money New Milwaukee County Courthouse mural unveiled
The Milwaukee County Courthouse has a new mural representing a Milwaukee that stands together. That mural was unveiled Tuesday.
The Milwaukee County Courthouse has a new mural representing a Milwaukee that stands together. That mural was unveiled Tuesday.
DOGE claims $65 billion in savings over the first five weeks — but its own ‘wall of receipts’ shows just $9.6 billion.
The USDA is exploring an increase in egg imports as part of a $1 billion plan to combat bird flu and high egg prices.
Turkey's leading pro-Kurd party said it was expecting a "historic declaration" Thursday from the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, amid efforts to end a decades-long conflict with Ankara."If everything goes smoothly, tomorrow, we expect Ocalan to make a historic declaration," said DEM, whose visit to the jailed PKK leader was approved by the justice ministry on Wednesday.
“This can only be done with your support,” the DOGE leader told the Cabinet as he pledged to take a chainsaw to the bureaucracy they oversee.
An Indian court has ordered an Amazon unit to pay $39 million in damages for infringing the "Beverly Hills Polo Club" trademark after garments with identical branding were sold on Amazon's India website, a court order showed on Wednesday. Indian lawyers called the ruling a landmark judgment in terms of the amount of damages assessed against a U.S. firm in trademark cases. The case was initiated in 2020 by Lifestyle Equities, the owner of "Beverly Hills Polo Club" (BHPC) horse trademark, which alleged Amazon's India shopping website had listings of apparel with a similar logo at a fraction of the price.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is proposing opening a U.N. office that would provide drones, fuel, ground and air transportation and other non-lethal support to a Kenyan-led mission in Haiti struggling to fight gangs, according to a letter obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. The letter was sent to the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday night and provides the first details for a proposal that Guterres announced last week at a summit with Caribbean leaders. At the time, Guterres said he would request that the U.N. assume funding for the mission’s structural and logistical expenses but did not provide further information.
Trump’s "gold card" would create a new route to U.S. citizenship, but only for the wealthy.
Tuesday’s big win for Speaker Mike Johnson might not last long.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has told employees who are union members they will have to return to the office in mid-April, unless they have certain exemptions, according to a memo seen by Reuters. The move follows similar efforts at the agency with its non-union staff as well as across the federal workforce in response to a mandate by Republican President Donald Trump that officials terminate remote or hybrid work arrangements. Citing that directive, guidance from the Office of Personnel Management, SEC Chief Operating Officer Ken Johnson said in a memo to all staff they will be required to work on-site beginning April 14, 2025, the SEC's February 25 memo said.
A federal appeals court is considering whether to dismiss a massive citywide effort to force a vote on an Atlanta-area police and firefighter training center that city attorneys say is now “substantially complete.” The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had been silent for more than 14 months after hearing arguments in December 2023 over whether to overturn a lower court ruling that let nonresidents collect signatures as part of the “Stop Cop City” referendum effort. The facility is on land the city of Atlanta leased to the Atlanta Police Foundation.
Immigration officials say anyone living in the U.S. illegally will soon have to register with the federal government, and those who don't could face fines, imprisonment or both. The registry will be mandatory for everyone 14 and older who doesn't have legal status, according to a Tuesday statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security. Here are some details about the registry — the latest in a string of Trump administration moves related to campaign promises to crack down on illegal immigration and deport millions living in the country illegally: What is behind the registry?
Attorneys for Lyle and Erik Menendez said Wednesday that California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered the state parole board to investigate whether the brothers would pose a risk to the public if they are released after nearly three decades in prison for the 1989 killing of their parents. The board will undertake a “comprehensive risk assessment” into whether the brothers have been rehabilitated, according to Mark Geragos and Cliff Gardner. The defense attorneys said they were grateful for Newsom's decision.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday ruled out offering US security guarantees or NATO membership for Ukraine as his counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky prepared to visit to seal a deal on handing over natural resources.Former president Joe Biden backed Ukraine's eventual membership in NATO without offering a concrete timeframe.
The Agriculture Department predicts the current record prices for eggs could soar more than 40% in 2025, as the Trump administration offered the first new details Wednesday about its plan to battle bird flu and ease the cost of eggs. With an emphasis on tightening up biosecurity on farms, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the USDA will invest another $1 billion on top of the roughly $2 billion it has already spent battling bird flu since the outbreak began in 2022. Egg and poultry farmers have already been working to protect their birds ever since the 2015 bird flu outbreak by taking measures like requiring workers to change clothes and shower before entering barns, using separate sets of tools and sanitizing any vehicles that enter farms.
“Rude protesters at town halls are a lot easier than primaries," says one Trump ally.
When asked about the measles outbreak and death, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said “it’s not unusual, we have measles outbreaks every year.”
Japan told its G20 counterparts that free, open and rules-based trade was important to sustain global economic growth, a senior finance ministry official told reporters on the sidelines of a gathering of the group's finance leaders on Wednesday. Japan also called on G20 members to take "highly predictable" economic policies and bear in mind the spillovers its policies could have on other countries, the official said, warning of the negative impact policy uncertainty could have on private-sector activity. The official made the remarks after attending the first day of the G20 finance leaders' gathering in Cape Town.
An unvaccinated child in Texas has died from measles, authorities said Wednesday, marking the first US fatality from the highly contagious virus in nearly a decade and sparking renewed fears of its resurgence.- Airborne threat- Measles is a highly contagious respiratory virus spread through droplets when an infected person breathes, coughs, or sneezes.
BEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon's new government won a confidence vote in parliament on Wednesday, following a speech by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam promising to push for economic and financial reforms and to start negotiations with the International Monetary Fund. Salam's government won the backing of 95 lawmakers in the 128-seat chamber.
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday posted a video on his Truth Social account, which appears to have been created with generative AI, promoting the transformation of Gaza into a Gulf state-like resort featuring a golden statue of himself, a hummus-eating Elon Musk, and shirtless American and Israeli leaders lounging on a beach.