Month: March 2022
Ag News
Thune urges Senate colleagues to start farm bill work
A South Dakota Senator is urging his colleagues to start working on the 2023 farm bill. Republican John Thune says, “The House Agriculture Committee has already begun holding hearings on the 2023 farm bill, and [Read More…]
ABC Health News
House votes to cap cost of insulin at $35, heads to Senate
MajaMitrovic/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congress could soon send to the president’s desk a bill that would cap the cost of the lifesaving drug insulin at $35 per month — a move that could significantly reduce [Read More…]
ABC National News
Body of missing Nevada teen found in rural ‘gravesite,’ authorities say
Lyon County Sheriff’s Office via Facebook (NEW YORK) — The body of a Nevada teenager who was allegedly kidnapped from a Walmart parking lot over two weeks ago has been found, authorities said. Naomi Irion, 18, [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Post-slap blowback: Oscars producer Will Packer will appear on ‘Good Morning America’ on Friday
Neilson Barnard/Getty Images Will Packer, the producer of this year’s historic-for-the-wrong-reasons Oscars telecast, will appear on Friday’s edition of Good Morning America. GMA‘s T.J. Holmes will interview the producer in the wake of Will Smith‘s on-air assault of Chris Rock, [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
The Razzies rescind Bruce Willis’ “award” after aphasia diagnosis
Jim Spellman/WireImage It looks like the people behind the Golden Raspberry Awards don’t want to add insult to injury. The Oscars-spoofing organization recently “honored” Bruce Willis with his own historic category — “Worst Performance by [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Pence releases policy agenda for Republican Party, paving way for 2024 candidacy
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Former Vice President Mike Pence announced Thursday a multi-pronged policy agenda for the Republican Party, the latest in a series of indicators he’s planning to mount a run for [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Kentucky, Arizona move forward on 15-week abortion bans
Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Arizona and Kentucky are moving forward on 15-week abortion bans before a Supreme Court decision in June could decide the fate of the procedure in the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Lawsuit filed against Florida’s so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law within days of signing
Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — A lawsuit has been filed against the State of Florida over the newly signed Parental Rights in Education law, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Senators close in on $10 billion COVID relief deal
Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Top Senate negotiators have said they are close to striking a deal to approve $10 billion in additional COVID relief funding with just a handful of days remaining before Congress [Read More…]
ABC National News
Police seeking assailant who allegedly used anti-gay slur in NYC subway attack
Gary Hershorn, Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Police are seeking a suspect in an assault on a New York City subway train that is being investigated as a hate crime after the assailant allegedly used an [Read More…]
ABC National News
Skippy recalls 161,692 pounds of peanut butter
Justin Sullivan, Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Skippy Foods announced a voluntary recall of some peanut butter products due to the possibility that a limited number of jars may contain small fragment of stainless steel from [Read More…]
ABC National News
Mom of Navy SEAL candidate reflects on son’s unexplained death
Stocktrek Images, Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Nearly two months after the unexplained death of Navy SEAL candidate Kyle Mullen, his mother broke her silence, saying she wants to prevent another family from experiencing the [Read More…]
ABC National News
‘X’ gender marker soon available on passports as part of push for inclusivity
Jeff Mccollough / EyeEm (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. State Department announced on Thursday that starting April 11 people applying for U.S. passports will be able to select “X” to mark their gender in a move [Read More…]
ABC National News
California county officials frustrated with pace of efforts to investigate Turpin case as probe continues
Watchara Phomicinda/The Press-Enterprise via Getty Images (RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif.) — Top officials in California’s Riverside County said this week that they continue to be frustrated in their efforts to find out why social services systems [Read More…]
Ag News
Early Spring storminess winds-down across the Corn Belt
Across the Corn Belt, cool, cloudy, blustery weather is keeping fieldwork at a minimum. In addition, widespread rain and snow showers linger across the Great Lakes region. Thursday’s high temperatures will remain below 40°F across [Read More…]
Ag News
A cooler, drier pattern to evolve across the Heartland
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures nationwide, except for cooler-than-normal conditions from the Ozark Plateau into the middle Mississippi Valley and along the Canadian border [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Avengers reassemble: Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson team up for Apple TV+’s ‘Project Artemis’
Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal Media, LLC via Getty Images Chris Evans and his Avengers series co-star Scarlett Johansson will finally re-team, for an Apple TV+ film called Project Artemis. The big budget, hush-hush feature will be directed [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ series bumped two days, will debut with two episodes
Lucasfilm If you felt a disturbance in the Force, this might be why. In an unexpected move, Disney+ has announced that Obi-Wan Kenobi won’t be debuting to commemorate the May 25th release date of Star [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Biden blasts US oil companies in announcing plan to combat gas prices
STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Attempting to combat what’s he’s labeled “Putin’s price hike,” President Joe Biden announced a plan on Thursday to release roughly 1 million barrels of oil per day from [Read More…]
ABC World News
Reporter’s notebook: Traveling along Ukraine’s southern border
Ibtissem Guenfound/ABC News (LONDON) — Our team spent five days tracing the southern border of Ukraine. We drove more than 650 long miles through the big open, empty lands and packed small towns of Slovakia, [Read More…]