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Fed's Powell says looming election won't sway rate decisions
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reiterated Wednesday that political considerations around the looming presidential election will not affect the central bank's interest rate decisions. When it comes to the election, "we'r...
11h ago
Stevens Point Brewery Opens New Gift Shop, Taproom
STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- The Stevens Point Brewery unveiled its new taproom and gift shop on Wednesday. The $1.1 million project adds seating for up to 99 people in two bar areas and up to 36 tap lines for beer, cider, and soda. Taproom Manager Melissa Wysocki says it also fills one of the brewery's biggest tourist ...
11h ago
Marathon County Sheriff Employee Pleads Not Guilty to False Imprisonment Charges
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A behind-the-scenes worker in the Marathon County Sheriff's Office entered a not guilty plea for a felony count of false imprisonment on Wednesday. Michael Evon is accused of making advances towards a female supervisor at another job, then refusing to let her leave the office until she kissed him. ...
13h ago
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US fast-food chains may have to amp up promotions as more people eat at home
By Savyata Mishra and Juveria Tabassum (Reuters) - Global fast food giants may have to dole out steeper promotions to lure inflation-hit customers who are increasingly opting to eat at home, following weak sales from the likes of McDonald's and St...
15h ago
Bird flu testing shows more dairy products are safe, US FDA says
By Julie Steenhuysen and Tom Polansek NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday that preliminary results of additional testing of more dairy products has shown that pasteurization inactivates the bird flu virus. The FD...
15h ago
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Stevens Point Brewery Opens New Gift Shop, Taproom
STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- The Stevens Point Brewery unveiled its new taproom and gift shop on Wednesday. The $1.1 million project adds seating for up to 99 people in two bar areas and up to 36 tap lines for beer, cider, and soda. Taproom Manager Melissa Wysocki says it also fills one of the brewery's biggest tourist ...
11h ago
Marathon County Sheriff Employee Pleads Not Guilty to False Imprisonment Charges
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A behind-the-scenes worker in the Marathon County Sheriff's Office entered a not guilty plea for a felony count of false imprisonment on Wednesday. Michael Evon is accused of making advances towards a female supervisor at another job, then refusing to let her leave the office until she kissed him. ...
13h ago
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Kronenewetter Asks Residents To Reduce Water Usage As Well Goes Through Updates
KRONENEWETTER, WI (WSAU) - Residents of Kronenwetter are being encouraged to use less water over the next week. According to a press release from the Village of Kronenwetter, residents are asked to reduce their water usage and refrain from outdoor watering from Monday, May 5, 2024, until Friday, May 10, 2024. During th...
17h ago
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Update: UW-Madison Announces 34 Anti-Israel Protesters Have Been Arrested As 4 Officers Have Been Injured
MADISON, WI (WSAU) - Students at UW-Madison and UW-Madison Police, State Police, and officers from the Dane County Sheriff's Office clashed on Tuesday night as anti-Israel protests have impacted universities across the nation. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, protesters at the University of Wisconsin-Madiso...
18h ago
Small pro-Palestinian protest at UW-Stevens Point
STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - On the lawn of Old Main, one of the main paths across campus at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, a couple dozen individuals join their campus counterparts in support of Palestinian liberation. Students across the Badger State have joined together in support of Palestine, and n...
Apr 30, 2024
Sports
Tuesday High School Scoreboard
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is today's scoreboard: Baseball Wausau East 6 Merrill 5 11 innings Wisconsin Rapids 5 Marshfield 3 Stevens Point 8 Wausau West 4 Marathon 2 Auburndale 1 Stratford 3 Edgar 1 DC Everest 8 Rhinelander 0 Medford 2 Antigo 0 Abbotsford/Colby 13 Prentice 2 Abbotsford/Colby 1...
23h ago
Bucks Stay Alive With Impressive win
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- With both Giannis and Dame declared out for this elimination game the Bucks kept their season alive with a 115-94 win over the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday night at Fiserv Forum. Khris Middleton, Bobby Portis & Patrick Beverly all had double-doubles to lead Milwaukee. Middleton had 29 points an...
