VP Vance jeered at Kennedy Center concert: video
People jeered Vice President JD Vance at the Kennedy Center on Thursday night. “Boos for JD Vance as he enters tonight’s concert at the Kennedy Center,” Global Affairs correspondent for The Guardian Andrew Roth tweeted when sharing a video of the episode on Thursday evening. Vance, seated next to his wife Usha, waved from a balcony amid the cacophony. BILL MAHER RIPS LEFT’S ‘EXCLUSIONARY ATTITUDE’ AS ‘HAMILTON’ CANCELS SHOWS AT TRUMP-BACKED KENNEDY CENTER Presidential Envoy for Special Missions Richard Grenell, who is serving in a leadership post with the Kennedy Center, suggested that people on the political left are “intolerant.” “The intolerant Left are radicals who can’t even sit in the same room with people that don’t vote like they do. What has happened to today’s Democrats? They are so intolerant,” he declared when commenting on the episode. Fox News Digital reached out to Vance’s team to request comment on Friday, but no comment was provided. KENNEDY CENTER DIRECTOR ENCOURAGES REPUBLICAN ATTENDANCE, SAYS ‘EVERYONE IS WELCOME’ The event was a National Symphony Orchestra concert, reports indicate. Vance, the author of the book “Hillbilly Elegy,” previously noted that he was shocked to find out that people listen to classical music for enjoyment. “Elites use different words, eat different foods, listen to different music — I was astonished when I learned that people listened to classical music for pleasure — and generally occupy different worlds from America’s poor,” Vance said, according to The New York Times. KENNEDY CENTER SHAKE-UP WILL USHER IN ‘GOLDEN AGE OF THE ARTS’ UNDER TRUMP, RIC GRENELL PREVIEWS CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP President Donald Trump announced a shakeup of Kennedy Center leadership last month. “I have decided to immediately terminate multiple individuals from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture. We will soon announce a new Board, with an amazing Chairman, DONALD J. TRUMP!” the president declared in part of a Truth Social post in February. He later announced that Grenell would serve as interim executive director. A Kennedy Center press release stated, “the Board elected President of the United States Donald J. Trump as Kennedy Center Board Chair, replacing former Chair David M. Rubenstein,” and “terminated Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter’s contract and announced Richard Grenell as interim Kennedy Center President.” The press release also noted that more than a dozen new Kennedy Center Board of Trustee members were announced, including Usha Vance, Trump, and others.
Trump blames Biden for getting US into a ‘mess with Russia’
President Donald Trump is blaming former President Joe Biden for getting the U.S. into “a real mess with Russia,” but said he would get the U.S. out of it. He called on Russia to commit to the U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire that Ukraine agreed to earlier this week. “Millions of people are needlessly dead, never to be seen again… and there will be many more to follow if we don’t get the ceasefire and final agreement with Russia completed and signed,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “There would have been NO WAR if I were president. It just, 100%, would not have happened.” PRESIDENT TRUMP REPORTEDLY TOOK 1,009 QUESTIONS IN HIS FIRST MONTH, 7 TIMES MORE THAN BIDEN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the Trump administration to put more sanctions on Russia on Friday, claiming Russian President Vladimir Putin is looking to prolong the bloody three-year war. Putin said on Thursday that he agreed with the proposal in “principle.” Zelenskyy believes Putin will try to block the deal in any way possible. Trump hasn’t ruled out imposing more sanctions, but said he doesn’t “want” to go that route and would rather have peace. He did acknowledge, however, that the U.S. could make financial moves that are “very bad for Russia.” 6 TIMES TRUMP BASHED BIDEN IN ADDRESS TO CONGRESS “In a financial sense, yeah, we could do things, very bad for Russia. It would be devastating for Russia,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday. “But I don’t want to do that because I want to see peace.” In the same post, Trump listed numerous tragic events and hardships that he believes could have been avoided if he, and not former President Biden, won the 2020 election. “Likewise, there would have been no October 7th with Israel, the pullout from Afghanistan would have been done with strength and pride, and would not have been the most embarrassing day in the history of our country, it could have been a moment of glory. Also, there would not have been any perceptible inflation,” Trump wrote in a Friday post on Truth Social. Trump has not been shy about criticizing former President Biden, and even called out his predecessor multiple times in his address to a joint session of Congress. In his speech, Trump declared Biden was “the worst president in American history.” Trump also slammed the Green New Deal, which he calls the “Green New Scam,” said Biden didn’t do enough to free Marc Fogel from Russian detention, criticized Biden’s spending on the war in Ukraine and emphasized Biden’s failures on the border. “The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation. ‘We must have legislation to secure the border.’ But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president,” Trump said as the room erupted with applause.
Vets group patching border fence pledges vigilance amid Trump success: ‘There are still gaps’
SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — A group of U.S. military veterans that formed to respond to the crisis at the southern border has continued its work, even as President Donald Trump has largely followed through on promises to stem the flow of illegal crossings. “As a country, we were going quietly into the night,” Kate Monroe, a Marine Corps veteran who became the founder of Border Vets, a group of U.S. military veterans who have given their own time and money to patch up holes in the border barrier in Southern California, told Fox News Digital. “It’s not as difficult to secure the nation as people might think.” The comments come as the group that Monroe founded, Border Vets, has continued its work to patch up potential weak points on the U.S. border with Mexico in Southern California. On a rainy and uncharacteristically cold day in San Diego County, Monroe invited Fox News Digital to see the volunteer organization’s continuing work. A group of nearly a dozen U.S. military veterans tagged along for the ride, returning to the infamous “San Judas Break,” a gap in the border wall that at its height was allowing more than 3,000 illegal migrants to spill into the U.S. on a weekly basis. ICE, DEA ARREST CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS ON IDYLLIC NEW ENGLAND ISLAND At issue is a gap in the barrier where the fencing erected by the U.S. government meets a hilly rock formation, leaving a tiny pathway into the country for thousands of migrants who knew where to look. While members of the Border Vets patched the hole with razor wire last year, the group returned to the spot to make improvements to the barrier and extend it further up the hill in an attempt to dissuade illegal crossings. But things have changed at this spot since the Border Vets initially volunteered their own time and money to patch the hole, with illegal crossings now coming to a near standstill in the area since Trump took office in January. The Mexican Army has also begun to occupy the area, standing up a makeshift encampment on the other side of the border just a couple of feet from where the Border Vets worked. The Mexican government’s cooperation and Trump’s reentry into the White House have had a profound impact on crossing numbers, with February data showing that just 8,300 people attempted to illegally cross the border last month, the lowest mark recorded since fiscal 2000. Agents with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have also had far fewer encounters with illegal migrants compared to the same time period in 2023 and 2024, recording just 30,000 encounters in February 2025 compared to more than 130,000 during the same time period in 2023 and 2024. VENEZUELAN GANGS ARE FAR FROM A ‘FAKE’ PROBLEM, COLORADO DA SAYS: ‘GIANT ISSUE’ Nevertheless, members of the Border Vets have continued their volunteer work, noting that some migrants have been determined enough to find a way through. “Things are getting better down at the border,” one Marine veteran who volunteers for Border Vets told Fox News Digital, noting that there are still gaps, not only figuratively, but literal gaps in the border. “You can see on the footpath that people are just walking through,” he added. The group insists they have had little trouble with CBP agents patrolling the area, arguing that many have welcomed the assistance, especially during the height of illegal crossings seen in the previous few years. An agent who anonymously spoke to Fox News Digital on Tuesday struck a similar tone, noting that the agency does not stop the group from erecting the makeshift barriers. In one area of San Diego County near Jacumba Hot Springs, a makeshift shelter built out of wood pallets and tarp, a site that once hosted hundreds of migrants as they waited to make asylum claims to border agents, stood empty. In other areas of San Diego County’s border with Mexico on Tuesday, members checked on their patchwork barriers while noting the stark difference between now and just a few short months ago. “It’s a crazy thing,” Monroe said. “There used to be hundreds of people crossing every time I came, now not one. And it’s not because of the rain, they were coming rain or shine … the difference has just been absolutely amazing.” Members of the Border Vets welcomed the change, though they plan to stay vigilant to prevent the situation from returning to the point of crisis it had reached over the last few years. “An open border policy that we’ve dealt with for the last four years has been nothing but a detriment to the country,” a Navy veteran member of Border Vets told Fox News Digital. “We’re all struggling, we’re all being dealt a bad hand, and it just doesn’t send the right message to have our borders wide open when every other nation has closed-border policies.”
