Month: May 2022
ABC Health News
FDA limits J&J COVID-19 vaccine due to rare blood clot risk
Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday announced it’s now limiting the authorized use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after conducting an updated investigation into [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Richardson helping to free WNBA star Brittney Griner from detention in Russia
Mike Mattina/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — In her struggle for freedom from detention in Russia, WNBA star Brittney Griner now has another big name in her corner: former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson. [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
DHS plays defense over Disinformation Governance Board
Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has spent much of this week defending the department’s newly established Disinformation Governance Board in response to Republican lawmakers’ concerns about partisan influence in federal [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
US officials push back on report its intel helping Ukraine target Russian generals
Alex Wong/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — U.S. officials on Thursday pushed back on a New York Times report that said the U.S. provided Ukraine intelligence that helped it target and kill Russian generals and other [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Abortion in US with no Roe v. Wade would get very complicated, attorney Kathryn Kolbert says
Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Attorney Kathryn Kolbert has spent a majority of her career thinking about the after-effects on reproductive rights if the Supreme Court was to overturn Roe v. Wade. She [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Jen Psaki leaving White House, Biden names 1st Black, openly gay press secretary as replacement
Alex Wong/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — After a year and a half at the podium, White House press secretary Jen Psaki is planning to leave the White House on May 13, and her current deputy, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Senate Democrats tee up likely doomed vote on protecting nationwide abortion access
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate will take a procedural vote to start debate on codifying abortion rights next week, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Thursday. Democrats have pledged to take swift action on [Read More…]
ABC National News
Teacher looks back at former teen student’s wrongful conviction
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Anthony Harris, who was convicted of killing his 5-year-old neighbor in 1999 at the age of 13 but had that conviction overturned in appeal, was a kind, hardworking student who [Read More…]
ABC National News
Years after Anthony Harris’ conviction was overturned, murder of little girl remains unsolved
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Anthony Harris was 12 years old when he was charged and later convicted of murdering his 5-year-old neighbor, Devan Duniver. Harris’ conviction was eventually overturned and, more than 20 years [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Will Smith to appear on David Letterman’s Netflix talk show…but he won’t be talking about “the slap”
Mathieu Bitton/Netflix — ABC Will Smith has been named on the list of guests for the new season of David Letterman‘s Netflix show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction — but he won’t be talking [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Selena Gomez’s love interest in ‘Only Murders’ season two?…Cara Delevingne
Rachel Murray/Getty Images We knew that Selena Gomez‘s pal Cara Delevingne would be one of the actors joining the cast for season two of Selena’s acclaimed Hulu series Only Murders in the Building. Now we know [Read More…]
Ag News
Agronomist encourages growers to wait for ideal planting conditions
An agronomist encourages growers to wait for better soil conditions despite planting delays. Eric Wilson covers Iowa and parts of Minnesota and South Dakota for Wyffels Hybrids. “The planting concern is the moisture. It looks [Read More…]
Ag News
Planting delays causing expected yield losses for MO farmer
A southeastern Missouri farmer says he’s never planted this late before. Aaron Porter tells Brownfield he’s running about a month behind… “The calendar doesn’t matter,” Porter said. “It’s the conditions of the field, the temperatures [Read More…]
Ag News
Farm bill critical to rural development
A rural development director with USDA says the farm bill is essential for supporting and expanding rural communities. Branden Fewins, state director for Michigan, tells Brownfield economic development initiatives in the farm bill along with [Read More…]
Ag News
Sugarbeet growers want improved loan rates in next farm bill
Sugarbeet growers are asking Congress for the nation’s sugar policy to better reflect today’s costs. Michigan farmer Allyson Maxwell, while testifying before a recent Senate Ag Committee hearing on the farm bill, says the U.S. [Read More…]
Ag News
Higher pork values provide a boost to hog futures
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle ended the day lower on technical selling. June live cattle closed $1.05 lower at $133.77 and August live cattle closed $1.05 lower at $136.02. August feeder [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Boldly Going: The cast of ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ sounds off on ‘Trek’ legacy, pressure — and William Shatner
Paramount+ ©2022 ViacomCBS. All Rights Reserved./Marni Grossman/ Stardate: October 13th, 2021: Anson Mount is recording one of the most legendary monologues in pop culture: The opening to the original Star Trek series, famously voiced by [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Kim Cattrall says she was “never asked” to star in the ‘Sex and the City’ spin-off ‘And Just Like That…”
Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for for CinemaCon While Kim Cattrall made it clear she wasn’t going to return to the world of Sex and the City years ago, in a new Variety cover story, she explained [Read More…]
ABC Health News
‘It was terrifying’: Pink opens up about suffering panic attacks in her 20s
Chiaki Nozu/WireImage (NEW YORK) — Pink is marking Mental Health Awareness Month and sharing her story about suffering from “pretty awful panic attacks” when she was in her early 20s. “I didn’t know what was [Read More…]
Ag News
What’s “in” the produce section
Spring is in full swing and summer is around the corner, which means there is a lot of in-season produce to reach for at the farmers market and grocery store. Healthy Living: The US Department [Read More…]