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State Of Affairs Ep. 9 Republican Sauk County Chair Jerry Helmer
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - State of Affairs episode eight is now available, featuring Republican Sauk County Chair and 40th Assembly District candidate Jerry Helmer joining the program to discuss his campaign and issues facing the state. While discussing his top platform issues, Helmer says focusing on getting the humanitaria...
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Turner Scheduled for Hearing Thursday, Ahead of Mid-April Trial
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A motion hearing will be held on Thursday for a Wausau man accused of killing an acquaintance in the spring of 2022. Michael Turner will appear in court at 10:30 AM on Thursday, three weeks before he is scheduled to stand trial for one count of intentional homicide by use of a dangerous weapon. Off...
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Remains of two people recovered following Baltimore bridge collapse, Washington Post reports
(Reuters) - The remains of two people have been recovered from the Patapsco River near where a Baltimore bridge collapsed, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday. (Reporting by Dan Whitcomb, editing by David Ljunggren)
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Aspirus Merrill Hospital to Undergo $40 Million Facelift
MERRILL, WI (WSAU) -- Aspirus Health has announced a $40 million expansion of their hospital in Merrill. Aspirus SVP & Central Region President Jeff Wicklander says they are seeing growth in the Merrill area, so it's time for the hospital to follow suit. The expansion will double the hospital's capacity from 10 pat...
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Baldwin Stops in Downtown Wausau on Her "Tammy's Dairyland" Tour
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- US Senator Tammy Baldwin continued the "Tammy's Dairyland" tour on Wednesday with a downtown business tour in Wausau. The Senator, who is up for re-election this November, visited businesses including The Pinery Coffee Company, The Chocolate Cafe, and Object Homewares. Baldwin talked with...
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Local News
State Of Affairs Ep. 9 Republican Sauk County Chair Jerry Helmer
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - State of Affairs episode eight is now available, featuring Republican Sauk County Chair and 40th Assembly District candidate Jerry Helmer joining the program to discuss his campaign and issues facing the state. While discussing his top platform issues, Helmer says focusing on getting the humanitaria...
34m ago
Turner Scheduled for Hearing Thursday, Ahead of Mid-April Trial
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A motion hearing will be held on Thursday for a Wausau man accused of killing an acquaintance in the spring of 2022. Michael Turner will appear in court at 10:30 AM on Thursday, three weeks before he is scheduled to stand trial for one count of intentional homicide by use of a dangerous weapon. Off...
12h ago
Aspirus Merrill Hospital to Undergo $40 Million Facelift
MERRILL, WI (WSAU) -- Aspirus Health has announced a $40 million expansion of their hospital in Merrill. Aspirus SVP & Central Region President Jeff Wicklander says they are seeing growth in the Merrill area, so it's time for the hospital to follow suit. The expansion will double the hospital's capacity from 10 pat...
13h ago
Baldwin Stops in Downtown Wausau on Her "Tammy's Dairyland" Tour
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- US Senator Tammy Baldwin continued the "Tammy's Dairyland" tour on Wednesday with a downtown business tour in Wausau. The Senator, who is up for re-election this November, visited businesses including The Pinery Coffee Company, The Chocolate Cafe, and Object Homewares. Baldwin talked with...
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Jackson Pleads Not Guilty in Stevens Point Stabbing Incident
STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- A Stevens Point man accused of stabbing another man at the Portage County Library has pled not guilty to charges of attempted homicide and aggravated battery. Frank Jackson is accused of stabbing a 71-year-old man, who had just loaned him money earlier in the day. Investigators say Jackson r...
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Sports
Opening Day Postponed: Brewers, Mets to Open Season Friday
NEW YORK, NY (WSAU) -- The New York Mets and Milwaukee Brewers will not open Major League Baseball's regular season as planned. Thursday's game has been postponed due to anticipated rain. The NYC area is expected to receive significant rainfall tonight and throughout the day Thursday. Some areas of the city could get m...
