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From left, Artis E. Manning, 70, of Flint, casts his ballot at the Berston Field House polling location while Jim Barfield, of Flint, and Jermaine Jackson, of Flushing, wait for more voters to arrive on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016 in Flint, Mich.
As the Republican National Convention got underway in Cleveland, delegates faced increasing questions Monday about their party's positions toward Muslims in America and abroad, with a leading Islamic group accusing the GOP of intolerance. "For too long the Republican Party has been using fear as a political tool to drive a wedge between Islamic Americans and other Americans," said Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, speaking not far from the hall where the convention began Monday.
Two open U.S. House seats highlight the primary election in Michigan, where the Republican winner of a Thumb-area seat will have a clear path to Congress while the victors in the state's expansive northern district will contend in a competitive race in November. The Aug. 2 primary also will set the stage this fall for control of the state House, which Democrats are eager to win after years of GOP rule.
Michigan is trickier than it may appear for Hillary Clinton, a Democrat whose party's presidential nominees have carried the struggling manufacturing hub for decades. Bernie Sanders beat her in the state's Democratic primary by railing against the North American Free Trade Agreement.
"The reports of my demise are overblown," he told the audience June 1 at the Mackinac Policy Conference, before calling "negative" members of the press a bunch of "Eeyores." He's partly right.
U.S. and Michigan flags are at half-staff and half-mast until June 21 to honor victims of two tragedies. Though June 16, victims of the Orlando shootings are honored.
A $617 million state bailout of Detroit's debt-ridden school district is advancing in the Michigan Legislature after winning narrow approval in the House. The ailing district has been managed by the state for seven years, during which it has faced plummeting enrollment and, more recently, teacher sickout protests.
A bill would require parental notification when students prefer to use restrooms other than those that correspond with their biological sex, as well as control which restrooms those students could use. Pictured is a unisex bathroom on the third floor of University of Michigan-Flint's French Hall.
The U.S. Coast Guard is opening seasonal air facilities in Michigan and Illinois to boost Lake Michigan search and rescue operations during the spring and summer months. Crews from the Detroit area operate Air Facility Muskegon while crews from Traverse City operate Air Facility Waukegan.
Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman has released a scathing statement in response to likely rival Donald Trump's list of potential Supreme Court picks. John Podesta says Trump's list of 11 Supreme Court candidates includes "no people of color, but does include a judge who upheld a law requiring doctors to use scare tactics to impede reproductive rights and another judge who equated homosexual sex to bestiality, pedophilia and necrophilia."
I doubt it matters very much that Michigan's embattled Republican governor, Rick Snyder, won't be endorsing Donald Trump for president. Given Snyder's performance on the Flint water issue , who would want his endorsement? Gov. Snyder says he's going to stay focused on retaining a Republican majority in the state's House of Representatives.