Gronkowski to sign 1-day contract to retire as Patriot admin - Latest News - November 11, 2025 admin 14 views 6 secs 0 Comments Gronkowski to sign 1-day contract to retire as Patriot Source link PREVIOUS Nov. 11, 2025, 1:26 AM EST / Updated Nov. 11, 2025, 1:52 AM ESTBy Mithil Aggarwal and Jay GanglaniIndian authorities are investigating “all options” after at least eight people were killed Monday night in a rare car blast that tore through a neighborhood in the capital that is popular with tourists.At least 20 others were injured in the explosion near the historic Red Fort in Delhi, which took place at 6:52 p.m. local time (8:22 a.m. ET) and left the surrounding area laced with charred vehicles.A “slow-moving vehicle” had stopped at a red light at an intersection when it exploded, Delhi Police Commissioner Satish Golcha told reporters Monday, starting a large fire that spread to nearby cars and rickshaws. Officials have not said what caused the explosion or identified any suspects. Delhi Police have registered a case under anti-terrorism laws and are building the “sequence of events,” Deputy Commissioner Raja Banthia told reporters Tuesday morning. “It is too premature to comment upon anything,” he added.Footage verified by NBC News showed burned vehicles at the scene of the explosion, where investigators are combing for forensic evidence that could help determine the cause.Witnesses described seeing body parts strewn around the area.“It was like an earthquake, the impact and intensity was very powerful,” said Wadqas Shaikh, a 34-year-old pharmacy owner in the nearby Chandni Chowk market.“We were shocked,” he said. Home Minister Amit Shah said Monday night that it was too early to say whether the blast was a terrorist attack, telling reporters that investigators are exploring all possibilities.“We will investigate all angles with determination,” he said.Shah was expected to chair a meeting with top intelligence officials on Tuesday morning. Forensic experts inspecting the blast site in Delhi on Tuesday.Arun Sankar / AFP – Getty ImagesDefense Minister Rajnath Singh said Tuesday that the investigation findings “will soon be made public.”“Those responsible for this tragedy will be brought to justice and will not be spared under any circumstances,” he said.The blast has rattled nerves in India, which almost went to war with its neighbor and fellow nuclear power, Pakistan, over an April terrorist attack in the disputed region of Kashmir that killed 26 people, mostly Indian tourists. India, which said Pakistan-backed armed militants were responsible, launched airstrikes on Pakistan, which denied involvement in the attack. Dozens of people were killed on both sides of the border in the following days before a ceasefire agreement was reached. Monday’s blast occurred outside the 17th-century Red Fort, once the seat of Mughal emperors and now a major tourist destination, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers an address every Aug. 15 to mark India’s Independence Day.Security has been ramped up at key locations around Delhi, which has a population of nearly 33 million people, including the country’s busiest airport, several monuments, and train stations, India’s federal police unit, the CISF, said in a post on X.The Red Fort metro station was closed on Tuesday “due to security reasons,” the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation said on X. The fort itself has also been closed until Thursday, the archaeology agency said.Neighboring states Uttar Pradesh — the country’s most populous and home to the Taj Mahal — and Haryana have also been put on high alert, police there said. India’s financial hub, Mumbai, in the country’s south, is also on high alert, police said.The State Department expressed its condolences and advised U.S. citizens to stay away from crowded areas, especially around the Red Fort. The blast occurred hours before President Donald Trump swore in Sergio Gor as the U.S. ambassador to India.Modi, whose Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party governs Delhi and also faces key elections this week in the northern state of Bihar, shared his condolences Monday in a post on X and said he had “reviewed the situation” with Shah.The blast occurred hours after police in Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority region, said they had arrested several people linked to prominent terrorist groups and seized over 6,300 pounds of explosive materials in a joint operation involving police in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. It was not clear whether the arrests were related.While blasts such as the one on Monday are rare, it evoked memories of previous attacks targeting Delhi.A briefcase bomb killed about 12 people when it went off outside the High Court in 2011, a decade after gunmen stormed the parliament and killed more than a dozen people.Mithil AggarwalMithil Aggarwal is a Hong Kong-based reporter/producer for NBC News.Jay GanglaniJay Ganglani is NBC News’s 2025-26 Asia Desk Fellow. Previously he was an NBC News Asia Desk intern and a Hong Kong-based freelance journalist who has contributed to news publications such as CNN, Fortune and the South China Morning Post. NEXT Nov. 10, 2025, 10:30 PM ESTBy Zoë RichardsPresident Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his criticism of air traffic controllers who have been absent during parts of the record-long government shutdown, when they’re required to work without pay.During a Fox News interview, Trump roundly dismissed the employees who in some cases have had to take on second jobs to pay their bills amid a funding lapse that will hit the six-week mark on Tuesday.“You know, a lot of people who showed up also had a second job. They took a second job temporarily. But they all know the money’s coming, and the money was coming,” Trump told host Laura Ingraham.Air traffic controllers are classified as essential government workers, meaning they must show for work during a shutdown, even though they’re not getting paid. Members of the military, who are also essential workers, have received paychecks during the funding lapse.Trump has been inconsistent in recent remarks about backpay for federal employees when the government reopens.He said last month that “it depends who we’re talking about,” when asked whether he supported back pay for federal employees, and that there “are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of, and we’ll take care of them in a different way.”The Trump administration has also explored ways to prevent furloughed workers from getting back pay, despite a 2019 federal law requiring back pay, including through a draft memo last month that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said did not entitle federal workers to retroactive pay.The memo appeared to contradict the Office of Management and Budget’s earlier guidance which indicated that in the event of a shutdown, federal workers would be paid for any lapses in pay.Trump’s comments Monday on Fox News came after he urged air traffic controllers in a social media post earlier in the day to return to work, days after the Federal Aviation Administration began canceling flights at dozens of major U.S. airports in a move that officials said was intended offset staffing shortages.Trump threatened to dock the pay of those who didn’t report to work, while saying that he would recommend $10,000 bonuses for those who hadn’t been absent during the shutdown.“For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. He reiterated that sentiment on Fox News, saying, “I want to reward the people that showed up without a lot of nonsense, without a lot of talk.””They did their job and in many cases, they worked longer hours to get us through this period,” Trump added.Asked how he would pay the bonuses, Trump said: “I don’t know. I’ll get it from some place.”More broadly, Trump dismissed growing concerns about the economy among voters. After declaring that “the economy is the strongest it’s ever been,” Ingraham asked Trump why people are saying they’re anxious about the economy.”I don’t know what they are saying,” Trump responded. “I think polls are fake. We have the greatest economy we’ve ever had.”A recent NBC News poll found that about two-thirds of respondents nationwide said Trump hasn’t delivered on his promises to curb inflation and improve the economy.The president also weighed in on the legal fight over funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, saying the program “really puts the company, the country, in jeopardy.”He then expressed disdain for “able-bodied people” whom he claimed were leaving their jobs to obtain SNAP benefits.”People that need it have to get it. I’m all for it, but people that are able-bodied, can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it’s easier,” Trump said. “That’s not the purpose of it.”The Trump administration on Monday filed a supplemental Supreme Court briefing seeking to extend a pause imposed last week to block full federal funding of food assistance program’s benefits to its roughly 42 million recipients.The Senate passed a bill Monday night to reopen the government, with a provision that would ensure SNAP benefits are available through next September. The measure now heads to the House.Zoë RichardsZoë Richards is a politics reporter for NBC News.