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Trump’s tariffs hit nearly every country in 2025

Business

Since returning to the White House in January, President Donald Trump has overturned decades of U.S. trade policy — building a wall of tariffs around what used to be a wide open economy. His double-digit taxes on imports from almost every country have disrupted global commerce and strained ...

Japan’s Cabinet OKs record defense budget

International News

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved a record defense budget plan exceeding 9 trillion yen ($58 billion) for the coming year, aiming to fortify its strike-back capability and coastal defense with cruise missiles and unmanned arsenals as tensions rise in the region. The draft ...

50 years ago, UP tried to break from Michigan

Local News

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) Fifty years ago, residents in the Upper Peninsula faced a choice that could have rewritten the map: Whether to break away from Michigan and ...

Wet weather will hinder UP travel

Local News

Travel could be treacherous in the Upper Peninsula this weekend as the National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook affecting most of the region. Mixed precipitation is expected through 1 p.m. Eastern time today, with total snow and sleet accumulations generally less than ...

MSP helps make Christmas brighter for child fighting cancer

Local News

MARQUETTE — Instead of Santa and his sleigh, Michigan State Police troopers aboard their “Blue Goose” patrol car brought Christmas cheer to a young girl fighting cancer far from home. On Dec. 13, MSP Wakefield post staff learned from the child’s’s grandmother during a Shop with a ...