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WAUWATOSA -- 10,000 photographs. 200 photographers.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The lions, kangaroos and elephants at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom are ready for their closeups.A new television show about the residents and caretakers at the animal-themed park in Florida is being produced by National Geographic and will start streaming this fall on the Disney+, Disney officials said in a blog post this week.“The Magic of Disney's Animal Kingdom" will give viewers a behind-the-scenes look of the animal care and veterinarian facilities at the theme park resort.Disney owns the theme park resort and the streaming service.

AUSTIN, TX -- Electric car maker Tesla Inc.

The City of Racine will require everyone above the age of 4 to wear a mask when leaving home starting Monday, July 27 -- a measure that the city's common council passed by just one vote on July 21.

MILWAUKEE -- The Pfister in downtown Milwaukee offered a demonstration on Wednesday, July 22 of how they are fighting the coronavirus at a time when the hospitality industry as a whole is struggling.Pfister staff assure guests that their hotel and amenities are safe.

MOSCOW -- KFC has partnered with a Russian bioprinting company to bring 3D printed chicken nuggets to the table.Coined as the “meat of the future,” the lab-created chicken meat is KFC’s response to the growing interest of healthy lifestyles, the rise in demand for meat alternatives and the increasing need to develop more environmentally friendly methods of food production.It is also KFC’s next step in creating a “restaurant of the future.”The chicken company’s Russian partner, 3D Bioprinting Solutions, is developing additive bioprinting technology using chicken cells and plant material to recreate the taste and texture of chicken meat, with almost no animal involved in the process.Provided with KFC’s necessary ingredients, such as breading and spices, the laboratory-produced meat aims to achieve the signature KFC taste."3D bioprinting technologies, initially widely recognized in medicine, are nowadays gaining popularity in producing foods such as meat," said Yusek Khesuani, co-founder of 3D Bioprinting Solutions. "In the future, the rapid development of such technologies will allow us to make 3D-printed meat products more accessible and we are hoping that the technology created as a result of our cooperation with KFC will help accelerate the launch of cell-based meat products on the market."In the statement, the chicken franchise listed the advantages of utilizing the bioprinting method, including the absence of various additives used traditionally in farming and animal husbandry and the ethics of a production process that claims to not cause any harm to animals.The company also emphasized that bioprinting remains an environmentally-friendly procedure to produce than the standard way of producing chicken meat.“The technology of growing meat from cells has minimal negative impact on the environment, allowing energy consumption to be cut by more than half, greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced 25 fold and 100 times less land to be used than traditional farm-based meat production,” the statement said, sourcing a study by the American Environmental Science & Technology Journal.This is certainly not the first time we have heard about 3D printed meat.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government has reached a $1.95 billion deal with Pfizer and BioNTech for 100 million doses of their experimental COVID-19 vaccine once it obtains Food and Drug Administration approval.An additional 500 million doses can be acquired, and U.S. citizens would receive the vaccine for free, according to the agreement.A Phase 2b/3 trial of the vaccine, with human subjects, is scheduled to start later this month and will be subject to regulatory review as early as October 2020.

MILWAUKEE — We Energies asked for pictures of digging dogs and you delivered.

NEW YORK -- Major retailers are working together to find alternatives to single-use plastic bags.On Tuesday, Target announced it would be joining the initiative -- called the Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag -- as a founding partner alongside CVS Health and Walmart.Kroger and Walgreens have also joined the group, which was created by investment firm Closed Loop, according to its website.The goal of the consortium is “to identify, pilot and implement innovative alternative designs for the single-use retail bag,” according to Target’s announcement.

LOS ANGELES -- Twitter says it will be taking strong enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm, including action on “QAnon” activity — a conspiracy theory popular among right-wing extremists.Twitter announced on Tuesday that it will permanently suspend accounts tweeting about the QAnon conspiracy theory if the user is engaging in violations of Twitter’s account policy.“We will permanently suspend accounts Tweeting about these topics that we know are engaged in violations of our multi-account policy, coordinating abuse around individual victims, or are attempting to evade a previous suspension — something we’ve seen more of in recent weeks,” Twitter’s Safety account tweeted.Twitter added that it will no longer serve content and accounts associated with QAnon in its Trends section to ensure the company is not highlighting the activity in its searches.

WASHINGTON -- Executives from major pharmaceutical companies tasked at producing a coronavirus vaccine expressed confidence at a congressional hearing on Tuesday that they would be able to successfully supply a vaccine by the end of this year or at the start of 2021.While many of these companies previously gave assurances that they don’t intend to profit on the millions of doses of vaccines they hope to produce, some executives clarified their intentions at the hearing.Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, who represents Illinois’ 9th congressional district, asked the executives if they would sell their product at cost while providing “contract transparency,” an effort to verify that no profit will be made from vaccine production.“We will not sell it at cost,” said Dr.

MILWAUKEE — Kroger, the parent company of Pick ‘n Save and Metro Market in southeast Wisconsin say its stores “will require all customers in all locations to wear a mask" starting Wednesday, July 22.Associates at the Kroger stores are required to wear masks while on duty at this time.

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. -- Summer is here and it kinda looks a lot like spring and late winter: nothing to do, nowhere to go and just waiting for a solution to this COVID-19 virus.

NEW YORK -- Remote work can pay.

CHICAGO -- The powdered beverage company Country Time is issuing stimulus checks to children who have had to shutter their summertime lemonade stands due to the current coronavirus pandemic.Country Time announced its niche economic relief program –The Littlest Bailout – in a tweet last Wednesday morning.

A FedEx delivery driver was caught on video refusing to assist an elderly man asking for help, after the man had fallen on his porch in Freeport, Texas Saturday, July 18.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- While many retailers around the country are implementing face mask policies, Dollar Tree and Family Dollar will no longer require customers to wear masks while shopping in stores.

GREEN BAY -- Green Bay Packers CEO Mark Murphy says he expects the team’s home games this season will have no more than 10,000-12,000 fans, if spectators are allowed at all.The Packers had announced two weeks ago that their 81,441-seat Lambeau Field would have a “significantly reduced” capacity this season due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A woman in created a ruckus inside a Walmart when she refused to wear a mask and repeatedly told customers around her that it wasn't the law.