Year: 2021
ABC Health News
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…]
ABC Politics News
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…]
ABC Politics News
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…]
ABC National News
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…]
ABC National News
Impoverished communities pay for worsening impacts of climate change: Experts
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…]
ABC Entertainment News
“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…]
ABC Entertainment News
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…]
ABC Entertainment News
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…]
ABC Entertainment News
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…]
ABC Entertainment News
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…]
ABC Business News
What to know about the new OSHA vaccine mandate, and how it will impact you
Bill Oxford/iStock (NEW YORK) — Some 100 million American workers are expected to be impacted by the Biden administration’s new workplace COVID-19 vaccine mandate come January, under a sweeping new plan that labels coronavirus as an [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Employers add 531,000 jobs last month as recovery gains steam, unemployment rate falls to 4.6%
vicky_81/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Hiring gained steam in October, with U.S. employers adding 531,000 jobs and the unemployment rate edging down by a fraction of a percentage point to 4.6%, the Department of Labor said Friday. [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Why some experts say corporate ‘net-zero’ emissions pledges could have net-zero impact on climate crisis
NicoElNino/iStock (NEW YORK) — Dubbed a “code red for humanity” by the head of the United Nations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in its most-recent report that the impacts of human-induced climate change [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Tips to save at the grocery store on your Thanksgiving shopping
Hispanolistic/iStock (NEW YORK) — With 20 days till Turkey day, it’s time to menu plan and get ahead on cost-effective ways to host Thanksgiving this year. According to a recent Instacart/Harris Poll survey, 48% of [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill reduces risk of being hospitalized or dying by 89%, company says
EHStock/iStock (NEW YORK) — A course of pills developed by Pfizer can slash the risk of being hospitalized or dying from COVID-19 by 89% if taken within three days of developing symptoms, according to results [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 11/4/21
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Philadelphia 109, Detroit 98 Utah 116, Atlanta 98 Boston 95, Miami 78 Phoenix 123, Houston 111 Oklahoma City 107, LA [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Pelosi presses for votes Friday on Dems’ agenda as Biden calls key House members
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden was making last-minute calls to key House members as Speaker Nancy Pelosi pressed for two critical votes Friday on the Democratic agenda: the president’s $1.75 trillion “Build Back [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Blinken details new efforts to investigate ‘Havana syndrome’
Hector Vivas/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday detailed new efforts to investigate “Havana syndrome,” the mysterious health affliction affecting dozens of U.S. personnel first identified in Cuba and now including several [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Colin Powell to be remembered as statesman and warrior at Friday funeral
Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Capital Concerts (WASHINGTON) — Retired Gen. Colin Powell, the first African American to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and later as the first Black secretary of state, [Read More…]