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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) told Detroit, East Lansing and Lansing that election monitors will be sent to their cities for the August primary, which top state leaders say is based on numerous unsubstantiated claims.

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Birmingham) and Abdul El-Sayed debated at the WOOD TV 8 studio where it turned into a verbal brawl, but both U.S. Senate candidates refused to address the schism in the party.

America turns 250 next week, but for many people old enough to remember the nation's bicentennial celebration in 1976, the run-up to the milestone birthday feels strangely subdued.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Director Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. pushed his new inverted food pyramid that focuses on meats, dairy and produce during a forum on healthy eating and avoiding obesity, held at Country Mill.

President Donald Trump’s four judicial nominees for federal judgeships told a Senate panel Wednesday that former President Joe Biden won the 2020 election “as a matter of law.”

President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug.

An AI-generated photo President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social drew rebuke from one Christian-minded gubernatorial candidate and a conservative Catholic lawmaker, who viewed the post as "blasphemy."

The federal government wants a court order invalidating Washtenaw County officials’ policy outlining law enforcement’s response to immigration efforts.

U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) said on Tuesday that she’d consider running for president in 2028 to help the Democratic Party chart a new path built around the generation of leaders, according to a story published Tuesday evening in the Des Moines Register.

State Rep. Carrie Rheingans (D-Ann Arbor) helped put together 218 state legislators from 27 states calling for Vice President JD Vance to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office.

If legislators don't grant the Selfridge Air National Guard Base funding by early May to construct a new runway accommodating the new fighter jets the President assigned to the base last year, House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Township) doesn't believe the new aircraft will come at all.

Lights, cameras, glitz and glam: Surprise! It isn’t Hollywood, it’s politics.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive directive instructing state agencies to help registered businesses pursue tariff refunds from the federal government and to report on the impacts of those tariffs.

As Congress left Washington for spring break amid a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), celebrity tabloid TMZ urged readers to submit photos of lawmakers on vacation — a move media experts say reflects a long-standing overlap between politics and tabloid culture.

The March 12 attack on the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield was a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism, FBI Special Agent in Charge Jennifer Runyan said in a press briefing.

A new statewide poll shows a clear majority of voters still believe the country is on the wrong track, while partisan splits continue to harden across nearly every major issue, from the direction of the state to job approval ratings for top political figures.

The outrage was not off the charts when the federal government sent ICE-arrested inmates to a former private prison in the north woods of Baldwin.

What brought Rep. Jaime Greene (R-Richmond) to testify to the House Appropriations Committee Wednesday morning was her TikTok feed.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's office announced that President Donald Trump agreed during a face-to-face meeting that he would give Northern Michigan additional federal funding to assist in the recovery efforts from last year's ice storm.

Roughly 50 people gathered outside the Capitol Monday evening protesting the U.S. military action in Iran. The protest follows the United States' Saturday airstrikes in Iran that have drawn sharp criticism from those who argue President Donald Trump's administration shouldn't have started what could become a prolonged conflict without congressional approval.