GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) -- The Green Bay Packers have announced the dates and locations for the 2026 Packers Everywhere pep rallies. Fans traveling to see a pair of NFC South contests in Tampa and New Orleans will be welcome at local establishments for Packers-themed giveaways and contests, organized by the team. The Week...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU) -- A Vesper man has been arrested on suspicion of child enticement, with additional charges possible as detectives search his devices. Michael Peckham was arrested on Tuesday following an investigation by the Sheriff's Office. After his arrest, officers served a search warrant at his home in...

By Tim McLaughlin, Laila Kearney and Jarrett Renshaw July 22 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is set to unveil on Thursday a pledge backed by governors, lawmakers, utilities and data center developers aimed at ​shielding households from electricity c...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- The Portage County Sheriff's Office has identified the suspects arrested in connection with the death of a 57-year-old woman in the Town of Carson. According to an updated press release, the suspects are 60-year-old Lyndon B. Hood and 46-year-old Sara M. Pientka. They are expected to appear ...

WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump renewed his threats to attack Iranian infrastructure on Wednesday, ​saying the U.S. would attack ‌a bridge or power plant each time Tehran targets a ship in the Strait of Hormuz. "Any time the Isla...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) -- The Green Bay Packers have announced the dates and locations for the 2026 Packers Everywhere pep rallies. Fans traveling to see a pair of NFC South contests in Tampa and New Orleans will be welcome at local establishments for Packers-themed giveaways and contests, organized by the team. The Week...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU) -- A Vesper man has been arrested on suspicion of child enticement, with additional charges possible as detectives search his devices. Michael Peckham was arrested on Tuesday following an investigation by the Sheriff's Office. After his arrest, officers served a search warrant at his home in...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- The Portage County Sheriff's Office has identified the suspects arrested in connection with the death of a 57-year-old woman in the Town of Carson. According to an updated press release, the suspects are 60-year-old Lyndon B. Hood and 46-year-old Sara M. Pientka. They are expected to appear ...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Representatives of Beacon Resources went before the Wausau Plan Commission on Tuesday, making their pitch for a conditional use permit for an assisted living facility near the downtown YMCA to complement the Grant Place Senior Living development. Manager Jeff Stubbe, who is also the director of the...

TOWN OF CARSON, WI (WSAU) -- The Portage County Sheriff's Office is investigating a suspicious death in the Town of Carson. Officers were called to the 1700 block of County Road M at about 11 AM on Tuesday for a report of a person suffering from "severe, traumatic injuries." When law enforcement and EMS crews...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Brewers were shut-out for the first time since June 3 in a 4-0 loss to the Mets. Zac Thornton combined with thee relief pitchers for his first major league win, The Brewers were outhit, 13-4, as 4-game winning streak came to an end. Jared Young and Luis Robert Jr. had home runs for New York....

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - One of the Milwaukee Bucks' first-round picks has been named one of the best players during the 2026 Summer League tournament. According to a post on X from the NBA, point guard Brayden Burries has been named to the All-Summer League First Team alongside Grizzlies forward and 3rd overall pick Cam...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) The Brewers' bats ruined Freddy Peralta's return to Milwaukee. Cooper Pratt hit his first major league homer and went 3-for-4 in a Brewers 8-3 win over the Mets. The Brewers improved to 63-37 this season, now with the best record in Major League Baseball. Joey Ortiz added a 3-run home run, and And...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - The Green Bay Packers and a former 1st round pick have reportedly agreed to a long-term extension. According to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, the Packers and defensive tackle Devonte Wyatt have agreed to a new three-year contract worth $57 million that would pay out $20 million at signing. Since th...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) Willian Contreras blasted a three-run homer in the bottom of the 9th inning to lift the Brewers to a 3-1 sweep of the Marlins. The Brewers had been shut-out and managed only two hits before the final frame. Milwaukee came from behind in all three games to complete a sweep of the Marlins. Tne 9th b...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - As Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley attempts to revive and rebrand his campaign following the financial scandal that led to Lt. Gov Sara Rodriguez ending her campaign, the latest betting odds show Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong remains the heavy favorite to the be the Democratic nomine...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Sara Rodriguez is no longer seeking the state's highest office. Rodriguez has suspended her campaign after a week of turmoil that began on Sunday with the firing of her campaign manager over irregularities in her finance reports. It was later discovered that some dona...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - A Wisconsin advocacy group has announced a complaint against Democratic gubernatorial candidate and sitting Lt. Gov Sara Rodriguez after an alleged donation to their organization was never received. According to a press release from the Wisconsin Federation of Republician Women, the Rodriguez campa...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - Republican Congressman and Wisconsin governor candidate Tom Tiffany has revealed a big campaign treasure trove as the August primary election approaches. In a press release, Tiffany stated, "Our grassroots campaign is reaching all 72 counties because the demand for common-sense leadership has ...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - Wisconsin Lt. Governor and gubernatorial candidate Sara Rodriguez has announced that she has fired her campaign manager after an internal investigation found campaign funds were being misused and potentially stolen. According to her campaign's press release, "The Sara Rodriguez for Wisconsin c...

