Adopt-A-Highway fall cleanup to begin Saturday, last of 2026
Adopt-A-Highway volunteers will take to the roadsides again starting Saturday through Sept. 27 for the third and final scheduled litter collection of 2026. Adopt-A-Highway is a Michigan Department of Transportation program designed to help keep the state’s highway roadsides clean and attractive. Participants adopt both sides of a section of state highway roadside to tend for at least a two-year period. A minimum 2-mile stretch of roadway is recommended. For the safety of all, motorists should watch for these volunteers, who wear high-visibility, yellow-green vests required by federal ...
Almanac for Sept. 16, 2026
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 16, the 259th day of 2026. There are 106 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1893, the largest land run in U.S. history occurred as more than 100,000 white settlers rushed to claim over more than 6 million acres of land in what is now northern Oklahoma. The land had been acquired by the forcibly displaced Cherokee Nation, which came under U.S. pressure to sell land rights before the run. Also on this date: In 1810, Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla called on his parishioners to join him in a rebellion against Spanish rule, marking the ...
Almanac for Sept. 15, 2026
Today is Tuesday, Sept. 15, the 258th day of 2026. There are 107 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1963, four Black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen were eventually convicted for their roles in the blast.) Also on this date: In 1835, Charles Darwin reached the Galápagos Islands aboard the HMS Beagle. In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were enacted in Nazi Germany, depriving German Jews of their citizenship. In 1940, the tide turned in the Battle of Britain in World War ...
Trump calls AI risks a ‘hoax,’ claims ‘conspiracy’ against AI, data centers
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out against concerns about rogue artificial intelligence, claiming that any efforts to limit the technology are part of a “SICK conspiracy.” “AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a ...
