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3 weeks ago | 
waukradio.com | Laura Bergh |Teri Barr |Eric Genrich |James Kelly
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WAUK) – The Milwaukee Elections Commission issued an apology Wednesday following ballot shortages at polling locations during Tuesday’s spring election. Historic voter turnout, driven by a state Supreme Court race, caused delays and long lines, with some voters waiting hours or leaving without casting their ballots. In a statement, the commission acknowledged the inconvenience and pledged to adjust ballot estimates for future elections.
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3 weeks ago | 
bbc.com | James Kelly |Leyla Hayes
Private-hire drivers struggling over TfL glitchJames W Kelly & Leyla HayesBBCMuddassar Iqbal says being off the road has put him in financial hardshipDrivers are being made homeless and facing financial hardship because a technical glitch has caused their private-hire licence renewals to be delayed. A new licensing system by Transport for London (TfL) is experiencing issues which is impacting the processing times of licence renewals or updates.
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4 weeks ago | 
waukradio.com | Savanna Tomei-Olson |Jimmie Kaska |Jo Ann Krulatz |James Kelly
The National Institutes of Health employee said she knew things would be difficult for federal workers after Donald Trump was elected. But she never imagined it would be like this. Focused on Alzheimer’s and other dementia research, the worker is among thousands who abruptly lost their jobs in the Trump administration’s federal workforce purge.
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4 weeks ago | 
civicmedia.us | Melissa Kaye |James Kelly |Judith Ruiz-Branch |Stuart Wattles
The National Institutes of Health employee said she knew things would be difficult for federal workers after Donald Trump was elected. But she never imagined it would be like this. Focused on Alzheimer’s and other dementia research, the worker is among thousands who abruptly lost their jobs in the Trump administration’s federal workforce purge.
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1 month ago | 
civicmedia.us | Hallie Claflin |Joe Timmerman |Jimmie Kaska |James Kelly
A year ago, a new head of Social Security set out to stop the agency from financially devastating many of the people it was meant to help. The agency had long made it a practice to reduce or halt benefit checks to recoup billions of dollars in payments it sent recipients but later said they never should have received.
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1 month ago | 
civicmedia.us | Mike Moen |Jo Ann Krulatz |Stuart Wattles |James Kelly
Few voters likely expected President Donald Trump in the first weeks of his administration to slash billions of dollars from the nation’s premier federal cancer research agency. But funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health were presaged in Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership,” a conservative plan for governing that Trump said he knew nothing about during his campaign. Now, his administration has embraced it.
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2 months ago | 
civicmedia.us | Judith Ruiz-Branch |Tim Thiede |Jo Ann Krulatz |James Kelly
Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness, fevers, vomiting, and other flu-like symptoms. She’s desperate for information, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a critical source of urgent analyses of the flu and other public health threats, has gone quiet in the weeks since President Donald Trump took office. “Without more information, we are blind,” she said.
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2 months ago | 
civicmedia.us | James Kelly |Laura Bergh |Stuart Wattles |Peter Cameron
Max Schachter wanted to be close to his son Alex on his birthday, July 9, so he watched old videos of him. “It put a smile on my face to see him so happy,” Schachter said. Alex would have turned 21 that day, six years after he and 16 other children and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were shot and killed by a former student in 2018.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Dominic Casciani |James Kelly
Policing has been left in a "hopeless position", Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said, after the High Court ruled the force could not dismiss officers by removing their vetting clearance. The ruling came after Sgt Lino Di Maria mounted a legal challenge after having his vetting removed following sexual assault allegations, which he denied and was not charged over.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Gem O'Reilly |James Kelly
A new weaving has been unveiled at an east London Overground station to mark the naming of the line. The framed roundel is mounted above the stairs leading to the two Weaver line platforms at Hackney Downs station. It was made by artist Dalia James, who brought together individual pieces created by members of the public during workshops at Chingford Community Hub. James, who was born and raised in east London, said she was proud to "incorporate the community's work" into the final piece.
