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Audience members applaud Attorney General Eric Holder, right, and President Barack Obama during an announcement in the State Dining Room of the White House to announce Holder is resigning, on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, in Washington. Holder, who served as the public face of the Obama administration's legal fight against terrorism and weighed in on issues of racial fairness, is resigning after six years on the job. He is the first black U.S. attorney general. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Holder: Mixed record on national security issues

By ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, right, along with Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, left, address the media after speaking to to community leaders and students at Cass Technical High School on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, in Detroit. The city of Detroit will receive more than $32 million in federal and state grants to add up to 50 new hybrid and clean diesel buses to its aging public fleet, Foxx said Thursday. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Max Ortiz) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

Detroit to get $32 million for new public buses

By COREY WILLIAMS - Associated Press

Cadillac ditching Detroit for New York: ‘There are more hedge fund billionaires in NYC’

By Dee-Ann Durbin and Tom Krisher - Associated Press

Work starting on suburban Detroit aquarium

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From left, Rep. Dan Kildee D-Mich., Sen. Carl Levin D-Mich., and Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Sen. Debbie Stabenow D-Mich., walk toward Air Force One before President Barack Obama's arrival, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. The group traveled with the president to East Lansing, Mich. where the president was to sign the farm bill at Michigan State University. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

US gives Detroit $25.9 million to add 50 buses

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Demeeko Williams, left, of the Detroit Water Brigade talks into a megaphone during a rally outside federal courthouse in Detroit, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. A hearing was held about a lawsuit that seeks to block the Detroit from shutting off water to customers for unpaid bills. Judge Steven Rhodes set aside Detroit’s bankruptcy trial to hear evidence in a controversy that has been boiling all summer. A coalition representing low-income residents is asking him to suspend water shutoffs and restore service to people who have lost it. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Detroit tells judge: We can’t give away free water

By ED WHITE - Associated Press

The Detroit skyline (AP Photo)

Detroit joins list of immigrant-friendly cities

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FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2005 file photo, the Detroit skyline is shown along the Detroit River. Detroit has reached a tentative deal with unions that represent thousands of employees in the bankrupt city. Mediators announced Monday, April 28, 2014 that the city and the Coalition of Detroit Unions have agreed in principle on the “major aspects” of a five-year collective bargaining agreement.(AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Detroit bankruptcy trial resumes after settlement

By ED WHITE - Associated Press

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan discusses a sewer system map during a news conference in Detroit Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014. The Detroit water department would be turned into a regional agency with a 10-year limit on rate increases and an infusion of millions of dollars from the suburbs, under a deal announced the mayor and other officials. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Federal, local officials to tout Detroit rail

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FILE - This July 12, 2012 file photo show the lanes entering the United States at the Detroit Windsor Tunnel. Detroit has reached a tentative deal to pay a key creditor 26 cents on the dollar and offer it valuable leases, a move that that could clear the biggest hurdle in the city's plan to reduce its debts and emerge from bankruptcy protection. A joint court filing Tuesday evening, Sept. 9, 2014 said Detroit and the bond insurer Syncora Guarantee &quot;have reached an agreement in principle&quot; to settle the company's $400 million claim in the nation's largest-ever municipal bankruptcy case. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Detroit bankruptcy trial on hold after major deal

By ED WHITE - Associated Press

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, center, M-1 President and CEO Matt Cullen, left, and M-1 Board Chairman Roger Penske gather at the start of a long-awaited commuter light rail project on Woodward Avenue in Detroit on Monday, July 28, 2014. A large portion of Woodward Avenue was closed off Monday morning while workers began cutting concrete. Work on the $137 million, 3.3-mile line project, which is expected to take two years and stretch from downtown to New Center, will at times shut down parts of Woodward and two interstate bridges. (AP Photo/Detroit News, David Coates) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT

Feds award $12.2 million to Detroit light rail

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FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2005 file photo, the Detroit skyline is shown along the Detroit River. Detroit has reached a tentative deal with unions that represent thousands of employees in the bankrupt city. Mediators announced Monday, April 28, 2014 that the city and the Coalition of Detroit Unions have agreed in principle on the “major aspects” of a five-year collective bargaining agreement.(AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Deal reached to overhaul Detroit water agency

By COREY WILLIAMS - Associated Press

FILE- In a June 20, 2014 file photo, Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder speaks during an interview before signing legislation to provide state funding for Detroit municipal pensions in Detroit. Snyder defied fellow members of the GOP by supporting the Medicaid expansion in the federal health care law, committing state money to help Detroit emerge from bankruptcy and vetoing Republican gun, abortion and voter ID bills. Now the upbeat Snyder is facing a tough bid for a second term. Many Republicans don’t know what to make of his neutrality on social issues and his reluctance to bash Democrats. And he’s still made plenty of enemies among Democrats and their allies in organized labor. (AP Photo/File)

Immigrants: Computer glitch is stopping Medicaid

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Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson runs for a 67-yard touchdown reception during the first quarter of an NFL football game against the New York Giants in Detroit, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Matthew Stafford leads Lions to win over Giants

By Noah Trister - Associated Press

A pedestrian walks by graffiti in downtown Detroit in a Dec. 12, 2008, file photo. Detroit became the largest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy on Thursday, July 18, 2013, when state-appointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr asked a federal judge for municipal bankruptcy protection. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) ** FILE **

Detroit CFO: Higher taxes won’t help city emerge from bankruptcy

By Ed White - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2014 file photo, Theodore Wafer, of Dearborn Heights, Mich., testifies in his own defense during his trial for the Nov. 2, 2013, killing of Renisha McBride in Detroit. Wafer was sentenced WednesdaySept. 3, 2014 to at least 17 years in prison for killing an unarmed woman who appeared on his porch before dawn. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Clarence Tabb Jr., File)

Detroit-area man gets 17 years in porch shooting

By Ed White - Associated Press

A pedestrian walks by graffiti in downtown Detroit in a Dec. 12, 2008, file photo. Detroit became the largest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy on Thursday, July 18, 2013, when state-appointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr asked a federal judge for municipal bankruptcy protection. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) ** FILE **

4 held in Detroit killing of French street artist; Paris man saw city as ‘failure of capitalism’

By David N. Goodman - Associated Press

FILE- This April 9, 2008 file photo shows the city of Detroit. An attorney for Detroit is set to resume his opening statement, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014, at the city’s historic bankruptcy trial, after telling the judge on the first day that the city’s plan to restructure billions of dollars in debt is needed to free up funds to provide services to residents and allow it to survive. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file)

Creditor rips debt plan in Detroit bankruptcy case

By COREY WILLIAMS - Associated Press