Tang Shuangning, then chairman of China Everbright Group and Everbright Securities Co., talks to the press after the IPO for Everbright Securities at Shanghai Stock Exchange in Shanghai, China on Aug. 18, 2009. The former chairman of state-owned Chinese bank China Everbright Group has been arrested on suspicion of embezzlement and bribery, prosecutors said in a statement Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, amid an intensified campaign against corruption. (Chinatopix via AP)

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FILE - Dr. Claude Tiller Jr. speaks at the Aging & Disability Resource Center of Brown County on July 18, 2023, in Green Bay, Wis. The Green Bay school district on Wednesday, Feb, 21, 2024, released the recording of its first Black superintendent's appearance on an Atlanta radio show in which he made blunt comments about race relations, criticized the community and derided one of the district's principals. Tiller Jr. resigned on Saturday after a closed-door meeting with school board members. (Seeger Gray/The Green Bay Press-Gazette via AP, File)
Wisconsin school district releases tape of Black superintendent’s comments that led to resignation
The school district in Green Bay, Wisconsin, has released the recording of its first Black superintendent’s appearance on an Atlanta radio show in which he made blunt comments about race relations, criticized the community and derided one of the district’s principals.
February 22, 2024
FILE - Eva Stebel, water researcher, pours a water sample into a smaller glass container for experimentation as part of drinking water and PFAS research at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Center for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response, Feb. 16, 2023, in Cincinnati. Wisconsin's Democratic Gov. Tony Evers signaled Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, that he has no intention of signing a Republican bill that would spend tens of millions of dollars to combat PFAS pollution because it dramatically scales back regulators' enforcement authority. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)
Evers signals he won’t sign bill to fight PFAS as legislative session nears end
February 21, 2024
FILE - This image taken with a drone shows the Wisconsin State Capitol on Dec. 31, 2020, in Madison, Wis. Measures that would legalize medical marijuana, spend $125 million to combat pollution from “forever chemicals” and allow election officials to speed up the counting of absentee ballots all appear to be doomed as the Wisconsin Legislature plans to meet for a last time on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, file)
Wisconsin bills to fight ‘forever chemicals’ pollution, speed ballot counting in jeopardy
Measures that would legalize medical marijuana, spend $125 million to combat pollution from “forever chemicals” and allow election officials to speed up the counting of absentee ballots all appear to be doomed as the Wisconsin Legislature approaches the end of its session for the year.
February 21, 2024
FILE - Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul speaks at a campaign stop on Oct. 27, 2022, in Milwaukee. A Republican prosecutor asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, to decide whether a 174-year-old state law bans abortion in the state without waiting for a ruling from a lower appellate court. Kaul, a Democrat, filed a lawsuit arguing that the law is too old to enforce and conflicts with a 1985 law permitting abortions before fetuses can survive outside the womb. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
Republican DA asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to decide abortion lawsuit without lower court ruling
A Republican prosecutor is asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to decide whether state law bans abortions before the case goes through any lower appellate courts. The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v.
February 20, 2024
FILE - Wisconsin Republicans who control the state Legislature held a hearing on elections-related proposals in the state Capitol on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, in Madison, Wis. The Wisconsin Legislature was racing to finish its work for the session by voting Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, on everything from a massive tax cut to raising out-of-state hunting fees. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)
Wisconsin Republican-controlled Senate votes to reject Evers appointees
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate has voted to reject four of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees.
February 20, 2024
FILE - This image taken with a drone shows the Wisconsin State Capitol on Dec. 31, 2020, in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin lawmakers were set to vote Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024 on proposals to regulate artificial intelligence, joining a growing number of states grappling with how to control the technology as November's elections loom. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, file)
Wisconsin Assembly passes bills regulating AI use in elections and outlawing AI-produced child porn
February 15, 2024
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, at podium, state Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, second from right, and other Republican legislators address reporters during a news conference, Jan. 23, 2024, in the Assembly chambers of the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin Republicans are moving closer toward passing their $2 billion tax cut plan. The state Assembly s expected to pass the legislation Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond, file)
Wisconsin Assembly passes a $2 billion tax cut package. But will Evers sign it?
Wisconsin Republicans are moving closer toward passing their $2 billion tax cut plan. The state Assembly passed the legislation Tuesday. It goes next to the state Senate.
February 14, 2024
FILE - Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., speaks to reporters after Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., the GOP whip, dropped out of the speaker race, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. Gallagher announced his retirement Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024, just days after he refused to vote with his fellow House Republicans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Gallagher says he won’t run for Congress again after refusing to impeach Homeland Security chief
U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher says he won’t run for a fifth term in Congress. The Wisconsin Republican announced his retirement Saturday, just days after he refused to vote with his fellow House Republicans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
February 10, 2024
Matt Artis, 34, surveys the wreckage Friday morning, Feb. 9, 2024, after a tornado struck his farm in the Town of Porter, Wis., on Thursday evening. A line of storms and tornadoes fueld by unusually warm February weather tore across southeastern Wisconsin on Thursday. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)
Summer-like conditions with record temperatures lead to first Wisconsin tornadoes in February
The first tornadoes ever recorded in Wisconsin in the usually frigid month of February came on a day that broke records for warmth, the type of severe weather normally seen in the late spring and summer.
