The Southern Poverty Law Center, best known for monitoring hate groups, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal charges that it defrauded donors by not disclosing that some of the money would be used to pay informants in extremist organizations.

The debate between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination in Michigan opened with a question about inflation, but it quickly veered into a broader fight over money, influence and who is actually looking out for Michigan.