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Rashida Tlaib had the crowd eating out of her hand. It was March 2018, and the hookah lounge in a working-class suburb outside of Chicago was packed. Warm and engaging, switching frequently between English and Arabic, Tlaib - a Michigan State representative with larger ambitions - pleaded for out-of-state donations to help her become the first Palestinian American in Congress. She unashamedly told the audience that her Detroit constituents often declared: 'Rashida is a warrior, and this is a war we're in.' Sitting in the front row, Rafeeq Jaber listened intently, seemingly impressed and knowing a thing or two about...

Below is the Jew-hating caricature that greeted David Horowitz when he showed up to speak at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on April 3, 2008.The students who distributed this hateful image of Horowitz with a hooked nose and a Nazi uniform were members of the Muslim Student Association. They had privileges from the student unions at the school that the kids who invited David did not. The chapter of the Hamas-supporting campus hate group was accused of tearing down 2,000 of the posters promoting his appearance. The cartoon also appeared in the student papers, the UW–M Post and on the front...

CNN host Phil Mattingly admitted Friday that his jaw "literally dropped" after hearing a young black voter admit that he doesn't know if he will vote for President Joe Biden in 2024. CNN anchor John King recently traveled to Milwaukee where he gauged the pulse of the black community there. What he discovered, according to him, is a "giant problem" for Biden's re-election hopes. One Milwaukee voter, Davette Bake, told King that he "love[s] Joe" but graded Biden's presidency a four on a scale of 1 to 10. Another voter, Joanna Brookes, expressed concern that the Democratic Party takes black...

MILWAUKEE - Could answers to one of the nation’s most famous unsolved murder mysteries be buried in Milwaukee? Volunteer cold case investigators believe the body of former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa could have been buried where old Milwaukee County Stadium's third base was – currently paved over outside American Family Field. "You kept seeing somebody would come out, ‘Well we know where Jimmy Hoffa is – he’s in New Jersey, he’s in this garbage dump,'" said Jim Zimmerman, an investigator with "The Case Breakers." "Then he’s not there. It’d make it more intriguing each time."

Jimmy Hoffa may be buried at site of demolished MLB stadium: cold case group Jimmy Hoffa buried in Milwaukee? Group's theory points to ballpark Could Jimmy Hoffa be buried in the shadow of American Family Field? One cold-case group believes so Has Moxy the dog solved one of the biggest US mysteries: What happened to Jimmy Hoffa? Jimmy Hoffa Found? Cold Case Crime Investigators Think They’ve Cracked Decades-Old Mystery more....

Remember Gaige Grosskreutz? He was the establishment's darling during the trial to make an example of Kyle Rittenhouse. Gaige, a convicted felon with a long criminal history, was illegally carrying a pistol that he pulled on Kyle Rittenhouse as the young man was trying to escape from the violent BLM mob in Kenosha, Wisconsin during the 2020 "Summer of Love." For his trouble, Gaige got his bicep blown off by Rittenhouse. He was then paraded in court as a victim and the mainstream media ate it up. Well, after Rittenhouse was acquitted and the Left failed to undermine the right...

The criminal Paul Prediger, formerly known as Gaige Grosskreutz, chastised Kenosha County Eye for reporting first, that he secretly asked a judge to change his name. Grosskreutz is known for being the man who pointed a gun at then-17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse during the riots of 2020 and was shot for it.

A Democratic National Committee surrogate in Milwaukee ahead of the GOP debate was blasted on social media after disputing the notion that America is in "decline" under President Biden by pointing to the success of Democrat-run cities. "I would suggest that anybody who thinks that this country is in decline — come to cities!" Satya Rhodes-Conway, Madison, Wisconsin’s Democratic mayor, said during a press conference before the GOP debate on Wednesday. "Because Democrat mayors all across the nation are creating great places where people want to be. Where growth is happening, and where our economy is growing. This is not...

A reporter for Milwaukee, Wisconsin station WTMJ-TV said on Twitter that she fled the Country Thunder music festival Friday night after a male patron twice called her the ‘n-word’ and people laughed at her instead of helping. The reporter, Taylor Lumpkin, apparently has not posted any video of the incident nor any video from her time at the festival. Jason Aldean, who has drawn criticism from the left for his song “Try That in a Small Town”, played the song during his headliner set at the festival Saturday night. Wisconsin Speaker of the State Assembly Robin Vos (R) tweeted his...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Police in Milwaukee arrested a second person in a shooting in which six people, including the two alleged shooters, were wounded right after a Juneteenth celebration wrapped up. A Facebook Live video of the aftermath showed paramedics treating people with gunshot wounds on the pavement of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, where thousands of people had filled the street for the city’s Juneteenth festival just 20 minutes earlier. It was one of many shootings that took place across the country over a bloody holiday weekend. “It’s just freaking heartbreaking. We have to do better as parents....

