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Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022.

What are shield laws and how do they protect telehealth abortion providers?

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Washington.

Here’s how Trump’s tariffs and a potential trade war could affect Wisconsinites

Donald Trump

Lawmakers say Trump’s tariffs will hurt Wisconsin consumers

Trump executive orders

Trump executive order is first offensive against Biden efforts to lower drug costs

Donald Trump

How a 1974 law prohibits presidents from blocking congressional spending

Avocado imported from Mexico

What to know about looming tariffs on foreign goods

U.S. Capitol building

Reproductive Rights

Republican lawmakers file misleading ‘born alive’ anti-abortion bills in House and Senate

Hospital patient

Medicaid is in Republicans’ sights. Here’s what you need to know.

Protesters make their way to the Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda during a march supporting overturning Wisconsin's near total ban on abortion on Jan. 22, 2023, in Madison, WI.

Reproductive Rights

Where to go for information on reproductive health care in Wisconsin

Crews spend hours almost every morning maintaining the ice on the Glide for the hundreds of visitors that trickle in every day.

Skaters can glide through northern Wisconsin forest on new ice skating ribbon

Tammy Baldwin

Sen. Tammy Baldwin: ‘I’m here to do what I’ve always done: fight for Wisconsin’

Charles Tubbs and Sheray Wallace received Dane County's 2025 Martin Luther King Jr. award.

Meet the 2025 recipients of the Dane County Martin Luther King Jr. Award