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7 minutes ago
- The Independent
Mary Sheffield advances in Detroit mayor's race, opponent not yet decided
Mary Sheffield, Detroit's City Council president, has advanced to the November election that will decide who will succeed popular three-term Mayor Mike Duggan, who is not seeking reelection. A field of eight other candidates are still vying to become the second person advancing from Tuesday's primary to the general election. If elected, Sheffield would be the first woman and the first Black woman to hold the role of Detroit mayor. She was first elected to City Council in 2013 at age 26 and has been president since 2022. Duggan is running for Michigan's governor in 2026 as an independent. The continued growth of the city could be at stake since Duggan has helmed Detroit as it exited the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history and surged back to respectability following decades of mediocrity. The former prosecutor and medical center chief has overseen a massive anti-blight campaign and pushed affordable housing developments across the city. A long list of candidates The field of eight other candidates include a current council member, former council member, pastor of a megachurch and a popular ex-police chief. Saunteel Jenkins was elected in 2009 to the City Council where she spent one four-year term. Jenkins later became chief executive of a nonprofit, which provides utility assistance for families. Current council member Fred Durhal III also is on the primary ballot. He has been on the City Council since 2021 and was a Michigan state representative from 2014 to 2019. The Rev. Solomon Kinloch Jr. has been senior pastor at Triumph Church for about 27 years. The Detroit-based church has more than 40,000 members across a number of campuses. Kinloch also was an autoworker and member of the United Auto Workers union. Former police Chief James Craig came to Detroit in 2013 amid the city's bankruptcy crisis and remained in charge of the police department until retiring in 2021. Craig failed to make the Republican ballot for Michigan governor in 2022 due to fraudulent signatures on campaign petitions. In 2024, he dropped a Republican bid for an open U.S. Senate seat. Other candidates include attorney Todd Perkins, digital creator DaNetta Simpson, business owner Joel Haashiim and entrepreneur John Barlow. The stakes for Detroit The next mayor will inherit a city on much firmer footing than the one Duggan was elected to lead in 2013 when an emergency manager installed by the state to oversee the city's flailing finances filed for bankruptcy on its behalf. Detroit shed or restructured about $7 billion in debt and exited bankruptcy in December 2014. A state-appointed board managed the city's finances for several years. Detroit has had 12 consecutive years of balanced budgets. Developers have built hundreds of affordable housing units in the city, and more than 25,000 vacant and derelict homes and buildings have been demolished. The next mayor, though, will be under pressure to maintain that progress and continuing to keep the city's growth — financially and in people — going. In 2023, the census estimated that Detroit's population rose to 633,218 from 631,366 the previous year. It was the first time the city had shown population growth in decades. Detroit also is becoming a destination for visitors. The 2024 NFL draft held downtown set a record with more than 775,000 in attendance. New hotels are popping up in and around downtown. But perhaps the most visual example of the city's turnaround has been the renovation of the once-blighted monolithic Michigan Central train station. For decades, the massive building just west of downtown symbolized all that was wrong with Detroit. That's before Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford Motor Co. stepped in and bought the old Michigan Central and adjacent properties. It reopened in 2024 following a six-year, multimillion-dollar renovation that created a hub for mobility projects. While no longer a manufacturing powerhouse, Detroit's economy still is intertwined with the auto industry which currently faces uncertainties due to tariffs threatened and imposed by the Trump administration. Stellantis, the maker of Jeep and Ram vehicles, has two facilities in Detroit. The automaker said last month that its preliminary estimates show a $2.68 billion net loss in the first half of the year due to U.S. tariffs and some hefty charges.
Reuters
8 minutes ago
- Reuters
Oil prices rebound from 5-week low on Trump threats on Russian crude buyers
TOKYO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Oil prices climbed on Wednesday, rebounding from a five-week low in the previous day, on concerns of supply disruptions after U.S. President Donald Trump's threats of tariffs on India over its Russian crude purchases. Brent crude futures rose 29 cents, or 0.4%, to $67.93 a barrel by 0119 GMT while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $65.44 a barrel, up 28 cents, or 0.4%. Both contracts fell by more than $1 on Tuesday to settle at their lowest in five weeks, marking a fourth session of losses, on oversupply concerns from OPEC+'s planned September output hike. "Investors are assessing whether India will reduce its Russian crude purchases in response to Trump's threats, which could tighten supply, but it remains to be seen if that will actually happen," said Yuki Takashima, economist at Nomura Securities. "If India's imports remain steady, WTI is likely to stay within the $60-$70 range for the rest of the month," he said. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, together known as OPEC+, agreed on Sunday to raise oil production by 547,000 barrels per day for September, a move that will end its most recent output cut earlier than planned. The OPEC+ pumps about half of the world's oil and had been curtailing production for several years to support the market, but the group introduced a series of accelerated output hikes this year to regain market share. At the same time, U.S. demands for India to stop buying Russian oil as Washington seeks ways to push Moscow for a peace deal with Ukraine could upset supply flows as Indian refiners seek alternatives and Russian crude is redirected to other buyers. Trump on Tuesday again threatened higher tariffs on Indian goods over the country's Russian oil purchases over the next 24 hours. Trump also said declining energy prices could pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt the war in Ukraine. New Delhi called Trump's threat "unjustified" and vowed to protect its economic interests, deepening a trade rift between the two countries. Nomura's Takashima also pointed to industry data showing crude inventories in the U.S., the world's biggest oil consumer, as supportive for the oil market. U.S. crude inventories fell by 4.2 million barrels last week, sources citing American Petroleum Institute figures said on Tuesday. That compares with a Reuters poll estimate of a 600,000 barrels draw for the week to August 1. The U.S. Energy Information Administration is due to release its weekly inventory data on Wednesday.
