WASHINGTON/BEIRUT/DUBAI, June 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday Iran had ​shot down a U.S. Apache helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz and vowed to respond, deepening doubts about prospects for peace ‌between the two countries. Trump said the two U.S. pilots involved in the incident were un...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers and one of their top prospects have agreed on a long-term deal. According to Brewers media source Spencer Michaelis and ESPN insider Jeff Passan, Milwaukee and its fifth-ranked prospect, Luis Lara, have agreed to a seven-year contract worth up to $79 million and $31 million ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - Wisconsin voters will soon get a chance to see all seven Democratic candidates running for governor, as a debate date has been set. According to WISN 12, journalists Gerron Jordan and Matt Smith will moderate the debate on Tuesday, July 28, from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Weasler Auditorium on the Marque...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers will soon have a new area to enjoy a game with friends and family. According to a press release from the team, The Truss Club, which will open next season, will seat season ticket holders in the first six rows behind home plate. The club's designs show intentions to add one ...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU) -- Another big lottery prize is coming home to Wisconsin Rapids. Lottery officials say Kelly Reitz bought a $2 Million Royale ticket at the Nekoosa Mart and scratched it off to reveal one of the game's top prizes. Reitz claimed the prize at the Lottery office in Madison last week. The $2 Mil...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - Wisconsin voters will soon get a chance to see all seven Democratic candidates running for governor, as a debate date has been set. According to WISN 12, journalists Gerron Jordan and Matt Smith will moderate the debate on Tuesday, July 28, from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Weasler Auditorium on the Marque...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU) -- Another big lottery prize is coming home to Wisconsin Rapids. Lottery officials say Kelly Reitz bought a $2 Million Royale ticket at the Nekoosa Mart and scratched it off to reveal one of the game's top prizes. Reitz claimed the prize at the Lottery office in Madison last week. The $2 Mil...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- It's that time of year again. Those traveling on state highways are asked to be aware of pavement buckling as temperatures rise, causing pavement slabs to expand and push against each other. When the pressure becomes too great, the pavement can buckle and cause dips or tenting. While it's difficul...

TOWN OF PINE RIVER, WI (WSAU) -- The Pine River Fire Department was called to a barn fire on State Highway 64 Monday morning. Crews were called at about 5:45 AM and arrived to find the structure fully engulfed with flames coming from all sides, and the roof partially collapsed. They managed to get the fire under contro...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU) -- One person suffered minor injuries in a car versus building crash in Wisconsin Rapids this morning. According to the Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department, a Mercury SUV drove through the front door of the BP on Baker Street at about 7:30 AM. One person suffered minor injuries. The store and v...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers and one of their top prospects have agreed on a long-term deal. According to Brewers media source Spencer Michaelis and ESPN insider Jeff Passan, Milwaukee and its fifth-ranked prospect, Luis Lara, have agreed to a seven-year contract worth up to $79 million and $31 million ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers will soon have a new area to enjoy a game with friends and family. According to a press release from the team, The Truss Club, which will open next season, will seat season ticket holders in the first six rows behind home plate. The club's designs show intentions to add one ...

LAS VEGAS, NV (WSAU) The Brewers rallied in the 12th inning for a wild 15-14 win over the A's in Las Vegas. The teams combined for 11 home runs. Andrew Vaughn finished the game with 4 hits and 4 RBI, including a 2-run double in the 9th to send the game into extra innings. The Brewers took the lead for good when Christ...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The Wisconsin Badgers had a busy weekend, adding two more top recruits to their 2027 class. According to posts on their personal X accounts, high three-star wide receiver Steele Harris and four-star defensive lineman Yahzeen Zion are moving them into 247 Sports' top 15 rankings nationally. Harris, ...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) - A central Wisconsin native is reportedly on the short list to become the head coach of one of the NHL's most historic franchises. According to Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman, former Wisconsin Badger and SPASH graduate Joe Pavelski, 41, is being described as a "Martin St. Louis-style candi...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - Wisconsin Senate Republicans are leaving the door open for another try to approve the proposed surplus relief package, which failed by a slim margin last month. According to a press release from Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, "Fifteen of 18 Senate Republicans supported the plan to prov...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) A bill that would have spent-down about two-thirds of the state surplus on a combination of tax rebates and school funding failed in the state senate, 15-18 last night. The compromise proposal between Governor Tony Evers and GOP leaders in the legislature is dead. Several candidates for governor wer...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- A deal has been reached to disburse Wisconsin's budget surplus, including a plan to boost Special Education payments to school districts and provide direct payments to those who filed a Wisconsin tax return in 2024. According to a news release from the Governor, the deal includes education funding...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- Governor Tony Evers has signed Assembly Bill 601, opening the door for sports betting apps to operate in Wisconsin. The bill allows users to place wagers on games through mobile apps, as long as the bet runs through servers operated on tribal land. Evers says this brings an opportunity for increas...

