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Weather Could Get Dicey in the Morning and Again Tuesday Night
A one-two set of weather systems is poised to present problems for commuters Tuesday morning, and in general Tuesday night into Wednesday. Much as below-freezing weather has dominated the past several days, an influx of warm air could complicate things overnight as some light snow after 11 PM or so becomes mixed with f...
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Sheboygan County Juvenile Crashes During Chase in Fond du Lac
A Sheboygan youth that tried to elude Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Deputies is in jail after the subsequent pursuit ended in a crash. According to the Sheriff's Office, a speeding violation on Highway 45 / Lakeshore Drive at around 1:30 Monday afternoon prompted the deputy to turn on the lights and siren, but the drive...
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No Pause in Wintry Weather This Week
Wintry weather will maintain its grip on Sheboygan County this week, dominated by plenty of clouds, below-normal temperatures, and occasional bouts of light snow with one notable event in the offing. The National Weather Service said that some minor snow accumulation could fall overnight, but only around a half inch is...
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Vollrath to Invest $40-80 Million to Expand Sheboygan HQ
One of Sheboygan's largest and longest-lived manufacturers plans to expand its Sheboygan headquarters. Vollrath Company, which was founded in 1873, has announced plans to spend between 40 and 80 million dollars to upgrade and expand its headquarters according to BizTimes Milwaukee. The regional business media publicat...
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A Pair of Slippery Systems to Slide Through This Weekend
While no storms comparable to that of a week ago are expected, a pair of "Alberta Clipper" weather systems could still make for slick conditions this weekend. Round 1 should begin as light snow this afternoon, with some light freezing drizzle mixing in later this evening. Precipitation should become more com...
Dec 05, 2025
Sports
NHL roundup: John Gibson, Wings blank Canucks, move atop Atlantic
John Gibson made 39 saves for his first shutout as a member of the Red Wings, and Detroit moved into first place in the Atlantic Division with a 4-0 victory over the host Vancouver Canucks on Monday. It was the 25th career shutout for Gibson and his f...
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NBA roundup: Pacers down Kings, continue rebound from 2-16 start
Andrew Nembhard posted 28 points and a season-high 12 assists as the Indiana Pacers overcame a Russell Westbrook triple-double to upend the Sacramento Kings 116-105 on Monday in Indianapolis. Bennedict Mathurin scored 25 points and Pascal Siakam had ...
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Eagles QB Jalen Hurts first player to commit 2 turnovers on same play
Highlights have been harder to come by than usual for the Philadelphia offense this season. On Monday night, Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts pulled off something that is sure to be on highlight reels for years to come -- though it won't rank as one of...
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Economist testifies that NASCAR underpaid teams $1.06B over 4 years
A high-profile economist testified Monday that NASCAR should pay $215.8 million in damages to 23XI Racing and $148.9 million to Front Row Motorsports to account for its monopolistic behavior. Dr. Edward A. Snyder, who served as the dean of Yale's bus...
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Washington TE Zach Ertz diagnosed with torn ACL
Zach Ertz's season is officially over. Could his career be over as well? The Washington Commanders on Monday confirmed the veteran tight end sustained a torn ACL in his right knee on Sunday when Minnesota safety Jay Ward hit a leaping Ertz while he w...
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National News
Nobels are a family affair as chefs cook up lavish banquet
By Greta Rosen Fondahn STOCKHOLM, Dec 9 (Reuters) - In a bustling kitchen at Stockholm's city hall, chefs have gathered to prepare an intricate dinner with a secret menu - and a family twist - for the scientists and royalty converging at the Nobel Pri...
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Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes off west coast of Sumatra, GFZ says
Dec 9 (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck the west coast of the northern Sumatra region in Indonesia, on Tuesday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. (Reporting by Anusha Shah in Bengaluru; Editing by Jacque...
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2025 will be world's second or third-hottest year on record, EU scientists say
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS, Dec 9 (Reuters) - This year is set to be the world's second or third-warmest on record, potentially surpassed only by 2024'S record-breaking heat, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Tuesday. T...
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Cyclone Ditwah to delay Sri Lanka's fragile recovery, worsen poverty
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's fragile economic recovery will be delayed as Cyclone Ditwah's devastation of homes, roads and vital crops pushes more families into poverty, with officials warning the bill to rebuild could so...
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US military developing small refineries for critical minerals
Dec 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it plans to develop a fleet of small-scale refineries to produce critical minerals used to make bullets, armor and other types of weaponry, a move aimed at developing domestic sources for niche materials that Ch...
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World News
Japanese police release US playwright Jeremy O. Harris after drug arrest
TOKYO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - American actor and playwright Jeremy O. Harris was released from custody in Japan on Monday after his arrest last month on suspicion of attempting to smuggle drugs into the country, a police spokesperson said. Harris was det...
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Czech president appoints Andrej Babis as new prime minister
PRAGUE, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Czech President Petr Pavel appointed billionaire leader of the populist ANO party Andrej Babis as the new prime minister on Tuesday in a ceremony shown live on television. Babis, whose ANO won the October 3-4 parliamen...
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South Korea scrambles fighter jets as Chinese, Russian warplanes enter air defence zone
SEOUL, Dec 9 (Reuters) - South Korea's military said it had scrambled fighter jets when Chinese and Russian military planes entered and left its air defence zone on Tuesday. Seven Russian planes and two Chinese planes had entered the Korea Air Defenc...
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Haven cafe shuts as Russian attacks turn Ukraine's Kherson into ghost town
KHERSON, Ukraine, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Oleksiy Melnychenko, chief barista and manager of a cafe in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, held out as long as he could, serving doses of caffeine and normality to residents struggling amid Russian artiller...
