Nomaan Merchant, Author at Greenfield Recorder

Former President Donald Trump speaks before he boards his plane at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Thursday in Arlington, Virginia, after facing a judge on federal conspiracy charges that allege he conspired to subvert the 2020 election.

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Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges that he tried to overturn 2020 election

by Michael Kunzelman Associated Press, Eric Tucker Associated Press, and Nomaan Merchant Associated PressAugust 3, 2023

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday to trying to overturn the results of his 2020 election loss, answering for the first time to federal charges that accuse him of orchestrating a brazen and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to block…

Police officers gather near a car that crashed into a barrier on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 2, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Man rams car into 2 Capitol police; 1 officer, driver killed

by Michael Balsamo Associated Press, Nomaan Merchant Associated Press, and Colleen Long Associated PressApril 2, 2021

A boat sinks in the Packery Channel during Hurricane Hanna, Saturday, in North Padre Island, Texas. The Category 1 storm continued to strengthen before reaching Padre Island at 5 p.m. Saturday.

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Storm drenches virus-hit South Texas

by John L. Mone Associated Press, and Nomaan Merchant Associated PressJuly 26, 2020

FILE - In this Sept. 2017 file photo, a flag is waved outside the White House, in Washington. The Trump administration announced Friday that it was curbing legal immigration from six additional countries that officials said did not meet security screening standards, as part of an election-year push to further restrict immigration. Officials said immigrants from Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Eritrea, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania will face new restrictions in obtaining certain visas to come to the United States. But it is not a total travel ban, unlike President Donald Trump’s earlier effort that generated outrage around the world for unfairly targeting Muslims. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Trump curbs immigration for 6 nations; not a full travel ban

by Colleen Long Associated Press, and Nomaan Merchant Associated PressJanuary 31, 2020

Esvin Fernando Arredondo of Guatemala reunites with his daughters Andrea, left, Keyli, right, and Alison at Los Angeles Airport, Wednesday, after being separated during the Trump administration’s wide-scale separation of immigrant families.

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9 parents separated from families return to children in US

by Nomaan Merchant Associated Press, and Elliot Spagat Associated PressJanuary 23, 2020

In this Aug. 30, 2019, photo, asylum seekers from Cuba and Nicaragua wash their clothes in the Rio Grande near the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Mexico. They were sent back to Mexico to wait for their asylum case under the "Remain in Mexico" program, officially called the Migrant Protection Protocols. (AP Photo/Veronica G. Cardenas)

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US tells migrant woman 8 mos. pregnant to wait in Mexico

by Nomaan Merchant Associated Press, and VerOnica G. CArdenas Associated PressSeptember 6, 2019

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 24, 2019 file photo, a Guatemalan man poses for a photo with his young son at the new Casa del Refugiado in east El Paso, Texas. Behind him is a full-wall mural which reads Esperanza, or hope. A federal appeals court ruling will allow the Trump administration to begin rejecting asylum at some parts of the U.S.- Mexico border for migrants who arrived after transiting through a third country. (Mark Lambie/The El Paso Times via AP, File)

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Court: US can reject asylum along parts of Mexico border

by Nomaan Merchant Associated PressAugust 16, 2019

FILE - In this June 2, 2009, file photo, the Statue of Liberty stands in New York harbor. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

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Biographer: Statue poem embraces migrants from ‘all places’

by Nomaan Merchant Associated PressAugust 14, 2019

In this July 24, 2019 photo, Ruth poses outside her place of business in Los Angeles. Ruth's brothers, Carlos and Juan, from Guatemala were held inside jam-packed U.S. Border Patrol cells for about 30 days in South Texas after crossing the border illegally. It’s a pattern that immigration lawyers say has repeated itself for several weeks: Adults are detained in packed Border Patrol cells, malnourished, poorly treated and incommunicado, only to be moved within hours once the government is sued on their behalf. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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Border Patrol detains adults with no end — until lawyers sue

by Nomaan Merchant Associated PressJuly 30, 2019

Yenly Morales, left, and Yenly Herrera, immigrants from Cuba seeking asylum in the United States, wait on the Brownsville and Matamoros International Bridge in Matamoros, Mexico.

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US expands ‘Remain in Mexico’ to dangerous part of border

by Nomaan Merchant Associated PressJuly 19, 2019