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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) appeared to challenge Sen. JD Vance’s (R-Ohio) shooting skills, saying that the vice presidential hopeful cannot hunt pheasants like he can. “That’s what JD Vance’s stick is, talking about guns. I guarantee you he can’t shoot pheasants like I can,” Walz said Tuesday on “Anderson Cooper 360°.” “And that’s a part of saying, but you know what, I guarantee I don’t want weapons of war in classrooms. And there’s no reason that you can’t have reasonable restrictions around that without infringing on your Second Amendment,” he added. Vance has heavily leaned into his personal story...

Forget the distractions at home or work. Come Saturday morning, 130,000 hunters have pheasants on their minds as they wade into chest high switchgrass or high-step over corn stubble in pursuit of Iowa's favorite game bird. Even though ill-timed rains washed out a good share of this spring's nesting, wildlife officials still expect a decent season. "Our summer roadside counts were down 34 percent from last year; mostly due to the heavy rain in late May," notes Department of Natural Resources upland game biologist Todd Bogenschutz. "Hunters should still harvest 800 to 900,000 pheasants, though. It's still going to be...