Enes Kanter Freedom calls Eileen Gu ‘traitor’ for representing Team China

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Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom condemned the American-born Team China Olympic skier Eileen Gu during an interview on Fox News’ “Ingraham Angle” on Tuesday. 

“I’m just going to say it, she’s a traitor,” Freedom said. “She was born in America. She was raised in America, lives in America, and chooses to compete against her own country for, literally, the worst human rights abuser on the planet, China. She built her fame in a free country, and then chooses to represent an authoritarian regime.” 

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Silver medalist Eileen Gu of China attends the awarding ceremony of the freestyle skiing women’s freeski big air event at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Livigno, Italy, Feb. 16, 2026.  (Hongxiang/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Gu has never spoken out publicly against China’s alleged human rights abuses, including the nation’s alleged systematic campaign of repression against Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or the jailing of politician Jimmy Lai.

“She chose to play for a country that is literally responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of its own people, and literally running a concentration camp while we’re talking,” Freedom said, comparing Gu’s silence on the issue to LeBron James‘ declining a question about China’s alleged human rights abuses in 2019. 

“It’s like a play,” he said. “Whenever the human rights issues are raised about China, they all stop talking about it.” 

Gu is the highest-paid Winter Olympic athlete in the world, making an estimated $23 million in 2025 alone amid partnerships with Chinese companies, including the Bank of China, and western companies. Gu has said she represents China for her mother, who was born there.

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China’s Eileen Gu reacts after the second run of the Freestyle Skiing, Women’s Freeski Slopestyle Final at the Livigno Snow Park, during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026.  (David Davies/PA Images via Getty Images)

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Gu and Zhu Yi, a fellow American-born figure skater who now competes for China, were paid a combined $6.6 million by the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau in 2025 for “striving for excellent results in qualifying for the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics.” In all, the two were reportedly paid nearly $14 million over the past three years.

Gu has been the subject of global criticism since her decision to represent China dating back to the original decision in 2019, and her first Winter Olympics in Beijing in 2022. This year, that criticism has ramped up, as she has won two silver medals and even responded to a question about President Donald Trump criticizing U.S. Olympian Hunter Hess for being critical of the current state of America.

“I’m sorry that the headline that is eclipsing the Olympics has to be something so unrelated to the spirit of the Games. It really runs contrary to everything the Olympics should be,” Gu told reporters Monday.

“The whole point of sport is to bring people together. … One of the very few common languages, that of the human body, that of the human spirit, the competitive spirit, the capacity to break not only records, but especially in our sport, literally the human limit. How wonderful is that?”

Gu also claimed she had been “caught in the crossfire” herself. 

“As someone who has got caught in the crossfire before, I feel sorry for the athletes,” Gu said. “I hope that they can ski to their very best.”

Vice President JD Vance weighed in on the controversy surrounding Gu in a Tuesday interview on Fox News’ “The Story With Martha MacCallum.”

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Ailing Eileen Gu of Team People's Republic of China competes in run two of the Women's Freeski Big Air Final on day ten of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Livigno Snow Park on Feb. 16, 2026 in Livigno, Italy.

Ailing Eileen Gu of Team People’s Republic of China competes in run two of the Women’s Freeski Big Air Final on day ten of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Livigno Snow Park on Feb. 16, 2026 in Livigno, Italy. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

“I have no idea what her status should be, I think that’s ultimately up to the Olympics Committee, I won’t pretend to wade into that,” Vance said. 

“I certainly think that someone who grew up in the United States of America who benefited from our education system, from the freedoms and liberties that makes this country a great place, I would hope they want to compete with the United States of America. So, I’m going to root for American athletes, I think part of that is people who identify themselves as Americans. That’s who I’m rooting for in this Olympics.”

Gu has won two silver medals in freestyle skiing in Milan Cortina, in the slopestyle and big air events. She has one final event, the halfpipe, remaining on Saturday, where she has the opportunity to add to her total.

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Jackson Thompson is a sports reporter for Fox News Digital covering critical political and cultural issues in sports, with an investigative lens. Jackson’s reporting has been cited in federal government actions related to the enforcement of Title IX, and in legacy media outlets including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Associated Press and ESPN.com.



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Trump officials sued over effort to ‘erase history and science’ in national parks | Trump administration

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Conservation and historical organizations sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over National Park Service policies that the groups say erase history and science from America’s national parks.