23h ago
Brewers End Skid With Win Over Rays
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The Milwaukee Brewers offense came alive in an 8-2 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night at American Family Field. Willy Adames had a three run homer and drove in four. Brice Turang had three RBIs and William Contreras had one. New call-up Tyler Black got two hits in his major league debu...
23h ago
Update: Giannis Antetokounmpo (Calf) Will Warm Up Before Game 5 And Attempt To Play vs Pacers
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Bucks injury woes are continuing this week as Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard are continuing to rehab from recent injuries. Shams Charania of The Athletic and Stadium reported on Tuesday that there was "doubt" about Antetokounmpo's ability to recover from his calf...
Apr 30, 2024
Brewers Manager Pat Murphy & Others Receive Suspensions Following Tuesday Night's Brawl With Rays
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers will be without their manager and two-star pitchers for the next few games after a fight broke out between the crew and the Tampa Bay Rays. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Curt Hogg, manager Pat Murphy will be suspended for the next two games, meaning assistant...
15h ago
State News
Police and Protesters Clash at UW Madison
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- A chaotic confrontation between protesters and police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wednesday morning. After repeated warnings that the tents were there illegally, UW Madison police and other law enforcement agencies, including the State Patrol, moved onto the Library Mall and forcibl...
10h ago
Mt Horeb School Shooting Under Investigation
MT HOREB, WI (WTAQ-WRN) - The investigation is underway into Wednesday morning's school shooter incident in Dane County. Mount Horeb Police used deadly force when they responded to a report of a person with a weapon outside the middle school. "The subject in this case never gained entry to the school building duri...
11h ago
Trump Promises Mass Deportations at Waukesha Rally
WAUKESHA, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- On a break from his porn star hush money trial in New York, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held a rally in Waukesha on Wednesday. Trump promises to get tough on the southern border, and said America will "have the largest deportation in the history of our country." &...
12h ago
Man Charged After Threat to Hovde Campaign Office
MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- A Dane County man is charged with sending a threatening message to the campaign office of Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde. Authorities say the message from 72 year old Joseph Quade indicated the campaign office "might blow up". Quade admitted to police he sometimes gets "...
Apr 29, 2024
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," ...
Apr 25, 2024
National News
'Boom, boom': Ageing boomers discover Brussels' largest night club
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Jeanine, 79, finds today's music too "boom boom" and she prefers old time tunes but that did not stop her hitting the dance floor at Brussels' largest night club along with 10 other elderly residents of three nursing homes in t...
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Carbon credit standards approval extended to 98% of market
By Virginia Furness LONDON (Reuters) - Five of the world's largest carbon credit programmes have now been given initial approval by a body tasked with raising standards in the market for carbon offsets, where some of the biggest buyers include Micr...
51m ago
US class action settlements flooded with fraudulent claims by scammers
By Diana Novak Jones (Reuters) - Artsana, a maker of child car booster seats, last year agreed to settle claims that it had misled customers about how to use its products, offering $50 to people who had bought Chicco-brand seats. The company, which...
52m ago
Overnight storm in France kills at least one person
PARIS (Reuters) - An overnight storm in northern France that caused mudslides has led to at least one death, a 57-year-old woman, local authorities said in a statement on Thursday, adding that her partner was injured and taken to the hospital. The ...
3h ago
Bayer's Monsanto wins reversal of $185 million PCBs verdict in Washington court
By Clark Mindock (Reuters) - A Washington state appeals court on Wednesday overturned a $185 million verdict against Bayer's Monsanto unit over chemical contamination at a Seattle-area school, marking the second big legal win for the company in as ...
8h ago
World News
Switzerland says Russia not invited 'at this stage' to Ukraine peace talks
ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss government said on Thursday that Russia has not been invited "at this stage" to talks to be held in Switzerland in mid-June aimed at helping bring about peace in the conflict between Moscow and Ukraine. "Switzerland is ...
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Palestinian security force kills Islamic Jihad gunman in rare internal clash
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian security officers killed a gunman in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, a rare intra-Palestinian clash whose circumstances were disputed and which the fighter's faction described as an Israeli-style "ass...
