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Nicholas Hitchon, who aged seven years at a time in the ‘Up’ documentaries, dies at 65
In an undated image provided by Michael Forster Rothbart/UW-Madison, Nicholas Hitchon teaching a class in electromagnetism and conductivity at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Hitchon, whose life was chronicled in the acclaimed ÒUpÓ series of British documentaries, beginning when he was a boy in the English countryside in 1964 and continuing through the decades as he grew to become a researcher and professor at the University of Wisconsin, died on July 23, 2023, in Madison, Wis. He was 65. (Michael Forster Rothbart/UW-Madison via The New York Times) Ñ NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY OBIT HITCHON BY NEIL GENZLINGER FOR AUG. 28, 2023. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. Ñ
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Enbridge, Bad River Indigenous band both appealing Line 5 court ruling in Wisconsin
This photo taken in October 2016 shows an aboveground section of Enbridge's Line 5 at the Mackinaw City, Mich., pump station. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-John Flesher
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Judge not inclined to shut down pipeline, pleads with Wisconsin tribe to work with oil company
Fresh nuts, bolts and fittings are ready to be added to the east leg of the pipeline near St. Ignace as Enbridge prepares to test the east and west sides of the Line 5 pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac in Mackinaw City, Mich. on June 8, 2017. North America’s existential debate about the virtues and dangers of oil and gas pipelines faces a critical test today in Wisconsin. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Detroit News, Dale G Young
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Liberal wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, swinging court toward abortion rights
Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz speaks to the media after voting at Franklin City Hall in Wisconsin's Supreme Court election, in Franklin, Wisconsin, U.S., April 4, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
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Abortion rights at stake in Wisconsin Supreme Court election
Demonstrators gather for a Bigger Than Roe rally after participating in a womenÕs march for abortion rights, at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
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Abortion activists rally 50 years after Roe v. Wade decision
From left, Jessica Dils and Wendy Penner attend a Berkshire Democratic Brigades Roe v. Wade 50th anniversary rally at Park Square in Pittsfield, Mass., on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023. (Gillian Jones/The Berkshire Eagle via AP)
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Suspect in Wisconsin parade attack withdraws insanity plea
Darrell Brooks Jr., left, speaks with his attorney Jeremy Perri, during a jury status hearing on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022 in Waukesha County Court in Waukesha, Wis. Brooks, accused of killing six people and injuring dozens of others when he allegedly drove his SUV through a Christmas parade in Wisconsin last year, withdrew his insanity plea Friday. (Scott Ash/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)
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Wisconsin judge rules against Enbridge on Line 5 pipeline, but stops short of shutdown
FILE - Nuts, bolts and fittings are ready to be added to the east leg of the pipeline near St. Ignace, Mich., as Enbridge Inc., prepares to test the east and west sides of the Line 5 pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac in Mackinaw City, Mich., June 8, 2017. A federal judge Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022, kept jurisdiction over a lawsuit seeking to close the oil pipeline crossing a section of the Great Lakes, rejecting Michigan's effort to shift the case to state court. (Dale G Young/Detroit News via AP, File)
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Canada invokes 1977 pipeline treaty with U.S. in separate Line 5 dispute
The Mackinac Bridge spans the Straits of Mackinac from Mackinaw City, Mich., July 19, 2002. A Michigan judge has ruled in favour of Enbridge Inc. in its long-standing dispute with the state over the Line 5 cross-border pipeline. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Carlos Osorio
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Lightning strike near White House leaves two dead, two injured
In this photo provided by @dcfireems, emergency medical crews are staged on Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and Lafayette Park, Thursday evening, Aug. 4, 2022 in Washington. Two people who were critically injured in a lightning strike in Lafayette Park outside the White House have died, police said Friday. Two others remained hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. (@dcfireems via AP)
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Amid threats, security rises at meetings of U.S. public officials
A security guard stands watch on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at a gathering of the National Association of State Election Directors, which met under heightened security for its summer conference in Madison, Wisconsin. Organizers said they were working with federal, state and local law enforcement to ensure the gathering was safe, as election officials have faced increasing threats since the 2020 presidential election. (AP Photo/Harm Venhuizen)
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How polarization in the U.S. thwarts state-level efforts to toughen red flag laws
Visitor look over a memorial to the seven people killed and others injured in Monday's Fourth of July mass shooting at the Highland Park War Memorial in Highland Park, Ill., Thursday, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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Democrats swiftly raised US$80M after court overturned Roe v. Wade
FILE - A man holds a sign as community members walk around Vander Veer Park during a march following the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, June 26, 2022, in Davenport, Iowa. Democrats and their aligned groups raised more than $80 million in the week after the Supreme Court stripped away a woman’s constitutional right to have an abortion. The flood of cash offers one of the first tangible signs of how the ruling may energize voters. (Nikos Frazier/Quad City Times via AP)
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Gretchen Whitmer, Mitch McConnell were among gunman targets, spokesman and source say
This March 17, 2020, photo provided by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections shows Douglas K. Uhde, who is suspected in the shooting death of retired Juneau, Wis., County Judge John Roemer. (Wisconsin Department of Corrections via AP)
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White House, senators have ‘sympathy’ for Canada’s position on Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline: Wilkinson
Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, April 8, 2022. Canada’s natural resources minister says he is hearing “significant sympathy” from U.S. officials for the plight of the Line 5 pipeline. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Conservatives urge Ottawa to intervene in new threat to Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline from Indigenous band in Wisconsin
FILE PHOTO: General view of the Imperial Oil refinery, located near Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada March 20, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio/File Photo
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Closing arguments next in Michigan Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot
Mich. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at a news conference on Friday, March 11, 2022, at the governor's office in Lansing, Mich. Gov. Whitmer signed legislation to let the Michigan Parole Board wait five years to review parole for certain inmates. (AP Photo/David Eggert)
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Winnipeg Jets re-acquire Mason Appleton from Seattle Kraken for 4th-round draft pick
Seattle Kraken center Mason Appleton (22) skates against the Arizona Coyotes during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Seattle, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. The Jets have acquired forward Appleton from the Seattle Kraken for a fourth-round pick in the 2023 NHL draft. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Ted S. Warren
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Wisconsin’s Democratic governor Tony Evers vetoes Republican abortion bills
FILE - In this June 20, 2019, file photo, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, surrounded by Democratic lawmakers and members of his Cabinet at a Capitol news conference, is urging Republicans who control the Legislature to pass a state budget that includes Medicaid expansion and more money for schools, in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin's conservative-controlled Supreme Court on Friday, June 21, 2019, upheld lame-duck laws limiting the powers of Democratic Gov. Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul, handing Republican lawmakers a resounding victory. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)
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Multiple people dead after SUV plows through Wisconsin Christmas parade
Police tape cordons off a street in Waukesha, Wis., after a vehicle plowed into a Christmas parade hitting more than 20 people Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
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Hundreds protest Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal across the U.S.
