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Republicans controlling the House are proposing $23 billion worth of food stamp cuts over the coming decade. They are part of a $170 billion spending cut package aimed at getting tea party lawmakers to vote for a broader 10-year budget plan.

Republican Gov. Scott Walker is calling for a number of changes in Wisconsin's plan to combat chronic wasting disease but they don't include widespread killing of deer.

When a venomous Eastern diamondback rattlesnake appeared in the backyard of a 7-year-old Florida girl, her German shepherd came to her rescue, refusing to back down despite multiple snakebites.

A Wisconsin freelance reporter who says he was kicked out of Afghanistan for reporting on a "controversial shooting" has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up his case against military officials.

A report says Flint's costly residential water bills could double in the next five years because of a continued loss of customers, increased operating costs, pipe leakage and other problems in the impoverished city whose residents face a lead contamination crisis.

The nation's top U.S. intelligence official has signed off on a new policy allowing investigators to probe Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites as a part of background checks for security clearances -- something that lawmakers say is a classic case of the government playing catch-up with technology.

Wisconsin's new elections commission has appointed a new administrator to supervise state elections and lead its staff.

The mother of the 11-year-old girl who was critically injured on a Cinco de Mayo carnival ride said her daughter is beginning to show improvements.

When you think of snoring and sleep apnea middle-aged men likely come to mind. Sleep apnea and other sleep problems can affect even the youngest of people.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is ratcheting up its warning about the potential side effects of a type of commonly-prescribed powerful antibiotic often known by the brand name Cipro.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. teen birth rates are at a record low.

School district officials say students are being allowed back into a Greenville, South Carolina, high school where one student was wounded in a shooting.

Two Olympic gold medalists from Russia denied doping Friday, a day after they were named in a newspaper report detailing state-sponsored cheating at the 2014 Sochi Games.

The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has appointed its first female president in the institution's 127-year history.

German authorities say the country has recorded its first case of sexual transmission of the Zika virus.

Subaru is telling owners of some newer Legacy and Outback vehicles not to drive them because the steering can fail.

Officials say the firing of the State Fair Park executive director this week came after he ignored the state approval process.

The U.S. Department of Labor is ordering 24 Madison-area restaurants and hotels to pay out over $724,000 to 275 employees in back pay following an investigation into hours and wage violations.

A federal grand jury has indicted a Polk County farmer for wire and crop insurance fraud.

The Obama administration is telling public schools that they must allow transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity.