Federal Judge Orders Bond Hearings for Iraqi Detainees as They Fight Deportation
Laura Weber Davis/WDET Hundreds of Iraqis who have been detained and are fighting deportation got some good news this week....
What’s Ahead for Congress in 2018?
congress.gov With the new year comes new ambitions and new agenda items in Congress. But not every agenda is the...
Expert: Facial Recognition Systems can be Fooled Fairly Easily
metroairport.com Members of the U.S. Senate want Homeland Security officials to answer questions about the accuracy of facial recognition technology...
Former Detroit Deputy Police Chief Pleads Guilty in Corruption Probe
Quinn Klinefelter/WDET Federal officials have gained another conviction in connection with an ongoing investigation into public corruption. A former Detroit...
All Things Considered Host Robert Siegel Joins Detroit Today to Talk Retirement
NPR NPR host Robert Siegel retires this week after 30 years hosting All Things Considered. Siegel signs off on Friday, ending...
Brenda Jones Re-elected as Council President
Sandra Svoboda Brenda Jones was re-elected as Detroit City Council President Tuesday. The Council needed multiple ballots to break a...
Michigan Politics Could Get A Lot of National Attention in 2018
Rick Pluta/MPRN It’s 2018 -- and that means it’s an election year. It's already shaping up to be an especially...
Looking at the Year Ahead in National Politics with NPR’s Tamara Keith
Jake Neher/WDET President Donald Trump kicked off the new year with a controversial tweet, this time throwing into question the United...
Buckle Up: 2018 Shaping Up To Be Huge Year for Michigan Politics
Jake Neher/WDET The new year will bring lots of important decisions for Michigan voters to make at the ballot box....
Information Disparity: Local Governments Show Wide Variety in Access to Information
If you want to find out what contracts your local government has with private companies or environmental assessments of community...
POLITICO Magazine’s Tim Alberta on Being A Political Reporter Through First Year of Trump
POLITICO POLITICO Magazine feature reporter Tim Alberta covers national politics in Washington. In that role, he had the first lengthy...
Author, Historian Heather Ann Thompson Talks Winning Pulitzer in 2017
Jake Neher/WDET In April this year, author and historian Heather Ann Thompson won the Pulitzer Prize for her chilling re-telling of...