Month: April 2022
ABC Entertainment News
Disney teasing more new content at CinemaCon; Kevin Feige talks “next decade” of Marvel movies
Marvel Studios At the CinemaCon confab in Las Vegas Wednesday, it was Disney’s time to shine. The studio is reportedly showing off some 70 minutes of footage from its forthcoming slate, unspooling some 20 minutes of Doctor [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Apple TV+’s ‘Pachinko’ is a universal message of hope
Apple TV+ The critically acclaimed Apple TV+ series Pachinko wraps up this week. Based on the best-selling book, it tells the story of four generations of a Korean family who moves to Japan and lives [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Elon Musk’s bid to end SEC tweet settlement rejected by judge
Chesnot/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal judge in New York on Wednesday rejected Elon Musk’s request to terminate a settlement agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that he claimed was being abused to [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Fauci said the US is ‘out of the pandemic phase.’ What does that mean?
EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic may be over in the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said this week. Some experts urged caution, however, [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Measles outbreaks possible amid ‘perfect storm’ of conditions, WHO and UNICEF warn
Yalonda M. James/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The World Health Organization and UNICEF are warning of a “perfect storm” of circumstances fueling the potential for large-scale measles outbreaks, underscoring worrying [Read More…]
ABC National News
Trevor Reed’s parents to David Muir: ‘He looked horrible…we started crying’
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Trevor Reed’s time inside a Russian prison may be over, but his parents said they are still concerned about his well-being and his long road to recovery. Hours after [Read More…]
ABC National News
High schooler accepted into 72 colleges shares advice for other students
Courtesy of Ja’Leaha Thornton (BELLE GLADE, Fla.) — A Florida teen is celebrating and sharing her advice for other students after getting accepted to not just one or even 10 colleges, but 72 of them. [Read More…]
ABC National News
‘Unprecedented’ water restrictions ordered for millions in Southern California
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Unprecedented restrictions have been ordered for millions of residents in Southern California as the megadrought in the region persists and continues to intensify. About 6 million [Read More…]
Ag News
Nebraska reports 7th case of HPAI
The Nebraska Department of Agriculture has confirmed the state’s seventh case of Highly Parthenogenic Avian Influenza. NDA and USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed the virus on a farm in Knox County [Read More…]
Ag News
Cattle, hog futures lower at midweek
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder closed lower watching corn and waiting for the rest of the week’s direct cash business develop. June live cattle closed $1.22 lower at $135.02 and August live [Read More…]
Ag News
Anticompetitive concerns addressed during House Ag cattle market hearing
The cattle industry continues to wait for the results of a Department of Justice investigation examining anticompetitive behavior among meatpackers. House Ag Committee Chairman David Scott took the opportunity to question the heads of the [Read More…]
Ag News
Frozen dairy product production up on the year
USDA’s 2021 annual dairy product report shows how production has shifted with more foodservice demand following the start of the pandemic. Total cheese production totaled more than 13 billion pounds, up 3.5 percent from 2020 [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
College softball player is 3rd female student-athlete to die in recent weeks
James Madison University (NEW YORK) — A college softball star from James Madison University has died at the age of 20, the university announced Tuesday. Her death marks the third of a female college athlete [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Oklahoma governor signs ban on nonbinary gender markers
Alex Wong/Getty Images, FILE (OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill Tuesday that bans the use of nonbinary gender markers on state birth certificates. It’s the first ban of its kind [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
McCarthy defends himself to Republicans after leaked Jan. 6 recordings
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans on Wednesday rallied behind Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy as he defended himself over audio recordings surfaced of him blaming former President Donald Trump for the Jan. 6 riot [Read More…]
ABC National News
Protesters shut down city meeting demanding justice for Patrick Lyoya
Scott Olson/Getty Images (GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.) — Protesters shut down a Grand Rapids City Commission meeting on Tuesday, demanding justice for Patrick Lyoya, who was shot and killed by a Michigan police officer earlier this [Read More…]
ABC National News
Grand jury investigating Donald Trump for criminal conduct will come to an end: Sources
Eli Hiller/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — A special grand jury that had been hearing evidence in the criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump expires at the end of the week and [Read More…]
ABC National News
FBI joins investigation into slain couple as fear grips New Hampshire town
Concord Police Department (CONCORD, N.H.) — The FBI has joined the investigation into the fatal shootings of a retired couple whose bodies were found last week on a hiking trail near their New Hampshire home, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Minneapolis Police Department engaged in racial discrimination, state says
Stephen Maturen/Getty Images (MINNEAPOLIS) — Following an almost two-year investigation, the Minnesota Department of Human Rights found that the city of Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Police Department engaged in a pattern or practice of race [Read More…]
ABC National News
Suspects identified in planned kidnapping of 3-month-old
San Jose Police Dept. (SAN JOSE, Calif.) — A 3-month-old baby boy was found safe and in good condition Tuesday, one day after he was taken from his Northern California home in what police believe [Read More…]