(The Center Square) – There would be some major changes to police training in Wisconsin if one Milwaukee state representative gets his way. State Rep. Darrin Madison, D-Milwaukee, introduced four pieces of legislation that he says would end “nonscientific and dangerous police training practices.” “Law enforcement budgets are going towards unlicensed, unregulated technology like facial recognition. […]

President Donald Trump’s pick for ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, was confirmed by the Senate on Friday.  Waltz, who was Trump’s national security adviser, was confirmed 47-43. Three Democrats, Sens. John Fetterman (D-PA), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) voted to confirm Waltz, while Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was the sole GOP […]

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to lift a lower court’s block of its policy restricting the gender on a person’s passport to his or her biological sex. Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued a federal district court’s injunction, which allows people to select their own sex designation on passports regardless of […]

(The Center Square) – The investigation into an ethics complaint filed against Washington State Executive Ethics Board Executive Director Kate Reynolds has raised further questions over conflicts of interest within the state employee disciplinary system. Reynolds investigated a separate ethics complaint filed against Solicitor General Noah Purcell for defending Attorney General Nick Brown, his supervisor, in a State Bar Association complaint. Although […]