Wisconsin’s $1.8 billion bipartisan budget deal --including money for special education -- collapses, exposing rifts within both parties. by @wisconsinwatch.org wisconsinwatch.org/2026/05/wisc...
Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, once a bustling centerpiece of the city’s tourism and retail scene, is now marked by empty storefronts, shuttered attractions and growing concerns about safety as redevelopment plans move forward. foxbaltimore.com/news/local/b...
An Arkansas hospital denied a mother experiencing a miscarriage care, even as she faced possible death. Finally, she was told to make a risky trip to Kansas. "It all feels quite like the Handmaid’s tale," she wrote. "I had to seek refuge, travel by ambulance across borders.” / By @propublica.org
NEW: She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.
Emily Waldorf’s case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.
"As they rushed into his apartment...he felt the jaws of a large dog biting into his ankle, knocking him to the floor.
He screamed as the dog tore the flesh from his thighs, hip and wrist.
Down the hall, agents took a mother and her 16-yr-old son at gunpoint..."
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The mistaken detention of American citizens has continued despite congressional inquiries and denials by senior immigration officials. / reporting by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
ProPublica’s reporting “reveals a staggering level of corruption and influence peddling that superseded this process, enriching the President Trump’s son at the expense of U.S. national security and taxpayer dollars,” lawmakers wrote.
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A survey by Wisconsin's bipartisan elections commission found mail delivery of absentee ballots in April slower than usual: 2/3 of election clerks reported problems. Any delay could deprive citizens of their right to vote, WEC wrote to the US postmaster general. elections.wi.gov/news/wec-sen...
Good morning from JEFFERSON CITY where the Missouri Supreme Court will hear arguments over a Republican gerrymander aimed at ousting Democratic Congressman Emanuel Cleaver
Many students, parents in a small Wisconsin town confront their school board Tuesday over its reluctance to let the high school wind ensemble play a song inspired by the 1969 Stonewall riots. Using a concert piece to "further polarize our community is sickening," one young person said.
