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Michigan News

Electric vehicles: new rules mean no tax credits

By TOM KRISHER, FATIMA HUSSEIN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON — Fewer new electric vehicles will qualify for a full $7,500 federal tax credit later this year, and many will get only half that, under rules proposed Friday by the U.S. Treasury Department. The rules, ...

College ends partnership over ‘David’ issue

HILLSDALE, Mich. — A Michigan college has ended its partnership with a Florida charter school whose principal was forced to resign after a parent complained sixth graders were exposed to pornography during a lesson on Renaissance art that included Michelangelo’s David sculpture. A ...

Twenty years on, reflection and regret on 2002 Iraq war vote

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow was sitting in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s conference room at the Pentagon, listening to him make the case that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction. At some point in the presentation — one of many lawmaker briefings ...

California to spend some Medicaid money on housing

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — At the start of 2022, Thomas Marshall weighed 311 pounds. He had been hospitalized 10 times in five years, including six surgeries. He had an open wound on his left leg that refused to heal — made worse by living in a dirty, moldy house with five other people, two ...

Michigan 1st state in decades to repeal ‘right-to-work’ law

LANSING — Michigan, long known as a mainstay of organized labor, on Friday became the first state in decades to repeal a union-restricting law known as “right-to-work” that was passed over a decade ago by a Republican-controlled Legislature. The state’s “right-to-work” law had ...

Michigan GOP slammed for comparing gun reform to Holocaust in posts

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press LANSING — The Michigan Republican Party has received backlash from political leaders on both sides of the aisle for posts on social media Wednesday that compared the Holocaust to gun safety measures being considered in the state. The posts, shared ...