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Report: Packers To Explore Drafting Quarterback To Compete With Sean Clifford In 2024
GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - As the Packers continue to work on a long-term extension for franchise quarterback Jordan Love, the franchise may be looking at starting a competition to see who will back him up this upcoming season. According to Head Coach Matt LaFleur, the team is "excited" about what they have in Cl...
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Bucks give up 19 point lead in 4th quarter, fall in 2OTs to Lakers
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU-MetroSource) - With LeBron James out due to an ankle issue, the Lakers still beat the Bucks 128-124 in two overtimes in Milwaukee. The Lakers won despite trailing by as much as 19 points in the fourth quarter. Anthony Davis had 34 points and 23 rebounds and Austin Reaves had a triple-double with 29 ...
Mar 27, 2024
Badgers Star A.J. Storr Declares For NBA Draft; Will Maintain Eligibility To Return College
MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The Wisconsin Badgers are set to look much different this upcoming season as another top player has declared his intention to leave the program this year. According to On3 Sports' Joe Tipton, the star guard will test out the NBA team's interest in him during this spring's draft combine while also m...
Mar 26, 2024
Packers Finalist To Face Philadelphia Eagles In Brazil For Week 1 Matchup
GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) -Packers fans hoping to catch the team's Week 1 matchup may have to begin looking into getting their passports renewed this spring as the team may be heading abroad. According to Matt Schneidman of The Athletic, Green Bay Packers president, Mark Murphy stated on Tuesday that the NFL is still debati...
Mar 26, 2024
State News
New Report Shows Wisconsin's Homeless Population Increased Post-Pandemic
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- Wisconsin's homelessness rate is trending upwards according to a new report. The Wisconsin Policy Forum says the number of homeless Wisconsinites is up after years of decline. WPF says pressures from the pandemic pushed many people out of their homes as they lost their jobs, and the sudden ris...
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Biden Slightly Leads Trump in Wisconsin in New Poll
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- A new poll shows President Biden slightly ahead of Donald Trump in Wisconsin. For the first time in six waves of surveys by Bloomberg News, President Biden now leads Donald Trump in Wisconsin, albeit every so slightly; 46 to 45 percent. Biden had trailed Trump by 4 points last month. Biden and...
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Kennedy Passes on Rodgers for Running Mate
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- You can forget about Vice-President Aaron Rodgers. It was always going to be a Hail Mary - independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had Rodgers near the top of his short list of potential running mates. But on Tuesday, Kennedy announced his pick of attorney and philanthropist N...
Mar 26, 2024
WI Supreme Court Rules Against Amazon over Unemployment Claims
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- The Wisconsin Supreme court has ruled that a group of Amazon delivery drivers are employees, not independent contractors. Amazon had appealed a lower court ruling that drivers in its Amazon Flex program are employees and eligible for unemployment benefits when fired. The justices rejected the ...
Mar 26, 2024
A Boost For Broadband Access In Wisconsin
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- Wisconsin's blueprint for digital equity has been accepted by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Wisconsin state AARP director Martha Cranley calls it a game changer for older adults. "It allows them to navigate services, to participate in telehealth to meet t...
Mar 25, 2024
National News
In Iraq, water crisis leaves farmers clinging to sidr trees
By Mohammed Aty BASRA (Reuters) - Faced with a failing date palm business due to scarce resources, Iraqi farmer Ismail Ibrahim has planted "sidr", or jujube, trees which require far less water during an irrigation crisis. Iraq is part of the "Ferti...
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UK's greenhouse gas emissions fell 5.4% in 2023, government data shows
By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell by 5.4% in 2023 partly due to lower gas use in the electricity sector, provisional government data showed on Thursday. Britain has a target to reach net zero emissions b...
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Biden's campaign war chest exceeds Trump's before major fundraising event
By Stephanie Kelly and Moira Warburton NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's campaign has pulled in more money ahead of November's election than that of his Republican rival Donald Trump, which analysts attribute to Biden's incumbent stat...
