Michigan Democrat Hines wins primary in competitive House race to challenge open seat

In Michigan's 10th Congressional District, a prosecutor who has spent her career shielding the vulnerable from exploitation has won the right to carry the Democratic banner into a genuinely open general election. The seat, vacated by Republican John James in pursuit of the governorship, sits at the kind of competitive threshold where individual races can quietly reshape the balance of national power. Christina Hines now carries both a biography and a platform into November — a convergence of personal mission and political ambition that will test whether voters in a historically contested distr