By David Shepardson (Reuters) - The National Transportation Safety Board launched a probe on Friday into the crash of a tourist helicopter into New York City's Hudson River the day before that killed all six aboard including three children. The NTS...

By Rahul Paswan and Anjana Anil (Reuters) - Gold prices vaulted over the $3,200-per-ounce mark for the first time on Friday, as intensifying U.S.-China trade tensions rattled global markets and drove investors into the metal seen as a refuge from u...

WAUSHARA COUNTY, WI (WSAU) -- A Plover man has been accused of his 7th OWI after State Patrol officers found him passed out behind the wheel of a pickup along Interstate 39 Friday morning. Officers found 38-year-old Jacob Locast unresponsive and slumped over in the driver's seat of a Ford pickup near mile marker 123 in...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) --The third and final Wausau-area teen charged in the beating of Donald Mitchell Jr was sentenced for reckless homicide on Friday. Brandon Boehm will spend 13 years in prison with another seven on supervised release after he pled no contest to second-degree reckless homicide in February. He has...

MEDFORD, WI (WSAU) -- Two people were found dead in a Taylor County home Wednesday evening. Officers were called to a home on County Road M in the Town of Pershing, near Gilman, for a report of two "severely injured" adults. They found two deceased adults inside the home. Officers say this is an isolated inci...

WAUSHARA COUNTY, WI (WSAU) -- A Plover man has been accused of his 7th OWI after State Patrol officers found him passed out behind the wheel of a pickup along Interstate 39 Friday morning. Officers found 38-year-old Jacob Locast unresponsive and slumped over in the driver's seat of a Ford pickup near mile marker 123 in...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) --The third and final Wausau-area teen charged in the beating of Donald Mitchell Jr was sentenced for reckless homicide on Friday. Brandon Boehm will spend 13 years in prison with another seven on supervised release after he pled no contest to second-degree reckless homicide in February. He has...

MEDFORD, WI (WSAU) -- Two people were found dead in a Taylor County home Wednesday evening. Officers were called to a home on County Road M in the Town of Pershing, near Gilman, for a report of two "severely injured" adults. They found two deceased adults inside the home. Officers say this is an isolated inci...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau Ethics Board has requested information from City Attorney Ann Jacobson and Clerk Kaitlyn Bernarde regarding what information they can and cannot provide during the upcoming hearing into a complaint against Mayor Doug Diny. The request came from Board Member Brian Mason, who says he feels...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - The Department of Children and Families stopped by The Marathon County Public Library, to have a roundtable discussion about the future of child care. Local leaders and child care employees gathered to discuss the possibility of child care losing its funding. DCF Secretary Jeff Pertl started th...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is Thursday's scoreboard & today's schedule: Baseball Wausau East 12 Antigo 2 DC Everest-Eau Claire North no score reported Merrill 11 Abbotsford/Colby 0 Bowler 5 Northland Lutheran 3 Medford 9 Mosinee 7 Amherst 6 Westfield 3 Almond-Bancroft 9 Wild Rose 2 Pacelli 2 Wit...

DENVER, COL (WSAU) -- The Colorado Rockies avoided a sweep of the series vs the Milwaukee Brewers with a 7-2 win on Thursday at Coors Field. The Brewers bullpen let this one get away as losing pitcher Joel Payamps gave up five runs in the 8th inning. Newest Brewer Quinn Priester went five innings, giving up one run on ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WI) The Milwaukee Bucks kept it rolling with a 136-111 win over the New Orleans Pelicans on Thursday night at Fiserv Forum. It was the Bucks sixth straight win. Giannis led the Bucks with 28 points and 11 rebounds in 26 minutes of action. Kevin Porter Jr had 20 while Kyle Kuzma and Gary Trent Jr added 17...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - Brewers star Jackson Chourio has been on an absolute tear over the team's last three games, putting up numbers at the plate that put him in rare company. According to OptaSTATS, Chourio is just the fourth player since the RBI was invented in 1920 to record 12 RBIs, six extra-base hits, three home...

DENVER, COL (WSAU) -- The Milwaukee Brewers hit three home runs among 13 hits in a 17-2 rout of the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday at Coor Field. Jackson Chourio stayed hot with a three-run homer and five RBIs. William Contreras and Christian Yelich also went deep. The Brewers plated five runs in both the 3rd and 5th in...

