Month: August 2022
ABC Politics News
Biden travels to survey Kentucky flood damage in first presidential trip after COVID isolation
JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Joe Biden on Monday traveled to Kentucky to survey damage from severe flooding in the state — a visit that also marks his first presidential trip since he [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Sour views on economy keep Biden approval on issues down: POLL
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (NEW YORK) — With the midterm elections three months away, Americans maintain a sour view on the state of the economy and are pessimistic about its future course, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Republicans strip $35 insulin price cap from Democrats’ bill — but insist Senate rules are to blame
Mint Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Nearly uniform Republican opposition in the Senate on Sunday stripped a proposed cap on insulin prices in private insurance from Democrats’ party-line climate, health and tax bill. Democrats had sought [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
US may do ‘2-for-2’ prisoner swap to get Griner, Whelan out of Russia: Ex-ambassador
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Basketball star Brittney Griner and former Marine Paul Whelan should hopefully be released from Russia as part of a “two-for-two” prisoner swap, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson said [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Senate Democrats pass climate, tax and health care bill after marathon voting session
John Baggaley/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Sunday passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) along party lines, 51-50, handing Democrats a crucial legislative win as the midterm cycle ramps up — despite GOP objections [Read More…]
ABC National News
Ahmaud Arbery case: Sentencing underway for federal hate crime charges
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (BRUNSWICK, Ga.) — Sentencing is underway for the three men convicted of federal hate crimes in the death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery. Travis McMichael, who fired the fatal shot on Feb. 23, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Gabby Petito’s family announces wrongful death lawsuit against Utah police department
FBI (NEW YORK) — The family of Gabby Petito announced Monday that they plan to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the police department in Moab, Utah, where Petito and her boyfriend Brian Laundrie were [Read More…]
ABC World News
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Pentagon announces new $1 billion military aid package
ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP 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 the [Read More…]
ABC World News
US moves to seize Russian oligarch’s $90 million private jet
Photo courtesy of the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (NEW YORK) — Federal prosecutors have moved to seize the $90 million Airbus A319 used as a private jet by a [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In Brief: Original ‘Magnum’ star dies, and more
Roger E. Mosley, the actor best known for his role as the helicopter pilot Theodore “T.C.” Calvin in the original Magnum P.I. TV series alongside Tom Selleck, died early Sunday morning, his daughter shared on [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Bullet Train’ speeds to #1 at the box office with $30.1 million weekend
2022 CTMG/Scott Garfield The Brad Pitt action-comedy Bullet Train topped the weekend box office, opening on the low end of expectations with an estimated $30.1 million. The film opened to an estimated $32.4 million overseas, [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson reportedly call it quits
MEGA/GC Images Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson have split up after nine months of dating, sources tell E! Online. The Kardashians star, 41 and the 28-year-old Saturday Night Live alum still have “a lot of [Read More…]
Ag News
USDA could lower corn, soybean yield estimates Friday
Hot, dry weather in some key U.S. growing areas will likely have at least some impact on yields. The USDA’s August production update has the first farmer survey-based yield estimates of the growing season and [Read More…]
Weather
Dense Fog Advisory issued August 08 at 6:55AM MDT until August 08 at 10:00AM MDT by NWS
…DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM CDT THIS MORNING… * WHAT…Visibility to one half mile or less in dense fog. * WHERE…Portions of central, east central, south central and southeast South Dakota. This [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson call it quits
MEGA/GC Images Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson have split up after nine months of dating, sources tell E! News. The Kardashians star, 41 and the 28-year-old Saturday Night Live alum still have “a lot of [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 8/7/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Pittsburgh 8, Baltimore 1 St. Louis 12, NY Yankees 9 San Francisco 6, Oakland 4 AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 1, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Fourth set of human remains found in Lake Mead
Geri Lavrov/Getty Images (BOULDER CITY, Nev.) — Human remains were again found in Lake Mead, the country’s largest reservoir that continues to shrink amid a decades-long drought, officials announced Sunday. According to the National Park [Read More…]
ABC National News
Three men in Ahmaud Arbery case to be sentenced on hate crime charges
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (BRUNSWICK, Ga.) — The three men convicted of hate crimes in the death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery will be sentenced Monday. Gregory McMichael; his son, Travis McMichael; and their neighbor, William “Roddie” [Read More…]
ABC National News
First on ABC: Nonprofits set to receive $1.5M in gun violence prevention
Hill Street Studios/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Hundreds of thousands of dollars in new funding are set to be given out this week to community organizations as part of a major anti-gun violence organization’s latest [Read More…]
ABC World News
Secretary Blinken to arrive in Congo, Rwanda amid international tensions
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (NAIROBI, Kenya) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is scheduled to meet with officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda this week, arriving in [Read More…]