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FILE - In advance of Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri's Congressional testimony, to illustrate the harms children face on social media, parent activists brought an "Instagrinch" to the Capitol building in Washington, Dec. 7, 2021. (Eric Kayne/AP Images for ParentsTogether, File)

New 2025 laws hit hot topics from AI in movies to rapid-fire guns

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State budget, Supreme Court race top next year’s political calendar

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)

Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates before Trump can resume executions

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks briefly to reporters just before a vote on an interim spending bill to prevent a government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. The vote failed to pass. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House approves funding bill and sends to Senate hours before government shutdown deadline

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Public School Enrollment Down for 10th Straight Year

FILE - The Capitol in Washington, is framed by early morning clouds, March 19, 2024. Congress has until midnight Friday to come up with a way to fund the government, or federal agencies will shutter. It's up to each federal agency to determine how it handles a shutdown, but there would be disruptions in many services. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

The Latest: Time is running short to avert a government shutdown after funding bill is rejected

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Van Orden ran well behind Trump. Can he hold his western Wis district in 2026?

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Latest: Republicans ready new spending plan as government shutdown looms

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Winter comes to Dunn County

Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu speaks during an interview on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in Madison, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)

Wisconsin's tight Republican majority sparks hope for bipartisan cooperation

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Menomonie school board election

FILE - People watch a TV screen showing South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's televised briefing at a bus terminal in Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Democracies across the globe are at a crossroads, as authoritarians seek to chip away at freedoms

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Free Parking in Downtown Menomonie

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress unveils funding deal with more than $100 billion in disaster aid

FILE - Former President Donald Trump walks to make comments to members of the media after a jury convicted him of felony crimes for falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election, at Manhattan Criminal Court, May 30, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool, File)

Judge rejects Trump’s bid to toss hush money conviction because of Supreme Court immunity ruling

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Menomonie City Council approves construction projects

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School shooting in Madison

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a Time magazine Person of the Year event at the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump wants to turn the clock on daylight saving time

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Wakanda Wonderland - Trees, food, and a good time

FILE - Members of Wisconsin's Electoral College cast their votes at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool, File)

Wisconsin Republicans will cast electoral votes for Trump in line with federal, not state, law

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