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Israeli bombings have left thousands of children in Gaza without limbs. One of them has come to Flint to be fitted a prosthetic leg through the nonprofit HEAL Palestine.

The Flint city council missed a city charter deadline last Monday to approve a spending plan for the fiscal year starting July 1. The meeting came to an abrupt halt when law enforcement officers scuffled with protesters angry with the mayor’s administration.

Migrants sent by the U.S. to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, were moved to another part of the naval base there because of a water failure, raising doubts about housing large numbers of deportees.

Media coverage of the Flint water crisis often included pictures of the city’s 70-year-old water tower.

Flint received $94.7 million from the American Rescue Plan Act. An advisory panel helped come up with recommendations on ways to spend a portion of the funds.

Michigan Radio’s new Michigan Radio Reads book club will meet to discuss "Chevy in the Hole" by Flint-native Kelsey Ronan. The event will be held at Comma Bookstore in Flint on June 7, as well as online via Zoom.

Mississippi recently declared a public health emergency because its infant mortality rate has surged. And with Medicaid cuts coming, experts fear the crisis may worsen in other states.

In 1974, Surinder Gupta needed help and dialed a stranger in the phone book with a familiar Indian name. The man who answered went on to play a surprising role in his life.

Emma Stone, Ava DuVernay and Gael Garcia Bernal are among more than 2,000 who signed the petition.

Long a threat to southern Ontario lakes, climate change is allowing cyanobacteria -or blue-green algae- to thrive in even the coldest of the Great Lakes, Lake Superior.