TOWN OF RINGLE, WI (WSAU) -- Ringle Fire Chief Chris Kielman estimates that cleanup from Friday's EF3 tornado is already past the halfway point. "Since Saturday morning, we are probably at 60%-70% [cleaned up] in that area," said Kielman. "Wisconsin Public Service has restored power and gas to homes deem...

WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Monday he believed a nuclear deal the U.S. is currently negotiating with Iran will ​be better than a 2015 international agreement ‌to curb Tehran's nuclear program. "The DEAL that we are m...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- A Marshfield man accused of sexually assaulting an underage employee at the Plover Pizza Hut has reached a plea deal. Court records show Kyle Elkins entered a no contest plea for felony counts of sexual assault through use of force and sexual assault of a child by someone who works with chil...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Wausau Mayor Doug Diny will recommend a restructuring of the current City Council committee structure during Tuesday's organizational meeting. In a statement released Sunday night, Mayor Diny said, "The current system with six standing committees has become redundant, inefficient, and unnecess...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU) -- Wisconsin Rapids is planning to mark America's 250th birthday in a big way this July. The Rapids Riverside Freedom Fest will be held on July 4th. Planned events include a farmer's market, live music, kids' activities, and a maker's market. City leaders have put out a call for potential ve...

TOWN OF RINGLE, WI (WSAU) -- Ringle Fire Chief Chris Kielman estimates that cleanup from Friday's EF3 tornado is already past the halfway point. "Since Saturday morning, we are probably at 60%-70% [cleaned up] in that area," said Kielman. "Wisconsin Public Service has restored power and gas to homes deem...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- A Marshfield man accused of sexually assaulting an underage employee at the Plover Pizza Hut has reached a plea deal. Court records show Kyle Elkins entered a no contest plea for felony counts of sexual assault through use of force and sexual assault of a child by someone who works with chil...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Wausau Mayor Doug Diny will recommend a restructuring of the current City Council committee structure during Tuesday's organizational meeting. In a statement released Sunday night, Mayor Diny said, "The current system with six standing committees has become redundant, inefficient, and unnecess...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU) -- Wisconsin Rapids is planning to mark America's 250th birthday in a big way this July. The Rapids Riverside Freedom Fest will be held on July 4th. Planned events include a farmer's market, live music, kids' activities, and a maker's market. City leaders have put out a call for potential ve...

WESTON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - As the Central Wisconsin community recovers from severe weather, several locations and countless people have stepped up to offer help. The Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin is partnering with the United Way of Marathon County to support those impacted. You can dial 2-1-1 to report...

MIAMI, FL (WSAU) - The Brewers fell behind early and could not recover in a 5-3 loss to the Marlins on Sunday. Jacob Misiorowski allowed 3-runs in the 1st inning in a game where the Brewers did not lead. Misiowoski settled in after the poor start, not allowing any more runs and striking out 9. He falls to 1-2 for the s...

MIAMI, FL (WSAU) Brice Turang hit a two-run home run, powering the Brewers to a 5-2 win over the Miami Marlins. Turang has been on base in 18 consecutive games. Luis Rengifo and William Contreras each had RBI hits. Brandon Woodruff pitched the first 7 innings and allowed 1-run, 3-hits, and struck out four. He improved...

MIAMI, FL (WSAU) -- Rookie Coleman Crow took a no-decision in his first big league start as the Milwaukee Brewers scored a 7-5 win over Miami in ten innings. Crow went 5.1 innings, allowing four hits and two earned runs. Five relievers followed him, including Abner Uribe, who picked up the win. Trevor Megill earned his...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) The Brewers didn't hit the ball out of the infield in a decisive 7th inning. The Brewers tallied two runs on back-to-back-to-back bunts to beat the Blue Jays, 2-1. Garrett Mitchell scored the go-ahead run. Aaron Ashby retired the two batters he faced, and got his 5th win of the season. The Blue Ja...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Brewers 6-game losing streak is over. Milwaukee pushed across two runs in the 8th inning to beat the Blue Jays, 2-1. During the rally William Contraras was the only Brewers to hit the ball out of the infield. The Brewers benefitted from an infield hit and an error in the inning. The go-ahead ...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- Governor Tony Evers has signed Assembly Bill 601, opening the door for sports betting apps to operate in Wisconsin. The bill allows users to place wagers on games through mobile apps, as long as the bet runs through servers operated on tribal land. Evers says this brings an opportunity for increas...

