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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is appearing before the House Oversight Committee on Friday for a high-profile interview on whether senior staffers worked to obscure signs of mental decline in then-President Joe Biden.Jean-Pierre is one of the highest-profile figures so far to appear before the committee, having been the most public-facing spokesperson for Biden from May 2022 until the end of his term.The longtime Democrat-turned-Independent did not speak to reporters on her way into her closed-door transcribed interview with House investigators, which is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. and…

Guwahati/Aizawl: After the expected inauguration of the Bairabi–Sairang new railway project on September 13 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Indian Railways is set to introduce three pairs of new train services connecting the Mizoram capital Aizawl with the national capital, Guwahati and Kolkata, officials said on Thursday.  The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) Kapinjal Kishore Sharma said that Indian Railways is pleased to announce the introduction of three new pairs of train services from the newly built Sairang station in Aizawl. A senior Mizoram government official said that the Prime Minister accompanied by state Chief…

The Israeli operation comes days after Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, warned that its teams were seeing a “risk of ethnic cleansing” in the West Bank, with Palestinians facing “forced mass displacement” in the territory “by Israeli forces and settlers” amid a rise of violence against Palestinians in the area.It further condemned the E1 settlement plan, calling it “one of the clearest recent attempts by the Israeli authorities to kill any prospect of a Palestinian future.” The plan has been widely criticized, including by Israeli rights groups, as being aimed at preventing a two-state solution and as risking…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The cousin of a firefighter who died on 9/11 took a veiled jab at New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani during an anniversary ceremony on Thursday in Manhattan for his refusal to condemn the slogan “globalize the intifada.”Mike Weinstein, 61, was honoring his cousin, Stephen Belson, a veteran firefighter who lost his life while working to save stranded people in the World Trade Center’s South Tower.Weinstein called on all politicians to renounce terror and violence, and said they are “inviting another 9/11” if they refuse to do so and choose not to condemn…

Labour MPs despondent after turbulent week, says cabinet ministerDouglas Alexander said he understood that Labour MPs would be “despondent” as a result of two significant departures in the past two weeks.The Scotland secretary told BBC Breakfast: Many of us were devastated by Angela Rayner’s departure from the government last week. She’s an extraordinary woman who’s overcome the most extraordinary challenges and we are grieving and feel quite acutely that sense of loss. Now to have the dismissal of Peter Mandelson just the next week, I totally get it, of course Labour MPs will be despondent that in two weeks in…

New Delhi: Indian IT giant Infosys has obtained exemptive relief from the US Securities and Exchange Commission for its Rs 18,000 crore buyback, according to its notification to the exchanges. The company has announced its first share buyback in three years, since October 2022.  Infosys shares rose to Rs 1,528, gaining Rs 18 or 1.23 per cent today. The stock increased by Rs 80 in the past five days, marking a 5.55 per cent rise. The IT giant’s fifth buyback is now awaiting approval from current shareholders through a special resolution and postal ballot. The decision was made amidst macroeconomic…

The workers came out of the baggage claim in groups, accompanied by officials and police officers. Some waved, some carried bags or other belongings, and many were wearing masks. There was some applause from onlookers as each new group emerged.More than a dozen buses parked outside the arrivals area waited to take the returning workers to be reunited with their families elsewhere. The plane, which was chartered by the South Korean government, took off from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport around noon ET on Thursday, a day after South Korean officials had originally hoped.The South Korean foreign ministry said Trump delayed…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! On the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, members of Congress on both sides of the political aisle expressed that they are most worried about rising domestic terrorism harming Americans.Asked whether he was more concerned about domestic or foreign terrorists, Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., told Fox News Digital, “You’ve got to be vigilant on all of it.”Yet, in the wake of the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, Burchett placed particular blame on the left, saying, “They’ve got blood on their hands on this one, there is…

‘Unions winning” declared a giant, cheerily multicoloured sign along the windy seafront side of the Brighton Centre this week. Built in the unions’ distant 1970s heyday, the hulking traditional venue for their annual TUC conference is sometimes a melancholy place, windowless meeting rooms half-full of delegates and union leaders trying to raise their spirits while talking about setbacks, betrayals and rare victories.Yet for much of this conference the sun was out, the wind was light by Brighton standards and, inside the centre, the exhibition stand for Labour Unions, the collective body for those affiliated to the party, was plastered with…

New Delhi: National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the Umbrella Organisation that facilitates UPI Payments, has made a major revision in Unified Payments Interface (UPI) limits. NPCI has hiked the limit for Person-to-Merchant (P2M) transactions from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh. The new Person-to-Merchant transaction limit is effective from 15 September 2025.  (Also Read: ITR Filing Deadline 2025 Live Updates) After the revision, UPI customers can make P2M transactions of up to Rs 10 lakh in a single day for specific verified merchant categories from 15 September. However, it must be noted that the limit for Person-to-Person (P2P) transfers…