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Thursday, Congressman Tim Walberg (MI-05) introduced the Responsible Cormorant Management and Control Act to ensure effective, science‑based management of double‑crested cormorant populations across the United States.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has requested President Donald Trump to declare a major disaster in response to multiple tornadoes that touched down in Southwest Michigan last month.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer asked President Donald Trump on Wednesday to declare a major disaster in three southwest Michigan counties in the wake of tornadoes that resulted in four deaths, multiple injuries and significant property damage.

Legislation intended to improve the safety of professional boxing and protect athletes from abuse has been approved by the U.S. House.

The Galien River Sanitary District Sewer Authority in New Buffalo is receiving a $2 million federal grant to help improve the area’s sewer system.

The House Education and Workforce Committee has released an investigative report that identifies how university administrators facilitated the historic rise of antisemitism after the Oct. 7 Islamic terror attacks.

The House Education and Workforce Committee advanced a bill Tuesday that would allow President Trump to fire multiple leaders and dismiss all board members of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, an independent government agency and annual grant competition that multiple Republican committee members claim has become a “program to train professional leftists.”

The House panel’s investigation found that after Oct. 7, the Qatar campus at Northwestern “clashed with Northwestern’s Evanston campus about public statements on the conflict and handling of faculty antisemitism, emphasizing the divergent standards of the two campuses when it comes to antisemitism and Title VI,” the report says.