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Monday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of 10.  Sunrise is 6:59 AM and sunset 5:18 PM, for 10h 18m 57s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 12.5% of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Community Involvement & Cable TV Commission meets via audiovisual conferencing at 4 PM.

 On this day in 1922, President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio set in the White House.

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 Daphne Chen and Jordyn Noennig report A 22-year-old student leader was shot and killed near 22nd St. and Wisconsin Avenue:

Milwaukee police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old Milwaukee man just before 12:30 p.m. Saturday in the 2200 block of West Wisconsin Avenue.

Police identified the victim as Purcell A. Pearson, a recent UW-Whitewater graduate and nephew of Milwaukee City Attorney Tearman Spencer.

According to a profile of Pearson written by the university in June, the 22-year-old psychology major planned to earn a doctorate in clinical psychology and eventually open up a mental health practice to serve low-income, diverse neighborhoods.

Pearson was also a leader in the Black Student Union, according to the profile, and helped create a campus police officer liaison position to represent concerns of Black students. He also served as chapter president of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

Last year, Pearson won a UW systemwide competition focused on communicating research findings to the public. His competition entry focused on the overrepresentation of Black men as criminals in the news media.

reports Breaking With G.O.P., Top Conservative Lawyer Says Trump Can Stand Trial (‘Charles J. Cooper, a stalwart of the conservative legal establishment, said that Republicans were wrong to assert that it is unconstitutional for a former president to be tried for impeachable offenses’):

Mr. Cooper said they were misreading the Constitution.

“The provision cuts against their interpretation,” he wrote. He argued that because the Constitution allows the Senate to bar officials convicted of impeachable offenses from holding public office again in the future, “it defies logic to suggest that the Senate is prohibited from trying and convicting former officeholders.”

Mr. Cooper’s decision to take on the argument was particularly significant because of his standing in conservative legal circles. He was a close confidant and adviser to Senate Republicans, like Ted Cruz of Texas when he ran for president, and represented House Republicans — including the minority leader, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California — in a lawsuit against Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He is also the lawyer for conservative stalwarts like John R. Bolton and Jeff Sessions, and over his career defended California’s same-sex marriage ban and had been a top outside lawyer for the National Rifle Association.

Paulina Villegas and Hannah Knowles report After Capitol riot, desperate families turn to groups that ‘deprogram’ extremists:

Parents for Peace, a 10-person operation of mostly volunteers,says calls to its national helpline have tripled since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, with a growing number of younger people being groomed in white supremacist ideology. After supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the intervention groups have experienced a deluge of calls related to the attack as well as to conspiracy theories and QAnon.

The range of extremist ideas they encounter also has widened in the past year, driven by the 2020 election and the pandemic.

With the federal government sounding some of its strongest alarms yet about the threat of domestic extremism,these groups say they offer a way forward. Often staffed in part by the formerly radicalized, they are on the front lines of the fight against right-wing extremism, a growing threat that is in the spotlight but which experts argue has long been neglected.

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