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Port Washington, Cedarburg, Grafton and Saukville on Tuesday, April 2, joined the growing number of Wisconsin municipalities where voters have approved tax increases to expand funding for public safety. In all four suburbs, a majority of voters answered “yes” to questions asking whether to raise taxes to hire more firefighters and paramedics. Officials in these […]

Special counsel Jack Smith, responding on Tuesday to the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump‘s classified documents case, urged her to reverse course on entertaining the idea that Trump had any personal ownership over the classified materials he has been charged with unlawfully possessing. In a late-night filing replying to an order last month from […]

By Idrees Ali and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iran faces a dilemma following an Israeli attack on its embassy in Syria: how to retaliate without sparking a wider conflict that Middle East analysts said Tehran doesn’t appear to want. Monday’s strike, which killed two Iranian generals and five military advisers at Iran’s embassy compound […]

By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippines is prepared to respond to China’s attempts to disrupt its supply missions in the South China Sea and protect its troops stationed in the waterway, a top security official said on Wednesday. Jonathan Malaya, the spokesperson of the National Security Council, said the Philippines is committed to maintaining […]

Rep. Lauren Boebert underwent emergency surgery for a blood clot in her leg and has been diagnosed with May-Thurner syndrome, the Colorado Republican announced Tuesday. “Yesterday afternoon, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert was admitted to UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland after experiencing severe swelling in her upper left leg. After undergoing a CT Scan, […]

One-term presidents who fail to win a second term are usually doomed by their failures. So it would be ironic if Donald Trump’s bid is derailed by what is likely to be his most enduring policy achievement. The former president succeeded in constructing an unassailable conservative majority on the Supreme Court, which overturned the constitutional […]

Interstate 75 through Butler and Warren counties was closed for more than four hours Tuesday. Around 6:30 p.m., severe weather knocked live power lines down across I-75 in Monroe, according to a Lebanon Post Ohio State Highway Patrol dispatcher. The interstate was blocked from SR-63 in Monroe and Lebanon to SR-129 in Liberty Township, according […]

The makeup of the Columbia City Council is changing after Tuesday’s municipal election. Ward 2 has new representation in Lisa Meyer, with 1,349 votes; over Robert Schreiber III, with 998 votes and 43 votes for certified write-in candidate Lucio Bitoy IV in unofficial summary results. An attempt by the Tribune to reach Meyer Tuesday night […]

Apr. 2—A new lawsuit alleges a former employee of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Fe/Del Norte sexually abused a girl during a summer program more than a decade ago. The complaint, filed March 26 in the state’s First Judicial District Court, does not name the accuser, who is now 19, or the worker […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A crowd of people, some weeping, gathered at a rain-soaked amusement park in South Korea to bid farewell to a beloved giant panda before her departure to China on Wednesday. Fu Bao has been a major attraction at the Everland theme park near Seoul since she was born there in […]

A likely tornado moved or rolled mobile homes and uprooted trees in Kentucky and buildings were damaged in Tennessee as severe weather swept across those and other states Tuesday, putting millions under weather alerts, officials said. No deaths have been reported in what the National Weather Service called a major spring storm, but officials in […]