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Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to hold on to their ultra-narrow Senate majority this year in a midterm election cycle that has several of the party’s most vulnerable incumbents facing voters amid rising inflation and surging gas prices. Republicans need to net just one new seat this year to reclaim control of the upper chamber. Still, Democrats are more optimistic about their chances of holding their Senate majority than they are their House majority and are eyeing several opportunities to flip GOP-held seats.

Hedge fund heir Alex Lasry's Milwaukee Bucks have raised season ticket prices amid rising inflation Wisconsin Senate candidate and Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry blames corporate "greed" for the rising cost of consumer goods. But his NBA franchise has jacked up season ticket prices, drawing criticism from longtime fans who say the coveted passes are now only affordable for corporations and the ultra-rich. "Inflation is a tax on working people driven by corporations and their greed—it's time we make the economy work for the people not against them," Lasry wrote on Twitter in April. But Lasry has been silent as...