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Chinese student gets US prison term for threatening pro-democracy activist
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - A Chinese music student was sentenced on Wednesday to nine months in a U.S. prison for harassing an activist who posted fliers at the Berklee College of Music in Boston supporting democracy in China and threatenin...
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Giannis Antetokounmpo (Calf) Making Progress Toward Return As He Remains Questionable For Friday
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Bucks and their fans are hoping for good news over the next 48 hours as superstar forward Giannis Antetokounmpo continues to work toward returning to the court for a pivotal Game 3 matchup against the Indiana Pacers. According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, Giannis "is prog...
10h ago
Wisconsin DOJ Names Park Falls Homicide Suspect
PARK FALLS, WI (WSAU) -- A 50-year-old man is expected to be charged with homicide in connection with the death of a Park Falls woman earlier this month. Christopher Dyer is being held in the Price County jail on a $1 million bond. The State Department of Justice is expected to bring charges against him soon. The arres...
10h ago
WIAA Members Vote Down Plan To Create NIL Amendment For High School Athletes
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - An amendment that would've allowed Wisconsin high school student-athletes to profit off of their name, image, and likeness has failed. The WIAA posted a message on X, just after 11 a.m. that the amendment was voted down. The final vote tally was 170 for, 219 against. Thirty-one other state asso...
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Smith-Chamness Found Not Guilty for Exposing a Child to Harmful Materials
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Central Wisconsin man has been found not guilty of one felony count of exposing a child to harmful materials. Keyiondra Smith-Chamness was cleared after a 1.5-day jury trial this week. Court records show both sides made their arguments on Tuesday afternoon. Court recessed that evening, with closi...
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Local News
Wisconsin DOJ Names Park Falls Homicide Suspect
PARK FALLS, WI (WSAU) -- A 50-year-old man is expected to be charged with homicide in connection with the death of a Park Falls woman earlier this month. Christopher Dyer is being held in the Price County jail on a $1 million bond. The State Department of Justice is expected to bring charges against him soon. The arres...
10h ago
Smith-Chamness Found Not Guilty for Exposing a Child to Harmful Materials
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Central Wisconsin man has been found not guilty of one felony count of exposing a child to harmful materials. Keyiondra Smith-Chamness was cleared after a 1.5-day jury trial this week. Court records show both sides made their arguments on Tuesday afternoon. Court recessed that evening, with closi...
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Teske Enters Plea for Reckless Injury, Vehicle Theft Charges
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Merrill man accused of a Wausau shooting incident and subsequent vehicle theft was in court on Wednesday. Zach Teske entered a not guilty plea to numerous charges including reckless injury, felony bail jumping, and taking a vehicle without consent from the owner. Investigators say he got into an ...
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Recreation Trails Open in Marathon County This Weekend
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Several outdoor recreation trails will open this Friday in Marathon County. According to a news release from the County, that list includes the following areas: Burma Forest ATV/UTV trails Nine Mile County Forest mountain bike and horse trails Kronenwetter and Leather Camp County Forest horse trail...
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City Council Approves Parking Lot Fencing for Wausau PD
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau Police Department's parking lot will get ornamental fencing later this year to protect officers. Chief Matthew Barnes says it's unfortunate that the department needs to take these measures, but it puts them in line with others across the state and region. "Any modern, new police dep...
Apr 24, 2024
Sports
Tuesday High School Scoreboard
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is Tuesday's scoreboard: Baseball Wausau East 6 Wisconsin Rapids 1 DC Everest 5 Wausau West 4 Mosinee 7 Marshfield 2 Lakeland 10 Tomahawk 0 Wisconsin Dells 9 Nekoosa 4 Rib Lake 6 Abbotford/Colby 4 Iola-Scandanavia 3 Manawa 0 Tigerton 8 Menominee Indian 7 Pittsville 32 ...
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Brewers Lose Tight One With Pirates
PITTSBURGH, PA (WSAU)-- The Milwaukee Brewers got a quality game from emergency starter Tobias Myers but fell to the Pirates 2-1 on Tuesday night. Myers, called up from the minors this week, went five innings giving up one run on four hits with four strikeouts. The Pirates scored in the first inning and added a run in ...
