Mount Clemens Mayor Laura Kropp was elected chair of SEMCOG, giving the small city a lead role in regional planning and funding decisions across Southeast Michigan.

Basabe will represent himself in a civil sexual‑harassment trial in Tallahassee next week, with jury selection Friday and testimony starting Monday.

Nvidia signed a sublease at the Woodies Building at 1025 F St NW, positioning the chipmaker closer to lawmakers and regulators in downtown Washington.

Several Milwaukee wards have new polling locations for the Aug. 11 primary after school construction and a major fire forced site reassignments.

DC Water will pay nearly $217,000 and adopt new nondiscrimination steps after the EEOC said the utility pushed older HR staffers out in 2023.

Two Detroit twins were detained by ICE after traveling to the Buffalo area for a summer job. Lawyers and lawmakers have filed petitions and letters seeking their release.

Belmont approved an 8% water rate increase and secured a $10M state loan to move its intake and shore up an aging system after a 'distressed' listing. City leaders say upgrades and emergency interconnects will protect supply.

Jack Latvala, a longtime Florida senator and Pinellas powerbroker whose career ended after a scandal, has died at 74. His tenure reshaped budgets and state politics.

Rep. August Pfluger and 11 Republican colleagues have asked WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert to explain how the league is protecting Caitlin Clark and set a July 24 deadline. The letter points to on‑court incidents and warns federal probes could follow.

A Shahed‑136 on display at Coral Gables’ Biltmore drew warnings from lawmakers about reports that Cuba may hold hundreds of Iranian drones and what that could mean for Florida.

The Seventh Circuit stayed a federal judge’s block on Florida’s suit against the American Academy of Pediatrics and agreed to hear the appeal en banc. The move raises new legal stakes for care of transgender youth in Florida.

After AB 1 became operative on July 1, 2026, legislative staff across California quietly began organizing around comp time, promotions and pay.

Mayor Vince Lago says he didn’t share a Facebook story that displayed an anti‑Muslim slur; screenshots from July 7 came from an older account he says is inactive and have been reported to Meta.