Authorities investigating the 2019 death of an immigrant boy on a Wisconsin dairy farm missed key information, which helps to underline the perils immigrant workers face when in the U.S., a new ProPublica investigation finds.
The big picture: Mexican and Central American asylum seekers and immigrants carry out often dangerous work in Wisconsin every year, according to ProPublica.
The election with the highest stakes this spring could be a runoff for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat that could decide the state's future on abortion and voting rights — and any challenges there to the 2024 presidential election.
Why it matters: Democrats are fighting to regain control of the seven-member court more than two years after a single conservative justice prevented the panel from helping former President Trump and his allies overturn his loss in the crucial battleground state.
A school district has reinstated children's books on baseball Hall of Famers Roberto Clemente and Hank Aaron after a review to see if they violate new Florida laws limiting discussions about race.
Why it matters: The pulling of "Roberto Clemente: The Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates" by Duval County Public Schools showed the confusion that GOP-led bans on "divisive concepts" have caused among educators.
Right-wing extremists committed every ideologically driven mass killing identified in the U.S. in 2022, with an "unusually high" proportion perpetrated by white supremacists, according to a new report published Thursday.
Driving the news: The high number of killings linked to white supremacists was "primarily due to mass shootings," the report released by the Anti-Defamation League found.
President Biden will nominate Ajay Banga, former president and CEO of Mastercard, to serve as president of the World Bank, the White House announced today.
Why it matters: Banga, who was born and educated in India before becoming a U.S. citizen in 2007, would replace David Malpass, a former Trump Treasury official who announced last week that he would be leaving his post early.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Thursday visited the site of a derailment of a Norfolk Southern train that carried hazardous materials in East Palestine, Ohio.
Why it matters: The Biden administration has faced accusations from some Republicans of moving too slowly and not doing enough in response to the wreck.
Republicans see fentanyl and other opioids as the biggest threat to Americans’ public health, while Democrats say it's guns, according to a new Axios-Ipsos survey.
Why it matters: The Axios-Ipsos American Health Index sheds light on how our partisan divisions — and our education levels — play into the wrangling over public health policies, and how they guide the parties' political messaging.
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) tells Axios he quickly felt a kinship with the residents of East Palestine (pronounced PAL-ə-STEEN), Ohio, after a toxic train derailment because they’re "people who feel forgotten."
Why it matters: Top figures 0n the populist right — Vance, Tucker Carlson, former President Trump — jumped on the coal-country calamity before top Biden administration officials became visibly engaged.
House Democrats' campaign operation is focusing some of its earliest spending of the cycle on hitting Republicans over the debt ceiling, Social Security and Medicare spending, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: It's a signal that Democrats plan to focus their policy message on painting Republicans as eager to extract Social Security and Medicare cuts in negotiations over raising the debt ceiling later this year.
The Pentagon released Wednesday a photo of a suspected Chinese government surveillance balloon it says was snapped by an American U-2 pilot flying just above the device over the "Central Continental United States" on Feb. 3.
Why it matters: The balloon that was shot down off the South Carolina coast the following day escalated tensions between the U.S. and Chinese governments and forced Secretary of State Tony Blinken to postpone his planned trip to Beijing.
A TV journalist was killed and a crew member was injured while they were covering an earlier shooting incident in Orange County, Florida, on Wednesday, police said.
The big picture: Police said they arrested Keith Melvin Moses, 19, and charged him with murder in connection to the first shooting Wednesday morning. He's expected to be charged over the later shootings of the TV crew and also a mother and her 9-year-old daughter, who died of her injuries.
A Texas man who assaulted a police officer during the U.S. Capitol riot and posted death threats against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) after the insurrection was sentenced to 38 months in prison on Wednesday.
The big picture: Garret Miller, 36, of Richardson, Texas, was "at the forefront of every barrier overturned, police line overrun, and entryway breached within his proximity" and was twice detained outside the building, U.S. prosecutors said in a sentencing memorandum to the judge.
16 House Republicans have never voted to raise the debt ceiling — even under former President Trump — complicating Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-Calif.) hand as he seeks to browbeat the Biden administration into spending cuts.
Why it matters: The entrenched opposition means McCarthy could need Democratic votes for any package that ties hiking the debt ceiling to budget cuts.
