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Michiganders filed nearly 400 requests to have firearms confiscated from individuals believed to pose a risk to themselves or others during the first year of the state's “red flag” laws.

A new lawsuit alleges that the Feb. 13, 2023, mass shooting at MSU was “entirely preventable” had university leaders taken more steps to secure campus buildings.

On this day in 1974, Joe Maka speared Michigan's largest recorded fish, a 7-foot, 193-pound sturgeon, at Mullett Lake. Also, in 1819, William Woodbridge was elected as Michigan's first member of the US House of Representatives, though he was a non-voting member since Michigan wasn't yet a state.

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In Colorado, the federal funding freeze has hit projects from a brownfield cleanup in Pueblo to "once in a lifetime" funding for solar projects in Native communities.

NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with Sohrab Ahmari, U.S. editor for the UnHerd, about his recent essay on that website entitled "Elon Musk is a danger to Trumpism."

Congressman Ro Khanna is one of the few Democrats who have made it a priority to appear on the YouTube podcast circuit. He talks about his approach to new media, and what he gets out of going on comedy shows that he doesn't out of cable news.

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, All Things Considered co-host Ari Shapiro transports us to Panama for this week's Reporter's Notebook.