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2026 has already brought a wave of setbacks for social media giants as pressure grows on Big Tech from regulators and lawmakers around the world.

Today in 1856, Abraham Lincoln visited Kalamazoo to campaign for John Charles Fremont. His speech, initially lost to history, was rediscovered in 1930 by Tom Starr in a 1856 Detroit Advertiser at the Detroit Public Library. Lincoln emphasized the importance of emancipation, stating, “Shall we say, 'Let it be'? No – we have an interest in the maintenance of the principles of the Government, and without this interest, it is worth nothing.”

House Republicans are creating a committee to investigate a state elections board after the board members deadlocked on whether to advance a petition campaign aimed at tightening Michigan's voter ID laws and requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.

At a pivotal moment for a proposal to encase a petroleum pipeline in a tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac, opponents of the plan rallied at the Michigan Capitol.

Nearly 100 people are dead, and many more are missing, after an avalanche of ice and rock blocked a Himalayan river valley, triggering massive flash floods in Nepal.

The Bridge program, which began July 1, makes some Medicare beneficiaries eligible for obesity drugs for $50 a month. CVS and Walgreens say they've each already filled 100,000 such prescriptions.

Tariffs and export controls have been the Trump administration's main economic security tools. Neither is working very well right now.

The late superstar Dolly Parton had an incredible legacy in American culture. That was even true from a Black American viewpoint. The Black Wall Street Times' Nehemiah Frank describes Parton's impact.

The WNBA's popularity has risen in recent years, but so have threats and abuse directed at its players. One team is taking a novel approach to this, by partnering with national security specialists.

People in Sevierville, Tenn., remember their hometown girl, Dolly Parton — not only for her songs, but for her lifetime of generosity to the place she came from.