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May 19, 2023

Schumer: Congress ‘must move quickly’ on AI legislation

WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Congress “must move quickly” to regulate artificial intelligence and has convened a bipartisan group of senators to work on legislation. Schumer says the group met on Wednesday and that his staff has already met with close to 100 CEOs, scientists and academics who deal with the technology. […]

May 19, 2023

Prosecutors: Docs leak suspect had been warned

Teixeira is accused of sharing highly classified documents about top national security issues in a chatroom on Discord.

Josh Kaul
May 19, 2023

Wis. Attorney General Kaul joins bipartisan coalition to protect communities from dangers of illicit Xylazine

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul joined a bipartisan coalition of 39 attorneys general in urging Congressional leadership to pass the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act (H.R.1839/S.993).

May 18, 2023

Wisconsin Gas station clerk charged with selling alcohol to minor resulting in death of two juveniles 

Prosecutors say this led to a single vehicle crash on January 21, 2023 resulting the death of two children in the vehicle.

May 18, 2023

Wisconsin State Patrol to conduct special enforcement Friday to stop risky driving in Washington County

The Wisconsin State Patrol analyzes crash data from WisDOT’s Community Maps program to determine deployment areas.

Supreme Court student loan
May 18, 2023

Updated: Supreme Court rules for Google, Twitter on terror-related content

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Google, Twitter and Facebook in lawsuits seeking to hold them liable for terrorist attacks. But the justices sidestepped the big issue hovering over the cases, the federal law that shields social media companies from being sued over content posted by others. The justices unanimously rejected a […]

May 18, 2023

Republicans: Address affordable housing delays citing ‘not in my backyard’ movement

GOP lawmakers proposed several bills for "workforce housing," which included provisions for small government when making land-use decisions.

May 18, 2023

Justice Department leadership meets with civil rights groups

By Steve Schuster [email protected] Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O.  Monaco, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, and Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Civil Rights Division met with civil rights organizations Wednesday at the Justice Department. “Department leadership heard from attending organizations on an array of topics [...]

May 18, 2023

High court upholds ban on some gun sales

The high court denied an emergency request from people challenging the law.

May 18, 2023

Case involving abortion pill moves to appeals court

NEW ORLEANS – Legal arguments over women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion move to a federal appeals court in New Orleans on Wednesday, in a case challenging a Food and Drug Administration decision made more than two decades ago. The closely watched case is likely to wind up […]

May 18, 2023

Milwaukee Mayor: City bankrupt by 2025; Vos: Republicans ‘done negotiating’ local aid

Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson warned lawmakers last week that the city faces bankruptcy by 2025 without help.

May 18, 2023

Wisconsin tribe to ask court to shut down oil pipeline

Attorneys for a Wisconsin Native American tribe are set to argue Thursday that a federal judge should order an energy company to shut down an oil pipeline that the tribe says is at immediate risk of being exposed by erosion and rupturing on reservation land.

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