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World Series 2025 Updated Odds: 5 favorites to win after trade deadline ft. Mets, Tigers
Sportskeeda
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August 1, 2025
At the trade deadline, several teams contending to win the World Series made important acquisitions to improve their rosters. Naturally, such trades carry the potential of vastly improving a team's chances for success in the postseason, and this...
Republican super PACs bank millions ahead of midterm battles
NBC News
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August 1, 2025
Republicans are betting that they can defend their slim congressional majorities in next year’s midterm elections, and the party’s biggest donors are putting their chips on the table, too. New fundraising reports filed Thursday for outside groups...
What to know about Twins owners amid trade deadline fire…
Watertown Public Opinion - South Dakota
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MLB teams shedding salary − whether it be midseason at the trade deadline or choosing not to extend certain players − shouldn't be new for MLB fans. But as Minnesota Twins fans watched a team just 5.5 games back of a wild-card berth get stripped...
Detroit’s Eden Park: A $21 million bet on health, wellness in polluted community
Bridge Detroit - Michigan
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August 1, 2025
Planet Detroit originally published this story. Sign up for Planet Detroit’s weekly newsletter here. Overview: A $21 million project on the former site of Mark Twain Elementary School brings vision of health and wellness to an area burdened by...
Michigan Supreme Court strikes down warrantless cell phone search
WEMU - Michigan
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August 1, 2025
A divided Michigan Supreme Court ruled Thursday that law enforcement authorities cannot use a warrant to search a criminal suspect’s cell phone without specifying what it is they’re looking for. The decision sets a higher bar for law enforcement...
MLB Trade Deadline Winners and Losers: Suárez has huge change, Helsley now a drop
NBC Sports
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August 1, 2025
The 2025 MLB Trade Deadline is behind us, and so now comes the time to make sense of the consequences. In this article, I’ll look at the players who gained or lost the most fantasy value in the aftermath of the deadline. I usually hate the term...
Gas line break in west Toledo repaired, Lewis Avenue reopened
WTOL 11 - Ohio
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August 1, 2025
A residence that was evacuated Friday afternoon is able to return home, according to a spokesperson for Columbia Gas. TOLEDO, Ohio — A gas line break in west Toledo was fixed and the nearby road reopened Friday night after a drilling company...
Detroit Tigers trade deadline: List of trades Tigers have made so far
WDIV Local 4 - Michigan
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July 31, 2025
DETROIT – The Detroit Tigers own one of the best records in all of baseball, and for the first time in nearly a decade, they’re buyers at the trade deadline. While it’s not team president Scott Harris’ style to make big waves on the trade front,...
Marquette AI company helps improve grant access
Upper Michigan´s Source
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August 1, 2025
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - A Marquette Artificial Intelligence company is working with a nonprofit to ensure your tax money goes right back into your community. “We are taking people who have historically been at the back of the line of technology,...
Micah Parsons' dad once named Chiefs, Steelers, Lions as preferred trade destinations
Sporting News
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August 1, 2025
With Micah Parsons officially requesting a trade from the Dallas Cowboys, an old clip of his father, Terrence Parsons, talking about preferred destinations for his son in a hypothetical trade scenario has resurfaced. During an appearance on the...
How Blue Jays’ American League rivals fared at trade deadline
Sportsnet
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August 1, 2025
The Toronto Blue Jays made significant upgrades to their pitching staff with the additions of Shane Bieber, Seranthony Domínguez, Louis Varland, and Ty France in recent days, but they weren’t the only team making moves. While the Blue Jays...
Best ATS picks for every Michigan game at DraftKings: See who our expert likes in “The Game”
MLive - Michigan
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August 1, 2025
We’re officially under a month before the Michigan Wolverines take the field for the 2025 season, and excitement is building in Ann Arbor. The team begins the campaign at home against the New Mexico Lobos, but oddsmakers at DraftKings Sportsbook...
Conservative ‘hoaxers’ plead to intimidating Michigan voters with robocalls
WILX - Michigan
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August 1, 2025
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Two Virginia men and convicted frausters pleaded no contest to intimidating Michigan voters in 2020, Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Friday afternoon. Jacob Wohl, 27 and John Burkman, 59, are accused of orchestrating...
Detroit's Pewabic Pottery takes a road less traveled
Deutsche Welle
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August 1, 2025
Over the last century, Detroit was home to monumental manufacturing prosperity before experiencing deindustrialization, violent riots and the biggest municipal bankruptcy in US history. Yet, through it all Pewabic Pottery has stood the bumpy test...
Michigan House Republicans aim to repeal 2023 ban on LGBTQ+ conversion therapy
WWMT - Michigan
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LANSING, Mich. — The controversial topic of conversion therapy is back up for debate in Michigan's capitol. This week several House Republicans introduced House Bill No. 4752 of 2025; a proposal to reinstate conversion therapy as a legal practice...
Minnesota Twins’ trade deadline selloff was anything but a ‘retooling’
MinnPost - Minnesota
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August 1, 2025
And One with Britt Robson | Minnesota Timberwolves analysis and exlusive commentary from sports columnist Britt Robson. Delivered weekly. Here’s a question that isn’t being asked enough in the aftermath of the Twins’ trade deadline roster selloff:...
America’s Deadliest School Attack Happened in Michigan
Cars 108 - Michigan
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August 1, 2025
As families prepare for a new school year, most are focused on back-to-school shopping, first-day photos, and lunchbox plans — not the more sobering reality of active shooter drills and lockdown procedures that have become routine for many...
Trump's chief economic adviser sh-ts on struggling small business
Daily Kos
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August 1, 2025
Stephen Miran, who chairs President Donald Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, took a break from stoking racial resentment to appear on CNN Friday and dismiss increasingly troubling jobs reports. When asked about struggling small businesses like...
Detroit-Area Rolls Mechanical Is ‘Best Team Doing the Best Work’
The ACHR NEWS
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With a long-hoped-for comeback underway, Detroit is seeing a construction boom as grand old buildings get restored and updated and new ones go up. Rolls Mechanical is there for it.Rolls, based in Fenton, Michigan, has been involved with some of...
Utz to Shutter Grand Rapids, Michigan, Plant
Food Processing
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August 1, 2025
Snack maker Utz Brands Inc. has announced it will shut down its Grand Rapids, Mich., processing plant by early 2026, as reported in its second-quarter 2025 financial report. Employees will be encouraged to apply for work at other Utz facilities,...