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Today is Tuesday, June 3, the 154th day of 2025. There are 211 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 3, 2016, heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, whose athletic feats and activism put him among the most revered athletes of all time, died at a hospital in ...

Approve permits, build the Great Lakes Tunnel

As organizations rooted in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, we have had a front-row seat to the challenges and opportunities that define life in our beautiful and often overlooked part of the state. For many years, one issue has stood out as critically important to our economic security, energy ...

Poll: Most LGBTQ+ adults feel Americans don’t accept transgender people

LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. see lower social acceptance for transgender people than those who are lesbian, gay or bisexual, a new Pew Research Center poll found. Pew found that about 6 in 10 LGBTQ+ adults said there is "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of social acceptance in the U.S. for gay ...

Punishing freedom

WASHINGTON — All attempts by the government to evaluate the content of speech and deter or punish what the government and its benefactors hate or fear is un-American, unconstitutional and unlawful; and if not stopped, will reduce the American people to serfdom. During the past three ...

Socialist utopia

NEW YORK — Bizarrely, 62% of young Americans hold a “favorable view” of socialism. How can they be so ignorant? Socialism has been tried by lots of countries. It’s failed. It always fails. China prospered somewhat only after they legalized some private enterprise. Perhaps ...

Almanac

By The Associated Press Today’s Highlight in History: On May 31, 1889, some 2,200 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, perished when the South Fork Dam collapsed, sending 20 million tons of water rushing through the town. On this date: In 1790, President George Washington signed into law ...