A lawsuit filed in Boston says orders by Donald Trump and interior secretary Doug Burgum have forced park service staff to remove or censor exhibits that share factually accurate and relevant US history and scientific knowledge, including about slavery and climate change.

Separately, LGBTQ+ rights advocates and historic preservationists sued the park service on Tuesday for removing a rainbow Pride flag from the Stonewall national monument, the New York site that commemorates a foundational moment in the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.

The changes at exhibits came in response to a Trump executive order “restoring truth and sanity to American history” at the nation’s museums, parks and landmarks. It directed the interior department to ensure those sites do not display elements that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.” Burgum later directed removal of “improper partisan ideology” from museums, monuments, landmarks and other public exhibits under federal control.

The groups behind the lawsuit said that a federal campaign to review interpretive materials has escalated in recent weeks, leading to the removal of numerous exhibits that discuss the history of slavery and enslaved people, civil rights, treatment of Indigenous peoples, climate science, and other “core elements of the American experience”.

The suit was filed by a coalition that includes the National Parks Conservation Association, American Association for State and Local History, Association of National Park Rangers and Union of Concerned Scientists. It comes as a federal judge on Monday ordered that an exhibit about nine people enslaved by George Washington must be restored at his former home in Philadelphia.

The park service removed explanatory panels last month from Independence national historical park, the site where George and Martha Washington lived with nine of their slaves in the 1790s, when Philadelphia was briefly the nation’s capital. The judge ordered the exhibits restored on Presidents’ Day, the federal holiday honoring Washington’s legacy.

Besides the Philadelphia case, the park service has flagged for removal interpretive materials describing key moments in the civil rights movement, the groups said. For example, at the Selma to Montgomery national historic trail in Alabama, officials have flagged about 80 items for removal.

The permanent exhibit at Brown v Board of Education national historical park in Kansas has been flagged because it mentions “equity,” the lawsuit says. Signage that has disappeared from Grand Canyon national park said settlers pushed Native American tribes “off their land” for the park to be established and “exploited” the landscape for mining and grazing. At Glacier national park in Montana, officials ordered removal of materials describing the effect of climate change on the park and its role in driving the disappearance of glaciers, the suit said.

“Censoring science and erasing America’s history at national parks are direct threats to everything these amazing places, and our country, stand for,” said Alan Spears, senior director of cultural resources at the parks conservation association.

“National parks serve as living classrooms for our country, where science and history come to life for visitors,” Spears added. “As Americans, we deserve national parks that tell stories of our country’s triumphs and heartbreaks alike. We can handle the truth.”

The interior department said Tuesday it has appealed the court’s ruling in the Philadelphia case. Updated interpretive materials “providing a fuller account of the history of slavery at Independence Hall would have been installed in the coming days″ in the absence of a court order, an interior spokesperson said in an email.

The new lawsuit is premature and “based on inaccurate and mischaracterized information”, White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said Tuesday.

“The Department of the Interior is engaged in an ongoing review of our nation’s American history exhibits in accordance with the president’s executive order,” but actions are not yet finalized, she said.

US district judge Cynthia Rufe ruled on Monday that all materials from the Philadelphia exhibit must be restored in their original condition while a lawsuit challenging the removal’s legality plays out. She prohibited Trump officials from installing replacements that explain the history differently.

Rufe, an appointee of George W Bush, began her written order with a quote from George Orwell’s novel 1984 and compared the Trump administration to the Ministry of Truth, which revised historical records to align with its own narrative.

The lawsuit over the Stonewall flag calls its removal “the latest example in a long line of efforts by the Trump administration to target the LGBTQ+ community for discrimination and opprobrium”.

The Pride flag was installed in 2022, becoming the first such banner to fly permanently on federal land. After the banner vanished this month, the park service cited a 21 January memo that largely limits the agency to displaying Interior and POW/MIA flags, although exemptions include providing “historical context”.

The lawsuit argues the rainbow flag provided such context and says the park service continues to make exceptions for other banners, including Confederate ones, that help explain certain sites’ history. New York politicians and activists raised their own Pride flag at the Stonewall monument on Thursday.

The interior department on Tuesday repeated past criticisms of New York and its Democratic officeholders, who aren’t party to the suit.

