STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- Cleanup continues in Stevens Point after ice downed branches and power lines on Thursday, but the area is not out of harm's way just yet. A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for Portage County this evening, with forecasters calling for a rain and freezing rain mix that could lead to addit...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The Milwaukee Brewers and top prospect Cooper Pratt have officially announced a ten-year deal for the 21-year-old Shortstop. The deal puts Pratt on Milwaukee's 40-man roster, with the team assigning him to Triple-A Nashville to start the season. Outfielder Steward Berroa was designated for assig...

By Joshua McElwee ROME, April 3 (Reuters) - Pope Leo led a candle-lit service with thousands of Catholics inside Rome's famed Colosseum on Friday evening that featured prayers for war orphans and deported immigrant ​children, and a warning to world lea...

April 3 (Reuters) - An unnamed source ​told ‌Iran's semi-official Fars news agency ‌on ​Friday ⁠that Tehran ⁠had rejected a U.S. proposal ​for a ⁠48-hour ⁠ceasefire. The source ​said the ​proposal was made ‌on Wednesday through another ⁠country, which ...

April 3 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. can open the Strait of Hormuz with ​a little more time, as pressure ‌mounts for his administration to find a quick resolution to a war against Iran. "With a little more time, we can eas...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- Cleanup continues in Stevens Point after ice downed branches and power lines on Thursday, but the area is not out of harm's way just yet. A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for Portage County this evening, with forecasters calling for a rain and freezing rain mix that could lead to addit...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- Stevens Point Mayor Mike Wiza is asking residents to stay home for the rest of the day due to damage from Thursday's ice storm. Wiza says while the surface of the roads or sidewalks may be fine, many of them are blocked by downed trees or power lines. Public Works crews and WPS workers are o...

MERRILL, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A 24-year-old man was sentenced to four years in prison followed by five years of extended supervision for cutting brake lines on two vehicles in 2023. David Genrich's charges stem from crimes committed over a four-month span. Police said the incidents were motivated by his fixation on a co-wo...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Wausau Police are warning residents about an uptick in scams of all kinds. In a Facebook post, officers noted that "fraud is now the #1 case type investigated by Wausau detectives." The post adds that cases of fraud have doubled in the first three months of the year, with victims losing t...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A Stevens Point man was sentenced to 20 years in prison and 15 years of extended supervision after pleading guilty to sexual assault and child pornography charges. Stephen Decker was sentenced on April 1 by Portage County Circuit Court Judge Louis Molepske after pleading guilty to multip...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The Milwaukee Brewers and top prospect Cooper Pratt have officially announced a ten-year deal for the 21-year-old Shortstop. The deal puts Pratt on Milwaukee's 40-man roster, with the team assigning him to Triple-A Nashville to start the season. Outfielder Steward Berroa was designated for assig...

HOUSTON, TX (WSAU) - The Bucks were bested on the road. Milwaukee lost 119-113 to the Houston Rockets. Ousmane Dieng led the Bucks with 36 points in the setback. Cormac Ryan added 25 points off the bench, while Pete Nance finished with 23 points. The Bucks will return home Friday to face off with the Boston Celtics.

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Brewers have owned the late innings in their 5-1 start to the new season. A 6-run rally in the 8th powered the Crew past the Tampa Rays, 8-2 on Wednesday afternoon. Christian Yelich sparked the rally with a go-ahead two run single. Garrett Mitchell tacked on a two-run double. David Hamilton a...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Bucks ended their four-game losing streak. Milwaukee beat the Dallas Mavericks 123-99 at home. Ryan Rollins posted 24 points, seven rebounds and nine assists in the win and Kyle Kuzma added 20 points of his own. The Bucks will be on the road to play the Houston Rockets tonight at 6:30pm on WS...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - One night after their first loss of the season, the Brewers bounced back with a 6-2 win on Tuesday. Trailing 2-0, the Brewers got two RBI from Brice Turang and home runs from Gary Sanches and Jake Bauers. Rays starter Shane McClanahan was making his first major league start since 2023. He lasted ...

