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Next month, Flint voters will decide if they want to recall their mayor. The unusually large field of candidates may draw an unusually low number of…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions will testify at a Senate oversight hearing Wednesday. Lawmakers have questions about his contacts with Russia and his reversals on civil rights positions.

All Songs Considered asked you to share your favorite new artist of the first half of 2016. Here's your top 10.

When traveling out of state, people from Michigan often are asked, “Hey, how’s Detroit doing?”The largest municipal bankruptcy and the subsequent stories…

Kyung-Sook Shin's atmospheric, tragic novel follows a beautiful orphan whose dancing skills secure her a place at the Korean court, and later a life in Belle Époque France — but not happiness.

For the first time in 27 years, Oakland County has a Democrat serving as its County Executive.On Monday, Dave Coulter tendered his resignation as mayor of…

China is no longer taking the world's waste. The U.S. recycling industry is overwhelmed — it can't keep up with the plastic being churned out. This doesn't bode well for our plastic waste problem.

Christian McBride of Jazz Night in America joins NPR's Audie Cornish with a few criteria for what turns a regular composition into a canonized classic.

Public debate over a potential citizenship question and immigration enforcement, combined with the census going online, threatens an accurate head count, according to research by the Urban Institute.

A lively new book by Gretchen McCulloch dissects the common vernacular that forms the cornerstone of online communication. Because Internet parses emojis, lols and punctuation — or lack thereof.