The Wisconsin Examiner is tracking daily developments in the spread of COVID-19 in Wisconsin, with data from the state Department of Health Services (DHS).
Milwaukee activists call on Biden to reverse Trump immigration policies
Just one hour after Joe Biden was sworn in at his inauguration, a coalition of community groups gathered in Milwaukee to call for the new administration to reverse the outgoing Trump Administration’s hardline immigration...
Biden immigration overhaul would open a door to citizenship for 11 million people
President Joe Biden's immigration overhaul would grant citizenship to 11 million undocumented people, reversing Trump era policies
Rep. Shannon Zimmerman omits Florida vacation rental business from ethics filings
State Rep. Shannon Zimmerman (R-River Falls) is an agent of a vacation rental business in Florida, yet failed to disclose that fact in his statements of economic interest (SEI).
Wisconsin government officials are required under...
President Biden urges a divided nation to ‘end this uncivil war’ in inaugural address
WASHINGTON — Calling on Americans to bridge the widening divisions in the country, Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, completing the peaceful transition of presidential power on the...
“Let’s start afresh”
President Joe Biden hit just the right notes in his splendid Inaugural Address.
You could almost hear the sigh of a relief coming from the vast majority of Americans when he said, “Let’s start afresh.”
He...
Biden takes the oath of office with troops on guard and towering challenges ahead
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden is set to become the 46th president of the United States at noon, when he will take the oath of office while standing on the same platform where insurrectionists swarmed...
Here’s what Biden plans to do on his first day as president
WASHINGTON—Joe Biden early Wednesday unveiled the list of executive orders, memos and directives he will make when he assumes the presidency later in the day, reversing a slew of Trump administration actions and laying...
Two Wisconsin Catholic priests, on podcast, say antifa is responsible for Capitol insurrection
Two Catholic priests from Wisconsin appeared in a podcast, one day after the U.S. Capitol was attacked in a violent insurrection, to spread conspiracy theories that the riot was actually a “false flag” incited...
Assembly Republicans want wider COVID-19 vaccine distribution — regardless of availability
Ratcheting up attacks on the Evers administration’s handling of the COVID-19 vaccine, Assembly Republicans have proposed two bills that would make an end run around the state’s vaccine distribution plan.
Neither bill would address what...
A Wisconsin border town is inundated with Minnesota partiers; not everyone is thrilled
On the crowded streets of downtown Hudson, Wisconsin, after sunset on a Friday in December, a man could be overheard as he waited in a huddle to get into Agave Kitchen: “I believe in...