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Pandemic school closures upended U.S. education. Many students lost significant ground, and the federal government invested billions to help them recover. Students Are Making a ‘Surprising’ Rebound From Pandemic Closures. The students most at risk are those in poor districts, whose test scores fell further during the pandemic. The analysis did not include Asian students, who represent 5 percent of public school students.

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☆ Biden Super PAC Plans a Historic $250 Million Ad Blitz
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Reid J. Epstein | Shane Goldmacher | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The main Democratic super PAC supporting President Biden’s re-election bid, Future Forward, is beginning this week to reserve $250 million in advertising across the most important battleground states, a blitz that it says is the largest single purchase of political advertising by a super PAC in the nation’s history. The ads, which are to be split between $140 million on television and $110 million on digital and streaming platforms, will start the day after the Democratic National Convention concludes in August and will run through Election Day, the super PAC said. The ad reservation covers seven states that are seen as the main presidential battlegrounds: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It is also spending heavily in smaller markets in battleground states: $3 million each in Madison, Wis., and Reno, Nev., and $2 million in Flint, Mich. The digital reservation includes roughly $35 million on YouTube, with more on other streaming platforms, including Hulu, Roku and Vevo, plus the streaming services of the Spanish-language giants Telemundo and Univision.

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ROSEVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Officers in a Detroit suburb found a furry surprise as they patted down a theft suspect: A tiny blue-eyed puppy, zipped inside the man’s jacket pocket. Roseville police discovered the blue pit bull on Jan. 16 while arresting a man accused of stealing money from a bank customer. The palm-sized female, about 5 weeks old, was taken to an animal shelter, where staff nicknamed her Bandit until they learned her name is Frappy, according to Jeff Randazzo, Macomb County’s chief animal control officer. Frappy's owner is charged with larceny from a person, accused of stealing the customer's bag containing about $5,200. He was arrested hours later, and his attorney, Robbie Lang, doesn't believe the dog was in his pocket at the time of the alleged theft.

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☆ One Hope From Changes at This Holocaust Museum: Fewer Nazi Selfies
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Ralph Blumenthal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Students on school trips to a Holocaust museum outside Detroit would stand riveted at one stark display: a Nazi officer’s black uniform with a red swastika armband, guns and a whip. Some couldn’t resist snapping selfies. Now, however, the exhibit, at the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Mich., has been redone as part of a major redesign. The showcase with the uniform is still there, but the view of those artifacts is partially blocked by photographs of German soldiers lounging at ease or leading Jews to mass shooting sites. “I don’t want them to see this uniform without facing the truth of these people who wore these uniforms,” said Mark Mulder, the museum’s curator and a scholar of what is called atrocity imagery.

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☆ GM, Honda begin U.S. fuel cell production in step toward replacing diesel
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Michael Wayland | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

An employee assembles a fuel cell system in the module final assembly at Fuel Cell System Manufacturing LLC, GM and Honda's fuel cell joint venture in Brownstown, Michigan. BROWNSTOWN, Mich. – General Motors and Honda Motor have begun commercial production of hydrogen fuel cell systems in a step toward offering alternative zero-emissions solutions beyond battery-electric vehicles. The fuel cell systems are produced through a 50-50 joint venture between the automakers at an $85 million facility in suburban Detroit. The companies, which are marketing and selling products separately, are calling the "large-scale" production at the joint venture the first of its kind in the U.S. And now we can start to move it into these segments where before it wasn't really feasible," Charlie Freese, executive director of GM's "Hydrotec" fuel cell products, told CNBC during an event at the plant.

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☆ Are His Parents Responsible? A Mass Shooter’s Mother Goes on Trial.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Campbell Robertson | More About Campbell Robertson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

These starkly different images were presented to jurors in a courtroom in Pontiac, Mich., about 20 miles south of Oxford High School, where the mass shooting took place on Nov. 30, 2021. While the case centered on a momentous legal question — whether parents should be held criminally liable for violent crimes committed by their children — the horror of that day in Oxford hung over the first day of testimony in the trial. School employees, including one who was shot in the arm, testified of the terror they experienced, and surveillance videos of the shooting were played, showing some of the victims. The shooter, Ethan Crumbley, who was 15 at the time, killed four students and injured seven others. He pleaded guilty to 24 charges, including first-degree murder, and was sentenced last month to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors arguing that a Michigan school shooter's mother is partly responsible for the deaths of four students told jurors Thursday that the tragedy could have been easily prevented when she was confronted with his violent drawings just a few hours earlier. “Even though she didn't pull the trigger, she's responsible for those deaths,” Keast said in his opening statement. Jennifer Crumbley, 45, is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the Nov. 30, 2021, attack. “The two people with all of the information, all of the background to put this drawing into context, were James and Jennifer Crumbley,” Keast said. Jennifer Crumbley, who will testify in her own defense, was a “hypervigilant mother who cared more about her son than anything in the world,” Smith said.

