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A police officer in Madison, Wisconsin, shot and killed a man who had injured him with a knife while resisting arrest, the city's police chief said Wednesday. Police as of Thursday have not identified the man who was killed, saying only that he was in his 30s, but Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and Madison District 6 Alder Davey Mayer identified him as Corey Ruiz. The Madison Police Department said in a news release that its officers were responding to calls that someone was stealing bicycles and checking vehicle doors in the city's Marquette neighborhood. The man fled from officers on...

MADISON, Wis. -- A portion of Williamson Street near the site where police shot and killed a man will be closed through mid-morning on Thursday. City of Madison officials said the street will stay closed from South Dickinson Street to South Few Street "to ensure public safety." There will be message boards and signs set out to alert drivers of the closures. It is unclear when exactly the street will reopen. According to city officials Thursday afternoon, officials are currently discussing details on the street closures and assessing options to ensure the situation is "safe." Madison police shot and killed...

The Democratic establishment is alarmed that a top candidate’s collapse and the surge from a democratic socialist could cost them the governorship.Sara Rodriguez had a prime opportunity this past Saturday to show voters gathered for a gubernatorial candidate forum in Wisconsin’s rural Northwoods that she was the person who could unite Democrats, thwart a democratic socialist insurgency and deliver the party unified control of state government for the first time in a generation. Except the lieutenant governor didn’t show up. Her reserved table sat empty, save for a lone campaign sign. She blamed the last-minute cancellation on a family emergency....

Over the last month, Democratic socialists have notched victories in the liberal strongholds of New York City, Washington, D.C., and Denver. Now Francesca Hong, a single mother who has worked as a dishwasher and line cook, is trying to do the same with her campaign for governor in Wisconsin, a swing state known for razor-thin election margins where winning over moderate, independent voters is crucial. Hong’s candidacy has turned the Democratic primary on Aug. 11 into the latest test of just how far left voters are willing to go in the November midterms. “We do this in Wisconsin, we’re going...

Heavy smoke from several large wildfires blazing in Canada and Minnesota is expected to engulf large swaths of the Midwest and Northeast U.S. this week, exposing millions of people to dangerous air pollution. Minnesota officials issued an air quality alert from Tuesday through Friday for areas including the Twin Cities metro area, Alexandria and Two Harbors, with very heavy smoke expected across the state's northeastern corner as large wildfires spread. Air quality levels in Two Harbors, the Tribal Nation of Grand Portage and other regions in northeast Minnesota were expected to reach hazardous levels, making it unsafe for everyone. The...

Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan was ordered Wednesday to pay a $5,000 fine for obstructing the arrest of an illegal immigrant at a courthouse but will not serve any prison time. "I think this is a situation where an otherwise good person, upset by immigration policies in this country, made a bad decision in the moment," said U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman. Dugan, 66, was convicted of felony obstruction last year after federal agents attempted to serve a warrant to Eduardo Flores-Ruiz on April 18, 2025. She was acquitted of concealing an individual to prevent arrest, a misdemeanor. She faced...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan was spared from prison Wednesday for ushering a Mexican defendant out of her courtroom to evade U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. A federal judge fined her $5,000 and cited her otherwise law-abiding life in issuing the sentence. “I think this is a situation where an otherwise good person, upset by immigration policies in this country, made a bad decision in the moment,” U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman said. Dugan, 67, was convicted of felony obstruction in December. Her lawyers argued during her trial that President Donald Trump’s administration sought to “crush”...

A federal judge ordered immigration officials to release the president of Wisconsin's largest mosque from detention Thursday, finding that Salah Sarsour has raised a "substantial" claim that he was being targeted for speaking out in favor of Palestinian rights. Sarsour, a Palestinian-born legal permanent resident of the United States, was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on March 30. The government has claimed he is a foreign policy threat, but Sarsour's attorneys say he was actually targeted for speaking out against Israel. U.S. District Judge James Patrick Hanlon wrote in a decision Thursday that attorneys for...

Once again, former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan’s request for a retrial has been denied. On Tuesday, a federal judge refused to overturn Dugan’s felony conviction for obstructing immigration agents. Here are the details: Dugan was originally scheduled to be sentenced for her crimes on June 3rd. However, that hearing was postponed until the court could decide whether or not to overturn the conviction. AP News reported further: The case against Hannah Dugan, who resigned from the Milwaukee County Circuit Court following her conviction, was an early test of how the courts would respond to President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown....

Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson is taking aim at the FDA, accusing the agency of concealing COVID vaccine injuries and calling it 'the largest government scandal in my lifetime.' He joined Fox News host Maria Bartiromo and others to discuss the issue. Thank you @MariaBartiromo for covering what the legacy media refuses to: the largest government scandal in my lifetime. FDA officials were fully aware of COVID injection injuries — including sudden cardiac death, pulmonary infarction, stroke, and Bell’s palsy — but kept them… pic.twitter.com/LrSVSa1w6Q — Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) May 26, 2026 "They were warned by their data-mining analysts, their...

