Year: 2018
Military dad feels ‘blessed’ to be reunited with wife and son days before Christmas
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Many military families are preparing for a holiday with a loved one far away, but for the Black family, their Christmas wish came early. Sgt. Tyler Black, who has been deployed [Read More…]
US withdrawing troops from Syria, as White House declares victory over ISIS
Mark Wilson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon announced it has started the process of withdrawing 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria, following White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders’ statement declaring victory over ISIS. Earlier on Wednesday, [Read More…]
Water quality: “Keep the stinkin’ soil in place”
A soil health specialist with NRCS says farmers have five years to make soil changes on their own before they are forced to make changes for water quality. Doug Peterson, who covers the Iowa and [Read More…]
U.S. ethanol stocks climb
U.S. ethanol production was unchanged last week, while supplies notched new multi-week highs. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says domestic production averaged 1.046 million barrels per day, steady on the week and below the four-week [Read More…]
Florida deputy sheriff kills 3 relatives then himself, authorities say
carlballou/iStock(PLANT CITY, Fla.) — A deputy sheriff in South Florida took his own life near a school Wednesday after killing three people believed to be family members, authorities said. “Today, I stand in front of [Read More…]
Most people would demand more than $1,000 to leave Facebook: Study
amesy/iStock(NEW YORK) — The average U.S. Facebook user would require more than $1000 to walk away from the social media platform for one year. In a new study published on Wednesday in the science Journal [Read More…]
Yemeni mom separated from dying son by Trump travel ban ‘begged,’ ‘pleaded’ with officials for months: Lawyer
Believe_In_Me/iStock(SAN FRANCISCO) — A mother who spent more than a year fighting for a visa to be with her terminally ill child is on her way to the U.S. after being granted a visa waiver [Read More…]
Fed raises short-term interest rates
amedved/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised short-term interest rates by a quarter percentage point to a range of 2.25 percent to 2.5 percent. The move was widely expected by economists. The central bank [Read More…]
Facebook gave Netflix, Spotify, Amazon access to user messages, friends’ data: Report
coffeekai/iStock(NEW YORK) — Facebook gave about a dozen companies wide access to its 2.2 billion users’ personal data without consent, including private messages, names and contact info for friends, according to a report in The [Read More…]
Mild weather continues across the Heartland
Across the Corn Belt, any remaining snow cover has been significantly reduced by mild weather. Early Wednesday, snow depths include 2 inches in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, and an inch in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The [Read More…]
A moisture-laden pattern for the Heartland
A complex storm system developing across the nation’s mid-section will become a more cohesive low pressure system on Thursday over the Southeast. From there, the storm will move almost due northward into eastern Canada by [Read More…]
Managing nitrogen for the 2019 growing season
The wet weather throughout parts of the Corn Belt in 2018 caused nitrogen loss and deficiencies. In this Managing for Profit, Dekalb Asgrow technical agronomist Jim McDermott says now is a good time for farmers [Read More…]
Trump to announce US will withdraw troops from Syria: Official
Mark Wilson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump will announce that the U.S. will withdraw troops from Syria, a U.S. official confirms. There is no timeline yet for the pace of the withdrawal, the official said. [Read More…]
Storm that spawned tornado in Washington state now moving toward eastern US
ABC News(NEW YORK) — A major storm is now moving out of the Northwest, but not before spinning up a tornado west of Seattle, delivering damaging winds of nearly 90 mph in Oregon and feet [Read More…]
Unconscious man pulled from burning car, thrown in puddle by quick-thinking officers
Chambers County Sheriffs Office(ANAHUAC, Texas) — Authorities in Texas shared body camera footage on Tuesday that showed officers pulling an unconscious man from a burning vehicle after a crash. The Chambers County Sheriff’s Office shared [Read More…]
NY Mom yanks carjacker out of SUV, pins him down until police arrive
WABC-TV(NEW YORK) — A single mother in New York didn’t let a would-be carjacker ruin the busy day ahead of her when he tried to drive away with her SUV on Tuesday morning. After 49-year-old [Read More…]
Elon Musk unveils The Boring Company’s test tunnel in California
Robyn Beck-Pool/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — It started as a joke. Two years ago, Elon Musk tweeted complaints about Los Angeles traffic, declaring that he was “going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start [Read More…]
Some women are attacked on Twitter every 30 seconds: Amnesty International
hocus-focus/iStock(NEW YORK) — A study of tweets received last year by 778 female U.S. and U.K. journalists and politicians revealed that they were attacked on Twitter approximately every 30 seconds. The “Troll Patrol” project, a [Read More…]
With nearly 15K migrant kids in custody, Trump to loosen rules for sponsorship
wingedwolf/iStock(WASHINGTON) — With the number of migrant children in U.S. custody nearing 15,000, the Trump administration said Tuesday it will rollback its requirement that everyone in a sponsor’s household undergo fingerprinting and an extensive criminal [Read More…]
Popeyes selling ‘Emotional Support Chicken’ for weary air travelers
jetcityimage/iStock(PHILADELPHIA) — The number of people attempting to fly with emotional support animals ballooned so much between 2016 to 2017 that many airlines have clamped down on which are acceptable. In fact, some 751,000 animals [Read More…]