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One of Michigan’s richest communities snags $790k from new state budget

LANSING, Mich - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has shifted the legal strategy in her fight against fossil fuel companies. Nessel’s office filed an antitrust lawsuit in January that reads less like a traditional competition case and more like an alternate history of how energy markets supposedly would have evolved but for a decades-long conspiracy. The complaint does not merely allege misconduct; it imagines an entirely different Michigan – one where electric vehicles dominate roads, renewable energy is ubiquitous, and consumers enjoy lower costs and broader choices in transportation and home energy.   

In this “but-for” world, electric vehicles would no longer be niche or luxury products. Click here to read more.

 

Bill Maher mocks Democrats’ ‘double standard’ on faith, saying Jewish belief isn’t welcome

WASHINGTON — Comedian Bill Maher shot at what he portrayed as the double standard of the Democratic Party on religion during a CNN show segment on Friday. Maher said that a candidate’s public faith is welcome only “as long as that faith isn’t Jewish.”

Maher’s comments came after a segment on CNN’s “Real Time” when Dana Bash discussed Texas Democrat James Talarico’s Christian faith, saying he “wears his faith on his sleeve” in a way Talarico believes could help him.

“Well, in the Democratic Party, as long as that faith isn’t Jewish, you’re good,” Maher said.

A Pew Research Center poll shows 80% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents have an unfavorable view of Israel. At the same time, 41% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents also hold a negative view of the Jewish state. Click here to read more.

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Data Center Backlash Brings Thousands Of Projects To A Screeching Halt

Americans’ growing opposition to the prevalence of data centers has led many politicians to limit or pause their increase altogether.

Lawmakers in New York and Texas, for example, have effected stoppages of data center projects, while other states, such as Pennsylvania, have issued more restrictions on data center construction. Americans’ support for data centers has generally plummeted, as critics have linked them to higher utility bills — reflecting extraordinary water and energy usage — being experienced by local communities.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott issued a sprawling data center moratorium in early August as residents soured on data centers. Abbott claimed his moratorium would protect Texans. Click here to read more.

 

New York Liberty Run Pro-Trans Scoreboard Message, Deny Paid Message from Group Supporting Women’s Sports

New York City’s WNBA team refused to take a paid scoreboard message from a woman who wanted to support the XX-XY movement to protect women’s sports from men identifying as women. Naturally, the team had no problem displaying pro-trans scoreboard messages.

Julie Potter, a lesbian hip-hop performer, says the New York Liberty tried to alter her message, which she paid to display at Barclays Center during the Liberty’s game against the Indiana Fever.

Potter says she has a receipt showing she paid $100 for the scoreboard message to be shown during the August 22 game, OutKick reports. Click here to read more.

 

17-year-old high school quarterback dies after football game injury

ALMA CENTER, Wis. – A high school senior in Wisconsin died from an injury suffered during Thursday night’s football game.

Superintendent Drew Semingson said 17-year-old Adam Massman was hurt during the game and received medical care from emergency personnel on the field before being taken to the hospital.

The district learned Saturday afternoon that Massman had died from the injury, Semingson said.

“This loss touches our Lincoln family in many ways,” Semingson said.

The superintendent said Massman was active throughout the Lincoln community and participated in multiple sports, clubs and activities.

Adam Massman as a student-athlete. Click here to read more.

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University Student Sues County for Flock Camera Records

FLINT, Mich. — Kettering University student Josh Tewolde has filed a lawsuit against Genesee County after the county refused to release key public records concerning its use of Flock Safety automated license plate reader cameras.

Represented by the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation, Tewolde is asking the Genesee County Circuit Court to require the county to disclose records requested under Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act, including a map of Flock camera locations, audit logs showing who accessed the camera data and when, and records of scans involving Tewolde’s own vehicle.

Flock cameras capture images of every passing vehicle, including license plates and visible details such as make, model and color. The information is stored in a searchable database and can later be used in criminal investigations. Click here to read more.

 

Data center boom targets Texas’ most productive farmland, fueling power clashes

WASHINGTON — Texas is at the center of a rapidly growing fight over the expansion of data centers, as farmland is converted into industrial server sites and rural communities compete for water and power resources that support the state’s $900 billion agriculture industry.

The debate has cut across party lines, with Republicans divided, Democrats raising concerns and rural communities pushing back over whether Texas and other states should prioritize long-term protection of land, water and electricity infrastructure over continued growth.

Texas Commissioner of Agriculture Sid Miller said the projects often target the “very best, most productive farmland” because it is flat and already has key infrastructure such as water, electricity and roads. Click here to read more.

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Sheriff Dar Leaf: Jocelyn Benson employee provided evidence noncitizens automatically registered to vote

Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf says an employee of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson provided evidence that the state’s computer system automatically registers noncitizens to vote when they change their address.

Leaf announced the allegations in a video statement Tuesday and said his office has referred the matter to the U.S. Department of Justice for investigation.

“An employee of the Michigan Secretary of State’s office reported to me that noncitizens are automatically registered to vote when they change their address,” Leaf said in a video posted on X.

Leaf said the confidential informant provided evidence involving the Customer and Automotive Record System, or CARS, which the Secretary of State uses to process driver’s license and state identification transactions. Click here to read more.

