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‘Moderate’ Dem running for US Senate in Michigan co-sponsored a ‘feminist approach’ to foreign policy
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what’s in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., co-sponsored a resolution supporting a “feminist approach to all aspects of foreign policy” despite framing herself as the moderate Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate. The resolution was introduced by Rep. Lois Frankel in the House of Representatives on March 8, 2023, and was referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Despite Stevens co-sponsoring this resolution alongside progressive Democrats, her campaign argued that the Michigan representative is among the most Democratic candidates for Michigan’s Senate seat in 2026. In addition to Stevens, the resolution was co- sponsored by progressive House Democrats, including Reps. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, Pramila Jayapal of Washington, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
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Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., co-sponsored a resolution during the last session of Congress supporting a “feminist approach to all aspects of foreign policy,” despite framing herself as the moderate Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate.
The resolution was introduced by Rep. Lois Frankel, D-Fla., in the U.S. House of Representatives on March 8, 2023, and was referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
“An equitable world cannot exist without the womanist perspective,” Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif, said in a press release in support of the resolution. “When we view the world through a lens that includes all women, we allow ourselves to see the whole picture, beyond the traditional, patriarchal framework, enabling us to move one step closer toward true equality.”
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In addition to Stevens, the resolution was co-sponsored by progressive House Democrats, including Reps. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, Pramila Jayapal of Washington, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
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Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., speaks during a rally on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, May 6, 2025.
When reached for comment about Stevens’ support for the resolution, a campaign spokesperson, Reeves Oyster, told Fox News Digital, “Haley is one of Michigan’s most effective lawmakers and is focused on lowering costs, strengthening our manufacturing economy, and creating jobs – which is why polls show she’s the strongest candidate in both the primary and general elections.”
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The resolution presents a model for “taking a feminist approach to all aspects of foreign policy, including foreign assistance and humanitarian response, trade, diplomacy, defense, immigration, funding, and accountability mechanisms.”
According to the House resolution’s text, a “feminist approach” to foreign policy “prioritizes peace, gender equality, and environmental integrity; enshrines, promotes, and protects the human rights of all; seeks to disrupt colonial, racist, patriarchal, and male-dominated power structures; and allocates significant resources, including research, to achieve that vision.”
Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., conducts a rally to promote climate benefits in the Build Back Better Act in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Through an “intersectional approach,” the resolution seeks to “correct” inequalities among “intersecting systems of discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, age, language, socioeconomic status, physical or mental ability, sex, including gender identity or expression and sexual orientation, indigenous identity, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, and nationality or migrant status.”
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According to the text, “feminist diplomacy” promotes peace, including “non-military conflict resolution, and peaceful competition, and that mitigate the effects of climate change,” arguing a feminist approach to immigration would “integrate an analysis of the impact of immigration policy on women, children, people of all gender identities, and Indigenous people.”
Despite Stevens co-sponsoring this resolution alongside progressive “Squad” leaders in the Democratic Party, her campaign argued that the Michigan representative is among the most competitive Democratic candidates to challenge Republicans for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat in 2026.
Rep. Haley Stevens, a Democrat from Michigan, speaks during a House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party hearing in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023.
Stevens said during her 2022 congressional campaign that she is moderate enough to get votes from Republicans, according to WXYZ. And she indicated earlier this year to Bridge Michigan that she plans to run on a more moderate platform than some of her opponents in the Democratic primary.
The Stevens campaign also pointed to legislation she proposed this month to lower costs, create jobs and boost Michigan’s manufacturing industry.
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Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., is retiring at the end of this Congress, creating an open Senate seat in battleground Michigan.
Democratic candidates to replace Peters include Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow; former Michigan health officer Dr. Abdul El-Sayed; and former Michigan House Speaker, state Rep. Joe Tate.
In the Republican primary, former Rep. Mike Rogers is running for a second consecutive Senate cycle, alongside Frederick Heurtebise and Kent Benham.
Lydia Christensen is the sole independent candidate in the race so far.
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Russian TV shows teenagers at ‘world’s biggest drone factory’ making arms to hit Ukraine
Russian army’s TV channel shows teenagers helping make kamikaze drones to attack Ukraine. Footage shows hundreds of large black completed Geran-2 suicide drones in rows inside the secretive facility. Ukraine says Russia has used the Geran drones to terrorise and kill civilians in locations including the capital Kyiv. Russia says its drone and missile strikes target only military or military-related targets and denies deliberately targeting civilians. More than 13,000 of whom have been killed in Ukraine since the war began in 2022, the U.N. says. The design of the GerAn-2, which has a known range of at least 1,500 km (932 miles), originated in Iran where an earlier version was made.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian factory, described by its director as the world’s biggest maker of strike drones, has been shown on the Russian army’s TV channel with teenagers helping make kamikaze drones to attack Ukraine.