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Lawsuits over Baltimore bridge collapse likely, though limited, lawyers say
By Diana Novak Jones (Reuters) - The owner, operator and charterer of the container ship that struck Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday are likely to face lawsuits over its collapse and the people killed or injured, but legal experts s...
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Biden administration cracks down on so-called junk insurance
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Thursday will finalize a rule aimed at cracking down on short-term health insurance plans and surprise medical bills, the latest steps in its effort to lower consumer costs across a broad r...
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World News
Kremlin says Russia is working with partners after report on payment delays for oil
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Russia was working with partners amid unprecedented pressure from the United States and European Union after Reuters reported Moscow was experiencing some delays for oil payme...
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Israeli soldiers play with Gaza women's underwear in online posts
By Estelle Shirbon and Pola Grzanka (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers have been posting photos and videos of themselves toying with lingerie found in Palestinian homes, creating a dissonant visual record of the war in Gaza as a looming famine intensifie...
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Kyiv to tighten security after ballistic missile attacks
KYIV (Reuters) - Security measures in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv will be tightened after a spate of Russian ballistic missile attacks and threats of escalation, a city official said on Thursday. Russia staged concerted air strikes on Ukraine's ener...
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Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal's custody extended until April 1 in graft case
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian court extended the custody of opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal until April 1 on Thursday in a graft case related to the national capital territory's liquor policy, local media said. (Report...
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Bulgaria's populists reject mandate to form government, set stage for snap vote
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's populist There Is Such a People (ITN) party declined on Thursday to try to form a new national government, paving the way for President Rumen Radev to call snap elections. ITN's move came after the centre-right GERB par...
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Business News
Who is Sam Bankman-Fried, the onetime crypto mogul facing decades in prison?
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A few years after graduating from college, Sam Bankman-Fried grew worried he was not taking enough risks. So the son of two Stanford Law School professors quit his Wall Street job and in 2017 started a cryptocurren...
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Morning Bid: Unrushed Fed sees out buoyant Q1, dollar revs up
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan With Wall St set for its final trading day of a bumper first quarter, the Federal Reserve seems in "no rush" to lower interest rates just yet - buoying the dollar as other central banks...
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The risky economics of living without homeowners insurance
By Chris Taylor NEW YORK (Reuters) - Owning a home can feel like risky business, from coming up with the mortgage payment every month to worrying about disasters like fires or floods or tornadoes. But here is something riskier still: Going without ...
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Sam Bankman-Fried to be sentenced for multi-billion dollar FTX fraud
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried, the former billionaire cryptocurrency wunderkind, is set to be sentenced on Thursday over his conviction for stealing $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX exchange he founded. Bankma...
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Events leading up to FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's conviction
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried is set to be sentenced on Thursday over his conviction on fraud charges stemming from the dramatic collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange he founded. Below is a timeline of events leading up ...
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Health News
European regulators close in on Big Tobacco's new tea sticks
By Emma Rumney LONDON (Reuters) - European governments are weighing the introduction of tougher rules on cigarette makers' new zero-tobacco heat sticks, moving to close the loopholes they were designed to exploit just months after their launch. Big...
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U.S. FDA approves Akebia's anemia drug
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Akebia Therapeutics' drug to treat anemia caused by chronic kidney disease in dialysis patients, the drugmaker said on Wednesday. (Reporting by Pratik Jain, Vaibhav Sadhamta and Mrinmay De...
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UnitedHealth Group has paid over $3.3 billion to care providers hit by cyberattacks
(Reuters) - UnitedHealth Group said on Wednesday that it had advanced more than $3.3 billion so far to care providers impacted by the Change Healthcare cyberattacks. (Reporting by Chandni Shah in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)
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J&J gets new opportunity to contest evidence linking talc to cancer
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson will get a new chance to contest the scientific evidence linking talc products to ovarian cancer, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday, potentially disrupting a federal court case that consolidates 53,000 lawsui...
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Moderna secures $750 million from Blackstone Life Sciences to develop flu shots
(Reuters) -Moderna said on Wednesday it has entered into an agreement with private equity firm Blackstone's life science investment platform for a funding of $750 million to develop its mRNA flu vaccines. The biotech firm has been developing multiple v...
