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NMU approves budget, closes $8M deficit

MARQUETTE — The Northern Michigan University Board of Trustees has approved a balanced general fund budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year, successfully closing an anticipated $8 million deficit. The projected shortfall was driven primarily by a 16% surge in health care costs, contractual ...

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Man shot at rally dies (AP) — James Copenhaver, one of three campaign rally attendees shot in 2024 during an assassination attempt on then-candidate Donald Trump, has died. His lawyer announced the man's death on Thursday. Copenhaver was 76. He was in the bleachers during the event in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a 20-year-old gunman opened fire from a nearby rooftop, grazing Trump’s right ear with one bullet. Copenhaver was struck in the arm and in the abdomen, wounds that left him with lingering injuries and walking with a cane. Polo drenches Mexico's coast MEXICO CITY ...

Trump says little about the tensions in US-China relations

WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met for high stakes talks on Thursday at an urgent moment for the U.S.-China relationship, with the world's preeminent powers divided on the war in the Iran and still grappling to find common ground on trade and how to best navigate ...

Netanyahu calls accusations of genocide 'the biggest lie'

Lashing out at his country's critics, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily dismissed allegations of Israeli genocide in Gaza as "the biggest lie of the century" in a defiant speech to the U.N. General Assembly that asserted his nation's right to wage war against Iran. Scores of ...