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GOP candidates struggle for relevance during first 2024 Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee

GOP candidates struggle for relevance during first 2024 Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee

Posted by | Aug 24, 2023

The Republican presidential candidates vying to be the leading alternative to front-runner Donald Trump fought, sometimes bitterly, over abortion rights, U.S. support for Ukraine, and the future of the party during the first primary debate of the 2024 campaign in Milwaukee on August 23. But on what is arguably the most consequential choice facing the party, virtually all lined up behind Trump, saying they would support the former president if he is their nominee, even if he is convicted in a court of law as he faces a slew of criminal charges. It was a reminder of the power...

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Trump skips GOP debate to praise January 6 crowd, tell election lies, and attack rivals in online interview

Trump skips GOP debate to praise January 6 crowd, tell election lies, and attack rivals in online interview

Posted by | Aug 24, 2023

Donald Trump skipped the debate stage typically relished by presidential candidates on August 23, and instead appeared in an online interview peppered with his election lies, attacks on his rivals, and lavish praise for the crowd of supporters he spoke to before they stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. While eight Republican presidential candidates tried to make their case in the debate, that their party should move on from Donald Trump in 2024, the former president tried to make his case that everyone but him is irrelevant. Trump, who has repeatedly brushed aside democratic norms and embraced...

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Iryna Pletnyova: How the city of Uman transformed into a hub for refugees fleeing war

Iryna Pletnyova: How the city of Uman transformed into a hub for refugees fleeing war

Posted by | Aug 3, 2023

Return to Ukraine: This feature is part of an original Milwaukee Independent editorial series that recorded news from areas across Ukraine, including Milwaukee's sister city of Irpin, from June to July of 2023. It was the second time in the span of a year that the award-winning Wisconsin news organization traveled to the country during the war. The purpose of this journalism project was to document a humanitarian aid mission by the Milwaukee-based nonprofit, Friends of Be an Angel, and report about conditions 17 months after Russia's brutal full-scale invasion. mkeind.com/returntoukraine In the first few months after Russia launched...

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School Bunkers: When a national flag becomes a memorial to dead Ukrainian students

School Bunkers: When a national flag becomes a memorial to dead Ukrainian students

Posted by | Aug 3, 2023

Return to Ukraine: This feature is part of an original Milwaukee Independent editorial series that recorded news from areas across Ukraine, including Milwaukee's sister city of Irpin, from June to July of 2023. It was the second time in the span of a year that the award-winning Wisconsin news organization traveled to the country during the war. The purpose of this journalism project was to document a humanitarian aid mission by the Milwaukee-based nonprofit, Friends of Be an Angel, and report about conditions 17 months after Russia's brutal full-scale invasion. mkeind.com/returntoukraine The names of 6 dead children were written...

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Lviv warehouse serves as vital link in medical supply chain from Milwaukee to frontlines

Lviv warehouse serves as vital link in medical supply chain from Milwaukee to frontlines

Posted by | Aug 2, 2023

Return to Ukraine: This feature is part of an original Milwaukee Independent editorial series that recorded news from areas across Ukraine, including Milwaukee's sister city of Irpin, from June to July of 2023. It was the second time in the span of a year that the award-winning Wisconsin news organization traveled to the country during the war. The purpose of this journalism project was to document a humanitarian aid mission by the Milwaukee-based nonprofit, Friends of Be an Angel, and report about conditions 17 months after Russia's brutal full-scale invasion. mkeind.com/returntoukraine At a secure location far from the frontlines,...

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