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Science News
A million solar eclipse enthusiasts expected at Niagara Falls
By Wa Lone and Nivedita Balu NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (Reuters) - From vintage train rides costing almost $4,000 per person to hotel rooms listed at $1,600 a night, businesses in and around majestic Niagara Falls are preparing to cash in on the April...
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Scientists chronicle the earliest stages of a supernova
By Ari Rabinovitch REHOVOT, Israel (Reuters) - About 20 million years ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a large star exploded and sent elements representing the building blocks of life racing through space. About a year ago, by chance, as the light...
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Twisted magnetic field observed around Milky Way's central black hole
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers on Wednesday announced that they have detected a strong and organized magnetic field twisted in a spiral pattern around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, revealing previously unknown qualitie...
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Humans give more viruses to animals than they give us, study finds
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some of the deadliest diseases to stalk humankind have come from pathogens that jumped from animals to people. The virus that causes AIDS, for example, crossed over from chimpanzees. And many experts believe th...
Mar 26, 2024
Send robots into space rather than people, says Britain's Astronomer Royal
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Astronomer Royal Martin Rees said sending people into space when robots could do the job just as effectively was a waste of public money, and space exploration should be left to billionaires and those willing to pay for...
Mar 26, 2024
Technology News
Italy's Azimut to create fintech bank through spin-off, Ipo
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian asset manager Azimut Holding plans to spin-off part of its network of financial advisors and merge it into a new digital bank to be listed within 6-9 months, it said on Thursday. The financial advisors of the new, independ...
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Who is Sam Bankman-Fried, the onetime crypto mogul facing decades in prison?
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A few years after graduating from college, Sam Bankman-Fried grew worried he was not taking enough risks. So the son of two Stanford Law School professors quit his Wall Street job and in 2017 started a cryptocurren...
5m ago
Sam Bankman-Fried to be sentenced for multi-billion dollar FTX fraud
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried, the former billionaire cryptocurrency wunderkind, is set to be sentenced on Thursday over his conviction for stealing $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX exchange he founded. Bankma...
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Events leading up to FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's conviction
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried is set to be sentenced on Thursday over his conviction on fraud charges stemming from the dramatic collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange he founded. Below is a timeline of events leading up ...
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US cryptocurrency ETF inflows pick up as bitcoin price recovers
By Suzanne McGee and Hannah Lang (Reuters) - Inflows into the nine recently launched exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tied to bitcoin have resumed their upward trajectory this week after the cryptocurrency's price bounced back from its dip last week. "...
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Entertainment News
'The Batman,' a 2022 blockbuster, wasn't plagiarized, US judge rules
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warner Bros Entertainment didn't steal the plot for its 2022 blockbuster "The Batman" from a writer who created a story about the caped crusader three decades earlier, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled on W...
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Spice Girl Mel B shares more in expanded memoir, aims to help abuse survivors
By Alicia Powell NEW YORK (Reuters) - Spice Girl Mel B is releasing an expanded version of her 2018 memoir, sharing more details about her personal life which she hopes will help survivors of domestic abuse. The British singer and television person...
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs' lawyer says rapper subject to 'witch hunt'
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A lawyer for music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs said Tuesday the rapper was being targeted by a "witch hunt" after civil lawsuits accused him of sexual misconduct and federal authorities raided two of his proper...
Mar 27, 2024
'Civil War' movie set in near-future US poses questions about politics and journalism
By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - Filmmaker Alex Garland wants "Civil War", a tense thriller about a group of journalists documenting societal collapse as they chase a scoop in a conflict-torn United States, to be a conversation starter. Set in t...
Mar 26, 2024
Jane Goodall's 90th birthday wish? More time to get out the conservation message
By Alicia Powell NEW YORK (Reuters) - British primatologist-turned-conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall will mark her 90th birthday next month with a series of talks. Her greatest wish is for people to start thinking more about the environment, she sai...
Mar 26, 2024