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...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) A federal jury in Milwaukee deliberated for six hours before finding judge Hannah Dugan of obstructing ICE agents. Dugan helped an illegal immigrant leave her courtroom through a private hallway to avoid arrest. She was aquitted on a misdemeanor concealment charge. The conviction is a felony, puni...

By Nate Raymond BOSTON, April 3 (Reuters) - The Trump administration cannot force public universities in 17 U.S. states to turn over sweeping amounts of data so it can examine whether they have ceased considering race as ​an admissions factor, a federa...

By Nate Raymond April 3 (Reuters) - A Nevada judge on Friday extended a ban on prediction market operator Kalshi from offering event-based contracts that would allow the state's residents to place bets on sports and ​other matters without the company o...

WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Friday that aims to reinforce the rules of college sports in a bid to restore financial ​stability and protect the future of college athletics. Friday's order dire...

WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday directed ​the Department of ‌Homeland Security to pay "each and every" employee the equivalent of compensation and ‌benefits ​lost during ⁠U.S. lawmakers' partial ⁠shutdown of the ag...

By Dan Burns April 3 (Reuters) - U.S. employment growth snapped back in March after a hefty decline in February, and the jobless rate declined unexpectedly to 4.3%, but economists found the headline highlights were countered by a number of less-than-gl...

AMSTERDAM, April 4 (Reuters) - Dutch police on Saturday said they ​were investigating ‌reports of an explosion overnight at the Israel Centre in the ‌central ​Dutch town ⁠of Nijkerk. There ⁠were no reports of injuries and the damage at the ​site, run b...

MOSCOW, April 4 (Reuters) - A Ukrainian drone and missile attack on southern Russia ​killed at least one ‌person, injured four others, and sparked a blaze aboard a foreign-flagged vessel, Russian officials said on ‌Saturday. (Reporting by Reuters; Edit...

By Phil Stewart and Enas Alashray WASHINGTON/CAIRO, April 4 (Reuters) - Iran's forces were hunting on Saturday for a missing U.S. pilot from one of two warplanes downed over Iran and the Gulf, officials from both sides said, while two airmen were rescu...

April 4 (Reuters) - A ​fire ‌broke out ‌early ​on ⁠Saturday at ⁠storage facilities belonging ​to ⁠foreign ⁠oil ​companies west ​of Iraq's ‌Basra after ⁠a drone strike, ⁠security ‌sources ⁠told ​Reuters. (Reporting ‌by ​Muayad Hameed; ⁠Editing by Willi...

April 4 (Reuters) - Iran on Saturday executed two men it said ​were convicted of ‌links to an opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran, and ‌of ​carrying out ⁠armed attacks, domestic ⁠media reported. The executions were the latest ...

By Andreas Rinke BERLIN, April 4 (Reuters) - Five European Union finance ministers are ​calling for a ‌tax on windfall profits of energy companies in reaction to rising fuel prices due ‌to ​the Iran ⁠war, according to ⁠a letter from the ministers to th...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO, April 4 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund urged the Bank of Japan to continue raising interest rates, even as the Middle East war posed "significant new risks" to the country's economic outlook. The proposal comes amid ...

By Khanh Vu and Phuong Nguyen HANOI, April 4 (Reuters) - Vietnam's economy slowed in the first quarter from the three months prior, data showed on Saturday, as heavy exposure to Middle Eastern oil imports boosted inflation, presenting a challenge in re...

By Savyata Mishra April 3 (Reuters) - Lucid Group missed expectations for first-quarter vehicle deliveries on Friday, hurt by a temporary sales halt and recall tied to ​an unauthorized supplier change. Deliveries of its electric luxury ‌SUV Lucid Gravi...

By Vidya Ranganathan LONDON, April 3 (Reuters) - Some investors think private credit is a tempest in a teapot. Others think it is about to spark a new financial crisis. Depending on the time horizon, both sets of views about the esoteric sector may be ...

By Marleen Kaesebier ZURICH, April 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's 100% tariffs on the pharmaceutical industry threaten global production, supply chains and ultimately ​will harm patients, Switzerland's pharmaceutical association interpharm...

(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.) By Nancy Lapid April 3 (Reuters) - Doctors should not automatically rule out surgery for octogenarians with early-stage lung cancer...