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Cyclone Ditwah to delay Sri Lanka's fragile recovery, worsen poverty
By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's fragile economic recovery will be delayed as Cyclone Ditwah's devastation of homes, roads and vital crops pushes more families into poverty, with officials warning the bill to rebuild could so...
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Health News
US FDA qualifies first AI tool to help speed liver disease drug development
Dec 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has qualified the first artificial intelligence tool designed to help doctors assess a severe form of fatty liver disease in drug trials, the agency said on Monday. Now, the tool will be publicly...
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West Virginia sues United HealthGroup's pharmacy benefit manager over opioid sales
By Dietrich Knauth Dec 8, Reuters - West Virginia sued United HealthGroup on Monday in federal court, alleging that the company's pharmacy benefit manager Optum fueled the state's opioid crisis by oversupplying its communities with addictive painkiller...
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US FDA has delayed abortion pill safety study, Bloomberg News reports
Dec 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has delayed a review of safety data for the abortion drug mifepristone at Commissioner Marty Makary's request, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Makary has...
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Trump says money should go to people, not health insurers
WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday criticized insurance companies while calling for funds to go directly to individuals rather than insurers, as Democrats push for a three-year extension of expiring subsidies for Afford...
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Trump administration wants airlines, airports to offer healthier food, exercise options
By David Shepardson ARLINGTON, Virginia, Dec 8 - The Trump administration said on Monday it wants airlines and airports to offer travelers healthier food options, exercise equipment and family-friendly features like playspaces and nursing facilities. T...
12h ago
Science News
Spacecraft brings Russians, American back to earth, Russia's space agency says
MOSCOW, Dec 9 (Reuters) - A Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexei Zubritsky and NASA astronaut Jonathan Kim has returned to Earth, Russia's Roscosmos space agency said on Tuesday. The spacecraft landed a...
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Huge rotating structure of galaxies and dark matter is detected
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds of galaxies, gas and dark matter that makes up a filament in the macrostructure o...
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A throat bone settles it - Nanotyrannus was not a juvenile T. rex
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Paleontologists for decades debated whether meat-eating dinosaur Nanotyrannus was actually just a juvenile Tyrannosaurus. But within a span of five weeks, the matter seems to have been definitively resolved ...
Dec 04, 2025
NASA study shows how satellite 'light pollution' hinders space telescopes
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - An exponential increase in the number of satellites placed in low-Earth orbit has brought advances in telecommunications including broadband access in rural and remote areas worldwide. It also has caused a s...
Dec 03, 2025
Trump's NASA pick to stress moon race urgency in second Senate hearing
By Joey Roulette and David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead NASA and an ally of Elon Musk, will face his second confirmation hearing on Wednesday before a Se...
Dec 03, 2025
Technology News
EU launches antitrust probe into Google's use of online content for AI purposes
BRUSSELS, Dec 9 (Reuters) - The European Commission has opened an antitrust probe to assess whether Google is breaching EU competition rules in its use of online content from web publishers and Youtube for artificial intelligence purposes, it said on...
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Stellantis partners with Bolt for 2026 driverless ride-hailing trials in Europe
Dec 9 (Reuters) - Carmaker Stellantis is teaming up with Estonia-based ride-hailing platform Bolt to deploy driverless vehicles across Europe, with plans to begin on-road trials in 2026, the companies said on Tuesday. The collaboration will integrate ...
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ASML customers include at least one with Chinese military links, Nieuwsuur reports
AMSTERDAM, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Customers of chip equipment maker ASML include at least one firm with links to the Chinese military, Dutch television program Nieuwsuur reported on Tuesday. The company said in a response that it could not confirm the repo...
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Bitcoin's 2025 rollercoaster may end on a low
By Hannah Lang Dec 9 (Reuters) - With a series of record highs and crushing sell-offs, 2025 has been a rollercoaster ride for bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, which is at risk of ending the year with its first annual decline since 2022. The...
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Factbox-From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media access
SYDNEY, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Australia on Wednesday will become the world's first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet's YouTube and Meta's Instagram and Facebook. The ban is being clos...
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Entertainment News
Warner Bros' lack of response fueled Paramount's hostile bid, filing says
By Aditya Soni and Harshita Mary Varghese Dec 8 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance's 11th-hour, hostile $108.4 billion bid for Warner Bros Discovery was rooted in what it considered a lack of responsiveness from Warner Bros to its ardent overtures late las...
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Jimmy Kimmel extends ABC contract through May 2027, source says
Dec 8 (Reuters) - Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has signed a one-year contract extension with television network ABC and will continue to host his show through May 2027, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday. Kimmel returned to ABC's ...
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Netflix, Paramount fight for Warner Bros Discovery in Hollywood power tussle
By Jaspreet Singh Dec 8 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance launched a hostile bid worth $108.4 billion for Warner Bros Discovery, challenging a rival offer from Netflix and injecting uncertainty into the future of Hollywood's storied media company. Since 2...
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Instant View: Paramount makes $108.4 billion hostile bid for Warner Bros Discovery
(Corrects typo in headline tag) Dec 8 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance on Monday launched a hostile bid worth $108.4 billion for Warner Bros Discovery, as it looks to scupper the Hollywood studio's deal with Netflix, in a last-ditch effort to create a me...
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UK rapper Ghetts pleads guilty to causing death by dangerous driving
LONDON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - British rapper Ghetts on Monday pleaded guilty to causing the death of a Nepali student in a hit-and-run while driving dangerously. The award-winning artist, whose real name is Justin Clarke-Samuel, appeared at London's Old Ba...
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