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BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, France — Dutch cyclist Mathieu van der Poel won the hilly second stage of the Tour de France on Sunday after holding off defending champion Tadej Pogacar and two-time winner Jonas Vingegaard in a sprint to the line.

LONDON — A ball that clearly landed long in a match at Centre Court wasn’t called out Sunday because the electronic system that replaced line judges at Wimbledon this year was shut off.

During the tortured congressional debate prior to Thursday's House approval of the legislative monstrosity that President Donald Trump dubbed “the one big beautiful bill” — and that detractors have more accurately described as “the one big ugly bill" — U.S.…

At about 6:10 a.m., a passerby contacted UW police dispatchers after spotting what appeared to be a body roughly 50 feet offshore near the Memorial Union.

The incident remains under investigation by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Vernon County Sheriff’s Office, and Vernon County Coroner’s Office.

At about 9:25 a.m., multiple 911 callers reported the crash at Highway 11 and Highway JS in the town of Spring Prairie, the Walworth County Sheriff's Office reported.

Tips for your flowers, trees and shrubs.

Neighbors call it a “monstrosity.”

There are multiple avenues for prevention.

Red-hot Miami earned its 10th win in 12 games as Agustín Ramírez and Kyle Stowers came through at the plate to even the series against Milwaukee.

Thanks for last Sunday's spot-on Wisconsin State Journal editorial, "GOP must put money where its mouth is." The editorial board reminded us that "gutting mental health services in schools runs counter to rhetoric following tragedies."

I can’t help but wonder what President Donald Trump has on U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh. Johnson led us to believe he was voting "no" on the horrible budget bill. Well, that was until he had a meeting with Trump.

The U.S. Senate has caved to President Donald Trump's intimidation tactics and approved a budget that will benefit the powerful and comfortable and threaten the health and well-being of tens of millions of Americans at the opposite end of the…

Most liberals seem unhappy that our country’s southern border is secure. I mean actually secure, not the version of secure that former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas allowed.

The column last Sunday by state Sen. Patrick Testin, "IRS overreach hurts Wisconsin business," rang a bit hollow to me as it complained about the IRS and its practices.

At first President Donald Trump said the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency would send illegal immigrants that committed crimes out of this country. A majority of people were probably in favor of that.

The national debt is large and keeps rising because the federal government consistently takes in less revenue than it spends. One idea for increasing income tax revenue is eliminating the step-up basis for inherited wealth. Currently, if a person has…

Sadists seem to be drawn to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency the same way pedophiles have been drawn to the priesthood — and for much the same reasons.

Madison has been growing and changing for more than 150 years. There’s never been a status quo.

An article in the Wisconsin State Journal on June 22 was about climate-conscious choices we can make on a daily basis about the food we buy and eat. The article contained useful facts and choices about food that might help…