Michigan

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said protests inside the state capitol last week, featuring demonstrators with assault weapons, swastikas and Confederate flags, depicted some of the “worst racism and awful parts” of the nation’s history. “Some of the outrageousness of what happened at our capitol depicted some of the worst racism and awful parts of our history in…

May 1, 2020 | 10:40pm | Updated May 1, 2020 | 10:44pm Enlarge Image A screengrab of a flight tracker that charted the trip. FlightAware This frustrated Michigan pilot gives a literal flying you-know-what about his governor’s lock-down order. Ed Frederick, 45, spent about an hour charting a path over Grand Rapids that spelled out…

(CNN)Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer extended the state's coronavirus emergency declaration by executive order after the Republican-controlled Legislature advanced a bill that would not have renewed the original declaration. Whitmer signed a new or…

April 30, 2020 | 7:46pm Michigan is sending out special deliveries to its locked-down lovers. The state’s health department has launched a new, free condom delivery service to help prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The condoms-by-mail program helps replace the free condom giveaways counties had once offered at…

(CNN)Protesters at the Michigan Capitol on Thursday jammed inside the building where the lawmakers were meeting, demanding an end to the state's state of emergency. On a cool, rainy day in Lansing, about 400 to 700 people stood on the Capitol grounds, accord…