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Inkster police need your help finding the driver accused of rear-ending a mail truck, which caused it to flip over. Police say the incident occurred Wednesday (Aug. 14) on Michigan Avenue near Beech Daly Road. Surveillance video captured the crash. In the video, the vehicle can be seen with some front-end damage as it fled…

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik resigned Wednesday after a brief, tumultuous tenure that saw the head of the prestigious New York university grapple with protests over the Israel-Hamas war and criticism over how the school handled divisions related to the conflict. The Ivy League school in upper Manhattan was roiled this year by student protests,…

Gena Rowlands, hailed as one of the greatest actors to ever practice the craft and a guiding light in independent cinema as a star in groundbreaking movies by her director husband, John Cassavetes, and who later charmed audiences in her son’s tear-jerker “The Notebook,” has died. She was 94. Rowlands’ death was confirmed Wednesday by…

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has notified his governing party executives that he will not run in the upcoming party leadership vote in September, meaning Japan will have a new prime minister, Japan’s NHK public television and other media reported. Kishida was elected president of his governing Liberal Democratic Party in 2021 and his three-year…

Former federal prosecutor Joe Teirab has won a contested GOP primary for Minnesota’s 2nd District seat held by Democratic Rep. Angie Craig. Teirab has the support of former President Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson and the National Republican Congressional Committee. His opponent, defense attorney Tayler Rahm, won the endorsement at the district convention with…

Former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner was picked Tuesday as the Democrats’ nominee to succeed the late U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who died last month after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Turner, 69, will appear on the November ballot after securing the most support from local Democratic precinct chairs during a party meeting in Houston.…

A vacant storefront on Liberty Street has a new look thanks to a partnership between the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra (A2SO) and the State Street District. The space used to house Orchid Lane Boutique, a clothing and jewelry store, but has stood empty for some time. As part of State Street District’s pilot “Storefront Connections”…

Ukraine’s top military commander says his forces now control 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of Russia’s neighboring Kursk region, the first time a Ukrainian military official has publicly commented on the gains of the lightning incursion that has embarrassed the Kremlin. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi made the statement in a video posted Monday to Ukrainian…

Elon Musk’s much-awaited interview with former President Donald Trump was marred by technical glitches on Monday, with people unable to join the audio conversation on X’s Spaces platform. Eighteen minutes into a conversation that was supposed to start at 8 p.m. EDT., Musk posted on X that the platform was experiencing a “massive” denial-of-service attack…

Disney bestowed “legends” status on 14 artists, including Harrison Ford, Angela Bassett and Miley Cyrus, who have shaped the company. The honorees, who the company says have had a “significant impact” on Disney’s legacy, include director James Cameron, iconic film composer John Williams, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Ripa, among several others. This year’s class…

The Israeli military ordered more evacuations in southern Gaza early Sunday, a day after a deadly airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in the north killed at least 80 Palestinians, according to local health authorities. The airstrike was one of the deadliest attacks in the 10-month war. Hamas appeared to push back against resuming negotiations on Thursday…

Get to University of Michigan football home games worry-free through convenient shuttles powered by the Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority’s TheRide. Football shuttles will move Wolverines fans between Michigan Stadium and drop-off/pick-up spots at Ann Arbor hotels and parking sites. One-way tickets cost $1.50 and can be bought on contactless mobile ticketing and the EZFare,…

Vice President Kamala Harris vowed Saturday that, if elected, she’d eliminate federal taxes on tips paid to restaurant workers and scores of other service employees, echoing a pledge that her opponent in November, Donald Trump, has made in a rare moment of political overlap from both sides. Harris made the announcement at a rally on…

Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said Saturday that it has been hacked and suggested Iranian actors were involved in stealing and distributing sensitive internal documents. The campaign provided no specific evidence of Iran’s involvement, but the claim comes a day after Microsoft issued a report detailing foreign agents’ attempts to interfere in the U.S.…

The sun came out but the power stayed off in more than 100,000 homes and businesses across four states Saturday as Debby finally moved out of the U.S. After first arriving in Florida as a hurricane, the storm spent the better part of a week unleashing tornadoes and flooding, damaging homes and taking lives as…

Vice President Kamala Harris drew on her prosecutorial background to make her first expansive pitch on immigration to border-state voters as she and her new running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, attracted thousands to a campaign rally in Arizona during their tour of battleground states. Harris, the former attorney general of California, reminded the crowd…

Vice President Kamala Harris and her new running mate held a rally in Arizona as part of their tour of electoral battlegrounds, visiting a state where Harris passed over a prominent Democrat in favor of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, a former astronaut and gun control advocate, had been a top contender…

The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a missing boater in Sylvan Lake. Officials announced on Friday (Aug. 9) afternoon that the boater went missing. As of 10 p.m., officials said they’re still searching for the missing boater. The sheriff’s office posted to X that they had drones, helicopters, boats, and divers actively searching…

The Detroit Police Department’s goal is to tackle crime in the city, and the numbers show a reduction in some crime categories, according to Chief James White, who says the numbers look great. It takes a village to get those numbers down, and White says he has to give credit to many people, including intervention…

Two suspected attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted a ship in the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait that links the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea, authorities said Friday. The Houthis did not immediately claim the assaults, though they follow a monthslong campaign by the rebels targeting shipping through the Red Sea corridor over Israel’s…

We now know much more about the timeline of events that led up to and followed the murder of a popular neurosurgeon whose body was found wrapped in a carpet in the attic of his Detroit home. Officials provided a major update Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, announcing that they’ve issued charges more than 15 months…

Vice President Kamala Harris declared herself and her new running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, “joyful warriors” against Donald Trump on Wednesday as they spent their first full day campaigning together across the Midwest. They got an unusual glimpse of how hotly contested the region would be when they overlapped on a Wisconsin tarmac with…