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Stunning Primary Upset Decided By Less Than Half A Percent. What You Need To Know - August 12

David Crowley has won Wisconsin's Democratic primary for governor in a race that came down to fewer than 4,000 votes out of nearly 800,000 cast, with Crowley beating state lawmaker Francesca Hong by less than half a percentage point; deadly storms are tearing across the Midwest with winds topping 90 miles per hour near Chicago and multiple tornadoes touching down; flash flooding in Ohio is submerging cars; The New York Times reports U.S. intelligence picked up a specific threat of a surface-to-air missile attack on Air Force One, leading President Donald Trump to be secretly flown out of last month's NATO summit in a decoy operation; ABC News has learned that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stayed on the decoy plane; the death toll from Monday's earthquake in Colombia is now more than 200 people; Robert Gilman, a U.S. Marine veteran held in a Russian prison for four years, is now back on American soil; TikTok is facing another lawsuit, this time from Pennsylvania; Anthropic is adding an invisible watermark to text written by its Claude chatbot; the University of Michigan is doing away with letter grades for some freshmen, hoping to protect their mental health; the Chicago White Sox celebrated their most famous fan, Pope Leo, with what they called "Pope Hat Night"; and the sky has a packed schedule today, with a planetary parade, eclipse and meteor shower all set to happen.

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