By Peter Aitken | Fox News University officials continue to stress that student cooperation is ‘essential’. A Wisconsin university asked members of nine fraternities and sororities to quarantine after 38 students tested positive for the coronavirus, officials announced. The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Dane County health officials asked 420 students to quarantine for two weeks following the positive results, the university announced […]
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Wisconsin Antifa ‘commander’ with flamethrower burst into tears during arrest, cops say
By Lee Brown | New York Post Matthew Banta ‘dropped into the fetal position,’ investigators said. An Antifa leader known as Commander Red was busted carrying a flamethrower to a Wisconsin Black Lives Matter rally — and “dropped into the fetal position and began crying” when stopped by cops, officials said. Matthew Banta, 23, is “known to be a violent Antifa […]
Wisconsin’s Gov. Tony Evers tells Trump not to visit Kenosha
By Frank Miles | Fox News President Trump is not welcome in Wisconsin, at least not if you’re asking Gov. Tony Evers. Evers, a Democrat who has been critical of Trump, urged the president to reconsider traveling on Tuesday to Kenosha, where recent protests against police brutality have exploded into deadly riots in recent days. “I, along with other community leaders who have reached out, are […]
Wisconsin special election goes to GOP’s Tom Tiffany; Trump takes Nebraska primary
By Gregg Re | Fox News Republican Tom Tiffany, a Wisconsin state senator endorsed by President Trump, easily won a special congressional election Tuesday in the state’s heavily conservative, rural 7th Congressional District. Meanwhile, with less than half the vote in, Trump has already doubled his 2016 total in the Nebraska presidential primary, also underway Tuesday. That led GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel to tout […]
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court strikes down governor’s ‘safer at home’ order
By Morgan Phillips | Fox News Wisconsin’s Supreme Court struck down the state’s “safer at home” order Wednesday, saying Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ administration overstepped its authority when it extended the order through the end of May. The court ruled four to three in a case brought forth by Republican lawmakers that sought to block the order issued last […]
Wisconsin voters brave long lines to vote in primary amid coronavirus outbreak; results expected next week
By Gregg Re | Fox News Polls closed Tuesday night in Wisconsin’s presidential primary, which candidate Bernie Sanders has said “may very well prove deadly” — with voters waiting hours in long lines outside overcrowded polling stations and ignoring federal health recommendations in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Results were not expected Tuesday night. A court ruling appeared to prevent results from being made […]
Wisconsin judge orders commission to purge up to 209,000 names from voter rolls
By Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News A Wisconsin judge on Monday found the state’s Elections Commission and three of its members in contempt of court and ordered the commission to remove up to 209,000 names from the state’s voter rolls, in a case that could have major implications later this year in a key battleground state. Saying in his ruling […]
234,000 Wisconsin Voter Registrations Should Be Tossed: Judge
The Associated Press PORT WASHINGTON, Wisconsin—A Wisconsin judge on Friday ordered that the registration of up to 234,000 voters be tossed out because they may have moved. The judge sided with three voters represented by a conservative law firm who argued the state elections commission should have immediately deactivated any of the roughly 234,000 voters who […]
Poll: Donald Trump Beating 2020 Democrats in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin
By Charlie Spiering President Donald Trump is now leading Democrat presidential candidates in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, as Congressional Democrats continue struggling to impeach the president. A Firehouse/Optimus poll conducted in December shows Trump ahead of his Democrat opponents, even former Vice President Joe Biden who remains one of the stronger candidates opposing the president. Biden is […]
‘Flash mob’ stole $30G worth of merchandise at North Face store in Wisconsin, police say
By Fox News Wisconsin police are searching for 10 young men who they say were part of a ‘flash mob’ group accused of stealing $30,000 in merchandise this week from a North Face outlet, all in under 30 seconds — and captured on surveillance footage. The camera footage shows a group of men entering the store around 7:45 […]
RNC Suit Seeks Information About $2 Million ‘Zuckerbucks’ Grant in Georgia
By Austin Alonzo The Republican National Committee is filing suit to see if one of Georgia’s most populous counties illegally received private funding for its public election activities. On May 16, the RNC filed a one-count complaint against the DeKalb County Voter Registration and Elections Office, along with various county officials and related offices, in […]
Trump Says He May Wait to Announce VP at July GOP Convention
By Chase Smith As anticipation builds for who former President Donald Trump will choose as his 2024 running mate, the 45th president said in an interview released Thursday he would likely announce it at the Republican Convention this summer. The convention is slated for July in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a key battleground state in the 2024 […]