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Former Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., left, speaks in North Charleston, S.C., March 18, 2023, and Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., speaks in Rochester, Mich., Dec. 16, 2019. (AP Photo)

Michigan primaries will set the stage for Senate, House races key to control of Congress

By Joey Cappelletti - Associated Press

United Auto Workers member Mariusz Mirek holds a picket sign near a General Motors Assembly Plant in Delta Township, Mich., Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. The United Auto Workers union expanded its two-week strikes against Detroit automakers Friday, adding 7,000 workers at a Ford plant in Chicago and a General Motors assembly factory near Lansing, Michigan. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

United Auto Workers strikes spread as 7,000 more workers at two plants join picket line

By Tom Krisher and David Koenig - Associated Press

House Homeland Security Committee member Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., asks a question during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on "Worldwide Threats to the Homeland" at the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 15, 2022. House Democrats will be forced to replace one of their top House candidates next year in Slotkin, who will run for an open Senate seat in the state. Her exit opens one of the country’s most competitive districts in a year where every seat matters for Democrats, who look to overcome the Republicans’ five seat majority in the U.S. House. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Slotkin’s Senate run may complicate Dems bid to retake House

By Joey Cappelletti - Associated Press

Friends of Brian Fraser gather around The Rock on the campus of Michigan State University, in East Lansing, Mich., on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, during a vigil honoring MSU shooting victims Fraser, Arielle Anderson, Alexandria Verner and the five others injured. (Nick King/Lansing State Journal via AP)

Michigan State faces fears of opening classes after attack

By Joey Cappelletti - Associated Press

Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., left, talks with Rep. Elissa Slotkin, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023, in Lansing, Mich. Rep. Slotkin is taking steps toward seeking the U.S. Senate seat held by Stabenow who is retiring. Slotkin has quickly shifted from fighting for her political life in the nation's third most-expensive U.S. House race last year to "at the very top" of the Michigan Democrats readying for a 2024 Senate campaign. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Rep. Elissa Slotkin preps Senate run after winning tough reelection bid

By Thomas Beaumont and Joey Cappelletti - Associated Press

In this Feb. 8, 2016, file photo, shows a sign for the Chipotle restaurant in Pittsburgh's Market Square. Chipotle has agreed to pay a $7.7 million settlement after the New Jersey Department of Labor found that the chain has repeatedly violated state child labor laws. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File) **FILE**

Michigan Chipotle store’s workers unionize, a first for the chain

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Edmund Rushton and Krystal Rose-Davis pose for a portrait near the corner of Detroit Street and East Michigan Avenue, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, at the spot where Malcolm X's father, the Rev. Earl Little was said to have died in 1931 in Lansing, Mich. The two activists hope both Lansing and East Lansing will adopt Sept. 28 as Earl and Louise Little Day, 90 years following Earl Little’s death at the corner of Detroit Street and Michigan Avenue in Lansing, according to Lansing State Journal archives. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP)

Lansing area activists seek to honor Malcolm X’s family

By KRYSTAL NURSE - Associated Press

In this Nov. 19, 2020, file photo, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) **FILE**

Trump lawyer Giuliani in hospital after positive COVID test

By AAMER MADHANI and JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Michigan Office of the Governor, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addresses the state during a speech in Lansing, Mich., Wednesday, April 29, 2020. The governor on Wednesday proposed free college for health care workers and others involved in the coronavirus fight, likening their service during the pandemic to soldiers who got a free education after returning home from World War II. (Michigan Office of the Governor via AP, Pool)

Michigan House authorizes Gretchen Whitmer lawsuit

By David Eggert and Mike Householder - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 13, 2020, file photo Ohio state senate candidate Melissa Ackison, left, and other protesters stand outside the Statehouse Atrium where reporters listen during the State of Ohio's Coronavirus response update at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. The unprecedented national effort to shut down much of daily life to slow the spread of COVID-19 is prompting a growing number of protests. (Joshua A. Bickel/The Columbus Dispatch via AP, File)

Pro-Trump protesters push back on stay-at-home orders

By SARA BURNETT and BRIAN SLODYSKO - Associated Press

Protesters carry rifles near the steps of the Michigan State Capitol building in Lansing, Mich., Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Flag-waving, honking protesters drove past the Michigan Capitol on Wednesday to show their displeasure with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's orders to keep people at home and businesses locked during the new coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Operation Gridlock: Thousands protest Whitmer’s stay-at-home order in Michigan

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Michigan food bank delays opening gardens due to pandemic

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In this April 1, 2020, photo the interior of the TCF Center with temporary hospital rooms is seen inside the convention center in Detroit. In the decade before Michigan and its largest city became the latest hotspot for the deadly coronavirus, officials were steadily cutting back on their first line of defense against pandemics and other health emergencies. Approaching bankruptcy, Detroit disbanded most of its public health department and handed its responsibilities to a private nonprofit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

In years before outbreak, investment in public health fell

By SARA BURNETT - Associated Press

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden enters a campaign event in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)

Michigan new voting rules, ‘spoiled’ ballots boost Joe Biden

By David Eggert - Associated Press

In this Jan. 29, 2020, file photo, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivers her State of the State address to a joint session of the House and Senate, at the state Capitol in Lansing, Mich. (AP Photo/Al Goldis, File)

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer endorses Joe Biden days before primary

By David Eggert - Associated Press

Shooting at Lansing party leaves 1 dead, 4 others wounded

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Michigan agency awards grants for Lansing redevelopment

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In this July 24, 2018, file photo, Michigan State University Interim President John Engler speaks during a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing on &quot;Strengthening and Empowering U.S. Amateur Athletes,&quot; on Capitol Hill in Washington. Michigan State University's board has called a special meeting amid renewed criticism of Engler's handling of the fallout around disgraced ex-sports medicine doctor Larry Nassar. The school says &quot;a personnel action&quot; will be discussed Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

John Engler, Michigan State president, faces ouster amid Larry Nassar fallout

By Corey Williams and David Eggert - Associated Press

119-year-old electric car to stay in Lansing

By JUDY PUTNAM - Associated Press

Caitlin Homrich-Knieling, left and Rev. Dr. Jill Hardt Zundel walk through Farmington Hills, Mich. on their third day of a ten day march in support of immigrants from Detroit to Lansing on Wednesday, May 16, 2018. This march is in support of Red Rranxburgaj who faces deportation and who is the sole caretaker of his wife who has multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair and his two teenage sons. (Romain Blanquart/Detroit Free Press via AP)

Advocates march for man seeking sanctuary in Michigan church

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