Month: May 2022
ABC Politics News
Pelosi calls for ‘balance’ between free speech and safety after Buffalo shooting
Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that social media companies have to address and track down extremism on their platforms, after a gunman who reportedly espoused white [Read More…]
ABC Health News
One million COVID deaths but only 350K families have asked FEMA for funeral cost help
Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Despite the U.S. recording more than 1 million COVID-19 deaths this week, few families have taken advantage of a government program to help cover the cost of funerals [Read More…]
ABC National News
Milwaukee mayor announces two-night curfew for people under 21 after Friday shootings
Timothy Abero/EyeEm/GettyImages (MILWAUKEE) — Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson imposed a two-night curfew for individuals under the age of 21 within the city’s entertainment district on Saturday. The curfew is from 11 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. on [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Hundreds of pro-abortion rights protests planned Saturday in response to SCOTUS leak
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Hundreds of pro-abortion rights protests are planned nationwide Saturday in the wake of a bombshell leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that indicated the court’s conservative majority could soon [Read More…]
ABC National News
COVID lockdown offers teacher valuable life lessons
Maskot/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — During the early days of the pandemic, Cayci Weaver was able to hold on to her teaching job. Educating high school students, however, was not easy; the switch to remote learning [Read More…]
ABC National News
Judge partially blocks transgender youth care ban that makes treatment a felony
Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An Alabama judge has partially blocked the state’s gender-affirming trans youth care ban. S.B. 184, the Vulnerable Child Protection Act, states that anyone who provides gender-affirming care to [Read More…]
ABC National News
Dallas shooting may be linked to attack on Asian businesses
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (DALLAS) — The shooting of three Korean women in a hair salon in the city’s Koreatown on Wednesday afternoon could be hate motivated, Dallas police said, and may be linked to a series [Read More…]
ABC World News
21-year-old Russian soldier to stand trial in Kyiv for murdering Ukrainian civilian
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The first case against a member of the Russian military is set to go to trial on May 18. 21-year-old Russian serviceman Vadim Shishimarin is accused of killing an unarmed Ukrainian [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Baby formula timeline: Plant posed a risk last fall
Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Federal regulators warned months ago of potential problems at a manufacturing plant for baby formula, according to documents and a public timeline of the events, raising questions about whether more [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 5/13/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Friday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Final Houston 6 Washington 1 Final Seattle 2 N.Y. Mets 1 Final [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden defends response to baby formula shortage as complaints grow, probes planned
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Friday defended his administration’s response to an ongoing baby formula shortage that has triggered public outcry from parents, lawmakers and drawn Republican fire. “There’s nothing more urgent [Read More…]
ABC World News
North Korea’s Kim remains fixed on military might amid COVID outbreak
Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As North Korea rattles its foreign rivals by escalating shows of firepower, the coronavirus could be attacking the Hermit Kingdom from within. In a rare admission this week, [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Gwyneth Paltrow’s $150 fake disposable diapers were meant to highlight real affordability problem
ABC (NOTE LANGUAGE) When Gwyneth Paltrow‘s lifestyle brand Goop announced the Diapér [Dye-PAIR] — a luxury disposable diaper selling for $150 for a pack of 12 — it raised eyebrows. Then again, Goop also sells [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Elon Musk says he paused Twitter deal over fake user accounts: Why they matter
Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid to purchase Twitter struck an unexpected roadblock early Friday morning when he tweeted that he had put the deal “temporarily [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Jen Psaki’s emotional farewell as White House press secretary
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Outgoing White House press secretary Jen Psaki delivered an emotional farewell from the briefing room podium Friday afternoon — expressing thanks to President Joe Biden, her administration colleagues and even [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
GOP-led states, Biden administration argue over lifting Title 42 border policy on May 23
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Justice Department lawyers and attorneys representing a coalition of GOP-led states were in court on Friday to again trade jabs about whether the Biden administration can lift pandemic-based restrictions at the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
White House clambers for fixes to baby formula shortage as dismay mounts, probes planned
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The ongoing baby formula shortage — with nearly half of products recently unavailable, according to experts — triggered a flurry of responses from Washington this week as the Biden administration and [Read More…]
Ag News
Biden picks Alexis Taylor to fill key trade role at USDA
Photo courtesy NASDA The Biden administration has announced its pick to fill a key trade role at the USDA. The White House announced Alexis Taylor as their nomination for Undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘True Lies’ becoming a series at CBS
Ronald Siemoneit/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images True Lies, an adaptation of the 1994 James Cameron-directed film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis, is coming to CBS as a series. The series had been in development [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Natasha Lyonne to make ‘SNL’ hosting debut on May 21
Courtesy Netflix (NOTE LANGUAGE) Russian Doll star and Emmy nominee Natasha Lyonne will make her Saturday Night Live hosting debut on May 21. The long-running sketch show’s official social media accounts broke the news, adding that [Read More…]