As severe medical issues and deaths increase, advocates and families are pressing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to take action.

Katherine Dailey covers state government and policy for the Michigan Advance. She has previously reported on housing, healthcare, government spending and campaigns in D.C., New Jersey and Chicago.

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If passed, Amendment 4 could make it substantially more difficult for citizen-led constitutional amendments to succeed.

After the U.S.-backed incursion failed, Castro stationed Soviet missiles on the island in self-defense. Furious, Kennedy risked nuclear war to remove them. Revealingly, he worried that the missiles ...

Alexandra Bravo was killed while investigating boat strike survivors’ claims that they were tortured by US gunmen.

A previous study also linked abortion bans to higher rates of suicide for women between the ages of 20 and 34.

People in southern Illinois are storming into city meetings and making public records requests in the battle over water.

As reports say that some within the U.S. government believe that they are facing “strategic defeat” in the war on Iran, new ...

FIFA unveiled a plan to sell a major stake in the World Cup to a firm run by Joshua Kushner, Jared Kushner’s brother.

Two-thirds of voters said that “the country’s political and economic systems need fundamental change,” the poll found.

Opaque contracts and enormous windfalls are buttressing the buildout of ICE jails and their shadowy operators.