The footage, in a documentary film broadcast by the Zvezda channel on Sunday, showed hundreds of large black completed Geran-2 suicide drones in rows inside the secretive facility, which has been targeted by Ukrainian long-range drones.
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Ukraine says Russia has used the Geran drones to terrorise and kill civilians in locations including the capital Kyiv, where residents often shelter in metro stations during attacks.
Russia says its drone and missile strikes target only military or military-related targets and denies deliberately targeting civilians, more than 13,000 of whom have been killed in Ukraine since the war began in 2022, the United Nations says.
Zvezda said the Alabuga factory, in Russia’s Tatarstan region, invited school pupils to study at a college the factory runs nearby once they had completed ninth grade (aged 14-15) so that they could study drone manufacturing there and then work at the factory when they had finished college.
Young workers, including teenagers, were shown with their faces blurred out, studying computer screens or making and testing individual components, or assembling drones.
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Timur Shagivaleyev, the factory’s general director, did not disclose detailed production figures. But he told Zvezda the initial plan had been to produce “several thousand Geran-2 drones” and that the factory was now producing nine times more than that. He did not say what period the figures referred to.
A Russian think tank close to the government last month suggested Russia’s drone production had jumped by 16.9% in May compared to the previous month after President Vladimir Putin called for output to be stepped up.
Putin said in April that more than 1.5 million drones of various types had been produced last year, but that Russian troops fighting on the front line in Ukraine needed more.
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Both sides have deployed drones on a huge scale, using them to spot and hit targets not only on the battlefield but way beyond the front lines.
Zvezda said the Alabuga factory had its own drone testing ground and showed rows of parked U.S. RAM pickup trucks carrying Geran-2 drones.
It also showed one of them launching a drone.
In May, Russia paraded combat drones that its forces use in the war in Ukraine on Moscow’s Red Square in what state TV said was a first.
The design of the Geran-2, which has a known range of at least 1,500 km (932 miles), originated in Iran where an earlier version was made. They have been used to target Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
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Zvezda set the documentary to upbeat music, part of its mission to keep Russians interested in and supportive of the war.
The factory is part of the so-called Alabuga Special Economic Zone, which is near the town of Yelabuga, which is over 1,000 km from the border with Ukraine.
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Bruce Springsteen Won’t Drink This American-Born Beer On Tour
Bruce Springsteen’s concert rider lists a lot of things, but not Budweiser. Concert riders are supposed to serve as a checklist for the venues hosting a given artist. Springsteen also asks for soup before the show and 16 pieces of cold shrimp after the show. The rest of the crew prefers skinless chicken breast or fish with vegetables (save for zucchini) The guitarist Steven Van Zandt also likes seafood, though he specifies that his should be “wild-caught” – and if there’s halibut, he wants it to be Alaskan, not Atlantic, we guess.. For more food and drink goodness, join The Takeout’s newsletter. Get taste tests, food & drink news, deals from your favorite chains, recipes, cooking tips, and more!Read the original article on The Take out.
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With apologies to Tony Soprano, Zach Braff, and Chris Christie, he’s New Jersey’s most famous export. He took the hardscrabble, populist spirit of folk musicians like Woody Guthrie and blew it up to arena-sized proportions, backed by the ever-reliable E Street Band. He wrote classics like “Born to Run,” “Dancing in the Dark,” and “I’m On Fire,” also known as the thirstiest song ever to make your mom cry. He’s Bruce Springsteen, and he’s a living legend. But what does a living legend drink when he’s on the road? According to his concert rider, a whole lot of stuff — but not Budweiser.
Why not Budweiser? We don’t really know. Concert riders are supposed to serve as a checklist for the venues hosting a given artist, making sure they have everything they ask for — which means the question of “why” isn’t really important. It’s safe to assume that the guy who hosted a podcast with the Obamas isn’t taking part in the right-wing boycott of Budweiser after it dared to employ a trans woman to promote its beer three years ago, so we guess Springsteen dislikes Budweiser for normal reasons. Just as Springsteen criticized his home country with “Born in the U.S.A.,” he’s similarly unafraid to pass judgment on America’s most famous beer. (We apologize to any disappointed Budweiser frogs or hay-munching Clydesdales who might be reading.)
