November 20th, 20200In 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...
November 20th, 20200DEARBORN — 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...
November 17th, 20200WASHINGTON, 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...
November 17th, 20200LANSING — 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...
November 16th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump, with two months left in office, asked for options on attacking Iran’s main nuclear site last week, but ultimately decided against taking the dramatic step, a U.S. official said on Monday.
Trump made the request during an Oval Office meeting on Thursday with his top national security aides,...
November 13th, 20200More than a week after Nov. 3 elections, the campaign of President Trump has yet to accept results, particularly from battleground states where his opponent, Joe Biden, has been projected to be the winner.
An ABC News analysis shows that Biden’s total lead in those states ensures that any of the strategies employed by the campaign...
November 13th, 20200By Thursday evening, the likelihood of President Trump conceding to President-elect Joe Biden remained unknown.
Those close to the current president have given major news networks a glimpse into the turmoil brewing in the White House. Trump has pushed ahead with hopes of overturning results in battleground states where Biden leads by...
November 11th, 20200On Wednesday, President Trump’s campaign took another step in its long-shot legal strategy to upend his election loss with a Michigan lawsuit while Georgia announced a recount and President-elect Biden worked on laying the foundation of his administration.
Trump’s team went to federal court to try to block Michigan, a U.S....
November 6th, 20200LANSING – Michigan Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Stephens issued her opinion today in Trump v Benson, the lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
Stephens denied the campaign's request to stop vote counts and processing after she held a hearing and listened to arguments Thursday,...
November 6th, 20200CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA — Nevada’s Clark County, which is home to Las Vegas, delivered more than 20,000 votes for former Vice President Joe Biden, more than double what President Trump received in the latest count early Friday. With this blow to Trump's electoral hopes, Biden has moved closer to securing that battleground...
November 6th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — Joe Biden has a sliver of a lead in the key battleground states of Pennsylvania and Georgia. President Trump’s slight lead in Pennsylvania diminished on Friday as mail-in ballots from across the state continued to be counted. Those ballots were overwhelmingly in Biden’s favor, giving him an edge by some 6,000...
November 6th, 20200MICHIGAN — Emgage Action, a Muslim civic advocacy organization, said Wednesday that it celebrated a high Muslim American voter turnout in Michigan, and that turnout was instrumental to former Vice President Joe Biden's victory in the state.
According to the Emgage analyes, more than 81,000 Muslim American early and absentee votes...
November 6th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — With his re-election chances fading as more votes are counted in a handful of battleground states, President Trump launched an extraordinary assault on the country’s democratic process from the White House on Thursday, falsely claiming the election was being “stolen” from him.
Offering no evidence, Trump...
November 5th, 20200LANSING — The campaign of President Trump lost a legal battle in Michigan, as Trump exceedingly claimed, without evidence, mass voter fraud perpetrated by Democrats in key battleground states following Tuesday’s election.
On Thursday, a judge in Michigan tossed out a lawsuit brought by the campaign in hopes of halting vote...
November 4th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — While President Trump wants the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a presidential race that is still too close to call, it may not be the final arbiter in this election, legal experts said.
They said it was doubtful that courts would entertain a bid by Trump to stop the counting of ballots that were received...
November 4th, 20200MICHIGAN — The Arab American News has received conformation from Senator Gary Peters' (D-Michigan) campaign that he has won his reelection bid, defeating his Republican challenger, Trump-backed John James.
"I am sincerely honored that the voters of Michigan have once again put their trust and confidence in me to represent them in...
November 3rd, 20200DETROIT/ATLANTA — Americans by the millions waited patiently to cast ballots at libraries, schools and arenas across the country on Tuesday, in an orderly show of civic duty that belied the deep tensions of one of the most polarizing presidential campaigns in U.S. history.
The face masks worn by many voters and the sight of...
November 2nd, 20200WILMINGTON, DEL — U.S. Election Day on Tuesday has all the ingredients for a drawn-out court battle over its outcome: A highly polarized electorate, a record number of mail-in ballots and some Supreme Court justices who appear ready to step in if there is a closely contested presidential race.
The only missing element that would...
October 31st, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — A poll conducted by the Arab American Institute (AAI) in Washington, D.C. shows that Arab American voters prefer Joe Biden over incumbent Donald Trump for the upcoming Nov. 3 presidential election.
The Yalla Vote Tracking Poll, released earlier this week, shows that a majority of likely Arab American voters...
October 29th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 80 million Americans have cast ballots in the U.S. presidential election, according to a tally on Thursday from the U.S. Elections Project at the University of Florida, setting the stage for the highest participation rate in more than a century.
The record-breaking pace, more than 58 percent of the total...
October 29th, 20200The outdated notion that China “just wants to do business” should be completely erased from our understanding of the rising global power’s political outlook.
Simply put, Beijing has long realized that, in order for it to sustain its economic growth unhindered, it has to develop the necessary tools to protect itself, its allies...
October 28th, 20200DEARBORN — Democratic vice presidential nominee and California Senator Kamala Harris visited Metro Detroit last Sunday, making a notable, unannounced stop in Dearborn to grab dinner at the Khalaf Grill. The visit by Joe Biden's running mate was just one of several visits by both prominent Democratic and Republican candidates in the...
October 27th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — Newly confirmed conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett faces a barrage of politically fraught cases in her first days on the job, as the court weighs election disputes and prepares to hear a challenge to the Obamacare healthcare law.
On Monday, the Republican-controlled Senate pushed through...
October 26th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 60 million Americans have cast ballots in the U.S. presidential election with eight days to go, a record-breaking pace that could lead to the highest voter turnout in over a century, according to data from the U.S. Elections Project on Monday.
The tally is the latest sign of intense interest in the...
October 23rd, 20200NASHVILLE – President Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden offered sharply contrasting views on the still-raging coronavirus pandemic at Thursday’s final presidential debate, seeking to persuade the few remaining undecided voters 12 days before the Nov. 3 election.
Trump, a Republican, adopted a more restrained tone than he did...
October 22nd, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, the Republican-led U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to a lifetime Supreme Court seat despite a Democratic boycott, clearing the way for a final Senate confirmation vote planned for Monday.
By a 12-0 vote, the panel approved Barrett with...
October 22nd, 20200LANSING – Attorney General Dana Nessel announced on Thursday that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has permanently blocked an effort by the Trump administration to revoke Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligibility for more than 700,000 unemployed Americans.
A lawsuit filed in January by...
October 21st, 20200NEW YORK — Lawyers and non-profit organizations seeking to reunite immigrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border by the Trump administration have not been able to locate the parents of 545 children so far.
A federal judge ordered thousands of families separated at the border in 2017 and 2018 to be reunited after a 2018...
