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• Sterling Brown Arrest Fallout: 3 Officers Are Suspended

  26-05-2018 02:58
  Body camera footage of the arrest of Mr. Brown, an N.B.A. rookie, showed an officer using a stun gun to subdue him while he was already on the ground.
  
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• Republicans Escalate Bitter Fight Over Judicial Nominations

  17-05-2018 11:00
  The Senate is entering a new phase of judicial battles as Republicans push aside Democrats’ objections.
  
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• Combat Veteran Is a Calming Presence After a Catastrophe

  11-05-2018 21:00
  Years in the Army taught a restoration company manager how to enter a disaster site, appraise devastation and create a recovery plan.
  
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• When All Else Fails, Tax Incentives Probably Will, Too

  08-05-2018 11:00
  State and local incentives to land new offices and factories rarely pay off. But they are one of the few tools for redeveloping old industrial cities.
  
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• Tax Breaks to Draw Jobs: A Bad Option, and Often the Only One

  08-05-2018 11:00
  State and local incentives to land new offices and factories rarely pay off. But they are one of the few tools for redeveloping old industrial cities.
  
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• Vel Phillips, Housing Rights Champion in the ′60s, Is Dead at 95

  25-04-2018 18:37
  She broke racial and gender barriers on her way to spearheading open-housing legislation in Milwaukee and was a voice in Democratic national politics.
  
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• Vel Phillips, Housing Rights Champion in the ′60s, Dies at 95

  25-04-2018 18:37
  She broke racial and gender barriers on her way to spearheading open-housing legislation in Milwaukee and was a voice in Democratic national politics.
  
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• The Fight for Wisconsin Is On as Outside Money Pours Into Senate Race

  23-04-2018 21:12
  National Democrats were shocked in 2016 when a Republican presidential nominee carried Wisconsin for the first time in 34 years. Now both parties see a key Senate race as a crucial test before 2020.
  
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• A House (and a Party) Upended as Paul Ryan Calmly Takes His Leave

  12-04-2018 11:00
  The speaker’s departure was no surprise, but the timing of it could create problems for the Republicans left behind.
  
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• Who’s Running for Paul Ryan’s House Seat in Wisconsin?

  12-04-2018 02:47
  Even before Mr. Ryan’s surprise announcement that he would not seek re-election in November, several candidates had emerged to challenge him.
  
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• Paul Ryan Is Leaving. Who’s Running for His Seat?

  12-04-2018 02:47
  Even before Mr. Ryan’s surprise announcement that he would not seek re-election in November, several candidates had emerged to challenge him.
  
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• Saving Paul Ryan

  12-04-2018 01:31
  How the departing House speaker handles President Trump will define his legacy. It’s not too late for him to step up.
  
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• Paul Ryan’s Hometown Takes Stock as Speaker (and Neighbor) Changes Course

  12-04-2018 01:27
  Mr. Ryan’s decision not to run again stunned his constituents. But they also said it made sense, given the chaos of Washington: “They just yell at each other.”
  
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• Judges Shouldn’t Be Partisan Punching Bags

  09-04-2018 01:33
  Lawmakers around the country are treating judges who rule against them like any other politician. That’s bad for everyone.
  
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• America’s State Courts Are Under Partisan Attack

  09-04-2018 01:33
  Lawmakers around the country are treating judges who rule against them like any other politician. That’s bad for everyone.
  
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• Tainted Synthetic Marijuana Sickens More Than 90 in Midwest, Killing 2

  06-04-2018 22:51
  An outbreak around Chicago has caused mysterious symptoms, including severe bleeding. Officials are searching for the source of rat poison in the drug.
  
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• Tainted Synthetic Marijuana Has Been Sickening People Across the Midwest

  06-04-2018 22:51
  An outbreak has caused mysterious symptoms, including severe bleeding. Officials are searching for the source of rat poison in the drug.
  
