National Politics
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AUDIO: Mike Rogers goes full-blown white nationalist on conservative radio show
Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers claims that ‘foreigners’ and ‘people that don’t speak English’ are a ‘recipe for criminal activity.’
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Mike Rogers tries to distance Senate campaign from past attempts to ban IVF
Former US Rep. Mike Rogers says he supports protecting access to in vitro fertility treatment—but his record of opposing reproductive care suggests otherwise.
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VP Kamala Harris warns Michiganders about Trump’s threats to abortion rights
Abortion is protected in Michigan, but Republican-led efforts to enact a nationwide abortion ban could still jeopardize those rights.
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Sen. Debbie Stabenow calls out Trump’s desire for revenge against Ukraine
The Michigan Senator said Trump wants payback—and has already been pressuring weak Republicans in Congress to help him get it.
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Biden blasts Trump’s support of a nationwide abortion ban
President Joe Biden took Trump to task for his support of a nationwide abortion ban and his role in repealing Roe v. Wade, criticizing him for “taking away women’s freedom,” putting women’s lives in danger, and unleashing “cruelty and chaos all across America.”
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This OB-GYN was terrified for her patients who needed abortions. Then she became one.
Texas OB-GYN Austin Dennard reveals what a future under a Republican president would do to reproductive rights in America.
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Biden proposes new student debt relief plan for Michigan borrowers facing ‘hardship’
The new proposal will focus on providing debt relief to those with older loans or loans with large sums of interest; those with high-cost, unavoidable child care or health care expenses; borrowers who are highly likely to default; and others who face “financial hardship.”
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Republicans want to use a 150-year-old law to ban abortion nationwide
Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for a second Trump administration, calls for the Justice Department to start enforcing the Comstock Act of 1873. The old law bans the mailing of “anything designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion,” which could include medical instruments.
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Biden demands grocery stores and food brands end ‘price gouging’ and ‘shrinkflation’
Grocery prices have risen by more than 20% since the beginning of the pandemic and in Michigan, grocery prices rose 3.5% from Nov. 2022 to Nov. 2023. In response, President Biden is demanding grocery chains and food brands lower their prices and stop ripping families off.
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Biden policy to help IRS collect up to $851 billion in back taxes from ultra-wealthy
Using funds provided by the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS has already collected more than $520 million from 1,600 millionaires who had unpaid tax bills of more than $250,000. The IRS could collect as much as $851 billion in additional tax revenue over the next decade.
