La Crosse man gets federal prison for sextortion scheme A La Crosse man is sentenced to 18 years in federal prison after a conviction for receiving child pornography. 04/26/2024 - 5:58 am | View Link
Election Updates: The Pennsylvania Senate race is set for November. President Biden is expected to condemn a six-week abortion ban that will soon take effect in Florida — and blame former President Donald J. Trump for its enactment — during a ... 04/23/2024 - 9:21 am | View Link
Vice President Kamala Harris meets with health care workers in La Crosse Vice President Kamala Harris meets with nursing home workers in La Crosse to discuss new federal requirements for staffing and compensation. 04/22/2024 - 7:26 am | View Link
VP Harris to unveil nursing home rules in battleground state of Wisconsin U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to the political battleground state of Wisconsin on Monday to announce two final rules aimed at improving access to long-term care and ensuring the ... 04/21/2024 - 10:03 pm | View Link
Vice President Kamala Harris returning to Wisconsin, visiting La Crosse on Monday Harris' visit comes as Trump and Biden are locked in a close race in Wisconsin, according to the latest Marquette University Law School poll. 04/18/2024 - 6:34 am | View Link
A year and a half after Mother Jones exposed how Oklahoma courts were imprisoning mothers for longer than their abusers, state lawmakers passed a bill that could allow some of those mothers’ sentences to be shortened. But this week, Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed the legislation.
In an award-winning investigation in 2022, I told the story of Kerry King, a mom in Tulsa who got 30 years in prison under the state’s “failure to protect” law because she couldn’t stop her abusive boyfriend from beating her 4-year-old daughter.
CNN's Dana Bash reacts to Joshua Steinglass' cross-examination of David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, about whether he suppressed stories to help a presidential candidate during the 2016 elections.
The first criminal trial of a former US president is underway, with Donald Trump facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments allegedly made in 2016 to cover up an affair he had with adult film star Stormy Daniels. Here’s the latest—the key updates and absurd moments—from the historic trial.
Public birthday wishes are a tricky art.
Trump’s political operatives are putting together a plan that would give him input into the Federal Reserve, including making him an “acting” central bank board member, according to the Wall Street Journal. Via CNBC:
The plans, which the Journal report described as highly secretive, are part of a 10-page document that suggests Trump — if elected — would be consulted on interest rate decisions.
Jamie Raskin hilariously suggested that the RNC headquarters could host the Supreme Court after wingnut justices appeared open to recognizing some form of presidential immunity yesterday. Via HuffPost:
Host Joy Reid, who noted that Trump’s federal election interference case could be remanded back to the D. C. Circuit Court of Appeals and thus further delay the trial past Election Day, called the Supreme Court majority “so clearly politicians” before looping in Raskin.
“Well, they’re politicians who are not even subject to popular election unlike me.