Top of the Hour: Movement in Wisconsin, Protests Across Mideast, Morning Headlines

The Takeaway

In a vote early Friday morning, Wisconsin’s Assembly passed a bill that strips collective bargaining rights from most public workers. The bill now goes to the Senate, where the state’s 14 Democrats still haven’t come home.

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