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Roosevelt House New Delhi, India February 25, 2020 3:34 P.M. IST PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you, everybody. Thank you very much. (Applause.) Please. Please. It’s an honor to be with you. I have a whole big, beautiful speech to give, but I just gave two of them, and I thought we’d do, maybe, a little question and answer. You’ve heard it before and — so we could do that. I just want to say we’ve had a tremendous time in India. Prime Minister Modi is a fantastic man doing a fantastic job. He’s a real friend of mine. And, you know,...

A Texas elementary school art teacher who was placed on administrative leave after showing her students a picture of her fiancée has reached a $100,000 settlement after a judge ruled that her suspension was unconstitutional. "The agreements the district and I made in this settlement are a positive first step in making things better for gay employees, gay students and gay families in Mansfield," the teacher, Stacy Bailey, told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth. ... As part of the settlement, the school district will provide mandatory training on LGBTQ issues to its educators and staffers, including human resources employees and counselors. It...

Sanders can’t acknowledge it, but the push in communist countries to make sure that everyone could read had a dark side -- the literacy programs were a massive indoctrination effort.

MILWAUKEE — Seven people, including the shooter, are dead in an attack Wednesday afternoon near Molson Coors’ Milwaukee campus, a report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett confirmed the shooter is dead. The campus is located near 38th and State Streets in Milwaukee. Police are asking people to clear the area at this time. Molson Coors told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel there was an active shooter on its campus and employees have been ordered to find a safe place to hide. Sources tell WTMJ News in Milwaukee there are multiple causalities. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s...

Attorney General William Barr met with Senate Republicans on Tuesday to convince them to support an expiring surveillance law, while telling them that he wants to make internal reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant process. Several GOP senators told reporters after a private caucus lunch that Barr was looking at steps to reform the FISA warrant application process internally to tighten standards on obtaining a warrant. The FISA warrant application process is at the center of a damning report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz on the surveillance of Trump campaign aide Carter Page during the 2016 presidential...

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s campaign slammed Sen. Bernie Sanders I-Vt. for circulating a 2016 video of Bloomberg’s comments on farming in which he said, “You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.”. Bloomberg’s campaign manager Kevin Sheekey said that the comments were “completely out of context.” The problem is that the rest of Bloomberg’s comments don’t help him. Take his comparison to the information economy. “Now comes the information economy and the information economy is fundamentally different because it’s built around replacing people with technology...

The Department of Justice announced the creation of a new special section on Feb. 26, dedicated to stripping citizenship status from criminals who lied about their prior convictions on naturalization forms. The unit will target “terrorists, war criminals, sex offenders, and other fraudsters” who cheated their way into obtaining citizenship by concealing their criminal histories, according to a statement from the DOJ. “When a terrorist or sex offender becomes a U.S. citizen under false pretenses, it is an affront to our system—and it is especially offensive to those who fall victim to these criminals,” Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt said...

Powerful Santa Ana winds blew through Southern California on Wednesday morning, including a 106 mph gust that may be the highest ever recorded in San Diego County, according to forecasters. The strong gust was recorded about 1:50 a.m. in Sill Hill, a typically "very windy" location nestled in the San Diego mountains... Nine other locations in the county had also recorded winds of 70 mph or above as of 5 a.m., according to the weather service's San Diego office. The forecast called for some foothill areas to be battered by gusty winds of 60 to 80 mph. Offshore winds weren't...

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed that YouTube, a Google subsidiary, is a private platform and thus not subject to the First Amendment. In making that determination, the Court also rejected a plea from a conservative content maker that sued YouTube in hopes that the courts would force it to behave like a public utility. Put another way, had the Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of Prager University—also known as PragerU—and against YouTube, it would have violated YouTube's First Amendment rights. Headed by conservative radio host Dennis Prager, PragerU alleged in its suit against YouTube that the...

This week two Democrats in Florida filed a lawsuit aimed at keeping Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., from being listed on the state’s presidential primary ballot. Registered Democrats Frank Bach and George Brown argue in their lawsuit that Sanders cannot be allowed on the ballot because he is a registered independent, not a Democrat, pointing out that he has also raised campaign funding as an independent. Sanders does caucus with Democrats in the Senate, however. Former circuit court judge Karen Givers is representing the two plaintiffs. Speaking with Politico, Givers argued that “Florida is a closed primary state, yet here we...

Philadelphia had emerged as one of the largest thorns in the Trump administration’s side. It wore its sanctuary reputation like a badge of honor, and its leaders, including Kenney and District Attorney Larry Krasner, continued to find ways to outmaneuver ICE’s enforcement efforts. Like their sanctuary laws are not enough now they are ready to open supervised drug injection sites. The nation’s first supervised drug injection site will open next week in South Philadelphia, the site’s operators said Tuesday within hours of a federal judge’s entering a final ruling that the proposed facility would not violate federal law. The project...

Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., aren't actually trying to win the presidency in November, Democratic strategist James Carville argued on Wednesday. Carville told "Morning Joe" that Tuesday's debate indicated Warren appeared to be more interested in bashing former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg than grabbing the party's nomination. She was also worried that by attacking Sanders -- a fellow progressive who's been leading in polls -- she might get primaried in 2024, Carville speculated. "The takeaway is that Elizabeth Warren hates Michael Bloomberg more than she wants to win," he said. He added that Warren's attacks...

President Trump will hold a news conference at 6:30 p.m. ET Wednesday with officials from his coronavirus task force a day after the Centers for Disease Control asked Americans to prepare for a spread of coronavirus in the United States.

One of at least eight candidates aiming to unseat U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., gave a brief reply this week after Omar posted six ways that she identifies herself. “I am an American,” wrote Republican Dalia al-Aqidi, a former Iraqi refugee who hopes to replace Omar in representing Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. “That’s why I’m running for Congress,” al-Aqidi added. The response came shortly after Omar’s Twitter message late Sunday, in which the freshman congresswoman listed ways that she describes herself. “I am, Hijabi, Muslim, Black, Foreign born, Refugee, Somali,” Omar wrote. Then, appearing to provoke her critics, Omar added,...

This baby didn’t look too excited to be welcomed to the world! One newborn from Brazil made a hilariously angry facial expression in a photo that recently went viral on social media, with over 3,500 reactions, 1,000 comments and 1,600 shares as of Wednesday. In the snapshot, the baby appears to be scowling at the doctors who just delivered her by cesarean section. According to Insider, the newborn — named Isabela Pereira de Jesus — was born in Rio de Janeiro on Feb. 13, and the moment was captured by professional photographer Rodrigo Kunstmann. Kunstmann shared the image on Facebook...

The Western Michigan University School of Music is facing accusations of cultural appropriation after its mostly-white choir sang African-American spirituals during a Black History Month concert. The show was part of the Western Michigan University School of Music’s Live and Interactive concert series. It took place on Wednesday last week, at the Dalton Center Recital Hall. The performance called “Spirituals: From Ship to Shore” featured John Wesley Wright, an associate professor at Salisbury University, who is black.

Top New York City jail officials are concerned there could be another "Epstein incident" once convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein is behind bars on Rikers Island, according to multiple reports. TMZ reported New York City Department of Correction bosses' fears, citing high-ranking officials who are afraid of an event similar to the death of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was found hanging from strips of orange bed sheets inside his jail cell in Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.While it's up to the city's corrections department to decide where inmates are housed, Judge James Burke said he'd ask that Weinstein be...