Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian folk singer who died on Monday at 84, had one hit in particular that famously defied Top 40 logic. “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” his 1976 folk ballad, was unusual partly because, at more than six minutes long, it was about twice as long as most pop hits. It also […]
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ATLANTA — Former President Donald J. Trump took part in a discussion about plans to access voting system software in Michigan and Georgia as part of the effort to challenge his 2020 election loss, according to testimony from former Trump advisers. The testimony, delivered to the House Jan. 6 committee, was highlighted on Friday in […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: twitter / Twitter White fragility must be one powerful drug the way it gets racists so deep in their feelings that they get themselves arrested and charged with crimes they’re forced to pay the penalty for when minding their own Caucasian business is 100% free. If one is so bigoted and […]
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The legal imbroglios of Donald Trump have lately dominated conversation about the 2024 election. As primary season grinds on, campaign activity will wax and wane, and issues of the moment — like the first Trump indictment and potentially others to come — will blaze into focus and then disappear. Yet certain fundamentals will shape the […]
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NewsOne Featured Video Source: Michael Ochs Archives / Getty The house that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders used while planning the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama will be getting a new home. According to AP, the Jackson House will be moving to The Henry Ford Museum in […]
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It’s tough talk for a bill that doesn’t actually hold many companies to account, or seek to meaningfully improve young people’s relationship with the online world. Because while it’s difficult to imagine how exactly the bill would be enforced, what’s more difficult is to understand which companies will even be impacted. The bill has numerous […]
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She may bring her considerable passion to bear on national gun legislation, but Slotkin is likely to be disappointed, at least in the short term. Although Congress passed, and President Joe Biden signed, compromise gun control legislation last year, passage of any further restrictions in the current Republican-controlled House is hardly likely. Still, she is […]
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Inside a secretive government laboratory, behind a tall fence and armed guards, a team of engineers has been dissecting the innards of the newest all-electric vehicles with a singular goal: Rewrite tailpipe pollution rules to speed up the nation’s transition to electric cars. As early as next week, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to propose […]
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The governor of Michigan is considered one of her party’s brightest stars. Her state’s Democratic-controlled Legislature is rapidly approving a raft of ambitious priorities. The Democratic Party is planning to host one of its earliest presidential primaries in Michigan, while the state’s Republican Party is in chaos. Seven years after Michigan helped cement Donald J. […]
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Like a lot of people who get into professional wrestling, Donovan Danhausen had a vision of a different version of himself. Ten years ago, at age 21, he was living in Detroit, working as a nursing assistant at a hospital, watching a lot of “Adult Swim” and accumulating a collection of horror- and comedy-themed tattoos. […]
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Meanwhile, Republican Representative Matt Rosendale has been lobbying the FWS to delist the grizzly bear from the endangered species list too—something the FWS is now doing. Similar to the gray wolf, the grizzly bear has only recently begun to spring back, and certainly not to the same extent as before human-caused overhunting and habitat loss. […]
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For more than a decade, Western Michigan’s food and commercial workers union has been in a defensive crouch after Republicans made union membership optional in a state once synonymous with organized labor. The union shifted from expansion and organizing to just trying to hold down attrition as workers opted out of paying their dues. On […]
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LANSING, Mich. — Democrats in Michigan pressed ahead with a torrent of liberal measures on Wednesday, the boldest assertion yet of their new political power since taking full control of state government this year for the first time in four decades. In the course of a single afternoon and evening, and despite loud objections from […]
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Dead birds still fall from the sky near my hometown. Their bodies hit the ground as part of the fallout of an environmental disaster that dates back to the 1970s, the result of corporate pollution that made the county I grew up in the home of one of Michigan’s most notorious Superfund sites. It’s impossible […]
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YPSILANTI, Mich. — From time to time, Emoni Bates shows flashes of the player he was supposed to be. Like the moment in a recent game when he received the ball near the 3-point arc and took a couple of hard dribbles toward the basket, a 6-foot-10 bundle of kinetic energy, his spindly arms and […]
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And Cruz has done his best to earn the corporate cash. In 2021, he co-sponsored legislation narrowing the amount of time agencies have to complete environmental reviews of proposed federal action, and assigning penalties to agencies that don’t comply with those timelines. Cruz also pushed a bill in the same Congress, alongside Senators John Kennedy […]
