POLITICS
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Who is Mike Johnson, the new Speaker of the House?
The new House Republican leader supports a nationwide abortion ban, played a key role in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and opposes same-sex marriage.
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Wisconsin Republicans have wasted critical days supporting MAGA election deniers instead of working
The director of A Better Wisconsin Together says Congress needs to focus on taking action on issues that matter to Wisconsin families.
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Do January 6 ‘spectators’ deserve any benefit of the doubt? We doubt it.
Derrick Van Orden should be considered insurrection-adjacent and is fair game for questions about whether he’ll be part of any post-2024 election subversion.
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Wisconsin could become leader in personalized medicine after being named a tech hub
The Wisconsin Biohealth Tech Hub aims to position the state as a global leader in personalized medicine, and will be led by BioForward Wisconsin, a nonprofit whose goal is to grow the state’s biohealth companies.
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We read 50 days of Trump’s Truth Social posts so you didn’t have to
Trump posts on his Truth Social platform dozens of times a day and his messages there are becoming increasingly angry, violent, and dark, suggesting a second term in the White House could be even more extreme than his first.
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Hedge funds prey on communities. A new rule fights back.
The paper mill in Brokaw is long gone, but its demise triggered a campaign by Sen. Tammy Baldwin and others to tighten rules on hedge funds’ secret stock positions.
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We read 50 days of Trump’s Truth Social posts so you didn’t have to
Trump posts on his Truth Social platform dozens of times a day and his messages there are becoming increasingly angry, violent, and dark, suggesting a second term in the White House could be even more extreme than his first.
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How many votes are needed for Speaker of the House?
It usually takes 218 votes—a simple majority of the 435 members of the House—to become House Speaker, but due to two vacancies, only 217 votes are currently needed. For more than two weeks though, Republicans have failed to agree on a new leader, leaving the federal government paralyzed.
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Unprecedented: GOP Senators fire several Evers appointees, after admitting they knew an earlier firing was bogus
The Natural Resources Board no longer had a quorum to meet. Two former legislators are among those fired. A domestic abuse survivor is dropped from a board because a senator didn’t like her tweets and asked if she was emotional and hated men.
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Pharmacies expand access to abortion pills under new Biden policy
Although these pharmacies dispensing the drug marks a victory for reproductive freedom, a looming Supreme Court case could cut off access to the medication in states where abortion is still legal.