Jeff Mow, who retired in 2022 as superintendent at Glacier, said the park service “has always taken great pride in its scholarly research, its focus on telling the truth and being very straightforward about that”. He called Trump’s order a “disservice” to the public, “and it makes it very hard for those that are trying to do their jobs and being storytellers and speaking the truth”.

“You cannot tell the story of America without recognizing both the beauty and the tragedy of our history,” said Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, a nonprofit legal organization that filed the lawsuit on behalf of the advocacy groups.



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India-France Innovation Forum: French President Emmanuel Macron congratulated Prime Minister on social media Narendra Modi Posted my photo with. In the caption of this photo he wrote ‘Jai Ho’. Earlier, Macron addressed the India-France Innovation Forum in Mumbai. During this, he emphasized on the strong relationship of strategic partnership between India and France and said that France will always be a committed partner of India.

Emphasis on India-France innovation

Macron said that now the debate in the world is not on whether India innovates or not, but on who wants to innovate with India. He said that France is the only clear answer to this and it stands firmly with India. His message was that India-France relationship will always be immortal.

Innovation Day will be celebrated in Paris

Macron said that on the suggestion of PM Modi, Innovation Day will be celebrated a day before the G7 conference in Paris. It will be organized under the Franco-Indian Initiative. Many students and researchers from both the countries will participate in this program. Launching the India-France Year of Innovation, PM Modi and Macron decided to further strengthen cooperation in different areas of innovation.

Indian CEOs created global identity

Macron said that Indo-French partnership is not limited only to major technological successes. It also emphasizes on making everyday life better, healthier and safer. He praised India’s technological progress and highlighted the global presence of Indian CEOs in big companies. He gave examples of Indian-origin leaders in companies like Alphabet, Microsoft, IBM, Adobe and Palo Alto Networks and said that India not only participates in global innovation but also leads it.

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Tiger Woods keeps door open on Masters despite recent back surgery

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In less than two months, Tiger Woods could tee it up again at historic Augusta National. 

The five-time Masters champion did not rule out a return to the major after skipping it last year. When reporters asked Tuesday if he could compete at the Masters in April, Woods replied without elaboration, “No.”

Woods made the cut at the Masters for a record 24th time in a row in 2024. He is leaving the door open despite recovering from his seventh back surgery, a procedure to replace a disk, and a near-term schedule that does not appear to include competitive golf.

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Tiger Woods of the United States laughs during a practice round prior to the 2024 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on April 09, 2024 in Augusta, Georgia. (Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

“I thought I spent a lot of hours practicing in my prime,” Woods said at the Genesis Invitational, alluding to the responsibilities he shares in trying to reshape the PGA Tour schedule. “It doesn’t compare to what we’ve done in the boardroom.”

Woods’ workload will likely factor into whether he takes on the U.S. captaincy for the 2027 Ryder Cup in Ireland. He declined the role two years ago, citing a lack of time to commit to the job in a meaningful way.

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Woods celebrated his 50th birthday at the end of last year, making him eligible for the PGA Tour Champions.

He missed every PGA Tour event last year, marking the first time in Woods’ storied career that he did not compete in a single tournament. He also has yet to compete in the indoor TGL league. 

“Well, I’m trying — put it that way,” he said, adding that he can hit full shots but not every day “and not very well.”

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Tiger Woods celebrates during the trophy presentation after winning the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on April 14, 2019, in Augusta, Georgia. (Allen Eyestone/The Augusta Chronicle)

He had surgery in March 2025 for a ruptured Achilles tendon, which is no longer holding him back. He said his lower back was sore, and at his age, “It’s probably going to take me a little bit longer.”

“My body has been through a lot,” Woods said. “Each and every day, I keep trying, I keep progressing, I keep working on it, trying to get stronger, trying to get more endurance in this body and trying to get it at a level at which I can play at the highest level again.”

His chief interest is indoors. He is on the board of the PGA Tour and the commercial PGA Tour Enterprises, heading the “Future Competition Committee” that is trying to create a model to meet CEO Brian Rolapp’s goal of fewer tournaments that are more meaningful for the best players.

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Tiger Woods of Jupiter Links Golf Club waves to fans as he is introduced at the start of a match of the TMRW Golf League (TGL) against Boston Common Golf, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

The only thing clear is that a new model most likely won’t be ready by 2027. The committee has reached agreement on a big start to the season — that could be the week after or before the Super Bowl — taking the big events to bigger markets and becoming the must-see sport of the summer.