MADISON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Governor Tony Evers took action on a bill Friday that addresses the crime of grooming a child for sexual activity. Evers signed Assembly Bill 677, now known as the 2025 Wisconsin Act 88, into law. The bill, introduced in November 2025, received bipartisan support. The new law establishes the ...

BRUSSELS, June 9 (Reuters) - The European Commission has urged Albania to act without delay to ensure it is aligned with EU environmental legislation if it wants to ​accede to the bloc, a Commission spokesperson said on ‌Tuesday, commenting on a planne...

By Roberto Samora and Manuela Andreoni SAO PAULO, June 9 (Reuters) - Brazil's Mato Grosso state has signed a commitment to eliminate ​the use of firewood from deforested ‌native forests in power-generating boilers, starting in 2034, according to a docu...

By Laila Kearney NEW YORK, June 9 (Reuters) - Electricity supplies in New York have shrunk over the last five years, leaving one ​of the most populous U.S. states at ‌risk of falling short of the energy needed to power homes and businesses on the hotte...

By Emma Rumney LONDON, June 9 (Reuters) - A study that found even low levels of drinking alcohol can increase health risks was published in full on Tuesday in an independent journal after being sidelined by the ​Trump Administration, which opted not to...

By Laura Gottesdiener and Daniel Becerril MONTERREY, Mexico, June 9 (Reuters) - On a recent afternoon in northern Mexico, about a dozen children played soccer in an idyllic park on a site where, a decade earlier, 49 people had died in a vicious battle ...

SOFIA, June 9 (Reuters) - Bulgaria's newly appointed defence minister, Dimitar Stoyanov, said on Tuesday his country would no longer provide arms to Ukraine and ​urged Moscow and Kyiv to sit down at ‌the negotiating table to end the war, the BTA news a...

LONDON, June 9 (Reuters) - Britain said on Tuesday that a law to crack down on proxies acting for states deemed to be hostile such as Iran was expected to come into force next ​month, as it steps up powers to counter what it says ‌is a growing threat p...

TALLINN, June 9 (Reuters) - Ukraine has signed a drone deal with Latvia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday as he met with Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs on the sidelines ​of a summit between Ukraine and Nordic and Baltic ‌states in ...

By Mark Trevelyan LONDON, June 9 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has told the exiled Belarus opposition of a delay in its efforts to get President Alexander Lukashenko to free more political prisoners, opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to...

NAIROBI, June 9 (Reuters) - A protester was shot in ​central Kenya ‌on Tuesday, witnesses said, during a demonstration against a quarantine ‌centre ​for ⁠Americans exposed to ⁠Ebola that the U.S. has raced to build despite ​Kenyan court orders barring ...

By Luc Cohen and Tom Hals NEW YORK, June 9 (Reuters) - Officials from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency head to a federal trade court on Tuesday to try to find a way to refund tens of billions of dollars of ​tariffs that were collected and ...

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, June 9 (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators on Tuesday ordered Meta Platforms to give rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp while they continue to investigate whether ​the company abused its market power by blocking competi...

By Arasu Kannagi Basil and Nupur Anand June 9 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase is keeping a close watch on consumer health as worries about inflation persist, Marianne Lake, CEO of the ​bank's consumer and community banking division, said on Tuesday. Speakin...

NEW YORK, June 9 (Reuters) - Blackstone saw improving inflows from individual investors in June amid a pullback from ​funds that aim to give those ‌people access to rarely traded private assets, the president and chief operating officer of the world's ...

By Abigail Summerville NEW YORK, June 9 (Reuters) - Citigroup has hired Andrew Conway as its global chair of consumer and retail investment ​banking to expand its banking franchise in ‌the sector, according to a memo seen by Reuters. Conway, who will j...

June 9 (Reuters) - A promoter entity of India's Ajanta Pharma sold shares worth 10.24 billion ​rupees ($107.4 million) via bulk deal ‌on Tuesday, according to exchange data. Here are the details: • Ravi Agrawal Trust, a promoter group entity of the dru...

