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About a decade ago, a young couple from the city of Beitunia in Palestine’s West Bank fled conflict in the Middle East and moved to the United States, where their new start seemed especially promising six years ago when they welcomed a baby boy.

The boy, Wadea Al-Fayoume, grew to love “everything” and “everybody,” his father recalled Sunday.

But the violence they escaped found

MADISON (WKOW) -- Gov. Tony Evers has called a special session to address the "unmitigated crisis" of Wisconsin's workforce challenges. At the core of the special session is to help working families by stabilizing the state's childcare industry and make it affordable, as well as and expanding paid family leave. Evers also noted that despite the state's historically low unemployment, Wisconsin

The Federal Reserve continued its aggressive rate-hiking campaign on Wednesday but opened the door to keeping rates flat at future meetings—a sign the central bank may believe risking more unease in the banking sector could pose a greater threat to the economy than lingering high inflation. The Fed began raising rates as inflation reached a 40-year high last March, but expectations for the

In Hawaii, the head of Maui’s Emergency Management Agency resigned, citing health reasons, one week after the deadly wildfires started and one day after Herman Andaya defended not sounding sirens to warn people as the flames engulfed thousands of homes and businesses. Officials have now identified six victims as the death toll of 111 is expected to rise over the coming days. Meanwhile,