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Opinion

Greenpeace ordered to pay

Columns

A North Dakota jury on Wednesday found Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions of dollars to a pipeline company in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline. The jury found Greenpeace liable for defamation and other claims and awarded Dallas-based Energy Transfer and ...

Due process for all, or none

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President Trump is using an 18th-century law — the Alien Enemies Act — to justify the deportation of hundreds of people he says are members of a vicious Venezuelan gang. That law was last used during World War II by the Roosevelt administration to justify the internment of Japanese ...

Get prepared during Severe Weather Awareness Week

Editorials

While the area is under a winter storm warning today, Michigan wants residents this week to think about a different type of severe weather. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has declared March 16-22 as Michigan’s Severe Weather Awareness Week. With that in mind, the Michigan State Police, Emergency ...

It’s time to pass FOIA reforms in state government

Editorials

It feels like our politics are more divided than ever. But if you listen closely to what residents on both the left and right are saying, there is a common theme: A demand for a more transparent and accountable government. Our legislation to strengthen the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, ...

A look at autopens and Trump’s objections to Biden’s use of them

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President Donald Trump claimed Monday that pardons recently issued by Joe Biden to lawmakers and staff on the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot have no force because, Trump says, the-then president signed them with an autopen instead of by his own ...