Vice President Kamala Harris will make her first stop in Michigan as the likely Democratic nominee for president next week in Detroit, the Harris campaign confirmed Tuesday night.

Harris will be joined at the Michigan visit by the person she picks to be her running mate in the coming days, according to her campaign, which hasn’t released the specific date and details of the event.

The Detroit trip will be part of the duo crisscrossing the country, with fewer than 100 days remaining before the Nov. 5 general election.

Democratic President Joe Biden dropped his bid for reelection on July 21 and endorsed Harris, his vice president and a former U.S. senator from California, to be the Democratic nominee in his place.

Harris was last in Michigan on July 17, when she spoke at Portage’s Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Museum.

She’s currently weighing which Democrat should be her running mate with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Arizona U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz expected to be among those under consideration.

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump selected his running mate, Ohio U.S. Sen. JD Vance, on July 15 during the Republican National Convention. The first campaign rally with Trump and Vance after the announcement came in Grand Rapids on July 20.

With its 15 electoral votes, Michigan is expected to be among a handful of states that decide which party controls the White House for the next four years.

In 2020, Biden defeated Trump in Michigan by 3 percentage points, 51%-48%. But four years earlier, Trump won the state against Democrat Hillary Clinton, 47.5%-47.3%.

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Organizers of the Detroit Auto Show, previously called the North American International Auto Show, released an 11-day show calendar Tuesday for when the event returns in January 2025.

The show is returning to its original January timeframe after Detroit Auto Dealers Association organizers tested out September shows in 2022 and 2023. Organizers are taking 2024 off and bringing the show back to Huntington Place in downtown Detroit from Friday, Jan. 10 to Monday, Jan. 20.

The Detroit News was first to report earlier this year that the auto show would be moved to January 2025. The last January show took place in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizers had proposed moving the show to the summer to showcase Detroit during its warmer months, allow for outdoor activities and provide a more festival-like approach, as many auto shows were facing challenges.

Although the September shows were able to take advantage of the outdoors more, the dates came shortly after back-to-school busyness and amid the kickoff to football season.

The dealer organizers said in a Tuesday release that the 2025 event will provide “automakers and partners a flexible schedule for product and technology debuts while bringing consumers new experiences and innovative vehicles as well as educational opportunities.”

This year, exhibitors will be able to schedule press conferences and reveals throughout the show instead of just on media days, for example.

“As we reimagine the show, we’re being agile about scheduling events to meet the needs and preferences of key stakeholders,” Detroit Auto Show Co-Executive Director Rod Alberts said in a statement. “OEMs and show partners will have the opportunity to directly reach out to customers with product announcements during the public show or have media- and industry-focused events as in the past.”

In May, the DADA announced Sam Klemet as the show’s new co-executive director. Klemet will work with Alberts, who’s led the show for three decades, as organizers seek to redefine the event, something other national auto shows are doing as automakers cut back on expensive reveals and displays.

Dropping the North American International Auto Show name is meant to bring the show back to its roots and remind people that Detroit is the Motor City.

“We haven’t been in January since 2019, so we saw this as an opportunity to kind of rebrand ourselves, and it’s not even a rebranding, it’s almost going back to what we’ve always been.” Klemet said in an interview. “We’re much more of a consumer-focused show now, and I think we want to represent that by talking about our automotive history here in Detroit.”

Klemet added the show still has “the ability to attract the international media, we still have the opportunity to attract unveils and to attract a lot of attention. I would say in no capacity are we moving towards more of a regional show, but more we are highlighting who we are and … our heritage here.”

Detroit Auto Show schedule

• Friday, Jan. 10: Media day, which includes the announcement of the 2025 winners of the North American Car, Truck and Utility Vehicle of the Year (NACTOY) awards and EyesOn Design Awards
• Friday, Jan. 10: Charity Preview to cap off the first day of the show. Entertainment will be announced later this summer. Tickets go on sale Oct. 14 and will be $400 each or $700 a pair. 
• Saturday, Jan. 11 through Monday, Jan. 20: Public show dates
• Wednesday, Jan. 15 and Thursday, Jan. 16: Industry days with a mobility global forum and AutoMobili-D technology showcase, and Future Innovators, a new program with 1,000-plus high school and college students invited to visit the show to learn about career opportunities.
• Monday, Jan. 20: The show will have special programming for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

Tickets will go on sale to the public on Oct. 14. Visit detroitautoshow.com for the up-to-date show details.

After deciding to move away from January originally, the DADA planned for a June 2020 show, which was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Show organizers in 2021 opted to have an outdoor event at M1 Concourse in Pontiac called Motor Bella.

The Detroit show returned in 2022 in mid-September with several reveals, an indoor electric vehicle track, a visit from President Joe Biden and outdoor activations and attractions, including a giant inflatable duck.

The 2023 show focused on sprawling displays from the Detroit Three and competed for press attention with United Auto Workers’ contract negotiations with the automakers.

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Stop me if you’ve heard this before: the Detroit Tigers are looking to sell off some of their players at the trade deadline.

After losing to the Cleveland Guardians Monday night, the Tigers enter deadline day sitting four games under .500 and on the outside looking in at a playoff spot.

The trade deadline is at 6 p.m. on July 30, meaning time has run out for teams to decide which direction they chose to go for the remainder of the season.

The Tigers were playing some better baseball leading up to the All-Star break and in the first few games after, but a recent rash of injuries, including to the team’s best position player, Riley Greene, has slowed the momentum in a major way.

Even still, the Tigers would’ve had to get ridiculously hot over the final few weeks before the trade deadline to swing the intentions of president of baseball operations Scott Harris after the team dug itself into such a hole earlier in the year.

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Although the major dominoes haven’t fallen yet, the Tigers already tipped their hand for their intentions at this year’s deadline when they agreed to a deal to send catcher Carson Kelly to the Texas Rangers in exchange for two minor league players in a nice piece of business from Harris after claiming Kelly for nothing off waivers last year.

Most of the talk surrounding the Tigers at this year’s deadline has surrounded their have two blue-chip pitchers, Tarik Skubal and Jack Flaherty, who have very different contract situations. Flaherty was signed by the Tigers before the season to a one-year, $14 million deal, while the Tigers still have multiple years of team control on Skubal, meaning it’s significantly more likely they trade Flaherty than Skubal.

Follow along below for live updates on the Detroit Tigers at the MLB trade deadline:

Jack Flaherty rumors persist

Everyone knows that the Tigers have made Flaherty available, but will the Tigers be able to get back what they’re looking for?

That seems to be the biggest question, as teams could be scared off by Flaherty’s multiple back issues this year, which have caused him to miss a couple of starts.

USA TODAY’s Bob Nightengale reported Monday afternoon the New York Yankees and Tigers were in “extensive trade talks” for Flaherty, but a deal did not come about immediately after.

Carson Kelly is shipped out

The first piece to head out the door for the Tigers was Kelly, who had a productive season with the Tigers both offensively and defensively. Last year’s World Series champions are gearing up for another postseason run and decided adding Kelly was worth giving up a few future assets.

The Rangers shipped catcher Liam Hicks and right-hander Tyler Owens to the Tigers on Sunday night, moving the Tigers to call up catcher dillon Dingler from Triple-A Toledo just a few hours later.

Dingler got the start Monday and picked up his first MLB hit, slapping a double into left field and driving in a run.

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