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Opinion

Almanac for Sept. 10, 2025

Local columns

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 10, the 253rd day of 2025. There are 112 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1991, the Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. The proceedings would become a watershed moment in the ...

Michigan marks 988 Day for suicide, crisis hotline

Editorial

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services joined Monday with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to observe the second-annual 988 Day, marked on Sept. 8. The day is a national initiative dedicated to raising awareness about the 988 Suicide and Crisis ...

Chief justice lets Trump remove Federal Trade member for now

Local columns

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday let President Donald Trump remove a member of the Federal Trade Commission, the latest in a string of high-profile firings allowed for now by Supreme Court. Trump first moved to fire Rebecca Slaughter in the spring, but she sued and ...

Britain, Land of the Unfree

Local columns

When the Irish comedian Graham Linehan arrived at London Heathrow Airport this past weekend, he was greeted by five armed British police officers who arrested him for — get this — three rude tweets. Or, as Linehan wrote on his Substack, "I was arrested at an airport like a terrorist, ...