On this edition of Stateside, we discuss the announcement of two mayors from Michigan being appointed as U.S. ambassadors. Additionally, we have a conversation with a Flint native about his conducting at the Flint Symphony Orchestra.

The U.S. Department of Education said U of M would face “potential enforcement actions” unless it fulfilled obligations to protect Jewish students from antisemitism. Some regents say the school is adequately responding to concerns.

My daughter has dyslexia. So when I heard Michigan was passing laws that change how reading is taught in schools – and educate teachers more about dyslexia – I was interested in knowing more. This is the first of a two-part story about what I found.

Michigan residents could see a slight income tax cut under a bill that advanced out of the state House Finance Committee Tuesday.The bill would lower the tax rate from 4.25% to 4.05%. That’s what it was in 2023, when a law requiring an automatic tax cut when state revenue meets certain benchmarks was triggered.

Democrats in the state House of Representatives are speaking out against the proposed constitutional amendment that would require additional proof of citizenship to vote in elections. They say the resolution would pose barriers to eligible voters.

A look at MSU's men's basketball Big Ten Championship run, a family collaborates with a Michigan filmmaker to tell the story of their lives, and a foundational figure in the Black Panther Party and her quest for internal revolution.

Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was killed inside a pressurized oxygen chamber at a medical facility in suburban Detroit. Michigan’s attorney general says Thomas Cooper from Royal Oak, Michigan, was “incinerated” when the hyperbaric chamber exploded in January at the Oxford Center in Troy. The center's founder and three others were arrested Monday on charges including second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter. Arraignments are scheduled Tuesday afternoon. A lawyer for one defendant told the AP he wants to remind everyone that "this was an accident, not an intentional act."

Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist launched his campaign Tuesday to try and become the first gubernatorial running mate to ascend to the top spot in over 40 years as well as the first Black governor of Michigan.

President Donald Trump's threat on Tuesday to double his planned tariffs on steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% for Canada led the provincial government of Ontario to suspend its planned surcharges on electricity sold to the United States.As a result, the White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said the U.S. president pulled back on his doubling of steel and aluminum tariffs, even as the federal government still plans to place a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imports starting Wednesday.

Ann Arbor Judge J. Cedric Simpson presided over two full days of preliminary exams for seven people charged with resisting arrest and trespassing at a May 21 police raid on an encampment created to call on the university to divest from companies with ties to Israel.