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GM has projected it will sell more than 1 million EVs globally by mid-decade and overtake Tesla as the top US-based seller of electric vehicles.

State Rep. Gary Eisen’s comments come as President Trump has refused to concede he lost to Joe Biden, who is set to win the Electoral College vote.

Hundreds of protesters, many armed with guns, attended a rally at the Michigan Capitol building on Thursday, demonstrating against Michigan’s stay at home mandates as lawmakers debate extending the state’s coronavirus emergency declaration.

Religious-based adoption agencies that contract with the state of Michigan will be allowed to refuse to place children in LGBT homes under a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge Thursday. District Judge Robert Jonker in Grand Rapids blocked Democratic state Attorney General Dana Nessel, Michigan’s first openly gay statewide officeholder, from barring the faith-based agencies from excluding LGBT couples...

The visiting priests arrived discreetly, day and night. Stripped of their collars and cassocks, they went unnoticed in this tiny Midwestern town as they were escorted into a dingy warehouse across from an elementary school playground. Neighbors had no idea some of the dressed-down clergymen dining at local restaurants might have been accused sexual predators. They had been brought to...

The death of noted jazz drummer Lawrence Leathers, who was found unresponsive in a stairwell outside a Bronx apartment earlier this month, has been ruled a homicide, police said Tuesday.

Elizabeth Warren launched her first tour of Michigan as a Democratic presidential candidate on Tuesday with a proposal to boost domestic manufacturing, including the creation of a Cabinet-level department charged with “creating and defending” American jobs. The Department of Economic Development she would create would replace the Department of Commerce and consolidate several agencies, including the Small Business Administration and...

Elizabeth Warren launched her first tour of Michigan as a Democratic presidential candidate on Tuesday with a proposal to boost domestic manufacturing, including the creation of a Cabinet-level department charged with “creating and defending” American jobs. The Department of Economic Development she would create would replace the Department of Commerce and consolidate several agencies, including the Small Business Administration and...

Grammy-winning jazz drummer Lawrence Leathers was found dead Sunday in a stairwell outside the apartment he shared with a woman.

A deadly arctic deep freeze enveloped the Midwest with record-breaking temperatures on Wednesday, triggering widespread closures of schools and businesses, and the canceling of more than 1,800 flights from Chicago’s airports. The cold even prompted the U.S. Postal Service to suspend mail delivery to a wide swath of the region. Hundreds of public schools and several large universities from North...

Vice President Mike Pence was roundly criticized by rabbis and Jewish social media users on Monday when he invited a Messianic rabbi to pray for victims of a deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue.

A rabbi invited to pray at a Michigan campaign stop with Vice President Mike Pence on Monday referenced “Jesus the Messiah” at the event. Rabbi Loren Jacobs of Messianic congregation Shema Yisrael offered prayers for the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre. Messianic Jews follow Jewish law but believe that Jesus is the Messiah. The major denominations of Judaism reject...

Burt Reynolds, the handsome film and television star known for his acclaimed performances in “Deliverance” and “Boogie Nights,” commercial hits such as “Smokey and the Bandit” and for an active off-screen love life which included relationships with Loni Anderson and Sally Field, has died at age 82.

Some parents thought they were misinterpreting the doctor’s techniques. Others assumed their children were lying or mistaken....
But as more details emerged, the mothers and fathers had to face an awful truth: A renowned sports doctor had molested their daughters....
These parents, many fighting back tears, confronted Larry Nassar during his long sentencing hearing, lamenting their deep feelings of guilt and wondering...

Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman blasted the U.S. Olympic Committee for “shamelessly taking credit” for the resignations of three USA Gymnastics board members who stepped down Monday after calls from angry gymnasts who say the organization did nothing to protect them after they were abused by former team doctor Larry Nassar. In a statement late Monday, Raisman claimed that a...

The judge overseeing the sentencing of disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar said Monday that more than 120 girls and women who had given statements so far at the five-day hearing were “sister survivor warriors.” “I want you to know that your face and the face of all of the sister survivor warriors — the whole army of you —...

An all-volunteer group of activists has defied the odds by collecting hundreds of thousands of voter signatures for a 2018 initiative to overhaul redistricting in Michigan — without having to pay a dime for a signature. It’s a rarity in state politics outside of anti-abortion ballot drives, which have had a large base of support within churches and crucial organizational...

Lucas Holiday is used to singing for customers at the Michigan Dollar General store where he works, but singing for “The Voice” judges was an entirely different experience — and not just for him.

The Justice Department will help 12 U.S. cities develop long-term strategies to decrease violent crime, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday. The department will help local authorities study crime patterns and create specially tailored plans to reduce gang and gun violence, he said. Federal authorities will help cities find “data-driven, evidence-based strategies” that can be measured overtime. “This program will...

That Donald Trump is undeniably the nation’s 45th president doesn’t sit easily with young Americans who are the nation’s increasingly diverse electorate of the future, according to a new poll. A majority of young adults — 57 percent — see Trump’s presidency as illegitimate, including about three-quarters of blacks and large majorities of Latinos and Asians, the GenForward poll found....
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