Lawmakers at the U.S. House of Representatives voted to lift a federal ban on mining in the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, setting up another vote in the Republican-controlled Senate.

Monday's debate of Illinois candidates vying to replace U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin will be aired live on WBEZ and streamed on the YouTube pages of WBEZ, the Chicago Sun-Times and the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.

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The protections outlined by the Bureau of Land Management encompass more than 225,000 acres in northern Minnesota's Superior National Forest.

On Jan. 21, 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the United States' first known case of novel coronavirus -- what would later come to be known as COVID-19.

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When a bipartisan coalition in the U.S. House voted this month to approve a three-year, $80 billion extension of extra insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — over the opposition of Republican leaders in Congress — there was a sense of accomplishment in the hallways of the Capitol.

Nonpartisan analysts say Mary Peltola has a fighting chance but that Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan has the edge in a state President Trump won handily.