(Refiles to adjust the dateline) By Daphne Zhang and Naveen Thukral April 3 (Reuters) - China has tightened border controls, fast-tracked vaccines and begun culling cattle after a small outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the northwest that officials...

By Ammu Kannampilly and Jennifer Rigby NAIROBI/LONDON, April 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. is upending the way it delivers medical supplies for diseases such as HIV and malaria to lower-income countries, according to seven sources and an internal email, riski...

By Rishika Sadam HYDERABAD, India, April 3 (Reuters) - Soon-to-be brides and grooms seeking shortcuts to shed pounds before the big day have become the latest consumer target for weight-loss drugs in India. New Delhi wellness clinic Klarity Skin Clinic...

April 3 (Reuters) - SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Friday that the company's next Starship test flight ​will take place in May ‌and not April as originally scheduled. Musk posted on social media platform X that the next flight of Starship's V3 vehicle wa...

WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - The White ​House ‌on Friday proposed a $5.6 billion ‌cut ​to ⁠NASA's budget ⁠for 2027, including a $3.4 billion ​cut to ⁠the ⁠space agency's ​science unit, ​a 23% cut ‌as NASA's new ⁠chief plans an array of ⁠new ‌mission...

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, April 3 (Reuters) - Beijing-based rocket developer Space Pioneer said on Friday that the maiden flight of its reusable rocket Tianlong-3 failed, highlighting the challenge China's rocket developers face in catching up to El...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - A supernova - the explosive death of a star - is always violent, blasting material into space while typically leaving behind a compact stellar remnant like a neutron star or black hole. But some supernovas...

By Joey Roulette ORLANDO, Florida, April 2 (Reuters) - The Orion capsule carrying four astronauts in NASA's Artemis II mission executed a key thruster firing on Thursday that will kick the crew out of Earth's orbit and on a path toward the moon, commit...

MOSCOW, April 4 (Reuters) - Telegram founder Pavel Durov said on Saturday ​Russia's attempt ‌to block Virtual Private Networks triggered a problem with a domestic payment system, ‌adding ​that tens ⁠of millions ⁠of Russians were now resisting the digit...

April 3 (Reuters) - Elon Musk is requiring banks and other advisers working on SpaceX's planned IPO to buy ​subscriptions to Grok, his artificial ‌intelligence chatbot, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Some...

April 3 (Reuters) - SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Friday that the company's next Starship test flight ​will take place in May ‌and not April as originally scheduled. Musk posted on social media platform X that the next flight of Starship's V3 vehicle wa...

MILAN, April 3 (Reuters) - A Rome court has ruled as unlawful price increases imposed by Netflix on its Italian subscribers over the last seven years, and has ordered the U.S. media giant to ​reimburse them, a consumer association said on Friday. Consu...

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, April 3 (Reuters) - Beijing-based rocket developer Space Pioneer said on Friday that the maiden flight of its reusable rocket Tianlong-3 failed, highlighting the challenge China's rocket developers face in catching up to El...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, April 2 (Reuters) - HBO Max will air the third and final season premiere of "Euphoria" on Sunday, April 12, at the Coachella ​Valley Music and Arts Festival, the first time ‌a television series has screened at the icon...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, April 2 (Reuters) - Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of the 11‑time Tony Award-winning musical "Hamilton," will direct a musical film adaptation of ​Dave Malloy's chamber choir musical "Octet" as his ‌next feature ...

By Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen NEW YORK, April 2 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday dismissed actor Blake Lively's sexual harassment claims in her lawsuit against actor and director Justin Baldoni, significantly narrowing her case over the film...

By Jasper Ward April 2 (Reuters) - American rapper Pooh Shiesty and seven others were arrested on charges of robbery and armed kidnapping of music ​industry figures, the U.S. Justice Department said ‌on Thursday. The DOJ listed the initials R.D. as one...

(Corrects paragraph 19 to show Sony Pictures Animation produced KPop Demon Hunters) By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, April 2 (Reuters) - After losing its bid for Warner Bros Discovery's rich trove of characters and stories, Netflix is...