Month: May 2023

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will embark on a six-day, three-city tour of the US on May 30 during which he will have interactions with the NRI community, business leaders and the media. He will have several such engagements in San Francisco, Washington DC and New York. But a last-minute legal hurdle is giving Congress moments of anguish. A court in Delhi is due to give its decision on Friday Rahul’s plea seeking a No Objection Certificate (NOC) for the issuance of a ‘regular passport’ after surrendering his diplomatic passport following his disqualification as an MP. As per his itinerary, Rahul…

FIRST ON FOX: Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia recently bought a luxury waterfront condo from a top executive at Dominion Energy, a multibillion-dollar energy company developing a large offshore wind farm in his home state. According to his 2022 financial statements filed this month, Kaine reported purchasing residential property worth up to $1 million in March 2022. A Fox News Digital review of local real estate filings showed that Kaine and his wife Anne Holton paid $895,000 for a multiple unit. condominium in Richmond, Virginia, from Dominion Deputy General Counsel George Marget on March 8, 2022. The condo’s listing…

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CNN — At least four people were injured Thursday after a man fired what appeared to be a hunting rifle in the city of Nakano in central Japan’s Nagano Prefecture, the country’s public broadcaster NHK reported. Police received a call late in the afternoon with reports that “a man stabbed a woman,” NHK reported. When police arrived at the scene, the man fired what looked like a hunting rifle, wounding four people before fleeing and barricading himself in a building, NHK added. NHK reported that the suspect was wearing a camouflage hat, the top and bottom with sunglasses and a…

It’s graduation season, and at Desert Hot Springs High School, a young teenager originally from Mexico who spent several months detained by border authorities is preparing to receive his diploma next month. Hugo Uriostegui Apolinar is counting down the days until his graduation ceremony on June 22. The 19-year-old says he is overwhelmed with emotions. “It’s something I never imagined I could achieve, as I’m the first person in my family to achieve it, and even more so here in this country,” Apolinar said. His path to academic success has been paved with many obstacles. Apolinar arrived from Mexico in…

While politics may often seem irrelevant to auto dealers, retailers need to be aware of the conversations taking place in Washington, DC, as even small decisions could have far-reaching effects on the automobile industry. In this episode of Inside Automotive, CBT News anchor Jim Fitzpatrick joins Cody Lusk, president and CEO of the International Automobile Dealers Association of the United Statesto learn from his bird’s eye view of the nation’s capital. The potential consequences of political gridlock can affect car dealerships as much as any business, but government decisions on electric vehicle policy are of particular importance to the auto…

Cambodia’s embattled opposition Candlelight Party has lost its appeal against the disqualification of upcoming national elections, effectively meaning the country’s leader, Prime Minister Hun Sen, will remain unchallenged at the polls in July. Cambodia’s Constitutional Council, which heard the party’s appeal on Thursday, ruled that the National Election Committee’s (NEC) decision to bar the opposition from running in the July election was valid. The decision to exclude the party from the election was final, Reuters news agency reported. The Candlelight Party, a scaled-down but still popular replacement for the main opposition party that was dissolved by the judiciary in 2017,…

An Internal Revenue Service whistleblower has spoken publicly for the first time about a highly sensitive political investigation he oversaw, which CBS News has determined is the ongoing investigation into the finances of President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. He said he became so concerned about prosecutors’ handling of a “high-profile and controversial” investigation that he felt compelled to sound the alarm. “There were several steps that were taken slowly, they just weren’t taken completely, under the direction of the Justice Department,” said Gary Shapley, a 14-year veteran of the agency, who spoke exclusively to the correspondent CBS News Chief Investigative…