Year: 2021
ABC Politics News
The national implications of Virginia’s gubernatorial election
Oleksii Liskonih/iStock (RICHMOND, Va.) — Virginia voters had a choice: They could continue the commonwealth’s more than a decade-long streak of backing Democratic candidates at the statewide level, or they could reestablish Virginia as a [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Senators push Justice Department to crack down on illegal gun modifications
bytmonas/iStock (WASHINGTON) — They’re cheap, easy to produce and can make guns more dangerous in minutes. Gun modifications are becoming a problem for the country as the number of shooting incidents linked to automatic weapons [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Schumer says Democrats reach deal on lowering prescription drug costs
uschools/iStock (WASHINGTON) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Tuesday that Democrats have reached a deal on a measure aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs — a key part of President Joe Biden’s [Read More…]
ABC National News
Scientists investigate the steep costs of climate change and US wildfires
f00sion/iStock (LOS ANGELES) — Climate change is making wildfires in the western United States larger and more destructive, and the effects are felt across the country, according to a study by Steve Davis, a professor [Read More…]
ABC National News
Striking John Deere workers vote against tentative new contract
iStock/Wolterk (NEW YORK) — Members of the United Auto Workers Union voted Tuesday against a tentative agreement that would have ended the ongoing strike of more than 10,000 John Deere workers. The vote came up 55% [Read More…]
ABC National News
Democrat Eric Adams projected to win New York City mayoral race
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Democrat Eric Adams is projected by ABC News to win the New York City mayoral race. The win, while expected in a city with many more registered Democrats [Read More…]
ABC National News
COVID-19 live updates: CDC panel votes ‘yes’ on Pfizer vaccine for young kids
peterschreiber.media/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 747,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins [Read More…]
ABC National News
New theory about mysterious LAX ‘jet pack man’ released by police
Los Angeles Police Department (LOS ANGELES) — Following nearly two years of reported sightings of a man flying at relatively high altitudes around aircrafts landing at Los Angeles International Airport, the police department released a [Read More…]
ABC World News
After ending Ethiopia’s trade status, US weighs sanctions, genocide designation over Tigray war
DavorLovincic/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration is ending Ethiopia’s special trade status under U.S. law — the latest penalty imposed on the Ethiopian government amid its ongoing war with the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, the [Read More…]
ABC World News
COP26 live updates: Biden speaks on methane reduction, forest conservation
oonal/iStock (GLASGOW, Scotland) — Leaders from nearly every country in the world have converged upon Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference that experts are touting as the most important environmental summit [Read More…]
ABC World News
“We’re blinking code red,” President Biden looks to put the US back at center of climate change fight
Oliver Weiken/picture alliance via Getty Images (GLASGOW, Scotland.) — COP26 is underway with President Biden looking to put the United States back at the center of the global effort on climate change. After leading the [Read More…]
Ag News
Milder across the Heartland; showers to return
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10- day outlook calls for the likelihood of below-normal temperatures across much of the South and East, while warmer-than-normal weather will prevail in most areas along and northwest of a [Read More…]
News
Jean Rounds, wife of Senator Mike Rounds, passes away
Senator Mike Rounds released the following statement remembering his wife Jean who passed away this (Tuesday) morning after battling sarcoma cancer: “The love of my life is with the Lord. No more treatments. No [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Lawyer for ‘Rust’ assistant director in tense exchange on Fox News; “He’s not responsible”
iStock/LPETTET On Monday, Lisa Torraco, the attorney for Rust assistant director Dave Halls, had a tense exchange with Martha MacCallum of Fox News, in which the lawyer shifted the blame for last week’s fatal set shooting away from her client. It had been widely reported [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Henry Winkler auctioning off one of his Fonzie jackets from ‘Happy Days’, ‘Scream’ mask, for charity
ABC Photo Archives If you’ve got the dough, you can soon walk away with some rare Hollywood memorabilia, from the collection of Emmy-winner Henry Winkler, “The Fonz” himself. And it’s all for a good cause. The New [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Looks like it’s back to the Squid Game after crypto coin busts; experts say it was a “scam”
Netflix If you dreamed of wealth by chasing a crypto coin named after — but not licensed by — Netflix’s hit Squid Game, it looks like you’ll have to find someone giving away the show’s creepy cards [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
“It’s my wife’s last name, relax!” — Ken Jeong freaks out ESPN by shouting out his “Ho”
ABC/Tyler Golden Ken Jeong got some laughs — and apparently panicked co-anchors — on ESPN’s College GameDay show Saturday night — all for sweetly shouting out his wife. When asked for his picks in the Saturday evening match-up between UCLA [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Production on ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ begins, official cast revealed
Disney+ It’s a Halloween miracle: Production on Hocus Pocus 2 is officially underway. Disney announced Monday that the long-awaited sequel to the beloved 1993 movie has begun filming in Rhode Island, with stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy returning [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Why the John Deere strike is being viewed as harbinger of a new labor market
iStock/Wolterk (NEW YORK) — Members of the United Auto Workers Union are set to vote Tuesday on a tentative agreement that would end the ongoing strike of more than 10,000 John Deere workers. News of [Read More…]
ABC Health News
COVID-19 live updates: Biden tests negative after press secretary contracts virus
iStock/Prostock-Studio (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 746,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins [Read More…]