By Andrew Hay July 22 (Reuters) - A private autopsy of Nolan Wells, a Black college football player whose body was found in the ocean near an island off the Mississippi coast, raised questions about the cause of his death, a family lawyer said on Wedne...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON, July 22 (Reuters) - Four decades ago, Wham! became the first Western pop act to perform in Communist China. It was a visit that shaped the band's trajectory but also left a legacy that members George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley...

By Nina Lopez, Charlie Devereux and Aislinn Laing BEDAR, Spain July 22 (Reuters) - When 12 people died trying to escape a wildfire around the mountain village of Bedar and a nearby hamlet in southern Spain on July 9, regional officials said some of th...

ROME, July 22 (Reuters) - Rome will offer free screenings in 11 air-conditioned cinemas as part of a heat-relief ​plan Mayor Roberto Gualtieri presented ‌on Wednesday, while most of Europe was sweltering through a hot summer. The scheme, named after th...

July 22 (Reuters) - Michigan health officials reported 7,171 cases linked to an outbreak of cyclosporiasis on Wednesday, up 600 cases since its last update on Tuesday. The outbreak ​of the intestinal infection in Michigan has resulted in ‌102 hospitali...

ZURICH, July 22 (Reuters) - Switzerland's highest court has ordered a fresh ruling in the case of three men accused of breaching bank secrecy laws over leaked data that helped expose the ​cum-ex tax fraud scandal - one of Europe's largest financial ‌cr...

JOHANNESBURG, July 22 (Reuters) - Two Ghanaian nationals have petitioned the International Criminal Court to open a preliminary investigation into attacks against foreign nationals in South Africa, which they said could constitute crimes against ​human...

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met Pakistan's finance minister, Muhammad Aurangzeb, on Tuesday and welcomed the country's progress in implementing ​economic reforms and laying the groundwork for a...

BEIJING, July 22 (Reuters) - China's fourth-ranking leader, Wang Huning, called on Tibet to safeguard social stability, enforce a new ethnic unity law and bring Tibetan Buddhism into closer alignment with Communist Party priorities during a visit to th...

MANILA/BEIJING, July 22 (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of the Philippines and China met in Manila on Wednesday and both made "strong" protests over an encounter ​between the two countries' vessels this week in ‌contested South China Sea waters. The ...

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, July 22 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance Corp on Wednesday gained European Union antitrust approval for its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery after ​agreeing to ditch a film distribution joint venture ‌with Unive...

LISBON/MADRID, July 22 (Reuters) - Ford Motor and China's Geely have struck a landmark deal under which the U.S. automaker ​will sell part of its ‌Almussafes plant near Valencia, paving the way for Geely to manufacture electric vehicles in Spain, ABC n...

By Aditya Soni and Jaspreet Singh July 22 (Reuters) - A New York startup's use of a Chinese AI model to rein in a rogue agent built with OpenAI technology is stoking fears that guradrails restricting U.S. AI firms from doing cybersecurity work could dr...

By Marcelo Teixeira NEW YORK, July 22 (Reuters) - U.S. coffee drinkers, already paying the highest prices in a decade, could eventually feel the effects of any reaction by Washington to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's move to ban elections in ​tha...

(Refiles to clarify description of Canadian ministry in charge of U.S. trade, seventh paragraph) By David Lawder and Emily Green July 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Wednesday said he hoped to strike some interim trade agreem...

July 22 (Reuters) - The generic drug market still faces structural and purchasing hurdles despite strong U.S. growth, an industry group noted on ​Wednesday, after President Donald Trump said imported ‌generic medicines would face up to 200% tariffs aft...

