Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, is facing backlash after he blocked a GOP-led measure that would have prevented transgender students in the state from competing on school sports teams that do not align with their biological sex. Evers said the bill he vetoed “fails to comport with our Wisconsin values” in a letter Tuesday to state lawmakers. Assembly Bill 377 passed through both chambers of the state’s...

California progressives want to block a new bill that would recriminalize street loitering for the purpose of prostitution. SB 1219, authored by state Republican Sen. Kelly Seyarto, would reinstitute a provision previously taken out of California’s penal code that prohibited loitering in a public place.  San Francisco Democrat Scott Wiener previously authored that bill, known as SB 357, or the Safer Streets for All Act. Gov. Gavin Newsom...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Donald Trump is turning up the volume as he accuses President Biden of failing to protect Americans from violent crime that the former president says is being committed by illegal immigrants and deadly drugs pouring over the nation’s southern border with Mexico. Trump fired numerous salvos at his successor in the White House during a campaign stop Tuesday in this city in western Michigan. ...