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An Illinois man has been identified as the suspect in the shooting death of a UW-Whitewater student Kara Welsh, Whitewater police confirmed Tuesday. Chad Richards, 23, is expected to be charged with first-degree intentional homicide, endangering safety by use of a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct while armed. At 11:54PM Aug. 30, Whitewater police say Kara Welsh, 21, of Plainfield, Ill., was shot and killed in an apartment located at 147 West Whitewater Street, #203. Chad Richards is expected in court today.     https://www.wisconsinrightnow.com/chad-richards-suspect-identified-in-the-shooting-death-of-a-uw-whitewater-student-kara-welsh/?feed_id=19164&_unique_id=66d73d5a2ff5a

An American hostage, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, was horrifically executed by Hamas while America's President, Joe Biden, sat on a beach for two weeks, and his Vice President Kamala Harris rambled incoherently about a ceasefire on CNN. The time to help Goldberh-Polin has sadly passed. However, there are four American hostages still held by Hamas who may be alive , according to the American Jewish Committee. The site lists three other American hostages as still being held by Hamas too, but they are believed to be deceased; those three made the list because it's believed their bodies are being held by Hamas. [caption id="attachment_210794" align="alignnone" width="1024"] The four American hostages still held by Hamas.[/caption] The other four, if still alive, can still be saved. We are old enough to remember when American hostages were household names - think, Daniel Pearl or Terry Anderson. Today? It's remarkably difficult to find an accurate

In a mirror of national politics, California Republicans followed former President Donald Trump’s lead by proposing to end taxes on tips. While Vice President Kamala Harris, who formerly represented California in the U.S. Senate, embraced the measure, California Democrats said no, shooting down the proposed amendment in the California Senate. “Even Trump and Harris both say we should eliminate the ‘tip tax,’” said the California Senate Republican Caucus in a statement. Soon after Trump announced his proposal to a crowd in Nevada, which has the highest percentage of tipped workers in the nation, Harris also came out in favor of the proposal. The Budget Lab at Yale University reports there are approximately 4 million tipped workers — 2.5% of all workers nationwide. Many tipped workers earn less than the minimum wage, and thus earn the lion's share of their income from tips. Some higher-paid tipped professions such as barbers and hair stylists would also benefit from this rule

Vice President Kamala Harris was once anti-fracking and opposed to former President Donald Trump’s tough immigration policies. Now, it’s apparently a different story. In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash this week, Harris was asked about the change in her stance on fracking. Fracking is a major industry and economic driver in the swing state of Pennsylvania, a state where Harris is up a slim 0.8%, according to Real Clear Politics’ polling average. Harris said during a town hall in 2019 that there is “no question” she supports banning fracking. During the CNN interview, Harris said she does not want to ban fracking and that she “made that clear on the debate stage in 2020.” “As vice president I did not ban fracking, and as president I will not ban fracking,” Harris said. Harris has previously said she supports a ban on fracking, offshore drilling, and plastic straws. She also said she supports passing the Green New Deal, which includes a treasure trove of far-left energy po

A new Emerson College poll of likely voters reveals some changes in Midwest swing states. Former President Donald Trump has a slim lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin, 49% to 48%, while Harris slightly widened her lead over Trump in Michigan at 50% to 47%. Independent voters are largely veering towards Harris, with 46% of Michigan Independents choosing Harris, versus 43% for Trump. In Wisconsin, the divide is starker, with 52% choosing Harris and 43% Trump. Defying previous trends , Republican U.S. Senate candidate for Wisconsin Eric Hovde has improved to 48%, only 1 percentage point behind incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin, his opponent. “We’ve had huge movement in the last 30 days,” Hovde said in a video on X following the poll’s release. “Wisconsin is the number one battleground. Whoever wins Wisconsin will control the White House, and if I win, we’ll not only take control of the U.S. Senate for the next two years, but potentially for the next four years.” Sup

Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook is actively censoring criticism of Vice President Kamala Harris's CNN interview in the key battleground of Wisconsin just 66 days before the presidential election. That's despite the fact that Zuckerberg admitted that the Biden-Harris administration and FBI pressured Meta (Facebook) to censor posts and expressed regret over how Facebook handled such censorship. Why is he saying one thing to Congress while his platform does another? What Facebook did: In the hours after Harris's widely-panned interview, the platform has repeatedly removed posts of our critical analysis piece, which criticized Harris's performance. The headline on the removed piece - a rather tame column which has been inexplicably given the New York Post-Hunter Biden laptop treatment by Facebook - reads, Yes, Kamala Harris’s CNN Interview Was a Total Train Wreck [VIDEO] Read it here. Facebook notified us that the story violated its community standards on &quo

Kamala Harris and her emotional support governor, Tim Walz, sat down for her only interview during the campaign. We watched all 26 minutes or so of the pre-recorded CNN interview so you don't have to, although, if you want to, we've put the full videos at the end of this story. Was it a train wreck? Yes, because the interview gives Harris's foes a lot of legitimate fodder, reminds voters that, oh yeah, she's currently in office now, and didn't help her overall. So that hurts her. Harris, the vice president in an unpopular administration, wasn't able to sever herself from the Biden-Harris agenda in the interview (because it's the Biden-HARRIS administration). She called it "transformative" and essentially supported "Bidenomics." This also hurts her. She's been able to dishonestly reposition as the "change agent" when she's not asked questions about the past four years. That changed tonight. https://twitter.com/Plane