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34,596 Palestinians killed in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since Oct.7, Gaza health ministry says
DUBAI (Reuters) - At least 34,596 Palestinians have been killed and 77,816 injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since Oct.7, the health ministry in the enclave said in a statement on Thursday. (Reporting by Nidal al Mughrabi in Cairo; Ed...
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Sustainable living offers hope for future for Hungarian families
By Krisztina Than and Krisztina Fenyo LADANYBENE, Hungary (Reuters) - Laszlo Kemencei lives as sustainably as possible on his small farm in eastern Hungary. He believes the land is effectively borrowed from his young daughter, so he must do all he ...
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Analysis-Spain PM Sanchez's political gambles face litmus test in Catalan election
By Joan Faus BARCELONA (Reuters) - Crunch elections in Catalonia next week will test the wisdom of the latest political gambles by Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who aims to use the vote to buoy his power nationally but risks inadvertently a...
1h ago
Business News
Ex-BOJ official predicts Japan will keep intervening to prevent yen free-fall
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will likely keep intervening to prop up the yen until the risk of speculators triggering a free fall in the currency has been eliminated, said a former central bank official who was involved in Tokyo's market...
15m ago
S.Korea pension fund targets ratio of risky assets at 65% in new portfolio
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS), manager of the world's third-largest public pension fund, will allocate 65% of its assets in risky assets under new long-term asset allocation rules, the welfare ministry said on Thurs...
17m ago
Bearish bets on most Asian FX climb to multi-month highs: Reuters poll
By Himanshi Akhand (Reuters) - Short bets on most Asian currencies firmed to touch multi-month highs as growing expectations of U.S. interest rates staying higher for longer dampened appetite for riskier assets, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday. B...
18m ago
Euro zone factory activity took turn for the worse in April, PMI shows
LONDON (Reuters) - The ongoing downturn in euro zone manufacturing activity deepened in April due to crumbling demand despite factories cutting prices, pushing firms to reduce headcount again, a survey showed on Thursday. HCOB's final euro zone man...
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Latin America's seven largest economies to grow 1.4% this year, OECD forecasts
By Marion Giraldo MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Latin America's highest-income countries, with the exception of Argentina, will grow moderately this year and next because external demand will remain weak, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and De...
48m ago
Health News
India widens spices crackdown with nationwide checks on all manufacturers
By Rishika Sadam HYDERABAD (Reuters) - India's food safety regulator said on Thursday it had ordered nationwide testing and inspections at all companies making spice mixes, widening a crackdown on the sector as global regulators investigate contam...
59m ago
Obesity drugmaker Novo Nordisk's Q1 profit beats forecast
LONDON (Reuters) - Novo Nordisk posted on Thursday first-quarter operating profit above analyst forecasts, as the Danish drugmaker races to boost output of its hugely popular weight-loss drug Wegovy and fend off competition from Eli Lilly. (Report...
3h ago
British pharmacies vie for weight-loss patients with drug price cuts
By Ludwig Burger (Reuters) - Online pharmacies and slimming clinics are cutting prices for Wegovy and Mounjaro in Britain just months after the weight-loss drugs were launched there, as initial supply shortages ease. But growing competition between...
4h ago
Bird flu test shows meat supply is safe, USDA says
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said on Wednesday that all the ground beef samples sent to the National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) for PCR testing, tested negative for H5N1 virus. "NVSL reported that all samples t...
4h ago
Emergent BioSolutions to lay off about 300 employees
(Reuters) -Emergent BioSolutions said on Wednesday that it would cut about 300 jobs across all areas of the company and shut down several manufacturing facilities as part of a restructuring plan. Shares of the company rose about 40% to $2.7 in extended...
10h ago
Science News
Scientists explore how to improve crop yields - on Mars
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - For future human bases or colonies on Mars to be self-sustaining, a reliable source of home-grown food will be a must. It simply would be too costly and risky to rely upon rocket deliveries to meet the food needs of colon...
14h ago
Explainer-The Eta Aquariid meteor shower: When is it and what to expect?
