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FBI Special Agent Brett Mason outlined “the pathway to violence” and key behaviors potentially signaling someone is about to engage in a violent attack at the MI Response To Hate conference put on by the Michigan Department of Civil Rights and the Michigan Alliance Against Hate Crimes Tuesday.

A Court of Claims judge Tuesday quickly quashed former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s request to force the Bureau of Elections from keeping his name on the Nov. 5 ballot.

The ACLU of Michigan and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a member of the Kalamazoo Board of County Canvassers who acknowledged his willingness to violate election law if he disagrees with the upcoming presidential election results.

The FBI says a North Branch man who wrote a first-person account under a pen name about the Jan. 6 riot is now facing charges.

A Detroit judge who ordered a teenager to be handcuffed and detained for appearing to fall asleep in his courtroom has been temporarily removed from his docket.