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Michigan Democrats pass budget after giving Republicans just 45 minutes to read it: 'Pork projects'
June 29, 2024 | 7:46pmMichigan 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'
June 29, 2024 | 6:17amPundits 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
June 28, 2024 | 5:30pmThe 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
June 25, 2024 | 7:25pmNeil 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
June 23, 2024 | 4:59pmOakland 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'
June 20, 2024 | 10:27pmDemocratic 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
June 20, 2024 | 4:39pmHis 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
June 20, 2024 | 2:29pmFormer 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
June 20, 2024 | 1:25amRite Aid said the proceedings would involve continued store footprint optimization.
Retired border chief says immigration crisis even threatens this far-from-the-border state
June 19, 2024 | 2:02pmThe 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
June 19, 2024 | 4:37amNearly 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
June 16, 2024 | 10:11pm“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
June 16, 2024 | 9:03amWhen 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'
June 15, 2024 | 8:11pmFormer 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
June 15, 2024 | 7:34pmA 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
June 15, 2024 | 4:32pmThe 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.
GOP candidate stands by AI-generated MLK Jr. endorsement video: ‘I do believe he would endorse me’
June 14, 2024 | 11:48pmIt was an artificial endorsement.
Lara Trump is building an army of ‘100,000 poll watchers and over 500 lawyers' to ‘deploy’ across America in November
June 14, 2024 | 9:39pmRepublican 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?
June 14, 2024 | 2:39pmOther 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
June 13, 2024 | 5:07pmFour months after Michigan repealed its right-to-work law, more workers are filing lawsuits against their employers for trying to force union membership.