Gov. Scott Walker planned on Tuesday to sign into law a $200 million measure designed to stabilize Wisconsin's health-insurance market under the Affordable Care Act, even though his fellow Republican, Attorney General Brad Schimel, was taking the lead on a new multi-state lawsuit to block the federal law.

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President Donald Trump says he's signing a new executive order "streamlining" the federal permitting process to speed up the construction of transportation, water and other sorts of projects without harming the environment.

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Wisconsin’s solicitor general is arguing before the District of Columbia Circuit Court on Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging the enforcement of President Barack Obama’s plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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A Wisconsin road builder is warning that a recent presidential executive order will ride roughshod over agreements his company has reached with unions over compensation for employee sick leave and other benefits.

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A new study finds that insurance companies will have to pay out an average of 32 percent more for medical claims under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

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President Barack Obama and his officials are doing their best to drum up public concern over the shock wave of spending cuts that could strike the government in just days. So it's a good time to be alert for sky-is-falling hype.

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Prominent environmental leaders, including the head of the Sierra Club, were arrested Wednesday after tying themselves to the White House gate to protest the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

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In its first major regulation since the election, the Obama administration will impose a new air quality standard that reduces by 20 percent the maximum amount of soot released into the air from smokestacks, diesel trucks and other sources of pollution.

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President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney made their last stands of the 2012 campaign Monday, employing their last vestiges of energy, celebrity boosters and plenty of jet fuel to encourage every supporter and the few remaining undecideds to tip the vote in their favor.

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Here are a few items that largely have been missing from the presidential campaign: planes, trains, roads and bridges.

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