Morning Headlines - Friday, Oct. 11, 2024

Start your day informed with today’s must-read headlines from around Wisconsin and the world. And don’t forget to check out our Meme of the Day and the end for a little humor to go with your news!

U.S. and World Headlines

Hurricane Milton Leaves Path Of Destruction Across Florida, At Least 16 Dead

• Hurricane Milton made landfall near Siesta Key, Florida, Wednesday night as a Category 3 storm.
• At least 16 people died from the storm, officials confirmed to CBS News.
• Milton moved across the Florida peninsula Thursday and over the Atlantic Ocean.
• More than 2.5 million customers were without power in Florida on Thursday.

TD Bank Pleads Guilty In Money Laundering Case, Will Pay $3 Billion In Penalties

• TD Bank pleaded guilty in a criminal money laundering case and agreed to pay a whopping $3 billion in fines and other penalties to the Department of Justice and federal financial regulators to settle a probe over its failure to monitor money laundering by drug cartels.
• TD Bank is also set to accept limits on its growth as part of the settlement.
• The restrictions on TD Bank’s growth would be similar to those imposed by the Federal Reserve on Wells Fargo in 2018.

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Nihon Hidankyo For Group's Work Toward Abolition Of Nuclear Weapons

• Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese anti-nuclear weapons group, has won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work toward the abolition of nuclear weapons.
• "This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in their announcement.

Democrats Fear Harris Losing Too Many Male Voters To Trump

• Democrats are worried that Vice President Harris is failing to make inroads with men in the final weeks of the presidential campaign.
• A string of polls out this week show that while Harris is outperforming former President Trump with women, she is not moving the needle with male voters, in some cases trailing the former president by more than a dozen points in battleground state polls.
• “I don’t think people understand what a big problem we have on our hands with men,” one prominent Democratic strategist said. “Black men, Hispanic men, men in general.

Worst U.S. Whooping Cough Outbreak In A Decade Has Infected Thousands

• Whooping cough is spreading nationwide at the highest levels since 2014.
• There have been more than 16,000 cases this year — more than four times as many compared to the same time last year — and two confirmed deaths.
• And experts are concerned that the outbreak could worsen in the fall and winter months.

Wisconsin Headlines

Baldwin, Hovde And Top Issues In Wisconsin's US Senate Race

• The top two candidates in Wisconsin’s 2024 race for U.S. Senate were both born and raised in Madison.
• Both say their primary reason for running is to help their fellow Wisconsinites and Americans.
• But that’s where the similarities end.

Karofsky Questions Whether Supreme Court Has Too Broadly Interpreted Governors’ Veto Powers

• Liberal Justice Jill Karofsky expressed concerns the state Supreme Court has for too long broadly interpreted governors’ partial veto powers and wondered if Dem Tony Evers’ move to extend school revenue caps for 400 years is a bridge too far.
• But Assistant Attorney General Colin Roth during oral arguments yesterday said court precedent supports Evers’ move in the 2023-25 state budget to strike out individual numbers and a hyphen to push back a sunset to 2425 rather than 2024-25 as the Legislature intended.

Green Bay Spent Years Rehashing The 2020 Election. Now, The City Is Bracing For November

• In early September, Green Bay City Clerk Celestine Jeffreys sat in a conference room for a dry run of what a “man-made” threat to public safety on Election Day might look like.
• The training brought together officials from the City Attorney’s Office to the Green Bay Metro Fire Department, not to mention representatives from the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
• The exercise was led by a facilitator from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Ho-Chunk Nation Flag Raised Over City-County Building In Madison

• The Ho-Chunk Nation flag is flying at the City-County Building in downtown Madison.
• The flag raising ceremony on Thursday honored the Ho-Chunk Nation's history and culture.
• Dane County board supervisor Rick Rose emphasized the significance of flying the Ho-Chunk flag alongside the U.S. flag.

LGBTQ Advocacy Groups Accuse Four Wisconsin School Boards Of Fostering ‘Hostile’ Environments

• Two advocacy groups, Fair Wisconsin and GSAFE, announced Wednesday they’ve filed a federal complaint against four Wisconsin school districts.
• The two groups say the Winneconne Community School District, Muskego-Norway Schools, the School District of Abbotsford, and Hartford Union High School District have fostered a “hostile” environment in violation of Title IX.
• Fair Wisconsin and GSAFE said they filed the complaints with the Office for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Education on behalf of trans and nonbinary students, educators, staff, and families.