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Michigan Democrats pass budget after giving Republicans just 45 minutes to read it: 'Pork projects'

Michigan Democrats passed a sweeping $83 billion state budget, cutting teachers’ pensions and school-safety spending to fund ambitious new business projects — and more than $330 million for lawmakers' pet projects. 

Biden's debate debacle could hurt Dems downballot: 'Replace the president'

Pundits and Republican candidates in swing-state congressional races did not mince words reacting to the debate while some Democratic candidates ghosted events or distanced themselves from the sitting president.

Derek Jeter knocks it out of the park with quick sale of childhood home

The home Mr. November grew up in barely spent an inning on the market, and already it’s pending sale. 

Frisky GOP Michigan Rep. Friske claims he was ‘framed’ after arrest for assaulting, chasing stripper with gun

Neil Friske, the frisky Michigan state representative arrested last week for allegedly assaulting a stripper, insisted he was “framed” in his first interview after his release from jail.

Michigan sheriff's deputy shot dead in vicious ambush as community reels from 'soul-crushing' loss

Oakland County, Michigan, Deputy Sheriff Bradley Reckling, 30, was gunned down in Detroit on Saturday night by accused car thieves. He leaves a wife and three young daughters, officials said.

Republicans hail Michigan mail-in-ballot ruling as victory: 'Incompatible with the Constitution'

Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was wrong to advise election officials to presume the validity of absentee-ballot signatures, a Michigan judge has ruled.

GOP Michigan rep and gun-rights supporter accused of chasing a stripper while firing a gun

His arrest “stems from allegations that he sexually assaulted an exotic dancer and then chased her with a firearm, a source familiar with the allegations” told news service Gongwer Michigan.

Trump leads Biden in six key states — and ties in blue Minnesota — ahead of debate: poll

Former President Donald Trump is running the table against President Biden in fresh polling of six key battleground states.

Rite Aid to close over two dozen stores amid bankruptcy proceedings

Rite Aid said the proceedings would involve continued store footprint optimization.

Retired border chief says immigration crisis even threatens this far-from-the-border state

The immigration wave at the southern border is a crisis of national security, and Michigan is not exempt from its effects, a recently retired Border Patrol chief says.

Survey: Unregistered, likely GOP voters in Wisconsin, Michigan want to participate in November

Nearly two-thirds of the unregistered, likely Republican voters in Wisconsin and Michigan, want to get registered in time to vote in November.

Couple who shielded their 2 young kids during Michigan splash park shooting shot combined 7 times

“Because of their heroic actions, their children were protected and able to go home that evening."

Gunman who shot 9 people — including 2 kids — at Michigan water park lived with mom, may have planned more attacks

When cops stormed his trailer, they discovered an AR-style rifle on the kitchen table and the gunman was lying dead next to a third gun.

Donald Trump offers message to black voters in immigrant-weary Detroit: 'Taking your jobs'

Former President Donald Trump also coined the new nickname for Joe Biden at the event.

8 shot -- including 8-year-old boy -- at water park in random attack, suspect dead after standoff

A suspect was detained shortly after gunfire erupted at the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad in Rochester Hills — about 28 miles from downtown Detroit — around 5 p.m.

NYC to get hit with first heat wave of the summer — with some temps breaking records across the Northeast

The Big Apple is bracing for temperatures expected to rise through the work week and hit the 90s by Thursday -- the first official day of summer -- and Friday.

Lara Trump is building an army of ‘100,000 poll watchers and over 500 lawyers' to ‘deploy’ across America in November 

Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump announced Friday that she and the RNC are working to raise a veritable army of “over 100,000 poll watchers and over 500 lawyers.”

How much are the cheapest Electric Forest tickets to see Nelly Furtado?

Other genre-hopping headliners on the bill include Everything Always, Ludacris and The String Cheese Incident.

Michigan worker claims company threatened to fire him if he didn't join labor union

Four months after Michigan repealed its right-to-work law, more workers are filing lawsuits against their employers for trying to force union membership.