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The U.S. House unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday calling on Russia to release Paul Whelan, a Novi resident who has been locked up since December 2018 on espionage charges.
Whelan, a former U.S. Marine, has repeatedly maintained his innocence.
He was sentenced to 16 years in prison during a June 2020 trial that American officials have called unfair.
Washington — After the Grand Rapids police killing of Patrick Lyoya, Michigan U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence is introducing a bill to boost training for police departments to better monitor body-worn camera footage.
The legislation by the Southfield Democrat would create a pilot program to fund training for local law enforcement departments to cover personnel costs to review body-worn camera footage on a continuing basis to improve officer conduct and safety, according to a bill summary.
Accounting faculty realize that the profession is becoming more technologically savvy with each passing day. The AICPA knows this, too, and is working to gain recognition for accounting as a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) curriculum under the technology field.
Michigan U.S. Sen. Gary Peters of Bloomfield Township, U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens of Waterford Township and U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee of Flint Township, all Democrats, have been named to a bicameral committee in Congress that will negotiate the final shape of legislation aimed at increasing U.S. competition with China.
The committee will work to hammer out differences between the House and Senate versions of the same legislation, which has stalled amid partisan divisions over the House-led bill.
Losing a parent may be one of the most destabilizing events of the human experience. Orphans are at increased risk of substance abuse, dropping out of school, and poverty.
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) argued on Thursday that the United Nations’ repeated investigations of Israel may be part of a campaign to delegitimize and potentially withdraw recognition of the Jewish state in the body’s General Assembly.
Speaking during a virtual AIPAC event, the sophomore congresswoman condemned the U.N.’s “wild targeting of the State of Israel, over and over and over again to the tune of it almost [feeling] like a conspiracy theory.”
Opening the hearing, Research and Technology Subcommittee Chair Haley Stevens (D-MI) distinguished between fair and unfair influence in standards-setting, saying, “Within the last year, both the European Union and the Chinese government laid out ambitious plans to gain supremacy in international standards-setting. These goals are legitimate as long as those nations continue to adhere to the merit-based model for standards development.
State of the city speeches are often about looking back on recent successes, but Livonia Mayor Maureen Miller Brosnan said her favorite part of her 2022 address was getting to look ahead.
The mayor delivered her speech March 24 at Laurel Manor in Livonia. The crowd, which greeted Brosnan with a standing ovation, included local officials, business leaders and community members.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A congresswoman from Ohio has introduced legislation to establish and fund the Great Lakes Authority, a new federal entity to protect and promote economic activities on the Great Lakes.
Even before the U.S. Senate gave its final approval late Thursday on a 68-31 vote to a $1.5 trillion spending bill funding the federal government, Michigan members of Congress were celebrating the return of the earmark.