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- State Democrats announced legislation addressing political contributions made in the April 1st Spring election. In total, $98 million was spent leading up to the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, making it the most expensive judicial race in American history. On Thursday, State Rep. Lee Sno...

JUNEAU, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Criminal charges have been dropped against one of the nine former Waupun Correctional Institution employees who were charged as a result of an investigation into inmate deaths. Jeramie Chalker, 41, was charged with misconduct in public office. Last week, Dodge County district attorney Andrea W...

GREENVILLE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- It's just one month until REAL ID enforcement begins. The Wisconsin DMV and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) hosted a joint news conference Monday at the Appleton International Airport (ATW) to discuss the latest information on the upcoming deadline, impact on travelers and how...

SARPY COUNTY, Neb. (WTAQ-WLUK) - Gary Day, the man who was traveling with a pregnant Beaver Dam girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert, pleaded not guilty to two charges Friday and is expected back in court later today. Day, 40, was arrested this week at a truck stop near Omaha with Sophia Franklin, who was reporte...

DODGE COUNTY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A pregnant teenager from Beaver Dam has been located safe after being missing for nearly two months. Sophia Franklin was found at a truck stop near Omaha, Nebraska late Wednesday night in the company of the alleged father of her unborn child, 40-year-old Gary Day. It happened to be Frank...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's capital hunkered down on Saturday as rare typhoon-like gales swept northern regions, forcing the closure of historic sites and disrupting travel while bringing late snowfalls and hailstone showers in some areas. Windows shook...

(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 5.95 struck the New Britain Region in Papua New Guinea on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), GFZ said. (Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in...

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration cannot cut off Maine's federal school lunch funding over the state's refusal to ban transgender women from sports, a federal judge ruled on Friday. U.S. District Judge John Woodcock Jr. did not we...

By Omar Younis LOS ANGLES (Reuters) - A Los Angeles judge on Friday ruled that a resentencing hearing for Lyle and Erik Menendez may go forward, dealing a setback to the prosecutor who opposed any leniency for the brothers serving a life term for t...

(Reuters) -Southern California Edison (SCE), a subsidiary of utility Edison International, said on Friday it had submitted an initial plan to rebuild the areas within its service territory that were devastated by the Los Angeles wildfires in January. T...

KYIV (Reuters) - Russia launched a barrage of drones in an overnight attack on Ukraine, injuring four people and damaging residential and commercial buildings in Kyiv and other parts of the country, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday. Ukraine's a...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's capital hunkered down on Saturday as rare typhoon-like gales swept northern regions, forcing the closure of historic sites and disrupting travel while bringing late snowfalls and hailstone showers in some areas. Windows shook...

By Lucinda Elliott (Reuters) - In December 1958, Argentina, battling inflation and weak reserves, agreed a $75-million loan with the International Monetary Fund, its first deal with the Washington-based lender in a record 23 programs totalling $177...

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran and the United States will hold high-level talks in Oman on Saturday aimed at jump-starting negotiations over Tehran's fast-advancing nuclear programme, with U.S. President Donald Trump threatening military a...

(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 5.95 struck the New Britain Region in Papua New Guinea on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), GFZ said. (Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in...

(Reuters) - Bank of England interest rate-setter Megan Greene said on Saturday it was unclear what U.S. President Donald Trump's import tariffs would do to UK inflation with the unpredictable behaviour of the dollar adding to the puzzle. Higher bar...

TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan officials held their first tariff talks with U.S. officials on Friday, with both sides looking forward to further discussions soon, the island's government said on Saturday. While Taiwan, a major semiconductor producer facing t...

By Lucinda Elliott (Reuters) - In December 1958, Argentina, battling inflation and weak reserves, agreed a $75-million loan with the International Monetary Fund, its first deal with the Washington-based lender in a record 23 programs totalling $177...

By Heekyong Yang, Hyunjoo Jin and Francesco Guarascio SEOUL/HANOI (Reuters) - When Samsung Electronics chairman Jay Y. Lee met Vietnam's prime minister in July, he had a simple message to convey. "Vietnam's success is Samsung's success, and Vietnam...

(Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund's board approved a 48-month, $20 billion extended fund facility arrangement for Argentina and the immediate disbursement of $12 billion, the fund said on Friday. Argentina needs the cash to unlock capital...

By Amina Niasse and Bhanvi Satija (Reuters) -UnitedHealth Group is demanding that healthcare providers repay the loans they received from the company after a cyberattack at its tech unit Change Healthcare last year, according to two providers on Friday...

(Reuters) -The Texas health department reported 541 cases of measles in the state on Friday, an increase of 36 cases from its previous count on April 8, as the United States battles an outbreak of the childhood disease that has spread across 25 states....

WARSAW (Reuters) -The European Commission plans to adopt emergency measures next week to stop the spread of bird flu in two regions of Poland, a spokesperson said on Friday. There have been 73 confirmed outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H...

(Reuters) - Canada's Competition Bureau said on Friday it has launched an investigation into Cigna's pharmacy benefit management unit Express Scripts. The agency is looking into alleged anti-competitive conduct that can prevent or limit competition...

By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - (To receive the full newsletter in your inbox for free sign up here) Brain-imaging studies are giving researchers a better understanding of the cause of incontinence after a stroke that could lead to therapies for restori...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the time, they believed the planet met its doom as the star puffed up late in its lifespan, beco...

By Akash Sriram (Reuters) -U.S. federal budget cuts have started to have some early impact on space startups after funding for such companies dropped 12.5% in the first quarter, according to investment firm Seraphim Space. Elon Musk-led Department of G...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Molecular analysis has determined that a jawbone recovered off Taiwan's coast came from a Denisovan, showing that this enigmatic lineage of archaic humans once inhabited a vast expanse in eastern Eurasia in environments rangin...

(Reuters) -Atmospheric rivers are storms akin to rivers in the sky that dump massive amounts of rain and can cause flooding, trigger mudslides and result in loss of life and enormous property damage. Here's an explanation of how they form, their size a...

(Reuters) -Amazon on Wednesday had its launch of the first 27 initial Kuiper internet satellites postponed over bad weather, the launch provider United Launch Alliance said. (Reporting by Joey Roulette)

By Heekyong Yang, Hyunjoo Jin and Francesco Guarascio SEOUL/HANOI (Reuters) - When Samsung Electronics chairman Jay Y. Lee met Vietnam's prime minister in July, he had a simple message to convey. "Vietnam's success is Samsung's success, and Vietnam...

(Reuters) - Binance executives met with U.S. Treasury Department officials last month and discussed loosening government oversight on the company, while exploring a deal with President Donald Trump's crypto venture World Liberty Financial, the Wall...

By Kenrick Cai and Krystal Hu SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet and Nvidia have joined prominent venture capital investors to back Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a startup co-founded by OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever that has quickl...

By Anna Tong SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A dozen former OpenAI employees filed a legal brief on Friday backing co-founder Elon Musk's lawsuit aimed at keeping the non-profit status of OpenAI, marking the latest development in the dispute over the fut...

By Anna Tong and Krystal Hu SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is in talks to lead an outsized early stage funding round of former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati's startup, according to fo...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - Makers of the post-apocalyptic TV series "The Last of Us" say fans are in for extra action and scarier zombies when the show returns for a much-awaited second season, two years after the first season finale aired...

By Miranda Murray and Michaela Cabrera BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) -This year's Cannes Film Festival will see a raft of veteran attendees such as Wes Anderson go toe to toe with art-house cinema darlings like Ari Aster on a red carpet that is set to be part...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China said on Thursday it would immediately restrict imports of Hollywood films in retaliation for President Donald Trump's escalation of U.S. tariffs on imported Chinese goods. After three decades during which China annually importe...

By Nicoco Chan SHANGHAI (Reuters) -In a studio tucked inside a Shanghai mall, Shirley Chen is living out her K-pop idol dreams. The 28-year-old is at Chen Go, a K-pop-inspired "idol experience centre", where customers get a chance to live like their fa...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For Viola Davis, seeing her first images of a "badass Black woman on television" when she was growing up became an inspiration for her role as the U.S. president in the thriller film "G20." The 1974 Amer...