The University of Michigan is preparing to shield first-semester grades from student transcripts, a move internal documents reveal is designed to address racial "credit gaps" and what administrators call "intersectional patterns of inequity" in academic performance.
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed said Sunday he spoke by phone with former President Barack Obama on Friday, days after narrowly defeating moderate Rep. Haley Stevens in the state's Democratic primary.
Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, once considered a star of the Democratic Party's next generation, suspended her U.S. Senate campaign on Sunday, abruptly exiting a race that national Democrats had already decided for her.
Gunfire erupted inside a Detroit-area shopping mall Friday afternoon, sending shoppers running for the exits the day before the nation's 250th birthday celebration.
Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic candidate for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat, told constituents at a July 2025 town hall that the U.S. should try to understand the grievances driving terrorists, suggesting that such attacks stem from pain, frustration, and a lack of agency.
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed refused to publicly condemn the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, telling staffers in a leaked recording that he had to stay quiet because Dearborn's Muslim voters were "sad" about it.