Reparations fight hits Congress as GOP looks to defund new DC task force
FIRST ON FOX: A group of House Republicans is moving to have federal funds blocked to any state or local area that enacts policies regarding slavery reparations. It comes in response to Washington’s new reparations task force, expected to be formed this year after the Democrat-controlled city council approved it in its budget last year, according to the Washington Times. “That is now going to be, evidently, policy in Washington, D.C.,” House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Brian Babin, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital. “I think this is a very timely bill to be able to push back on basically . . . virtue signaling.” ‘TIPPING THE SCALES’: HOUSE GOP LEADERS RIP ACTBLUE AFTER DEM FUNDRAISING GIANT HIT WITH SUBPOENA Babin, who introduced the No Bailouts for Reparations Act on Friday, called the matter of reparations “a milking of the U.S. taxpayer for a very narrow group of people.” “I think it is a privilege to be an American citizen. And certainly we have had, there was slavery in the past. There’s been indentured servitude,” Babin said. “No American taxpayer should be on the hook to pay reparations to individuals for something that happened over 150 years ago.” Reparations refer to measures to redress past wrongs. In the context of the U.S. political debate, the term almost always refers to payments to Black Americans whose families have suffered from slavery. BLACK CAUCUS CHAIR ACCUSES TRUMP OF ‘PURGE’ OF ‘MINORITY’ FEDERAL WORKERS It’s a thorny political issue that’s vehemently opposed by conservatives, who see it as a waste of taxpayer dollars for something that living Americans aren’t responsible for, and backed by far-left progressives, who argue that the damages of slavery are still seen today. Just earlier this year, “Squad” member Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., released legislation “to establish a federal commission to examine the lasting legacy of slavery and develop reparations proposals for African American descendants of enslaved people,” according to a press release. That bill is virtually guaranteed to wither on the vine in the 119th Congress, however, with Republicans controlling all the major levers of power in D.C. President Donald Trump said, “I don’t see it happening” when asked about reparations in a 2019 interview with The Hill. Babin’s bill has circulated through the House for potential co-sponsors this week. “I don’t think the American people want to see divisiveness. They don’t want to see special victim interest groups for something, and we fought a war over, and it’s been over for 150 years,” he said. “The nation should focus on policies to promote economic opportunity for everyone, not government handouts based on ancestry.”
Ranya Rao Gold Smuggling Case: Tarun Raju linked to operation, sent to 15-day judicial custody
Tarun Raju, accused in the Kannada actress Ranya Rao’s gold smuggling case, was remanded to 15 days of judicial custody after his DRI interrogation.
Heavy rains splash Delhi-Noida-Ghaziabad on Holi: Soaring daily temperature comes down
Delhi and adjoining areas of Noida and Ghaziabad received light showers of rain in Holi.
Dr Oz to face Senate grilling on Capitol Hill in bid to run Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, will face questions in front of the Senate Committee on Finance Friday morning. Following the hearing, the committee will schedule a vote to send Oz’s nomination to the full Senate, where approval is likely, considering the Republican majority. If confirmed, Oz would be in charge of nearly $1.5 trillion in federal healthcare spending. Medicare, a federal healthcare program for seniors aged 65 and up, currently provides coverage for about 65 million Americans, according to the Center for Medicare Advocacy. Medicaid, which assists people with low incomes, covers roughly 72 million Americans, according to Medicaid.gov. THREE THINGS DR. OZ CAN DO AS CMS ADMINISTRATOR TO HELP FIX AMERICAN HEALTH CARE A former heart surgeon who saw his fame rise through his appearances on daytime TV and 13 seasons of “The Dr Oz Show,” Oz later transitioned into politics, launching an unsuccessful bid for Pennsylvania’s open Senate seat in 2022. He ultimately lost to John Fetterman, then the state’s lieutenant governor. Oz graduated from Harvard and received medical and business degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. Oz is expected to be grilled by Democrats during the hearing over his financial ties to a myriad of healthcare-related companies, several of which pose potential conflicts of interest for the potential CMS director. Oz has committed to divesting many of his financial interests that pose the most obvious risk of impropriety, such as his hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock in United Health Group, a major private health insurer. He also said that if he were confirmed, he would forfeit the nearly $25 million in stock options he obtained as an advisor to a company selling health and beauty supplements. CALIFORNIA EXPLOITING MEDICAID ‘LOOPHOLE’ TO PAY BILLIONS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS’ HEALTHCARE, STUDY SAYS As the administrator of CMS, Oz would make decisions related to how the government covers procedures, hospital stays and medication within the federal healthcare programs, as well as the reimbursement rates at which healthcare providers get paid for their services. On Thursday, Trump’s pick to lead the NIH and FDA, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Marty Makary, respectively, were approved in committee and will now face impending votes by the full Senate.
