Gerald Ford

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney is visiting Grand Rapids as part of a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of President Gerald Ford. A tribute dinner is set for Monday and a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – A Michigan man has been sentenced to 5 years in federal prison for false reporting plots to bomb the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Covert, Mich. and the Gerald R. Ford Federal Building in Grand Rapids. U.S. Attorney...

WASHINGTON — The Washington National Cathedral, where the nation gathers to mourn tragedies and celebrate new presidents, will soon begin hosting same-sex marriages. Cathedral officials tell The Associated Press the church will be among the...

DETROIT (AP) — First elected to Congress a quarter-century ago as a moderate Republican, House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton has been moving steadily to the right in recent years. The question facing GOP primary voters on Aug. 7 is...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The latest idea for a real-life cameo on the CBS drama "The Good Wife" — former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld — has been nixed before it even got anywhere. The Golden Globe-nominated drama has had public...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and his wife will attend memorial and funeral services in Grand Rapids for former First Lady Betty Ford. The memorial service is scheduled for Wednesday evening at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Betty Ford returned Wednesday to the city where she grew up and wed the man who became the only president from Michigan, prompting hundreds to line the streets in front of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum as her...

ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) — Officials say hundreds of flights in and out of Michigan airports have been cancelled because of a snowstorm making its way across the country. Detroit Metropolitan Airport spokesman Mike Conway says Wednesday many...

Like many executives running multibillion-dollar businesses, Peter Thompson adorns his office with photos of him meeting U.S. presidents. But there's one big difference: In some of them, he's a mere child. A nephew of Richard M. Daleyand grandson of...

(Nicholas Wapshott is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Nicholas Wapshott May 21 (Reuters) - The trifecta of scandals - Benghazi, the IRS and snooping on journalists - that has broken upon the heads of the Obama administration is...

(Reuters) - The trifecta of scandals — Benghazi, the IRS and snooping on journalists — that has broken upon the heads of the Obama administration is as bad as Watergate. No it isn't, says Bob Woodward, whose reputation was made by doggedly pursuing...

Regarding "IRS Boss: Policy Not Partisan" [May 18, news]: First, let's remember that the head of the IRS when the stepped-up examination of conservative groups' applicatiions for tax-exempt staus began was appointed by George Bush. So I have to question...