Joe Kelly
Widow sues Amtrak over husband’s death in Montana train derailment
The widow of a man that was killed in an Amtrak train derailment in Montana over the weekend sued the federally subsidized passenger train corporation and another railroad company on Tuesday, seeking unspecified damages for their alleged role in her husband’s death.
Wisconsin tribes sue to stop fall wolf hunt; inflated kill quota, tribal rights
The tribes’ complaint filed in Madison federal court says the wolf hunt planned to start on Nov. 6 and its inflated kill quota violate multiple long-standing tribal rights as held by treaties they signed with the federal government in 1837 and 1842.
Biden accepts presidential nomination as Democrats rally behind him
Seeking a path out of historic chaos and back to the promise of America, Democrats stressed the vitality of voting and threw their support behind former Vice President Joe Biden as he accepted the party’s presidential nomination.
Poll finds Trump voters support protections for Dreamers
Sixty-eight percent of Republican respondents, for example, said they support Dreamers, with 71% of conservatives and 64% of people who approve of the job Trump is doing also coming out against deporting those who arrived illegally as children.
Wisconsin Democrats introduce universal background check bill on all gun sales
Wisconsin Democrats threw down the gauntlet over gun control Thursday, introducing a bill that would require universal background checks for nearly all firearm sales and calling on state Republicans to act in kind.