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Michigan announces its first probable case of monkeypox, and it’s here in Metro Detroit. The state says a person living in Oakland County has likely tested positive and is in isolation.

Jens Stoltenberg said the increase followed a direct threat from Russia to European security.

The ruling is a setback for activists hoping the government will change the country’s marriage law.

The pop star posted a video to Instagram to show how only half of his face could move.

The House Judiciary Committee held a rare recess hearing to debate the most sweeping set of gun-control bills considered by Congress in decades.

FLINT, MI -- A federal judge says she will give more time to a civil trial tied to the Flint water crisis starting next week, an effort to make faster progress as the case threatens to extend throughout the summer. The case is considered a bellwether because it is the first to test the potential liability of the consulting companies for the water crisis. Starting Tuesday, May 31, the judge said, the water trial will be in session from 8:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. The companies have disputed the injuries claimed by the children and said government officials caused the water crisis and are responsible for any related damages. Read more at The Flint Journal:Ex-Flint DPW boss saw evidence of lead contamination just months after switch to Flint RiverOwner of New Lothrop’s iconic Gracie’s Restaurant dies at 85Judge dismisses juror with COVID-19, says Flint water crisis trial can’t afford further delay

The cabinet minister questions whether lockdown rules were "too restrictive" in the first place.

Police and crime commissioner Caroline Henry lists tackling speeding as one of her priorities.

Madeleine McCann has been missing for nearly 15 years after she disappeared, aged three, in Portugal.

PAIR ARRESTED: A Tennessee man and Mid-South woman are behind bars in connection to the Arkansas Amber Alert.

An Amber Alert was issued for the 17-year-old who went missing after a bakery shift.

Lyons police Chief Thomas Herion will be announcing the details of the charges during a news conference at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the southwest suburb, according to news release from the village.

The 23-year-old became ill after she ate a sweet delivered in "child-friendly packaging".

P.S. 9 in Prospect Heights, now the Sarah Smith Garnet School, removes its last vestige of the Bergen name — though it remains on street signs and subway stations.

Alan Bird's son Lewis died in 2019 after being smothered as a toddler in 2001.

The Supreme Court says it won’t review the case of a Seattle-based Christian organization that was sued after declining to hire a bisexual lawyer who applied for a job.

The Supreme Court says it won't review the case of a Seattle-based Christian organization that was sued after declining to hire a bisexual lawyer who applied for a job. Two justices, Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas, agreed with the decision not to hear the case at this stage but said that “the day may soon come" when the court needs to confront the issue the case presents. The case the high court declined to hear involves Seattle's Union Gospel Mission.

Six months after Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that criminalizing abortion was unconstitutional, a hospital in the southern state of Guerrero refused to perform an abortion on a 9-year-old rape victim

The Supreme Court sided unanimously with the Biden administration Friday and reversed a lower court decision that had allowed a lawsuit by Muslim men claiming religious bias by the FBI to go forward. Instead, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that a federal appeals court had made an error when looking at the case.

The parents of the teen accused of killing four and injuring seven in a shooting at Oxford High School were in court on Tuesday.

A judge dismissed an appeal by U.S. lawyer Samuel Bickett, who intervened to stop a police officer from hitting a teenager. The case was seen as a litmus test of Hong Kong judicial independence.

Matthew Selby, 19, pleads guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

Nearly 70 million Americans have been infected with the virus and more than 800,000 have died since the first case of COVID was confirmed in the U.S.

Astronomers are saying that this is one case where you should absolutely look up. Face south in the night sky with some pretty strong binoculars or the telescope you got for Christmas.

How did Djokovic breach Australia's laws and could he argue his way into the Australian Open?

While the award for the privacy aspect of the suit was a token amount, Meghan will receive much more in copyright infringement.

A bakery firm was taken to court for refusing to make a cake with a "Support Gay Marriage" slogan.

A 2009 settlement shows Virginia Roberts agreed not to sue anyone who could be described as a "potential defendant" in that case.

Immigrant detainees remain in McHenry and Kankakee county jails while court considers appeal to keep ICE contract.

The Memorial Human Rights Center, which publishes an annual list of political prisoners, has been ordered to close, a day after another wing of the group was liquidated.

Ex-Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge must pay a reward to the man who found his dog, a court says.

Infected people in England can end quarantine early with negative test results on day six and seven.

Protect your iPhone 13 and give it more power with this durable battery case.

The former Brexit minister insists his resignation was about policy, not Boris Johnson's leadership.

Simon Case's position as head of a probe into lockdown events is in doubt, the BBC has been told.

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes' stepmother and his father were both jailed on Friday for his death.

Fraudsters appear to be adopting the "sinister" tactic of spiking drinks to steal money, campaigners warn.

The man is so keen to get a vaccine pass he turns up with a plastic arm, but doctors aren't fooled.

Lightfoot said more officers have reported their vaccine status as required.

The test-to-stay plan will start in just one CPS school.

After going missing 46 years ago from Bloomfield Township, the search for Teamsters Union boss Jimmy Hoffa has been reinvigorated with a new lead.

