LANSING, Mich. -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will testify before a congressional subcommittee Tuesday about Michigan's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, she said Friday.

By then, Whitmer said, she may have news about further loosening of restrictions on Michigan's economy, she said at a news conference in Lansing.

"If it continues this way, I'm ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Newly declassified transcripts confirm that Michael Flynn, who became President Donald Trump's first national security adviser, discussed U.S. sanctions with Russia Ambassador Sergey Kislyak before Trump's inauguration.

The transcripts from late 2016 and early 2017 that were released Friday by Republican senators show Flynn urging...Read more

MIAMI -- The Department of Homeland Security is only testing a sample of the detainees it is removing from the United States and using a 15-minute rapid test to determine if they have the coronavirus.

The response by DHS to a Miami Herald inquiry comes as immigration advocates continue to call for an end to deportations amid surging COVID-19 ...Read more

DETROIT -- General Motors will have brought back most of its 48,000 hourly workforce in the United States starting next week.

GM will resume production at its full-sized SUV plant as well as the plant that makes its Cadillac compact SUV on Monday. GM also said it will increase production at its other North American SUV and pickup plants ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- A somber Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Friday vowed to restore order after a third night of protests and violence in response to George Floyd's death in police custody led to the breach and destruction of a Minneapolis police precinct and dozens of other buildings across the city.

"What the world has witnessed since the killing of ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said Friday that he has "every expectation" authorities will press charges against the Minneapolis police officers involved in the death this week of George Floyd.

In a live interview on CNN, Ellison attributed the lack of charges several days since Floyd died to prosecutors with the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Protesters late Thursday lobbed bottles, trampled a perimeter fence, broke windows and overran a Minneapolis police station that has become the epicenter of outrage over the death of George Floyd. Crowds continued to ransack the station, burn cars and fire guns in the air early Friday.

It was near the station that four officers ...Read more

All of the roughly 200 employees on a produce farm in Tennessee tested positive for COVID-19 this month. In New Jersey, more than 50 workers had the virus at a farm in Gloucester County, adding to nearly 60 who fell ill in neighboring Salem County. Almost 170 were reported to get the disease at a tomato and strawberry greenhouse complex in ...Read more

The city's death rate has been staggering: higher than those of almost every U.S. state, higher than in greater Chicago, Los Angeles or Toronto.

The place is Montreal, the business and cultural center of Quebec, where the coronavirus pandemic has struck the elderly with unusual savagery. The struggle to contain the outbreak has forced the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Even before it was signed Thursday, President Donald Trump's executive order encouraging federal regulators to reconsider legal immunity for social media companies was pilloried by a diverse coalition of opponents who questioned the order's legality and Trump's motivations.

The order, signed by Trump on the heels of a multiday ...Read more

ST. LOUIS -- About 100 protesters in Ferguson and downtown St. Louis gathered Thursday in solidarity with Minneapolis protesters amid national outrage over the death of an African American man in police custody on Monday.

In a widely viewed bystander video of the arrest, George Floyd can be seen and heard telling an arresting officer, ...Read more

DETROIT -- At least one in four coronavirus deaths in Michigan have been residents of nursing homes, according to preliminary state data.

The head of the state Department of Health and Human Services told lawmakers this week that 1,216 deaths in Michigan -- 23% of deaths in the state through Tuesday -- have been attributed to nursing home ...Read more

A CNN reporter and his production crew were released from custody less than two hours after being arrested in Minneapolis Friday morning during a live broadcast about the ongoing protests over the officer-involved death of George Floyd.

News correspondent Omar Jimenez and his team were taken into custody because they allegedly didn't heed a ...Read more

Twitter has tagged a tweet by President Donald Trump as a violation of its rules "about glorifying violence" after he threatened a harsh crackdown on protests in Minneapolis, warning that "any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts."

The move by the social-media giant is sure to inflame the ...Read more