Month: March 2022
Ag News
Survey: consumers want food made with US crops
Consumers say they want more food made with US crops. A new study by the United Soybean Board found consumer support of domestic agriculture has grown stronger, with 78 percent of consumers surveyed saying it’s [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Jan 6. committee: Trump engaged in ‘criminal conspiracy,’ may have broken laws
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack said Wednesday it has evidence that former President Donald Trump and some of his associates may have illegally tried to obstruct [Read More…]
ABC World News
Rare image of Princess Diana to be displayed in new Kensington Palace exhibit
Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images (LONDON) — Princess Diana was once one of the most photographed women in the world, but one image of the late royal has yet to be seen in public [Read More…]
ABC World News
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russia claims to have seized eastern Ukrainian city
Aytac Unal/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymr Zelenskyy, are putting up “stiff resistance,” according to [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Indiana Senate passes ban on transgender girls playing on girls’ sports teams
Getty Images/Stock Photo (NEW YORK) — An Indiana bill to ban transgender girls from participating in girls sports in K-12 schools passed the state Senate on Tuesday. State legislators voted 32-18 in favor of the bill. [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Rep. Ilhan Omar introduces bill named for Amir Locke to curb no-knock warrants
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., introduced a bill on Tuesday calling for strict limitations on no-knock warrants in drug-related investigations. The bill, named for Amir Locke, would also ban “quick-knock” warrants, nighttime [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Democrats set Judge Jackson’s confirmation hearings for March 21
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s pick for the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, began traditional courtesy calls with senators on Wednesday as Democrats announced her confirmation battle would get underway later this [Read More…]
ABC National News
Oath Keeper pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy for Jan. 6 attack
Handout via Department of Justice (NEW YORK) — Joshua James, 34, of Arab, Alabama, pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy charges on Wednesday as part of deal with prosecutors contingent on his cooperation with the U.S. government [Read More…]
ABC World News
US documenting Russian strikes on Ukrainian civilians but stopping short of calling them war crimes
Getty Images/Stock Photo (WASHINGTON) — Russia is hitting civilian targets in Ukraine, killing innocent people and destroying hospitals, schools and critical infrastructure like running water, electricity and gas, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken alleged Wednesday. [Read More…]
ABC World News
Fighting around Ukraine’s nuclear plants raises global concerns
Getty Images/Stock Photo (NEW YORK) — Skirmishes around Ukraine’s nuclear facilities provoked a heated exchange Wednesday at the U.N. Environment Assembly between representatives of the warring countries and prompted a U.N. nuclear watchdog group to warn [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Kim Kardashian declared legally single; Kanye “focusing his entire attention [on their] children”
Mike Coppola/Getty Images After nearly eight years of marriage to Ye, formally known as Kanye West, Kim Kardashian is finally a single woman. The news comes a year after the 41-year-old reality-TV star filed for divorce. According to Billboard, Judge Steve [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Following pandemic shutdown, Fox readies new season of ‘So You Think You Can Dance’
Fox/Adam Rose Fox’s reality show So You Think You Can Dance is coming back, after a two-year pandemic delay. The network announced that the 17th season of the dance program would finally air this summer [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Pamela Anderson promises to tell “the real story” about her life in Netflix documentary
Photo: Carmelo Redondo While Pamela Anderson had nothing to do with Pam & Tommy, the Hulu series about her life’s biggest scandal — and reportedly found it painful it was even made at all — the actress is ready to [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Westworld’ lead Evan Rachel Wood transformed into Madonna for “Weird Al” Yankovic biopic
Roku Emmy-nominated Westworld star Evan Rachel Wood will portray Madonna in WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story, a Roku Original movie about the life and career of famed parody singer “Weird Al” Yankovic that stars Daniel Radcliffe as Al. A still released from the film shows [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Alan Ladd Jr., producer who backed ‘Star Wars’, dead at 84
Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Alan Ladd Jr., the producer who greenlighted George Lucas‘ Star Wars while at 20th Century Fox in 1977, has died. Deadline reports he was 84. On social media, Ladd’s daughter Amanda Ladd-Jones wrote, “With the heaviest of hearts, we announce [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Blinken visits Ukrainian church to show support
Getty Images/Win McNamee (WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday joined Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova, in a visit to a Ukrainian church in Washington, expressing vocal admiration for the Ukrainian people. [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
In 1st Jan. 6 trial, DOJ calls accused rioter the ‘tip of this mob’s spear’
Getty Images/Robert Nickelsberg (WASHINGTON) — Opening statements got underway Wednesday in the case of a Texas man charged with participating in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol and later threatening his family members if [Read More…]
ABC National News
Restaurant leaders respond directly to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union
Getty Images/Stock Photo (NEW YORK) — Hours after President Joe Biden’s inaugural State of the Union speech Tuesday night, restaurant and bar industry leaders called on the administration for action. Chefs, restaurant owners and leaders of [Read More…]
ABC National News
JetBlue pilot pulled off plane after failing breathalyzer
Getty Images/Robert Nickelsberg (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — A 52-year-old JetBlue pilot was pulled off a plane in Buffalo, New York, after blowing a blood alcohol content over the legal limit for pilots, according to Helen Tederous, public [Read More…]
ABC World News
Families torn apart amid mass exodus from Ukraine face uncertain future
ABC News (NEW YORK) — When 25-year-old Yulia Yemelianenko crossed the border from Lviv, Ukraine into Poland earlier this week, she broke down in tears. “I cried a lot,” she told ABC News at a train [Read More…]