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Wisconsin Democrat Party Vastly Outraises Wisconsin Republican Party As Spring Election Looms
MADISON, WI (WSAU) - As voters across the state will be heading to the polls next Tuesday to vote in numerous local races and two state constitutional amendments, both state parties are continuing to compete for one of the most important commodities in politics: money. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Dani...
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Bond Increased for Wausau Man Facing Homicide Charges in Portage County
STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- One of the three suspects in the beating death of a 61-year-old man in Stevens Point is back behind bars after a bond modification hearing. Christian Emerson returned to court on Thursday where a judge increased his bond to $250,000 cash. He did not post the money and was returned to the Por...
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Tick population much higher this spring
MADISON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) -Health professionals and the Environmental Protection Agency warn that Wisconsin may owe the spread of tick borne illnesses to climate change. "The climate change that we're seeing definitely has been the reason for this explosion in ticks, as well as the increase in human diseases," ...
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Report: Badgers Head Coach Greg Gard Will Return For 10th Season
MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The Wisconsin Badgers will be bringing back one of their longest-tenured coaches in 2024. Greg Gard, the head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team, is set to return for a tenth season, according to Chris McIntosh, the athletic director at the University of Wisconsin, who spoke with ...
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US House to deliver Mayorkas impeachment to Senate April 10
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives will deliver two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on April 10, House Speaker Mike Johnson told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer...
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Local News
Wisconsin Democrat Party Vastly Outraises Wisconsin Republican Party As Spring Election Looms
MADISON, WI (WSAU) - As voters across the state will be heading to the polls next Tuesday to vote in numerous local races and two state constitutional amendments, both state parties are continuing to compete for one of the most important commodities in politics: money. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Dani...
1h ago
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Bond Increased for Wausau Man Facing Homicide Charges in Portage County
STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- One of the three suspects in the beating death of a 61-year-old man in Stevens Point is back behind bars after a bond modification hearing. Christian Emerson returned to court on Thursday where a judge increased his bond to $250,000 cash. He did not post the money and was returned to the Por...
14h ago
Tick population much higher this spring
MADISON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) -Health professionals and the Environmental Protection Agency warn that Wisconsin may owe the spread of tick borne illnesses to climate change. "The climate change that we're seeing definitely has been the reason for this explosion in ticks, as well as the increase in human diseases," ...
14h ago
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Crandon Schools to Reopen Next Tuesday
CRANDON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) -- Schools in Crandon will reopen on April 2nd after a carbon monoxide leak made dozens of students and staff ill earlier this month. "We are thankful for the support of these agencies and that their investigation confirmed the integrity of the building," said Interim District Administ...
18h ago
New Poll: Former President Trump Ally Alex Bruesewitz Holds Early Lead In Race For Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District
GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - A new poll measuring who may replace Republican Mike Gallagher in Wisconsin's 8th Congressional district shows one candidate currently holds a large lead over the field. According to the latest Cygnal poll, Alex Bruesewitz, CEO of X Strategies, leads with 36 percent, followed by state senator And...
19h ago
Sports
Bucks lose to New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS, LA (WSAU-MetroSource) - The Bucks fell to the Pelicans 107-100 in New Orleans. Giannis Antetokounmpo led all scorers with 35 points and grabbed 14 rebounds for a double-double. Damian Lillard and Malik Beasley each netted 20 points, while Khris Middleton struggled to seven points on just 3-of-12 shooting. ...
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Report: Badgers Head Coach Greg Gard Will Return For 10th Season
MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The Wisconsin Badgers will be bringing back one of their longest-tenured coaches in 2024. Greg Gard, the head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team, is set to return for a tenth season, according to Chris McIntosh, the athletic director at the University of Wisconsin, who spoke with ...
15h ago
Wisconsin Badgers Star A.J. Storr Will Enter Transfer Portal After Declaring For NBA Draft
MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The Wisconsin Badgers will be without their top scorer next season after guard A.J. Storr confirmed that he will enter the transfer portal if he is not taken in this year's NBA draft. According to 247 Sports' Travis Branham, a source close to the matter confirmed that Storr will indeed be moving on...
18h ago
Former Packers Tight End Josiah Deguara To Sign One-Year Deal With Jaguars
GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - One of the Packers' most versatile players on offense has signed elsewhere for the 2024 NFL season. According to Jordan Schultz of Bleacher Report, former Green Bay Packers tight end Josiah Deguara is inking a one-year contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Packers selected Deguara in the th...
