National Politics
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UAW files federal labor charges against Trump and Elon Musk
The United Auto Workers Union (UAW) announced Tuesday that it has filed federal charges against former President Donald Trump and Tesla Founder Elon Musk saying the pair illegally threatened and intimidated workers.
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Granholm: Federal investments put Michigan union workers at heart of clean energy boom
Michigan’s union workers have a big role to play in the nationwide transition to clean energy.
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Opinion: Republicans want to repeal the modern family
From Project 2025 and JD Vance all the way down to state lawmakers, a growing number of far-right Republicans are waging war on modern families. Whether it’s attacking child care programs, encouraging women to stay in abusive marriages, or making it harder for same-sex couples to adopt, the modern right is fighting to repeal the…
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Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos
One centerpiece of that program is dozens of never-before-published videos created for Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy. The vast majority of these videos — 23 in all, totaling more than 14 hours of content — were provided to ProPublica and Documented by a person who had access to them.
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Biden-Harris administration wants to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and bypass chatbots
The White House wants to end corporate practices that it says wastes consumers’ time and money, such as forcing customers to wait on hold for refunds, placing unnecessary barriers on canceling subscriptions, and making it difficult to access or submit health insurance claims.
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JD Vance says he wants to help families, but missed vote to expand child tax credit
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance proposed more than doubling the federal child tax credit to $5,000 over the weekend, but recently missed the chance to vote for an expanded credit—an effort his fellow Senate Republicans blocked.
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Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, being turned away from ERs despite federal law
Even as the Biden administration publicly warned hospitals to treat pregnant patients in emergencies, facilities continue to violate the federal law. The issue became a focus for the administration following reports of women being improperly treated in emergency rooms after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion more than two…
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Jan. 6 police officers call Michigan ‘epicenter of preserving of democracy’
Two police officers who defended the US Capitol from an attempted insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, said in Flint on Friday that Michigan is the “epicenter of preserving democracy.”
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Harris tells UAW workers, ‘We stand for the dignity of work,’ and vows to fight for them
Dozens of United Auto Workers (UAW) members rallied on Thursday in Wayne to support Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
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Thousands of Michiganders pack inside Detroit airline hangar to ‘fight for the future’
At least 15,000 Michiganders came out to support Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, in what marked the largest rally of their campaign.
