President Trump has called for an end to mail-in voting — a practice established in Wisconsin in the 1860s. Two members of the state’s Committee on Campaigns and Elections weigh in.

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Jim Lovell was the first astronaut to travel to space four times and the leader of the harrowing Apollo 13 mission. He died earlier this month at the age of 97. The coauthor of the Apollo 13 recounting, “Lost Moon” explored Lovell’s legacy.

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The new children’s book “Saving Our Sturgeon” tells the history of one of Wisconsin's oldest fish and how it was brought back from the brink of extinction.

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The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ made a variety of changes to the federal student loan system. Two changes — the elimination of the Grad PLUS loan program and a lifetime loan cap of $200,000 — leaves medical students well short of the estimated cost of medical school in Wisconsin.

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