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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers gives the annual State of the State address, Jan. 22, 2025, at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. Evers announced on July 24 that he won’t run for a third time. Morry Gash/AP Photo

Gov. Tony Evers calls on Trump’s energy department to preserve $1.5B in funding

Several protesters stand outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, in Broadview, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

Travelers wait in line for screening at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Kenner, La., Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Who's winning the blame game over the shutdown? Here's what a new AP-NORC poll shows

FILE - A sign that reads "Closed due to federal government shutdown," is seen outside of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Oct. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

The Latest: Senate Democrats are ready to reject government funding bill again over health care

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Dunn County PRD discusses large development projects including data centers

Dunn County Board of Supervisors meeting for 10/15/2025

Evening sunlight shines on manufactured homes at Countryside Park Cooperative on May 7, 2025, in Cumberland, Wis. (Joe Timmerman / Wisconsin Watch)

Residents consider a cooperative future as manufactured housing parks go up for sale

President Donald Trump, with Erika Kirk, walks out to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom for Charlie Kirk to his widow Erika Kirk, in the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump honors Charlie Kirk with Presidential Medal of Freedom on what would be his 32nd birthday

Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget director, listens as he addresses members of the media outside the West Wing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump and budget chief Vought are making this a government shutdown unlike any other

Transportation Security Administration worker guides travelers at a security checkpoint in Denver International Airport Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

The government shutdown is putting a renewed spotlight on the cracks in the US aviation system

FILE - The Social Security Administration's main campus is seen in Woodlawn, Md., Jan. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

The Latest: Shutdown woes continue

Jeanne Weaver, 79, of Ebensburg, Pa., left, Sue Conard, 75, of Wisc., and Vanessa Fields, 70, of Philadelphia, pose for a portrait on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Social Security cost-of-living increase announcement delayed by government shutdown

Jewish revelers dance and hold up the Torah as they celebrate the holiday of Simchat Torah at the plaza known as hostages square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

The Latest: Israel says one body handed over wasn't a hostage as aid trucks head for Gaza

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WisEye Morning Minute: Citizenship Voting Court Case

FILE - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones takes the witness stand to testify at the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn., Sept. 22, 2022. (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File)

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and Hogan Gidley, left, walking to a press conference as the government shutdown heads toward its third week, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Latest: No end in sight to government shutdown as House speaker refuses to negotiate

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Birding - The Fall Migration

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10/13/2025 Menomonie school board meeting

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., praises President Donald Trump's peacemaking efforts leading to a ceasefire pausing two years of war in the Gaza Strip, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Government shutdown could be the longest ever, Speaker Johnson warns

FILE - President Lyndon Johnson, at podium, speaks in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, before to signing the Voting Rights Act, Aug. 6, 1965. (AP Photo, File)

Supreme Court takes up Republican attack on Voting Rights Act in case over Black representation

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