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Alma Cooper, Miss Michigan USA, winner of the 2024 Miss USA Pagent Contest is seen onstage during the 73rd annual Miss USA Pageant at Peacock Theater on August 04, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Sipa via AP Images)

Miss Michigan Alma Cooper crowned Miss USA 2024

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, center, standing with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, left, and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, right, talks with reporters following their meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Who is Tim Walz, Harris’ pick for vice president?

Michigan Capitol. (David Marvin/Flickr)

Michigan’s minimum wage will jump to $12 an hour in February 2025

Kamala Harris, then U.S. Senator of California, talks to a union leader while she walks a picket line on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, with striking UAW members at a General Motors facility just north of Reno, Nevada. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner).

UAW endorses Harris, citing her history of support for unions

Vice President Kamala Harris, right, looks on at Paul Whelan at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., following his release as part of a 24-person prisoner swap between Russia and the United States, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden secures release of Michigan Marine veteran held captive by Russia

Student walking down an aisle of bookshelves.

Michigan school safety program reports record number of tips

North Carolina Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley, center, speaks while Dave Almeida with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, left, and Gov. Roy Cooper listen at an Executive Mansion announcement on Monday July, 1, 2024, in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

Biden-Harris administration backs action to cut medical debt

Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, attends a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing in Russell Building on Thursday, February 9, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

J.D. Vance says Project 2025 group is the ‘most influential engine of ideas’ for Trump

DeAnn Roesner

Michigan retiree says the new medication price cap would have preserved her savings

US Supreme Court building

Biden pushes to reform Supreme Court after decisions on abortion, presidential immunity

Two anti-abortion protestors are reading the Supreme Court's decision on emergency abortions in Idaho as they are standing vigil outside the Supreme Court in Washington. (Photo by Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto via AP)

Four common myths perpetuated by anti-abortion activists

Mike Johnson

House Republicans start recess early after failing to keep promises