Demonstrators march in protest of the not guilty verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial in Chicago, Illinois, November 20, 2021. - Kyle Rittenhouse, the US teen acquitted after fatally shooting two men during protests and riots against police brutality in Wisconsin last year, said self-defense is "not illegal" after being cleared, as the verdict reverberated across America. On Friday, a jury found the 18-year-old Rittenhouse not guilty of reckless and intentional homicide and other charges stemming from the August 2020 shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP) (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Protesters maintain blockade at Line 3 pipeline construction site in Minnesota
A demonstrator lifts his fist during a march towards the Mississippi headwaters on the third day of the Treaty People Gathering, an organized protest of the Line 3 pipeline, built by Enbridge Energy, in Solway, Minnesota, U.S., June 7, 2021. Picture taken June 7, 2021. REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi
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Hundreds attend Minnesota protest against Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline
Faith leaders gather for an interfaith prayer gathering before a day of protest action against the Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline at LaSalle Lake State Recreation Area on Monday, June 7, 2021. (Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)
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Opponents of Enbridge’s Line 3 gear up for large protest in northern Minnesota
Sections of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline are seen on the construction site on the White Earth Nation Reservation near Wauburn, Minnesota, on June 5, 2021. - Indigenous leaders and climate activists are gathering in northern Minnesota to protest the construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline. Line 3 is an oil sands pipeline which runs from Hardisty, Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin in the United States. In 2014, a new route for the Line 3 pipeline was proposed to allow an increased volume of oil to be transported daily. While that project has been approved in Canada, Wisconsin, and North Dakota, it has sparked continued resistance from climate justice groups and Native American communities in Minnesota. While many people are concerned about potential oil spills along Line 3, some Native American communities in Minnesota have opposed the project on the basis of treaty rights. (Photo by Kerem YUCEL / AFP) (Photo by KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Three dead, two wounded in shooting at Kenosha County, Wis., tavern, sheriff says
Officials investigate the scene of a deadly shooting at Somers House Tavern in Kenosha, Wis., Sunday, April 18, 2021. Several people were killed and two were seriously wounded in a shooting at the busy tavern in southeastern Wisconsin early Sunday, sheriff's officials said. (Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)
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U.S. Supreme Court rejects last of Trump’s election appeals
The U.S. Supreme Court, in Washington, on Nov. 2, 2020.
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Brookfield weighs IPO for Clarios at $20-billion valuation
Shares in Vancouver-based Acadian Timber Corp. continue to drop in value after Brookfield Asset Management Inc. sold its 45 per cent stake in the timberland operator to privately held Macer Forest Holdings Inc., of Toronto. Brookfield Asset Management's Senior Managing Partner and CEO Bruce Flatt attends the company's AGM in Toronto on Wednesday, May 6, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Teen charged in Wisconsin protest shootings pleads not guilty on all counts
In this screen grab from live stream video, Kyle Rittenhouse, left, appears with his attorney, Mark Richards in Richards office in Racine, Wis., during a hearing at Kenosha County Court in Kenosha, Wis., on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. Rittenhouse, an Illinois teenager who fatally shot two people and wounded a third amidst sometimes violent summer protests on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges including intentional homicide. (Kenosha County Court via AP)
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No charges against Wisconsin officer who shot Jacob Blake
Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley speaks at a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Kenosha, Wis. Graveley announced that no charges will be filed against the Wisconsin officer who shot Jacob Blake. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
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Court affirms ruling dismissing Trump challenge in Wisconsin
(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 3, 2020 US President Donald Trump speaks before awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to retired football coach Lou Holtz in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. - An angry backlash December 23 met US President Donald Trump's pardons of corrupt Republican congressmen and security guards convicted of killing 14 civilians in a 2007 Baghdad massacre. Trump is believed to be weighing other pardons including members of his family, his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and potentially himself, to protect from potential litigation after he steps down on January 20. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Wisconsin Supreme Court tosses Trump’s election lawsuit
U.S. President Donald Trump departs from the South Lawn at the White House, in Washington, on Dec. 12, 2020.
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Trump loses Wisconsin lawsuit in latest legal defeat
FILE - President Donald Trump, left, remains on stage as then-Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, right, walks away Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. President Trump's extraordinary effort to overturn Joe Biden's win in Wisconsin returns to the courtroom on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 with hearings in federal and state lawsuits seeking to invalidate hundreds of thousands of ballots and give the GOP-controlled Legislature the power to name Trump the winner. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, file)