’s election and then, right after the Debate, dumped him like a dog. Later, I assume under orders from the Obama camp, pushed all out for ‘Kamala,’ only to soon realize that that was not going to work out to well.” Trump continued, “60 Minutes even fraudulently inserted Fake answers into her disastrous interview, aired just before Election Day, in one of the most embarrassing and dishonest events in broadcast history.” “And now George Clooney again?” Trump asked. “His press agent should be making a fortune!!!” TRUMP MAKES ENDORSEMENT IN ‘IMPORTANT’ WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT RACE Clooney, a lifelong Democrat who joined the chorus of those calling for former President Joe Biden to end his re-election campaign last summer, sat down with “60 Minutes” to talk about his debut on Broadway playing American journalist Edward R. Murrow in an adaptation of his 2005 film “Good Night, and Good Luck.” The play focuses on Murrow’s challenge to the McCarthy administration, a theme that Clooney argued mirrored what journalists are facing under Trump’s second term. “Here’s where I would tell you where we differ from what Murrow was doing. Although McCarthy would try to pose things, show up a blank piece of paper and say ‘I got a list of names.’ That was his version of fake news,” Clooney told “60 Minutes.” “We are now at a place now where we’ve found that it’s harder and harder and harder to discern the truth. Facts are now negotiated.” Clooney also defended his decision to pen a New York Times opinion piece calling for Biden’s ouster from the race just weeks after the A-lister and other Hollywood stars helped garner $30 million in donations for Biden at a Los Angeles fundraiser. “I was raised to tell the truth,” Clooney said when asked about the essay. “I had seen the president up close for his fundraiser and I was surprised, and so I feel as if there were a lot of profiles in cowardice in my party through all of that. And I was not proud of that, and I also believed I had to tell the truth.” Trump is seeking $20 billion in damages from “60 Minutes” and CBS’ parent company, Paramount Global, over an Oct. 7, 2024, interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris leading up to the 2024 presidential election. The lawsuit, initially filed in October shortly before Trump won a second term, and later expanded last month, accuses the program of “partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference” for the way it edited the interview and aired different clips of Harris’ responses. MUSK THREATENS TO SUE AFTER DEMOCRAT EX-REP JAMAAL BOWMAN CALLS HIM A ‘NAZI’ AND ‘THIEF’ DURING TV APPEARANCE An unedited transcript and raw footage were released in February amid an investigation by the Federal Communications Commission. Different answers from Harris about Israel were aired on “60 Minutes” and CBS’ “Face the Nation,” but the network claimed the discrepancy was “not doctored or deceitful.” Despite asking the court to dismiss the case, corporate leaders are considering whether to settle. The “60 Minutes” segment also showed Clooney leading a Broadway table read with the play’s cast. “ABC has just settled a lawsuit with the Trump administration and CBS News is in the process,” Clooney is heard telling the table read at Winter Garden Theater in the heart of Broadway, before the reporter’s voice-over cuts him off. The reporter, Jon Wertheim, then categorizes Trump’s lawsuit against CBS as making the “unfounded allegation” of election interference. In December, Disney agreed to pay $16 million to settle Trump’s lawsuit against ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. “We’re seeing this idea of using government to scare or fine or use corporations to make journalists smaller,” Clooney also told “60 Minutes.” “Governments don’t like the freedom of the press. They never have, and that goes for whether you are a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you’re on, they don’t like the press.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “It’s a fight that is for the ages,” the actor-director said. “Journalism and telling truth to power has to be waged like war is waged. It doesn’t just happen accidentally. You know, it takes people saying we’re going to do these stories, and you’re going to have to come after us. And that’s the way it is.”
Byron Donalds leads bipartisan effort to punish federal workers for failure to report foreign gifts
FIRST ON FOX: Two prominent House lawmakers from opposite sides of the aisle are teaming up to push for greater transparency on the gifts or perks that representatives of the federal government receive from foreign entities. Reps. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., and Jared Golden, D-Maine., introduced the Gift, Accountability, Reporting, and Disclosures (GARD) Act late last week, aimed at strengthening the government’s guardrails against foreign influence. The bill would vastly expand the definition of a “foreign” gift, while imposing heightened requirements on what kind of details must be disclosed and when. TESLA VEHICLES, CHARGING STATIONS TARGETED AS PROTESTERS DENOUNCE DOGE, ELON MUSK Federal employees who file reports more than 30 days after a foreign gift is received would be slapped with a $200 fine. Golden and Donalds’ collaboration on the issue is notable in today’s hyper-partisan climate. Federal employees, the president, the vice president, members of Congress, other officials and their families are generally expected to report foreign gifts that amount to $480 or more – though that baseline can be lower for certain government entities. The State Department’s chief of protocol, a politically appointed role, is tasked with gathering such information and issuing a report due 11 days after a presidential term has ended. There is also currently no deadline for that data to be made public in the Federal Register, which has been amended with Donalds and Golden’s new bill. TRUMP ‘HOPES’ PUTIN AGREES TO CEASEFIRE AS MOSCOW SIGNALS NO TRUCE YET The GARD Act would mandate the State Department to publish its foreign gift list within 30 days of receiving the information. The designation of “foreign” would also grow to include non-U.S. businesses and nonprofits. It also would standardize reporting of foreign gifts given to adult children and relatives of government officials at a $480 baseline. Additionally, instead of a political appointee at the State Department gathering the information, that would now be taken on by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. Both Republicans and Democrats have accused recent party leaders and families of enriching themselves on foreign business. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP It is not immediately clear if House GOP leaders have shown interest in the bill, but it comes amid talks of both of its leaders potentially seeking higher office. Donalds announced earlier this year that he is running for governor of Florida, and he is endorsed by President Donald Trump for the role. Meanwhile, the Portland Press Herald held up Golden – a moderate Democrat who represents a district Trump won in 2020 and 2024 – as a potential candidate for governor in Maine.
UP Police books man for posting ‘I Love You Pakistan’ on Facebook, DETAILS here
If media reports are to be believed, Izzatnagar Police booked the man from Shikarpur Chaudhary Gautia after he made the post on Facebook
CAG report on DTC: Arvind Kejriwal in dock, Atishi demands debate, Know in detail
Accusing former Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa slammed him for the closure of bus routes and a decline in revenue while highlighting an increase in government grants to DTC.