The Guardian
38 minutes ago
- The Guardian
US immigration to hold 1,000 detainees in Indiana after deal with prison system
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) is expanding its detention capacity by 1,000 beds in Indiana through a partnership with the midwest state's prison system, federal officials announced on Tuesday. Ice will be housing detainees at the Miami correctional center, a prison run by the Indiana department of corrections. The move is part of the US government's rapid expansion of immigration jails after Donald Trump's sweeping spending bill allotted roughly $170bn to Ice, an extraordinary sum making the agency the most heavily funded law enforcement department within the federal government. Kristi Noem, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary, said the Indiana facility would be called the 'Speedway Slammer', following last month's opening of the so-called 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration jail in Florida, in collaboration with Ron DeSantis, the state's Republican governor. Noem claimed Tuesday that the Indiana prison would house 'some of the worst of the worst' of undocumented people, echoing DHS' repeated claims about the targets of its enforcement. But records from the jail in the remote Florida Everglades, which critics have called a concentration camp, cast doubts on those assertions. Reporting from the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times last month found more than 250 people detained at the jail who have no criminal convictions or pending charges in the US, despite state and federal officials saying the jail was for 'vicious' and 'deranged psychopaths' facing deportation. Those newspapers also recently reported that a 15-year-old boy with no criminal record was sent to the jail, which is not supposed to house youths – a mistake the jail claimed was due to the boy 'misrepresenting' his age. Florida advocates have alleged that the conditions at the Everglades jail were appalling, with detainees forced to sleep in overcrowded pods where sewage backups led to cages flooded with feces. While officials have denied claims of inhumane treatment, the Trump administration has also promoted the brutality of the facility, including with the widely criticized decision to name the jail 'Alligator Alcatraz, a reference to the remote location in a wetland surrounded by crocodiles, alligators, pythons and mosquitoes. DHS appears to be using a similar tactic with the 'Speedway Slammer' name in Indiana, which Noem promoted with a social media post, saying, 'If you are in America illegally, you could find yourself in Indiana's Speedway Slammer. Avoid arrest and self deport now.' DHS did not immediately respond to questions about the timeline of the Indiana expansion and how the facility would be run. The Miami correctional facility is a maximum-security prison at a former air force base, roughly 70 miles north of Indianapolis, and has capacity for around 3,100 people, according to the IndyStar newspaper. The Florida jail is run by that state's division of emergency management, an arrangement that has raised alarm among advocates, as journalists found many detainees were housed in the facility even though they were not listed in Ice's database. Mike Braun, Indiana's governor, said in a statement the state was 'taking a comprehensive and collaborative approach to combating illegal immigration' and was 'proud to work with President Trump and Secretary Noem as they remove the worst of the worst'. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in Indiana has previously raised alarms about Miami correctional center conditions. In cases filed in 2021, the ACLU said some incarcerated people in segregated housing were forced to live in prolonged darkness, in cells with live electrical wires hanging from fixtures that in some cases shocked the residents. 'We wouldn't tolerate animals being held in such horrifying conditions, how can we tolerate them for people?' the ACLU said in 2021. Corrections officials declined to comment at the time. Annie Goeller, a spokesperson for the Indiana department of correction (IDOC), did not respond to questions about conditions on Tuesday, but said in an email her department was working with the governor to 'partner with federal authorities to enforce immigration laws', adding: 'Details about the partnership and how IDOC can best support those efforts are being determined.' The Indiana move comes as the Trump administration has increasingly sent immigration detainees to federal prisons that house criminal defendants. Those partnerships have reportedly caused chaos behind bars, with immigrants and their lawyers reporting horrific conditions and overcrowding, exacerbating problems for the longterm residents serving sentences. Also on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that the DeSantis administration in Florida is planning to build a second immigration detention center. Noem has said the Everglades jail in Florida would be a model for state-run immigration detention centers. And DHS has said that Trump's bill will provide funding for 80,000 new beds for Ice.
