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BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad fled the country Sunday, bringing to a dramatic close his nearly 14-year struggle to hold onto control as his country fragmented in a brutal civil war that became a proxy battlefield for regional and…

MILWAUKEE — Miller Brewing Company, known for making the “champagne of beers,” has released its first perfume with fragrance notes of its popular Miller High Life beer.

Once-rare lake trout in Lake Superior are doing so well that state biologists will use the fish to stock the species in lakes around the state, officials have announced.

Across the United States, state prison systems are grappling with chronic understaffing and overcrowding — dual crises that are keeping incarcerated people confined to their cells for far longer periods than in recent decades.

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GOP should reward its change agent, invest in campuses to lift economy

Dane County Judge Jacob Frost has overturned former Gov. Scott Walker's signature Act 10 legislation.

For the first time in nearly 50 years, a U.S. Air Force 1962 T-33 flew in Stoughton Saturday, soaring at a cruising altitude of 10 feet above the ground as Air Force personnel guided the damaged aircraft onto supports via…

With a recession deepening and the 1982 midterm elections approaching, Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker was summoned to the Oval Office, where Ronald Reagan was sitting with his chief of staff, James Baker. When Baker said Reagan wanted to give…

The mission of bringing toys to every child has an impact on many more people.

The Badgers led No. 1 Michigan State all weekend, but a chance at a season-changing sweep slipped away. Here's how Wisconsin views that chance.

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We count on our hospitals for around-the-clock care and the services we need the most. If our child breaks an arm, even if it’s on the weekend, our hospitals are there to help. If we have an accident, illness or…

President-elect Donald Trump reminds me of President Calvin Coolidge, who served 100 years ago.

The 1897 First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, stated: “Zionism strives to create for the Jewish people a home in Palestine.” The physical creation in 1948 of Israel in practice produced the violent displacement of over 700,000 Palestinians from their…

So you wonder why relationships have ended and friends and family don’t talk to one another as much anymore? Before President-elect Donald Trump entered politics, one party would win and life would go on with some good and some bad…

The city of Madison has capitalized on COVID lockdown or lock-out rules. In the least transparent way, some city panels still meet remotely, with little opportunity for interaction with the taxpaying citizens.

It made me extremely happy to hear that President Joe Biden's administration wants to phase out the subminimum wage for disabled people.

The Luke Fickell experiment has failed miserably. Wisconsin football coach Fickell has the Badgers heading in the same direction as Don Morton did decades ago. We need to get rid of him and find our next Barry Alvarez.