Month: May 2022
ABC Politics News
White House expands flights to Cuba, reverses other Trump admin restrictions
John Elk III/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House announced a historic shift in its policy toward Cuba Monday night, saying that for the first time in six decades it will sign off on an [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Sopranos’, ‘Nurse Jackie’ Emmy winner Edie Falco to play Pete Davidson’s mom in Peacock’s ‘Bupkis’
NBCUniversal/Charles Sykes Pete Davidson isn’t kidding around in casting his mom for his upcoming pseudo-autobiographical comedy series Bupkis. Four-time Emmy winner Edie Falco has signed on to play Pete’s TV mom in the upcoming Peacock [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Daria’ spinoff ‘Jodie’ getting the feature film treatment
Tracee Ellis Ross — ABC/Kwaku Alston Jodie, the planned spinoff to the late ’90s MTV animated show Daria — itself a spinoff of Beavis and Butthead — is apparently becoming an animated film. As reported, Jodie [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Geeked Week 2022: Netflix teases upcoming seasons of ‘Stranger Things’, ‘Umbrella Academy’ and more
Tom Sturridge as Dream in “The Sandman”/Netflix On Monday, Netflix let rip with the trailer to its 2022 edition of Geek Week, a celebration of bingeworthy content for “the geek, the geek adjacent, the geek [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones’ turns 20
Lucasfilm The second of the Star Wars prequels, Attack of the Clones, turns 20 Monday. The film follows the now 20-year-old Anakin Skywalker, played by Hayden Christensen, and his master, Ewan McGregor‘s Obi-Wan Kenobi, trying [Read More…]
ABC Health News
How a hospital treated victims of the Buffalo shooting
Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Dr. Michael Manka had just finished his shift at Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, New York, Saturday afternoon and was getting ready [Read More…]
ABC Health News
300,000 US COVID deaths could have been averted through vaccination, analysis finds
Morsa Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — COVID-19 vaccines could have prevented at least 318,000 virus-related deaths between January 2021 and April 2022, a new analysis found. The analysis used real-world data from the Centers for [Read More…]
ABC Health News
President Biden signs law banning sale of crib bumpers, inclined sleepers for babies
Erika Richter (WASHINGTON) — Inclined sleepers for babies and crib bumper pads will be banned from being manufactured and sold under legislation signed into law Monday by President Joe Biden. Biden signed the bill, the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Melania Trump gives first post-White House interview: On her critics, volunteer work, more
Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In her first sit-down interview since leaving Washington, Melania Trump appeared on Fox News on Sunday where she addressed some of her ongoing work as a former first [Read More…]
ABC National News
First all-Black team summits Everest
Full Circle Everest via Instagram (NEW YORK) — The first all-Black Mount Everest expedition team, Full Circle Everest, has reached the summit of the highest mountain on Earth, and their excitement can be felt from [Read More…]
Ag News
What a Rainy Spring Means for 2022 Planting
A wetter than normal Spring means many Missouri farmers are in the field a little later than usual. Missouri Soybean’s agronomy and research director Eric Oseland isn’t worried and says that farmers still have plenty [Read More…]
Ag News
Arkansas crops: soybeans 57% and rice 76% planted
Better weather helped Arkansas farmers make big strides in planting progress and most crops have caught up or exceeded the average annual pace. Northeast Arkansas farmer Brad Doyle says they thought they’d get started early. [Read More…]
Ag News
Wisconsin farmers describe planting progress
More Wisconsin farmers are getting fieldwork done after a week of mostly-good weather. Amy Penterman and her husband Sander operate Dutch Dairy near Thorp in Clark County. She tells Brownfield a lot of corn went [Read More…]
Ag News
Wisconsin picks up the planting pace
After along, weather-related wait, Wisconsin’s farmers were able to accomplish a lot of field work last week. USDA reporters say the unseasonably warm week was helpful after several cool and wet weeks slowed down tillage [Read More…]
Ag News
Parts of Minnesota gain ground on planting
Planting progress picked up in parts of Minnesota last week. USDA’s latest crop progress report says corn planting reached 35 percent, compared to 94 percent a year ago and the five-year average of 72 percent. [Read More…]
ABC National News
Buffalo suspect had plans to continue his killing rampage: Commissioner
Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Payton Gendron, the 18-year-old who allegedly gunned down 10 people — all of whom were Black — at a Tops grocery store in [Read More…]
ABC National News
Victims of deadly Houston flea market shooting were involved in gunfight: Officials
KTRK-TV (HOUSTON) — A fight between two groups of people led to a shooting Sunday that left two men dead and three others hurt at a busy Houston flea market, where thousands of people were [Read More…]
ABC National News
Relatives of Buffalo shooting victim break down in tears: ‘This shouldn’t have happened’
ABC News (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — The relatives of 86-year-old Ruth Whitfield, the oldest victim slain in this weekend’s mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, were overcome with emotion at a news conference on Monday. Ruth [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Fox announces new shows: Trace Adkins & Susan Sarandon in ‘Monarch’; Jamie Foxx producing ‘Alert’; and more
Michael Chiklis in ‘Accused’ — FOX/Steve Wilkie On Monday, Fox announced its upcoming slate for the fall season, and in addition to returning hits like 9-1-1: Lone Star and The Cleaning Lady will come new [Read More…]
Ag News
Improving healthcare in rural America
Former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams continues to advocate for improved healthcare in rural areas. “I was really glad to be U.S. Surgeon General as someone from the Midwest, as someone who had grown up [Read More…]