The court set an expedited briefing schedule as the clock winds down for clerks to mail absentee ballots ahead of the Nov. 5 election.Get daily updates on the Packers during the season. The liberal-majority court accepted a petition from the Wisconsin Elections Commission to bypass an appeals court and take the case directly.

Kathleen Kennedy said when she was 6, her dad learned a dead whale washed ashore. He used a chainsaw to cut off and retrieve its head.