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Frustration with AI failure loops pushes Milwaukee professionals to build damage control protocols

The rapid adoption of large language models like GPT has brought unprecedented capabilities to users seeking everything from editorial writing assistance to image generation. But alongside this...
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Oklahoma City bombing survivors worry that after 30 years Americans still have not learned the lesson

Thirty years after a truck bomb detonated outside a federal building in America’s heartland, killing 168 people in the deadliest homegrown attack on U.S. soil, deep scars remain. From a mother...
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Loss of legitimacy: When a U.S. president nullifies the constitutional law that gives him presidential power

This AI-generated image is a photorealistic editorial illustration and not an actual photograph. It was created to support a journalistic commentary as a political cartoon. The office of the...
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Why the unchecked power and tactics of ICE under Trump have earned comparisons to secret police

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is not a secret police force, not yet. But recent actions taken by ICE under Donald Trump’s regime raise urgent and unavoidable parallels. In just the...
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“Bridge of Spies” showed a nation ruled by law while Abrego Garcia’s case reveals a nation ruled by Trump

“You’re Agent Hoffman, of German extraction? My name is Donovan, Irish, both sides, mother and father. I’m Irish. You’re German. But what makes us both Americans? Just one...
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Weaponizing identity: Trump’s undocumented registry requirement parallels Nazi-era laws against Jews

A new federal requirement, implemented on April 11 under Donald Trump’s second term, mandates that all undocumented immigrants living in the United States must register with the federal government...
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Instrumentalizar la identidad: el registro de indocumentados de Trump se asemeja a las leyes nazis contra los judíos

Un nuevo requisito federal, implementado el 11 de abril bajo el segundo mandato de Donald Trump, exige que todos los inmigrantes indocumentados que viven en Estados Unidos se registren ante el...
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Lego model of Milwaukee’s Pabst Mansion unveiled to connect younger audiences with historic landmark

A white-brick Lego replica of Milwaukee’s historic Pabst Mansion was unveiled on April 10 as part of a new initiative to draw younger audiences to the 19th-century landmark and celebrate...
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Lost Cause myth: How modern whitewashing of Robert E. Lee influences racial politics in Milwaukee

Symbols of the mythic reverence for Robert E. Lee could easily be found in public spaces across the country until 2020, when the Black Lives Movement gained nationwide attention during the COVID-19...
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Tariffs made the Republican’s Great Depression worse while Trump’s high tariffs could trigger the next one

In the early days of the Great Depression, U.S. Representative Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Senator Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American...
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Trump’s attack on the National Archives is designed to conceal his crimes from historical records

As Trump moves to eviscerate the federal government with astonishing speed, he has wreaked havoc on one agency long known for its nonpartisanship and revered for its mission: the National Archives...
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Attacks on the “Black Smithsonian” by Trump are seen as an effort to whitewash racism in U.S. history

President Donald Trump’s order accusing the Smithsonian Institution of not reflecting American history notes correctly that the country’s Founding Fathers declared that “all men...
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