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As President Obama toured the Detroit auto show, he briefly commented on the magnificent Corvette Stingray before spending most of his time focused on the new Chevrolet Electric “Bolt.”

A fight between teacher Ms. Burns and seventh-grader Diamonique Singleton broke out in the middle of class at a Detroit school. The school suspended Singleton after the incident.

Fast food workers are striking on Tuesday as they demand $15 an hour, which is allegedly a more livable wage.

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — A person familiar with the decision says the Detroit Lions have fired president Tom Lewand and general manager Martin Mayhew.

According to the Michigan Treasurer and Emergency Manager for Detroit Public Schools, the schools are set to run out of cash soon and are in need of a hefty state bailout.

On Tuesday, just after 12 a.m., a man wielding a box cutter stabbed and slashed two Detroit EMS employees after they tried to help a woman who was with him.

After beating a white victim and trying to steal his car, an armed African American car thief in Detroit reportedly told a black bystander that he didn’t have anything to worry about because, the thief proclaimed, he “only robs white

Man Shot In Chest After Neighbor Catches Him Allegedly Exposing Himself To Children

Members of the Satanic Temple of Detroit staged a counter-protest—called “guerilla theatre”—in support of Planned Parenthood Saturday as tens of thousands of Americans across the country participated in a National Day of Protest against the nation’s largest provider of abortions, demanding Congress defund it.

Workers at Detroit’s John D. Dingell Veterans Administration Medical Center say that working conditions are so bad they feel like the hospital is being run “like a third world country.” About 100 workers picketed in front of the hospital on

CBS DETROIT: The hunt is on for a group of men in Detroit who allegedly attacked two couples while they were walking down the street, forcing the male victim to watch as his female companion is gang raped.

Earlier this week, the Detroit chapter of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network began protesting a Kid Rock exhibit at a local museum over the musician’s use of the Confederate flag at concerts. Thursday night, Kid issued a blunt response.

Unsatisfied with the removal of the Confederate flag from public places, stores and TV shows, activists are now calling for musician Kid Rock to stop using the banner at concerts.

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A Detroit EMT has been fired after she flatly refused to help a premature baby suffering a medical emergency who later died.

In only a few hours time on Saturday evening, eleven people were shot in Detroit, one fatally. Ten of those were hit as they attended a block party in the Motor City. An eleventh person was shot in a separate incident only a short time later.

With the strike ban that was a pre-condition of the GM and Fiat Chrysler federal bailouts expiring, United Auto Workers (UAW) locals are collecting food and encouraging union members to save for a potential strike when the Big Three four-year labor agreement expires on September 14.

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times ran a column by Jennifer Carlson claiming that men carry guns because they are insecure over the size and sustainability of their paychecks.

So thoroughly have decades of Democrat rule annihilated the city of Detroit that most big-picture suggestions for saving the city involve literally giving it away. Michigan’s Republican governor, Rick Snyder, long ago proposed repopulating the city with immigrants. Now Stanford University poli-sci professor David D. Laitin and former New York City Housing Development Corporation president Marc Jahr offer a more specific suggestion, in a New York Times editorial: give Detroit to refugees from the Syrian civil war.

Dr. Ben Carson rolled out his White House bid in front of a fired up capacity crowd at the Detroit Music Hall for the Performing Arts. About a thousand supporters crammed into the downtown venue, and as they waited for the event to start, they cheered loudly yelling: “Run Ben Run! Run Ben Run!”

Dr. Ben Carson declares for president, saying he believes the real problem in America is that individuals are losing hope and don’t believe there is a better way to get what they desire. “Stop being loyal to a party or a man,” Carson said. “Think for yourself.”

Dr. Ben Carson, now an official candidate for the presidency of the United States, addressed a small gathering of supporters here at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History on Monday morning. He discussed the need to remove the “chains” big government uses to hold Americans back.

DETROIT, Michigan — A city that’s trying to raise itself back up after severe economic downturn will serve as the backdrop for the launching of the presidential campaign Dr. Ben Carson, a man who’s already personally pulled himself out of poverty into a life of success.

A report in The Hill sets a time and place for Ben Carson’s announcement that he will run for President.

Oppressive government regulations and taxes beating down Upstate New Yorkers have assaulted the region for years, leaving cities like Binghamton on the path to Detroit-level devastation. However, all is not lost. The hope of prosperity is evidenced in the success of less regulated and prosperous Native American tribe businesses in the state.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) argued Republican Party “needs to become a champion of the entire Bill of Rights” on Tuesday’s “Sean Hannity Show.” “We have to find people where they live and we have to go to them in the way

Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld argued that the media “fishbowl” “misses the big point” on gun control on Friday’s broadcast of “The Five.” In reaction to Detroit Police Chief James Craig’s defense of law-abiding citizens carrying guns, Gutfeld said,

On April 2, NPR reported that concealed carry permits and gun ownership for self-defense is surging in the black community.

At about 3:40 a.m. on March 30, a Detroit female homeowner retrieved her gun and ran downstairs, where she fired multiple shots and wounded one of two alleged intruders, leaving him in critical condition.

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Rasmieh Odeh, a Palestinian terrorist who had previously been convicted of assisting in a Jerusalem supermarket bombing, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for omitting her involvement in the jihadist act on her U.S. immigration papers, according to reports.

On Tuesday news went national of a Muslim man who was arrested in Detroit for stabbing two non-Muslims at a bus stop after asking their religion. But the next day the Atlanta Journal-Constitution falsely claimed that the “attacker targeted Muslims” when in fact it was a Muslim who targeted two non-Muslims.

Jeb Bush is making a stand for poor people across the country, highlighting the end result of the “Food Stamp President” Barack Obama’s failed economic policy that has increase the number of American taking government assistance. Bush told the Detroit

At a cost of hundreds of millions of tax dollars, Detroit has launched its plan to contract the size of its city by demolishing thousands of abandoned buildings in areas blighted by decay. But the city is repeatedly running into squatters living in the abandoned buildings, slowing the city’s effort to bulldoze its way to prosperity.

Hosting a Super Bowl is no guarantee of future prosperity, as the crumbling Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan shows.

A company working with the Clinton Foundation is being charged with endangering the health of African American babies in Detroit via a program that offers cash to buy breast milk from mothers of newborns. The breast milk buying program is sponsored