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Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive directive Thursday calling on the state health department to create a report on how big proposed cuts to the federal Medicaid program would affect Michigan.

Michigan labor officials say the state may have to step in to resolve disputes in the wake of cuts to the federal agency that normally handles private sector contract mediation.

The Trump administration halted the construction of a New York offshore wind project. Legal analysts say it has implications far beyond the wind industry.

Maine's Democratic Gov. Janet Mills says her state's not backing down against possible cuts in school and other funding threatened by the Trump administration over the state's policy on transgender athletes in sports.

NPR science podcast Short Wave brings us the stories of how Fiddler crabs drum their mating songs into the sand, growing chicken nuggets in the lab, and a drug like LSD -- without the trip.

Christian leaders gathered outside the U.S. Capitol building this week to call for more solidarity with LGBTQ people. We look at the conversations Black churches are having.

Canada's new Prime Minister Mark Carney entered politics as trade relations with the U.S. hit a low point. The former central banker's economic chops may propel him to victory in the next election.

The state is experiencing its first measles outbreak since 2019 in Montcalm County, where three individuals have contracted the virus. An outbreak is defined as three or more connected cases.

The Trump administration's dramatic staffing cuts at federal lands agencies like the Forest Service are causing anxiety in tinder dry New Mexico, where the wildfire threat is already severe this Spring.