WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - The race to be Wisconsin's next Supreme Court justice has been called for liberal Dane County judge Susan Crawford, who has defeated former conservative state Attorney General Brad Schimel. According to Decision Desk HQ, Crawford soundly defeated Schimel by over 150,000 votes in a hotly contested ra...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here are the local results for the April 1st, 2025 spring election. *All results are unofficial until canvassed: Last updated 12:05 a.m. Wisconsin Supreme Court Susan Crawford: 54.4% Brad Schimel: 45.6% 95% reporting Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly (I): 52.4% Brittany Ki...

KRONENWETTER, WI (WSAU) - The Village of Kronenwetter is extending its polling time by an extra hour after technical issues caused many voters to have a tough time voting on Tuesday morning. According to a press release, election officials switched to paper poll books around 10:00 a.m., but some voters had already left...

EAU CLAIRE, WI (WSAU) - Police in Eau Claire are reportedly looking into a university professor after students alleged that they attacked a group of College Republicans and flipped their table, supporting former state Attorney General Brad Schimel on Tuesday morning. According to the group, the UW-Eau Claire high-ranki...

HURLEY, WI (WSAU) -- A 29-year-old Mercer man has been identified as the victim of Sunday night's fatal crash in Iron County. Investigators say Walker Kempen was driving an Audi A4 southbound on US Highway 51 when he lost control of the vehicle and rolled into the ditch. He was thrown from the vehicle and died at the s...

(WTAQ) -- Jill Underly has secured another term as Wisconsin's State Superintendent of Public Instruction. She defeated opponent Brittany Kinser, who was supported by the Republican Party of Wisconsin. Underly ran with support from the Wisconsin Democratic Party and teachers' unions. Underly faced criticism from her o...

(WTAQ) -- In the most expensive state supreme court race in U.S. history, liberal Dane County judge Susan Crawford has defeated conservative candidate Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel. $90 million was spent in total on the race; with about $40 million going to Crawford's campaign and $50 million to Schimel's campaign...

(WTAQ) - Voters in Wisconsin will now be required under the state constitution to present a valid photo ID to vote in elections. Previously, Wisconsin voters needed a valid photo ID to vote as required by state law; now it's part of Wisconsin's state constitution. The amendment makes it more difficult for a future legi...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- As expected, Governor Tony Evers has vetoed a bill dealing with testing standards in Wisconsin's K-12 schools. The Republican authored legislation would have reset state report card standards to levels set in the 2019-20 school year, align grades 3-8 with national standards, and restore high s...

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Even before President Donald Trump put pen to paper, word of his plans to slash the Department of Education has sparked debate in Wisconsin. Now that it's official, state leaders are weighing in on the move. Thursday's executive order comes after the agency initiated a nearly 50% cut to its ...

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Wednesday dismissed the U.S. Department of Justice's corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and said the charges cannot be brought again. U.S. District Judge Dale Ho's decision to dismis...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary has deployed soldiers and launched new disinfection measures to help contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in a northwestern area bordering Slovakia and Austria, the agriculture minister said on Wednesday. Hunga...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. private payrolls growth accelerated in March, the ADP National Employment Report showed on Wednesday. Private payrolls increased by 155,000 jobs last month after an upwardly revised 84,000 rise in February. Economists po...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top employee of billionaire Elon Musk who is now working in the U.S. Justice Department previously bragged about hacking and distributing pirated software, according to archived copies of his former websites reviewed by Reu...

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A project proposed by Elon Musk's SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote Pacific atoll could harm the many seabirds that nest at the wildlife refuge, accord...

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Wednesday dismissed the U.S. Department of Justice's corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and said the charges cannot be brought again. U.S. District Judge Dale Ho's decision to dismis...

By Gleb Stolyarov and Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) - A visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin's investment envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, to the United States for talks with members of Donald Trump's administration is possible, the Kremlin said o...

(Reuters) - The Slovak government on Wednesday approved the shooting of 350 bears this year after a rising number of attacks by the brown bears, whose population has grown over the past several years, Prime Minister Robert Fico said. The central Eu...

