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Month: June 2025

Padilla says in Senate ‘it’s time to wake up’ after forced removal from Noem’s event

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Alex Padilla on Tuesday encouraged Americans to peacefully protest against President Donald Trump’s administration and said it’s “it’s time to wake up” in his first extended remarks in the Senate since he was forcibly removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s

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Trump tax bill would widen deficits by $2.8T after factoring in economic impacts, CBO says

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s tax cuts package would increase deficits by $2.8 trillion over the next decade after including other economic effects, according to a fuller analysis of the House-passed measure released Tuesday by the Congressional Budget Office. The report, produced by the nonpartisan CBO

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A split forms in MAGA world as Trump weighs next steps on Iran, with some top stars rebuking him

By MEG KINNARD and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press A schism has opened among President Donald Trump’s most devout MAGA supporters and national security conservatives over the Israel-Iran conflict, as some longtime defenders of the president’s America First mantra call him out for weighing a greater U.S. role in the region. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene,

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Singer R. Kelly alleges mistreatment after hospitalization and prison ‘murder plot’

CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly collapsed in prison and was hospitalized, attorneys said in court filings this week, adding the details to the singer’s extraordinary allegations of a murder plot by prison officials that he argues require temporary release on home detention. Government lawyers have dismissed the claims as a “fanciful conspiracy.” Kelly, 58, is

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A Milwaukee father narrowly avoided being shot on Father's Day after a man opened fire on his car following an argument at a clothing store.

Man shoots into car on busy street

By Emily Pofahl Click here for updates on this story     MILWAUKEE (WISN) — A Milwaukee father and mother narrowly escaped gunfire on Father’s Day when a man opened fire on their car near 60th and Fond du Lac following an argument at a clothing store. “I was scared. I was terrified,” said Keke, the Milwaukee

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