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DETROIT — With about a month until Election Day, a new poll shows Republican John James leading Democrat Carl Marlinga by nearly 8 percentage points in the race for Congress in Michigan's new 10th District covering parts of Macomb and Oakland counties.

The results of two federal trials won’t be shared with jurors hearing evidence against three men who are charged in connection with a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

GOP anger over Covid guidelines appears to be insufficient to oust incumbent

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is the number one fundraiser in Michigan state politics in the 2022 election cycle so far. According to the most recent campaign finance reports made to the Michigan Secretary of State, the governor received $26,046,921 in total contributions and spent $20,109,935 between Jan. 1, 2021 and Sept.…

Candidates who have to play to their party’s base during primaries or nominating conventions often shift toward the center when the time comes to seek support from a wider range of voters for the general election

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday signed a package of bills allowing clerks in large cities two days of pre-processing time to make it faster to tabulate absentee ballots on Election Day.

Jurors in Michigan heard secretly recorded audio as prosecutors tried to show how a paramilitary group was connected to a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

DETROIT — Kaleb Franks, a central figure in the largest domestic terrorism investigation in a generation who admitted to plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, was sentenced to four years in federal prison Thursday.

Jurors in the trial of three men charged in connection with a 2020 anti-government plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer have been told about the formation and actions of a paramilitary group the government says trained as part of the scheme

A jury has been seated in the trial of three men charged in connection with a 2020 anti-government plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

While Democrats have emphasized abortion as a campaign issue, Republicans have focused on inflation, immigration.