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Entrance to the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan.

Legal groups allege inadequate medical care at Michigan immigrant detention facility

The groups say the lapses in medical care at the North Lake processing center have been followed by a seizure and a "hypertensive emergency."

A collage of three images. The image on the left is of a row of lockers, leading to an exit door. The image in the middle is of an old fire alarm and the image on the right is of a torn piece of an outdoor running track.

Livingston County GOP removes four members of Brighton Board of Education from party

Four members of the Brighton Area Schools Board of Education were kicked out of Livingston County’s Republican Party (LCRP) this week. This follows the school board members' support of an unsuccessful $156 million school bond the week before.

Officials in the Salmon River Central School District in Fort Covington, New York, have acknowledged that wooden boxes were constructed and used to confine elementary school children, including Native children, with disabilities. The practice was ended in December 2025 after these images, confirmed as authentic by school officials, circulated on social media. In a new report, New York's state has ordered sweeping reforms at the public school.

Native kids with disabilities were held in wooden boxes. Sweeping reforms are coming

State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden boxes. Parents weren't notified.

Abortion-rights activists protested outside of the Supreme Court in March 2024, when the overall FDA authorization of the abortion pill mifepristone was challenged. It remained available after that case.

The Supreme Court keeps abortion pill mifepristone available by telehealth

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the abortion pill mifepristone can continue to be prescribed online or over the phone and sent through the mail.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon fields questions Thursday from members of Congress about the dismantling of her agency, student loans and other issues.

Linda McMahon defends dismantling the Education Department, shifting its work

The education secretary faced questions about the shrinking of her agency, limits on federal student loan borrowing and oversight of the education of students with disabilities.

People look at a barricade set up by residents protesting against prolonged power outages in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday.

Cuba's power grid collapses and plunges eastern provinces into a major blackout

Cuba's aging power grid has eroded in recent years as it faces a prolonged economic crisis, made worse by a U.S. energy blockade of the island.

Michael Jackson's biopic has pushed his music up the Billboard charts

The commercial impact of the Michael Jackson biopic Michael is reaching well beyond the global box office.

This photo provided by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources shows water flowing through the Cheboygan Dam April, 2026, in Cheboygan, Mich. (Michigan Department of Natural Resources via AP)

In 30 MI counties, FEMA begins assessment of April tornado and flood damage

Strong storms and tornadoes hit 30 Michigan counties in April. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has begun damage assessments with help from Michigan State Police.

Published by Knopf, Jonah Mixon-Webster, poetry, Promise/Threat

Essay: The force behind poet Jonah Mixon-Webster's new work

Flint poet Jonah Mixon-Webster's new collection moves through dreamscapes shaped by grief, memory, and the city that made him. Writer John Freeman reflects on the force of Mixon-Webster's work.

Samya Stumo in an undated handout photo provided by the Stumo family. Stumo was killed in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in 2019.

Jury orders Boeing to pay $49.5 million to family of 737 MAX crash victim

A federal jury in Chicago awarded $49.5 million to the family of Samya Stumo, a young woman who was killed in the second of two Boeing 737 MAX crashes within months of each other in 2018 and 2019.

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