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Other Items On Springsteen’s Rider Include Soup And Shrimp
A platter of shrimp cocktail. – Bhofack2/Getty Images
So what else does Springsteen and the band ask for in their rider? Well, the Boss himself apparently has a taste for soup before the show — specifically chicken soup with extra broth, presumably to help fortify his throat so he can holler out “Thunder Road” to thousands of adoring fans. Once the show’s over, Springsteen will kick back with two bags of pretzels (he prefers Rold Gold) and 16 pieces of cold shrimp with “homemade seafood sauce.” As for the rest of the crew, Springsteen’s wife Patti prefers skinless chicken breast or fish with vegetables (save for zucchini); guitarist Steven Van Zandt also likes seafood, though he specifies that his should be “wild-caught” — and if there’s halibut, he wants it to be Alaskan, not Atlantic. Why? Just for the halibut, we guess! (Seriously though, it’s probably because Alaskan halibut tastes less fishy than Atlantic halibut.)
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If this all sounds like a lot, well, it is. But then again, arena-sized productions like these require a lot of people who need to be fed. Any touring musician, even incredibly wealthy and successful ones like Springsteen, will tell you how difficult it gets after a while. And if the only thing keeping you going is the promise of some nice cold shrimp after the show, why not have it in your rider?
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Ex-cop convicted of excessive force in Breonna Taylor case gets 33 months
Brett Hankison will serve three years of probation after his prison term ends. Justice Department said Hankison should be sentenced to a single day in prison because, it argued, he posed no threat to the public. Breonna Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, said U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings “did the best she could with what she had to work with” A few dozen people outside the courthouse protested in support of Taylor throughout the day, and at one point several were arrested after they created what the police described in a statement as an “unsafe environment” The police department said it understands this case caused “pain and damaged trust between our department and the community,” but added it was “not safe, acceptable or legal” “We got something. I don’t think it was a fair sentencing, but itwas a start,” Taylor’s mom said.
Former Louisville Metro Police Department detective Brett Hankison was sentenced to 33 months Monday after he was convicted of deprivation of rights under color of law in November in connection with the raid that killed Taylor, attorney Lonita Baker said.
Hankison will serve three years of probation after his prison term ends, Baker said.
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Last week, the Justice Department said Hankison should be sentenced to a single day in prison because, it argued, he posed no threat to the public.
Speaking to reporters outside the courthouse Monday, Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, said U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings “did the best she could with what she had to work with.”
“There was no prosecution in there for us,” she told reporters.” There was no prosecution in there for Brianna.”
Asked whether the sentence represented justice, Palmer said: “We got something. I don’t think it was a fair sentencing, but it was a start.”
Brett Hankison during his trial in Louisville, Ky., on March 2, 2022. (Timothy D. Easley / AP file)
Probation officials had recommended a sentence of 135 to 168 months, The Associated Press reported.
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A spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In a sentencing memo filed last week, the Justice Department wrote that “reasonable minds might disagree as to whether defendant Hankison’s conduct constituted a seizure under the Fourth Amendment in the first place” and that there “is no need for a prison sentence to protect the public from defendant.”
A few dozen people outside the courthouse protested in support of Taylor throughout the day, and at one point several were arrested after they created what the police described in a statement as an “unsafe environment.”
Bianca Austin, Taylor’s aunt, was among them, arrest documents show. According to a complaint, she was in the middle of an intersection clapping her hands and blocking cars before she approached officers and yelled in their faces.
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Austin was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and obstructing a highway. It was not immediately clear whether she has a lawyer to speak on her behalf. Jail records show she remained in custody Monday night.
“We understand this case caused pain and damaged trust between our department and the community,” the police department said in a statement. “We particularly respect and value the 1st Amendment. However, what we saw today in front of the courthouse in the street was not safe, acceptable or legal.”
Breonna Taylor during a graduation ceremony in Louisville, Ky. (Family of Breonna Taylor via AFP – Getty Images)
Federal prosecutors said Hankison fired through a window and a sliding glass door that was covered with a curtain and blinds. The shots hit a wall and traveled into an apartment next door but did not hit Taylor.
Taylor was killed by shots from other officers, who were not charged because they were returning fire when Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired as police breached the apartment.
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In a statement last week, Taylor’s lawyers called Hankison’s sentence recommendation an “insult” that sets a “dangerous precedent” in how civil rights or Black people are maintained.
“It is unfathomable that, after finally securing a conviction, the Department of Justice would seek a sentence so drastically below the federal guidelines,” the statement added.
The legal team said recommending a single day in prison “sends the unmistakable message that white officers can violate the civil rights of Black Americans with near-total impunity.”
