MADISON, Wis. (WMTV)--- Wisconsin isn't alone when it comes to the cold and snow. The latest blast of wintry weather brought accumulations as far south as the Gulf Coast! Wednesday morning started off with snow cover in all 50 states and 52.3 percent of the country covered in the white stuff.

To have snow on the ground in all 50 states at the same time, is a fairly rare feat. The last time all 50 states had snowfall on the ground at the same time was on February 12th, 2010.

The Dow's record-fast sprint to 26,000 early in the new year is raising concerns on Wall Street that the stock market may be in danger of overheating.

Indeed, the Dow Jones industrial average's more than 1,000-point rise from 25,000 to "26K" in the past seven trading days has some investment pros warning that the nearly nine-year-old bull market may be entering its "euphoria phase" — which typically marks the final stage of a long, upward climb for stocks.

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has banned Common Core from being taught in U.S. schools after the Obama-era program was found to dumb down American kids.

In a speech Wednesday at an American Enterprise Institute conference, Devos announced that Common Core would no longer be permitted to be taught to children in America.

Leaked internal documents from the Jehovah’s Witnesses church reveal a cover-up of a huge pedophile ring operating within the highest ranks of the church.

According to thirty-three letters and internal documents leaked on Tuesday by FaithLeaks, officials at the Jehovah’s Witnesses church have covered-up numerous allegations of child rape between 1999 and 2012.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police have announced that new charges are being brought against ‘multiple shooters’ connected to the Mandalay Bay massacre.

LVPD attorney Nicholas Crosby said Tuesday that the police were prohibited from publicly releasing search warrants related to the shooting because “potential charges against other people” is in the works, according to Fox News.

Republicans will destroy their base of political support if they help pass a “crappy” amnesty bill, said Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) on Wednesday.
Gosar, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, remarks came in an interview with Breitbart News’s Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.

Army veteran Ricky Taylor has an excellent idea for what to do with those empty seats left by multiple Democrats protesting Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech.

Maxine Waters, Frederica Wilson, John Lewis, Pramila Jayapal and Earl Blumenauer have all announced that they will sit out the speech due to political disagreements. Their absence will leave a number of empty chairs at the speech. Taylor thinks those seats should go to veterans.

Bob Dole was honored at the US Capitol today, and he sent the NFL a message.

The World War II veteran, Senator and former presidential candidate received the Congressional Gold Medal in a ceremony that included Republican and Democrat leadership, the President and the Vice President.

The former Kansas Senator was honored for being particularly instrumental in the commissioning of the World War II Veterans Memorial.

President Donald Trump’s Fake News awards prompted millions of Americans to click over to the Republican Party’s official site, resulting in the GOP’s most trafficked night ever AND temporary outages.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/18/trump-fake-news-awards-crash-gop-websi...

President Donald Trump contradicted White House chief of staff John Kelly’s late Wednesday comments in a pair of tweets Thursday morning.

Kelly had stated the president’s position on a border wall had evolved since the 2016 election.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/18/trump-says-wall-position-has-never-cha...

Democrats are threatening to hold national security hostage, potentially costing the economy billions and forcing hundreds of thousands of federal government employees to go without pay in exchange for securing legal protections for 800,000 illegal immigrants.

Earlier this week, the LA Times reminded its readers that California has the highest poverty rate in the nation.

Specifically, when using the Census Bureau’s most recent” Supplemental Poverty Measure” (SPM), California clocks in with a poverty rate of 20 percent, which places it as worst in the nation.

To be sure, California is running quite closely with Florida and Louisiana, but we can certainly say that California is certain a top contender when it comes to poverty:

In an apparent effort to pour scorn on the president’s first year in office, CNN traveled to Youngstown, Ohio to ask former Democrats who switched parties to vote for Trump what they thought of his performance, only to discover they were thrilled with the job Trump’s doing.

The report points out that 7,000 registered Democrats in one county switched from being Democrats to Republicans to vote for Donald Trump.

President Trump tweeted winners of the 2017 Fake News awards Wednesday.

https://www.infowars.com/breaking-trump-tweets-2017-fake-news-awards-win...

CNN Wins Big Time In Trump’s Fake News Awards (with Video)
http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/17/cnn-trump-fake-news-awards/