Month: February 2022
ABC National News
COVID-19 live updates: Massachusetts lifts school mask mandate
Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.7 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 909,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by [Read More…]
Ag News
Protecting yields for small grains
Keeping small grain crops healthy helps farmers improve yield and maximize their return on investment. In this Managing for Profit, Lindsey Aagesen shares how Prosaro PRO helps promote plant health beyond disease control and provides [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Democrats introduce federal gas tax holiday ahead of midterm elections
Grace Cary/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Two Senate Democrats up for reelection introduced a bill on Wednesday to temporarily suspend the federal gas tax through the end of 2022, as millions of Americans grapple with the [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Education secretary warns easing mask mandates too early can cause disruption in schools
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A growing number of states are lifting mask mandates in schools, but Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says that prematurely easing restrictions could lead to more issues for in-person learning. “We [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Pandemic’s impact on youth mental health ‘devastating’: Surgeon General
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy told lawmakers on Tuesday that the pandemic has had a “devastating” impact on the mental health of America’s young people. “I’m deeply concerned as a [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Why Kelly Stafford says pressure is off for Matthew Stafford’s Super Bowl debut
Christian Petersen/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After being selected by the Detroit Lions as the No. 1 overall draft pick in 2009 and 12 seasons without a playoff win before being traded to the Los [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
American skier Mikaela Shiffrin blows gate in slalom, out of event
Tom Pennington/Getty Images (BEIJING) — For the second straight competition, Mikaela Shiffrin has busted out of the competition just seconds into the first run. Shiffrin missed the fourth gate in her slalom run, the event [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Los Angeles could host the hottest Super Bowl on record
Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After months of relatively cooler weather throughout Southern California, temperatures are beginning to spike heading into Super Bowl weekend. An excessive heat watch has been issued [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 2/8/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Phoenix 114, Philadelphia 109 Boston 126, Brooklyn 91 Atlanta 133, Indiana 112 Memphis 135, L.A. Clippers 109 New Orleans 110, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Pressure builds for Biden, Democrats to move past COVID
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — It’s a move that would have been unthinkable last year: Weeks after a holiday surge crushed hospitals and more people died in a single month than a typical annual flu [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
House lawmaker apologizes for using vulgarity when asked to mask up
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky, the second-most senior lawmaker in the House, told ABC News he has apologized to Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, after she said [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff escorted out of DC high school because of ‘security threat’
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, attending an event at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, was escorted out of the room by a U.S. Secret Service agent [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
McConnell rebukes RNC for breaking tradition as GOP divided over censure resolution
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican lawmakers are divided on what could become a defining issue for the GOP after the Republican National Committee passed a censure resolution last week including language critics [Read More…]
ABC National News
COVID-19 live updates: US reported more cases, deaths than any country last week
Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.7 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 909,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by [Read More…]
ABC National News
ABC News analysis: 50 years later, segregated neighborhoods are still pervasive
DNY59/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Milwaukee resident Exie Tatum III grew up in heart of the city and still lives there. The African American father owns a home in a predominantly Black neighborhood but has [Read More…]
ABC World News
Afghans struggle with humanitarian crisis, millions on brink of starvation
KeithBinns/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Four months after the Taliban seized power, Obaidullah Alikhil found himself unemployed and struggling to make ends meet as his son laid in bed with no strength to even open [Read More…]
Latest News
Waste oil ignited explosion and fire at Miller high school
MILLER, S.D. (AP) — The cause of an explosion and fire at the school campus in Miller has been determined, according to fire officials. Fire Chief Steve Resel says some equipment being used in the [Read More…]
Latest News
Teen sentenced to 40 years in prison for 2018 fatal shooting
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — An 18-year-old Rapid City man has been sentenced to 40 years in state prison for a fatal shooting in 2018. A judge Monday sentenced Ronald Black Cloud in the death [Read More…]
Latest News
South Dakota GOP senators reject trans student bathroom ban
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Republicans on a South Dakota Senate committee Tuesday rejected a bill that would have banned transgender students from using school restrooms that match their gender identity. All but one senator on [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Liam Neeson “fell in love” while filming in Australia, but she’s “taken”
Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Liam Neeson didn’t get the girl of his dreams on the set of his latest film, but he just may have found the premise for his next Taken movie. During an [Read More…]
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