Kewaunee County election results: Wisnicky, Hardtke top primary for county judge

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The Latest | An election is underway in Iran to replace a president killed in a helicopter crash
Iranians are voting on Friday to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a May helicopter crash in the country's northwest along with the foreign minister and several other officials. There are two hard-liners, former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and the parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf. Then there’s the reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, who has aligned himself with those seeking a return to the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
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7 youth group members hospitalized after lightning strike in Utah
Seven members of a Utah youth group were taken to the hospital after a lightning strike hit the ground next to where they were hiking Thursday, officials said.
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A father who lost 2 sons in a Boeing Max crash waits to hear if the US will prosecute the company
As they travel around Alaska on a long-planned vacation, Ike and Susan Riffel stop now and then to put up stickers directing people to “Live Riffully.” It's a way for the California couple to honor the memories of their sons, Melvin and Bennett, who died in 2019 when a Boeing 737 Max jetliner crashed in Ethiopia. The Riffels and families of other passengers who died in the crash and a similar one in Indonesia a little more than four months earlier are waiting to learn any day now whether the U.S. Justice Department, all these years later, will prosecute Boeing in connection with the two disasters, which killed 346 people.
AFP
Fact check: The first 2024 US presidential debate
US President Joe Biden and Republican challenger Donald Trump traded barbs Thursday in the first debate of the 2024 election campaign.Trump also insisted again that "the fraud and everything else was ridiculous" in the 2020 election he lost to Biden -- claims officials from both parties have refuted.
Reuters
Biden, Trump point fingers at each other on inflation during debate
U.S. President Joe Biden and his Republican rival Donald Trump both took credit for what they said was a strong economy under their watch and blamed the other for punishing inflation as they battled on the debate stage before the Nov. 5 election. Under his own watch, Trump said, "everything was rocking good." Biden pinned inflation, which peaked at 9% two years ago and has since dropped to 3.25%, on Trump's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with corporate greed.
Yahoo News
Fact-check: Biden and Trump trade falsehoods and context-free claims at 1st presidential debate of 2024
During Thursday's debate between President Biden and former President Donald Trump, the two candidates offered no shortage of false claims and assertions that lacked the context.
Associated Press
Photo Gallery: Americans watch Trump and Biden in election debate
U.S. President Joe Biden and his Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, met for the first general election debate of the 2024 season — a chance for the candidates to try to reshape the political narrative and persuade undecided voters. Elaine Freeman, a Trump supporter from Oxford, Ohio, and employee at the local Veterans Affairs hospital, said the economy is the most important issue in this election. “For what I make, 15 years ago I would be considered upper middle class,” said Freeman, who watched at an event in Hamilton, Ohio.
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Iranians vote to replace president killed in a helicopter crash, but apathy remains high
Iranians were voting Friday in a snap election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash last month, as public apathy has become pervasive in the Islamic Republic after years of economic woes, mass protests and tensions in the Middle East. Voters face a choice between hard-line candidates and a little-known politician who belongs to Iran's reformist movement that seeks to change its Shiite theocracy from within. As has been the case since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, women and those calling for radical change have been barred from the ballot while the vote itself will have no oversight from internationally recognized monitors.
Reuters
Factbox-Reactions to Joe Biden and Donald Trump's debate performances
The donor added that it would likely come down to Jill Biden to convince him. "He (Biden) is a stubborn guy ... It cannot be described how bad this performance was." The donor said they thought Andy Beshear, the popular Democratic governor of Kentucky, a deeply Republican state at the federal level, would be the likely winner.
AFP
Xi says China planning 'major' reforms ahead of key political meeting
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday that the ruling Communist Party was planning and implementing "major" reforms, ahead of a closely watched political conclave that is expected to put economic recovery high on the agenda.In a speech on Friday, Xi said policymakers "are planning and implementing major measures to further deepen reform in a comprehensive manner".
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How did Trump and Biden do in the debate? 3 takeaways from 2024's first big clash.
A live, televised debate is one of the last moments with the power to actually change anyone’s vote. So how did Trump and Biden do? Here are three takeaways from the presidential debate.
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School's out and NYC migrant families face a summer of uncertainty
When Damien Carchipulla started his first school year in New York City in September, the first grader's family was living in a Manhattan hotel for migrant families. In the 10 months since, the family of four from Ecuador has moved shelters three times under a policy Mayor Eric Adams imposed in the fall that limits the number of days migrants can stay in a single place. With a fourth move expected in a matter of weeks, Damien's mother Kimberly Carchipulla hopes the family isn’t pulled too far from the 6-year-old’s school in Harlem this summer.
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Takeaways from AP’s report on Ukraine’s battle to defend its democracy in wartime
Ukraine has spent years trying to build a Western-style democracy, although not without some bumps along the way as it shed habits from its Soviet past. Russia’s full-scale invasion two years ago starkly clarified the stakes of these democracy-building efforts, which are fundamental to Ukraine’s goal of joining the European Union and NATO.
AFP
Faltering Biden struggles in fiery debate with Trump
A halting Joe Biden struggled Thursday to allay concerns he is too old for a second term in the White House in a fiery debate with Donald Trump marked by personal insults.Biden, who was said to have a cold, hit Trump with clearly rehearsed lines as he sought to remind millions of television viewers that Trump would be the first convicted felon in the White House.
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Ukraine is battling to preserve democratic progress during wartime. It’s not easy
As an investigative journalist, then an activist, and later a lawmaker, Yehor Soboliev sought to expose corruption in business and government as a way to defend Ukraine's budding democracy. Now, as a soldier battling Russia, he's had to put those aims on hold as he fights alongside some of the people he once tried to bring down. Ukraine has spent years trying to build a Western-style democracy, although not without some bumps along the way as it shed habits from its Soviet past.
Politico
Here's how Democrats could replace Biden
The party would need to open a rulebook not used in decades — and for Biden to drop out in the first place.
AFP
South Korea's skyscraper window cleaner with a fear of heights
For nearly thirty years, Seo Seung-ho has cleaned the windows of some of South Korea's tallest buildings.Between wind, rain, and snow, Seo and his team of seven barely manage to give the tower, which has some 42,000 windows, a full once-over every year.
CNN
Salty cream in your morning brew? Why Vietnam’s specialty coffees are catching on around the world
A café in Vietnam’s historical city of Hue is widely credited with inventing salt coffee, which now appears on menus around the world. It’s one of many specialty drinks helping shine the spotlight on Vietnamese coffee.
Associated Press
Harris acknowledges Biden had a 'slow start' in debate and tries to calm Democratic fears
Vice President Kamala Harris acknowledged that President Joe Biden had a “slow start” in his debate against Donald Trump on Thursday night, but she insisted that he finished “strong” in a performance that triggered a new round of concerns within their own party about Biden's fitness to be their standard-bearer. Harris gave interviews on CNN and MSNBC amid growing Democratic panic over Biden's performance, which fueled longstanding questions about whether the 81-year-old president should step aside.
USA TODAY
Candidates have survived bad debates. But is a reckoning afoot after Biden v. Trump?
Team Biden wanted an early debate to shake up the presidential race. This one did, but not in the way they wanted.

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