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HARRISBURG, Pa. AP 鈥?Republicans landed historic victories in Pennsylvania this week, winning the battleground state valuable presidential electoral votes, posting a two-seat gain in its U.S. House delegation and sweeping all four statewide offices on the ballot, including a U.S. Senate s stanley cup eat.The strong performance means Donald Trump has won Pennsylvania in two out o vasos stanley f three tries, after Republicans had lost six straight presidential elections there.Something similar happened in the other blue wall states of Michigan and Wisconsin, Rust Belt states where Trump prevailed again after losing in 2020. Still, Democrats held on in key Senate races in Wisconsin and Mic stanley romania higan, if just barely, and the results played out differently in each state.Republican victories were most pronounced in Pennsylvania, a state flagged early on as this year preeminent swing state, where deep dissatisfaction surfaced with the status quo, more often than not to Republicans benefit.Voters had the economy on their minds.Voters were in a bad moodAbout a third of voters nationwide, including in the blue wall states, said they felt their families were falling behind financially, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters nationwide. That was an increase from 2020, when about 2 in 10 felt that way. In 2020, a majority of those financially strapped voters voted for President Joe Biden, but this year, about two-thirds supported Trump.Berwood Yost, director of the Center fo Kcyq Blanche G. Campbell
BANGOR, Maine 鈥?The chairman of a three-person independent team tasked in 2004 with studying mercury levels in the Penobscot River and Penobscot Bay south of the former HoltraChem plant in Orrington spent nearly six hours Tuesday in federal court answering questions about what the panel discovered.Dr. John Rudd, who holds a doctorate in microbiology from the University of Manitoba in Canada, testified before U.S. District Judge John Woodcock that scientists found significant mercury contamination from the area just north of the former riverfront chemical plant extending several miles south, from Veazie to Bucksport. The contamination levels dropped off in Penobscot Bay. Rudds testimony dominated t stanley cup he first day of a civil trial stemming from a 20 stanley cup 00 lawsuit filed by the Maine Peoples Alliance and Natural Resources Defense Council against Mallinckrodt Inc., the former owner of the now defunct chemical plant. The suit seeks to force Mallinckrodt, a subsidiary of global health care products giant Covidien, to clean up the mercury contamination in the river and bay. Rud stanley uk d said the panel, which included Drs. Christopher Whipple and Nicholas Fisher, and its investigators also found mercury levels that exceeded Maines limits of 0.2 parts per million in several species of river wildlife consumed by humans. We looked at various fish species, lobsters, crab and black ducks, said Rudd, who when hired had 25 years experience as a research scientist with the Canadian Department of Fisheries |
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