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Pacers Beat Bucks, Even Series At 1-1
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The Indiana Pacers responded to their opening playoff game loss by beating the Milwaukee Bucks 125-108 on Tuesday night at Fiserv Forum. Pascal Siakim led the Pacers with 37 points, 11 rebounds and six assists. Tyrese Haliburton had a double-double with 12 points and 12 boards. The Bucks were le...
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Giannis Antetokounmpo (Calf) Making Progress Toward Return As He Remains Questionable For Friday
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Bucks and their fans are hoping for good news over the next 48 hours as superstar forward Giannis Antetokounmpo continues to work toward returning to the court for a pivotal Game 3 matchup against the Indiana Pacers. According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, Giannis "is prog...
10h ago
WIAA Members Vote Down Plan To Create NIL Amendment For High School Athletes
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - An amendment that would've allowed Wisconsin high school student-athletes to profit off of their name, image, and likeness has failed. The WIAA posted a message on X, just after 11 a.m. that the amendment was voted down. The final vote tally was 170 for, 219 against. Thirty-one other state asso...
11h ago
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State News
Pocan Concerned that Gaza is Hurting Biden with Wisconsin Voters
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- There's concern that Israel's actions in Gaza are hurting Joe Biden in Wisconsin. "And the reason is we're not just a purple state. I mean we're about as purple as you can get when whoever wins the White House by like 20,000 votes out of the entire state. That's razor thin margins," ...
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No NIL Money for High School Students
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- No outside money for Wisconsin high school athletes. The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association voted on Wednesday to reject a plan that would have allowed students to get endorsements based on their name, image or likeness; similar NIL programs have been allowed in other states and at...
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Donald Trump Returning to Wisconsin Next Week for Campaign Event in Waukesha
WAUKESHA, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Former President Donald Trump is returning to Wisconsin next week. In a news release Wednesday, officials said Trump will deliver remarks May 1 at the Waukesha County Expo Center at 2 p.m. Doors will open at 11 a.m. Trump will reportedly "contrast the peace, prosperity, and security of ...
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Ukraine Can't Win - Johnson on his No Vote for $95 Billion War Aid Package
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- President Joe Biden has signed a $95 billion war aid measure that includes billions for Ukraine to battle Russia. Wisconsin U.S. Senator Ron Johnson opposed that money, saying Ukraine can't win. "It's going to be a negotiated settlement. I'm not going to like the settlement. The Ukrainian...
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Kewaskum Officer Charged with Sexual Misconduct now Faces Bestiality Charges
KEWASKUM, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- A school resource officer charged with sexual misconduct with a student now faces multiple charges for molesting animals. Former Kewaskum school resources officer Steven Rosales is now facing three counts of bestiality in Fond du Lac County. The Fond du Lac County District Attorney's office c...
12h ago
National News
US births retreat after pandemic-era growth
By Amina Niasse NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of births in the United States fell by 2% in 2023 from the previous year, driven in part by a marked birth rate decline among older teenagers and women aged 20-24, according to a report from the CDC ...
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'Stop arming Israel' Passover protest in Brooklyn harkens back to 1969 Freedom Seder
By Aurora Ellis NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gathered around a banner emblazoned with the words "stop arming Israel," thousands of protesters joined with Jewish-led peace groups in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday evening to attend a Passover protest that re...
3h ago
Overcrowded Venice introduces first payment charge for tourists
VENICE (Reuters) - Venice becomes the first city in the world on Thursday to introduce a payment system for tourists in an effort to thin the crowds that throng the canals during the peak holiday season. Any visitor who is not staying the night mus...
3h ago
Battling climate change, Japan looks to seagrass for carbon capture
By Tom Bateman and Kiyoshi Takenaka YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - On a recent Saturday, some 100 volunteers gathered on a popular beach in the Japanese port city of Yokohama, wading in the shallows to plant strands of light-green eelgrass on the seab...
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Pro-Palestinian US high school students accuse school of censoring speech
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some U.S. students at Washington, D.C.'s Jackson-Reed High School filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging the public high school's administrators censored them by prohibiting pro-Palestinian events. The lawsui...
