All posts tagged "Conflicts"

PHILADELPHIA — The national “Abandon Biden” movement on Monday launched an effort to encourage Muslim voters and allies in Pennsylvania to ditch President Joe Biden in November. Leaders of the movement, which seeks to punish Biden for supporting Israel and failing to call for a cease-fire in Gaza last year, gathered Monday at Independence Mall in Philadelphia. “You have not only abandoned the American people, you have abandoned humanity,” activist Hayla Solomon, 23, said at the rally. “Today and moving forward, we are holding you accountable for your negligence, heedlessness, and callousness. ......

EAST LANSING, Mich. — One year after a gunman rampaged through Michigan State University's campus, altering thousands of lives and shattering a sense of security, those in the MSU community and beyond East Lansing will mark the anniversary with reflection, remembrances and activities. Luminaries will light up windows across East Lansing and elsewhere on Tuesday. The battery-operated candles are one way to acknowledge the mass shooting that left three dead and five others critically injured, organizers said. They said it was important to offer a variety of activities for students and staff beca......

DETROIT — Families affected by the Oxford High School shooting greeted Tuesday's guilty verdict for the mother of the Oxford killer on involuntary manslaughter charges with responses ranging from pleased to surprised to relieved. Buck Myre, whose son, 16-year-old Tate, was gunned down in the November 2021 attack on the northern Oakland County high school, said he was surprised by the jury's decision to find Jennifer Crumbley guilty on all four counts of involuntary manslaughter connected to the deaths of four students. Seven others were wounded in the attack carried out by Crumbley's then-15-y......

WARREN, Mich. — President Joe Biden made his first campaign stop in Michigan of 2024 on Thursday with a swing through Metro Detroit as criticisms of his handling of the Israel-Hamas war loom over his reelection bid in the battleground state. Biden, a Democrat who is seeking a second term in the White House, arrived in Warren just before 4 p.m. for a political event at the UAW Region 1 union hall, where union members will be volunteering at a phone bank ahead of the Feb. 27 primary election, his campaign said. On one wall, yard signs were organized to say “UAW 4 Joe.” Earlier Thursday, Gov. Gre......

CHICAGO — An Illinois congressman failed to report eight investments as required by federal financial disclosure law — as much as two-and-a-half years late in some cases, according to a Raw Story analysis of congressional records.

Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) is the latest lawmaker to violate the decade-old Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act by improperly reporting purchases of Myno Carbon Corp. stock through a family investment vehicle.

Total value: between $127,008 and $380,000....

As war broke out in Israel and the Gaza Strip last fall, Central Floridians connected to the land and the people at the center of the violent conflict have felt the impact from a world away. Paige Fennessey, a Jewish child advocate in Winter Garden, quickly started to plan support group gatherings at her synagogue for congregants also reeling from the news of the deadly surprise attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians that left more than 1,000 dead. “In the beginning, I found myself needing to talk about it and finding people to talk with about it, finding the Jews in the area that I’m in and fin......