Key Takeaways From This Week’s Primaries, and the Deportees Stuck in ‘No Man’s Land’

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Election Live Updates: Moderate Democrat Wins Tight Wisconsin Primary for Governor (nytimes.com/live/2026/08/12/us/primary-electio…), by The New York Times

He Was Deported to a Country He’d Never Heard of. He May Never Go Free. (nytimes.com/2026/08/12/magazine/deportation-im…), by Nicholas Casey

They Spoke English, Wore U.S. Flags and Attacked Fishermen. Who Were They? (nytimes.com/2026/08/12/world/americas/ecuador-…), by Maria Abi-Habib, Riley Mellen, José María León Cabrera and Christiaan Triebert

Blood Tests to Predict Alzheimer’s Are Causing Confusion and Distress (nytimes.com/2026/08/12/well/mind/alzheimers-di…), by Dana G. Smith

In Europe, the Total Solar Eclipse Is Hours Away (nytimes.com/2026/08/12/world/europe/solar-ecli…), by Jason Horowitz

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