At least 12 confidential FBI informants assisted the investigation into the extremist group accused in the plot, BuzzFeed News reported.

Gov. Whitmer was in violation of Michigan's current COVID-19 order that says groups no larger than six people can be seated together at restaurants.

"It's just really a sad moment in America where people who are leading are treated with such disrespect," Governor Gretchen Whitmer told CNN.

The 21-year-old made the threats on the meme website iFunny and had instructions for how to make a bomb, prosecutors say.

Nine governors asked President Joe Biden to fix confusion in the CDC’s COVID-19 vaccine reporting. The governors also asked for the administration to coordinate with states in the pharmacy rollout. Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. A group of governors asked President Joe Biden in a letter […]

The CDC's tracker doesn't reflect various vaccine-rollout programs that the states don't have a say in, the governors said.

Impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin says Michigan protest against Governor Whitmer was a state-level dress rehearsal for the insurrection at the Capitol. Visit Insider’s homepage for more stories.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer filed a bar complaint against Sidney Powell. She asked that the state bars in Texas and Michigan take away her law licence. Powell unsuccessfully tried to throw out the state’s votes cast in the 2020 presidential election. Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. […]

At least 60 Michigan restaurants are defying state orders and remaining open for indoor dining. Owners said they don’t believe public health warnings about the dangers of coronavirus, The Washington Post reported. Many say they can’t afford to operate without indoor dining. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Some […]

Ty Garbin agreed to plead guilty in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday. Court documents filed in his plea agreement reveal new details about the case. Prosecutors say the men also practiced storming the state Capitol building and discussed attacking police. Visit Business Insider’s homepage […]

Attorneys working to overturn the 2020 presidential election should be disbarred and fined, lawyers working for the city of Detroit said in a scathing court filing in Michigan on Tuesday. Lawyers Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and others, have filed “so many objectively false allegations” that they should be disciplined, the […]

The Michigan House of Representatives on Friday voted to repeal a 1945 law that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer used at the outset of the pandemic to force businesses to close to stem the spread of COVID-19, the Detroit Free Press reported. Whitmer, a Democrat in office since 2019, has been the […]

Governors for Michigan and Washington announced Sunday that their states will enter partial lockdowns this week. Both will ban most indoor social gatherings, such as in-person dining and movie theatres. In Washington, gyms must also close. In Michigan, high schools and colleges must bring all teaching online. Michigan’s three-week lockdown […]

On Sunday, White House COVID-19 advisor Scott Atlas reacted to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s new COVID-19 measures by tweeting: “The only way this stops is if people rise up.” Atlas was quickly condemned for the remarks on Twitter, especially in light of the fact that the FBI recently foiled a […]

A court brief filed by the Michigan Attorney General’s Office seen by the Detroit Free Press revealed the men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Whitmer also planned to burn down the state’s Capitol. The brief was filed in Jackson County’s 12th District Court ahead of a hearing for Pete […]

Images and videos analysed by The Washington Post showed three of the men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at anti-lockdown rallies in the spring. Adam Fox, Ty Garbin, and Daniel Harris could be seen at the gatherings, The Post reported. The FBI foiled a plot to kidnap […]

A Maryland man has been arrested and charged with threatening to kidnap Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, and his running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, law-enforcement officials said on Wednesday. On October 4, James Dale Reed left a threatening note on the doorstep of a home with Biden/Harris campaign […]