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The Michigan Senate seat is part of a larger challenging map for the Democrats. They’re defending 23 of the 33 seats up for reelection. Some, like Montana, Ohio, and West Virginia, are ones that Trump won by no small margins; others, like Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, and Wisconsin, are pivotal swing states whose results will reveal […]
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Representative Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat and former C.I.A. analyst who has notched several high-profile victories in a challenging district, said Monday that she would run for the Senate seat being vacated by Senator Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat. Ms. Slotkin is the first Democrat running in what could be a hotly contested primary followed by […]
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KALAMAZOO, Mich. — When Anna Capling, a labor and delivery nurse in Livonia, Mich., heard from family members on Wednesday that their lights were flickering amid an impending ice storm, she stood up to charge her phone just in case the power went out. Then she heard a loud boom, and everything went dark. Days […]
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Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. As students at Michigan State University, my friends and I would often end a night of adventures by sharing snacks and stories in the student union building. When I graduated in May 2022 with my […]
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A prolonged winter storm that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers in the Upper Midwest was continuing its assault on the region on Thursday, as portions of Southern California prepare for blizzard conditions, forecasters said. More than 800,000 customers were without power early Thursday across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota, according to […]
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One: The leaders of the religious right rally—early—behind another candidate. This is obviously DeSantis’s play. My guess is that there are a lot of Republican parents in the state of Florida who reacted to last week’s news at least in party by saying, “Hey, wait a minute, I want my brilliant kid to go to […]
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LANSING, Mich. — Trump loyalists are expected to cement their takeover of Michigan’s Republican Party during its leadership vote on Saturday, most likely elevating one of two election deniers whose failed bids for office in November were emblematic of the party’s midterm drubbing in the state. Matthew DePerno, an election conspiracy theorist who is under […]
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On Wednesday afternoon, Ally Anderson, a senior, stood in front of the Rock, quietly paying her respects to the students who were killed before she would leave campus and drive home to Danville, Ky. The message supporting concealed carry had already been painted over. “I think it’s, like, really insensitive at the moment,” Ms. Anderson […]
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They all went to high school in the Detroit suburbs: a 19-year-old who planned to become the first doctor in her family, a “quiet leader” who modeled poise and humility, and the chapter president of his fraternity. All three were killed on the Michigan State University campus Monday night, when gunfire rang out in a […]
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Reports of suffering animals, from dogs and cats to fish and chickens, continue to accumulate. Taylor Holzer, an animal caretaker, lost one of his foxes. Others are in poor condition with faces swollen, stomachs upset, and eyes watering. Holzer’s dog, who hadn’t returned home until after the evacuation order was lifted, has begun coughing and […]
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Michigan State mass shooting: Biden calls for gun control Skip to content Greg Nash President Biden gives his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, February 7, 2023. President Biden on Tuesday urged Congress to take action against gun violence in the […]
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Reports of suffering animals, from dogs and cats to fish and chickens, continue to accumulate. Taylor Holzer, an animal caretaker, lost one of his foxes. Others are in poor condition with faces swollen, stomachs upset, and eyes watering. Holzer’s dog, who hadn’t returned home until after the evacuation order was lifted, has begun coughing and […]
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On Monday night, the usually busy streets of Michigan State University’s sprawling 5,200-acre campus fell silent after a gunman opened fire in two buildings, killing three people and wounding five others. For hours, students, faculty and staff sheltered in place, many in dormitories and in other campus buildings, as hundreds of police officers searched for […]
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“I covered the door with my roommate’s bed and I turned off the lights,” he said at the time. “I’m keeping myself hidden in the closet.” Marcus Wolff, 20, said on Tuesday that his usual Monday night volleyball game in a campus gym had been cut short by reports of a gunman on the loose. […]
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A Risky Wager Hard-fought deals for casinos gave many tribes a critical economic lifeline. When the doors opened to widespread sports betting, others wanted in on the gambling business. By David W. Chen, Mark Walker and Kenneth P. Vogel David W. Chen, Mark Walker and Kenneth P. Vogel visited tribal leaders, reviewed court cases and spoke […]
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