Month: November 2021

jonathanfilskov-photography/iStock (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 754,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins [Read More…]

Three Ivy League universities issue temporary evacuations after receiving bomb threats

kali9/iStock (NEW YORK) — Three Ivy League school campuses issued temporary evacuations Sunday afternoon after receiving bomb threats. The incidents at Cornell, Columbia and Brown universities came two days after a similar threat took place [Read More…]

Some victims identified, cause sought in deadly Travis Scott Astroworld concert

Kali9/iStock (HOUSTON) — As names of most of the victims emerged in the deadly stage surge horror at the Astroworld Festival concert in Houston, 23-year-old Arturo Sanchez said his heart literally stopped as he was [Read More…]

Afghan woman’s trek to escape Kabul with her daughter — and her plea to help family stuck behind

Obtained by ABC News (NEW YORK) — “Everything bad that you think of was there,” Sarina told ABC News in a video call, wiping away tears. “I was feeling like, ‘I’m gonna die. Why?’” She [Read More…]

Travelers welcome long-awaited reopening of US borders

alexsl/iStock (LONDON) — The U.S. is reopening borders to vaccinated travelers on Monday after 20 months of being closed to many countries, including the United Kingdom, Brazil, China, India, South Africa and most of Europe. [Read More…]

Women kidnapped from Congo are suing Belgium’s government for crimes against humanity

November 8, 2021 nedvedmedia

DNY59/iStock (NEW YORK) — It was not until 2017 that Monique Bitu Bingi felt strong enough to tell the full story of what happened during her childhood in the Belgian-ruled Congo. Even her husband, who [Read More…]

Ag News

RePlay™ application to extend longevity and showcase uses for soy

Missouri Soybean Director of Biofuels and New Uses Matt Amick says that the recent application of soy-based asphalt sealant RePlay™ at the Center for Soy Innovation will extend the longevity of the center’s parking lot. [Read More…]

Ag News

Advancing stewardship

November 8, 2021 nedvedmedia

Corteva Agriscience U.S. crop protection commercial launch leader Dr. Eric Scherder says a benchmark when developing the Enlist weed control system was a commitment to stewardship grounded in product efficacy and a plethora of grower [Read More…]

Vaccine for kids paves way for protection against long-haul COVID

PinkOmelet/iStock (ATLANTA) — With a COVID vaccine for younger children given the final go-ahead, millions more Americans as young as 5 years old can now roll up their sleeves for the protection the shot affords: [Read More…]

Pete Buttigieg’s husband, Chasten Buttigieg, tweeted that his son was in the hospital for 3 weeks before coming home Saturday

Chasten Buttigieg/Twitter (WASHINGTON) — Pete and Chasten Buttigieg tweeted about their son’s return home after a three-week hospitalization Saturday, including a week on a ventilator. “Thankful, relieved, and reflecting a great deal on the mixture [Read More…]

Biden says passage of $1 trillion infrastructure bill a ‘monumental step forward’

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden said the country took a “monumental step forward” after his $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan passed the House late Friday. “We did something that’s long overdue, that [Read More…]

2 teens among 8 dead after crowd surge at Astroworld music festival in Houston

Kali9/iStock (HOUSTON) — At least eight people are dead, including two teenagers, after a crowd surged toward the stage at a massive Houston concert, causing panic and chaos, authorities said. Over 50,000 people were at [Read More…]

Impoverished communities pay for worsening impacts of climate change: Experts

November 7, 2021 nedvedmedia

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Across the small town of Gloster, Mississippi, passersby can still see remnants of the damage caused by Tropical Storm Claudette and Hurricane Ida: tarps on roofs, fallen trees, damaged cars [Read More…]

Ag News

$550B infrastructure bill heads to Biden’s desk after months of delay

The US House has finally passed the bipartisan infrastructure package which in the ag industry call crucial to Rural America. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says this is a historic investment for America that will make [Read More…]

“This shouldn’t have happened” — Marvel movie baddie and ‘Ida Red’ star Frank Grillo on fatal ‘Rust’ set shooting

Paramount Pictures Movie tough guy Frank Grillo has fired his share of weapons on screen over the years, as he did as Frank Rumlow/Crossbones in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and in the recent COPSHOP. Like many of his colleagues, he’s [Read More…]

Letitia Wright’s on-set injury reportedly shutting down production of ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’

Marvel Studios Wakanda may be forever, but it will have to wait. The Hollywood Reporter notes Black Panther star Letitia Wright is still recovering in London from the on-set injury she suffered shooting the film in Boston in August, and the [Read More…]

Janet Mock to direct ‘The International Sweethearts of Rhythm’; Viola Davis’ ‘The Woman King’ gets 2022 release date

Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images Pose director and screenwriter Janet Mock has found her next major project. Deadline has learned that Mock will direct and rewrite The International Sweethearts of Rhythm for Sony Pictures. Amy Pascal, Susan Tarr, [Read More…]

Gal Gadot is “very excited” to play the Evil Queen in a live-action ‘Snow White’

ABC/Randy Holmes Gal Gadot is psyched to go from Wonder Woman to a witchy woman in an upcoming live-action big-screen retelling of Disney’s Snow White: Gadot will be playing the Evil Queen opposite West Side Story stand-out Rachel Zegler in the title [Read More…]

Dolly Parton will reunite with her old co-stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin on the final season of ‘Grace and Frankie’

Credit: Stacie Huckeba The 9 to 5 gang is finally getting back together. Dolly Parton just announced that she’ll be a guest star on the seventh and final season of Netflix’s Grace and Frankie, which [Read More…]

What to know about the new OSHA vaccine mandate, and how it will impact you