3h ago
World News
China stands by economic data, says defence spending 'transparent'
By Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) - China defended the veracity of its economic numbers and asserted its military spending was "transparent and reasonable", while dismissing as "typical double standards" comments made this week by the head of the U.S. I...
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Taiwan's president-elect appoints new team, says island's security difficult
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan faces a difficult national security situation, with China pressing closer all the time, President-elect Lai Ching-te said on Thursday has he announced the appointments of his new security and diplomacy teams ahead of takin...
2h ago
Blinken to meet businesses in Shanghai as he kicks off a tough China trip
By Simon Lewis SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet business leaders in Shanghai on Thursday as ties between Washington and Beijing stabilise, pushing to resolve a raft of issues threatening the newly gained equilib...
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Explainer-Why Spain's Prime Minister Sanchez is taking a break from public duties
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday said he will suspend public duties until next week to decide whether he wants to continue leading the government after a court launched a preliminary probe of his wife. Sanchez, w...
3h ago
North Korean official lambasts US over sanctions, state media says
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea will take more action to maintain its military power despite U.S. sanctions pressure that has only made the country stronger, a North Korean foreign ministry official said on Thursday. "U.S. heinous sanctions served as...
3h ago
Business News
Morning Bid: Gearing up for the tech roller-coaster ride
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee Tech stocks are yet again set to sway the wider markets after a lacklustre forecast from Facebook parent Meta Platforms sparked a broad sell-off across regions. Meta's lower-tha...
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XPeng CEO says its software, AI upgrades to enter 'super fast cycle'
By Sarah Wu BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker XPeng on Thursday said its software and artificial intelligence training upgrades will enter a "super fast cycle" from May, and that it hopes use of its platform will expand to oth...
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Slow, but solid US economic growth anticipated in Q1; inflation likely heats up
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. economic growth likely slowed to a still-solid pace in the first quarter while inflation accelerated, reinforcing financial market expectations that the Federal Reserve would delay cutting interest rate...
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Mercedes-Benz to launch luxury electric van for Chinese market
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Mercedes-Benz is planning to launch a luxury electric van for the Chinese market based on its VAN.EA platform, the head of the carmaker's vans division told German magazine WirtschaftsWoche. "A super-luxury variant, so to spea...
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Chinese EV startup Nio sets starting price for new version of ET7 sedan
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese electric vehicle (EV) startup Nio has set the starting price of the new version of its ET7 sedan at 428,000 yuan ($59,063), its chief executive said on Thursday. Deliveries of the ET7 are near 30,000 units since deliveri...
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Health News
Clinical lab operator Labcorp to buy bankrupt genetic test maker Invitae for $239 million
(Reuters) - Laboratory service provider Labcorp said on Wednesday it will acquire Softbank-backed Invitae Corp's assets auctioned through a voluntary bankruptcy protection process, a few months after the genetic test maker filed for bankruptcy. Lab...
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Molina Healthcare beats profit estimates aided by higher premiums
(Reuters) - Molina Healthcare beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter earnings on Wednesday, aided by higher premiums in its government-backed Medicaid insurance plans for people with low income. The company also reaffirmed its 2024 outlook, w...
3h ago
McKinsey faces US criminal probe over opioids work, sources say
By Mike Spector, Nate Raymond and Chris Prentice NEW YORK (Reuters) - McKinsey & Co is under criminal investigation in the United States over allegations that the consulting firm played a key role in fueling the opioid epidemic, with federal prosec...
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Universal Health Services quarterly results beat on higher hospital admissions
(Reuters) - Universal Health Services on Wednesday beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter profit aided by higher patient admissions, amid a resurgence in demand for some non-urgent surgeries and easing staff shortages. Shares of the company r...
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Arizona Democrats say they will try again to repeal 1864 abortion ban
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - Democrats in Arizona's House of Representatives said on Wednesday they would try once more to repeal an 1864 ban on abortion that may go into effect next month if not knocked down. The Arizona House Democrats said on soci...
