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Ann Arbor Public Schools Board of Education recently approved a plan to cut $20.4 million from its budget for the upcoming school year. The plan would reduce 140 staff positions and eliminate school programs.

Ann Arbor Public Schools is moving forward with $20.4 million in budget cuts

Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, on Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

How an 1873 law could give Republicans a way to ban abortion nationally

A Lion electric school bus is seen on display in Austin, Texas, Feb. 22, 2023. The Transportation Department is awarding almost $1.7 billion in grants for buying zero and low emission buses, with the money going to transit projects in 46 states and territories. The grants will enable transit agencies and state and local governments to buy 1,700 U.S.-built buses, nearly half of which will have zero carbon emissions. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Michigan schools get federal funds for new clean school buses

The Appeal to Heaven flag stands with the Louisiana state flag outside the district office of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., in the Cannon House Office Building, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 23, 2024. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is embroiled in a second flag controversy, this time over the “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a banner that in recent years has come to symbolize Christian nationalism and the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. The flag was seen outside his New Jersey beach home last summer. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Justice Samuel Alito under fire for political flags flying on his properties

A supporter holds her breath as preliminary results for Michigan Proposal 3 are announced at a watch party in Detroit, Mich., on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022.

Michigan court hears arguments in lawsuit challenging abortion restrictions

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at the Detroit NAACP's annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner in Detroit, Mich., on May 19, 2024. (Photo by Andrew Roth/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

Gov. Whitmer announces new director for Michigan education agency

President Joe Biden speaks at a memorial service to honor law enforcement officers who've lost their lives in the past year, during National Police Week ceremonies at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden signs law to help states recruit law enforcement officers

Young's Environmental Cleanup Inc. workers begin the cleanup of a Wolverine World Wide historic dumpsite on MDOT property in Belmont, Michigan, on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. Testing has found unsafe levels of hazardous chemicals from a decades-old tannery waste dump site in western Michigan in private residential drinking water wells in an expanded area.

Michigan awards $32 million to clean up neighborhoods harmed by environmental injustice

Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., arrives to the U.S. Capitol before the House voted to send an articles of impeachment resolution against President Joe Biden to committees on Thursday, June 22, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

Rep. Elissa Slotkin seeks funding for Michigan infrastructure and safety projects

Gretchen Whitmer signs red flag law

Courts remove guns from dozens deemed a threat under Michigan red flag law

Graduating college students sitting during a ceremony.

Over 7,000 Michiganders receive degrees through statewide tuition-free college program

Chevron station prices in 2023

GOP-aligned super PAC to spend $11.9 million in Michigan in fight to keep House majority