Month: August 2022
ABC Sports News
Buffalo Bills release punter Matt Araiza after rape allegations
Buffalo Bills (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — The Buffalo Bills released rookie punter Matt Araiza Saturday after he was named in a lawsuit that accused him and two others of gang rape. “We have released Punter Matt [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Sanders pushes back on ‘Republicans squawking’ over Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday pushed back on Republicans who called President Joe Biden’s federal student loan forgiveness plan unfair — with Sanders arguing the GOP turned a blind eye to [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump should have returned documents, but Congress has questions for investigators: Sen. Blunt
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., conceded on Sunday that former President Donald Trump should have returned the sensitive and classified documents that the government says he took home with him after leaving [Read More…]
ABC World News
US can learn from Latin America’s abortion laws post Roe v. Wade, experts say
ABC News (RIO DE JANEIRO) — Fabiana*, 24, was pregnant with her second child in Rio de Janeiro, and, like thousands of other Brazilian women, knew she could not rely on the health care system. [Read More…]
ABC Business News
States banning the sale of new gas-powered vehicles
Grace Cary/Getty Images/STOCK (NEW YORK) — California became the first state in the nation this week to issue a phase-out of gas-powered vehicles — and other states are planning to follow in its footsteps. After the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
US diplomat struck and killed by flatbed truck while riding bike
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (BETHESDA, Md.) — A State Department employee was killed this week while riding her bike in Maryland. The Montgomery County Police Department confirmed Sarah Joan Langenkamp, 42, was struck by a flatbed truck [Read More…]
ABC National News
Uvalde victims, families call for special session at March For Our Lives rally
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — March For Our Lives held a rally in front of the state capitol in Austin Saturday with parents who lost their children in the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, families [Read More…]
ABC National News
Man lucky to be alive after falling 100 feet off cliff when it crumbled beneath him
Courtesy Twitter/@CALFIRECZU (SAN MATEO COUNTY, Calif.) — A man is lucky to be alive after he fell about 100 feet off of a cliff edge when it reportedly crumbled beneath him as he walked on it. [Read More…]
ABC National News
Artemis 1 moon mission set for launch: What you need to know
Photo by Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images (CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — NASA on Monday will send an unmanned space capsule into the moon’s orbit, marking the initial launch in an ambitious plan to establish a long [Read More…]
ABC National News
Distrust could delay identifying remains from Tulsa mass grave
KeithBinns/Getty Images/STOCK (TULSA, Okla.) — Descendants of the 1921 Tula Race Massacre are being urged to avoid submitting DNA samples to the city’s investigation project amid privacy concerns which would delay efforts to identify remains found [Read More…]
ABC National News
Suspect on the run after shooting leaves at least 1 injured at county fair
kali9/Getty Images/STOCK (FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.) — At least one person has been shot in what police say was a targeted shooting at the Washington County Fair in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The incident occurred at approximately 10:30 p.m. when [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Abbott restarting production of its largest, most popular formula after months on hiatus
Tim Boyle/Getty Images (STURGIS, Mich.) — Abbott is announcing Friday their Sturgis, Michigan plant is restarting production of their largest and most popular infant formula, Similac. Previously, the troubled plant had only restarted a fragment of [Read More…]
Ag News
Indiana Farm Bureau delegates set 2023 policy
Indiana Farm Bureau member delegates approved policy that will guide the organization in 2023. Indiana Farm Bureau Vice President Kendell Culp says member delegates set policy positions for issues impacting agriculture and rural communities around [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Keanu Reeves gives newlyweds quite the wedding present by checking out their reception
Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images Keanu Reeves made a U.K. couple’s wedding day even more special when he showed up at their reception. The famously unaffected superstar was in the bar of a venue called Fawsley [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Netflix’s workplace comedy ‘Blockbuster’ debuting November 3
Netflix/Ricardo Hubbs Netflix has announced that a titular workplace comedy set in the country’s sole surviving Blockbuster store will debut on November 3. WandaVision co-star Randall Park stars in the sitcom, along with Brooklyn Nine-Nine‘s [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Flash’ forward? Embattled Ezra Miller reportedly took a meeting with Warner Bros. to discuss the movie’s future
ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images After the actor’s repeated run-ins with the law, including arrests for harassment, accusations of assault, a burglary charge and more, it’s understandable Warner Bros. Discovery is nervous about its $250 [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Seinfeld’ star John O’Hurley on his new tech venture and how he helped buy the J. Peterman Company IRL
Susan Watts/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images With online fraud a multibillion-dollar threat to our connected world, a new company says it has what it takes to keep crooks from stealing your identity. The [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
“I quit”: Shia LaBeouf claims Olivia Wilde is lying about his getting “fired” from ‘Don’t Worry Darling’
ABC — Gabe Ginsberg/WireImage In a recent Variety feature, actress-turned-director Olivia Wilde expounded on how she got Harry Styles the lead role in her new movie Don’t Worry Darling: She had to fire Shia LaBeouf. [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Twitter is bringing podcasts to its platform in new design
Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/picture alliance via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Twitter is expanding its platform to include podcasts, the tech company said in a statement on Thursday. Starting Thursday, Twitter will begin incorporating podcasts into its [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Moderna to sue BioNTech/Pfizer over COVID vaccine
Евгения Матвеец/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Moderna is suing Pfizer and BioNTech for infringing patents central to Moderna’s mRNA technology platform used to develop the COVID vaccine, the company said in a press release Friday. [Read More…]