The attorneys said Palmer still hoped that the judge would “do what the DOJ has refused to do — uphold the law, respect the jury’s verdict, and deliver true justice for Breonna Taylor.”
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Restore power to the emperor, says leader of Japan’s rising hard-Right
Sohei Kamiya, 43, is a former supermarket manager from Suita, Japan. He ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Liberal Democrats in the 2012 elections. Instead, he became a YouTuber, where he focused his ire on ‘globalism’ In 2022, he won a seat in the upper house of parliament after promising not to sell out Japan to ‘Jewish capital’ He has also backed Vladimir Putin in the war in Ukraine, and has had to fend off allegations of collaborating with Moscow after one of the party’s candidates gave an interview to Russian state media. His Sanseito party has also drafted a new Japanese constitution, which would restore some of the emperor’s political powers. The current constitution does not allow the emperor even nominal powers, with executive power formally invested in the cabinet. Mr Kamiya said he “began to question the way I live my life until I had learned to live up to my potential” in an interview with the Mail on Sunday.
After serving for five years as a city councillor in Suita, the former supermarket manager ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Liberal Democrats in the 2012 national elections.
With his hopes of a seat in parliament quashed, he became a YouTuber. Little did he know his videos would soon help turn Japanese politics on its head.
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Channel Grand Strategy, as he named the project, initially broadcast discussions on niche historical topics such as Korea’s 1884 Kapsin coup and the Seven Years’ War’s impact on Japan.
Over the next eight years, viewers increased along with the channel’s production values.
Topics began to include exhortations for the Japanese people to “be more proud” and tips on how office workers can conduct “high-intensity muscle training” at their desks.
He would go on to compare himself to Donald Trump and mostly focus his ire on “globalism” and the rapidly increasing numbers of foreigners in Japan.
The political party he formed was projected on Sunday to win more than a dozen seats in parliament to help finally break the stranglehold of the mainstream centrist Liberal Democratic Party on Japanese politics.
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But his rise has not come without controversy.
In 2022, Mr Kamiya won a seat in the upper house of parliament after promising not to sell out Japan to “Jewish capital” during a campaign speech.
He has also backed Vladimir Putin in the war in Ukraine, and has had to fend off allegations of collaborating with Moscow after one of the party’s candidates gave an interview to Russian state media in the run-up to Sunday’s elections.
Japan’s current emperor is Naruhito, who ascended to the throne in 2019 following the abdication of his father, Emperor Akihito – Getty Images
Mr Kamiya’s Sanseito party has also drafted a new Japanese constitution, which would restore some of the emperor’s political powers.
The emperor would be given a one-time veto over acts such as the appointment of a prime minister and the approval of laws.
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This would, in effect, mean that the emperor would be able to reject a proposal made by the cabinet; however, if the same proposal was submitted again, he would have to approve it.
Japan’s current constitution does not allow the emperor even nominal powers, with executive power formally invested in the cabinet.
Emperor Naruhito, seen here with his wife and King Charles and Queen Camilla, does not even have nominal powers – Getty Images/Kirsty Wigglesworth
In his YouTube videos, Mr Kamiya, a former military reservist, interviewed Japanese Self-Defence Force officers and hosted talks on the importance of strength and soldierly values.
By 2020, the channel had become popular in Right-wing circles, which the boyish then-43-year-old was able to use as a launchpad for a return to electoral politics.
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In April that year, with a coterie of other nationalist rising stars on social media, he launched the Sanseito party and broke into mainstream politics, using an innovative digital marketing strategy to rapidly grow its membership and accrue donations.
Sanseito membership fees are high, charging for a month for its basic tier what mainstream parties charge a year.
But members get concrete benefits such as access to chat groups and event invites. Higher-tier subscribers are able to vote on internal elections and policy proposals. By February 2024, the party claimed to have 75,000 paying members.
Japan’s ruling coalition lost its majority in the upper house, according to exit polls – Toru Hanai/Bloomberg
Sanseito, which bills itself as a “do it yourself” party, spent its early years pushing conspiracy talking points such as vaccine scepticism and the idea that US occupation forces after World War II introduced wheat to Japan as a bio-weapon to weaken the natives’ digestion systems.
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According to Japanese media, Mr Kamiya’s early life was unstoried, with him said to have been popular at school and a keen baseball player.
A classmate said: “He reminds me of the brilliant young man you find in every school. At this time, there was not even a trace of a conspiracy theorist in him.”
While studying English for a brief period in Canada during his early adulthood, Mr Kamiya said he “began to question the way I had learned to live my life up until then”.
“I began to truly feel glad to have been born Japanese.”
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