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Update: Bucks Guard Patrick Beverley (Wrist) Expected To Play Thursday vs Pelicans
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Bucks may be without one of their defensive leaders for the remainder of the season. Recently acquired guard Patrick Beverley said on The Pat Bev Pod that he will need surgery to repair a torn ligament in his right wrist, which would sideline him for three to four months. According ...
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State News
Wisconsin Schools get $12 Million in Federal Mental Health Grants
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- Forty Wisconsin schools will be getting more federal aid to improve mental health services. The $12 million in grants comes from the 2022 federal Safer Communities program. State schools superintendent Dr. Jill Underly says the districts will have the chance to make a tremendous difference in ...
13h ago
Another Attempt To Recall Assembly Speaker Robin Vos
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- Another attempt to recall state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. The State Journal reports that recall organizer Matthew Snorek filed paperwork with the Wisconsin Elections Commission on Wednesday. The first attempt to recall Vos was launched in January but went off the rails with a lack of valid s...
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Wisconsin Universities Propose 3.75% Tuition Hike for 2024-25
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- The Universities of Wisconsin is proposing a 3.75% tuition increase for resident undergraduates in 2024-25. Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman says the rate increase is similar to recent inflation. Rothman also announced he has asked for an updated affordability review that will ...
20h ago
Wisconsin Wins First Federal Approval for Summer Food Benefits for Low-Income Families
(WTAQ-WLUK) -- Wisconsin is the first state to receive federal approval to provide summer food benefits for low-income families. Gov. Tony Evers announced Thursday the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service approved Wisconsin's plan for the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) p...
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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...
Mar 27, 2024
National News
Japan finally screens 'Oppenheimer', with trigger warnings, unease in Hiroshima
By Irene Wang HIROSHIMA (Reuters) - Best picture winner "Oppenheimer" finally premiered in Japan on Friday, eight months after a controversial grassroots marketing push and concerns about how its nuclear theme would be received in the only country ...
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Factbox-Major cases before the US Supreme Court this term
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court's current term features major cases involving former President Donald Trump's ballot disqualification, his claim of immunity from prosecution, the abortion pill, gun rights, the power of federal agencies, social m...
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Kamala Harris pushes the envelope as Biden struggles with some Democrats
By Trevor Hunnicutt (Reuters) - Hosting rapper Fat Joe at the White House to talk about reforming marijuana laws. Visiting an abortion clinic. Calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the historic Selma bridge in Alabama. Walking the bloodstained crime s...
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'Adopt a penguin egg' Easter campaign helps endangered African birds
By shafiek tassiem and Tim Cocks CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Bored of buying eggs made of chocolate and wrapped in foil with predictable bunny motifs? This Easter in South Africa you could instead spend your cash an egg that will hatch a live penguin. Bu...
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Madagascar cyclone Gamane kills at least 11, displaces thousands, government says
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - A tropical cyclone that swept across the island of Madagascar this week killed at least 11 people and displaced thousands more, according to the country's disaster management office. Tropical cyclone Gamane, which crossed t...
2h ago
World News
After veto, Russia says big powers need to stop 'strangling' North Korea
By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday that major powers needed a new approach to North Korea, accusing the United States and its allies of ratchetting up military tensions in Asia and seeking to "strangle" the reclusive stat...
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North Korea rules out any meetings with Japan
By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has no interest in dialogue with Japan, state media KCNA reported on Friday, citing foreign minister Choe Son Hui. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has said he wants to hold talks with North Korean l...
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Ukraine receives $1.5 billion funding tranche under World Bank programme, says PM
(Reuters) - Ukraine has received a $1.5 billion tranche of funding under a World Bank programme, the country's prime minister said on Friday. "984 million dollars come from Japan and 516 million dollars from the UK. The funds will cover budget spen...
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India's Congress says facing 'tax terrorism' after second tax notice
By Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's main opposition party said on Friday it had been asked to pay an additional 18.2 billion rupees ($218 million) in taxes, which it called an attempt by the tax department to financially cripple it we...
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Tajikistan detains 9 people over Russian concert shooting - source
DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Tajikistan's State National Security Committee has detained nine people this week who it believes have links to the Russian concert hall shooting suspects as well as Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), a Tajik security source told...
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Business News
With China EV launch, Xiaomi's 'Thor' takes on Elon Musk
By Sarah Wu BEIJING (Reuters) - He was called China's answer to Steve Jobs for taking Xiaomi from scrappy startup to an electronics giant known for its smartphones. With the launch of a much-hyped and against-the-odds electric car, Lei Jun, Xiaomi'...
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Greece to raise monthly minimum wage by 6.4% to 830 euros
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will raise its monthly minimum gross wage by 6.4% to 830 euros, the conservative government said on Friday, the fourth such increase in five years aimed at easing the burden on households squeezed by a higher cost of livin...
