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Impeached twice: Trump to face Senate trial after he leaves office

January 15th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate will meet next week, just as Joe Biden is inaugurated as president, to begin its impeachment trial of outgoing President Trump. Trump is now the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) brought the impeachment to a vote just a week after Trump’s...

World

Top U.N. officials urge U.S. to revoke blacklisting of Yemen’s Houthis, warn of famine

January 14th, 20210 NEW YORK — On Thursday, three top United Nations officials all called on the United States to revoke its decision to designate Yemen’s Houthis a foreign terrorist organization, warning it would push the country into a large-scale famine and chill peace efforts. U.N. Yemen mediator Martin Griffiths, U.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock and...

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As House deliberates, Senate Republicans mull starting Trump impeachment trial Friday

January 13th, 20210 WASHINGTON D.C. — As the U.S. House of Representatives moved on Wednesday toward a vote on impeaching President Trump, Republican leaders in the Senate weighed whether to launch a trial on Friday on whether to remove him from office, a source familiar with the deliberations said, though no final decision was reached. With only a...

COMMUNITY

FBI considering No-Fly List for D.C. rioters

January 12th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — After a mob of supporters of outgoing President Trump broke into the U.S. Capitol Building last Wednesday, the FBI has launched a nationwide investigation into the incident. FBI officials have said they are considering a litany of charges, including conspiracy and sedition, and are relying on a partnership with...

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Trump acknowledges loss, condemns rioters, after calls for his removal

January 8th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — After widespread condemnation of outgoing President Trump’s encouragement of a deadly insurrection of the U.S. government, Trump changed his tune and acknowledged his loss to Joe Biden on Thursday. Just a day before, after a storm of rioters broke into the heavily restricted U.S. Capitol building to interrupt...

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Capitol protests result in more than 50 arrests, 14 officers injured and four deaths; state of emergency extended

January 7th, 20210 WASHINGTON D.C. — Thousands of pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol building Wednesday resulting in four deaths, 14 officers being injured, and more than 50 arrests. As a group of rioters broke through the windows, a woman jumped onto the pane to get into the building and was shot by Capitol police. Later in the day, the...

Elections

Guns and tear gas in U.S. Capitol as Trump supporters attempt to overturn his loss

January 6th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Police in the U.S. Capitol responded with drawn guns and tear gas on Wednesday as swarms of protesters stormed in and sought to force Congress to undo President Trump’s election loss shortly after some of Trump’s fellow Republicans launched a last-ditch effort to throw out the results. Police evacuated the...

Elections

Tight elections unfolding in Georgia with Biden’s agenda, Senate control at stake

January 5th, 20210 ATLANTA — Early vote totals suggested close contests were unfolding in two U.S. Senate races in Georgia that will decide which party controls the chamber and the possible fate of Democratic President-elect Biden’s legislative agenda. Republican incumbents David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler faced Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff, a...

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Now what happens to the $892 billion COVID aid bill? Here are three options

December 25th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump’s surprise opposition to emergency coronavirus aid and annual government funding passed by Congress has left Americans and global financial markets wondering whether Washington will iron out its differences or descend into chaos in the coming days. Trump has not yet said whether he will veto the...

COMMUNITY

U.S. authorizes Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, elderly next in line for shots

December 19th, 20200 On Friday, Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine became the second to receive emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), welcome news to a nation with a staggering COVID-19 death toll of more than 307,000 lives lost. Millions of doses of the Moderna vaccine are expected to be added to the U.S....

Elections

Michigan electors join nation to cement Biden’s victory

December 14th, 20200 LANSING — On Monday, Michigan joined the rest of the nation in casting its electoral votes, making official the November 3 election victory of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Michigan’s electors met in the Senate chamber of the Michigan Capitol Building, to cast all 16 electoral votes for Biden...

Elections

U.S. Supreme Court swiftly ends Trump-backed Texas bid to upend election results

December 11th, 20200 WASHINGTON D.C. — On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a long-shot lawsuit filed by Texas and backed by President Trump seeking to throw out voting results in four states, dealing him a crushing setback in his quest to undo his election loss to President-elect Joe Biden. The justices in a brief order said Texas did not have...

Elections

Trump, supporters appeal to Supreme Court, as time runs out on efforts to overturn election

December 11th, 20200 LANSING — Attorneys general from four states, including Michigan, responded on Thursday to a case brought to the U.S. Supreme Court by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his colleagues from 17 other states to overturn the results of the Nov. 3 election. President Trump, who lost the election to Joe Biden, has asked to intervene...

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U.S. Congress confronts COVID-19 aid hurdles as funding deadline looms

December 7th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bipartisan effort in Congress to deliver a long-awaited infusion of COVID-19 relief to U.S. families and businesses remained hung up on Monday due to differences over aid to state and local governments and business liability protections. A group of lawmakers from the Democratic-led House of Representatives and...

