Michigan House Democrats are calling on Congress to halt weapons transfers to Israel and increase humanitarian aid to Gaza, pointing to the increasing civilian death toll and the impact the war has had on Palestinian families in the state. Reps. Dylan Wegela of Garden City, Alabas Farhat of Dearborn, and Erin Byrnes of Dearborn on […]

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Detroit City Councilwoman Mary Waters fired her government affairs director, Reggie Davis, on Wednesday after investigators discovered he and former council president and convicted sex offender Charles Pugh posed as incoming Ombudsman staff while Davis sought a $197,000-a-year job. 

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A Republican gubernatorial candidate is spreading misinformation and stoking anti-Muslim sentiment ahead of a planned march in Dearborn that he’s calling the “American Crusade.”

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As the Red Wings celebrate its 100th season, the Detroit Historical Museum is looking back at a century of Motor City hockey. Detroit Red Wings at 100: Becoming Hockeytown is set to open at the museum on Thursday, Nov. 20. The multi-media exhibition features rarely seen artifacts, uniforms from some of the team’s most legendary […]

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In a city that gave the world Motown, techno, and countless other artistic movements, too many Detroit children still grow up without access to art or music education. 

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The massive American flag draped over the new Hudson’s building in downtown Detroit didn’t last long. 

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On Nov. 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing its entire crew of 29 and becoming the largest shipwreck in the Great Lakes. The tragedy was immortalized in a Gordon Lightfoot ballad, and in the decades since a number of theories have been put forth about what caused the ship to […]

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Mexican artist Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals stand tall and proud inside the Detroit Institute of Arts, a monument to the power of workers and a city long associated with organized labor. Those murals, in part, have inspired DIA workers to move to form a union. The DIA Workers United effort was announced Tuesday by […]

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The name, email address, and home address of Republican state Rep. Bryan Posthumus of Kent County, along with a credit card bearing his name, appear in data from Ashley Madison, a website for people seeking affairs. 

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Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield will become the first woman mayor of the city after handily defeating Rev. Solomon Kinloch Jr. in Tuesday’s general election. 

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The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights and pro-Israel lobbying organization, quietly filed a sweeping Freedom of Information Act request with Wayne State University seeking emails from thousands of faculty, staff, and administrators that referenced Palestine, Zionism, or the student group Students for Justice in Palestine. 

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A conservative Dearborn mayoral candidate who has made “faith, family, and freedom” the centerpiece of his campaign has struggled to pay his own bills, even as he poured more than $50,000 into his race for mayor.

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Timberland is bringing its iconic “Yellow Boot” to Detroit.  The footwear company announced the opening date for its first Detroit location, set for Friday, Nov. 14. The store is located at 1217 Woodward Ave., across the street from Bedrock’s new Hudson’s site tower. Opening weekend festivities on the following Saturday and Sunday include a sweepstakes […]

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Autonomous car company Waymo says it plans to deploy its “robotaxi” service in Detroit this winter. In a series of announcements Monday, Waymo, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet Inc., said it planned to launch the service in Detroit, in addition to San Diego and Las Vegas: Waymo is headed to Motown! Detroit is […]

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Highland Park activist Robert Davis is suing Detroit mayoral candidate Solomon Kinloch Jr. for slander and defamation, claiming the megachurch leader maliciously lied about him during and after a recent debate. 

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A banner ad reading “Diversity is the Trojan horse of terrorism” appeared on the front page of the Sturgis Journal on Tuesday, prompting outrage and accusations of racism across Michigan. 

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A Pontiac activist has filed an emergency court motion questioning whether mayoral candidate Michael McGuinness is eligible to run for office under a state constitutional amendment inspired by former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s corruption scandal.

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This is the second installment in “Exploring Integrity: Reviewing Wrongful Conviction Remedies,” a series examining the impact of conviction integrity units on the American judicial system’s rate of wrongful conviction. Presented by the O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism, the investigation is supported by Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He went to prison an innocent man. Kenneth […]

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U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Tuesday endorsed Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II for Michigan governor, praising his record on working people, labor unions, and his support for people rebuilding their lives after incarceration.

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