All posts tagged "Unrestandwars"

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......

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......

PHILADELPHIA — Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through Center City on Saturday afternoon to disrupt the last-minute Christmas shopping blitz with sorrowful reminders of the ongoing siege in Gaza — a protest that culminated in a tense standoff with police officers and the arrest of two protesters for disorderly conduct near Rittenhouse Square, authorities said. Cpl. Jasmine Reilly, a Philadelphia Police Department spokesperson, said a demonstrator attempted to put a sticker on a police vehicle near the park. As the protest was winding down, an officer was seen confronting the ......

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s name should be excluded from New York’s ballot in next year’s presidential primary and general election for his alleged incitement of the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a group of state senators urged election officials on Thursday. In a letter to the state Board of Elections shared exclusively with the New York Daily News, New York Sens. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, Liz Krueger, and others cited Trump’s efforts to overthrow democracy in violation of the Constitution’s "Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause" in outlining why he shouldn’t be featured on the ballot. The effo......

NEW YORK — The breakout of war in Gaza and Israel in October led to a surge in hate-filled incidents aimed at Jews, new NYPD crime data shows. Bias crimes in the city increased by 124% in October compared to October 2022, according to the Police Department data released Wednesday. Police counted 101 bias incidents in New York City in October, up from 45 in October last year. Leading that surge was a spike in anti-Jewish incidents, of which 69 were reported last month in the city compared to 22 in October 2022 — a 214% increase, officials said. “We’re feeling it 100%,” Bob Moskovitz, executive ......

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib's defense of a phrase used by Palestinians in connection with the war between Israel and Hamas is drawing condemnation from critics, including a prominent fellow Democrat — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. On Friday, Tlaib posted a video on the social platform X in which she said President Joe Biden's support of Israel would cost him reelection in 2024, accused him in a lettered overlay of supporting "the genocide of the Palestinian people" and showed protesters in Michigan yelling the slogan "from the river to the sea!" The Detroit Democrat called for Biden to su......