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Woods also expressed his belief in the importance of creating a path for the next group of golf stars.

“We’re trying to create opportunities for that turnover … to get more youth out here because eventually they’re going to take over the game,” Woods said. “So trying to create that opportunity, trying to create the right competitive model and the environment to foster that, that’s been the greater challenge of it all.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Late-night show host Stephen Colbert has alleged that the CBS broadcaster blocked him from airing an interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, citing fears it would violate new regulatory guidance from the United States government.

Colbert’s comment on Monday overshadowed the start of early voting for Texas primaries, which feature a heated Democratic race between Talarico and US Representative Jasmine Crockett.

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Colbert said that CBS lawyers told him in “no uncertain terms” that Talarico could not appear on The Late Show on Monday.

“Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV,” Colbert said.

“I was told, in some uncertain terms, that not only could I not have him [Talarico] on, I could not mention me not having him on,” Colbert said.

“And because my network clearly doesn’t want us to talk about this, let’s talk about this,” he said.

CBS disputed Colbert’s account, saying its lawyers only “provided legal guidance” that broadcasting an interview with Talarico could trigger the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) equal-time rule.

Equal time rule

The rule requires broadcast networks to give equal time to political candidates, but it has not traditionally been applied to talk shows.

However, the Republican-led FCC said in January that daytime and late-night television talk shows are no longer considered “bona fide” news programmes that are exempt from equal time rules.

US media reported earlier this month that the FCC has opened an investigation into whether ABC’s The View daytime talk show violated equal time rules for interviews with political candidates after an appearance by Talarico.

Trump has repeatedly pushed FCC Chair Brendan Carr to take action against US broadcasters and criticised networks for what he views as one-sided coverage.

Colbert criticised Carr and CBS’s lawyers, saying they were unilaterally enforcing Carr’s directive for “purely financial reasons”.

His words echoed the explanation that CBS’s parent company, Paramount, provided when it announced in July that Colbert’s programme would go off the air in May, as it was seeking approval from the FCC for its $8.4bn merger with Skydance Media.

Colbert posted the interview with Talarico on the programme’s YouTube page, because online material does not fall under the equal-time rule.

The clip had about 2 million views as of 3pm local time, and millions more views on other platforms.

CBS said in a statement that its lawyers had presented options for how the equal time for other candidates, including Crockett, could be fulfilled. It added that the show “decided to present the interview through its YouTube channel with on-air promotion on the broadcast rather than potentially providing the equal-time options”.

Talarico posted a nearly minute-long clip of his interview with Colbert on X, calling it “the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see”.

“I think Donald Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas,” Talarico told Colbert during their interview. “This is the most dangerous kind of cancel culture, the kind that comes from the top.”

Crockett, meanwhile, suggested that Colbert could have avoided an issue with the FCC by having her on the show, as he has in the past. Both she and Talarico have also appeared on The View.

There was no immediate comment from Paramount Skydance, Carr or the White House.

‘Another troubling example’

Until January, talk shows were deemed to have qualified for the equal opportunities exemption as genuine news interviews, ever since the FCC Media Bureau granted an exemption to the interview portion of Jay Leno’s The Tonight Show in 2006.

Networks have relied on the ruling as a precedent for recent interviews with political candidates.

FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, a Democrat, criticised CBS’s decision not to air the interview, calling it censorship.

She said the FCC has no lawful authority to pressure broadcasters for political purposes, and that CBS has free speech rights to air the interview.

“This is yet another troubling example of corporate capitulation in the face of this administration’s broader campaign to censor and control speech,” Gomez said. “It is no secret that Paramount, CBS’s parent company, has regulatory matters before the government, but corporate interests cannot justify retreating from airing newsworthy content.”

Paramount Skydance is seeking to buy Warner Bros Discovery.

Since Trump’s return to the White House last year, CBS has been accused of seeking to appease the president by appointing Bari Weiss, a conservative opinion writer with no television experience, to lead the storied broadcast network, as well as naming a former Trump appointee to oversee and address allegations of bias.

It also settled a lawsuit filed by Trump over an interview with his rival in the 2024 presidential race, Kamala Harris, which he alleged had been deceptively edited to benefit the Democratic Party before the election.

The FCC’s Carr, meanwhile, has faced bipartisan criticism after he pressured broadcasters to take ABC late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel off the air in September, warning they could face fines or loss of licences.