MADISON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Governor Tony Evers took action on a bill Friday that addresses the crime of grooming a child for sexual activity. Evers signed Assembly Bill 677, now known as the 2025 Wisconsin Act 88, into law. The bill, introduced in November 2025, received bipartisan support. The new law establishes the ...

WASHINGTON DC (WSAU-WAOW) - The Apostle Islands National Park and Preserve Act, introduced by Rep. Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin, has advanced out of the House Committee on Natural Resources with a narrow 20-17 vote. This legislation aims to designate the Apostle Islands as Wisconsin's first National Park. "The Apostl...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee County judge convicted of obstructing ICE agents last month, has resigned. In a letter to Governor Tony Evers, she wrote: "As you know, I am the subject of unprecedented federal legal proceedings, which are far from concluded but which present immense and complex ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - Hannah Dugan's felony conviction on Thursday disqualifies her from serving as a Milwaukee County judge, unless it is overturned on appeal. Dugan was convicted of obstructing ICE agents who arrived at the Milwaukee County courthouse to arrest an illegal immigrant who was appearing in her courtroom...

By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK, April 20 (Reuters) - Democratic members of a Senate panel set to hold a confirmation hearing for Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh on Tuesday are worried about the potential central bank leader's pledge to unload a...

WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) - The CEOs of major low-cost airlines ​are set to ‌meet Tuesday with U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as they urge Congress ‌to ​provide ⁠temporary tax relief ⁠to partially offset the soaring cost of jet fuel spar...

April 20 (Reuters) - Soccer fans heading to Philadelphia for the World Cup will be able to take advantage of free ​transport after all six matches in ‌the city, Philadelphia Soccer 2026 said on Monday, thanks to a partnership with travel rental platfor...

April 20 (Reuters) - Pfizer's Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Andrew Baum, is transitioning to a new ​role and will eventually leave ‌the company as part of the U.S. drugmaker's strategic simplification, according to an analyst note on Monday. B...

By Suheir Sheikh, Brad Brooks and Rich McKay SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, April 20 (Reuters) - Shreveport police said on Monday that they were working to determine why a man shot and killed seven of his children and an eighth child the day before, but said t...

By Ana Isabel Martinez and Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY, April 20 (Reuters) - A gunman killed a Canadian woman and wounded four other people at ​the Teotihuacan pyramids outside Mexico City on Monday ‌before killing himself, authorities said, jolting one o...

BAGHDAD, April 20 (Reuters) - The leaders of Iraq's main Shi'ite Muslim political blocs picked government official ​Bassem al-Badry as their nominee ‌for the post of prime minister in a meeting on Monday, two Iraqi Shi'ite officials said, though no ‌of...

By Samia Nakhoul DUBAI, April 20 (Reuters)- - A warning by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has crystallised fears among Gulf states that reopening the Strait of Hormuz may be the most Iran-U.S. talks can achieve, falling short of the broader d...

NAIROBI, April 20 (Reuters) - Tigray's main political party said it was taking back control of the region's government, effectively voiding a peace deal with Ethiopia's federal government that ended one of the century's deadliest conflicts. The Tigray ...

HAVANA, April 20 (Reuters) - U.S. officials met recently with their Cuban counterparts in Havana, an official in the Cuban foreign ​ministry confirmed in an interview to ‌state-run outlet Granma on Monday. Axios reported on Friday that a senior U.S. de...

By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK, April 20 (Reuters) - Democratic members of a Senate panel set to hold a confirmation hearing for Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh on Tuesday are worried about the potential central bank leader's pledge to unload a...

By Suzanne McGee PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 20 (Reuters) - Investment research and analysis provider Morningstar Inc. is the latest index provider to consider revising its approach to designing its market indexes in light of SpaceX's outsize pendi...

WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) - The CEOs of major low-cost airlines ​are set to ‌meet Tuesday with U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as they urge Congress ‌to ​provide ⁠temporary tax relief ⁠to partially offset the soaring cost of jet fuel spar...

April 20 (Reuters) - Pfizer's Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Andrew Baum, is transitioning to a new ​role and will eventually leave ‌the company as part of the U.S. drugmaker's strategic simplification, according to an analyst note on Monday. B...

April 20 (Reuters) - JetBlue Airways CEO Joanna Geraghty told employees the carrier ​was not considering bankruptcy, ‌according to a memo seen by Reuters on Monday, as higher jet fuel prices ‌threaten ​to complicate its ⁠financial recovery. The New ⁠Yo...

April 20 (Reuters) - Pfizer's Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Andrew Baum, is transitioning to a new ​role and will eventually leave ‌the company as part of the U.S. drugmaker's strategic simplification, according to an analyst note on Monday. B...