By Padmanabhan Ananthan and Bhanvi Satija July 22 (Reuters) - GSK said on Wednesday the U.S. FDA approved its drug to treat a form of lung cancer, nearly two months after ​the British drugmaker acquired the treatment as part of a ‌historic $10.6 billio...

July 22 (Reuters) - Michigan health officials reported 7,171 cases linked to an outbreak of cyclosporiasis on Wednesday, up 600 cases since its last update on Tuesday. The outbreak ​of the intestinal infection in Michigan has resulted in ‌102 hospitali...

PARIS, July 22 (Reuters) - France recorded 5,764 excess deaths between June 17 ​and July 2 ‌when the country was hit by heatwaves, the national health agency reported on ‌Wednesday. Health ​Minister Stephanie Rist ⁠had originally estimated ⁠the excess ...

(Refiles to add picture, no change to text) By Jacob Bogage and Yasmeen Abutaleb WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - U.S. health officials quarantined 14 American citizens at a New York military base for four days after a recent return from the Democratic ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - Scientists are documenting a planetary system in the Milky Way galaxy that is so starkly dissimilar to our own solar system that they are struggling to find the proper terminology to describe it. The syste...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) - Unlike our sun, most of the largest stars in the cosmos are not solo acts, but rather are born together with another star in what is called a binary system, destined to spend their lives gravitationally bo...

By Joe Brock FARNBOROUGH, England, July 20 (Reuters) - NASA remains on track for next year's Artemis III mission, a key test of orbital docking and lunar landers needed for future crewed moon landings, despite an explosion involving an unmanned Blue Or...

July 19 (Reuters) - SpaceX is targeting Thursday, July 23, for another attempt to launch its Starship rocket, the company said ​in a statement on Sunday. SpaceX CEO ‌Elon Musk initially posted on X that the next Starship launch would occur on Friday. H...

SHANGHAI, July 18 - Shanghai Xingshu Tiansuan Space Technology Co. on Saturday said it had ​launched the first constellation ‌of a space-computing project that in total aims to deploy 1,000 satellites in space. • Space-based computing means processing ...

By David Jeans NEW YORK, July 22 (Reuters) - A team of former DOGE employees have raised a major funding round for a startup that aims to use AI to expand U.S. military cyber capabilities, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The st...

By Aditya Soni and Jaspreet Singh July 22 (Reuters) - A New York startup's use of a Chinese AI model to rein in a rogue agent built with OpenAI technology is stoking fears that guradrails restricting U.S. AI firms from doing cybersecurity work could dr...

By Tim McLaughlin, Laila Kearney and Jarrett Renshaw July 22 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is set to unveil on Thursday a pledge backed by governors, lawmakers, utilities and data center developers aimed at ​shielding households from electricity c...

MILAN, July 22 (Reuters) - Italian unions have signed an agreement with Amazon.com covering leave, employee rights and ​video surveillance, the unions and ‌the U.S. e-commerce giant said on Wednesday. • The Filt CGIL, Fit CISL and Uiltrasporti unions s...

By Daniel Wiessner July 22 (Reuters) - A federal judge has ruled that New York City cannot prohibit Uber Technologies and Lyft from deactivating drivers from their apps without advance notice, ruling that the novel ​law is unconstitutional. U.S. Distri...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON, July 22 (Reuters) - Four decades ago, Wham! became the first Western pop act to perform in Communist China. It was a visit that shaped the band's trajectory but also left a legacy that members George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley...

ROME, July 22 (Reuters) - Rome will offer free screenings in 11 air-conditioned cinemas as part of a heat-relief ​plan Mayor Roberto Gualtieri presented ‌on Wednesday, while most of Europe was sweltering through a hot summer. The scheme, named after th...

By Alasdair Pal and Christine Chen SYDNEY, July 22 (Reuters) - A Sydney court on Wednesday cleared Australian actor Rebel Wilson of defaming Charlotte MacInnes, the lead actor in Wilson's ​directorial debut "The Deb," over allegations linked to social ...

By Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, July 21 (Reuters) - For Tom Holland, Sony's "Spider-Man: Brand New Day," based on the famous Marvel Comics web-slinging character, tells a different kind of superhero story-one centered on vulnerability....

(Refiles to add first name in paragraph 2, Note: story includes graphic details of violence) By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, July 21 (Reuters) - Prosecutors on Tuesday began outlining in graphic detail their murder case against the indie pop vocalist know...