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FILE - Caregiver Warren Manchess helping Paul Gregoline with his shoes and socks, in Noblesville, Ind., Nov. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Trump's Labor Department proposes more than 60 rule changes in a push to deregulate workplaces

FILE - The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, right, and Bishop Julian Smith, left, flank Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during a civil rights march in Memphis, Tenn., March 28, 1968. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell, File)

The Latest: Trump administration releases records on FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.

FILE - President Donald Trump walks from Marine One after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, July 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

The Latest: Trump hosting Philippines leader to talk tariffs and China

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City council makes no decision on data center development plan

511 Wisconsin Traffic Camera I-94 and Highway B

I-94 re-opened at Menomonie

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Energy Work & the Economy AI data centers are using more power. Regular customers are footing the bill

Juanita is hugged by her children, Jose, 15, and daughter Marely, 17, who has Down syndrome, Tuesday, June 17, 2025, during a portrait in Hidalgo County, Texas. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

As Trump's raids ramp up, a Texas region's residents stay inside — even when they need medical care

FILE - People walk between buildings on Harvard University campus, Dec. 17, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

The Latest: Harvard heads to court in $2.6B lawsuit against Trump administration

Eric Zieroth walks to his car through the backyard of the apartment where he was staying as his dog, Bella, walks alongside him before driving to his storage unit with his stepdaughter, Christina Hubbell, on Dec. 3, 2024, in Shell Lake, Wis. In the winter, Zieroth and Hubbell moved into a friend’s basement apartment after living in their car for over a year. (Joe Timmerman / Wisconsin Watch)

‘We can’t do it all by ourselves’: As rural homelessness grows in Wisconsin, Republicans balk at boosting support

Immigration court volunteer Marjorie Miller gives guidance and support to a Colombian man who was about to be taken into custody by Immigration and Custom Enforcement officers in the hallway after his hearing with an immigration judge in Seattle, June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Martha Bellisle)

Volunteers flock to immigration courts to support migrants arrested in the hallways

Hilary Key, owner of The Toy Chest, straightens merchandise on the shelves of her toy store in Nashville, Ind., Thursday, June 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Less selection, higher prices: How tariffs are shaping the holiday shopping season

Dweebs playing at Paint The Town

Let's Paint The Town comes to Menomonie

FILE - EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin attends a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission Event in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

EPA eliminates research and development office, begins layoffs

President Donald Trump bangs a gavel after signing his signature bill of tax breaks and spending cuts at the White House in Washington, Friday, July 4, 2025.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

With gavel in hand, Trump chisels away at the power of a compliant Congress

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt adjusts her hair as she speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, July 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Latest: House approves Trump’s $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid

FILE - Hannah Liu, 26, of Washington, holds up a sign in support of birthright citizenship, May 15, 2025, outside of the Supreme Court in Washington. "This is enshrined in the Constitution. My parents are Chinese immigrants," says Liu. "They came here on temporary visas so I derive my citizenship through birthright." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Trump's birthright citizenship order remains blocked as lawsuits march on after Supreme Court ruling

FILE - Stephen Colbert arrives at a screening of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," during PaleyFest, April 21, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Stephen Colbert gets solidarity from fellow late-night hosts after cancellation news

FILE - Absentee ballots during a count at the Wisconsin Center, Nov. 8, 2022, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Wisconsin elections officials find clerk broke laws over uncounted ballots

July Good Trouble Protest in Menomonie

"Good Trouble" protest in Menomonie

Activists put up a poster showing President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein near the U.S. Embassy in London, Thursday, July 17, 2025.(AP Photo/Thomas Krych)

The Latest: Senate passes $9 billion in spending cuts to public broadcasting, foreign aid

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