MILWAUKEE -- A bus driver was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence while transporting the Pittsburgh Pirates from Chicago to Milwaukee for their weekend series with the Brewers. Illinois State Police said the driver was traveling away from officers seeking to escort the bus on its trip to Milwaukee late Thursday night. Troopers said they observed more erratic driving and eventually stopped the bus on the right shoulder of Interstate 94 in Chicago. Police said the driver was arrested after they observed “multiple signs of impairment.” The driver isn’t a Pirates employee but was contracted to drive...

Harley-Davidson Inc. is set to celebrate its 120th anniversary with performances from Foo Fighters, daring demonstrations and other events hosted throughout Milwaukee and surrounding communities July 13-16. Events will center in Veterans Park and cascade throughout the area at the Harley-Davidson Museum, the company's Menomonee Falls-based factory and myriad places throughout the community. Veterans Park will open for anniversary celebrations on Friday and Saturday. Food and beverage services from local vendors are available on both days from 2 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. Other daily staples include Harley-Davidson’s lifestyle apparel pop-up shops and motorcycle demonstrations. Kyle and Cody Ives’ will shoot...

An Antifa ‘domestic terrorist’ is the son of a millionaire Maine surgeon who grew up in a stunning mansion in one of the most luxurious beach towns on the east coast, DailyMail.com can reveal. Francis ‘Frankie’ Carroll, 22, was one of five people arrested on Tuesday at the autonomous zone at the site of the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Centre. Leonard Voiselle, 20, of Macon, Georgia, Nicholas Dean Olson, 25, of Bennington, Nebraska, Serena Hertel, 25, of LA, and Arieon Robinson, 21, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, were also arrested. Carroll is the son of surgeon Dr Mike Carroll and grew...

Seven shootings killed two people and wounded a further eight overnight in Democrat-run Milwaukee, Wisconsin. CBS 58 reported the shootings began about 7:30 p.m. Saturday night and continued until just before 5 a.m. The two shooting fatalities occurred in the incident shortly after midnight Sunday. The shooting occurred “near N. 37th St. and W. Townsend St.” and two men–a 43-year-old and a 47-year-old–died as a result.

Though he's well-known for haunting opposing team's pitching staffs, Dodgers' star outfielder Mookie Betts has opted for alternative living accommodations during their three-game series against the Brewers after hearing too much about one hotel with a ghostly reputation. Instead of joining the rest of the team at the Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee, Betts will be staying with some friends at a rented Airbnb until the team heads back on the road come Wednesday. The luxurious hotel, which ranks as one of the most haunted hotels in the country, opened back in the 1800, and has as much of a...

"Community mobilizers" could make as much as $270 by creating a list of 75 people and making sustained efforts to turn out 60 of them to vote in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Wisconsin lawmaker is questioning whether it was legal for a political action committee to pay people to encourage others to vote for liberal Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Janet Protasiewicz in the state Supreme Court election in the latest mobilization tactic to raise integrity concerns in the battleground state. Wisconsin Takes Action, a project of Organizing Empowerment PAC, held live Zoom training sessions during the Wisconsin Supreme...

A pizza receipt led police to the arrest of a 12-year-old suspect in a Milwaukee homicide. The boy has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide. According to a criminal complaint, Brandon Felton, 34, was shot and killed on March 15. When police arrived at the crime scene, they found a Dominos receipt that had the boy’s phone number on it. Police ultimately got in contact with the boy’s mother who brought him in for questioning on March 18. A pizza receipt led police to the arrest of a 12-year-old suspect in a Milwaukee homicide. The boy has been charged with...

Burglars may have gotten more than they bargained for when they targeted a home in Wisconsin last week. The two men snatched thousands of dollars worth of tools from the house in Milwaukee. They apparently also unwittingly grabbed a security camera that continued to transmit from their kitchen table. The security camera captured the moment two thieves early last Monday stole that camera along with tools from a home being rehabbed. The real estate broker saw the whole thing. "Somebody picked up the camera and said what is this? And then they bagged it, not knowing that it's still active,"...

ANCIENT BEVERAGE BREWED IN MILWAUKEE MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN — NPR reports that archaeologist Bettina Arnold of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her research team worked with Lakefront Brewery to try to re-create an alcoholic beverage that had been placed in a bronze cauldron and buried in a grave sometime between 400 and 450 B.C. in what is now Germany. The recipe was based upon the research of paleobotanist Manfred Rösch, who analyzed the residues in the Iron Age cauldron. He found evidence of honey, meadowsweet, barley, and mint—ingredients in a type of beverage known as a braggot.

Bones, ancient grooming tools, even gold – these are all things you might expect to find if you go poking around an Iron Age burial site. What you might not expect to find is your new favorite tipple. But, back in 2016, archaeologists were stunned to uncover a 2,500-year-old cauldron that contained the remnants of an ancient alcoholic beverage.Project lead Bettina Arnold, from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, was investigating a burial mound – called a tumulus – dating back to between 400 and 450 BCE, when she and her team came across what appeared to be a bronze cauldron. But...