9h ago
Science News
Russia, US clash at UN over nuclear weapons in space
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.S.-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution that called on countries to prevent an arms race in outer space, a move that prompted the United States to question if Mo...
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Huge energetic flare from magnetic neutron star detected
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Magnetars are among the universe's most extreme objects - a class of the compact stellar remnants called neutron stars that possess immensely strong magnetic fields. Once in a while, they produce enormous erupt...
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Factbox-Shenzhou-18 caps over two decades of Chinese human spaceflight
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will send three astronauts into low-Earth orbit on Thursday in the country's 13th crewed mission to space, marking more than two decades of Chinese human spaceflight. Of the 13 crewed missions, half were visits to China's ...
Apr 24, 2024
US, Russia set for a showdown at UN over nuclear weapons in space
By Michelle Nichols and Joey Roulette UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Russia are set to face off over nuclear weapons in space on Wednesday at the United Nations Security Council, which is due to vote on a U.S.-drafted r...
Apr 23, 2024
Three Russians parachute from stratosphere to North Pole
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three Russians set a world record for parachuting from the Earth's stratosphere to the North Pole last week in a mission that also served as a test of a new prototype communications system for use in the Arctic, an organiser of t...
Apr 19, 2024
Technology News
Apple loses top spot in China market with shipments down 6.6% in Q1, data shows
(Reuters) - Apple lost its crown as China's biggest smartphone seller in the first quarter of 2024 as its smartphone shipments fell 6.6% from a year ago amid intense competition, preliminary data from research firm IDC showed on Thursday. Honor and...
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Battery firm LG Energy Solution Q1 profit plunges on weak EV sales
By Heekyong Yang and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean battery firm LG Energy Solution (LGES) posted on Thursday a 75% drop in quarterly profit, hit by weakening demand from electric vehicle (EV) sales. The company, which supplies Tesla, G...
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Cisco says hackers subverted its security devices to spy on governments
By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Technology firm Cisco Systems said that hackers have subverted some of its digital security devices to break in to government networks globally. In a blog post published on Wednesday, the company said its Ad...
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Teradyne sees strong Q2 results on steady chip-testing equipment demand
(Reuters) - Semiconductor-testing equipment maker Teradyne forecast second-quarter profit and revenue above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, helped by strong demand for its chip-testing equipment. Shares of the company rose nearly 8% in extended...
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SK Hynix expects full chip recovery after Q1 earnings surprise on AI boom
By Joyce Lee and Heekyong Yang SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's SK Hynix Inc said it expected a full recovery in memory chips on AI demand, posting its highest profit in nearly two years on sales of advanced DRAM chips with high bandwidth memory (HBM) fo...
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Entertainment News
Ambani's JioCinema cuts subscription prices as India's streaming war heats up
By Aditya Kalra and Kanjyik Ghosh (Reuters) - JioCinema, the streaming platform run by India's Reliance Industries, on Thursday cut prices of its premium offering to as low as 29 rupees ($0.3480) a month, heating up competition for Netflix and Amaz...
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Young Russians dance to K-pop and watch anime amid Asian culture boom
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A few years ago, Karina Marakshina had to explain what K-pop was when asked to describe the musical style of her Moscow dance studio. Now she says she hears it blasting out from nearly every mall where she shops. Russia shares a ...
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Eurovision euphoria boosts travel to Sweden's Malmo, eDreams says
(Reuters) - Eurovision fever boosted travel searches for the Swedish coastal city of Malmo by 176% between September 2023 and April 2024, Spanish online travel booking company eDreams ODIGEO said on Wednesday. The Eurovision song contest, the world...
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Record giant HYBE audits 'NewJeans' label as infighting returns to K-pop
By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's largest music company is auditing the management of one of its labels as it suspects they are planning to break away, the latest case of infighting in K-pop, one of the world's most popular and profitable mu...
18h ago
John Lennon's lost 1960s acoustic guitar to go up for auction
By Lisa Keddie and Will Russell LONDON (Reuters) - A previously lost 12-string acoustic guitar that belonged to the late John Lennon will go up for sale at an auction in May after it was recently found in the attic of a home in Britain. The auction...
Apr 23, 2024