Two major broadcasters said they would pull Kimmel off the air, and Disney briefly suspended Kimmel before restoring the show.

In December, Democratic US Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin told Carr, “You used your position within the federal government to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air in a clear attempt to chill free speech.”



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Buzzing stocks Ola, Airtel, BHEL, Suraj Ind, Motel Hotels, Saatvik, Senco Gold, BCPL Railway, Info Edge, KNR Constructions on Wednesday

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Ola Electric Mobility, in a clarification to the stock exchanges, said the Bombay High Court at Goa has stayed an arrest warrant issued against its CEO, Bhavish Aggarwal, by the District Consumer Commission, South Goa. According to Ola, the High Court also observed that the District Consumer Commission had exceeded its jurisdiction under the Consumer Protection Act while issuing the warrant.

Bharti Airtel informed the exchanges that its subsidiary Airtel Money, has received approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to operate as a Type II non-banking financial company (NBFC). The company said it has been granted a Certificate of Registration allowing it to commence the business of a non-banking financial institution without accepting public deposits.

Suraj Industries Ltd has informed the exchanges that the Rajasthan Government has issued amendments to the Excise and Liquor Temperance Policy (2025-29), effective April 1, 2026. Accordingly, the policy revisions, aimed at ensuring competitive pricing and curbing illicit liquor, include a 5 per cent increase in wholesale ex-distillery prices (EDP) for Country Liquor (CL) and Rajasthan Made Liquor (RML). The company said the price revision will have a positive impact on its brands and those of its subsidiary, Carya Chemicals & Fertilizers Pvt. Ltd. Suraj Industries, through its subsidiary Carya Chemicals & Fertilizers Pvt. Ltd., has a bottling capacity of approximately 48 lakh cases per annum for IMFL and country liquor and is well-positioned to benefit from the revised policy framework.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) received a Letter of Acceptance from Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) on February 17. The contract covers the Captive Power Plant (CPP) Package No. CPP-1 for SAIL’s 4.08 MTPA Cold Strip (CS) expansion at IISCO Steel Plant, Burnpur. Scope includes design, engineering, manufacture, supply, transportation, unloading, storage, erection, commissioning, and performance guarantee tests on a turnkey basis, excluding civil works.

Saatvik Solar Industries Private Ltd, subsidiary of Saatvik Green Energy Ltd, has received and accepted orders worth ₹44.10 crore from a renowned Independent Power Producer/ EPC player for the supply of solar PV modules. The domestic commercial contract involves supplying solar photovoltaic modules, with execution scheduled by March 2026. This order underscores the subsidiary’s strong position in the renewable energy supply chain and aligns with growing demand for solar solutions in India.

Senco Gold & Diamonds, one of India’s largest gold and diamond jewelery retail chains, has opened its 86th franchise store in, Kandi, Murshidabad, further strengthening its presence in West Bengal. Spread across 2,400 sq. ft, designed to create a warm and inviting ambiance for customers, the new store, located at Kandi Bus Stand, offers customers an elevated and immersive gold, diamond, platinum and silver jewelery shopping experience.

Trishakti Industries Ltd has secured a work order worth ₹42 lakh from Larsen and Toubro for the deployment of advanced machinery and skilled manpower at one of their flagship project sites.

BCPL Railway Infrastructure Ltd has been declared the lowest bidder (L1) for two electrical infrastructure projects from Eastern Railway divisions. Sealdah Division Project:25 KV PSI and allied electrical works for replacing overaged capacitor banks at Titagarh/FP and Sonarpur/FP, plus associated PSI works under SDAH Division. Price: ₹2.9 crore (including GST); and Howrah Division Project: 25 KV Overhead Equipment (OHE) works for replacement of old guy rod assembly under Howrah Division, Value: ₹4.7299 crore (including GST).

Dabur on Tuesday elevated its group chief executive Mohit Malhotra to the role of global CEO and appointed Herjit Bhalla as CEO for its India business. Bhalla, who ⁠will take over the role on April 15, is currently ‌vice-president, Canada & Global Customers at US-based confectionery giant Hershey ‌Co.

In an exchange notice, Motel Hotels Ltd, said it has received a stay order from the Karnataka High Court in connection with a notice issued by the Greater Bengaluru Authority. Following the issuance of the notice, the company has filed a writ petition before the High Court of Karnataka. The court has now granted a stay order on the matter until the next date of hearing.

