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Five Takeaways From The Michigan Primaries

President Biden faced his first challenging day in the Democratic primary process on Tuesday as Michigan voters went to the polls.

The problem for the president was not the token opposition from Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) but, rather, the push for a protest vote over Biden’s vigorous support for Israel during its assault on Gaza.

On the Republican side, former President Trump won as expected. Trump had 67 percent of the vote at 11:30 p.m. by comparison to 27 percent for his last remaining rival, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.

Here are the main takeaways from the primaries.

The Supreme Court Will Weigh A Trump-era Ban On Bump Stocks For Guns. Here's What To Know

The Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas was becoming an annual tradition for Geena Marano Springmann. She had attended the three-day country music event with her best friend in 2016, and they returned the next year with Springmann's oldest sister.

But that year, as singer Jason Aldean was performing around 10 p.m., Springmann recalled hearing what first sounded like fireworks, but soon realized were gunshots, raining down from a window on the 32nd floor of a hotel and casino across the street. After being shielded by her sister, Marisa Marano, for several minutes, the women ran to a casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Springmann texted her mother to tell her that there was a shooting at the concert, they were running and she loved her.

7th Measles Case Confirmed In Outbreak Linked To Florida Elementary School

The seventh case of measles linked to an outbreak at a Florida elementary school was confirmed by Health officials Tuesday.

Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) said it was informed by the Florida Department of Health – Broward of the additional case at Mantatee Bay Elementary in Weston, which is 20 miles west of Fort Lauderdale.

Leaders Gang Up On Speaker Johnson At ‘Intense’ White House Meeting

Three of Congress’s top four leaders had a loud and unified message for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) when they met with him at the White House on Tuesday: Ignore the pressure from conservative critics and avoid a government shutdown on Friday.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) emerged from the meeting, which participants described as “intense” and “passionate,” feeling somewhat reassured that Johnson heard their pleas.

Poll: Most Americans Cool To Christian Nationalism As Its Influence Grows

About two-thirds of Americans reject or are skeptical about Christian nationalism despite its rising influence that's shaping education, immigration and health care policies, a new survey finds.

Some Republicans are openly expressing Christian nationalist views, which have ranged from calls for more religion in public schools to book bans and even suggestions that democracy should die.

Evers Again Asks Wisconsin Republicans To Release $125m To Combat PFAS Pollution

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers reiterated Feb. 27 that he will veto a Republican bill that would create grants to fight pollution from so-called forever chemicals and again asked GOP lawmakers to release to environmental regulators $125 million set aside to deal with contamination.

Republicans who control the Legislature’s powerful finance committee refused to budge, raising the possibility that the money will go unspent indefinitely as municipalities across the state struggle with PFAS contamination in their groundwater.

Wisconsin Democrats Push For IVF Protections After Alabama Ruling

Sen. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin was joined by a group of Democratic Senators calling for Congress to pass legislation to safeguard access to in vitro fertilization (IVF).

According to the Centers for Disease Control, IVF is a form of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) offering fertility treatments where a woman's egg is fertilized in a laboratory and then transferred back to the woman's body as a developing embryo.

Eau Claire County Judge Denies Request To Force Regional Hospitals To Delay Closure

An Eau Claire County judge has denied a request by an orthopedic clinic to force Hospitals Sisters Health System, or HSHS, to delay the closure of two hospitals in the Chippewa Valley region.

Chippewa Valley Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Clinic filed the request for a temporary injunction earlier this month. The clinic claimed that HSHS breached their contract by not providing 180 days of notice before ending their agreement.

Attorney General Kaul Petitions Wisconsin Supreme Court To Take Abortion Case

Attorney General Josh Kaul today filed a supplemental petition asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take jurisdiction of Kaul, et al. v. Urmanski, et al., the case in which the Dane County Circuit Court ruled that Wis. Stat. § 940.04 does not criminalize abortion. The petition asks the Wisconsin Supreme Court to bypass the Court of Appeals, so that Wisconsinites can have a final, definitive ruling on the enforceability of Wis. Stat. 940.04.

“This case is about protecting Wisconsinites’ freedom. The sooner we can obtain certainty about the state of Wisconsin law, the better,” said Attorney General Kaul.

Supreme Court Redistricting Consultants File $128K Bill

The redistricting consultants hired by the liberal state Supreme Court majority racked up a combined $128,158 in expenses, according to a new filing.

The bulk of the $128,158 they submitted to the court in yesterday’s filing was the $62,721 Cervas, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Mellon University, billed for 139.38 hours of work at $450 an hour. Meanwhile, Grofman, a political science professor at the University of California-Irvine, said he put in 88.36 hours at $450 an hour, for a total of $39,762.