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The state House will be tied 54-54 until at least April, when special elections for two open seats are set to be held. "We will build a Michigan where if you get knocked down, you have the support you need to get back up. Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesMuch of work highlighted in Whitmer's speech aligned with the key issues that national Democrats are stressing ahead of the November election. It remains to be seen how soon, if at all, Whitmer's initiatives will be brought before state lawmakers. Democrats are expected to win both seats easily, which would allow them to push through their agenda beginning in late April.

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☆ Opinion | The Trump-Haley Race After New Hampshire
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But with the primary over, it appears that this is not true. Donald Trump made gains even among suburban Republicans. This appears to be who the party is now and who they want to represent them. Larry LobertGrosse Pointe Park, Mich.To the Editor:The takeaway from the New Hampshire primary is not that Nikki Haley can’t win the Republican nomination. We knew that already, as well as that the Republican Party has been hijacked by Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters, with G.O.P.

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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The recently installed chair of Michigan's Republican Party and others in the state GOP are suing to get the group's former leader, Kristina Karamo, officially declared as being removed from the post. A group of Michigan Republican state committee members voted Jan. 6 to remove Karamo, an election denier and supporter of former President Donald Trump. About 45 people, not including proxies, attended the meeting in Commerce Township where Karamo was voted out as chair. Karamo’s refusal to allow the committee and the Michigan Republican Party to move forward, particularly with an election cycle rapidly approaching, requires swift judicial intervention,” according to the lawsuit. Karamo, a former community college instructor, rose through Michigan’s Republican ranks by spreading election conspiracies after the 2020 presidential election.

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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A man who fell through the ice on a frozen Michigan lake was rescued after a quick-thinking state police officer used the stranded man's dog to get rescue equipment to him and pull the man to safety. Bystanders called 911 on Thursday after the 65-year-old Traverse City man fell through ice-covered Arbutus Lake, state police said. It shows Bennetts first trying to throw a rescue disc tethered to a rope out to the man. Come here Ruby!” Bennetts shouts in the video before whistling for the canine, which runs to him and arrives tail wagging. The officer ties the rescue disc to the dog's collar and asks the man to call Ruby back to him.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill to create a bipartisan commission that would tackle the nation’s soaring debt and make policy recommendations to Congress won approval Thursday from a House committee. Many Democrats see the commission as an attempt to force cuts to Social Security and Medicare. The commission would have 16 members: 12 from Congress, evenly divided by party, and four outside experts who would not have voting power. Republicans blame federal spending for the annual deficits while many Democrats cite tax cuts enacted under Republican administrations. Three committee Democrats voted for it, including Rep. Scott Peters, D-Calif., who worked with Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich. in sponsoring the bill.

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☆ Ann Arbor School Board OK’s a Resolution Supporting a Cease-Fire in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Dana Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In the United States, some labor unions, city governments and town councils have weighed in on the Israel-Hamas war, issuing statements in support of a cease-fire — often over vociferous objections from some of their own members and constituents. On Wednesday night, the school board in Ann Arbor, Mich., became one of the first public school districts in the country to vote in favor of such a statement. Supporters of the resolution, including Palestinian American and Jewish board members, said that the statement was an urgent moral necessity amid a humanitarian crisis. But the vote — 4 to 1, with two members abstaining — was divisive in Ann Arbor, home to the University of Michigan and sizable Arab and Jewish populations.

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In frigid temperatures, it can take a half hour to warm the battery so it's ready to charge, Westlake said. Bansal, who has had her Tesla for only a week, didn't know about preconditioning the car before charging, but she does now. So she told the car she was going to the charging station and it was ready by the time she arrived and plugged in. The car, she said, will tell you where charging stations are and how much range you have left. Burney said she loses roughly 15% to 20% of her battery range in cold weather, but it gets dramatically worse in cold snaps like the one this week.

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☆ Ann Arbor School Board Set to Vote on Israel-Gaza Ceasefire Resolution
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Dana Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The public school district in Ann Arbor, Mich., is looking to hire a new superintendent. But over the past month, the Board of Education has debated many hours over whether to support a resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Gaza war. The closely divided board is now set to vote on that resolution on Wednesday, and could become one of the first public school systems in the country to pass such a statement. Supporters of the proposed resolution, including the board’s Palestinian American president and a Jewish trustee, have said that the statement is an urgent moral necessity amid a humanitarian crisis. A few opponents of the resolution have said that they oppose a cease-fire because Israel has the right to defeat Hamas, the group that controls Gaza, after the Oct. 7 attacks.

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Local restrictions in Michigan derailed more than two dozen utility-scale renewable energy projects as of last May, according to a study by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. Nationwide, and at least 228 restrictions in 35 states have been imposed to stop green energy projects. The shift has sparked a political backlash that may escalate as more states seek to simplify getting green energy projects approved and built. But many local officials say giving states the power to site large-scale energy projects clashes with cherished U.S. political principles. In Kansas, Osage County’s moratorium on commercial solar and wind projects came in 2022 after multiple hearings.

