Month: September 2022
ABC Politics News
White House asks Congress for $47 billion for COVID, Ukraine, monkeypox, natural disasters
ER Productions Limited/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House is seeking $47 billion from Congress to secure COVID and monkeypox vaccines, to bolster Ukraine’s defenses and to respond to natural disasters at home. “All of [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Judge unseals more detailed inventory of what FBI seized at Mar-a-Lago
Brandon Bell/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge on Friday unsealed a more detailed inventory of what the FBI seized in the search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last month. The judge, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden seeks to reframe midterms into stark choice between democracy and Trump-led extremism
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden used to steadfastly avoid uttering the name, “Donald Trump.” But now, bolstered by stronger poll numbers and relatively positive economic news, Biden as [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
DOJ revelations could place Trump lawyers in legal peril of their own, experts say
Thinkstock/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — New allegations from the Justice Department on Tuesday could implicate Donald Trump’s own lawyers in a potential effort to obstruct the ongoing probe into the former president’s retention of classified documents, [Read More…]
ABC National News
4-year-old girl missing in Indiana believed to be in ‘extreme danger’
Plainfield Police Department (PLAINFIELD, Ind.) — Police in Indiana are looking for a missing 4-year-old girl who reportedly wandered from her home nearly 24 hours ago and is believed to be in extreme danger. Fiedwenya [Read More…]
ABC National News
Reports of sexual assault in US military up 13%
Bo Zaunders/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon’s latest survey on reported sexual assaults in the military show that in 2021 an estimated 8.4% of active duty women and 1.5% of active duty men indicated experiencing [Read More…]
ABC National News
Artemis I launch updates: NASA says launch date still expected to be Saturday
NASA/Joel Kowsky (NEW YORK) — NASA kicked off Monday its plan to send an unmanned space capsule into the moon’s orbit, marking the initial launch in an ambitious plan to establish a long term presence [Read More…]
ABC National News
Mother and her 1-year-old child abducted from Target parking lot while packing car
Memphis Police Department / Facebook (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — Police are searching for two men after they allegedly abducted a mother and her 1-year-old child from the parking lot of a Target while the woman was [Read More…]
ABC National News
Falling tree kills man while in his tent on remote wilderness campsite
Naphat Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A man has been killed after a tree reportedly fell on him while he was in his tent on a remote wilderness campsite. The incident occurred on the evening [Read More…]
ABC World News
Fugitive ex-Marine charged in girlfriend’s murder ordered held without bail
U.S. Marshals (SAN DIEGO, Calif.) — A former Marine arrested in El Salvador earlier this week for the 2016 murder of his girlfriend was ordered held without bail during an arraignment hearing in California on [Read More…]
ABC World News
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Ukrainian children go back to school amid war
Vyacheslav Madiyevskyi/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing 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, [Read More…]
ABC World News
IAEA mission arrives at Zaporzhzhia nuclear power plant amid ‘increased military activity’
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A high-stakes mission from the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog reached a Russian-controlled power plant in Ukraine on Thursday afternoon amid reports of heavy fighting there. The International Atomic Energy Agency [Read More…]
ABC World News
Memphis man accused of murder in Fiji pleads not guilty to killing newlywed wife
Christe Chen Dawson (NEW YORK) — A Memphis, Tennessee man that prosecutors in Fiji say fatally beat his wife in early July at an exclusive resort pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the High Court of [Read More…]
Ag News
July dairy product production higher
The USDA says overall cheese production for July was up about five million pounds from June, and about twelve million pounds from a year ago. Total cheese production for July was 1.157 billion pounds, or [Read More…]
Ag News
Soybeans, corn, wheat up ahead of Labor Day weekend
Soybeans were higher on short covering and technical buying but closed with significant weekly losses. Contracts were oversold after the big drop on Thursday and export demand has been solid. However, longer-term sales a big [Read More…]