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Demonstrators took to the streets in cities and towns across Wisconsin Saturday for a “No Kings” protest designed to rebuke what organizers call a “dictator-like” birthday display from President Donald Trump.

Over 50 other protests are planned in Wisconsin as part of the national movement, which falls on the same day that Trump will hold a massive military parade in Washington D.C.

Trump’s reinstated travel ban took effect on Monday. A refugee who resettled in 2021 told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” that this and other moves are causing uncertainty for Afghan refugees in Wisconsin and abroad.

The Orion Initiative is a new program offered by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health that aims to expand advanced medical training to rural communities. 

Southern Wisconsin has been seeing some of the worst air quality in the nation Wednesday as smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to blanket much of the state.

In a new book, Eau Claire-based authors curate 11 road trips to take readers to different regions across Wisconsin.

A new book traces changes to America’s farming community through more than half of the 20th century. Author Peter Simons told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” that Midwestern farmers became a key to America’s ascent to power in the 1900s.

The six Chinese survivors of the Titanic were attacked in the press for surviving the shipwreck. One of them later settled in Milwaukee, and his story of survival was almost lost, even to his son.

The school has partnered with the Waukesha-based mental health provider Empathia for crisis response support.

Diver and inventor Max Gene Nohl’s memoir sat in the Milwaukee Public Library archives for more than six decades. Now, it’s finally being published.