 

Illinois among worst in U.S. for population growth, job growth, wage growth

Illinois ranks among the worst in the country on several economic metrics.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is up for re-election Nov. 3.

Illinois still is suffering from people moving out. Since 2018, the state’s has lost more than 168,000 residents, or over 1% of its population.

Illinois ranks 48^th among the 50 states in both population growth rate and total population growth.

Pritzker’s second term has seen a slight uptick, largely because of international migration. Without that boost, Illinois’ population would have declined in 2025. Even so, Illinois ranks only 39^th in population growth rate from 2023 to 2025.

Poor job growth in part explains the large number of Illinoisians who can’t find work. Illinois’ unemployment rate was 5.1% in June, when over 300,000 residents were looking for work. Click here to read more.

 

North Carolina: Biden-Released Illegal Alien Accused of Killing 51-Year-Old Man in Hit-and-Run

An illegal alien, released into the United States by former President Joe Biden’s administration, is now accused of killing 51-year-old James Bagley III in a fatal hit-and-run crash in Sylva, North Carolina.

This month, illegal alien Mauricio Josue Alberto Sarmiento of Honduras was arrested by the Sylva Police Department and charged with felony hit-and-run resulting in death, no liability insurance, driving with a revoked license, speeding, and failure to reduce speed.

According to police, on August 2, Sarmiento was speeding when he allegedly struck Bagley, a pedestrian, around 3 a.m. before fleeing the scene. Bagley was found unresponsive and pronounced dead at the scene. Click here to read more.

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Detroit Schools to Continue $100 Weekly Perfect Attendance Payments, Add $50 for Middle Schoolers

Detroit Public Schools Community District is expanding an attendance incentive that officials say helped improve turnout among high school students.

Students in grades 6 through 8 can earn $50 for each week of perfect attendance, while high school students can still earn $100 a week.

The expansion comes as chronic absenteeism remains widespread. In 2024-25, 61% of district students missed at least 10% of the school year. Click here to learn more.

 

Meta Platforms faces pivotal trial as opening statements begin in California

OAKLAND, Calif. — Opening statements started Tuesday in a pivotal trial for Meta Platforms in a California federal court, where states are seeking billions of dollars in damages for social media harms to children.

Attorneys general from California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey are seeking a financial penalty that could, in theory, total as much as $1.4 trillion plus changes to how the company operates Facebook and Instagram. Twenty-nine states sued the tech giant in 2023 over child safety and privacy — the other 25 will go to trial later. The company also faces lawsuits in state courts.

The lawsuit accuses the social media giant of contributing to the youth mental health crisis by knowingly and deliberately designing features that addict children to its platforms. It also argues that Meta routinely collects data on children under 13 without their parents’ consent, in violation of federal law. Click here to read more.

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Abdul El-Sayed’s mother worked for designated terror group IARA that ‘provided direct financial support’ to Osama bin Laden, Taliban, Hamas

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed last month highlighted how his mother “taught me so much about both how to stand with others, and how to stand alone.”

In a video posted to TikTok, the former Wayne County health official chatted on a porch swing with Jacqueline El-Sayed, a highly accomplished engineer from Gratiot County, about how his stepmother helped shape his views on life as she helped raise the progressive firebrand in Bloomfield Hills, an upscale suburb of Detroit.

Jacqueline El-Sayed married El-Sayed’s father, Mohamed El-Sayed, not long after he immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1980s with Fatten Fathy Elkomy, the U.S. Senate candidate’s birth mother.

“They ended up getting divorced,” El-Sayed said of his birth parents during a 2017 speech before the Islamic Foundation. “And my mother, she remarried a gentleman who was working as a translator in the Middle East and moved back to the Middle East.” Click here to read more.

 

Alleged kidnapper posed as babysitter on Facebook group, warrant says; video shows children rescued

Lakesha Brown, 42, is charged with kidnapping and cruelty to children. Her arrest warrants state she posed as a babysitter on a “pregnancy mom group” on Facebook to get close to the family.

Police said Brown spent the past year building a relationship with the children’s mother, Elica Redding.

According to arrest warrants, Redding agreed to let Brown babysit the girls on Saturday night. Brown told the mother she was taking the girls to Walmart and Candy Utopia, but failed to show up at a designated grandmother’s house afterward. Click here to read more.

 

Where are Michiganders moving to? U-Haul has some answers

Michigan senior citizens are moving South. The state’s young adults are heading to Chicago or Detroit.

But there are also some surprises in new U-Haul data looking at one-way U-Haul rentals from July 2025 to July 2026. The data includes moves originating in metro Detroit and Grand Rapids.

The analysis breaks the data down by metro area and age group. It shows the top five out-of-state net-gain destinations for each age group, as well as the top five metro areas, which includes in-state moves.

Nationally:

• Baby Boomers across the U.S. are heading to warm climes. Six of the top seven net-gain states for Boomers are in the Southeast and the other is Arizona.

• Generation X and Millennials flocking to Florida and Texas more than anywhere else, although several Midwest states are in the mix for Millennials.

• Generation Z is gravitating major metro areas, including those in Texas and California as well as New York City and Chicago. Click here to read more.

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