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Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, made the remarks Wednesday in anticipation of Trump’s rally this weekend to stump for Republican candidates for two statewide offices. Benson said baseless claims by Trump and his allies that widespread voter fraud marred the 2020 election could spill into the 2022 midterms. “The threats against our democracy are truly a five-alarm fire and in that fire, Michigan is ground zero,” Benson said during a press call....

Shea Patterson, who recently transferred to Michigan from Mississippi and was granted immediate eligibility, was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 39th (and next-to-last round) round of the 2018 MLB Draft on Wednesday. MORE: Patterson ruling finally gives Michigan a QB worth waiting for in 2018 Patterson has yet to play baseball in college. According to his biography on the Ole Miss athletics website, he played baseball and basketball in high school, but the university didn’t elaborate....

Whitmer’s “Futures for Frontliners” plan will provide those working on the frontlines – including hospital staff, grocery workers, and child care providers – with the opportunity to get either a college or a technical degree on the state’s dime, if they do not already have one. “The Futures for Frontliners program is our way of saying ’thank you’ to those who have risked their lives on the frontlines of this crisis....

Except he wasn’t at a football game but a boxing match. Gore fought former NBA guard Deron Williams in an exhibition bout on the Jake Paul-Tyron Woodley 2 card, and the Michigan coach — who coached Gore with the 49ers — was spotted inside Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla., the site of the fight. MORE: Williams lands huge punch in win vs. Gore but insists he’s ‘one and done’...

Just when he returns remains a mystery as well, but McGary told the Detroit Free Press that he won’t be sidelined when Michigan heads to Duke Dec. 3 as part of the Big Ten/ACC. “I won’t be in a suit,” he told the newspaper. “No. I won’t be in a suit.” He later downplayed that assertion, saying he "would like to not be denied playing." In between the opener and the game vs....

The Wolverines’ success and failure and can be seen at the root: a predictable offense that needs to produce at that all-too-elusive championship level. This is Michigan under Harbaugh, who is best recognized for his unpredictable-and-quirky news conference and social media behavior. SPORTING NEWS BEST OF 2018Read our favorite stories from the year in sports All that unfolded one more time when No. 7 Michigan suffered a 41-15 blowout loss to No....

While the media fixated on the final college football game of the 2014-15 season, the Spartans cleverly took out a full page ad in a Dallas paper to remind the world of just how relevant they are. MORE CFP: LeBron buys Ohio State Beats headphones | Cardale Jones: Buckeyes’ hero | Oregon needs attitude The “Texas-size thank you” ad appeared on the back cover of the Dallas Morning News’ College Football Playoff preview section....

Derek Stevens, who owns two hotels neighboring the Golden Nugget, made a $20,000 futures bet on Michigan State on December 5. The Spartans, whose record fell to 5-3 with a loss at Notre Dame the night before, were offered at 50-to-1 odds at the time (their other two losses were to then-No. 4 Duke and then-No. 11 Kansas). Now, Michigan State is two games away from the title. The Spartans face Duke in the first semifinal on Saturday and if they win, go on to play the winner of Wisconsin-Kentucky on Monday....

Governor Gretchen Whitmer said that the state has selected e-mobility solutions company Electreon to build the mile-long electric road system in Michigan Central, the state’s 30-acre “mobility innovation district” in the Detroit neighborhood of Corktown. Ford Motor Company has a heavy presence in the district, Detroit’s oldest neighborhood, testing technologies for autonomous driving, electric vehicles and connected fleet management. The company is also restoring the area’s Michigan Central Station, redefining it as a mobility innovation hub in the process....

Both the Wolverines and Gators have significant questions to answer ahead of their Week 1 matchup, a lot of it related to player attrition, either through graduation and the NFL Draft or, in Florida’s case, suspension. WEEK 1 PICKS: Straight up | Against the spread Still, all that sets up for a potentially season-defining matchup for the two powerhouse programs. So, who wins Round 2: Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh or Florida’s Jim McElwain?...

