April 9th, 20200NEW YORK (Reuters) — Americans must resist the impulse to ease social-separation measures at the first glimpse of progress now being seen in the coronavirus battle, state government and public health leaders warned on Thursday, as the U.S. death toll surpassed 16,500.
Calls for heightened vigilance, countering talk from the Trump...
March 30th, 20200LANSING — On Monday, President Trump authorized the use of National Guard members under Title 32, United States Code, section 502(f), granting Governor Whitmer’s request for a formal Mission Assignment (MA) to allocate and order up to 3,000 members of the Michigan Army and Air National Guard for up to 90 days to perform humanitarian...
March 28th, 20200
LANSING - President Trump has approved Governor Whitmer’s request for a Major Disaster Declaration in Michigan. The declaration means that Michigan is now eligible for participation in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) programming to provide relief for Michiganders impacted by the COVID-19 virus and measures to slow...
March 11th, 20200WASHINGTON — Under mounting pressure to take action against the spread of the coronavirus, President Trump suspended travel from Europe to the U.S. on Wednesday, except for the U.K., for 30 days starting on Friday.
The president, who faces re-election in November, took the dramatic step in a somber Oval Office speech as he...
February 21st, 20200TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will spend the last days of his election campaign under the shadow of serious and damaging corruption charges, as Israeli courts announced Tuesday that his criminal trial will begin March 17.
Netanyahu is expected to attend the initial hearing just two weeks after the March 2...
February 7th, 20200DEARBORN - The Michigan Task Force for Palestine hosted an indoor rally in solidarity with the Palestinian people. The rally was held on Wednesday at the Greenfield Manor Banquet Hall in Dearborn.
Attendees of the rally protested President Trump’s declaration of the “Deal of the Century,” which they call a pseudo peace plan to...
February 5th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. —Just a day after his State of the Union address to the nation, the Senate cast its vote to acquit President Trump of impeachment charges on Wednesday, making this the third such trial in U.S. history with a similar outcome. No president has ever been removed by the senate.
The final tally shows the Democrats'...
January 30th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — A crucial vote by the Senate on Friday will decide if witnesses will be heard from in the impeachment trial of President Trump. Senators grilled both defense and prosecution teams on Thursday, with Republicans seeking an end to what they call a partisan sham of a trial.
For now, Democrats are pushing for...
January 29th, 20200MEXICALI, MEXICO — CNN reports that a newly installed panel on President Trump’s U.S-Mexico border wall fell over on to the Mexican side in the city of Mexicali due to high winds on Wednesday. The area of the wall is under ongoing construction.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent Carlos Pitones said that the panel was set...
January 29th, 20200LANSING — The Michigan Democratic Party released several statements in anticipation of President Trump’s Thursday visit to a Warren auto parts supply company, Dana Incorporated. This will be Trump’s first visit to Michigan in 2020, a day after he signed into law a revamped trade deal with Mexico and Canada.
Trump won by 12...
January 28th, 20201WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump and his hard-line, right-wing ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, unveiled Trump’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan on Tuesday. The plan has been preemptively rejected by Palestinians, who see no signs in the plan of an end to Israeli occupation and illegal settlements. Netanyahu, on...
January 24th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C — On yet another day of impeachment hearings, senators listened to the Democratic team on Thursday as they argued that President Trump sought a phony investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter's business dealings in Ukraine while pursuing a unproven conspiracy theory about the...
January 24th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — The White House said in a statement on Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the White House next Tuesday to meet with President Trump about Trump’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan. Trump confirmed the news, telling reporters on Air Force One that he will release the details of the...
January 22nd, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C — Arguments in the impeachment trial of President Trump kicked off on Wednesday with Democrats trying to show the American public how far the corrupt scheme to undermine the country went, and urging skeptical Republicans to act on their consciences and vote to remove the president.
After voting on the operating...
January 20th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump’s legal team filed arguments that it plans to use as the impeachment trial is set to begin in earnest in the Senate on Tuesday. This is only the third impeachment trial of a president in U.S history. The defense team plans to argue that the president should be cleared of the two charges of abuse of...
January 16th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C.— House Democrats set the stage for the impeachment trial of President Trump, only the third trial of its kind in U.S. history, as they carried articles of impeachment to the Senate chambers in a hand-off which takes impeachment proceedings from the Democratic-run House to the Republican-majority Senate.
House...
January 14th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C — A new report by NBC News claims President Trump authorized the killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani seven months ago with the condition that Trump would have final signoff on any specific plans to kill the general. The information was provided by five current and former senior...
January 12th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C. — Defense Secretary Mark Esper contradicted President Trump on Sunday, saying he did not see any specific evidence from intelligence officials that Iran had plans to attack four U.S. embassies. Trump has used these purported plans to justify the Jan. 2 killing of Iran Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani in...
January 10th, 20200The world has been in the grips of an uncertain fear since it woke up to news of the Jan. 2 assassination of a top Iranian general at the hands of the U.S.. Images from recent memory of endless, expensive and insane military ventures in the Middle East became vivid once more as Tehran promised revenge and President Trump goaded the...
January 6th, 20200TEHRAN — On Monday, in the wake of the January 2 targeted killing through a missile strike of Iran Revolutionary Guard General and important political figure Qassem Soleimani, throngs of Iranians mourned the death of a beloved leader.
Aerial views and independent reports on the ground told of a vast procession of mourners, a mass...
September 13th, 20190WASHINGTON – President Trump announced plans to ban flavored e-cigarettes on Wednesday.
Trump appeared with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, First Lady Melania Trump and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Ned Sharpless to speak to reporters in the Oval Office.
The announcement came as health authorities and...
July 13th, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump took to the podium in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday to announce that the citizenship question will not be included in the 2020 Census. Instead, he has issued an executive order to every federal department and agency to provide the Commerce Department with records of the number of citizens...
July 5th, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Justice Department is now looking for ways to include the citizenship question back to the 2020 census form after President Trump vowed to stay the course on the issue on Wednesday.
Trump ignored the time limitations and legal opinions issued at the end of last month by the U.S. Supreme Court that indicated...
October 22nd, 20180The U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, has made her post a “more glamorous” position than her predecessors — as President Trump described Haley’s 2-year term at the U.N., following her resignation announcement.
We may never know the nature of Haley’s purported “glamour” at the U.N., but we certainly know that,...
October 9th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has resigned, a personal familiar with the situation said on Tuesday, and the White House said she would appear with President Trump at an event later in the morning.
Trump accepted the resignation, Axios news site reported, citing two sources familiar with the matter. Haley discussed...
September 23rd, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States is seeking to negotiate a treaty with Iran to include Tehran’s ballistic missile program and its regional behavior, the U.S. special envoy for Iran said on Wednesday ahead of U.N. meetings in New York next week.
Iran has rejected U.S. attempts to hold high-level talks since President Trump tore...
September 23rd, 20180A blue wave in November could not only take the House majority away from the GOP, but could also cause turmoil within the Democratic party next year, according to a report by The Hill.
As a progressive wave grips the party, producing upset primary victories in cities like the Bronx, the publication writes that Democrats are bracing...
September 7th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh stressed that he believes the judiciary has broad authority to check the power of the White House, but refused to criticize the man who selected him, President Trump.
In a second day of testimony, Kavanaugh declined to comment on Trump’s criticism of the...
