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Michigan Republican Senate candidate and former House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers outlined his view of the state’s political landscape during a radio interview, as host Matthew Boyle described the race as “arguably the number one Republican pickup opportunity anywhere in America.” Appearing on Breitbart News Saturday, Rogers pointed to what he described as a shift within the Democrat field, citing recent convention activity and campaign rhetoric. “They’ve all got huge problems here,” he said, adding that some candidates are “very interested in owning grocery stores and owning every bit of your health care.”

ANN ARBOR, MI — The last “Neighborhood Crime Watch” sign in Ann Arbor is now removed. City officials gathered on Princeton Avenue on Tuesday, April 21, for the ceremonial removal of the final sign after weeks of work to remove hundreds of similar signs. “It’s great to see the last of these relics of the past come down,” said City Council Member Jen Eyer, D-4th Ward. Eyer joined Mayor Christopher Taylor and Council Member Cynthia Harrison, D-1st Ward, in lifting it out of the ground to be hauled away and recycled. Despite neighborhood watch programs being defunct, more than 600...

Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow, a candidate running for US Senate, deleted thousands of tweets, some of which defended “coastal elites” and were critical of “Middle America,” after The Post first reported on them last year. Morrow, 39, purged her X account of roughly 6,000 posts, including all her tweets posted prior to 2020, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski reported on Wednesday. The journalist noted the social media cleanse came after The Post’s April 2025 scoop on McMorrow’s tweet history. The deleted posts even included jabs at the purple state she is now running to represent. “Aaaand it’s snowing. Screw you, Michigan. #NYCtoLA,”...

Thieves have destroyed nearly 75 fire hydrants on the west side of Detroit in the last 48 hours, stealing parts and putting lives at risk. Crews with the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department are racing to repair the broken hydrants along Southfield Road and across the west side after thieves tore through dozens in about two days. "We think the number is about 75 so far," DWSD Deputy Director Sam Smalley said. The thieves are targeting metal nozzles and stems on top of the hydrants, which are worth about $600. Executive Fire Commissioner Chuck Simms said the vandalism is a...

The person allegedly responsible for seriously injuring former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in a reported car accident over the weekend has been revealed. As The Gateway Pundit reported, the 81-year-old Giuliani was severely injured in a car accident last weekend in New Hampshire after assisting a domestic violence victim. Rudy suffered a broken thoracic vertebra, lacerations, and contusions. Thomas Goodman of Michigan was driving a Ford Bronco with Giuliani as the passenger. He was also injured in the accident. Now, New Hampshire State Police have identified 19-year-old Lauren Kemp of Concord as the person responsible for hitting Giuliani...

A courageous Michigan gas station clerk helped save a teenage girl who was abducted by a gun-toting stranger with a history of rape allegations while walking to her school bus stop. The creep kidnapped the 16-year-old girl at gunpoint just after 7 a.m. Monday in Hamtramck, while she was waiting for her school bus, Hamtramck Police Chief Hussein Farhat told WXYZ. Roughly 30 minutes later, the unidentified suspect brought the girl to a Sunoco gas station, where he asked for cigarettes and told the terrified teen to pay for them, the outlet reported. “When he ask her to pay for...

A Palo Alto father who has filed multiple lawsuits against major university systems over his son's college rejections says artificial intelligence has become the key to pursuing the cases after no law firm agreed to represent them. The legal fight stems from a 2023 ABC7 News story about Stanley Zhong, then an 18-year-old Gunn High School student with a 4.4 GPA and a near-perfect 1590 SAT score who was rejected by 16 out of the 18 colleges he applied to. Despite the rejections, he was later hired as a software engineer at Google. Two and a half years later, his...

Amir Makled, who introduced El-Sayed at an event with Hasan Piker, represented Michigan students who faced criminal charges related to the school’s anti-Israel encampment The left-wing candidate for Senate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, campaigned this week with a man running for the University of Michigan's board of regents who shared since-deleted X posts that celebrated late Hezbollah leaders as "martyr[s]"

NPR didn’t manage to quote a single member of the Michigan synagogue that was attacked last month by a crazed Hezbollah-supporting terrorist last month — but did manage to track down his pals 6,000 miles away in Lebanon, a new report reveals. Now even NPR’s public editor is criticizing the lefty broadcaster for the stunning oversight. Instead of focusing on the victims in the heinous attack, a March 14 “All Things Considered” segment sent an NPR reporter to the Lebanon hometown of Ayman Ghazali, 41, who just days earlier had rammed his truck into a Jewish preschool at Temple Israel...