Twelve employees committed or covered up sexual abuse, CPS says.

State argues Kyle Rittenhouse self-defense claims are "excuses," not legal justification

Zervos had alleged Trump sexually assaulted her in 2004. Trump’s lawyer said they were preparing to file a countersuit against her.

It’s not just lower-wage workers leaving their positions for better pay. Wall Street traders are on the move, too, in a sign the labor market is tightening.

The swings look different in different states.

FLINT, MI -- A Flint man has been sentenced to prison for second-degree murder in a 2019 case that involved a two-vehicle crash during a Michigan State Police chase after a carjacking incident in Flint. Christoper A. Long, who was 17 years old at the time of the carjacking and crash that left 57-year-old Alison Looney dead and her husband severely injured, was sentenced by Genesee County Circuit Court Judge Celeste D. Bell on Monday, Nov. 8 to serve 25 to 40 years in prison.

Tonga’s government says the isolated South Pacific nation’s main island will go into lockdown for a week after it reported its first case of the coronavirus

AccuWeather meteorologist Bernie Rayno breaks down the weather patterns that could lead the northeastern U.S. to receive the first accumulating snowfall of the season in early November.

Longtime judge in Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial unfazed by national scrutiny of controversial rulings in Kenosha County.

Cincinnati police officer Christopher Schroder has been suspended with pay pending the outcome of an inquiry over allegations that the city's mayor says shows “a disgusting betrayal of public trust and the trust of the victims he had a duty to help.”

Christopher Charles Perez wrote on Facebook last year that he had paid someone infected with the coronavirus to lick groceries at a San Antonio supermarket. He now faces more than a year in federal prison.

At least tens of thousands of people are believed to have been victims of child sex abuse within France’s Catholic Church over the past seven decades, according to a major report due to be published Tuesday

The court remains closed to the public, and a masked, limited audience witnessed oral arguments

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The Justice Department’s lawsuit against the state of Texas is one of several legal proceedings involving the nation’s most restrictive abortion law

“This is a survivor driven-program that survivors can choose to enter," Savit said.

The Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office will now give crime survivors a choice in how they'd like their case to proceed.

U-M researchers found that overall cases resulting in eviction orders decreased during the pandemic, boosted by Michigan’s Eviction Diversion Program.

State authorities are investigating the case of a man who died after being handcuffed by police in Providence.

The Supreme Court says it will not hear a case out of Pennsylvania related to the 2020 election, a dispute that had lingered while similar election challenges had already been rejected by the justices.

Hamtramck police are still investigating the case. HAMTRAMCK, Mich. – A person was injured in a shooting that happened Monday shortly before 8 a.m. in the area of Belmont and Lumpkin streets, police say. Police responded to the scene after a call was made about several shots being fired in the area. Several rounds of gunfire struck a home on Belmont leaving the victim injured, according to police. Anyone with information is asked to call the Hamtramck Police Department at 313-800-5281.

GENESEE COUNTY, Mich. – Defense attorneys in the ongoing Flint water crisis case are pushing for the judge to be removed. The Flint water crisis case may soon be headed in a new direction. Defense attorneys said the judge doesn’t belong on the case because of where he lives. RELATED: Flint water crisis investigation: Here’s who was chargedFormer Director of the City of Flint Department of Public Works Howard Croft’s attorney argued that since Genesee District Court Judge William H. Crawford lives in Flint, he could potentially be involved in a class-action lawsuit against Croft. Attorneys for Snyder argued Monday that the case against him was filed in the wrong county since he was making decisions in Lansing, not Genesee County.

GENESEE COUNTY, Mich. – On Monday, attorneys for former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder filed a motion to dismiss charges against him in the Flint water crisis. The Flint water crisis is a disaster now stretching across almost seven years. In court documents, Snyder’s attorneys claim that a Genessee County judge did not have the jurisdiction to approve the indictment since the alleged acts happened in Lansing. The attorneys say since Snyder was in Lansing the case should be dismissed in Genessee County.

DETROIT – With COVID-19 cases rising exponentially in Michigan, local hospitals are starting to fill with new patients. RELATED: Tracking Michigan COVID-19 hospitalization data trendsBoth the Henry Ford Health and Beaumont Health systems have seen a rise in COVID-19 patients. As of 11 a.m. Friday, Henry Ford Health System had 226 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at its six hospitals. Physicians are urging residents to take coronavirus seriously. You can watch Paula Tutman’s full story in the video above.

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LANSING, Mich. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer filed a motion in Detroit federal court Friday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Republican Congressmen Paul Mitchell alleging she exceeded her authority by issuing so many executive orders to address the coronavirus pandemic. Mitchell claims many of the executive orders are unconstitutional. READ MORE: Here are all 118 executive orders issued by Michigan Gov. The motion states that Mitchells claims are moot because Whitmer has issued executive orders that permit the very activities he alleged were prohibited.

1st case of person-to-person spread of coronavirus reported in USPublished: January 30, 2020, 5:12 pmHealth officials said the sixth case of coronavirus in the United States was caught by person-to-person contact.