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The Wisconsin Department of Revenue has issued notice that it intends to revoke the brewer’s permit for Minocqua Brewing Co., a left-wing brewery that gained national attention for pledging free beer the day President Trump dies. Owner Kirk Bangstad said in a Substack post that he received notice two weeks ago that the state planned to revoke his brewer’s permit effective Aug. 4. Wisconsin Public Radio reported the Department of Revenue confirmed it issued revocation notices for the company’s Minocqua and Madison locations, along with an alcohol beverage warehouse permit for one site. The department told the outlet Mr. Bangstad…

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has published a searchable database naming and listing the addresses of wealthy New York City property owners who may owe the city’s new pied-a-terre tax, drawing criticism from real estate groups and Republican strategists who say the move creates serious privacy and safety risks. The city’s Department of Finance released the database, which lists properties that may be subject to the surcharge, along with the names and addresses of their owners. A Department of Finance spokesperson said publication of the roll is required under state law, adding that the agency will use the list to identify…

Newly released audio tapes, disclosed by a conservative activist group, appear to show Joe Biden sharing classified information with a biographer and sometimes claiming memory lapses during interviews that occurred before his election to the presidency in 2020. About three hours of audio and 117 pages of transcripts – with many redactions – were released by the Oversight Project, an arm of the Heritage Foundation, after Biden lost a prolonged legal fight to keep his conversations with his memoir ghostwriter, Mark Lewis Zwonitzer, private. “They didn’t even know I had this,” Biden told Zwonitzer in October 2016, near the end…

“Today” show host Savannah Guthrie says in a new video that her family is living an unending nightmare nearly six months after her mother’s disappearance and pleads with her kidnappers: “Tell us where to look for her.” The video released Monday is the latest public plea from the journalist about 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie since her disappearance on Feb. 1 from her home just outside Tucson, Arizona. Savannah Guthrie said her family will never stop looking for her. “The world can be a cruel and unforgiving place, and I know that you have tried to do things the right way,” she…

A key U.S. government report on mental health, substance use and addiction showed continued improvements in several metrics, especially among young people. There was some uncertainty about the future of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health last year, when the entire 17-member team responsible for it was laid off by the Trump administration. But the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration released the latest report Monday, with data that lets researchers look at trends from 2021 to 2025. Fewer adolescents aged 12 to 17 reported using tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and binge drinking in the previous month, the…

A U.S. Secret Service agent and two other men have been arrested and charged with violent felonies in the Miami area, where authorities say they committed brutal beatings as part of a fraternity hazing ritual in April that left two people hospitalized with severe injuries. One of the men charged, 29-year-old Marquez Christopher Pinder, works in the Secret Service’s Miami field office and is described in an arrest warrant as a “dean of pledges” for a Miami chapter of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. The Secret Service said it’s cooperating with investigators and has placed Pinder on administrative leave. He…

A series of high-profile criminal cases are in court this week for hearings that could prove pivotal. Four of the six have celebrity defendants or victims. On Monday, there was a preliminary hearing for singer D4vd in Los Angeles; Andrew and Tristan Tate were fighting extradition in Miami; and a woman who killed her three kids was on trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts. On Tuesday, attorneys for the man accused of murder in the 1996 death of Tupac Shakur are scheduled to appear in court in Las Vegas and a convicted school shooter could be sentenced in Winder, Georgia. Also this…

A man fatally shot his wife and their six children, then himself, before they all were found in their burning Michigan home last week, investigators said Monday. Kristopher and Amanda Karolkiewicz and their six children, aged 5 to 15, died Friday in their home in Grand Haven Township, on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. Authorities were summoned for a fire and then discovered the bodies. The Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office said in a release Monday that autopsies determined all the family members died of gunshot wounds, and that Kristopher Karolkiewicz took his own life. The sheriff’s office said the…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Florida on Tuesday is scheduled to execute two prisoners on the same day in a nearly unprecedented move that underscores the state’s rush to clear a backlog of long-delayed death row inmates. State prison officials last executed two prisoners on the same day in 1964. Florida, for the second year in a row, leads all other states in carrying out the death sentences of its long list of condemned prisoners. By the end of July, Florida will have carried out 12 executions, far more than any other state. A 13th execution is slated for Aug. 18. The second-busiest…

NEW YORK — In a deal that ends a criminal investigation, a prestigious New York City medical institution agreed to boost its sexual abuse prevention program after one of its star doctors was convicted of abusing patients during a decade-long span and was sentenced to life behind bars, authorities said Monday. Weill Cornell Medicine, whose faculty treats patients at several New York-area hospitals, reached a voluntary compliance agreement with the federal government that calls for it to spend $30 million to create the Institute for Safe Patient Care and Patient Empowerment. Weill Cornell Medicine had previously agreed to pay victims…