Month: December 2022
ABC Health News
Practicing hygge can help you beat the ‘winter blues’: Here’s how
Ekaterina Goncharova/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Danish concept of “hygge,” or “coziness,” can help fend off the seasonal blues. Spending time with loved ones and creating a cozy ambience with scents, lighting and sounds [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Emoji lovers create new designs: ‘Language is just as artistic as music’
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Emoji, the silly little pictorials that fill digital communication, are a fun way to deliver a message for many people. But for those who want to be enshrined in the [Read More…]
ABC World News
US considering new COVID restrictions on travelers from China
Michael Macdonald / EyeEm /Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. government is concerned about COVID surges in China and a lack of transparency from the Chinese government, resulting in the U.S. considering imposing new restrictions [Read More…]
ABC World News
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Ukraine strikes bomber base in Russia, three dead
SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than nine months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a struggle for control of areas [Read More…]
ABC National News
Father-and-son kayakers rescue pilot who crash-landed in icy creek
John Gelinne Jr. (BALTIMORE) — When John Gelinne Sr. and his son saw a small plane crash-land into an ice-covered creek near their Maryland home on Monday morning, they immediately jumped into action. The two [Read More…]
ABC National News
Search and rescue team save dog near frozen waterfall in Utah
Weber County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue (NEW YORK) — A dog that was stranded near a frozen waterfall in Utah on Christmas Eve was saved by search and rescue officials and reunited with her [Read More…]
ABC National News
Southwest CEO apologizes to passengers, staff after flight cancellation chaos
MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In a nearly three-minute video statement Tuesday, Southwest CEO Bob Jordan said he is “truly sorry” for the airline’s failures over the holiday weekend, praising the airline’s [Read More…]
ABC National News
‘Blizzard of the century’: Death toll rises, military to enforce driving ban in Buffalo
JamesBrey/Getty Images/STOCK (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — At least 55 people have died nationwide from the wintry weather wreaking havoc across the U.S. over Christmas weekend. The most deaths are in western New York, where 32 people [Read More…]
ABC National News
Jackson, Mississippi, mayor declares state of emergency amid boil-water advisory
ilbusca/Getty Images (JACKSON, Miss.) — Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba declared a local state of emergency Tuesday after cold weather damaged the Mississippi capital’s water system last week. Jackson — long plagued with water problems [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Supreme Court keeps Title 42 in place while agreeing to hear states’ appeal
joe daniel price/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a group of mostly Republican-led states and ordered the pandemic-era public health protocol known as Title 42 — which started in [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Lawmakers bash Southwest over flight cancellations
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Lawmakers are hammering Southwest Airlines over its spate of flight cancellations in recent days after a cold front blew in freezing temperatures and snow across broad swaths [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
NY Rep.-elect George Santos now says he lied about college and his career
David Becker for the Washington Post (NEW YORK) — New York Rep.-elect George Santos did, as promised, share some of his story on Monday in an interview with The New York Post, admitting that he [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump’s tax returns expected to be released on Friday, sources say
Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Ways and Means Committee is expected on Friday to release six years of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, from 2015-2020, sources familiar [Read More…]
Ag News
Expert expects additional fertilizer purchases this week
A market expert says to watch for a possible rush of last-minute fertilizer purchases. Josh Linville with StoneX says this last week of the year is very busy for retailers and for farmers, and there’s [Read More…]
Ag News
Legislation to keep wind and solar projects off productive farmland to be re-introduced
Legislation designed to help keep growing food on productive farmland died in Congress. Wisconsin Congressman Tom Tiffany tells Brownfield his Future Agriculture Retention and Management, or FARM Act will have to be re-introduced in the [Read More…]
Ag News
Interest in pasture insurance continues to grow
Due to the drought, USDA’s Risk Management Agency Administrator Marcia Bunger says producer interest in the Pasture, Rangeland, Forage Rainfall Index Crop Insurance Program continues to grow. She tells Brownfield the premium is subsidized. “That [Read More…]
Ag News
Genetics play part in surprisingly good crop yields
Yields were surprisingly good in many parts of the Corn Belt this year. Golden Harvest corn portfolio manager Andy Ackley says 2022 was full of challenges, from wet conditions at planting to widespread drought during [Read More…]
Ag News
A warm-up underway on the central, southern Plains
Across the Corn Belt, chilly conditions linger in the wake of the recent winter storm and cold spell. Tuesday’s high temperatures will remain below 32°F in the vicinity of the Great Lakes, although snow showers [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Billie Lourd remembers her mother Carrie Fisher six years after her death
Kevin Mazur/WireImage Billie Lourd is remembering her mother, Carrie Fisher, six years after her death. While the previous years have been hard for the actress following her mother’s passing, Lourd said it’s recently been “joyful” [Read More…]
Ag News
Soybeans, corn see post-Christmas gains
Soybeans were modestly higher on speculative and technical buying, ending the session near the day’s lows, unable to hold above $15. Most forecasts have a return to hot, dry weather in much of Argentina and [Read More…]