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On a mid-June weekend, Raquel Urbina made seven trips to Milwaukee-area grocery stores in search of the hypoallergenic baby formula she needs to feed her 10-month-old daughter. She had little time to spare. Her monthly supplemental nutrition benefits through the state’s Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program were set to expire in a few days. On that Sunday, she finally succeeded in what felt like a “treasure hunt.” She found four cans of Reckitt Mead Johnson’s Enfamil Nutramigen formula at a Walmart in Greenfield, Wisconsin, about 10 miles from her home. Stressful hunts for baby formula have dominated life...

Panicked children and adults ran for their lives Monday as at least six people were killed and dozens more were wounded in a mass shooting that took place during a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park. Veteran Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet, who described the scene of the shooting as a “bloodbath,” said she saw blankets covering three bloodied bodies and five other people wounded and bloodied near the parade viewing stand. More than 30 people who were wounded, mostly by gunshots but some from the ensuing chaos at the parade, were taken to...

Wisconsin Democrats on June 21 led calls for U.S. Senator Ron Johnson’s resignation after the House January 6 committee revealed texts indicating that the Republican’s office wanted to hand-deliver certificates of fake electors to then-Vice President Mike Pence in service of former President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The bipartisan congressional panel probing the deadly 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol showed an exchange of text messages initiated by Johnson’s chief of staff Sean Riley to Pence legislative director Chris Hodgson that the Republican senator wanted to advance an “alternate slate of...

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said on June 26 that right-wing U.S. Supreme Court justices who “misled” senators during their respective confirmation hearings about whether they supported overturning Roe v. Wade should be impeached for lying under oath. During an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, Ocasio-Cortez told host Chuck Todd that the high court’s reactionary majority “dramatically overreached its authority” when it struck down the 1973 legal precedent on Friday, imperiling access to abortion care throughout the U.S. “If we allow Supreme Court nominees to lie under oath and secure lifetime appointments to the highest court...

Congress on June 24 cleared the most comprehensive federal gun safety legislation in nearly 30 years, a bipartisan package that went to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature a day later. In a 65-33 vote, the bill, comprised of eight provisions, passed the U.S. Senate late on June 23. The House on June 24 joined, approving the Senate’s bill 234-193, with 14 Republicans joining all Democrats. “We did something exceptional in the Senate,” Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, the lead negotiator on the gun control legislation, said on Twitter. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at a press...