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Here’s what to know about the candidates in Michigan’s closely watched Senate primary – CBS News Watch CBS News Primaries are being held in five states on Tuesday. In Michigan, all eyes are on the Senate race as two very different Democrats battle to be the party’s nominee and attempt to retain the seat in the swing state. Ed O’Keefe reports. Source link

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Independent senator Bernie Sanders cheered on progressive congressional candidates who have been on the rise in some states ahead of the 2026 midterm elections during an interview on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” Sunday. The Vermont senator said that the support for such candidates shows “grassroots excitement and enthusiasm” and a nationwide push for change. “Whether it’s Michigan,…

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By Adebola Isimijola, Lagos The Federal Government and the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) have commended Rite Foods Limited for awarding ₦35 million in scholarships to the seven highest-performing candidates in the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), describing the initiative as a significant investment in education and youth development.The commendation came…

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"The left-wing Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed launched a new ad campaign last week highlighting his family's "roots in mid-Michigan." The ad features his step-grandparents, Judy and Jan Johnson, lauding his work as Wayne County health director.

Absent from the spot was any mention of the candidate’s maternal half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, the self-described "queer Muslim activist" and professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago who has advocated for a "stateless, communized society" and called to abolish the police. Abdelhadi was arrested for allegedly spitting on an Illinois state trooper at an anti-ICE protest last year.

Abdelhadi focuses on "gender and sexuality in American Islam." A self-described "Queer Muslim" and "community organizer" who uses the pronouns "she/they," she has been at the center of far-left protests on campus.

The university announced an investigation into her conduct after she condemned the school as a "colonial landlord" and "police force," adding, "like, fuck the University of Chicago, it's evil. Like, you know?" Months later, in October, she was arrested and charged with felony aggravated battery after prosecutors said she "knowingly and intentionally" spit on a state trooper while protesting outside of an ICE facility near the university.

Abdelhadi is the author of the "funky, commie, queer novel" Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune alongside her "bestie," coauthor M.E. O'Brien, a "trans communist" who wrote the 2023 book Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care. The novel is a fictionalized "oral history" of "sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes" who band together to create a "radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse." It depicts a "communized" New York in which police are abolished and the nuclear family is replaced by "caretaking relationships within the commune." It also depicts a Middle East in which Israel is destroyed by a "Final Intifada."

Abdelhadi included herself in the book as a character who helps rioters storm the campus of her "former employer." In a 2024 Vox interview, she called it "very much a theory book in disguise.""

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