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News Articles: Wisconsin

In this handout photo provided by ABC, President Biden speaks with George Stephanopoulos on July 5 in Madison, Wis.

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  • Elections

Defiant Biden says 'only the Lord Almighty' could convince him to leave the 2024 race

Democrats and donors wanted to see how President Biden handled unscripted questions after a disastrous debate fueled party anxiety about whether he should stay on the ticket.

July 05, 2024
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By:
  • Tamara Keith and
  • Elena Moore
Located less than an hour outside Madison, Wis., Columbia County has both city commuters and people in more rural, small towns. Portage, with a population of around 10,000, is the largest town in the county.

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  • Politics

One voted Biden. One picked Trump. It's a tale of two counties in pivotal Wisconsin

Wisconsin is one of a handful of pivotal states in the 2024 presidential election. Within the swing state, there are swing counties that could decide the election — even as people remain divided.

May 22, 2024
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By:
  • Elena Moore and
  • Jeongyoon Han
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., spoke with students as a surrogate for the Biden-Harris reelection campaign at college campuses across Wisconsin, a state that had the highest youth turnout in the country in the 2022 midterms.

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  • Elections

Six months out from the election, Wisconsin students weigh voting for Biden

Wisconsin's young voters — who have turned out in big numbers in recent elections — are key for either candidate to win the state. But Biden is facing some skepticism on the state's college campuses.

May 05, 2024
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By:
  • Elena Moore and
  • Jeongyoon Han
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Freeland, Mich., on Wednesday. A pair of rallies in the pivotal states of Wisconsin and Michigan are his first campaign trail appearances since his trial in New York over alleged campaign finance violations started.

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  • Politics

Away from his New York trial, Donald Trump's campaign rallies are business as usual

In Wisconsin and Michigan, Donald Trump largely avoided the hush money trial that has mostly sidelined his campaign efforts as he tried to woo voters with a familiar speech in two major swing states.

May 02, 2024
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
President Biden gestures after speaking about student loan debt relief at Madison Area Technical College in Madison, Wisc., on Monday.

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  • Politics

Wisconsin's 'Mad City' is a rational choice for Biden's appeal to youth

It is not much of an exaggeration, if it is one at all, that college towns are to the Democrats today what factory towns were through most of the 20th century.

April 13, 2024
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By:
  • Ron Elving
A steel billboard and its support were blown over in Dunbar, W.Va., Tuesday, April 2, 2024, after severe storms blew through the area.

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  • Weather

Deadly severe weather roars through several states, spawning potential tornadoes

Parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia and Georgia were under tornado watches, while Wisconsin was experiencing a spring snowstorm.

April 03, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
The Reach app, as seen on volunteer Sarah Harrison's phone, allows Biden supporters to share content directly with their contacts, and is connected to a national Democratic party voter database.

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  • Elections

It's easy to tune out politics. Biden's campaign is using an app to get around that

Biden volunteers will still knock on doors and try to get voters on the phone. But they're also using an app to connect with hard-to reach voters this year.

March 27, 2024
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
Azzam, 12, hugs a sheep, the only source of his family's livelihood in rural Damascus on Feb 21, 2022. Azzam and his family have experienced firsthand the harrowing impact of the conflict. In 2015, when Azzam was five years old, a shell fell on the building where he was sitting with his family.

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  • News

Can a picture make you happy? We asked photographers and here's what they sent us

For International Day of Happiness, photographers sent us pictures of a Syrian boy who finds joy caring for farm animals, Ukrainian girls on a trampoline, music lovers grooving to the blues and more.

March 20, 2024
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By:
  • Laurel Dalrymple
Pins are pictured at a display counter during a cultural meeting at the Comanche Nation fairgrounds in Lawton, Okla., on Sept. 30.

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  • Elections

Sometimes overlooked by campaigns, Native voters could decide major elections in 2024

A voting bloc that hasn't gotten as much national attention, Native voters are an influential constituency in several swing states, making them a group to watch in 2024.

November 21, 2023
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Cheese testers lean in to inspect pizzas at the University of Wisconsin's Center for Dairy Research in Madison.

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  • National

Is eating cheese on your resume? In Wisconsin, it could be

New panelists at the University of Wisconsin's Center for Diary Research get trained to describe what they like about cheese based on its texture, taste, aroma and other attributes.

November 20, 2023
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By:
  • Maayan Silver
Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers speaks at a campaign stop in October 2022, in Milwaukee. A man illegally brought a handgun into the Wisconsin Capitol on Wednesday demanding to see the governor then returned later with an assault rifle after posting bail.

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  • National

An armed man demanding to talk to Wisconsin's governor was arrested twice in one day

The suspect was arrested earlier with a loaded handgun, demanding to see Gov. Tony Evers. After he made bail, he came back with an assault rifle.

October 05, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Anti-abortion demonstrators gather outside Planned Parenthood's Water Street Health Center in Milwaukee on Monday, Sept. 2023. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin began offering abortions at the clinic that day after not doing so for more than a year.<em> </em>

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  • Health

Abortions resume in Wisconsin after 15 months of legal uncertainty

After Roe v. Wade was overturned, a law still on the books from 1849 left the legality of abortions in dispute in the state. This week, Planned Parenthood resumes services.

September 21, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah Lehr and
  • Margaret Faust
Jennifer Nuno checks her 11-year-old son's back-to-school haircut in the Lincoln Village neighborhood of Milwaukee on August 21.

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  • Politics

In a state where elections can be close, Wisconsin Latinos learn their political power

Wisconsin is not known for the power of the Latino vote, but in a state with such tiny margins even a small shift can have a big impact on national politics.

September 03, 2023
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
Protesters make their way to the Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda during a march to support overturning Wisconsin's near total ban on abortion on Jan. 22 in Madison, Wis.

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  • Politics

In its first ad of the 2024 cycle, Planned Parenthood pins GOP candidates on abortion

As Republicans take the debate stage in Milwaukee, Planned Parenthood is launching ads on social media and streaming services quoting their positions on abortion.

August 22, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
Videos posted to social media showed ride operators desperately trying to free the stuck Fireball Roller Coaster Sunday in Crandon, Wis.

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  • National

Roller coaster riders were trapped upside down for hours after mechanical failure

The oscillating Fireball was just sliding down from its vertical loop at a festival in Crandon, Wis., on Sunday when it stopped unexpectedly, suspending its passengers for hours.

July 05, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
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