By Mrinalika Roy and Sriparna Roy April 20 (Reuters) - The surging popularity of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs is quietly reshaping the $40 billion U.S. cannabis market, experts and industry executives said, as retailers adjust product offerings to suit cha...

VIENNA, April 20 (Reuters) - Jars of baby food deliberately tainted with rat poison and found in Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia were part of an attempt to extort their manufacturer, and one jar could still be unaccounted for, the ​company and...

April 20 (Reuters) - Biogen said on Monday it had agreed to pay up to $850 million to acquire exclusive rights in Greater China to an ​experimental immune disease treatment from Chinese biotech ‌firm TJ Biopharma, giving the U.S. drugmaker worldwide ri...

By Sahil Pandey and Christy Santhosh April 20 (Reuters) - McKesson will sell a minority stake in its medical-surgical solutions business to investment firm Apollo Funds for $1.25 billion, ​as the drug distributor plans to spin off ‌the unit through an...

WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration ​said Monday ‌it is ordering an investigation into Blue Origin New ‌Glenn ​3 ⁠second-stage failure ⁠on Sunday. The FAA is requiring Blue Origin to conduct ​a mishap investigation and ...

By Lulah Mapiye JOHANNESBURG, April 20 (Reuters) - Scientists at the University of Witwatersrand have designed South Africa's first app to warn residents of pollution levels, as Johannesburg suffers a spike in coal emissions in recent weeks, causing b...

By Chandni Shah April 19 (Reuters) - The reusable booster of the New Glenn rocket launched from Florida on Sunday by Jeff Bezos' company Blue Origin touched down successfully but the rocket failed to deploy the AST SpaceMobile communications satellite ...

BEIJING, April 18 (Reuters) - The core area of Beijing's Satellite Town, designed as a hub ​for satellite manufacturers and operators, ‌will be completed in the second half of 2026, state-owned media Beijing Daily reported on Saturday. - Commercial lau...

By Will Dunham April 17 (Reuters) - The Grand Canyon is a marvel on the landscape of North America, a breathtaking geological feature in the southwestern U.S. state of Arizona presenting dramatic contours and richly colored vistas. Research is now prov...

April 20 (Reuters) - Adobe launched a suite of artificial intelligence tools on Monday to help corporate clients ​automate and personalize digital marketing ‌functions, in a bid to fend off competition from autonomous tools offered by startups such as ...

By Marta Fiorin and Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM, April 20 (Reuters) - As Kees Roelandschap navigates down the narrow canal-side streets of Amsterdam, flanked by the city's many bicycle riders, it takes a second to realise what's different: he doesn't have ...

April 20 (Reuters) - Anthropic earlier this month debuted Mythos, its most advanced AI model to date, equipped with sophisticated capabilities and designed for defensive cybersecurity tasks. Mythos' vast capabilities have sparked fears about the ​threa...

PARIS, April 20 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's summons for questioning by prosecutors in Paris is linked to a widened investigation into alleged offences linked to X's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, abuse of algorithms and fraudulent data extraction. T...

April 20 (Reuters) - Marvell Technology's shares jumped nearly 5% on Monday following a report that Alphabet's Google is in talks with the chip designer to develop two new chips aimed at running AI models more efficiently. The potential ​deal could inv...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, April 20 (Reuters) - David Burke, a 21‑year‑old musician known professionally as D4vd, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of 14‑year‑old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, months after her dismembered ​body was f...

SYDNEY, April 20 (Reuters) - Australian actor Rebel Wilson appeared in a Sydney court on Monday at the start of a defamation case brought by Charlotte MacInnes, the lead ​actor in Wilson's directorial debut "The Deb", over allegations linked ‌to a seri...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, April 18 (Reuters) - Eddie Murphy received the American Film Institute's (AFI) Life Achievement Award on Saturday night in Los Angeles, honoring a career that has shaped comedy and film for more than five decades. Acce...

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, April 18 (Reuters) - Swiss football club FC Basel said on Saturday they have cancelled a ​Kanye West concert, becoming the latest ‌European venue to stop or postpone the U.S. rapper's performances amid a furore over his pa...

April 18 (Reuters) - French film star ​Nathalie ‌Baye, who starred in Steven ‌Spielberg's "Catch ​Me ⁠if You ⁠Can," has died at the ​age of ⁠77, ⁠AFP reported ​on Saturday ​citing Baye's family. She ‌died Friday evening ⁠at her home in Paris, ⁠the ‌Fre...