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Author Richard Rothstein says the housing programs begun under the New Deal were tantamount to a "state-sponsored system of segregation," in which people of color were purposely excluded from suburbs.

It could have been a story of a company's ruin following a bankruptcy in 2005.Instead, Delphi Automotive is "a Wall Street love story" -- but at what cost…

Congress has approved sweeping legislation that would reshape how the Food and Drug Administration reviews new products and bolster National Institutes of Health funding. What's at stake?

Okay, now, here’s a test: How many members of the state board of education can you name? Don’t feel bad.I can’t name them all either.What’s more, many…

This week, a bipartisan group of House members is joining forces in an attempt to revive the Export-Import Bank.The Ex-Im Bank, as it’s known, is a…

In a 6-to-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that all prisoners sentenced to life without parole for crimes committed as minors should be given a…

Long welcoming of refugees and asylum-seekers, Sweden is now seeing growing resentment. An anti-immigration party is gaining strength, mosques have been firebombed and anti-Semitism seems on the rise.

Earlier this week, I joined a bus tour organized to bring community leaders from Grand Rapids to visit Detroit. One of the many cool places we visited…

The Hot in Cleveland actress got her start over 60 years ago on a live TV show called Hollywood on Television. Now she's 92 years old, but she says that's no reason to quit show business.

When the Historical Society of Greater Lansing hosted an oral history with the owner of Lansing's longstanding Jim's Tiffany restaurant, more than 80…