February 10, 2024
FILE - Pipeline used to carry crude oil sits at the Superior, Wis., terminal of Enbridge Energy, June 29, 2018. An attorney for energy company Enbridge worked Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, to persuade a federal appellate court to vacate an order to shut down a portion of a pipeline that runs through a Wisconsin tribal reservation within three years. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
Enbridge appeals to vacate an order that would shut down its pipeline
Enbridge energy company is trying to persuade a federal appeals court to allow a pipeline to continue operating on a Wisconsin tribal reservation. In June, U.S.
February 8, 2024
FILE - Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz attends her first hearing as a justice, Sept. 7, 2023, in Madison, Wis. Protasiwiecz's campaign consultant inserted images of horses in ads as a vulgar joke about her opponent, her campaign manager told a liberal podcast last month. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024 that Protasiewicz's campaign manager, Alejandro Verdin, told The Downballot podcast on Jan. 25 that her campaign operatives had heard people make baseless jokes at campaign focus groups and functions that her opponent, Dan Kelly, looked like someone who fornicates with horses. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
Wisconsin justice included horses in ads as vulgar joke about opponent, campaign manager says
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz’s campaign manager says a consultant inserted images of horses in ads as a vulgar joke about her opponent.
February 6, 2024
FILE - Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., speaks at South Carolina's "First in the Nation" dinner at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds in Columbia, S.C., Saturday Jan. 27, 2024. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered state elections officials Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, to include Phillips on the state's Democratic presidential primary ballot. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Wisconsin Supreme Court orders election officials to put Phillips on presidential primary ballot
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will allow U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips to add his name to the state’s Democratic presidential primary ballot.
February 2, 2024
FILE - In this February 2021, photo released by California Department of Fish and Wildlife, shows a gray wolf (OR-93) near Yosemite, Calif. Federal wildlife officials announced Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, that they have rejected requests from conservation groups to restore protections for gray wolves across portions of six western states, saying the population in those states is strong. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, File)
US won’t restore protections for wolves in Rockies, proposes national recovery plan
Federal wildlife officials have decided not to restore protections for gray wolves across portions of six states, allowing hunting to continue in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. The U.S.
February 2, 2024
FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2019, file photo, provided by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, the U.S. National Park Service and the National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation, a white wolf is released onto Isle Royale National Park in Michigan. Warm weather has forced the federal officials to suspend the annual wolf-moose count in Isle Royale National Park for the first time in more than six decades. (Daniel Conjanu/The National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation via AP, File)
Warm weather forces park officials to suspend Isle Royale wolf count for first time in decades
Warm weather has forced the federal officials to suspend the annual wolf-moose count in Isle Royale National Park for the first time in more than six decades. Isle Royale is an island in Lake Superior just south of Thunder Bay, Canada.
February 1, 2024
FILE - Cows are milked on a large carousel at a dairy in Pickett, Wis., Dec. 4, 2019. A Wisconsin judge ruled Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, that state regulators can force factory farms to obtain permits before they discharge pollutants, ensuring protections continue to apply preemptively for lakes, streams and drinking water. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
Wisconsin judge affirms regulators can force factory farms to get preemptive pollution permits
A Wisconsin judge has affirmed that regulators can force factory farms to obtain permits before they discharge pollutants into state waters.
January 30, 2024
FILE - A gray wolf is seen, July 16, 2004, at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. Wisconsin Republicans sent a bill that would mandate state wildlife managers set a cap on the state's wolf population to Gov. Tony Evers on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, forcing the governor to choose between pleasing conservationists who want to protect the creatures and farmers who say wolves are destroying their livestock. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)
Wisconsin Assembly approves a bill mandating a limit on the wolf population, sends proposal to Evers
Wisconsin Republicans have sent a bill that would force state wildlife managers to set a firm cap on the state’s wolf population to Gov. Tony Evers. The Assembly approved the bill on a voice vote Thursday. The Senate passed it in October.
January 25, 2024
FILE - State Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, watches as Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers delivers his State of the State address virtually as members of the Senate watch from the Senate Chambers at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wis., on Jan. 12, 2021. Republicans who control the Wisconsin state Assembly were poised Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, to pass a bill that would call for a binding statewide referendum on whether abortion should be banned after 14 weeks of pregnancy. (Amber Arnold/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)
Wisconsin Republicans approve bill banning abortions after 14 weeks of pregnancy
Republicans who control the Wisconsin Assembly have passed a bill that would call for a binding statewide referendum to ban abortion after 14 weeks of pregnancy. Wisconsin law currently prohibits abortion after 20 weeks.
January 25, 2024
Wisconsin wildlife officials warn of $16M shortfall as fewer people get hunting licenses
The state’s wildlife management account could start the two two year budget period with a $16 million shortfall due largely to dwindling hunting license sales.