Clinton-era law ‘weaponized’ by Biden against pro-lifers must go, Pence group urges House GOP
FIRST ON FOX: Former Vice President Mike Pence’s nonprofit conservative coalition, Americans Advancing Freedom (AAF), is urging House Republicans to “end the weaponization” of a Clinton-era law that they say unfairly targets pro-life activists. The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act was signed into law by then-President Bill Clinton in May 1994. The FACE Act made it a federal crime to use force, threats or obstruction to interfere with individuals seeking or providing abortion services, which includes blocking access to clinics, threatening or using violence against patients or clinic workers, and damaging abortion-related property. In one of his first actions since taking office, President Donald Trump pardoned nearly two dozen pro-life activists who were serving multiyear sentences for participating in 2020 pro-life demonstrations at abortion clinics. Three of those pardoned were elderly. The Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) had charged them with violating the FACE Act. Trump said during the pardons that the advocates “should not have been prosecuted.” CHIP ROY LEADS HOUSE REPUBLICANS IN EFFORT TO REPEAL LAW USED BY BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO PROSECUTE PRO-LIFERS “Congress must do its part to support President Trump’s effort to end the weaponization of government by repealing the FACE Act in its entirety,” reads the AAF memo, sent to Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday afternoon. “There’s no question that the Biden Administration weaponized the FACE Act against pro-life Americans.” “During the Biden Administration, pro-life Americans faced early morning SWAT team raids, unjust prison sentences, and alleged mistreatment while in custody,” the memo continues. Last month, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight held a hearing, “Entering the Golden Age: Ending the Weaponization of the Justice Department,” where Peter Breen, the executive vice president and head of litigation at the Christian nonprofit law firm Thomas More Society, testified that one of his clients was subject to such SWAT raids and a lengthy prison sentence. BIDEN DOJ WEAPONIZED FACE ACT TO IMPRISON PRO-LIFE ACTIVISTS, ATTORNEY TELLS HOUSE: ‘SYSTEMATIC CAMPAIGN’ “The Biden DOJ engaged in a systematic campaign to abuse the power of the federal government against pro-life advocates, while that same DOJ ignored hundreds of acts of vandalism and violence against pro-life churches, pregnancy help centers, and other advocates,” Breen said. PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST PROSECUTED BY BIDEN DOJ REACTS TO TRUMP PARDON: ‘I WANT TO GIVE HIM A HUG’ While the tide is turning in a different direction from the previous administration’s pro-abortion agenda, conservative lawmakers are now looking at the FACE Act as the next step in the pro-life movement. In January, Trump also revoked two previous executive orders from the Biden administration that expanded abortion services. The new order reaffirms the policy established by the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the use of federal taxpayer dollars for elective abortions. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, re-introduced legislation in January around the same time to repeal the law. Roy’s office presented data indicating that 97% of FACE Act prosecutions between 1994 and 2024 targeted pro-life individuals. He is supported in this effort by 32 co-sponsors in the House, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, introduced companion legislation in the Senate. In 2023, several media outlets reported that under the Biden administration, the DOJ initiated at least 15 criminal cases under the FACE Act involving approximately 46 pro-life defendants since January 2021, with victims in all but one case being abortion-rights supporters.