A Milwaukee woman is facing multiple felony charges after prosecutors accused her of carrying out Medicaid fraud, PPP loan fraud and money laundering schemes tied to her home health care business. What we know: The Wisconsin Department of Justice charged 44-year-old Debbie Long with five felonies, including fraud and money laundering. ederal prosecutors said Long owned Pinnacle Home Health Care, LLC, a company that provided personal care services to Medicaid members, including mobility assistance, meal preparation and bathing services. From March 2017 through August 2022, prosecutors allege Long billed Wisconsin Medicaid for exaggerated or fabricated services, including inflated billing, fraudulent...

Another radical abortion activist is heading to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Democrat appeals court Judge Chris Taylor won election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, expanding the leftist majority on the state’s highest court to 5-2 and alarming pro-life advocates who fear further erosion of protections for unborn children. Taylor defeated fellow appeals court Judge Maria Lazar in the race for a 10-year term, receiving about 60% of the vote to Lazar’s roughly 40% with most ballots counted, according to unofficial results. Media outlets projected Taylor’s victory shortly after polls closed. The open seat resulted from the retirement of...

The radical culture war on public art. The Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, has called for the removal of a mural of Iryna Zarutska, a young Ukrainian refugee whose brutal murder was caught on video, because, according to Mayor Smiley, because of its “misguided, isolating intent”. Providence has a BLM street mural covering three blocks and a “Love is a Many Gendered Thing” mural, but Mayor Smiley urged supporting artists “whose work brings us closer together rather than divide us” and remembering Irina’s murder divides us. Unlike BLM and “Love is a Many Gendered Thing” which bring us together. In...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested the head of Wisconsin's largest mosque, who was previously linked to Democrat Representative Rashida Tlaib and groups allegedly connected to Hamas. Salah Salem Sarsour, 53, was apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] on Monday, in a 'targeted operation' in Milwaukee, according to federal authorities. DHS said Jordanian national Sarsour is a 'convicted terrorist' who allegedly lied on his green card application when he arrived in the United States over 30 years ago. Sarsour serves as the president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and is a high-profile community member and businessman. The...

Democrats have made it very clear that one of the reasons they support unfettered illegal immigration is that they want to import a slave-labor class that they can pay cheaply and keep in deplorable working conditions. They prove this every time they argue that, sans illegals, we wouldn't have anyone to clean our toilets or cut our grass and the price of our produce would go up because farmers would have to pay people a living wage to harvest crops (a lot of which is automated these days, anyway). Now the New York Times is playing that card again, this...

Christine A. Jones, a 61-year-old housekeeping supervisor from Cottage Grove, Wisconsin, was shot and killed in a downtown Madison parking ramp last week after being targeted by a former coworker for supporting President Donald Trump. The suspect is her former coworker, 31-year-old Diamond Simone Wallace, who had previously accused Jones of racism because of her support for the president.

A Wisconsin man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after he pleaded guilty to killing his parents in order to fund a plot to assassinate President Trump involving a drone with explosives or an AR-15 assault rifle. Nikita Casap, 18, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in Waukesha County Circuit Court in January. He and prosecutors struck a deal to drop seven other charges that included two counts of hiding a corpse and theft.... The plot to assassinate Trump developed in late 2024, when he thought of using an AK-47 rifle attached to a drone, she...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Robin Vos, who has led the Republican charge in Wisconsin during his record-long stint as state Assembly speaker and blocked much of the Democratic governor’s agenda, announced Thursday that he will retire at the end of the year. Vos, who also drew President Donald Trump’s ire for not aggressively challenging Trump’s loss in the battleground state in 2020, made the announcement from the floor of the Assembly. Vos is in his 22nd year in the Assembly and 14th year as speaker. Vos has served during a tumultuous time in Wisconsin politics, in which the swing state...

The House this week is set to take up the SAVE America Act (the SAVE Act 2.0), an election-integrity measure that some Senate Republicans can’t seem to get behind even though the vast majority of Americans already have. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise’s office confirms the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register and photo identification to vote in federal elections, will hit the floor on Tuesday. While Democrats will spend hours making a mockery of truth and reality in opposing it, the legislation is expected to pass mostly along party lines — as the...

MADISON, Wis. -- Four people were arrested in connection to numerous graffiti incidents on UW-Madison's campus. The following individuals were charged by the Dane County District Attorney's Office: Zebulun Fazel, 24, Madison Genevieve Karamanski, 22, Madison Kareem Mayouf, 26, Madison William Wambles, 20, Madison None of the individuals charged are affiliated with UW-Madison. Police said the charges follow a year-long investigation into their involvement in at least eight separate graffiti cases on campus. The incidents occurred on the Southwest Commuter Path, East Campus Mall, Bascom Hall, Library Mall, Witte Hall, and Camp Randall Stadium. The incidents at Library Mall and...