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A long-awaited U.S.-brokered peace deal between DR Congo and Rwanda will be signed in Washington on Thursday — but the reality on the ground tells a different story.

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee is expected to stop recommending universal vaccination of newborns against hepatitis B and question the childhood vaccination schedule when they meet Thursday.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with epidemiologist Michael Osterholm about Thursday's federal vaccine advisory committee meeting and proposed changes to the child vaccination schedule.

Residents attended a protest in Detroit and a virtual public hearing to demand more scrutiny towards DTE's proposal to power a 1.4 gigawatt data center coming to Saline Township.

On this day in 1844, Michigan Central College opened in Spring Arbor, becoming the first college in Michigan to offer degrees to women. It later moved to Hillsdale and was renamed Hillsdale College, the first American college to ban discrimination in its charter. In 1908, Dr. Alfred Day Hershey was born in Owosso; he won the Nobel Prize in 1969 for his groundbreaking work on DNA, having studied at Michigan State Agricultural College (now MSU).

State numbers show females have led males in college enrollment for more than a decade. Earlier this year, Governor Gretchen Whitmer directed the state to work on closing the education gap.

The Washington D.C.-based Nonhuman Rights Project argues that chimpanzees at the DeYoung Family Zoo in the Upper Peninsula deserve common law habeas corpus rights.

A new report says Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth risked a U.S. bombing mission in Yemen back in March when he shared extremely sensitive attack plans on Signal, a publicly available messaging app.

There’s concerns about an invasive insect targeting Michigan’s firs — including Christmas trees. That could have impacts on the state's forests and $45 million Christmas tree industry.

The traditional press corps at the Defense Department has been replaced with an unusual assortment of far right media personalities and outlets. The Pentagon held it's first press briefing for them.