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• Can Paul Ryan Be Defeated? Maybe Not, but His Race Is ‘a Circus’

  04-04-2018 22:15
  The House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, still projects power, but back home in Wisconsin, he is facing political challengers from both the right and the left.
  
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• Liberal Judge Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat, Buoying Democrats

  04-04-2018 04:51
  The election was a chance to hear from voters across Wisconsin, a state that voted for Donald Trump after picking Democrats for president for years.
  
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• Why Are Your State Tax Dollars Subsidizing Corporations?

  06-03-2018 20:59
  What looks like competition to attract businesses and jobs is actually nothing more than political theater.
  
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• February’s Most Popular Properties

  01-03-2018 15:00
  The most-viewed properties on The New York Times’s “Find a Home” listings site.
  
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• Three Milwaukee Jail Officers Charged in Dehydration Death

  13-02-2018 00:51
  Terrill Thomas was left in a cell without water for seven days in 2016, and a supervisor then repeatedly lied about the events that led to Mr. Thomas’s death, prosecutors said.
  
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• ‘They Can’t Wait to Vote’: Energized Democrats Target Dominant G.O.P. in Statehouses

  03-02-2018 11:00
  Republicans have dominated state governments for almost a decade, but Democrats are exploiting President Trump’s unpopularity in an effort to make inroads in 2018.
  
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• Long Dominant in Statehouses, Republicans Brace for Energized Democrats

  03-02-2018 11:00
  Republicans have dominated state governments for almost a decade, but Democrats are exploiting President Trump’s unpopularity in an effort to make inroads in 2018.
  
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• Shorter Beer Runs in Minnesota, Just in Time for the Super Bowl

  03-02-2018 06:01
  Minnesota had been one of the few remaining states to ban liquor sales on Sunday, driving hordes of football fans into Wisconsin on N.F.L. game days.
  
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• Teenager in ‘Slender Man’ Stabbing Gets 40 Years in Mental Hospital

  02-02-2018 02:50
  The teenager, Morgan Geyser, and another girl stabbed a friend 19 times in 2014 in an effort to please the fictional character Slender Man.
  
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• A D-Day Plane Is Flying Again

  01-02-2018 21:56
  “That's All, Brother” led hundreds of planes into Normandy during World War II. On Wednesday, it flew again for the first time in years.
  
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• What You Get for $750,000

  31-01-2018 15:01
  A midcentury-modern house in a Seattle suburb, an 1871 home outside Milwaukee and a duplex condominium in Washington, D.C.
  
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• $750,000 Homes in Washington, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia

  31-01-2018 15:01
  A midcentury-modern house in a Seattle suburb, an 1871 home outside Milwaukee and a duplex condominium in Washington.
  
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• Like Abstract Expressionists, They Draw the Free-Form Political Maps Now Under Scrutiny

  29-01-2018 21:43
  The experts who draw political maps are finding their work under scrutiny as courts examine partisan gerrymandering.
  
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• Just How Bad Is Partisan Gerrymandering? Ask the Mapmakers

  29-01-2018 21:43
  The experts who draw political maps are finding their work under scrutiny as courts examine partisan gerrymandering.
  
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• Just how bad is partisan gerrymandering? Ask the mapmakers.

  29-01-2018 21:43
  The experts who draw political maps are finding their work under scrutiny as courts examine partisan gerrymandering.
  
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• A D-Day Plane Lost for Years Is About to Fly Again

  29-01-2018 14:14
  A twin-engine C-47 called “That’s All, Brother” that led Allied aircraft into France on D-Day sat for years at a bone yard in Wisconsin. It could soon fly over Normandy again.
  
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• On Family Farms, Little Hands Steer Big Machines

  29-01-2018 08:30
  Children as young as 5 are growing up driving large farm machines to help their families. Thousands are injured every year; many are killed.
  
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• 5-Year-Olds Work Farm Machinery, and Injuries Follow

  29-01-2018 08:30
  Children are growing up driving large farm machines to help their families. Thousands are injured every year; many are killed.
  
