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The man who inspired the novel and the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina, was released late Friday evening from prison after the Rwandan government commuted his sentence.

Inflation is continuing to cool, but at six percent, is still well above the fed’s target of two percent. That’s according to the latest numbers from the Consumer Price Index. But how is the economy behaving locally? WEMU's Josh Hakala reports.

The National Weather Service posted dozens of flood watches, warnings and advisories across the state.

Afghan women's rights activists plead with their male classmates to stay home as the Taliban reopen colleges and high schools — for men and boys only.

Toblerone is moving some of its production to Slovakia, meaning it can no longer legally call itself "Swiss-made." That branding change will include swapping the iconic peak for a more generic one.

President Biden marked the 58th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march across the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Ala., when Black voting rights activists were beaten by state troopers.

It remains unclear why the 25-year-old Alabama nursing student fabricated a story of a stranded toddler and why she went missing for two days.

Mail voting surged to record rates in the 2020 election. It dipped in 2022, but "remained higher than pre-pandemic levels," a new federal report finds.

A suspect in a fatal stabbing who barricaded himself in an Ypsilanti Township apartment this morning has been arrested. WEMU's Josh Hakala reports.

Over the past two years, millions of Americans have flocked to exhibitions of actual human corpses, displays that are part science and part showmanship. The exhibits have been wildly successful -- and profitable for the science museums and other venues that have hosted them. Warning: Some may find the subject matter disturbing.