EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University is going online for the fall and is encouraging students to stay home, the school’s president announced Tuesday, as schools across the nation struggled to control coronavirus outbreaks. Remote learning for undergraduates is scheduled ...
PARIS (AP) — French Champagne producers decided Tuesday to put unprecedented limits on the quantity of grapes they'll harvest this year in hopes of propping up prices and containing damage from the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, record amounts of grapes may need to be destroyed or sold to distilleries at discounted prices. But for the Champagne Committee, the influential group that represents 16,000 vintners around France's Champagne region, that's the price to pay for saving their luxury business. Vintners in Champagne country will only be allowed to collectively harvest 8,000 ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle Obama delivered a passionate condemnation of President Donald Trump during the opening night of the Democratic National Convention, declaring him “in over his head” and warning that the nation’s mounting crises would only get worse if he’s reelected over Joe ...
By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — “that woman from Michigan” — touted Joe Biden’s work to rescue the auto industry and said he would rally the country to fight the coronavirus and not deny it like President Donald Trump has. The first-term ...
LANSING (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said she was “thrilled” when Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris as his running mate, and her decision to be vetted for the job despite earlier reservations will benefit Michigan if he is elected president. “It means that I get to keep my dream job here in Michigan and be near three generations of my family in the state that I’ve always called home,” she told The Associated Press on Monday before speaking to a national audience watching the virtual Democratic National Convention. “Now we have two wonderful people that I think are going to ...
DETROIT (AP) — Dozens of people rallied outside a Detroit courthouse Monday, calling for a renewal of the city's ban on evictions. "We think it's a huge mistake to allow (the moratorium) to end today," said Joe McGuire, an organizer with Detroit Eviction Defense. "And 36th District Court has shown by its previous actions that it has the power to ban evictions in the city on its own, and it needs to use that power to help the people of Detroit." A monthslong state freeze on evictions amid the coronavirus pandemic expired in July, although Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said landlords could ...
