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A pair of President Donald Trump's top advisers touted him to Wisconsin Republicans on Saturday as a defender of law and order who will win over Black voters, while casting his presumed Democratic rival, Joe Biden, as being out of touch and Biden's party as a "mob" bent on erasing American history.

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A body was found by cadaver dogs in a wooded area in Janesville on Saturday morning.

Wearing a face covering to prevent the spread of the coronavirus may soon be mandatory in Wisconsin’s largest city. The Milwaukee Common Council votes Monday on an ordinance requiring masks in public spaces.

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Justice Clarence Thomas spoke and Chief Justice John Roberts ruled. The Supreme Court's most unusual term featured victories for undocumented immigrants, abortion rights, LGBTQ workers and religious freedoms.

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A Mexican American man from Wisconsin is charged with homicide as a hate crime because prosecutors say he intentionally crashed his pickup truck into a motorcyclist and killed the man because he was white.

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The Supreme Court ruled in two cases involving access to President Donald Trump's financial records. The cases were the last to be released of the high court's term, which dragged into July because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a large part of eastern Oklahoma remains an American Indian reservation, a decision that state and federal officials have warned could throw Oklahoma into chaos.

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The top lawyer for Milwaukee County can practice again. Corporation Counsel Margaret Daun’s law license was suspended on June 16 after she had failed to meet the deadline for certifying she had completed 30 hours of required continuing-legal education in ...

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The conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday overturned three of four partial budget vetoes issued by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, bucking decades of court precedent that upheld the governor's broad veto powers.

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University of Wisconsin System interim president Tommy Thompson said Thursday that he has requested $110 million from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to pay for COVID-19 tests, contact tracing and personal protective equipment so campuses can safely reopen this fall amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Gov. Tony Evers has announced the official application and selection processes for The People’s Maps Commission, a nonpartisan redistricting commission charged with drawing voting maps following the 2020 U.S. Census.

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The conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Republican-authored lame-duck laws that stripped power from the incoming Democratic attorney general just before he took office in 2019.

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A petition has been filed to recall Madison's mayor by a resident who says she didn't do enough to protect the city during recent civil unrest.

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The Supreme Court sided with two Catholic schools in a ruling Wednesday underscoring that certain employees of religious schools, hospitals and social service centers can't sue for employment discrimination.

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More employers who cite religious or moral grounds can decline to offer cost-free birth control coverage to their workers, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, upholding Trump administration rules that could leave more than 70,000 women without free contraception.

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More law librarians are using Zoom online videoconferencing to talk to patrons working from a distance, according to the 2020 Law Library Benchmarks report.

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Chief Justice John Roberts spent a night in a hospital last month after he fell and injured his forehead, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said Tuesday night.

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All Dane County residents will be required to wear masks when indoors, except at their own home, under the first order of its kind issued Tuesday in Wisconsin as cases of COVID-19 are rising in the state, particularly among young adults.

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The public has become more comfortable with the idea of remote court appearances in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent poll from the National Center for State Courts.

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The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is retreating from its original plans to name businesses and other places where there have been at least two confirmed cases of the coronavirus after businesses groups and Republican lawmakers came out as opposed to the idea.

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A man armed with a shotgun was killed by police as he tried to enter a Milwaukee veterans hospital, according to Department of Veterans Affairs officials.

Gov. Tony Evers has appointed Katie Sloma as circuit judge for Shawano-Menominee counties. The appointment fills a vacancy created by the retirement of Judge James Habeck.

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Gov. Tony Evers has reversed course and given the University of Wisconsin System approval to begin complying with new federal rules that bolster the rights of sexual misconduct defendants and narrow the range of sexual misconduct that colleges must investigate.

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Monica Hall has been appointed as Jefferson County’s new district attorney. Hall is currently an assistant district attorney in Jefferson County and has been a prosecutor for nearly 15 years. She’s also involved with the county’s alcohol and drug treatment ...

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Milwaukee County's top lawyer can't practice law at the moment because of a license suspension over a missed deadline by when she was supposed to show she had completed continuing legal-education requirements.

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A shootout with a domestic-assault suspect in Waukesha ended when the man took his own life, according to police.

Jury trials will resume in Waukesha County on Tuesday with protective measures in place to minimize risk of COVID-19 transmission.

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The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case involving the descendants of a group of Jewish art dealers from Germany who say their ancestors were forced to sell a collection of religious art to the Nazi government in 1935.

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The Supreme Court will consider ending a lawsuit that claims Nestle and Cargill aided in the use of child-slave labor on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast, a case that could further limit access to U.S. courts by victims of human-rights abuses abroad.

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The Supreme Court on Thursday turned away pleas from anti-abortion activists to make it easier for them to protest outside clinics, declining to wade back into the abortion debate just days after striking down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics.

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