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Tracking Efforts to Remove Trump From the 2024 BallotStates with challenges to Trump’s candidacy Trump disqualified, decision appealed Challenge unresolved Challenge dismissed or rejected Alaska Ariz. Calif. Colo. Conn. Del. The ballot challenges focus on whether Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat make him ineligible to hold the presidency again. The Colorado Supreme Court and Maine’s secretary of state, Shenna Bellows, each found Mr. Trump ineligible under that provision. Several judges have dismissed cases at the request of Mr. Trump or the request of the person who filed the challenge. The Michigan and Minnesota Supreme Courts have each said Mr. Trump is eligible to appear on the primary ballot in those states.

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☆ Title IX and the Assault on Hillsdale College
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Tunku Varadarajan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Michigan Tech has come out on top and Harvard at the bottom in the largest-ever survey looking into the state of free speech on America's college campuses. Most elite colleges, including Penn and Yale, trail larger state schools with more working-class students. Images: Shutterstock/FIRE Composite: Mark KellyHillsdale, Mich.Embedded in a civil lawsuit against Hillsdale College is an assault on the fabric of this small, private Christian school founded in 1844. The lawsuit, brought by two undergraduate women who allege that they were raped two years ago by male Hillsdale students of their acquaintance, alleges not only that the college was negligent in handling their complaints, but also that it failed to afford them the protection to which they were entitled under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

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☆ EV Battery Plant Rides Bumpy Road in This Michigan Town
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Ben Kesling | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Marshall, Mich., a city of 6,700 people, boasts well-preserved historic storefronts and museums. Photo: BEN KLAYMAN/REUTERSMARSHALL, Mich.—Rick Sadler doesn’t like it when he looks across the North Branch of the Kalamazoo River and sees light towers and construction equipment on the site of a planned electric vehicle battery plant next to this small, south-central Michigan city. “We can hear them working six days a week, 6 in the morning sometimes,” said Sadler, who lives in a subdivision near the river and is among local residents who oppose the plant.

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BEVERLY HILLS, Mich. (AP) — A passionate University of Michigan graduate is booing the state — and suing — over the loss of his revered “G0BLUE” car license plate. We’re just huge fans and love the university,” Hardig told The Detroit News. Blue is a University of Michigan color, and “Go Blue!” is a battle cry and common salutation among Wolverine fans. Fine, 52, said he punched in plate options on a state website and found “G0BLUE” was available. ... I’m not actually that excited about the plate,” Fine told the newspaper.

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Pensler lost the GOP primary for Senate in 2018 by over 9 percentage points to now-U.S. Rep. John James, who would go on to lose to incumbent Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow. It's burning," Pensler said in campaign video Friday. U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin has led a field of Democratic candidates that also includes actor Hill Harper. In 2018, Pensler said that he contributed nearly $5 million of his own money to jumpstart his campaign. Trump endorsed James over Pensler in 2018.

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☆ Biden Administration to Require Replacing of Lead Pipes Within 10 Years
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Coral Davenport | More About Coral Davenport | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Biden administration is proposing new restrictions that would require the removal of virtually all lead water pipes across the country in an effort to prevent another public health catastrophe like the one that came to define Flint, Mich. The proposal on Thursday from the Environmental Protection Agency would impose the strictest limits on lead in drinking water since federal standards were first set 30 years ago. “This is the strongest lead rule that the nation has ever seen,” Radhika Fox, the E.P.A.’s assistant administrator for water, said in an interview. “This is historic progress.”Digging up and replacing lead pipes from coast to coast is no small undertaking. estimates the price at $20 billion to $30 billion over the course of a decade.

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☆ American Paul Whelan Assaulted in Russian Prison
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Matthew Luxmoore | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Paul Whelan standing inside a defendant’s cage during a hearing in Moscow three years ago. Photo: maxim shemetov/ReutersPaul Whelan, a U.S. citizen who has been held in Russia since 2018, was assaulted by a fellow inmate after a conflict at his prison east of Moscow, according to the Russian prison service and Whelan’s family. The former U.S. Marine and corporate security executive from Novi, Mich., who is serving a 16-year prison sentence on espionage charges he denies, was taken to the prison’s medical unit on Tuesday with a graze under his eye following a minor altercation with another prisoner, Russia’s state news agency RIA said.

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Experts say these are just glimpses of what could ensue if campaigns or outside actors decide to use AI deepfakes in more malicious ways. So far, states including California, Minnesota, Texas and Washington have passed laws regulating deepfakes in political advertising. Federal law is limited in its ability to regulate AI at the state and local levels, Benson said in an interview, adding that states also need federal funds to tackle the challenges posed by AI. Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, announced earlier this month that it will require political ads running on the platforms to disclose if they were created using AI. Google unveiled a similar AI labeling policy in September for political ads that play on YouTube or other Google platforms.

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