A MACHINE gun mailed with the United States Postal Service has been missing for weeks – and the sender fears it could be used in a shooting.Firearms dealer Steve Thompson opted for top security mail service when he sent the Israeli nine millimeter Uzi sub-machine gun in February, but it still disappeared just days later.He shipped it from Portage, Ohio, where his business Adco Firearms is based to a buyer in Florida on February 4.USPS tracking information shows it was moved to Pontiac, Michigan before arriving at a facility in Detroit on February 6, NBC affiliate WDIV reported.There, the package...

Michigan synagogue attack was act of terror inspired by Hezbollah, FBI says Attacker Googled, “What time is the Trump rally in Michigan?”

The “American Bad Ass” rocker sent social media into a tailspin after posting footage of a military helicopter hovering just yards away from his Tennessee estate dubbed the “Southern White House.” But while the choppers provided the spectacle, Rock provided the sting, using the moment to deliver a brutal clap back at the Golden State on his X account over the weekend. “This is a level of respect that s— for brains Governor of California will never know,” Rock captioned the viral clip, taking a direct shot at Gavin Newsom. “God Bless America and all those who have made the...

Lower courts have ruled school can ban wearing such apparel as ‘can reasonably be interpreted as profane’ The case of two Michigan middle-school brothers who were told to remove their hoodies emblazoned with the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The siblings are represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression which says the boys’ school violated their First Amendment rights. The phrase was popularized during a 2021 NASCAR event when a crowd was shouting “F*** Joe Biden!” but the NBC interviewer told racer Brandon Brown they were yelling “Let’s go Brandon!” A judge...

LANSING – Today, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced that the State of Michigan and the City of Romulus filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) challenging its plan to convert a Romulus warehouse into a mass immigration detention facility. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, seeks to declare unlawful, vacate, and set aside the agencies’ decision and requests that the Court permanently enjoin the conversion, construction, retrofitting, or operation of the commercial warehouse as an ICE detention center. “As the...

Diplomacy is an instrument of strategy that great powers use to survive and gain an advantage in competition with other powerful states. Excellence in diplomacy is a vital prerequisite to the success and endurance of great powers. Diplomatic skills atrophied in the United States after the end of the Cold War, as we came to rely on military technology and economic sanctions as the main tools of our foreign policy. But now we are entering a dangerous age in which great powers are competing for the things they have competed over from the beginning of time: territory, resources, influence, and...

Six progressive, anti-Israel candidates running for Congress in Illinois, all of whom AIPAC reportedly sees as potential members of the “Squad,” lost their primaries in the 2nd, 7th, 8th and 9th Districts on Tuesday. Most drew endorsements from the Democratic Socialists of America, members of the “Squad” in Congress or a combination of the two. Marc Rod, of Jewish Insider, wrote on March 16, the day before the primaries, that “a source close to AIPAC says the group’s main goal in Chicago is stopping who it sees as six potential Squad members: Robert Peters, Kina Collins, Junaid Ahmed, Yasmeen Bankole,...

Abubaker Abed, a self-styled Palestinian journalist, said Temple Israel was 'guilty[sic] of a crime[sic]'.

Democratic senators say Republicans controlling both houses and presidency voted down multiple resolutions to fund TSA, Coast Guard and FEMA Sens. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., deflected blame when pressed whether their party should vote to end the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown on Sunday, which has left workers without paychecks for weeks. "We saw terror attacks in West Bloomfield, Michigan, in Norfolk, Virginia. This morning, the CEOs of the nation's major airlines and cargo carriers have written a letter to Congress calling for them to end the shutdown, talking about the importance of American security in...

The brother of a terrorist who rammed a vehicle into a Michigan Jewish preschool was a Hezbollah commander, Israel Defense Forces have said. Ayman Muhammad Ghazali, 41, was shot dead after driving the vehicle into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., on Thursday. His brother, Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali, was responsible for managing weapons operations within a specialized branch of Hezbollah’s Badr Unit, the IDF said in a statement Sunday morning. This unit of the Lebanese terror group is responsible for launching hundreds of rockets toward Israeli civilians throughout the recent war with Iran, the IDF said. Ghazali’s two brothers,...

Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, 41, was US-Lebanese national; source tells NBC he was questioned on potential terror ties upon his return from overseas trips; CBS says brothers were in rocket unit. By ToI Staff, Leon Kraiem and Agencies Mar 13, 2026 ... the synagogue attacker had been questioned on the matter on a number of occasions upon his return from overseas trips.