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Suicides dropped by 3% in 2020, according to new CDC data, continuing a downward trend that began in 2019 after nearly two decades of increases.

Suicide rates fall again — but not for young adults and some people of color

Despite lockdowns, historic job losses and COVID-19, new figures from the CDC show that death by suicide dropped for a second straight year in 2020.

Northern Indiana voters approve only one of two school funding referendums

Voters in northern Indiana approved only one of the state's two school funding referendums up for consideration this fall. The two school corporations…

Vice President Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff tour the Institut Pasteur in Paris on Nov. 9.

Why Vice President Harris is in France this week

While in Paris, Vice President Harris will get facetime with about two dozen world leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron.

Elkhart officer who shot, killed man in August was justified, investigation concludes

An Elkhart County Homicide Unit investigation has concluded that an August Elkhart police shooting was justified.According to a report from the Elkhart…

Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shortly after it arrived at the Kent County Health Department

Rollout of COVID-19 vaccine for ages 5 to 11 begins in Michigan

State medical and public health officials urge parents to vaccinate the 825,000 Michigan children in that age group.

Auto accident survivors protest new law cutting them off from care at State Capitol, summer 2021

MCCA to send auto insurance refund checks to drivers; some advocates call it stealing from survivors

A fund to care for catastrophically injured auto accident survivors has a big surplus. The board agreed to send refund checks to Michigan drivers after a request from Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

The Michigan Capitol building in Lansing.

House Dems roll out election bills; offer contrast to GOP proposals

Michigan House Democrats rolled out an agenda Wednesday to make voting easier, especially for voters who want to vote by absentee ballot.

Michigan House passes misconduct settlement disclosure bills

The pair of bills would allow requests for some details about sexual assault or harassment settlements involving elected officials.

Smokestacks belch in Weihai, in China's Shandong province, in 2019. China is set to surpass pre-pandemic levels of carbon dioxide emissions this year.

Earth has 11 years to cut emissions to avoid dire climate scenarios, a report says

Carbon dioxide emissions are rebounding after a dip in 2020, and researchers say that at the current rate, Earth's "carbon budget" will be exhausted in roughly 11 years.

Technicians work on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which will launch in December. Astronomers say the next big telescope should be designed to search signs of life on planets that orbit distant stars.

Astronomers want NASA to build a giant space telescope to peer at alien Earths

NASA should work toward a new space telescope that could view small planets around distant stars with the potential to host life, expert panel says

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