The board of Info Edge (India) has approved an investment of about ₹30 crore in Startup Investments (Holding) Ltd (SIHL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company. The investment will be made through subscription to 14,01,214 compulsorily convertible debentures (CCDs) of face value 0.0001% at an issue price of ₹214.10 per CCD. The consideration will be paid in cash.

KNR Constructions Ltd (KNRCL) received a Letter of Acceptance (LoA) for constructing a four-lane elevated corridor along the East Coast Road (ECR) in Chennai, the company said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday. The bid project cost is ₹2,163.07 crore and it will be executed under the HybridAnnuity Mode (HAM).

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Sen Cory Booker has ‘not dismissed’ a 2028 presidential run

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Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., revealed he has not dismissed a potential run for president in 2028.

Booker, who is seeking re-election this year, was asked by Jaime Harrison on his podcast Tuesday about whether he would launch another presidential campaign, considering 2028 was “right around the corner.”

“I know the folks in Jersey would love to have a president who’s from New Jersey,” Harrison said.

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Sen. Cory Booker said that he hasn’t ruled out running for president again after previously running in 2020. (PG/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

“They’d love to have Bruce Springsteen play at the inauguration,” Booker joked.

He added, “I am telling you right now, I don’t… I’m not even coy about these things. I’m running for reelection. I have not dismissed the idea of running for president again in ’28.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Booker’s office for comment.

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Booker previously ran for president during the 2020 election but suspended his campaign in Jan. 2020 before the Iowa caucuses.

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Sen. Cory Booker, a longtime critic of President Donald Trump, gained more attention in 2025 after breaking the record for the longest Senate floor speech. (Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images)

Booker has garnered national attention through his vocal opposition to President Donald Trump.

In 2025, Booker broke the record for the longest speech on the Senate floor after speaking for 25 hours against the Trump administration and the Republican Party.

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“In just 71 days, the President of the United States has inflicted so much harm on Americans’ safety, financial stability, the core foundations of our democracy, and even our aspirations as a people for, from our highest offices, a sense of common decency,” Booker opened his speech.

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Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly also revealed he was considering a presidential run in 2028. (Jose Luis Magana/ AP)

Booker’s comments on Harrison’s podcast came after Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., told the BBC Monday night that he was also “seriously” considering a presidential run in 2028.

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“I have people talk to me about it all the time, but we have an election in 2026 that I’m really worried about. We’ve got to get through that first. I will make a decision,” Kelly said.

Lindsay Kornick is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to lindsay.kornick@fox.com and on Twitter: @lmkornick.



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Canavan says Pauline Hanson ‘not fit to lead’ amid backlash against ‘reprehensible’ Muslim comments | Pauline Hanson

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Outspoken Nationals senator Matt Canavan has slammed Pauline Hanson for increasingly inflammatory comments about Australian Muslims, describing the One Nation leader as unfit to lead a political party.

Hanson was on Sky News on Monday night, discussing the thwarted attempts by Australian women and children stuck in Syria to return home.

She accused the group of hating westerners, saying: “You say, ‘Well, there’s good Muslims out there.’ How can you tell me there are good Muslims?” she said.

Speaking on Channel 9 on Wednesday morning, Canavan called remarks by his fellow Queensland senator “totally un-Australian”.

“This statement from Pauline was divisive, inflammatory,” he said. “Totally un-Australian, for someone to say that of all those Australians who are Muslim, there’s no good people among them.

“Clearly, I think she went too far, and now she won’t apologise because she doesn’t do that,” Canavan said.

“She’s not fit to lead a major political party with these types of ill-disciplined statements that she won’t correct that insult hundreds of thousands of Australians.”

On ABC radio, Hanson walked back some of the comments on Wednesday, mentioning that a Muslim candidate had previously run for her party. She offered a conditional apology if she “offended anyone out there that doesn’t believe in sharia law, or multiple marriages, or wants to bring ISIS brides in, or people from Gaza that believe in a caliphate”.

But she said: “I am not going to apologise … I will have my say now before it’s too late.”

The home affairs minister, Tony Burke, criticised the comments on Tuesday, and the NSW minister for multiculturalism, Steve Kamper, called them “reprehensible, bigoted and wrong”.

“Her comments are aimed to rip apart our community for her own political gain, to attack the very multicultural and multi-faith foundation our society is built on,” he said in a statement.

