Wisconsin

‘I’m honored to have your back and you have mine,’ U.S. President said at the powerful union’s political convention. ‘That’s the deal’

Harris will host a series of events to defend women rights. She will join President Joe Biden tomorrow in a campaign event focused on abortion in Virginia

Conspiracy theories have a long history in the United States, going back at least to 1800, when secret forces were said to be backing Thomas Jefferson’s presidential bid

The programs have taken off after a series of key interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve made virtually all loans more expensive

Republicans have built large majorities in the Legislature under maps they drew over a decade ago

Just 50% of Black adults said they approve of Biden in a December poll. That is compared with 86% in July 2021, with the gap fueling concerns about his reelection prospects

As a deadline to allocate federal Covid-19 cash approaches next year, states must decide how much to invest in maintaining warehouses and supply stockpiles

Francis punishes leading critic Cardinal Burke in second action against conservative American prelates

There have still been 8.1 million birds killed this year to help control the spread of the disease and 5.8 million of those have come just this month

The pigs are crossbreeds that combine the survival skills of wild Eurasian boar with the size and high fertility of domestic swine and are spreading out of control

The old fashioned cocktail is traditionally made with a whiskey, like bourbon, sugar and bitters. But in Wisconsin is replaced with brandy

In addition to not approving the University of Wisconsin pay raises, Gov. Tony Evers argues that the Legislature is blocking state conservation programs

New maps favoring Democrats would weaken Republicans’ grip on legislative power, which they have also used in the Senate to fire Democratic Gov. Tony Evers appointees and to threaten impeachment of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz and the state’s elections leader

Wisconsin legislators passed a law in 1849 that conservatives argue bans abortion. Ozanne and Chisholm said last year they wouldn’t prosecute abortion-seekers under that law

The resumption of services on Monday is the first time abortions have been available in the state since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022

While both parties engage in gerrymandering, the dynamics in North Carolina and Wisconsin go beyond mere redistricting fights and offer a vivid illustration of how Republicans are attempting to maintain power regardless of their level of support among voters

Democrats say the vote on Thursday to oust nonpartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe was held improperly, and will go to court

The unprecedented attempt to impeach and remove Justice Janet Protasiewicz from office comes as the court is being asked to throw out legislative electoral maps drawn by the Republican-controlled Legislature

Republicans worry that the legislative districts they drew 12 years ago will be undone in one of the court’s first actions under liberal control

Chief Justice Annette Ziegler said that firing and hiring a new state court director was illegal

Protasiewicz, who was backed by Democrats in her winning election in April, never said how she would rule on a redistricting lawsuit

Republicans chose Milwaukee for the first debate and for the national convention in just 11 months largely because of Wisconsin’s well-earned status as a swing state

Highs of 109 degrees Fahrenheit forecast for Saturday and 110 F (43.3 C) on Sunday in Dallas would break the current record of 107 F each day

The Wisconsin lawsuit also alleges partisan gerrymandering is illegal under the state constitution’s guarantee of equal protection and free speech

The fake elector plan was central to the federal indictment filed against Trump earlier this month that alleged he tried to overturn results of the 2020 election

Protasiewicz’s win carries tremendous weight in Wisconsin, where the state Supreme Court has been the last word on some of the biggest political and policy battles of the past decade-plus

Researchers from Climate Central looked at 4,711 cities and found climate change fingerprints in 4,019 of them for July, which other scientists said is the hottest month on record