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The Metro: How will cuts to the VA and its services impact veterans?

Cary Junior II, The Metro March 25, 2025

Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. The Department of Veterans Affairs announced plans to restructure in early...

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Detroit Public Schools Community District Superintendent speaks during a panel discussion in November 2018.
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The Metro: ‘All students’ in Detroit public schools could feel impacts from Department of Education cuts

The Metro, Robyn Vincent March 24, 2025

Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Education in the U.S. is facing upheaval. The Department of Education...

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Michigan libraries prepare for impact as Trump moves to eliminate federal library agency

Isabel Gil March 24, 2025

Michigan libraries are some of the latest local institutions preparing for the effects of the Trump Administration’s slashing of federal...

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One en route from Miami to Joint Base Andrews, Md., Monday, Jan. 27, 2025.
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Detroit Evening Report: Trump order aims to dismantle US Department of Education; March Madness + more

Hernz Laguerre March 21, 2025

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday calling for the dismantling of the Department of Education.Subscribe to the...

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About 100 unionized health care workers and others who depend on Medicaid demonstrated outside Michigan Republican Congressman John James' office in Warren on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
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Protesters target GOP members of Congress over possible Medicaid cuts

Quinn Klinefelter March 21, 2025

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates lawmakers cannot reach spending targets set in the recent budget proposal narrowly-passed by the...

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President Donald Trump, left, holds up a signed executive order as young people hold up copies of the executive order they signed at an education event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 20, 2025.
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Trump has ordered the dismantling of the Education Department. Here’s what it does

Associated Press March 21, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — Moving to fulfill a campaign promise, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling...

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Law enforcement arrive at Corewell Health Beaumont Troy Hospital in Troy, Mich., Thursday, March 20, 2025.
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Detroit Evening Report: Troy hospital shooting; rally against Medicaid cuts + more

Bre'Anna Tinsley March 20, 2025

Editor's note: The above audio incorrectly states that the Detroit Department of Transportation is seeking $2 million budget increase to...

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Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin says her job is to be more than just an ‘activist’ against Trump

Associated Press March 20, 2025

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin said it's no secret Democrats don't have their strategy figured out, but insists the...

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President Donald Trump walks as he tours the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Monday, March 17, 2025.
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Roberts rejects Trump’s call for impeaching judge who ruled against his deportation plans

Associated Press March 18, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — In an extraordinary display of conflict between the executive and judiciary branches, Supreme Court Chief Justice John...

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Protesters fill the Iowa state Capitol to denounce a bill that would strip the state civil rights code of protections based on gender identity, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, in Des Moines, Iowa.
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The Metro: What’s behind Trump’s assault on transgender Americans?

The Metro, Robyn Vincent March 18, 2025

Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Since taking office, President Donald Trump has signed a series of...

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In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025.
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Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped

Associated Press March 17, 2025

The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the...

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Attendees at Detroit's 2023 St. Patrick's Parade hold an Irish flag.
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Detroit Evening Report: State seeks former Medicaid members for new committee; Detroit’s St. Patrick’s Parade + more

Hernz Laguerre March 14, 2025

Tonight on The Detroit Evening Report, we cover the state's efforts to form a new advisory committee of former Medicaid recipients...

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