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DETROIT — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is awaiting the results of a COVID-19 test after her husband, First Gentleman Marc Mallory, tested positive for the virus earlier Tuesday. Whitmer's office said Mallory tested positive for the virus "after feeling under the weather." Whitmer tested negative for the virus after taking a rapid test but is awaiting the results of a PCR. "Like so many families around the country, the governor and her husband took extra precautions to limit contact with others to stay safe over the holidays as they celebrated Christmas with their immediate family members in Michigan,......

Armed groups descended upon state Capitols around the country on Sunday, ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. In Lansing, Michigan., men to believed to be part of the “boogaloo” seeking the overthrow of the U.S. government were seen at the Michigan Capitol, according to the Detroit Free Press. The group had about 10 to 20 men, an official was quoted as saying, some of them armed. “That’s why I’m here, because my vote got stolen,” a small business owner at the protest told the New York Times. “Biden is never going to be my president. I’m going to fight him whenever I get the ......

LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan GOP activist who organized busloads of Trump supporters who travelled to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. for a Wednesday protest that devolved into a riot is about to become state co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party. The proposed leadership role for Meshawn Maddock is not sitting well with some party members. On Wednesday, Michigan Republican Party Chair Laura Cox announced she would not seek a second two-year term — a decision she said in an email to party members she arrived at over the Christmas holidays. The unexpected announcement from Cox means that unde......