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Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald holds a news conference to update the press on the the 13-year-old Wisconsin teen, Jayme Closs who was found alive on Thursday. Read more on this story here: https://fxn.ws/2TJ1rD5 FOX News Channel (FNC) is a…

Jayme Closs, the 13-year-old Wisconsin girl who had been missing since October after her parents were found dead in their home, will soon be reunited with relatives after being found malnourished and dirty in a town 65 miles from her…

The newest lawsuit, filed by the League of Women Voters, Disability Rights Wisconsin, Black Leaders Organizing for Communities and three Wisconsin voters, alleges the method by which the Legislature passed the bills — an extraordinary session — is unconstitutional, therefore rendering anything passed during the session invalid. The Legislature adopted a joint rule in 1977 allowing an extraordinary session to be called during a committee work period or after the expiration of the last scheduled floor period. Lawyers for the challengers argue there is no provision in the state constitution or in state law allowing the Legislature to convene in extraordinary session. "The text of the Wisconsin Constitution is unambiguous. The Legislature does not have the authority to convene itself in an ‘extraordinary session.’ Because the session was unconstitutional, all business conducted during the ‘extraordinary session’ is illegal and, therefore, void. Votes on the bills came after hours of delays that kept lawmakers in the Capitol overnight as Republicans worked behind closed doors to strike agreements on the proposals. Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, said Assembly leaders and staff have made accommodations for Anderson every time he's asked. Modifications were also made to Anderson's microphone and voting buttons so he can participate in debates and votes, Steineke said. Steineke said Anderson never made it clear what he needed during the extraordinary session. Asked about Steineke's response, Anderson said he sat down with Republican leadership at the start of his first session to let them know what he would need in order to fully participate as a legislator, including his wheelchair time constraints.

Paul Ryan is leaving Congress after 20 years - leaving behind a legislative record at odds with his rhetoric about fiscal responsibility. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the premier destination for in-depth analysis of daily headlines, insightful…

Lower PFAS levels have been detected a mile away in drinking water pumped by a municipal well on East Washington Avenue. Concentrations in Well 15 water have tested below federal health advisory levels. The military hasn’t done testing to determine if or when drinking water quality could worsen. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and military bases in the state are facing criticism for failing to move quickly on cleanups. Congress allotted about $180 million for the fiscal year that started Oct. 1 for cleanups and for replacement of firefighting foam known to include high levels of harmful PFAS compounds. “I am aware that the U.S. EPA has established a Health Advisory Level for (two PFAS compounds,) however it is not applicable to the complex mixture of PFAS found in Wisconsin’s groundwater and affected drinking water wells,” Sen. Dave Hansen, D-Green Bay, said in a letter to DNR secretary Dan Meyer. Another 41 wells had lower detection levels, said Fraser Engerman, spokesman for Tyco’s parent company, Johnson Controls in Milwaukee. Still, it may be years or decades before researchers determine if the new compounds are hazardous to human health. In 2016, the DNR published a study of PFAS in fish tissue that recommended more research to determine if people who eat fish should be warned about health hazards. The EPA advisory drinking water limit of 70 parts per trillion covers two of more than 3,000 existing PFAS compounds.

As Wisconsin's newly elected Democratic Governor Tony Evers prepares to take office in January, the Republican-controlled state legislature held a lame duck session to pass laws to limit the powers of the governor's office. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a…

Rural Wisconsin has gotten redder. The Democratic Party’s gains have occurred almost entirely in the Milwaukee and Madison media markets. In these four areas combined, Democrats saw a net gain of nearly 130,000 votes from the 50-50 elections of 2000/2004 to the 50-50 elections of 2016/2018. It’s the equivalent of 4 percentage points or more in a major statewide race. Milwaukee County suburbs: A gain of 23,000 votes. Another way of putting it: in close statewide elections, Democrats are now winning the city of Madison by almost 40,000 votes more than they did in the early 2000s. While the biggest Democratic gains by far have come in the state’s two biggest counties (Milwaukee, Dane), the Republican gains have come in lots of small counties, especially across the northern two-thirds of the state. In 2000 and 2004, there was an average gap of 7 points between how Wisconsin’s metropolitan counties voted and how its non-metro (i.e., more rural) counties voted. The 130,000 votes that Democrats have gained in metropolitan Milwaukee and Madison have been offset by GOP gains elsewhere in the state. Their biggest percentage gains over the past two decades have come in the state’s least populous places.

Rachel Maddow shows four states in which Democratic popular vote victories are not commensurate with representative legislative seats because Republican gerrymandering has tipped the playing field. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the premier destination for in-depth analysis…

This is the second part of a four-part series about the results of the 2018 election in the US. Today we look specifically at...

Scott Walker on Tuesday, among them a tsunami of Democratic votes in the blue bastions of Dane and Milwaukee counties. Waukesha and Ozaukee counties, two of the state’s wealthiest, most-educated and most-Republican counties, “underperformed” for Walker on Tuesday. The governor, who won Waukesha County by 46 points in 2014, carried it by 34 this time. Nowhere in Wisconsin did Walker’s winning margins decline as much as it did in those two counties. And four, the suburbs have been a minefield for the GOP under Trump and they cost the party its House majority Tuesday. Here, too, the trend in the Walker vote Tuesday followed the trend in the Trump vote in 2016. Both parties fighting trends That trend leaves both parties with sometimes fatal flaws. If the GOP suburbs here grow less Republican and the rural areas grow more Republican, Wisconsin will lose some attributes that set it apart from other states. Democrat Baldwin won 17 counties Tuesday that Trump carried in 2016. Wisconsin isn’t “trending” even if some of its parts are.