BARAGA — The 48th Annual Maawanji’iding is scheduled for July 24-26, with the grand entries set for Friday at 7 p.m., 12 and 7 p.m., and Sunday at 12 p.m. Held at the Ojibwa Campgrounds in Baraga, this cultural celebration is one of the largest powwows in the Midwest. The three-day ...
NEW YORK — More gains for makers of computer chips and other winners of the artificial-intelligence boom are carrying Wall Street higher on Tuesday. The S&P 500 climbed 0.9%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 480 points, or 0.9%, as of 1:12 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.4% higher. AI stocks once again were at the center of the action, and they rose for a second straight day after tumbling the week before. After rocketing higher because of the boom in investment in AI chips and data centers, they've come under pressure in recent weeks on worries that they ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. government announced Monday it suspended funding for the U.S. Virgin Islands' housing authority after an investigation found widespread corruption, as residents still struggle to recover from two major hurricanes that hit nearly a decade ago. U.S. Housing Secretary Scott Turner said that nine years after the U.S. territory received $1.9 billion in disaster recovery funding, it has spent only $570 million, less than a third of the funds. He noted that a HUD investigation found "widespread financial mismanagement, inadequate fraud controls, false ...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration sought phone records of several New York Times journalists and even those of some of their relatives, according to a motion unsealed Monday — an unusually aggressive attempt to unmask the confidential sources of reporters who wrote about Trump's Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet. The push by the Republican president's administration to compel the identity of sources in the form of additional subpoenas comes at a time when the executive branch's relationship with the press is increasingly contentious. The efforts, described in a ...
HANCOCK — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is aiming to transform rural healthcare in Michigan through expansion of both in-person and online services. Finding healthcare in the U.P. has never been easy. Medical deserts have long existed in rural areas, primarily ...
MIAMI — Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate will fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking, their lawyer said Monday, suggesting their arrest in Miami was politically motivated without explaining why. The Tates appeared ...
