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Arrested Milwaukee County Judge’s Trial Delayed

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THE CENTER SQUARE—Judge Hannah Dugan will not go on trial in her immigration collusion case next month after the federal judge handling the case delayed the trial Wednesday. Judge Lynn Adleman told the court he wants to make sure the case is “done right.” Dugan is facing two federal charges, one of them a felony, after prosecutors say she helped sneak an illegal Mexican immigrant out of the side door of her courtroom in May. Video shows Dugan leave the bench to speak with ICE agents outside of her courtroom.…

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Florida suspends county health officer for daring to encourage vaccination among his employees

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Republicans are really on a roll, aren’t they? First, they support Donald Trump, then Vladimir Putin—and now they’re using the copious political capital they’ve built up with the pig-ignorant half of America to go all-in for COVID-19. I shudder to think what’s next. Maybe they can repeal car-seat laws so toddlers are free to catapult into chemical freight trucks, as God and the Founders intended. So Florida—which is basically Disney World surrounded by 65,000 square miles of childish fantasy—has apparently decided that making Joe Biden look bad so its governor can…

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The Coronavirus Turned a Rural County Into a Battleground for Millionaires

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Joni Reynolds often wonders how things in Gunnison County got so out of hand. How did she, the top health official of a sparsely populated county deep in the Rocky Mountains, end up the target of national fury, and frightened enough to sleep with a gun on her nightstand? Joni and her husband, Dennis, moved to Gunnison in 2015 to be closer to nature: the smooth waters of the Blue Mesa Reservoir; the craggy, snow-capped peaks of the Rockies; and the yellow aspens dotting the landscape in autumn. The 61-year-old…

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