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US probes Stellantis 2022 RAM truck models over K1 snap ring transmission failures
(Reuters) -The U.S. Office of Defect Investigations (ODI) has opened a preliminary evaluation of a failure of the K1 snap ring in Chrysler-parent Stellantis' year 2022 RAM 3500, 4500, and 5500 trucks, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ...
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Fed's balancing act could see June rate cut in play even with sticky inflation
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says the central bank is not growing more tolerant of higher inflation even though the latest policymaker projections raised the inflation outlook for the year without t...
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Investors eye Fed rate cut, earnings as key to sustaining market rally
By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) - After a stellar start to the year for stocks, investors are on guard for potential bumps in the second quarter as they gauge whether the Federal Reserve delivers on an expected interest rate cut by June and tur...
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Health News
Brazil's Hapvida posts 105% increase in fourth-quarter adjusted profit
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian healthcare operator Hapvida posted on Thursday a 104.8% increase in its adjusted net profit for the fourth quarter from a year earlier. The company reported a 330.5 million real ($65.9 million)adjusted net profit in ...
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Rite Aid moves ahead on restructuring as sale efforts continue
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rite Aid, one of the largest U.S. pharmacy chains, received permission from a U.S. judge on Thursday to begin voting on a bankruptcy restructuring plan that would turn over most of the company's equity to its...
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US FDA extends review of Applied Therapeutics' genetic disease drug
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has extended its review of Applied Therapeutics' experimental drug to treat galactosemia, a rare genetic metabolic disease, the company said on Thursday. The health regulator will now give its decis...
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Bristol Myers' bowel disease drug fails to meet main goal in late-stage study
(Reuters) - Bristol Myers Squibb said on Thursday its experimental drug to treat Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel condition, failed to meet the main goal in a late-stage study. Crohn's disease, which results in the swelling or inflamm...
15h ago
US CDC warns of increase in meningococcal disease
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday issued a health advisory to alert healthcare providers of an increase in invasive meningococcal disease, a serious bacterial infection that can result in organ damage...
16h ago
Science News
Dogs can associate words with objects, study finds
By Krisztina Fenyo BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Dogs are able to understand that some words refer to objects in a way that is similar to humans, a small study of canine brain waves has found, offering insight into the way the minds of man's best friends wo...
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Secret planting operation boosts critically endangered Welsh shrub
By Helena Williams LONDON (Reuters) - At a secret location in the Welsh countryside, naturalists have planted 30 young specimens of a once-common plant that has been collected - and nibbled - almost to extinction. Cotoneaster Cambricus, Welsh Coton...
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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...
Mar 28, 2024
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...
Mar 27, 2024
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...
Mar 27, 2024
Technology News
Musk's Grok-1.5 AI chatbot to be available next week
(Reuters) - Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI's latest Grok-1.5 chatbot will be available on his social media platform X next week, the billionaire said in a post on X on Friday. "Grok 2 should exceed current AI on all metrics. In tra...
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China's Huawei continues rebound with strongest earnings growth since 2019
By David Kirton SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies saw its fastest growth in four years in 2023, with a rebound in its consumer segment and income from new businesses like smart car components accelerating its recovery from U.S...
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Musk's xAI to launch improved version of chatbot
(Reuters) - Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI said on Thursday it will launch an improved version of its chatbot Grok called Grok-1.5, which will be available to early testers and existing Grok users on social media platform X in the ...
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Automotive computer chip maker NXP rolls out new platform
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - NXP Semiconductors NV, the biggest maker of computer chips for cars, on Thursday said it had introduced a new platform that will simplify and speed up software development for its customers. The platform, which integrates soft...
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US may soon unveil list of Chinese chip factories barred from receiving tech
By Karen Freifeld and Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration is drawing up a list of advanced Chinese chipmaking factories barred from receiving key tools, three people familiar with matter said, to make it easier for compa...
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Entertainment News
'Oppenheimer' director Christopher Nolan to be given knighthood
LONDON (Reuters) - British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan, fresh from his Oscar victory for historical drama "Oppenheimer", will receive a knighthood from Britain for services to film. His wife and film producer Emma Thomas will receive a dam...
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Blackwells sues Disney in Delaware over disclosure in relationship with ValueAct
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blackwells Capital is ratcheting up the pressure on Walt Disney in a bruising boardroom battle by suing the entertainment giant in Delaware court for information that may point to possible disclosure violations in dealings with...
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'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...
Mar 27, 2024
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...
Mar 27, 2024
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