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HAF director Suhag Shukla objected to Rutgers University's upcoming anti-Hindutva seminar. The Hindu American Foundation expressed its objection to an upcoming conference sponsored by Rutgers University targeting the Hindu American community in the United States and asked the university to dissociate itself from the event. The event titled 'Hindutva in America: A threat to Equality and Religious Pluralism' will be held on October 27 to discuss a report that was released six months ago. The report called Hindutva in America an 'ethnonationalist threat' to equality and religious pluralism. The Hindu American Foundation issued an open letter addressing the university, asking it to distance from the event. The HAF said that the report equates Hindutva with white supremacy or fascism and calls HAF a proxy of the RSS. “HAF is not a proxy or affiliate of the RSS< an Indian organization considered to be the parent of the current ruling party in India, the Bharatiya Jan..

A parent of a Kentucky State University student was charged with murder and first-degree assault after an on-campus shooting at the school’s Frankfort campus on Tuesday that killed one student and critically injured another.Jacob Lee Bard, 48, was at the campus and fired shots at victims in Whitney M. Young Jr. Hall, police said in a statement. The shooting killed 19-year-old De’Jon Fox of Indianapolis. A second student remains in critical condition; his name was not released, CNN reported.Police said Bard is from Evansville, Indiana, which is about 150 miles west of Frankfort. He was booked into the Franklin County Jail on charges of murder and first-degree assault. Bard is represented by a public defender at the Franklin County Department of Public Advocacy, which declined to comment on the case.University police officers who were near the scene of the altercation arrested Bard immediately, investigators said. Surveillance footage and videos taken by others at the scene have been rev..

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Reading Time:4 minutesWhy you can trust SCMPAssociated PressPublished: 8:38am, 21 Nov 2025Updated: 8:45am, 21 Nov 2025US President Donald Trump on Thursday accused half a dozen Democratic lawmakers of sedition “punishable by DEATH” after the lawmakers – all veterans of the armed services and intelligence community – called on US military members to uphold the Constitution and defy “illegal orders”.
AdvertisementThe 90-second video was first posted early Tuesday from Senator Elissa Slotkin’s X account. In it, the six lawmakers – Slotkin, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, and Representatives Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Maggie Goodlander and Chrissy Houlahan – speak directly to US service members, whom Slotkin acknowledges are “under enormous stress and pressure r..