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CHICAGO — Cooper Roberts, the 8-year-old boy paralyzed from the waist down after being wounded at the Fourth of July parade shooting in Highland Park is back to critical condition just days after the family had shared in a statement that the boy was doing better. On Tuesday morning the Roberts family shared that the boy’s condition was downgraded as he struggles with a new infection, and one of his lungs is partially collapsed. Doctors also told the family that the last procedure revealed that the tear in Cooper’s esophagus reopened and the boy will undergo an “urgent, complex and lengthy surg......

DETROIT — The Michigan Supreme Court said Tuesday it won't take up a case challenging Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's authority to mail unsolicited absentee ballot applications. Michigan courts have consistently found that Benson acted legally when she sent applications to every registered voter in Michigan to request an absentee ballot ahead of the August and November elections. The state Supreme Court justices denied the motion to intervene as moot in a 6-1 order with Justice David F. Viviano dissenting. "We are not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this Court,......