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FILE - Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan leaves the federal courthouse after a hearing in Milwaukee on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)

Milwaukee judge caught on body cam denying that she hid an immigrant wanted by ICE

FILE - Then National security adviser John Bolton speaks to media at the White HouseJuly 31, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster File)

The Latest: FBI searches home and office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton

FBI agents carry empty boxes to former national security adviser John Bolton's house, Friday, August. 22, 2025, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

FBI searches home and office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton

Health and Human Service Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., left, speaks at an event in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, July 30, 2025, in Washington, as President Donald Trump, looks on. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Supreme Court lets Trump administration cut $783 million of research funding in anti-DEI push

FILE - Demonstrators against transgenders rights protest during a rally outside of the Supreme Court, Dec. 4, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Federal investigators demanded details on transgender patients from at least 1 hospital

Protester Nadine Seiler holds her sign near National Guard members from the 167th Security Forces from West Virginia, outside Union Station in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

The Latest: Military expands presence in DC as California Democrats prepare response

Wisconsin Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski launched her bid for lieutenant governor on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

Wisconsin Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski launches bid for lieutenant governor

Members of the District of Columbia National Guard patrol outside Union Station, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The Latest: Texas GOP poised to approve map gerrymandered for their advantage

Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier, left, waves past Texas state Sen. Carol Alvarado, right, to supporters outside of the House Chamber where she refuses to leave due to a required law enforcement escort, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Even at the grocery store, Texas troopers don't let Democrats out of sight after walkout

FILE - The U.S. Department of Justice building is seen in Washington, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

20 states (including Wisconsin) and DC sue DOJ to stop immigration requirements on victim funds

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks in Lafayette Park, across from the White House, after meeting with President Donald Trump and European leaders Monday, Aug. 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The Latest: Trump planning for Putin-Zelenskyy meeting while affirming security guarantees

FILE - A pharmacist holds a Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot on Thursday, April 24, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

US pediatricians' new COVID-19 shot recommendations differ from CDC advice

FILE - President Donald Trump welcomes Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

The Latest: European leaders arrive for White House meeting on Russia-Ukraine war

FILE - MSNBC television anchor Rachel Maddow, host of the Rachel Maddow Show, moderates the "Perspectives on National Security" panel on Oct. 16, 2017, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Cable's MSNBC will change its name later this year as part of corporate divorce from NBC

FILE - A display shows a Newsmax logo on the day of their IPO on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims

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Menomonie City Council approves finding waterpark leak, holding Community Cookout

Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives for a joint press conference with President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Trump administration halts visas for people from Gaza after Laura Loomer questions arrivals

One of the U.S. Postal Service's new zero-emission electric Next Generation Delivery Vehicles (NGDV) is displayed in front of the organization's headquarters in Washington, on Aug. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh)

Republicans look to make a U-turn on federal commitment to electric vehicles for the Postal Service

This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Erin on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (NOAA via AP)

Hurricane Erin explodes in strength to a Category 5 storm in the Caribbean

F-35 fighter escorts a Ilyushin Il-96-300 aircraft of the Russia Special Flight Squadron carrying Russian President Vladimir Putin back to Russia after his meeting with US President Donald Trump on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Ukraine's Zelenskyy to meet Trump on Monday after US-Russia summit secured no halt to fighting

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