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Michigan legislators can, for the most part, agree on a few things. Making sure residents have safe, accessible water is likely one of them. But how to accomplish that goal in the midst of a decaying infrastructure and a constant struggle for funding makes the task a bit more complicated than some nicely worded legislation. State Sen. Rosemary Bayer, D-Beverly Hills, and U.S. Rep.
A Dearborn Heights student has returned to the West Bank after being detained last week in a nationwide sweep connected to a federal sting operation involving a fake university in Oakland County. Najilaa Karim Musarsa, 29, was one of 130 students of the phony University of Farmington who were arrested, a family spokesman said.
On the campaign trail, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez turned herself into a phenomenon. So far it's been the same in Congress, where she's using her star power to turn ordinarily dry hearings into viral, must-see TV. This week her target -- well, one of them -- was campaign finance.
Complaints are pouring in about the conditions in detention centres, where 129 Indian students have been kept for alleged visa fraud violations, in the U.S.. Attorney Pooja Sethi, director at non-profit law firm Immigration for All, said she had spent an entire day at San Antonio, where six Indian students were in detention at the Pearsall Detention Center awaiting their hearings.
The United States House of Representatives paid tribute to former Rep. John Dingell on Friday with members standing in silence to mark his passing and honor "the dean's" service in the chamber for nearly six decades. Outside, the U.S. flags flew at half staff over the U.S. Capitol. Inside, members lined up in the Speaker's Lobby to sign a book of condolences for his family.
Fake university case: US Congressmen write to authorities in support of 129 detained Indian students
US Congressmen in Washington have written to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) urging American authorities to accord the right treatment and access to legal redressal for the 129 Indian students arrested on January 31 for enrolling in a fake university in the US.
A senior U.S. lawmaker said on Wednesday he was troubled by a report that Saudi Arabia transferred weapons to extremist groups in Yemen and questioned whether Congress should consider more restrictions on weapons sales to the Saudi-led coalition.
Rep. Brenda Lawrence and Oakland County GOP chair respond to State of the Union. President Trump gave his State of the Union address last night, the third-longest in history. And for the first time, he faced a Democratic-controlled House. Today, we hear reactions to the speech from both parties.
Feminists from the House of Representatives, all dressed in “suffragette white,” came together Tuesday to sound the alarm on issues facing women across the country. The Democratic Women’s Working Group’s press conference served as a sort of pre-emptive strike to Trump’s State of the Union address that night—and offered up a State of the American Women address instead.
The family of former U.S. Rep. John Dingell said he is in hospice care after a cancer diagnosis, and they are requesting privacy. The 92-year-old Dearborn Democrat was diagnosed a year ago with prostate cancer that had metastasized and Dingell decided not to treat it, a family member said Wednesday. He recently went into hospice care. His wife, Rep.