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Lt. Gen. John “Mick” Nicholson Jr., now commander of NATO’s Allied Land Command in Turkey, was formally nominated to take over the Afghanistan role less than a day before his confirmation hearing, an unusually quick turnaround for the process.

Saturday night: A 40 percent chance of showers. Temps drop down to the lower 20s on Friday night. The meteorological winter (December through February) precipitation total (rain plus snow converted to liquid) stayed at 4.28 inches, 1.47 inches above normal.

Polls can get it wrong in so many ways.

The Corinth School District is one of 82 districts statewide considered to be under significant fiscal stress.

The fund, established by the Community Foundation of Greater Flint, is a supplemental…

There has been a national outcry over the contamination of water in Flint, in the northern U.S. state of MI, that has drawn rebuke from even U.S. President Barack Obama.CCTV America’s Roee Ruttenberg reports from Flint, the center of a water crisis that has gained national...

An official says the state of MI has offered fresh bottled water at a state building in Flint for a year – although residents were told not to worry about their tap water until last fall.

The river had a reputation for nastiness, and after the April 2014 switch, … Michael Moore is speaking out about the current bottled water donations, warning of a wholle new environmental disaster if trucking in water is the government solution to the lead-poisoned local...

The Michigan senators and other Democrats were expected to offer the measure as an amendment to a Senate energy bill.

Anderson’s video responded to charges made by two of the pro-life advocates’ lawyers, who blasted the actions of “a runaway grand jury that has acted contrary to the law”.

There could be a crush of Americans signing up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act as the open enrollment deadline approaches this Sunday, January 31. Eligible Illinois residents who don’t enroll in a qualified health plan by this date may miss out on...

Daleiden and Merritt created a fake human-tissue company and secretly recorded Planned Parenthood workers discussing the disposal of organs.

“We both received the same information, and we both arrived at different conclusions”, Sanders said after meeting in the Oval Office with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. His meeting with Obama was the first time the former Senate colleagues have...

“I send my condolences to his family and friends”.

Republicans have more seats to defend, 24 to the Democrats’ 10, and many of those GOP seats are in states President Barack Obama won, including Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Ohio.