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Gov. Tony Evers announced Monday that Wisconsin has signed on to an effort to support the state of Minnesota’s lawsuit seeking to challenge the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents in the Twin Cities area.  Minnesota filed its lawsuit after the federal government sent about 3,000 federal agents into the region […]

Born in Tijuana to teenaged parents, Navarro credits her father, Michael, for instilling her relentlessness.

سپینې ماڼۍ امریکا غږ ته ویلي چې "د ولسمشر ډونالډ ټرمپ لپاره ټول انتخابونه پر مېز پراته دي" ځکه چې د امریکا د الوتکې وړونکې بېړۍ منځني ختیځ ته رسیدلې ده ترڅو ایران ته خبرداری ورکړي چې د هغو نورو مظاهره چیانو له وژلو ډډه وکړي چې په دې میاشت کې په پاڅون کې برخه اخیستې وه.

The night after Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, as federal officials continued to spread lies about what happened, a friend asked me for advice on another disturbing instance of misinformation. What she should say, she asked, to a colleague who is posting antisemitic conspiracy theories about last month’s wildfires in... The post What an antisemitic conspiracy theory and the Alex Pretti killing have in common  appeared first on The Forward.

By Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin, Boise State University The question the First Amendment keeps asking, across wars and panics and moral crusades, is whether a democracy can tolerate the possibility of persuasion. There’s a certain school of thought that says no. Persuasion is too perilous. I call this way of thinking “swallow-a-fly logic.” I’m referring, […] The post A government can choose to investigate the killing of a protester − or choose to blame the victim and pin it all on ‘domestic terrorism’ appeared first on Pasquines.

U.S. Rep. Hillary Scholten, who flipped what was once considered a Republican stronghold during the 2022 election, has given her support to state Democratic state Sen. Sean McCann of Kalamazoo in his push to unseat U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Holland Township). McCann, who was first elected to the Legislature in 2010, announced he would be […]

Before the snowstorm and as temperatures dropped, staff at Beth-El, a Milford nonprofit, urged the unsheltered homeless to go inside.

Names of the dead passengers have not been released. Arnold & Itkin law firm’s PAC has donated to lawmakers fighting tort reform.

OKLAHOMA CITY — A group of governors, led by Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, is calling on the federal government to reassess their immigration enforcement policies.  Stitt, chair of the National Governors Association, and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, vice chair of the organization, issued a joint statement Sunday calling for federal and state governments to work […]

La periodista Alma Guillermoprieto lleva cuatro décadas investigando el poder y la violencia. En entrevista con LJR, habla de su nuevo libro y de las exigencias de escribir para lectores en tierras lejanas. The post Alma Guillermoprieto sobre cómo transforma el caos en relato perdurable appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review.

Few cities have experienced the kind of growth Everett has seen in the last seven years. Now, further transformation of the city’s once-blighted Lower Broadway district will be overseen by newly elected mayor Robert Van Campen, who was inaugurated on January 5.

A repórter Alma Guillermoprieto passou quatro décadas registrando poder e violência. Em uma entrevista à LJR, ela fala sobre seu novo livro e sobre as exigências de escrever para leitores distantes. The post Alma Guillermoprieto sobre como transforma o caos em narrativas duradouras appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center.

Preocupados por la amenaza inminente del fuego y por la falta de información, vecinos y vecinas movilizaron este domingo 25 de enero al municipio para reclamar al intendente de Esquel, Matías Taccetta, que dé explicaciones sobre qué acciones de prevención se están tomando y un plan de contingencia urgente. El funcionario se comprometió a recibirlos […]

WASHINGTON — Several U.S. Senate Democrats launched an investigation into how the Trump administration’s child care funding cuts and policy changes are affecting rural families, in a Sunday letter provided exclusively to States Newsroom. Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Raphael Warnock of Georgia led four of their colleagues in urging the respective heads of Rural […]

By Steve Walsh/WHRO One of America’s last battleships, USS Wisconsin, is moored on the Elizabeth River in Norfolk, Virginia. Now a floating museum, the ship’s most recent battle was winning Good Morning America’s Great Christmas Light Fight this past holiday season. USS Wisconsin was still decked out in lights when David Woods recently gave a tour of […]

Washington’s governor on Monday painted a dire outlook of how clashes between federal immigration authorities and the state could unfold if a crackdown similar to the one in Minnesota hit here. Gov. Bob Ferguson said he could envision members of the National Guard acting as a buffer between immigration officers and protesters. Attorney General Nick […]

Reporter Alma Guillermoprieto has spent four decades chronicling power and violence. In an interview with LJR, she discusses her new book and the demands of writing for far-away readers. The post Alma Guillermoprieto on how she turns chaos into enduring narratives appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center.

Court-appointed monitors warn the state is falling behind on promised reforms as hundreds remain jailed while awaiting care.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin is set to leave her post at the end of this school year to become the president of Columbia University in New York.  Mnookin has served as UW-Madison’s chancellor since 2022, leading the university as it has faced pressure from Wisconsin Republicans to end diversity programs as well as […]

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