By Gabriel Stargardter PARIS (Reuters) - The judge who barred far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running in France's 2027 presidential election is under police protection after facing death threats and having her home address shared online, a sour...

By Jun Yuan Yong SINGAPORE - Singapore used an internal security law against two teenagers separately, one over plans to attack mosques and the other for wanting to fight in Syria alongside Islamic State militants, authorities said on Wednesday. ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The Milwaukee Brewers ended their four-game losing streak and beat the Kansas City Royals 5-0 on Tuesday night at American Family Field. Emergency starter Chad Patrick pitched 4 2/3 innings of shutout ball. The bullpen was stellar on this night. Jared Koenig, Abner Uribe, Joel Payamps and Trevor...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The Milwaukee Bucks got back in the win column, taking down the Phoenix Suns 133-123 on Tuesday night at Fiserv Forum. Giannis Antetokounmpo had 37 points, 11 rebounds and five assists to lead the Bucks. Ryan Rollins had 23 and Brook Lopez added 22. The Bucks, now 41-34, remain 6th in the East p...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Several high school hockey players from Central Wisconsin have earned All-State honors for the past season. For the girls, Gabi Heuser & Ava Rode of the Central Wisconsin Storm and Jenna Jones of the Wisconsin Valley Union were named to the First Team. Jaden Yirkovsky of the Storm was named to ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers fell to the Kansas City Royals on Monday afternoon, 11-1, to become the first Brewers team since 2015 to begin the season 0-4. The Brewers' offense struggled to get going as Jackson Chourio was the only Brewer to record an RBI on Monday, as he went 1-4 with three more strike...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers pitching rotation will be down yet another arm as starting pitcher Aaron Civale is expected to be placed on the injured list. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Curt Hogg, Civale injured his hamstring during the Brewers' 12-3 loss to the Yankees on Sunday afternoo...

(Reuters) - Canada's Rogers Communications announced on Wednesday a new 12-year agreement worth C$11 billion ($7.68 billion) to secure media rights for the National Hockey League (NHL) games across all platforms in Canada. As the Canadian telecom c...

By Lori Ewing MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -Botswana's Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo said he and Noah Lyles have a friendly relationship, clarifying remarks he made about his American rival being "arrogant" after beating him for gold in the 200 metr...

Nickeil Alexander-Walker hit two free throws with 0.1 seconds left in double overtime, and the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves overcame a 61-point triple-double from Nikola Jokic to beat the Denver Nuggets 140-139 on Tuesday night. Jokic never sat aft...

Alex Ovechkin scored his 891st career goal to move within four of breaking Wayne Gretzky's all-time NHL record, helping the Washington Capitals defeat the host Boston Bruins 4-3 on Tuesday night. Washington scored twice in both the first and third per...

Nickeil Alexander-Walker hit two free throws with 0.1 seconds left in double overtime, and the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves overcame a 61-point triple-double from Nikola Jokic to beat the Denver Nuggets 140-139 on Tuesday night. Minnesota trailed b...

By Ahmad Ghaddar and Alex Lawler LONDON (Reuters) - Eight OPEC+ countries meeting on Thursday will focus debates on how to convince Kazakhstan to stop exceeding its output quota and its plans to compensate for overproduction as the group steps up g...

LONDON (Reuters) - The London Metal Exchange (LME) average daily volumes gained 5.9% in the first quarter of 2025, marking the second highest quarterly levels in the last 11 years, the exchange said on Wednesday. The exchange, the world's oldest an...

ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana's annual consumer inflation slowed for a third straight month to 22.4% in March from 23.1% the previous month, as food price pressures eased, the statistics agency said on Wednesday. The easing of inflationary pressures is l...

(Reuters) - Circle Internet Group, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, filed for an initial public offering on Tuesday after markets closed, as it prepares to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The IPO market is currently in a deli...