January 24, 2024
Federal officials consider adding 10 more species, including a big bumble bee, to endangered list
Federal wildlife officials say they’ve decided to review whether to add 10 more species to the Endangered Species List. The U.S.
January 24, 2024
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, at podium, state Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, second from right, and other Republican legislators address reporters during a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, in the Assembly chambers of the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., to introduce a $2 billion tax cut plan. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)
Wisconsin Republicans bring back tax cut legislation for third time
Wisconsin Republicans are trying again to pass a tax cut plan even though Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed their last two attempts.
January 23, 2024
Police work a scene, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024, in Joliet, Ill., after multiple people were shot and killed over two days at three locations in the Chicago suburbs. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Suspect in killing of 8 people in suburban Chicago has fatally shot himself in Texas, police say
A man suspected of shooting and killing eight people in suburban Chicago fatally shot himself after a confrontation at a gas station with law enforcement officials in Texas. Police in Joliet said on Facebook that at about 8:30 p.m.
January 23, 2024
FILE - Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in Madison, Wis. Republicans who control the Wisconsin Assembly quietly introduced a bill Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, that would call for a binding statewide referendum on whether abortion should be banned after 14 weeks of pregnancy. (AP Photo/Harm Venhuizen, File)
Wisconsin Republicans introduce a bill to ban abortions after 14 weeks of pregnancy
Wisconsin Assembly Republicans have introduced a bill that would set up a binding statewide referendum on whether abortion should be banned after 14 weeks of pregnancy. Current Wisconsin law bars abortions after 20 weeks.
January 20, 2024
FILE - Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., asks a question during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 15, 2022. The U.S. Department of Defense plans to install two more groundwater treatment systems at a former Michigan military base to control contamination from so-called forever chemicals, Slotkin's office announced Friday, Jan. 19, 2024.(AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
Defense Department to again target ‘forever chemicals’ contamination near Michigan military base
The U.S. Department of Defense plans to install more groundwater treatment systems at a former Michigan military base to control contamination from so-called forever chemicals.
January 19, 2024
Wisconsin Senate passes bills clearing the way for electric vehicle charging stations across state
Wisconsin lawmakers have taken another step toward creating a network of charging stations for electric vehicles. The state Senate on Tuesday passed a pair of bills.
January 16, 2024
Wisconsin Republicans fire utility regulator in latest strike at Evers
Republicans who control the Wisconsin state Senate have voted to fire a utility regulator because he supports income-based rates. The Senate voted 21-11 on Tuesday to reject confirmation for Public Service Commissioner Tyler Huebner. Democratic Gov.
January 16, 2024
UW-Milwaukee looking to sell chancellor’s residence as school grapples with deficit
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee officials are looking to sell the chancellor’s residence as the school grapples with a projected $18.8 million deficit.
January 11, 2024
Wisconsin State Rep. Jerry O'Connor introduces a package of legislation to combat human trafficking during a news conference Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024 in the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. as members of the state Assembly's human trafficking task force look on (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)
Wisconsin Assembly task force releases slate of bills to combat human trafficking
A bipartisan Assembly task force has released a package of bills to combat human trafficking. Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos created the 13-member task force in August to explore solutions to human trafficking.
January 10, 2024
FILE - Milwaukee Bucks owner Herb Kohl is acknowledged by fans during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Atlanta Hawks, Wednesday, April 16, 2014, in Milwaukee. Herb Kohl, a former Democratic U.S. senator from Wisconsin and former owner of the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team, has died, an email from his foundation said Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023. He was 88. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
Herb Kohl, former US senator and owner of the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks, has died. He was 88
Herb Kohl, a former Democratic U.S. senator from Wisconsin and former owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, has died. He was 88. His death Wednesday was announced by Herb Kohl Philanthropies.
December 28, 2023
FILE - Eva Stebel, water researcher, pours a water sample into a smaller glass container for experimentation as part of drinking water and PFAS research at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Center For Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response, Feb. 16, 2023, in Cincinnati. Excessive compliance costs have forced Wisconsin regulators to stop developing standards limiting so-called forever chemicals, of PFAS, in groundwater, Gov. Tony Evers said Tuesday, Dec. 19. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)
Excessive costs force Wisconsin regulators to halt work on groundwater standards for PFAS chemicals
Excessive compliance costs have forced Wisconsin regulators to stop developing groundwater standards on PFAS chemicals. Gov.
December 19, 2023
FILE - Wisconsin's Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos talks to reporters at the state Capitol, Feb. 15, 2022, in Madison, Wis. Vos, the Republican lawmaker who forced the Universities of Wisconsin to reduce diversity positions, called Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, for an in-depth review of diversity initiatives across state government, making good on his promise that he had only begun to dismantle equity and inclusion efforts in the state. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)
Wisconsin Assembly’s top Republican wants to review diversity positions across state agencies
The Republican lawmaker who forced the Universities of Wisconsin to reduce its diversity positions called Tuesday for an in-depth review of diversity initiatives across state government.
December 19, 2023
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