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Hindustan Times
32 minutes ago
- Politics
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Why Trump kept the FIFA Club World Cup trophy after Chelsea's win. Where is it now?
President Donald Trump has confused thousands of Chelsea fans celebrating the English club's FIFA Club World Cup win by revealing that he has the original trophy, and Enzo Maresca and co just have a replica. This comes after the five-time Premier League winners beat Paris Saint-Germain 3-0 in the fin Reece James #24 of Chelsea FC holds the FIFA Club World Cup trophy after their team's victory as U.S. President Donald Trump interacts (Getty Images via AFP) al at MetLife Stadium. Trump and his wife, Melania, were attending the big game on the first anniversary of the Butler assassination attempt. Just before the game, Trump told broadcaster DAZN that he was gifted the trophy. He further revealed that the trophy is currently in the Oval Office. 'They said, 'Could you hold this trophy for a little while?' We put it in the Oval Office. And then I said, 'When are you going to pick up the trophy?' He says, 'We're never going to pick it up. You can have it forever in the Oval Office. We're making a new one'", Trump said. 'And they actually made a new one. So that was quite exciting…It's in the Oval right now,' he added. President Trump also jokingly suggested that he could officially change the name of 'soccer' to 'football' in the US. 'They would call it football, but I guess we call it soccer,' Trump said. 'What if we make an executive order that we can only say football?" the interviewer asked. 'I think we could do that,' he added. 'I think I could do that," Trump responded. The president joined the players on the field after the match to congratulate the tournament's outstanding performers, present PSG players with their runner-up medals and hand Chelsea their championship trophy. 'It was an upset today I guess,' Trump told reporters after flying back to Washington following Chelsea's victory. "But it was a great match.' Other guests spotted in the president's suite included Attorney General Pam Bondi, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, NFL great Tom Brady and media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
Hindustan Times
33 minutes ago
- Politics
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Education Department layoffs: Why Supreme Court's decision is ‘willfully blind' and ‘naive', judges explain
A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump to execute his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track and lay off nearly 1,400 employees. Three liberal judges, in their dissent, slammed the decision, saying it was 'naive' and 'willfully blind'. The decision pauses the order by Boston's Judge Myong Joun, who issued a preliminary injunction reversing the layoffs and calling into question the broader plan. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to execute mass layoffs in the Education Department(REUTERS) The layoffs 'will likely cripple the department', Joun wrote. While the majority did not explain its decision to back Trump, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Elena Kagan were quick to publish their dissent. 'When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary's duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it,' Sotomayor wrote. 'It hands the Executive the power to repeal statutes by firing all those necessary to carry them out,' the three justices further added. 'The majority is either willfully blind to the implications of its ruling or naive, but either way the threat to our Constitution's separation of powers is grave." Meanwhile, Education Secretary Linda McMahon said it's a 'shame' it took the Supreme Court's intervention to let Trump's plan move ahead. 'Today, the Supreme Court again confirmed the obvious: the President of the United States, as the head of the Executive Branch, has the ultimate authority to make decisions about staffing levels, administrative organization, and day-to-day operations of federal agencies,' McMahon said in a statement. Earlier on Monday, over 20 states sued the administration over billions of dollars in frozen education funding for after-school care, summer programs and more. Education Department employees who were targeted by the layoffs have been on paid leave since March, according to a union that represents some of the agency's staff. Joun's order had prevented the department from fully terminating them, though none had been allowed to return to work, according to the American Federation of Government Employees Local 252. Without Joun's order, the workers would have been terminated in early June. The Education Department had said earlier in June that it was 'actively assessing how to reintegrate' the employees. A department email asked them to share whether they had gained other employment, saying the request was meant to 'support a smooth and informed return to duty.' The current case involves two consolidated lawsuits that said Trump's plan amounted to an illegal closure of the Education Department. One suit was filed by the Somerville and Easthampton school districts in Massachusetts along with the American Federation of Teachers and other education groups. The other legal action was filed by a coalition of 21 Democratic attorneys general. The suits argued that layoffs left the department unable to carry out responsibilities required by Congress, including duties to support special education, distribute financial aid and enforce civil rights laws. (With AP inputs)
Hindustan Times
33 minutes ago
- Health
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CJI B R Gavai contracts severe infection, being treated in Delhi
Chief Justice of India B R Gavai was diagnosed with a severe infection during his recent official visit to Hyderabad and is responding well to treatment in a Delhi hospital, an official source on Monday said. The CJI BR Gavai did not hold court on Monday on the conclusion of the partial working days.(PTI) 'The CJI is responding well and is expected to be discharged and resume duties in a day or two,' it added. The CJI was in Hyderabad on July 12 to deliver the convocation address at the Nalsar University of Law. CJI Gavai on the same day also released a special postal cover titled "Babasaheb Dr BR Ambedkar – Constituent Assembly – Constitution of India" and a set of picture postcards on "Art & Calligraphy in the Constitution of India" in Hyderabad. The CJI did not hold court on Monday on the conclusion of the partial working days.
