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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is gearing up for re-election next year. More>>
The Legislature's budget committee has approved Gov. Scott Walker's proposal requiring that able-bodied adults on Wisconsin's food stamps program spend at least 20 hours a week working or getting trained for a job. More>>
Wisconsin lawmakers are set this week to consider Gov. Scott Walker's plan to take DNA from anyone arrested for a felony and anyone convicted of any crime. Wisconsin currently collects DNA only from convicted felons and sex offenders.
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The cost of Gov. Scott Walker's plan to reject federally funded Medicaid expansion and instead tighten income eligibility for the program has gone up. More>>
A tea party group says the Internal Revenue Service asked about its involvement in efforts to verify signatures in the effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. More>>
A Marquette University law school poll released Tuesday says 51 percent of respondents approve of the way Gov. Scott Walker is doing his job, while 45 percent disapprove. More>>
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has signed a bill that legalizes gay marriage, making the state the 12th to do so. More>>
The state Assembly is poised to pass a bill that would allow landlords to throw out property evicted tenants leave behind. Approval would send the proposal on to the state Senate.
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President Barack Obama's political support group is joining with a Republican pro-immigration organization and an effort run by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to help boost support for a comprehensive immigration bill. e... More>>
A panel of federal judges says its order on the misconduct investigation into U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull is moot because the judge resigned. More>>
Huddling with A-list celebrities and top re-election donors, President Barack Obama bemoaned the partisan forces that have stymied compromise in Washington as he raised campaign cash for Democrats in New York. More>>
Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Steven T. Miller repeatedly failed to tell Congress that tea party groups were being inappropriately targeted, even after he had been briefed on the matter. More>>
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. More>>
Unemployed people in Wisconsin would have to double their searches for work from two to four a week or lose their benefits under a proposal approved by the Legislature's budget committee.
Political considerations influenced the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly Sept. 11 assault in Benghazi, Libya, with State Department and other senior administration officials asking that references to terror groups and prior warnings be deleted, according to department emails. More>>
The German government says U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Germany to hold talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and other officials next month. Obama will be traveling in Europe at that time following a summit of the G-8 in Northern Ireland. More>>
A mining company has applied for an exploratory license to begin the process of opening an iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin near Lake Superior. More>>
The top Democrats in the House have discussed their to-do list with President Barack Obama over dinner. More>>
Former Republican South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford revived a scandal-scarred political career by winning back his old congressional seat Tuesday in a district that hasn't elected a Democrat in three decades. More>>
As President Barack Obama works to build relationships with lawmakers from both parties, one of the big national Republican players is talking about the current political gridlock. More>>
A legislative committee is scheduled to vote this week on a bill that would ensure repeat drunken drivers spend time behind bars. More>>
The Wisconsin Legislature is scheduled to take up a bill designed to protect sanitation workers from reckless drivers who go around stopped garbage trucks.
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The state Senate is scheduled to take up a bill that would expand definitions in state law of what constitutes illegal food stamp trafficking in Wisconsin.
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