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Bill would add firearm education for middle- and high-school students

LANSING – A new firearm safety bill by Sen. Jon Bumstead, R-North Muskegon, is intended to bring gun education into schools for students between 6th and 12th grade. When crafting the bill, Bumstead worked with the Department of Education and agreed there would be no live rounds or weapons brought onto school grounds during training. Using instructors certified with hunting licenses through the Department of Natural Resources, the 10-hour program would teach safe storage, handling and cleaning of weapons and ammunition. According to Bumstead, “People need to know gun safety ...

Standardized tests remain optional at Michigan four-year schools in 2025

LANSING — Since the COVID-19 pandemic, many colleges and universities have removed their standardized testing requirement for admissions. That movement began because some applicants were unable to access testing sites for the ACT and SAT. Those who could access the tests could use them as additional information on their application. “With the pivot happening in March 2020, most students didn’t take the SAT in Michigan and even the year after that,” said Mia Murphy, the chief policy officer for the Michigan Association of State Universities. “There were still so many ...

Kamala Harris receives NAACP chairman’s prize

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Vice President Kamala Harris stepped on the NAACP Image Awards stage Saturday night with a sobering message, calling the civil rights organization a pillar of the Black community and urging people to stay resilient and hold onto their faith during the tenure of President Donald Trump. “While we have no illusions about what we are up against in this chapter in our American story, this chapter will be written not simply by whoever occupies the oval office nor by the wealthiest among us,” Harris said after receiving the NAACP’s Chairman’s Award. “The ...

DNA evidence frees Hawaii man after 30 years in prison

HONOLULU (AP) — One of the first places Gordon Cordeiro visited when a judge ordered him released after spending 30 years in prison for a killing he always maintained he had nothing to do with was his mother’s Hawaii gravesite. In a videoconference interview with The Associated Press on Saturday, Cordeiro reflected on his first day of freedom after new DNA evidence led to the overturning of his conviction in the 1994 shooting of Timothy Blaisdell on the island of Maui. Paulette Cordeiro died in September 1994, and her son was arrested the following month. “Thanks for looking ...

Employees are in the DOGE house

WASHINGTON (AP) — Key U.S. agencies, including the FBI, State Department and the Pentagon, have instructed their employees not to comply with cost-cutting chief Elon Musk’s latest demand that federal workers explain what they accomplished last week — or risk losing their job. The pushback from appointees of President Donald Trump marked a new level of chaos and confusion within the beleaguered federal workforce, just a month after Trump returned to the White House and quickly began fulfilling campaign promises to shrink the government. Administration officials scrambled ...

Infamous Elon vs. the good billionaires

On the PBS show “Washington Week with The Atlantic” on Feb. 7, host Jeffrey Goldberg began: “Elon Musk, the unelected, unconfirmed, unofficial, but extremely powerful prime minister of the United States, is carrying out his plan to purge thousands of employees from the federal government.” A few minutes later, NPR reporter Asma Khalid talked about Musk “increasing starvation rates.” Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum wondered, “are Americans willing to accept a high level of cruelty and death just, you know, on the president’s whim, on Elon Musk’s whim?” There ...