The Uniform Time Act of 1966 mandates that the country use daylight saving time, but it allows states to opt out and exempt themselves from the practice of staying on standard time year-round. It does not allow states to permanently establish daylight saving time, which would keep them an hour ahead from November to March while other states switch to standard time.

A 2023 bill, which was referred to a committee in the Michigan Senate, would have adopted daylight saving time year-round, provided Congress allowed the switch.

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The state of Michigan has acquired a life ring that washed ashore 50 years ago from the Edmund Fitzgerald, a rare artifact that strangely became part of a settlement in a lawsuit that had nothing to do with the famous shipwreck.

Taxpayers are paying $600,000 to settle the lawsuit by Larry Orr, who accused a state police officer of violating his rights during a sexual abuse investigation that was discredited, court records show.

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Across West Michigan in recent days, casino-style machines that are popular fixtures in bars, American Legion halls and many other venues have been quietly hauled away.

State gaming officials last month sent out letters telling venues that sport the machines they have to go. They violate Michigan gaming laws, officials contend.

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Grassley asked the judges whether and how they, their law clerks or court staff used generative AI or automated tools to prepare orders in the cases.

He also asked them to explain the "human drafting and review" done before issuing the orders, the cause of the errors, and measures their chambers have taken to guard against similar errors in the future.

The letters noted that lawyers have increasingly faced scrutiny from judges across the country for apparent misuse of AI. Judges have levied fines or other sanctions in dozens of cases over the past few years after lawyers failed to vet the output the technology generated.

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