Hindustan Times
33 minutes ago
- Science
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Astronauts from India, Poland, Hungary depart space station for return flight
* Astronauts from India, Poland, Hungary depart space station for return flight Splashdown planned for Tuesday morning in Pacific off California * Undocking ends 18-day science outing aboard orbital laboratory * Mission marks US astronaut Peggy Whitson's 5th flight to space By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, - NASA retiree turned private astronaut Peggy Whitson and four crewmates from India, Poland and Hungary departed the International Space Station early on Monday and embarked on their return flight to Earth. A Crew Dragon capsule carrying the quartet undocked from the orbital laboratory at 7:15 a.m. EDT , ending the latest ISS visit organized by Texas-based startup Axiom Space in partnership with Elon Musk's California-headquartered rocket venture SpaceX. The Axiom astronauts, garbed in their helmeted white-and-black flightsuits, were seen in live video footage strapped into the crew cabin shortly before the vehicle separated from the station, orbiting some 260 miles over the east coast of India. A couple of brief rocket thrusts then pushed the capsule safely clear of the ISS. Whitson, 65, and her three Axiom crewmates - Shubhanshu Shukla, 39, of India, Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, 41, of Poland, and Tibor Kapu, 33, of Hungary - spent 18 days aboard the space station conducting dozens of research experiments in microgravity. The mission stands as the fourth such flight since 2022 arranged by Axiom as the Houston-headquartered company builds on its business of putting astronauts sponsored by private companies and foreign governments into low-Earth orbit. For India, Poland and Hungary, the launch marked the first human spaceflight in more than 40 years and the first mission ever to send astronauts from their government's respective space programs to the ISS. If all goes as planned, the Dragon capsule will re-enter Earth's atmosphere at the end of a 22-hour return flight and parachute into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Tuesday around 5:30 a.m. EDT . Dubbed "Grace" by its crew, the newly commissioned capsule flown for Axiom-4 was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral in Florida on June 25, making its debut as the fifth vehicle in SpaceX's Crew Dragon fleet. Axiom-4 also marks the 18th crewed spaceflight logged by SpaceX since 2020, when Musk's rocket company ushered in a new NASA era by providing American astronauts their first rides to space from U.S. soil since the end of the space shuttle program nine years earlier. The Ax-4 multinational team was led by Whitson, who retired from NASA in 2018 after a pioneering career that included becoming the U.S. space agency's first female chief astronaut and the first woman to command an ISS expedition. Now director of human spaceflight for Axiom, she had logged 675 days in space, a U.S. record, during three previous NASA missions and a fourth flight to space as commander of the Axiom-2 crew in 2023. Her latest mission commanding Axiom-4 will extend her record by about three more weeks. Axiom, a 9-year-old venture co-founded by NASA's former ISS program manager, is one of a handful of companies developing a commercial space station of its own intended to eventually replace the ISS, which NASA expects to retire around 2030. This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.
Hindustan Times
33 minutes ago
- Politics
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Trump planning to release new Epstein files? Lara Trump's big claim after Hakeem Jeffries demand
Lara Trump, President Donald Trump's daughter-in-law and a close aide, claimed Monday that the POTUS could release more documents related to the investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein probe, despite the US Department of Justice (DOJ) saying otherwise in a memo released earlier. Lara Trump (L) and Donald Trump.(Reuters) Amid the backlash over the memo, especially from within the MAGA camp, Lara Trump was interviewed by far-right internet personality Benny Johnson. She said in the interview that the Trump administration will "probably" make more documents public on the Epstein probe. The president wants to "set things right" amid the backlash, she stated. Lara Trump's comment, seemingly an allaying effort amid the backlash, contradicted the memo released by the DOJ under the Trump administration saying no further disclosures will take place. The memo stated that the alleged "black book" containing the list of Epstein's alleged clients does not exist and also refuted allegations that it was used to blackmail. Notably, the former Fox News anchor's claim came shortly after Democrat's leader in the House, Hakeem Jefferies, demanded more disclosure from the Trump administration. 'Look, I don't know what truly exists there, but I know this is something that's important to the President as well,' Lara Trump said. Also read: Another win for Donald Trump as US Supreme Court clears way to gut education department 'He does want transparency on all these fronts, everything we're talking about. Because it's frustrated him as well. He sat for four years like the rest of us did and saw lie after lie and our country just being sent down the wrong path...," she added. However, she added that it is not the POTUS's "number one" focus right now, but said he "hears all the noise, and he hears all the consternation out there," and would want to "set things right." 'So I believe that there will probably be more coming on this, and I believe anything that they are able to release — that doesn't damage any witnesses or anyone underage, or anything like that — I believe they'll probably try to get out sooner rather than later,' she added.
