Several Michigan clerks missed the deadline to mail absentee ballots, despite state laws that require them to be sent to voters at least 40 days before the election — which, for the 2026 midterms, was...

President Donald Trump is tapping $20 million in Homeland Security funding to pay for TV ads that heavily feature him ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats said Tuesday as the promos critics call ...

The five Michigan Secretary of State nominees from across the political spectrum appeared together for a virtual forum Tuesday hosted by the League of Women Voters, parsing questions on election secur...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted, for now, the Trump administration’s request to continue rapid third-country deportation of immigrants to countries not their own.

After instructing city officials to examine the legal implications of ending their contract for a pair of automated license plate reader cameras, members of the South Lyon City Council on Monday moved...

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The Trump administration must spend the $810 million that it said last week it planned to cancel, according to a report released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office.

Former special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday defended before a U.S. Senate panel his past investigations of President Donald Trump’s possession of classified documents and alleged role in attempts to ...

As absentee ballots make their way to voters, Michigan residents this election season are faced with another question beyond just candidates running for various offices.

Both Michigan gubernatorial candidates — Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Republican U.S. Rep. John James — have floated suspending the gas tax on some level —federal or state — as aff...

Noah Arbit, Mark Bernstein join ‘Nonnegotiable’ Jewish Democrats with policy demands for El-Sayed

The Michigan Libertarian Party released a statement Tuesday afternoon disavowing Anthony Hudson, a Genesee County truck driver who is the party’s own gubernatorial candidate. The party said that “the ...

As survivors of abuse come forward, the Justice for Survivors package offers Michigan lawmakers an opportunity to remove longstanding legal barriers that have kept many survivors from seeking legal ac...

As Lansing residents press the city to end its automated license plate reader contract with Flock Safety, members of DeFlock Lansing and the Michigan Capitol Visibility Brigade gathered at the interse...

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WASHINGTON — Small businesses will once again challenge President Donald Trump’s tariffs in federal court this week as they continue to feel the squeeze of the administration’s roller coaster policy o...

The challenges and dire threats surrounding the unchecked growth of artificial intelligence appear unlikely to move Congress or President Donald Trump to act as the U.S. Senate enters its last week be...

Democratic and Republican governors say they will more aggressively push back on federal overreach regardless of which party controls Washington. Earlier this month, the bipartisan National Governors ...

Five weeks before Election Day, President Donald Trump’s sprawling effort to identify and remove noncitizen voters hasn’t produced the kind of large purges that could meaningfully affect the midterm e...

The U.S. Department of Education’s suspension this year of a comprehensive monitoring process  puts billions of K-12 dollars at heightened risk of undetected waste, fraud and abuse, according to a new...

Across Michigan, school districts, food pantries, legal aid groups and nonprofits are preparing for another change in the distribution of SNAP benefits.

After members of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources put out a call for information about a six-foot lake sturgeon dumped at the side of the road in Muskegon County in July, a northern Michig...

Crystal Cederna, Michigan State University Teens in southeast Michigan go to school carrying with them far more than backpacks, books and water bottles. Many are shouldering economic hardship, exposur...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress.  The $810 m...

On the eve of his group’s posh Mackinac Policy Conference earlier this year, Detroit Regional Chamber President Sandy Baruah sounded an economic alarm.  “Michigan’s house is on fire,” he said, reeling...

Push for schools to guide safe firearm storage, only half complying a month from annual deadline

News and updates on data centers in the Great Lakes State for the week of Sept. 21

As physicians continue to navigate care for patients with complex pregnancies in states with abortion bans, a group of maternal-fetal medicine specialists has developed new guidelines to help provider...

Anxiety over artificial intelligence is growing. Will it replace humans and take jobs? How will it change our privacy? Will it impact our elections? The list of existential questions about AI goes on....

The 2025 Youth Risk Behavior Survey report focuses on five areas — diet, physical activity, sleep, digital behavior, and mental health and suicide risk — while largely leaving out national findings on...

As gas prices surge to record levels amidst the ongoing war in Iran, military veterans led protestors outside a Lansing gas station Friday in opposition to the war alongside the rollout of an electron...

By Sarah Jane Tribble, Ali Swenson, The Associated Press, and Linley Sanders, The Associated Press About half of rural American voters believe the economy is worse off now than when President Donald T...

WASHINGTON — An appeals panel Friday seemed inclined to agree that more than 100 Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to a brutal prison in El Salvador are entitled to due process hearings to ...

Embattled Antrim County Clerk Victoria Bishop, who lost access to the state’s voter roll after state officials said she unilaterally changed and canceled voter registrations, could face a recall elect...

Head Start opens a door for millions of young Michiganders. Don’t close it.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued new guidance to law enforcement officers on how to enforce personal protection orders, including those issued by Michigan’s tribal governments and courts.

Less than two months ago, William Lawrence was a relatively unknown progressive climate group co-founder and a dark-horse candidate for Congress running in a Trump district in the middle of Michigan.

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Dozens gathered in Grand Rapids Thursday to demand justice for Mario David Coronado Juárez, a 35-year-old undocumented immigrant from Guatemala who died days earlier after fleeing when ICE agents atte...

Rogers says he built Chrysler vehicles on an assembly line. Records show his work was at an aftermarket facility that modified vehicles after they left the factory.

WASHINGTON — Despite skyrocketing fuel prices and sinking approval ratings for President Donald Trump’s conflict in Iran ahead of the November midterms, Senate Republicans blocked Democrats’ efforts T...

On Thursday, communications workers gathered with lawmakers from separate sides of the aisle as they continued an almost 10-year push to keep call center jobs in Michigan.

WASHINGTON — Government investigators Thursday released a report that found the Department of Homeland Security wasted more than $20 million in federal funding in its rapid expansion of immigration de...

As absentee ballots for November’s general election begin to be mailed out to Michigan voters on Thursday, clerks and election advocates urged Michiganders to feel confident in the safety and security...

Voters in nine states will weigh changes to their criminal legal systems and drug policies this fall. The Nov. 3 ballot measures include questions about pretrial release, fentanyl and human traffickin...

As lithium-ion batteries play an essential role in powering the devices used in the public’s everyday lives, two members of the Michigan House are looking into establishing a battery stewardship progr...

Great Lakes senators call on Trump to stop delaying invasive carp barrier

New lawsuit alleges sexual misconduct, retaliation against 14-year-old at Interlochen arts school