Dem leader swings through GOP-held districts after ‘clown show protests’ halted town halls
Former vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., is hosting town halls on Friday in Republican-held congressional districts in Iowa and Nebraska, following reports that the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) told Republicans in Congress to stop holding in-person town hall meetings. The Republicans in those districts told Fox News Digital that Walz has some questions to answer of his own. The Minnesota governor is holding a town hall in Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday morning – Republican Rep. Don Bacon’s home congressional district. The event’s digital flier said they will discuss “Trump and Musk’s cuts to critical programs from Medicaid and SNAP to our national parks.” “Don Bacon is not holding an in-person town hall. Nebraska Democrats are stepping up and taking action,” the flier said. But Bacon fired back in a statement to Fox News Digital, urging Walz to answer for the inconsistencies in his record that plagued his 2024 campaign alongside former Vice President Kamala Harris. WALZ IS BACK IN MINNESOTA WITH $1M IN THE BANK AND ‘WANTS THE NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT’ “First, Nebraska Democrats brought in Bernie Sanders, the most liberal Senator, to the district. Now they’re bringing in the most liberal Governor in America. Perhaps at the townhall, Gov. Walz can finally clarify what Army rank he actually retired at and when the supposed combat deployment he used to talk about occurred. If he wants to call into our townhall, he can answer these questions,” Bacon added. AOC ‘GOING ON THE OFFENSE’ TO RALLY RED-DISTRICT VOTERS AGAINST TRUMP: REPORT On Friday afternoon, Walz is hosting a town hall in Des Moines, Iowa, where Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, has represented the state’s 3rd Congressional District in the House of Representatives since 2023. The Iowa Democratic Party’s fundraising flier for the event alleges “Zach Nunn has refused to host a public town hall since he was sworn into office in 2023.” Nunn took aim at the Democrats, in response to the town hall, for calling “a fundraiser a forum.” “The American people spoke loud and clear in November—they voted for change. I’m delivering to: secure the border, unleash US energy, and cut taxes for working Americans. If out-of-state Democrats want to call a fundraiser a ‘forum,’ they should join us at our listening sessions, where Iowans help drive real results. Next week, I begin my Air Force Reserve duty—I hope the Senate avoids a Schumer Shutdown, so our troops continue to get paid,” Nunn said in a statement to Fox News Digital. Walz’s office did not reply to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on his upcoming town halls. The NRCC, the political campaign committee tasked with electing more Republicans to the U.S. House of Representatives, advised against town halls following a series of disruptions by Democrats’ discontent with President Donald Trump’s second term. Walz announced on Wednesday if a Republican representative refused to meet with his constituents, then he would “lend a megaphone” to the red state constituents. “I’m hitting the road, traveling to red states across the country to lend a megaphone to the people. Your congressman may not want to listen, but they’re going to hear from us anyway,” Walz said in a post on Wednesday. The NRCC said the protests that shut down Republicans’ town hall meetings were “manufactured productions.” Fox News Digital reported last month about the coordinated effort by progressive groups protesting the Department of Government Efficiency. MEET THE FAR-LEFT GROUPS FUNDING ANTI-DOGE PROTESTS AT GOP OFFICES ACROSS THE COUNTRY “The Democrat Party has sold themselves out to the far-left crazies and their mega-donors who are funding these clown show protests. This isn’t grassroots — it’s manufactured productions, orchestrated to distract voters from the Democrats’ failed and out of touch record. Sending out Tampon Tim won’t solve the Democrats’ ‘massive brand problem,’ despite what they may think,” Mike Marinella, NRCC National Press Secretary, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. MoveOn.org, which has accepted millions of dollars from billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Policy Center, announced in a press release last month that it was mobilizing resources as part of a “Congress Works for Us, Not Musk” initiative “aimed at pressuring lawmakers to fight back against the Trump-Musk agenda.” “MoveOn members and allies will show up at congressional-led town halls and congressional offices across the country, targeting House Republicans whose votes will be crucial in opposing Trump and Musk’s harmful policies,” MoveOn.org said in the press release. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., kicked off his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour in Omaha last month. Sanders drew thousands of supporters to his stops in Michigan and Wisconsin this past weekend as the Vermont senator stands out as the leading progressive voice opposing Trump’s second term. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has reportedly started planning her own rallies in Republican-held congressional districts. Walz teased his red state tour in a post last week, promising to host events in Republican-held congressional districts “to help local Democrats beat ‘em.” “If your Republican representative won’t meet with you because their agenda is so unpopular, maybe a Democrat will. Hell, maybe I will. If your congressman refuses to meet, I’ll come host an event in their district to help local Democrats beat ‘em,” Walz said in the post. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor that town hall protests should be the “first clue” that Republicans “should drop their terrible agenda.” “Americans are organizing in public, and Republicans have seen these frustrations at town halls. That should be the first clue that they should drop their terrible agenda. When a lead Republican in the House tells Republicans, you better cancel your town halls, they’re running away from their policies and priorities,” Schumer said. NRCC Chair Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., told reporters it was a “shame that the Democrats are threats to democracy by disrupting this dialogue” at town halls. Hudson also emphasized the expanded reach of tele-town halls, where representatives can meet with thousands of constituents at a time. DEMOCRATS ARE MAKING EARLY MOVES TO LINE UP
Will deteriorating land and order in Bihar become political issue in Assembly Elections 2025? ASI dies as mob attacks police station in Araria
Amid opposition’s charge of deteriorating law and order in Bihar, an angry mob ransacked a police station, vandalised it freed a wanted accused in the Araria district. It has come at a time when the political parties are gearing up for the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025, which will be held in Novembe