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    East Lansing Fire Dept. fights fire with fire

    Fire officials were out in the Lansing area today with lit torches in hand. Normally we expect them to put out fires, but today, the goal was starting them.

  • Poll: Donald Trump More than Twice as Popular as Mitch McConnell

    Former President Donald Trump's popularity among Republicans is 43 points greater than Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) popularity, a recent Morning Consult poll found.

  • Loveland Fire Rescue Authority welcomes new wildfire coordinator

    Colorado-native Tyler Nethe is bringing two decades of wildfire fighting experience to the brand new position.

  • Trump’s federal abortion dodge draws fire from both sides

    Former President Trump declined to take a position on a potential federal abortion ban Monday and instead acknowledged the issue is being left to the states as he looks to navigate the politically fraught issue ahead of November. Trump’s lack of an explicit endorsement drew criticism from some on the right, including a prominent anti-abortion

  • McConnell criticizes Biden, makes no mention of Trump in Kentucky luncheon speech

    U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell stressed his support for continued U.S. aid to Ukraine in its war with Russia during a speech Wednesday to a luncheon crowd in Shelbyville, Kentucky.

  • 4 years ago today: Trump claims 'ultimate' and 'total' authority

    In February, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Donald Trump’s claim that a U.S. president enjoys “absolute immunity.” According to one of Trump’s attorneys, that even includes the right to order Seal Team Six to murder a political opponent. As ridiculous as those claims may be, and as scary as it is for the court to give them consideration, absolute immunity isn’t the only absolute Trump believes he is due. During the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, as governors acted to protect their states,...

  • Democrats trying to keep Trump off ballot shocked GOP would return fire

    Democrats are somehow routinely shocked when their partisan power grabs are met with GOP retaliation despite the Democratic Party coming out on the worse end of these exchanges several times in the past decade. The GOP retaliation now is taking the form of Ohio and Alabama threatening to exclude President Joe Biden from the ballot […]

  • Pro-Trump election denier fired from RFK Jr. campaign for 'misrepresentation'

    Rita Palma, a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presidential campaign New York State staffer and pro-Trump election denier who attended the pre-insurrection January 6, 2021 rally, has been terminated for “misrepresentation,” according to multiple news outlets and the campaign.Palma made headlines earlier this week when unearthed video of her promoting a plan to “get rid” of President Joe Biden to help elect Donald Trump went viral.Palma was identified as the campaign’s New York State director, but RFK Jr.’s...

  • Alina Habba officially fired by Trump's ex-CFO Allen Weisselberg

    Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg officially notified the court that attorney Alina Habba will no longer represent him in a fraud case in New York. Days ahead of Donald Trump's criminal hush-money trial in New York, paperwork was filed in a separate case where Trump was found liable for fraud after manipulating the value of his assets. The documents were filed in the Supreme Court of New York, County of New York. "IT IS HEREBY CONSENTED THAT MORIAN Law PLLC, 60 East 42nd...

  • Trump Faces A Mini-Trial For Contempt Within The Larger Hush-Money Trial

    The trial judge said he would enter a show cause order as to why Trump should not be held in contempt and set arguments on the matter for April 23.

  • ICYMI: Biden’s on fire, Trump's still a liar, Tesla earns more ire

    Biden's on a roll, and it's starting to show in the polling Some good news to keep us all from stress eating right up to the election. Trump reveals his true abortion position: Lying to win elections If you had Trump rambling and patting himself on the back on your bingo card for this declaration, well, you’re right. Pregnancies in Florida and other Southern states just got scarier It’s dire out there. Cartoon: All the news that fits Is it even still news? 7 stories to know: The eclipse,...

  • 'Almost certainly convicted': Ex-acting solicitor general can't see Trump being acquitted

    Assuming there are no more delays, Monday will mark a first in United States history.That day, jury selection in Donald Trump's first criminal trial is scheduled to begin in New York City — where Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will try to show jurors that Trump, in 2016, falsified business records in order to make hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. According to Michael Cohen, Trump's former personal attorney and fixer and a key witness in the case, the payments were...