By Will Dunham (Reuters) - Meteors will be streaking across the sky as Earth passes through dusty debris in space left by Halley's Comet in the annual Eta Aquariid meteor shower, with peak activity in early May. Here is an explanation of this meteo...
22h ago
T. rex is at the center of a debate over dinosaur intelligence
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Surmising even the physical appearance of a dinosaur - or any extinct animal - based on its fossils is a tricky proposition, with so many uncertainties involved. Assessing a dinosaur's intelligence, considering...
Apr 30, 2024
What did people eat before agriculture? New study offers insight
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The advent of agriculture roughly 11,500 years ago in the Middle East was a milestone for humankind - a revolution in diet and lifestyle that moved beyond the way hunter-gatherers had existed since Homo sapiens...
Apr 29, 2024
Argentine scientists find speedy 90-million-year-old herbivore dinosaur
By Miguel Lo Bianco BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Paleontologists from Argentina announced the discovery of a new medium-sized herbivorous dinosaur, which was a fast runner and lived about 90 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period in present da...
Apr 25, 2024
Technology News
Chip parts supplier Siltronic's profit falls on high client inventories
(Reuters) - German chip equipment supplier Siltronic reported a 27.5% drop in first-quarter core profit on Thursday, a week after it slashed annual targets due to customers' still high inventories. The company, which makes silicon wafers used in se...
3h ago
US official urges China, Russia to declare only humans, not AI, control nuclear weapons
By Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official on Thursday urged China and Russia to match declarations by the United States and others that only humans, and never artificial intelligence, would make decisions on deploying nuclear weap...
4h ago
Microsoft to invest $2.2 billion in Malaysia's digital transformation
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Microsoft will invest $2.2 billion over the next four years in Malaysia to support the country's digital transformation, the company said in a statement on Thursday. (Reporting by Danial Azhar and Rozanna Latiff; Editing b...
4h ago
Japan's Mitsubishi full-year profit down 18%, misses estimates
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp posted on Thursday a 18.4% fall in net profit for the year ended in March to 964 billion yen ($6.2 billion), missing estimates. A LSEG poll of analysts had forecast Mitsubishi's net profit fo...
4h ago
Nvidia supplier SK Hynix says HBM chips almost sold out for 2025
ICHEON, South Korea (Reuters) - South Korea's SK Hynix said on Thursday its high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips used in AI chipsets are almost sold out for 2025, after their 2024 chips were fully booked. Chief Executive Officer Kwak Noh-Jung said the...
6h ago
Entertainment News
Universal Music Group reaches new licensing agreement with TikTok
By Dawn Chmielewski and David Shepardson (Reuters) - Universal Music Group and TikTok said on Thursday that they had reached a new licensing agreement that will restore the label's songs and artists to the social media platform. TikTok began removi...
56m ago
Harvey Weinstein expected in New York court after rape conviction overturned
By Brendan Pierson and Jack Queen (Reuters) - Harvey Weinstein is due to appear in state court in Manhattan on Wednesday for the first time since New York's highest court threw out his 2020 rape conviction last week. The hearing before Judge Curtis...
22h ago
Factbox-All you need to know about Eurovision 2024
By Isabelle Yr Carlsson MALMÖ, Sweden (Reuters) - The world's biggest live music event, Eurovision Song Contest, will take place in Sweden in the second week of May with 37 participating countries. Roughly 100,000 visitors from 89 countries are exp...
Apr 30, 2024
'Hell's Kitchen' and 'Stereophonic' tie for most 2024 Tony nominations
(Reuters) - Alicia Keys' musical "Hell's Kitchen" and 1970's rock inspired "Stereophonic" led the nominations for the 2024 Tony awards, American theater's highest honors, followed by "The Outsiders," "Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club" and "Appropriate."...
Apr 30, 2024
French actor Gerard Depardieu questioned over alleged sexual assaults
PARIS (Reuters) - French screen legend Gerard Depardieu was detained for questioning on Monday in connection with alleged sexual assaults against two women on separate film sets, police sources said. Depardieu, one of France's top movie stars, has ...
Apr 29, 2024