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Youth vote targeted at ‘party-agnostic’ event for teens, college kids during GOP convention

MILWAUKEE — Young people provided a glimmer of hope on the outskirts of the 2024 Republican National Convention that has been dominated nightly by speeches filled with doom, inaccuracies and fearmongering. A few dozen high school and college students gathered a half-mile away from the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, where the RNC is taking place, […]

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Democratic candidates Bohannan, Baccam outraise incumbent GOP representatives

Democratic challengers Christina Bohannan and Lanon Baccam outraised U.S. Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Zach Nunn during the past three months in their congressional races to unseat the incumbent Republicans, Federal Election Commission reports show. The most recent FEC reports, released July 15, covered the period from April 1 through June 30. That timeframe included the […]

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Democratic Nominee Kelvin Datcher Could Sidestep General Election and Go Straight to the House

Kelvin Datcher will find out by the end of the month whether he’ll face a Republican opponent in the Oct. 1 general election for House of Representatives District 52 or be named to the position early. Read more.

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Biden tests positive for COVID, to return home to Delaware

President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, according to statements from White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and the president’s doctor. “Earlier today following his first event in Las Vegas, President Biden tested positive for COVID-19,” Jean-Pierre wrote in her statement. “He is vaccinated and boosted and he is experiencing mild symptoms.” Biden […]

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Biden tests positive for COVID, will return home to Delaware

President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, according to statements from White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and the president’s doctor. “Earlier today following his first event in Las Vegas, President Biden tested positive for COVID-19,” Jean-Pierre wrote in her statement. “He is vaccinated and boosted and he is experiencing mild symptoms.” Biden […]

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California Rep. Schiff latest Democrat to call on Biden to drop out

WASHINGTON — The intraparty effort to convince President Joe Biden to end his reelection bid resurfaced Wednesday, when prominent U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff of California became the latest Democratic member of Congress to go public with his concerns. Leading Democrats also set an early August window for a virtual roll call to officially name Biden […]

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Planned Parenthood, ACLU seek Iowa Supreme Court rehearing on abortion case

The Iowa ACLU is asking the state Supreme Court to rehear the case on Iowa’s six-week abortion ban Friday as implementation is set to potentially begin. The Iowa Supreme Court’s 4-3 decision in late June directed the district court to lift the temporary injunction on the state’s so-called “fetal heartbeat” law that restricts most abortions […]

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DeSantis tells cheering Iowa Republicans: ‘I hope and pray’ Biden is Dem nominee

MILWAUKEE — Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke to the Iowa Republican Party Wednesday on the terrace of an Italian-style villa overlooking Lake Michigan, possibly showing his interest in another bid for the presidency. During his 10 minutes of remarks, DeSantis, who unsuccessfully challenged Donald Trump for the nomination this year, praised the policies that […]

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On the trail of J.D. Vance’s Kentucky mountain roots

Searching for traces of Vance in his ancestral home takes you down winding blacktop through the deep shade of creeksides, past bright fields of Queen Anne’s lace and bottomland plots of  corn. It takes you onto people’s porches to ask directions, where, contrary to popular stereotype, an approaching stranger is no big deal

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Judge finds nursing home worker was fired for being honest with inspectors

An Iowa nursing home worker was fired recently amid allegations that he was too honest with inspectors. In a separate case, a worker was fired after being accused of instructing a co-worker to lie to state inspectors. According to state records, University Park Nursing and Rehabilitation fired Jason King as the facility’s full-time maintenance director […]

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