Bilal El-Hayek, the mayor of Canterbury-Bankstown council, which includes the Lakemba Mosque, told 2GB radio Hanson was making “another attempt to be divisive and inflame a situation”.

“At the moment, when we need to come together, it’s a shame to see people playing politics,” he said.

“In reality, in Canterbury-Bankstown, we’re a multicultural, multi-faith community. We all get along, no matter your background, no matter your faith.”

Asked about the comments on Tuesday, new opposition leader Angus Taylor defended the Muslim community but did not criticise Hanson directly.

“I know many good Muslims,” he said. “They’re in my electorate. I’ve got many.”

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said Hanson will “always promote division.”

“Pauline Hanson is someone who never comes up with any solutions, just identifies and promotes grievance,” he said.

Hanson is challenging a court finding that she engaged in racial discrimination toward the Greens senator, Mehreen Faruqi, when the party’s deputy leader criticised the British Empire at following Queen Elizabeth’s death.

“When you immigrated to Australia you took every advantage of this country,” Hanson wrote on social media. “It’s clear you’re not happy, so pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan.”

Addressing media outside court after the win, Faruqi said the finding sent “a strong message to racists that they will be held accountable” and made clear that “hate speech is not free speech”.

Hanson has previously been criticised for demeaning Muslims when she wore a burqa in the Senate chamber last year. She was suspended from the chamber for seven days.

Her firebrand 1996 maiden speech supercharged race as an issue in federal politics, when she claimed Australia was “in danger of being swamped by Asians”.



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India France Deal: French officers in Indian Army… PM Modi made a big deal with Macron, PAK was shocked

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India France Deal: French officers in Indian Army… PM Modi made a big deal with Macron, PAK was shocked

Many important defense deals have been signed during the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to India to participate in the AI ​​Summit. These include deployment of officers between the two countries in each other’s army for the next ten years. For the first time, military officers from another country (France) will be deployed in the Indian Army.

This agreement was signed in Bengaluru in the presence of Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and French counterpart Catherine Vatarin. Under this framework, each other’s officers will be deployed in the armies of India and France. This is happening for the first time that officers from another army are being deployed in the Indian Army. However, this agreement is going to help France more than India because the number of land forces of France is very less compared to India. If the fire of Russia-Ukraine war does not spread to Europe, France can get important help in training to fight the war from the Indian Army.

French LUH will replace Chetak
PM Modi and Macron virtually inaugurated the helicopter plant being jointly set up by Airbus and Tata Company near Bengaluru. In this plant, light utility helicopter i.e. H-125 LUH helicopter will be manufactured for the Indian Army. These LUH helicopters will replace the obsolete Cheetah and Chetak helicopters of the Indian Army and Air Force. During the inauguration of this plant, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and the Defense Minister of France themselves were present in the plant. Inaugurating the plant, PM Modi said that helicopters that can fly on Mount Everest will be manufactured in this plant.

Hammer bombs used in Operation Sindoor will be made in India
Apart from this, in the presence of Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and Defense Minister of France, Safran Company of France signed an agreement with Bharat Electronics Limited i.e. BEL to manufacture Hammer Bomb in India. France’s Safran company manufactures these hammer bombs and they are launched from Rafale. These air-to-ground highly agile modular munitions are Extended Range (HAMMER), a stand-off weapon (bomb), which has a range of about 70 kilometers.

During Operation Sindoor, these hammer bombs were used by the Indian Air Force to destroy the headquarters of terrorist organizations Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba operating from Pakistan. This hammer bomb can also be fired from Mirage-2000 and indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas. This is the reason why these bombs will now be made in India.

400 Scalp missiles will be purchased from France
Apart from manufacturing Hammer Bomb in India, India is also going to buy about 400 Scalp missiles for Rafale fighter jet. These missiles, which have a range of about 300 kilometers, were also used by the Indian Air Force during Operation Vermillion.

114 Make in India Rafale fighter jets approved
Just before Macron’s visit, the Defense Ministry has approved the manufacturing of 114 Rafale fighter jets in India for the Indian Air Force. For this, France’s Dassault company, in collaboration with an indigenous Indian company, will set up a plant to make Rafale in India. This entire project is going to cost around Rs 3 lakh 25 thousand crores. It is believed that in the near future, the marine version of Rafale can also be manufactured here for the needs of the Indian Navy. For this, Rafale will also be exported to other Asian countries from this plant.

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