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Fed court: Mich. political maps illegally drawn

Michigan must redraw legislative and congressional districts for the 2020 election because GOP lawmakers gerrymandered the maps, a federal...

Probe clears acting defense head of alleged bias in Pentagon

Shirkey: GOP won’t rule out Nessel impeachment

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US judge in Washington state blocks new Trump abortion rule

Trying to keep track? Meet the Democratic candidates for president

Trump Tower meeting emails ‘really bad,’ aide told Trump

Political Insider: Snyder forgives campaign loans

Joe Biden launches 2020 bid warning ‘soul’ of America at stake

Trump to address a divided National Rifle Association

Booker has a plan to boost Environmental Protection Agency

The New Jersey senator wants to hold polluters more accountable and reverse what he says are Trump administration rollbacks of environmental safeguards

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Trump to address a divided National Rifle Association

Group is grappling with infighting, bleeding money and facing a series of investigations into its operating practices

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US judge in Washington state blocks new Trump abortion rule

A U.S. judge in Washington state Thursday blocked new Trump administration rules that would provide additional hurdles for women seeking abortions

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Licensing board ends oversight of pot regulation

The Medical Marihuana Licensing Board churned through 92 applications for prequalification, 28 applications for state licenses and four appeals.

Michigan

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Michigan activists demand driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants

Demonstrations Wednesday join 'Driving Without Fear' immigrant marches across country

Michigan

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IRS data shows refunds down 2% under new law

IRS data shows that while the average refund fell, the tax filing season was largely unchanged by the massive tax overhaul

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Trump Tower meeting emails ‘really bad,’ aide told Trump

The president’s communications director didn’t sugarcoat it: The emails, Hope Hicks told Donald Trump, were “really bad”

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Joe Biden launches 2020 bid warning ‘soul’ of America at stake

The 76-year-old Biden becomes an instant front-runner

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Five years into Flint water crisis, Whitmer works to ‘earn back trust’

Flint activists and leaders say they are pleased by the governor's early attention to the city, which she has already visited multiple times

Michigan

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Michigan’s new marijuana agency will regulate a market in turmoil

When the Marijuana Regulatory Agency launches Tuesday, employees likely won’t have much time to appreciate the change.

Michigan

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Trying to keep track? Meet the Democratic candidates for president

Twenty candidates have declared they are off and running

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Russia’s Putin arrives for summit with North Korea’s Kim

Kim is looking for a win after his failed second summit with Trump, and Putin for a chance to raise Moscow’s clout

World

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Bernie Sanders speaks at Macomb rally

Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke campaigns in Ferndale

John Dingell funeral in Washington, D.C.

Gov. Whitmer delivers first State of the State address

Michigan's 100th Legislature sworn in

President George H.W. Bush, 1924-2018

Detroit's 2018 Labor Day parade

Michigan GOP convention

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Political Insider: Snyder forgives campaign loans

Ex-Gov. Rick Snyder forgave more than $5 million he loaned to his campaign when he launched a long-shot bid for the 2010 GOP gubernatorial nomination

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Pence speaks on new trade pact in Taylor

Vice President Mike Pence speaks on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement at Motor City Solutions in Taylor on April 24, 2019.

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Pence pushes for approval of new trade agreement

The vice president toured the Dearborn Truck Plant before a speech on NAFTA replacement

Autos

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Debate heats up over state GOP plan to ban abortion procedure

Republican bills would amend Michigan's partial-birth abortion ban to prohibit removing the limbs or head of a living fetus, unless suction is used

Michigan

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Columnists

New DNR grants target deer disease — before disease targets us Neal Rubin

Bankole: The rarity of Sen. John McCain’s politics Bankole Thompson

Howes: Tesla's troubles threaten to deepen as rivals accelerate Daniel Howes

Finley: How the Waymo plant ended up in Detroit Nolan Finley

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Trump forms battle plan for post-Mueller probes: Just say no

“We’re fighting all the subpoenas,” Trump declared on Wednesday

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Michigan lawmakers try to relaunch satellite site

Michigan would again try to spend $2.5 million to help an aerospace association create a low-orbit satellite-launch site under the revised plan.

Politics

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Trump to keep fighting opioids ‘until our job is done’

President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to battle the deadly epidemic of opioid drug abuse

Nation

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Senate passes ‘raise age’ plan; House restricts drug takings

The Michigan Senate approved legislation that would ‘raise the age” threshold for automatic prosecution as an adult from 17 to 18 years old.

Michigan

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Writings on gender issues magnify scrutiny of Trump Fed pick

Additional provocative commentaries about women written by Stephen Moore, Trump’s pick for the FED board, emerged Tuesday

Politics

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Nessel: Hate crimes unit won’t be thought police

AG Dana Nessel on Tuesday touted her new Michigan hate crimes unit, rejecting criticism and concerns raised by Republican legislators

Michigan

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Trump threatens more troops to border after Mexico incident

Trump tweeted Wednesday that ‘Mexico’s Soldiers recently pulled guns on our National Guard Soldiers ...’

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US judge in Oregon to block new Trump abortion policy

A Judge intends to at least partially block a Trump administration rule that could cut off funding for providers who refer patients for an abortion

Politics

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Whitmer vows veto as gas tax stripped from road budget

The budget plan would “accelerate” $132 million in road funding dollars slated to go to roads in future years under existing law.

Politics

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Pence back in Detroit area Wed. to talk trade

Vice President Mike Pence is expected in the Detroit area Wednesday to raise money, tour a Ford plant and promote a new U.S.-Canada-Mexico trade deal

Michigan

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White House: Trump admin officials will skip press dinner

Neither President Trump nor those who work for him plan to attend the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner

Nation

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Dem donors swoon, sometimes fight, over Pete Buttigieg

Pete Buttigieg is suddenly the hottest ticket for Democratic donors in the 2020 presidential contest

Politics

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The Comey firing, as retold by the Mueller report

First in a series of stories focusing on events detailed in the report of special counsel Robert Mueller , drawing from the document’s trove

Politics

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Hillary Clinton: Mueller report is beginning, not the end

Hillary Clinton says special counsel Robert Mueller’s report is only the beginning of a reckoning on election meddling, not the end

Politics

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Kushner plays down Russia’s interference in 2016 election

Kushner says the investigations into Russia’s interference in election “had a much harder impact on our democracy” than what Russia actually did

Politics

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Justices seem ready to OK asking citizenship on census

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed ready Tuesday to uphold the Trump administration’s plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census

Nation

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Tension emerges between Congress, 2020 Dems on impeachment

The split reflects the tension that could emerge in the coming months between Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill and those seeking the party’s presidential nomination

Politics

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Source: Biden to announce 2020 bid on Thursday

Biden’s decision answers the final major question of the early 2020 Democratic primary season, which now features more than 20 candidates

Politics

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Senate approves e-cigarette ban for minors

The Michigan Senate on Tuesday approved legislation that would ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors, the latest step in a years-long battle.

Politics

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Accuser calls Biden’s jokes about touching ‘disrespectful’

Lucy Flores said she wants to force a discussion of how powerful men treat women

Politics

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Cops arrest Florida man for threatening call to Tlaib, others

"Your life will be on the [expletive] line. All of you," the voicemail allegedly left by the man said

Politics

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Impeachment, felons voting divides Democrats at CNN forums

Democratic candidates for president expressed widely different views in forums aired by the cable news channel

Politics

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Trump, his organization sue Dem House chairman to block subpoena

Rep. Elijah Cummings issued the subpoena to an accountant for the president that seeks years of the president’s financial records

Politics

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Democrats subpoena ex-White House counsel

Don McGahn was a vital witness for Robert Mueller, recounting the president’s outrage over the investigation and his efforts to curtail it

Politics

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Nessel creates payroll fraud enforcement unit

Attorney General Dana Nessel created a unit to tackle payroll fraud at Michigan businesses as a group said some mistakes are due to complex payroll laws

Politics

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Pelosi: Trump can be held accountable without impeachment

Pelosi said impeachment proceedings are not the only way to uncover the facts needed for Congress to hold Trump "accountable"

Politics

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Peters supports ‘aspects’ of Green New Deal

U.S. Sen. Gary Peters said he supports parts of the Green New Deal but declined to back the resolution in favor of “specific pieces of legislation.”

Michigan

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Medicare, Social Security face shaky fiscal futures

The condition of the government’s bedrock retirement programs for middle- and working-class Americans remains shaky

Nation

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