June 9 (Reuters) - Three passengers from the hantavirus-affected MV Hondius cruise ship have returned to their home states in the U.S. after ​four weeks of monitoring at the National ‌Quarantine Unit, the University of Nebraska Medical Center said on T...

By Emma Farge, Jennifer Rigby, Olivia Le Poidevin and Aaron Ross NAIROBI/LONDON/GENEVA, June 9 (Reuters) - Nearly a month into one of the world's largest ever Ebola outbreaks, medics in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are struggling to secure basi...

PARIS/MADRID, June 9 (Reuters) - Europe's illicit drug market is undergoing a rapid shift, with synthetic opioids emerging as a concern, although the region still experiences far fewer fatal ​overdoses than North America, the European Union Drugs ‌Agen...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, June 9 (Reuters) - A cholera outbreak that began in early May in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state has killed at least ​74 people and infected more than 7,800, ‌overwhelming health facilities, aid group Médecins Sans Frontières sai...

By Niket Nishant and Johann M Cherian June 9 (Reuters) - SpaceX's landmark listing this week is set to test the "Elon premium" that has made Tesla one of the most highly valued U.S. companies and a must-have among retail investors. The rocket company l...

By Rajesh Kumar Singh RIO DE JANEIRO, June 9 (Reuters) - Global airlines' push to attract premium customers is making fast in-flight Wi-Fi an increasingly important perk, turning a once-patchy paid service into an emerging battleground between Elon Mus...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) - About 120 million years ago in what is now northwestern China, many kinds of birds flocked to a lakeside ecosystem. This dense avian population would have offered a smorgasbord for a small and opportunistic...

June 8 (Reuters) - SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Monday that building orbital AI data centers is not a difficult engineering challenge as the company prepares for its blockbuster IPO this week. The billionaire said ​that much of the required technology ...

ROME, June 8 (Reuters) - Divers removing abandoned fishing nets from the central Mediterranean, between Italy and North Africa, have captured what they believe is the ​first-ever underwater footage of an adult great white ‌shark in the region. The sigh...

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, June 9 (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators on Tuesday ordered Meta Platforms to give rival AI chatbots free access to WhatsApp while they continue to investigate whether ​the company abused its market power by blocking competi...

MOSCOW, June 9 (Reuters) - Russia's digital ministry said on Tuesday it had asked law enforcement to ​support lifting a ban on ‌the U.S. gaming platform Roblox RBLX.N, based on assurances that the company would provide extra protection for young users ...

By Milana Vinn June 9 (Reuters) - Canadian payments firm Nuvei is in advanced talks to acquire cross-border payments company Payoneer Global for about $2.7 billion, according to two people familiar with the matter. The $2.7 ​billion purchase price incl...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) - China Unicom's U.S. unit warned that a Trump administration proposal to prohibit American telecommunications carriers from interconnecting with Chinese telecom firms deemed ​national security risks co...

June 9 (Reuters) - Apple's newly introduced AI Siri will have limited use across much of the company's install base ​because older iPhones lack the ‌capabilities to run advanced AI features, Morgan Stanley said in a research note on Tuesday. More than ...

June 9 (Reuters) - Britain's competition regulator said on Tuesday it has formally started its review of Paramount Skydance's planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, after ​ending the first part of its information gathering process. ...

PARIS, June 8 (Reuters) - French singer and actor Patrick Bruel has been placed ​in police custody in ‌connection with an investigation into sexual assault allegations, the Nanterre prosecution office said on Monday. Bruel, one ‌of ​France's best-selli...

June 8 (Reuters) - Fox will air National Football League games on its platforms in Mexico starting ​with the 2026 season under ‌a multi-year agreement announced on Monday. The deal comes as media companies continue betting on live events to boost viewe...

June 8 (Reuters) - Polish horror game developer Bloober Team announced two new games - "Saw: Genesis" and "Star Trek: Shadow Frontier" - over the weekend ​at the Summer Game Fest event ‌in Los Angeles. The company also announced a DLC, additional downl...

June 7 (Reuters) - Here is a list of winners in all-capital letters along with other nominees in major categories of the 2026 Tony Awards announced on Sunday night: BEST PLAY "The ​Balusters" "Giant" "LIBERATION" "Little Bear Ridge Road" BEST MUSICAL "...