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• Why Is Pay Lagging? Maybe Too Many Mergers in the Heartland

  26-01-2018 00:48
  Consolidation is often seen as a consumer problem. But it may also reduce competition for workers, especially outside big cities, holding down wages.
  
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• Voices From the Women’s Marches

  21-01-2018 06:31
  Marking the anniversary of the Women’s March in January 2017, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in major cities and small towns around the globe over the weekend, marching for women’s rights from Cheyenne, Wyo., to Pikeville, Ky., to Washington to Rome on Saturday and from Paris to London to Las Vegas, Nev. on Sunday. Photographers went to rallies for The New York Times and asked marchers what their hopes were for 2018.
  
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• Voices From the Women’s March

  21-01-2018 06:31
  On the first anniversary of the Women’s March, thousands gathered in major metropolitan areas and small towns around the globe. From Cheyenne, Wyo., to Pikeville, Ky., to Washington to Rome, people marched for women’s rights on Saturday. Eight photographers went to rallies for The New York Times and asked marchers what their hopes were for 2018.
  
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• Wisconsin Upset Raises Hopes for Democrats in 2018 Races

  17-01-2018 18:32
  A Democrat on Tuesday won a State Senate seat long held by Republicans in western Wisconsin, and some saw it as a sign of worry for Republicans in elections ahead.
  
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• In a Tight Labor Market, Even Inmates Are Landing Jobs

  13-01-2018 15:18
  A shortage of candidates is providing opportunities to people long shunned by employers and is forcing recruiters to consider new approaches to hiring.
  
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• As Labor Pool Shrinks, Prison Time Is Less of a Hiring Hurdle

  13-01-2018 15:18
  A shortage of candidates is providing opportunities to people long shunned by employers and is forcing recruiters to consider new approaches to hiring.
  
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• Inside the Global Relay Race to Deliver Moly-99

  12-01-2018 15:44
  The isotope is a cancer-detecting necessity, but is decays within days and isn’t made in North America. A company is rushing to build a plant in Wisconsin to change that.
  
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• In Wisconsin, Hopes Rise for Production of a Lifesaving Radioactive Isotope

  12-01-2018 15:44
  Inside the strange, global relay race that delivers (and sometimes fails to deliver) moly-99, a cancer-detecting necessity to America’s hospitals.
  
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• Transgender Student’s Discrimination Suit Is Settled for $800,0000

  11-01-2018 02:52
  Ashton Whitaker said that he had been forbidden from using boys bathrooms and felt degraded by administrators at his high school in Wisconsin.
  
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• Transgender Student’s Discrimination Suit Is Settled for $800,000

  11-01-2018 02:52
  Ashton Whitaker said that he had been forbidden from using boys bathrooms and felt degraded by administrators at his high school in Wisconsin.
  
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• Two Ways of Looking at Gerrymandering

  04-01-2018 13:53
  Stepping into the political sphere, the Supreme Court takes up two very different cases involving the redrawing of Congressional lines.
  
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• A Catholic Priest in Wisconsin Reveals a Secret: ‘I Am Gay’

  21-12-2017 01:26
  Father Gregory Greiten, a priest in Milwaukee, opened up to his parishioners and to readers of a Catholic newspaper about his sexuality, saying role models were needed to say there is nothing wrong with being gay.
  
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• American Hockey Is at Home in Badger Country

  20-12-2017 00:52
  University of Wisconsin hockey energized the Olympic and Paralympic movements, and the Badgers will have an outsize influence in the 2018 Winter Games.
  
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• For the Cocktail Hour, a Cheese to Match the Gin

  12-12-2017 01:22
  Juniper adds wintry notes to this rich and creamy Wisconsin blue cheese.
  
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• Wisconsin’s Fire Sale for Big Business

  11-12-2017 03:39
  Gov. Scott Walker’s giveaways to lure in Foxconn will prove costly to state coffers and to the environment.
  
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