Many Arab Americans in Michigan followed through on their pledge to vote against Kamala Harris on Tuesday, with fewer than one in seven Muslims casting a ballot for the Democratic nominee, according to an exit poll released Friday. In fact, about 59% of the state’s Muslim residents voted for Green Party candidate Jill Stein, according to the poll, conducted through a partnership between Molitico Consulting and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is set to reveal his plans for his political future next week, an announcement that is expected to trigger a wave of political activity. The third-term mayor has not yet hinted about his next move, but many political observers are speculating that the Democrat plans to run for governor in 2026.

Donald Trump, a fear-mongering, convicted felon accused of sexually assaulting numerous women and inciting a violent insurrection in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in Michigan, a key battleground state where he had lost by more than 154,000 votes four years ago. Trump went on to win the overall election, defeating Harris in states that President Joe Biden won in 2020.

This story was originally published by Outlier Media. Property speculators have wreaked havoc on Detroit over the last decade. Some of the effects are easy to see: blighted properties that fall apart bit by bit for years.

This story was originally published by Outlier Media. Wayne State University was looking for a buyer for its shuttered Shapero Hall near downtown in 2007. The brick building from the 1950s once housed the university’s pharmacy program, but had been vacant for years.

This story was originally published by Outlier Media. Susan Newell remembers how her Detroit neighborhood emptied out seemingly overnight following the 2008 housing crash. Neighbors in Morningside, where she’s lived for more than 40 years, were forced out because they couldn’t pay their mortgage or tax bill.

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“Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president,” said Donald Trump at a campaign event at the Detroit Economic Club earlier last month. While the former President meant this line to instill fear for the future of American public safety if Vice President Kamala Harris defeats him, the reality is that much of the country would benefit from understanding the progress Detroit has made on crime. Last year, Detroit recorded its lowest number of homicides since 1966 — alongside significant drops in carjackings and non-fatal shootings.

The U.S. government’s involvement in Israel’s expanding war in the Middle East is unconstitutional because it was not authorized by Congress, Democratic U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Detroit and Cori Bush of St. Louis wrote in a strongly worded letter to President Joe Biden on Friday. “In light of recent regional escalations, including exchanges in hostilities between Israel and Iran and the Israeli government’s ground invasions of Lebanon and Gaza, we are deeply concerned about the increasing role and involvement of the U.S. Armed Forces in expanding wars across the Middle East,” the letter states.

A company that immerses fans in sports and entertainment viewing events with LED technology announced its fourth U.S. venue is planned for Detroit. Cosm’s latest location is planned for the Campus Martius area in Detroit through a partnership with Dan Gilbert’s Bedrock real estate arm and local architecture firm Rossetti. It follows venues in Los Angeles and Dallas, as well as a recently announced location in Atlanta.

When Mark Craighead and Lamarr Monson were released from prison and exonerated for murders they didn’t commit in Detroit, they pledged to help others who have been wrongfully convicted. Now the pair, united by a common cause, are raising money for a nonprofit they recently created – Freedom Ain’t Free – to connect innocent people behind bars with attorneys, paralegals, private investigators, firearm experts, and other legal resources.

Aiming to bring more green spaces and shade to Detroit neighborhoods, a coalition of local organizations and city leaders celebrated a significant milestone on Monday by planting the 25,000th tree in two years. The Detroit Tree Equity Partnership highlighted its efforts to restore the city’s urban tree canopy, improve air quality, and create job opportunities for residents during a ceremony in Bailey Park in the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood.

Detroit has once again gained an unfortunate title, ranking as the least healthy city in the U.S., according to a new report by Forbes Advisor. The study evaluated health across 46 of the nation’s largest cities using eight key metrics. Detroit earned 100 out of 100, placing last due to widespread chronic health issues and lifestyle factors.

With their mayor at the helm, the city of Ann Arbor is working toward carbon neutrality by 2030. Severe weather in Michigan has strained budgets and put lives and properties at risk. In response, local leaders highlighted Ann Arbor’s climate actions to transition to clean energy through the A2ZERO plan.

When a loose cannon like Donald Trump bellows at campaign rallies that “the world is on fire” and that we are “on the verge of World War III,” it is easy to dismiss his hot spew as more lava from a verbal volcano. But when an authentic conservative elder like George F. Will objectively opines that this very war is already underway, it is worth considering his intellectual take with some serious thought — as well as fear for what is to come. Israel’s air attack on Iran over the weekend brought this thought into sharp, troubling focus.