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Multiple children playing with plastic ring toss toys are seen in silhouette from below, illuminated by sunrays in a courtyard surrounded by buildings and under foliage and a partly cloudy sky.

Locked out of federal funding, several Head Start preschools in Wisconsin and elsewhere may need to close temporarily

Talib Akbar on prison and isolation as forms of punishment

Talib Akbar on prison and isolation as forms of punishment

Elon Musk holds both of his arms up in the air and makes fists while standing behind an out-of-focus Donald Trump, who is speaking into a microphone mounted to a podium, with out-of-focus people seated and standing in the background.

Elon Musk tightens grip on the federal government as Democrats raise alarms

Kenneth Ginlack looks to his left while standing behind a wood railing in front of a building with wood pillars.

Milwaukee is losing a generation of Black men to the opioid crisis

Sylvia Ortiz-Velez and Frederica Freyberg sit facing each other on the Here & Now set.

‘Here & Now’ Highlights: State Rep. Sylvia Ortiz-Velez, Jane Graham Jennings, Chairman Tehassi Hill

Rep. Sylvia Ortiz-Velez on state policy addressing ICE raids

Rep. Sylvia Ortiz-Velez on state policy addressing ICE raids

A still image from a video shows Tehassi Hill seated in front of a U.S. flag to his right and a black picture frame on a wall to his left with a graphic at bottom reading 'Oneida,' 'Chairman Tehassi Hill' and 'Oneida Nation.'

Chairman Tehassi Hill on Trump’s orders and Tribal nations

A still image from a video shows Jane Graham Jennings seated in front of a wall with various framed art and chairs in the background with a graphic at bottom reading 'Wausau,' 'Jane Graham Jennings' and 'The Women's Community of Wausau.'

Jane Graham Jennings on impacts of freezes on federal grants

A mobile prison cell exposes solitary confinement conditions

A mobile prison cell exposes solitary confinement conditions

Brian Hagedorn faces a microphone while sitting in a high-backed leather chair.

Hagedorn steps aside in the Act 10 case the Wisconsin Supreme Court could hear

Sean Duffy gestures with his right hand while speaking outdoors, with out-of-focus people standing behind him.

Who is Sean Duffy, the new transportation secretary responding to the DCA plane-helicopter crash?

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