My mom’s response to this video:

It is stormy in downtown Madison.

Greenfield, Iowa sustained catastrophic damage from this #tornado . These are just a few images I captured. Cars tossed, structures heavily damaged/slabbes and hardwood trees heavily debarked.

This town will need any and all disaster relief they can get. #iawx The Y'all Squad

The family of Henrietta Lacks can pursue compensation from a pharmaceutical company over its use of her HeLa cells, which have been influential in modern medicine after being taken without her consent decades ago thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/scienc…

Facing backlash over protest deal, UW-Milwaukee chancellor apologizes (via ⁦Kelly Meyerhofer⁩ and ⁦Sophie Carson⁩) jsonline.com/story/news/edu…

China bans Mike Gallagher from country in a series of sanctions against the ex-congressman jsonline.com/story/news/pol… via ⁦Lawrence Andrea⁩

Is this coming to Madison? Holy crap.

A campaign spox for Baldwin responds:

“Tammy is campaigning in every community in the state and of course she’ll debate.”

Asked Tammy Baldwin this morning for her response to Eric Hovde saying he wants to debate

Baldwin was with staffers & did not to answer: 'We'll talk later,' she told me.

This just in:

Wisconsin DNR says the cicadas are here.

Bice: New prosecutor in AG's office paid for by center funded by former NY Mayor Bloomberg jsonline.com/story/news/inv…

Trump was asked by a local Pittsburgh TV station, 'Do you support any restrictions on a person’s right to contraception?'

'We’re looking at that, and I’m going to have a policy on that very shortly and I think it’s something that you’ll find interesting.'

SCOOP from Kayla Huynh: A culture of fear and neglect has permeated Madison’s Southside Elementary School and the situation has gone unchecked for years, according to employees who spoke to the Cap Times and a formal complaint.

Read more for The Capital Times: captimes.com/news/education…

A juice box smacked out of a child's mouth and multiple instances of bus drivers dropping off kids in the wrong spot, unattended.

Those are some of the incidents federal officials cite as Milwaukee MPS is at risk of losing its Head Start funding:
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Do you live in Milwaukee? Would you like to join a chorus and sing a composition of 'syllables, hums and noises' to a giant baby*?

*112-foot-long baby-shaped hot air balloon

Well. June 21 is your day. To sing to the giant balloon baby.

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CAUGHT ON CAMERA:
We were following up on a shooting when this driver crashed just feet away from us.

Milwaukee Police tell me it was a stolen vehicle. Two people were hurt.

NEW: The ACF tells me it suspended MPS’ Head Start funding “due to a failure to establish and implement a system of ongoing monitoring to ensure the safety of children.”

MPS is now in jeopardy of losing its status as Milwaukee’s Head Start operator; there’s an open competition

I got a great question from a coworker a few weeks ago: If we already know Trump is the nominee, why is the RNC such a big deal?

Here's my story in answer to that, featuring interesting convention history and what could be new this year:
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“I don’t know if there’s a candidate for Catholics,” Archbishop Jerome Listecki says ahead of Nov. “I don’t know there’s ever really been a candidates for Catholics.”

Listecki recently submitted his retirement letter to Pope Francis, which is required when archbishops turn 75

GOP leaders again pushed Republicans to embrace early voting during their state party convention this weekend

'Look, early voting is here,' U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde said. 'I don't have a problem with a certain level of mail-in voting or early voting.'