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Sacha Baron Cohen's return to incognito trickery is, in current conditions, a little like pouring rubbing alcohol into the nation's open wounds.Employing the same ingenious commitment and subterfuge that made him famous in the guise of Ali G., Borat Sagdiyev and Bruno Gehard, Cohen now plays several characters in Showtime's "Who Is America?," which starts out seeming like another one of those naively altruistic shows that listens to ordinary people's widely varied political beliefs in hopes that we can better understand our differences.

Looking for a few more thrills in your life? Haven't been to Camp Dearborn in a while?Well, check out Camp Dearborn's newest amenity, a zip line. The zip line was scheduled to have a grand opening ceremony July 14, and then be open to the public after that. Dearborn Mayor John B. O'Reilly, Jr.

ROMULUS (AP) - Police say a 7-year-old girl has been killed while trying to cross Interstate 94 after her father was involved in a drunken driving crash in western Wayne County.The girl was hit by a car early Sunday near Detroit Metropolitan Airport. State police spokesman Lt. Mike Shaw says the girl had sent text messages seeking help for herself and her dad before she was struck.

Roseville first responders and the Neighborhood Watch Group are gearing up for a community picnic featuring free refreshments, giveaways and activities for the annual National Night Out crime-fighting event.Scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 7 at Veterans Memorial Park, the event is supported by several local businesses and expected to draw about 500 parents and kids.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the U.S. that now reaps $1 billion annually - a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis finds.Health and Human Services grants for shelters, foster care and other child welfare services for detained unaccompanied and separated children soared from $74.

INDEPENDENCE TOWNSHIP -- Sticky air and high humidity did not deter a crowd of nearly 9,000 from turning out on Saturday night, July 14, at DTE Energy Music Theatre for Barenaked Ladies second-to-last stop on their Last Summer On Earth 2018 tour. Bringing Better Than Ezra and KT Tunstall along for the fun only made it feel like everyone there was part of the family, a special club, enjoying the music and shenanigans from a tree fort in their yard.

MOSCOW (AP) - Kylian Mbappe and France put on a thrilling show in winning the World Cup title. All Russian President Vladimir Putin might remember is the Pussy Riot protest.The 19-year-old Mbappe became only the second teenager after Pele to score in a World Cup final, helping France beat Croatia 4-2 on Sunday.

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) - President Donald Trump says "nothing bad ... maybe some good" will come out of Monday's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as he attempted to lower expectations for what the meeting may actually achieve. Trump's national security adviser said they aren't looking for "concrete deliverables.

DETROIT -- Having concerts on consecutive nights at Comerica Park was ambitious -- and even history-making at the baseball stadium.But the Zac Brown Band made night two as easy as a down-home chicken fry. The genre-hopping, country at heart group returned to Comerica three years after its first show there, a bit stripped down -- no horns or backing vocalists and a less elaborate stage production this time -- but no less potent.

OTEP, the woman and the band, has never been one to pull punches.But the Los Angeles heavy metal group is swinging particularly hard on its latest album, "Kult 45."The eighty studio set from Otep Shamaya and company is an unbridled, politically charged treatise from a self-proclaimed "loud-mouthed Lesbian radical who's fighting of the working class.