That was the last time both teams were unbeaten heading into The Game, and that No. 1 vs. No. 2 rivalry is considered by many to be the greatest game in a series that dates back to 1897. The Buckeyes and Wolverines did not disappoint in that game – which added to the aura of college football’s best rivalry in a 42-39 shootout that still resonates on both sides....

Kate McKenzie, 40, said she was just days away from the launch of her new product when she received a letter from the U.S. tech giant over the product’s name. The company allegedly took exception to the similarity of the name for its PC operating system Windows and its word processing software Microsoft Word. But university lecturer McKenzie said she is not trying to muscle in on Microsoft’s market and is just trying to help dyslexic children learn to read....

Monaco reject €35m Arsenal bid for Lemar The Denmark international moved to the Riverside from Ajax, where he forged a reputation as an exciting winger and won two Eredivisie titles during four seasons in the Dutch capital. However, Fischer endured a disappointing spell in England and racked up just six Premier League starts as the club were relegated straight back to the Championship. Fischer has consequently opted for a new direction in his career and links up with Mainz, who finished 15th in the Bundesliga last term, until 2021....

The station is RAM FM; Odeh-Gangat, 42, is the director. And while the Mideast divide runs too wide and deep for superficial rapprochement, the new outlet is nonetheless generating buzz for its appeal to Israelis and Palestinians alike. A recent poll conducted in Israel found that almost 390,000 Israelis plug in to the station, some 10 percent of the total audience. Palestinian listeners so far number around 106,000, according to a parallel Palestinian poll, significantly fewer than Israelis but still a sizable chunk of potential listeners....

To spend a week among the Palestinians in the West Bank, as I recently did, is grounds for antidepressants. Not half enough has been written about what is going on there. The violence in Gaza gets almost daily press—more border attacks and rockets launched into Israel, a new retaliatory body count (including, just this week, a mother and four young children killed during an Israeli operation in northern Gaza)—but the slow suffocation of the Palestinians in Jerusalem, in Bethlehem, in Ramallah, in every village in the West Bank, gets scant attention....

To speed U.N. efforts to impose a global ban on chemical weapons, Bush will likely announce that the United States will destroy its entire CW stockpile. He’ll also propose an “information exchange” among the Mideast’s five major conventional-weapons suppliers–the United States, the Soviet Union, France, Britain and China. Secretary of State James Baker pushed for a moratorium on all arms deliveries to the region, sources say, but White House and Pentagon officials rebuffed him....

Migraines and Sleep Disturbances It’s well-established that sleep and migraine have an intricate relationship and that sleep disorders and migraine are frequently comorbid conditions. While lack of sleep is a trigger for many migraineurs, migraine patients use sleep as a treatment for migraine. There’s also a relationship between sleep quality and migraine frequency—the more migraines you have, the more sleep disturbances you’re likely to have, such as: Interrupted sleepSnoringEarly morning awakeningDifficulty falling and staying asleepPoor overall quality sleepReduced total sleep time...

Symptoms Not every stroke that occurs while you have a migraine can be called a migrainous infarction. According to the International Headache Society’s definition, the following characteristics must be present: The migraine attack must be similar to previous migraine attacks. There must have been an aura, typically a visual one. At least one of the aura symptoms must persist for an hour or more. A stroke must be seen on a computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan....

The two-time Sporting News MLB Player of the Year is expected to be ready for spring training. "Those are decisions you have to make sometimes, if not it affects your future," Cabrera told ESPN Deportes. "If not, it could hurt your career, and that's what I based my decision on. I consulted with the team and made this decision personally so I could keep playing with the team. I tried to [play hurt] to take advantage of the chance we had in the playoffs, because with so many good teams you never know when a chance like this will come along....

The former Mexico manager’s return had been rumored for months after it became clear Ricardo La Volpe would not stay on past the Clausura, which saw America fall short of the playoffs a tournament after finishing as runner-up. Gignac’s double changes Liga MX final Herrera took Tijuana to the No. 1 spot in the regular season for the second consecutive tournament, but Xolos were eliminated by Tigres in the semifinals last weekend....