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MILWAUKEE -- Milwaukee Health Department officials are responding to protests -- and offering an explanation as to why they are prohibiting in-person learning in the city.

WASHINGTON -- After being photographed wearing a face mask only once before amid the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 140,000 Americans, President Donald Trump finally promoted the preventative measure on Monday.“We are United in our effort to defeat the Invisible China Virus, and many people say that it is Patriotic to wear a face mask when you can’t socially distance," President Trump wrote on Twitter. “There is nobody more Patriotic than me, your favorite President!”President Trump Trump’s message was accompanied by a black and white image of him wearing a face covering.

MADISON — Teachers unions for Wisconsin's five largest school districts asked Gov.

MADISON -- Gov.

WASHINGTON -- Linkin Park is the latest music act to join the list of artists banning their music from President  Donald Trump's reelection campaign.The band issued a cease and desist after their hit song "In the End" was featured in a video shared by White House social media director Dan Scavino and retweeted by President Trump."Linkin Park did not and does not endorse Trump, nor authorize his organization to use any of our music," a Saturday tweet from the band's official Twitter reads. "A cease and desist has been issued."The video has now been disabled on Twitter "in response to a report by the copyright owner," a notice from the site says, replacing the video.

WASHINGTON -- Coronavirus infected the election.

MILWAUKEE -- White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Fox News Sunday, July 19 mentioned Milwaukee when speaking about the national unrest and the federal response.“It’s really about keeping our communities safe, and the president's committed to do that," said Meadows. "Some of the unrest we saw even in the last month or so, particularly last night and the week leading up to it in Portland, it’s not acceptable when you look at communities not being safe and not upholding the rule of law, so Attorney General Barr is weighing in on that with Secretary Wolfe, and you’ll see something rolled out this week as we start to go in and make sure the communities, whether it’s Chicago, or Portland, or Milwaukee, or someplace across the heartland of the country -- we need to make sure that our communities are safe.”

President Trump, in an exclusive interview with Fox News, challenged his critics on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, threatened a veto for the defense bill, and speculated on whether he will accept the results if his Democratic challenger wins the presidency in November.

LOS ANGELES -- Roger Stone, a political operative whose 40-month prison sentence was commuted this month by President Donald Trump, his longtime friend, used the racial slur “Negro” on-air while verbally sparring with a Los Angeles-based Black radio host.The exchange occurred on Saturday's Mo'Kelly Show, whose host - Morris O'Kelly - grilled Stone on his conviction for lying to Congress, tampering with witnesses and obstructing the House investigation into whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election.O’Kelly on his program's website said “Stone could have reached for any pejorative, but unfortunately went there,” adding that “Stone offered an unfiltered, unvarnished one-sentence expression of how he saw the journalist interviewing him.”O’Kelly characterized “Negro” as the “low-calorie version of the N-Word.”Stone's attorney on Sunday said he was unaware of the broadcast and had no immediate comment.Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison, but President Trump commuted that sentence on July 10 — just days before Stone was to report for detention.As O'Kelly asserted that Stone's commutation was because of his friendship with President Trump, Stone's voice goes faint but can be heard uttering that he was “arguing with this Negro.”O’Kelly then asks Stone to repeat the comment, but Stone goes momentarily silent.The first part of Stone's statement was not entirely audible, but the radio program transcribed the complete sentences as, "I can’t believe I’m arguing with this Negro.”O'Kelly persisted on having Stone respond."I'm sorry you're arguing with whom?

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump announced the allocation of new federal funding on Friday, July 17 for the 9/11 Memorial and Museum."I am proud to announce $2 million for the @Sept11Memorial in NYC!," he tweeted. "This special site ensures that the memory of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as those lost in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, will never be forgotten!"

WILMINGTON, Del. -- Joe Biden on Friday, July 17 announced a five-step guideline "based on science" to support local decision-making on reopening schools to help students whose learning was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The NBA’s MVP race is over.

HAMDEN, Conn. -- As new cases of the coronavirus soar in much of the nation, a new national poll now shows Democratic challenger Joe Biden leading President Donald Trump by 15 percentage points.

WASHINGTON — After weeks of wrangling, the Pentagon on Friday will ban displays of the Confederate flag on military installations, in a carefully worded policy that doesn't mention the word ban or that specific flag.

LOS ANGELES -- TMZ reports that Danica Patrick has unfollowed Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers on Instagram.

MADISON — Wisconsin's unemployment rate dropped to 8.5% in June — a bit of good news that came Thursday as Democratic lawmakers released proposals to remove obstacles and broaden access to unemployment benefits.The jobless numbers also came as Gov.

MADISON, Wis. — Gov.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is ready to roll back a foundational Nixon-era environmental law that he says stifles infrastructure projects, but that is credited with ensuring decades of scrutiny of major projects and giving local communities a say.President Trump was traveling to Atlanta on Wednesday to formally announce changes to the National Environmental Policy Act's regulations for how and when authorities must conduct environmental reviews, making it easier to build highways, pipelines, chemical plants and other projects.