Elections

Trump’s lawyer Giuliani tests positive for COVID-19

December 6th, 20200 President Trump's top ally and personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for COVID-19, while he travels the country challenging results of an election Trump lost by most accounts. News of the former New York mayor having contracted the virus came from the outgoing president himself. Trump tweeted that his lawyer had "tested...

Elections

Trump attacks his ally AG Barr over unwillingness to declare voter fraud

December 4th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. — A key, longtime ally of outgoing President Trump dropped a bombshell this week, in yet another setback for Trump to convince courts and a majority of the American public that the Nov. 3 elections were rigged against him. U.S. Attorney General William Barr told the Associated Press on Tuesday that the Department of...

Elections

Michigan secretary of state releases rejected ballot data

December 3rd, 20200 LANSING — Data of rejected ballots from the Nov. 3 general elections shows more wrongfully cast votes were rejected for a variety of reasons in that election than the August primary. Ballots can be rejected for several reasons. For example, when no signature is provided by the voter, or when the signature doesn’t match records or...

International

The king’s man: Blinken’s appointment reassures Israel that little will change under Biden

December 2nd, 20200 Right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has nothing to worry about as Antony J. Blinken, who will directly handle America’s foreign policy in the Middle East is a loyal friend of Israel. Crisis averted. President-elect Joe Biden’s appointment of Antony J. Blinken as his secretary of state was a master stroke,...

International

Expansion and mass eviction: Israel “takes advantage” of Trump’s remaining days in office

December 1st, 20200 In a few words, a close associate of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summed up the logic behind the ongoing frenzy to expand illegal Jewish settlements in Israel. “These days are an irreplaceable opportunity to establish our hold on the Land of Israel, and I’m sure that our friend, President (Donald) Trump and Prime...

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Bipartisan U.S. lawmakers seek fast approval of $908 billion COVID-19 relief

December 1st, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers unveiled a $908 billion COVID-19 relief bill aimed at breaking a months-long deadlock between Democrats and Republicans over new emergency assistance for small businesses, unemployed people, airlines and other industries during the pandemic. The measure has not yet...

Elections

Republicans turn to Biden transition as Trump’s legal options dwindle

November 29th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senior U.S. Republicans said on Sunday a transition to a Joe Biden presidency looks inevitable as President Trump questioned whether the Supreme Court would even hear any of the challenges his campaign has vowed to pursue. Trump’s comments in a telephone interview with Fox News Channel came as Republican Senator...

International

Suspected Iranian nuclear scientist Fakhrizadeh assassinated near Tehran

November 27th, 20200 TEHRAN — An Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb program was killed in an ambush near Tehran on Friday that could provoke confrontation between Iran and its foes in the last weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency. The military adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...

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John James concedes to Gary Peters over pleasant Twitter message

November 25th, 20200 MICHIGAN — After initially refusing to do so, Republican U.S. Senate candidate John James conceded to Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) in a tweeted video. James, who was born in Detroit and is an Iraq War veteran, had promoted unsubstantiated allegations of deliberate voter suppression and deception after the Nov. 3 election, continuing...

Health

First Americans could get COVID-19 vaccine by mid-December, top health official says

November 22nd, 20200 The first Americans could receive a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as 24 hours after the FDA grants approval, which would kick off the largest inoculation campaign in U.S. history starting in mid-December. “Within 24 hours from the approval, the vaccine will be moving and located in the areas where each state will have told us where they...

Elections

Trump continues desperate assault on Michigan election

November 20th, 20200 In yet another desperate move to overturn election results in Michigan, President Trump invited Michigan Senate Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and House Speaker Lee Chatfield to the White House on Friday. Though the contents of what will be discussed at the meeting were not announced, it is clear that certification of statewide...

COMMUNITY

Michigan: 68 percent of Arab American voters backed Biden in November elections

November 20th, 20200 DEARBORN — Though breaking down precinct voting data by the Arab American category has always been a challenge, data from several sources for the Nov. 3 election show how Arab American voters turned up in great numbers for President-elect Joe Biden. Data analysis sent over by Mideast Wire shows the overall preference for Biden over...

COMMUNITY

Netanyahu has “warm” convo with Biden, calls him “president-elect”

November 17th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Joe Biden had a “warm conversation” with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu over the phone on Tuesday. Netanyahu referred to Biden as president-elect in a statement after the talk. Netanyahu had acknowledged and congratulated Biden’s electoral victory early on, but had refrained from calling him president-elect...

Elections

1,100 pages of Michigan election documents submitted per legally problematic legislative subpoena

November 17th, 20200 LANSING — Another legal challenge to Michigan elections this week meant Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was forced to hand over 1,100 pages of election-related documents due to a wide-ranging legislative subpoena. The subpoena was issued by the Senate and House Oversight committees, as part of an ongoing challenge by the Trump...

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