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Sharpton and Central Park Five members get out the vote in battleground Pennsylvania

Sep. 28, 2024 02:56 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A few dozen New Yorkers boarded a bus in Harlem on Friday with civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton and members of the group formerly known as the Central Park Five, bound for Philadelphia, where they toured the city hoping to energize the youth vote ahead of the 2024...

Trump is set to respond to Harris on immigration during his visit to a small Wisconsin town

Sep. 28, 2024 00:13 AM EDT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A day after Vice President Kamala Harris discussed immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, former President Donald Trump is expected to respond by again linking her to illegal border crossings at an event in a western Wisconsin river town. Trump heads Saturday...

Wisconsin Supreme Court says Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s name will remain on swing state's ballot

Sep. 27, 2024 18:20 PM EDT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s name will remain on the state's presidential ballot, upholding a lower court's ruling that candidates can only be removed from the ballot if they die. The unanimous decision from the...

Wisconsin Supreme Court says Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name will remain on swing state’s ballot (REMOVES extraneous word)

Sep. 27, 2024 17:33 PM EDT
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Supreme Court says Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name will remain on swing state’s ballot (REMOVES extraneous word).

Wisconsin city's mailing of duplicate absentee ballots raises confusion, questions over elections

Sep. 27, 2024 15:36 PM EDT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — When the elections clerk in Wisconsin's heavily Democratic capital city of Madison announced on Monday that duplicate absentee ballots had mistakenly been sent to around 2,000 voters, it ignited concerns about election integrity from a Republican congressman and others on the...

Utilities complete transmission line linking Iowa and Wisconsin

Sep. 27, 2024 13:28 PM EDT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Construction work on a high-voltage transmission linking Iowa and Wisconsin has been completed and the line is fully operational, a group of utilities announced Friday. American Transmission Company, Dairyland Power Cooperative and ITC Midwest began work on the...

Nebraska to become last Big Ten school to sell alcohol at football games in 2025 if regents give OK

Sep. 27, 2024 11:36 AM EDT

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska would sell alcohol at Memorial Stadium in 2025 if the university's Board of Regents gives its approval at its next meeting. The proposal is listed on the agenda for the October meeting in Kearney next Friday and was first reported by The Omaha...

Judge orders US government to leave Wisconsin reservation roads open

Sep. 26, 2024 18:19 PM EDT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the U.S. government to temporarily leave roads open on a northern Wisconsin reservation, giving non-tribal homeowners hope that they can maintain access to their properties for a while longer. U.S. District Judge William...

Alex Grinch returns to the Coliseum a year after his firing when No. 13 USC hosts Wisconsin

Sep. 26, 2024 17:40 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lincoln Riley and Alex Grinch were awfully close during their half-decade working together, and so were their families. The offensive mastermind and his chosen defensive coordinator moved together from Oklahoma to Southern California, where everything fell apart last year. ...

Republican Wisconsin congressman falsely suggests city clerk was lying about absentee ballots

Sep. 26, 2024 16:44 PM EDT

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The mailing of about 2,200 duplicate absentee ballots in Wisconsin's heavily Democratic capital city of Madison has led a Republican member of Congress to falsely suggest that the clerk was lying about the presence of barcodes on the ballots themselves. Ballots...