Month: August 2022
Ag News
Ethanol stocks shoot higher, production firms
U.S. ethanol stocks surged last week as production grew slightly. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says stocks hit a fifteen-week high at 23.807 million barrels, a jump of 361,000 on the week and 2.584 million [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Andrew Garfield recalls “starving myself of sex and food” for movie role
Good Morning America (NOTE LANGUAGE) Some actors, including Stranger Things‘ David Harbour, have been critical of Method acting, but for multiple Oscar-nominee Andrew Garfield, it’s worked out just fine. On the latest episode of WTF [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘House of the Dragon’ star Steve Toussaint responds after backlash from critics on his casting
HBO In a new interview in Men’s Health, Steve Toussaint is addressing critics who have commented about his casting in the new House of the Dragon series. Toussaint plays Lord Corlys Velaryon, the head of [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Jason Momoa teases he’ll be “a bit of a peacock” in ‘Fast X’
ABC Aquaman star Jason Momoa will switch from hero to bad guy for his role in the 10th Fast and Furious movie, and on Tuesday, he gave fans a glimpse of what to expect. “Time [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In Brief: Another ‘Bat’ project grounded; ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’ contestants revealed, and more
Entertainment Weekly has revealed which stars will put their noggins to the test on the upcoming episodes of Celebrity Jeopardy!, which premieres Sept. 25 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC. Host Mayim Bialik will provide [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Ryan Reynolds, Rob McElhenney buy professional football club in new docuseries ‘Welcome to Wrexham’
Patrick McElhenney/FX How did two Hollywood actors find themselves as owners of the third oldest professional football club in the world? That’s what FX’s new docuseries Welcome to Wrexham strives to answer. It details the story [Read More…]
ABC Health News
After COVID and monkeypox, experts say outbreaks anywhere threaten citizens everywhere
Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With the emergence of COVID-19 and the recent surge in monkeypox cases, scientists and doctors who specialize in infectious disease are issuing increasingly dire warnings, saying wealthy countries can [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Dad of three gets help from Jason Momoa in race to find bone marrow donor
Courtesy Travis Snyder (NEW YORK) — Travis Snyder is in a fight for his life as he races to find a bone marrow donor in his seven-year battle with acute myeloid leukemia, a type of [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 8/23/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE San Francisco 3, Detroit 1 NY Yankees 4, NY Mets 2 Colorado 7, Texas 6 Arizona 7, Kansas City [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
President Biden announces student loan forgiveness
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — Ahead of another deadline on the restart of payments for America’s $1.7 trillion in federal student loans, President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced a plan to [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Across US, false accusations of election fraud prompt some election workers to quit ahead of Election Day
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After officials in Nye County, Nevada, accepted a pitch from a Republican nominee for secretary of state to stop using voting machines for the general election and move to [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Dr. Oz’s campaign jabs at John Fetterman for stroke, suggesting he brought it on himself
Nate Smallwood/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pennsylvania Senate race took a heated — and personal — turn on Tuesday as an aide to Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee and former cardiothoracic surgeon who for [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Democrat Pat Ryan wins potential bellwether House race in New York
adamkaz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Democrats are projected to win a special House election in New York on Tuesday in a race seen as a potential bellwether for this year’s midterms, ABC News reports. The [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Maxwell Frost on track to become the first member of Generation Z elected to Congress
Maxwell Alejandro Frost for Congress (NEW YORK) — Come January, 25-year-old Maxwell Frost will likely be the first member of Generation Z elected to Congress. Frost is projected to win Florida’s 10th Congressional District Democratic [Read More…]
ABC National News
Soaked South braces for more rain; Utah enacts state of emergency due to deadly flooding
Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More rain is pounding the soaked South. Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama are expecting 3 to 5 inches of rain over the next 48 hours, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Uvalde school board to consider Police Chief Pete Arredondo’s firing
Nick Wagner/Xinhua via Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — Uvalde school board officials will consider Wednesday whether to fire Pete Arredondo, the school district’s police chief, exactly three months after the school shooting that killed 19 [Read More…]
ABC National News
US Postal Service carrier mauled to death by dogs in Florida, officials say
Putnam County Sheriff’s Office (NEW YORK) — A U.S. Postal Service worker was mauled to death by a pack of dogs in northern Florida earlier this week, authorities said. The mail carrier — identified as [Read More…]
ABC National News
30th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew: Surprise factor still possible in modern storms
Tony Arruza/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — It has been 30 years since Hurricane Andrew — a fast-moving Category 5 storm that devastated communities in southeast Florida — barreled through the region, destroying entire neighborhoods and [Read More…]
ABC National News
Civic organization plans to sue Con Ed over wastewater dumped into Hudson River
Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A civic organization plans to sue New York City’s largest utility company over the alleged illegal dumping of heated, toxic wastewater into a Hudson River estuary [Read More…]
ABC World News
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Biden announces new aid package on Ukraine’s Independence Day
Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, to [Read More…]