The order specifically mentions a Madison Metropolitan School District policy that it says calls on schools to βdisrupt the gender binaryβ by teaching students to embrace different gender identities.
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Sean Duffy, a former Wisconsin congressman, has been confirmed as transportation secretary, giving him a key role in President Donald Trump's administration.
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Bob Uecker, the voice of his hometown Milwaukee Brewers who after a short playing career earned the moniker "Mr. Baseball" and honors from the Hall of Fame, has died. He was 90.
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Morgan Geyser has petitioned Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren, who committed her, for release four times since June 2022.Β
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President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, an effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration to expand offshore drilling.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) β A driver wrought carnage on New Orleansβ famed French Quarter early on New Yearβs Day, killing 10 people as he rammed a pickup truck into a [β¦]
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One of modern history's worst natural disasters, the tsunami left about 230,000 dead across a dozen countries.
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Granholm's statement came as the Energy Department released a long-awaited study that found U.S. LNG shipments drive up domestic wholesale prices and frequently displace renewable energy sources.
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TheΒ Supreme CourtΒ on Friday said it would take up a new religious rightsΒ caseΒ over whether a Catholic charitable organization must pay Wisconsin's employment tax.
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The wife of a Wisconsin kayaker whoΒ faked his own drowningΒ so he could leave her and their children and meet a woman in Eastern Europe filed court documents Thursday seeking to end their marriage.
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U.S. officials decided to extend protections to monarch butterflies after warnings from environmentalists that populations are shrinking and the beloved pollinator may not survive climate change.
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The negotiations in Busan, South Korea, were supposed to be the fifth and final round to produce the first legally binding treaty on plastics pollution, including in the oceans, by the end of 2024.
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The hearings come after years of lobbying by island nations who fear they could simply disappear under rising sea waters,
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New Zealand is a whale stranding hotspot. It's often not clear why they happen but the island nation's geography is believed to be a factor.
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The original 2021 ruling ordered Shell to cut its carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels. The appeals court said there is "insufficient consensus" on a specific reduction percentage.
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Crews in Spain searched for bodies in stranded cars and sodden buildings as people tried to salvage what they could from homes following monstrous flash floods.
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Spain's national weather service said it rained more in eight hours in Valencia than it had in the preceding 20 months.
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The estimate includes damages and potential investments to prevent similar destruction in future storms.
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