By James Pomfret and Clare Jim HONG KONG (Reuters) - An expected delay in a key step in CK Hutchison's planned sale of its Panama ports to a U.S. group, a deal blasted by Chinese media, highlights growing concerns about Beijing's grip over Hong Kon...

By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) -(To receive the full newsletter in your inbox for free sign up here) Novo Nordisk's diabetes medicine Rybelsus, an oral form of the GLP-1 drug semaglutide, provides similar cardiovascular benefits as the injectable forms of th...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary has deployed soldiers and launched new disinfection measures to help contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in a northwestern area bordering Slovakia and Austria, the agriculture minister said on Wednesday. Hunga...

By Patricia Weiss INGELHEIM, Germany (Reuters) -Germany's largest pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim on Wednesday reported a currency-adjusted 6.1% gain in 2024 revenues, buoyed by diabetes drug Jardiance and lung drug Ofev. Group sales reache...

By Andrew Chung, John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to consider South Carolina's bid to strip Planned Parenthood of funding under the Medicaid program in a case that could bolster efforts by Republican-led stat...

GDANSK (Reuters) -Polish medical diagnostics group Diagnostyka said on Wednesday it had acquired 51% stake in Eurodiagnostic, a company that manages mobile computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR) and X-ray laboratories. Value of the transacti...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -After nine months in space, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are readjusting to Earth life with dog walks and family time, while resuming work with Boeing to test the capsule that stranded them on t...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday was set to launch a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole, a novel trajectory in which no humans have traveled befo...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin said on Monday it is targeting "late spring" for the second launch of its giant New Glenn rocket, as the U.S. FAA closed an investigation into the rocket's landing failure that followed an ...

ROME (Reuters) -Italy is pressing ahead with a plan to set up its own low-orbit satellite constellation, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Monday. The dual use constellation - for civil and military uses - will be made up of over 100 satelli...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Monday said it closed out a review into SpaceX's explosive Starship test flight in January, while another investigation into the rocket's subsequent testing explosi...

(Reuters) - Circle Internet Group, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, filed for an initial public offering on Tuesday after markets closed, as it prepares to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The IPO market is currently in a deli...

(Reuters) - Canada's BlackBerry forecast a revenue decline in fiscal 2026 on Wednesday, as it anticipated weak spending on its cybersecurity products. U.S.-listed shares of the Waterloo, Ontario-based company fell 4% in premarket trading. BlackBer...

(Reuters) - Switzerland has expanded export controls on dual-use goods especially those in evolving technologies such as quantum computing, semiconductors, artificial intelligence and additive manufacturing, a government statement said on Wednesday...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese startup Terra Drone, which uses drones to survey and inspect energy infrastructure, is stepping up cooperation with Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company Aramco to inspect oil and gas facilities, Terra Drone told Reuters...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top employee of billionaire Elon Musk who is now working in the U.S. Justice Department previously bragged about hacking and distributing pirated software, according to archived copies of his former websites reviewed by Reu...

(Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp on Wednesday said it completed the sale of its Australian cable-TV business Foxtel to British-owned sports network DAZN in a A$3.4 billion ($2.14 billion) deal. ($1 = 1.5883 Australian dollars) (Reporting by ...

(Reuters) - Actor Val Kilmer, best-known for his roles in "Batman Forever" and "The Doors," died in Los Angeles at the age of 65, the New York Times reported late on Tuesday. (Reporting by Surbhi Misra in Bengaluru; Editing by Kim Coghill)

By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - New A24 movie "Warfare" places audiences among a platoon of U.S. Navy SEALs as they battle insurgents during the Iraq War. Written and directed by combat veteran Ray Mendoza and filmmaker Alex Garland, the movie ...

(Reuters) - Australia's Star Entertainment said on Wednesday that its refinancing proposal with investment group Salter Brothers Capital worth up to A$940 million ($590.70 million) has now been withdrawn. The embattled casino firm said that a numbe...

By Lisa Richwine LAS VEGAS (Reuters) -Movie theater owners are making a new push to keep films in cinemas for a longer period before they are available for audiences to watch at home. Cinema United, a trade organization formerly known as the National A...