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Democratic U. S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo and her Republican challenger, state Rep. Gabe Evans, sparred over immigration, abortion and Donald Trump on Tuesday night in the first debate for one of the most tightly contested congressional contests in the country. The debate, hosted by 9News, was the first of two scheduled ahead of their November race to represent the northern suburbs of the 8th Congressional District.

Last May, I reported on two small, podunk towns in Wisconsin who decided to illegally remove their electronic voting equipment. They did so because some professional election denier came along and filled their little MAGA heads up with The Big Lie, especially how voting machines were being tampered with by space aliens with bamboo shoots or some other nonsense like that. Disability rights groups and the US DOJ came down on them like a ton of bricks. The Town of Lawrence was already in negotiations with the feds even before the lawsuits were filed.

WASHINGTON — A decade after the Flint, Michigan, water crisis raised alarms about the continuing dangers of lead in tap water, President Joe Biden on Tuesday set a 10-year deadline for cities across the nation to replace their lead pipes, finalizing an aggressive approach aimed at ensuring that drinking water is safe for all Americans. Biden announced the final Environmental Protection Agency rule during a visit to the swing state of Wisconsin in the final month of a tight presidential campaign.

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