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*July 12, 2016A two-day national workshop on putting last year's report recommendations into practice goes through today at the National Academies of…

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports that another election defeat for the party that for years ruled Mexico has re-ignited hopes that the government can reach a peace agreement with guerrillas in the south. The Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI yesterday lost the gubernatorial election in the state of Chiapas. Only six weeks ago, the PRI lost the presidential election to opposition candidate Vicente Fox . Both Fox and the opposition winner in the governor's race yesterday have pledged to resolve the bloody conflict in Chiapas between government forces and the indigenous Zapatista rebels.

The first Thanksgiving most likely took place in 1621 at Plymouth Colony, Mass. The living history museum there recently showcased the spiritual music of both the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians.

The rise of actor Rainn Wilson to prominence should provide some comfort to awkward adolescents everywhere. Wilson was a bassoonist, Dungeon-and-Dragons…

For people familiar with the Urban Ecology Center, the name Ken Leinbach is often mentioned in the same breathe.Today, the center shines bright as a model…

Since the head of the NAACP in Spokane, Washington, stepped down in the wake of a revelation that she is not African-American (as she claimed), a national…

WUWM has been taking a comprehensive look at some of the many issues caused by segregation in Milwaukee through our series, Project Milwaukee: Segregation…

A Wisconsinite impacted by the Trump Administration’s USAID freeze. New efforts to support young people experiencing homelessness. An entomologist changes hearts and minds on insect importance.

Many people in America are living in fear. When the Trump administration announced deportation raids in major U.S. cities, some communities were thrown…

Lake Effect essayist Young Kim say coercing food stamp recipients to buy only “healthy food” is the wrong way to go about it.Assembly Bill 110 is wending…