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Two separate ambushes of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Border Patrol officials in Texas wounded law enforcement personnel. This proves it’s time for the U.S. Justice Department to step in and prosecute all those involved in preventing ICE from…

"I’ve had it," I muttered the other day while driving on the UW-Madison campus. As I was trying gingerly to determine who had the right-of-way at a complicated intersection, the woman (not a student) on my right drove out ahead…

President Donald Trump is more excited to announce and brag about a UFC fight that will be held at the White House than to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin for the largest deadly Russian bombing of Kyiv, Ukraine.

I urge our community to pay attention to the proposed Whitewater Solar project and our fight against it.

Despite overwhelming public opposition, Republicans voted unabashedly to approve legislation for President Donald Trump based on the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 proposals.

I’m not going to debate conservative or liberal. My message is simply that Democrats and Republicans in Congress should fund their priorities.

At what point are the 1% content with their wealth? After one purchases private jets, mansions, and luxury yachts, what more does one require? When is enough enough?

The word transactional has been used to describe President Donald Trump’s trade and governing policy.

Bill Berrien’s entry into the governor’s race reads like a parody of everything Wisconsin voters have already rejected. In one campaign ad, he name-drops President Donald Trump four times like it’s a magic spell — as if tying himself to…

Austen Brantley's beautiful sculpture of a Black mother and child in Worthington Park in Madison brings to mind one of the biggest problems facing Black Americans: Too many Black children are being raised by mothers in single-parent homes.

Last Sunday's column by Eve Galanter, "Public media need funds," urged support for continued public funding of PBS Wisconsin and Wisconsin Public Radio. This is a tough issue.

Who in their right mind thought bus stops in the middle of four lanes of busy Madison traffic was a good idea? This is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

For someone so adamantly against the so-called big, beautiful bill and who was in front of every camera proclaiming his outrage at the added deficit, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson's courage to oppose it melted away like most all of the…

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Chelsea midfielder Enzo Fernández heads into Sunday’s Club World Cup final wary of the weather, along with Paris Saint-Germain.

CHICAGO — White Sox great Paul Konerko got a present from one No. 14 to another in honor of the 20th anniversary of the 2005 World Series championship run — a jersey signed by noted Chicago fan Pope Leo XIV.

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MINNEAPOLIS — All-Star center fielder Byron Buxton hit for the cycle on his bobblehead day, completing it with a solo home run in the seventh inning, and the Minnesota Twins routed the Pittsburgh Pirates 12-4 on Saturday.

MILWAUKEE — Caleb Durbin hit an RBI single with one out in the ninth inning to cap a three-run rally and give Milwaukee a 6-5 victory over the Washington Nationals on Saturday, the Brewers sixth consecutive victory.

Who’s been the best coach at the University of Wisconsin over the first 25 years of this century?