MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A conservative group that’s part of the network run by Kansas billionaire Charles Koch is spending another $1.5 million to help Gov. Scott Walker win re-election.

Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin announced Wednesday it was launching a third ad starting Thursday ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A conservative group that’s part of the network run by Kansas billionaire Charles Koch is dropping another $1.3 million in the Wisconsin governor’s race.

Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin announced Friday it was launching a second ad targeting Tony Evers. It comes ...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A new Wichita private school financed by members of the Koch family is preparing to open its doors to preschool and elementary-age children this fall.

Wonder, a private pre-K-through-12th-grade school on the Wichita State University campus, will open Sept. 4 with 39 ...

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — Ball State University’s trustees have voted to remove the name of alumnus and Papa John’s founder John Schnatter from a business institute because of his use of a racial slur.

The board voted 8-1 Thursday to remove the name from the Institute for Entrepreneurship and ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch warned Sunday that Trump administration trade policies could trigger a recession.

The conservative activist lashed out at the Republican president’s brewing international trade war as hundreds of donors gathered for a ...

McLEAN, Va. (AP) — The faculty senate at Virginia’s largest university passed a resolution Friday calling for a moratorium on certain kinds of donor agreements in the wake of revelations that the school gave the conservative Charles Koch Foundation a say in the hiring and firing of professors in ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Montana State University faculty members have voted against establishing an economic research center funded by a five-year grant from the Charles Koch Foundation.

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — The Charles Koch Foundation has donated $5 million to George Mason University’s Department of Economics.

The Washington Post reported

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State University has announced the creation of a center to study the societal impacts of the country’s drug war.

The Drug Enforcement and Policy Center is being established with a $4.5 million gift from the Charles Koch Foundation.

The center is based in ...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita State University will use a $3.6 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation to create an Institute for the Study of Economic Growth.

University officials say the institute will focus on economic and business research. It will be housed in the Barton School ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A group from the University of Utah is raising “serious concerns” about a $10 million donation from the conservative billionaire Koch brothers to help establish an economics institute.

They say in a letter that Koch donations are aimed at funding academic work and ...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A top Republican lawmaker resigned from the South Dakota Legislature on Tuesday to lead the state’s chapter of Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group backed by billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch.

Former House Speaker Pro Tempore Don Haggar ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado Springs motorcycle officer who was seriously injured in a crash while escorting Vice President Mike Pence’s motorcade is out of the intensive care unit and is “on his way to recovery.”

Police say it has been determined that speed and poor road ...

LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A Utah business school has received two donations totaling $50 million.

The donations were announced at Utah State University’s Saturday commencement ceremonies. Reports say that the gift is the largest in USU’s history.

University officials say the money given by ...

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A group of George Mason University students is suing the school and its nonprofit foundation to seek details of grant agreements tied to billionaire donor Charles Koch and others.

The lawsuit filed Thursday in Fairfax County seeks donor records under the state’s Freedom ...

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Thousands march at airports in support of refugees threatened by President Trump’s latest restrictions.

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — The conservative Koch network plans to spend between $300 million and $400 million to influence politics and public policy over the next two years, intensifying its nationwide efforts in the initial years of Donald Trump’s presidency.

Network officials disclosed ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Libertarian think tank The Cato Institute has awarded Maine’s governor with its highest grade in its “Fiscal Report Card on America’s Governors.”

Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican, was one of five governors to receive an “A″ grade on fiscal policy, and his mark was the ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The University of Kentucky’s Senate Council has voted against a proposed free enterprise center funded by the Charles Koch Foundation and pizza magnate John Schnatter.

The Lexington Herald-Leader (http://bit.ly/2djXrDZ ) reports ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Montana State University has announced that two professors have been awarded a $5.7 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation that could be used to create a research center.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A group backed by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch is investing nearly $4 million in an advertising campaign attacking Democrats in three top Senate contests.

The Freedom Partners Action Fund is targeting Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania ...