Enbridge said Tuesday it would defy Michigan's demand to shut down an oil pipeline that runs through a channel linking two of the Great Lakes.

The legal notice filed by Attorney General Dana Nessel cites Enbridge’s “violation of the public trust doctrine” and noncompliance with easement conditions as reasons for the revocation.

A man charged in an alleged conspiracy to kidnap Michigan's governor also made threatening online comments about U.S. President Donald Trump, former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton and other prominent political figures, an FBI agent said in a federal court filing.

A federal judge also plans to consider whether two of the men, including the described ringleader of the effort, should remain in jail before trial.

Five men accused in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will appear in federal court Tuesday for a hearing on whether they should be detained before trial.

Authorities announced Thursday that they had foiled an incredible plot to kidnap Whitmer in a scheme that even included rehearsals to snatch her from her vacation home before the Nov. 3 election.

Six men were charged in federal court with conspiring to kidnap the governor in reaction to what they viewed as her "uncontrolled power,'' according to a federal complaint.

The suspects were allegedly linked to a militia group that discussed overthrowing state governments.

'I didn't want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it,' Trump said after wearing a coronavirus mask in private at the Ford plant in Michigan.

Much of the area remained underwater, including in Midland, the headquarters of Dow Chemical Co.