Year: 2022
ABC Entertainment News
Regina Hall, Sterling Brown, Keke Palmer featured in Sundance Film Festival virtual events this weekend; Mack Wilds hosts ‘Profiled: The Black Man;’ and more
Amy Sussman/Getty Images Regina Hall, Sterling Brown and Keke Palmer are among the stars featured this weekend in virtual Sundance Film Festival events. They are participating in the fifth annual Macro Lounge focusing on diversity, inclusion and people of color. On [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Mission: Impossible’ movies move again because of COVID
Paramount Pictures Release dates for the next Mission: Impossible movies are proving to be as elusive as Tom Cruise‘s spy Ethan Hunt. Paramount Pictures has announced that the already COVID-delayed Mission: Impossible 7 has been bumped from its September 30, [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
94th Oscars will “likely” have multiple hosts, ‘Variety’ says
ABC and AMPAS While the search goes on for who will fill the role of host of the upcoming 94th Annual Academy Awards, Variety reports producers are looking for more than one set of shoes to fill. [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Jack Ryan’ movie, TV producer Mace Neufeld dead at 93
Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images Producer Mace Neufeld, who had a long a varied career in Hollywood, has died. The Hollywood Reporter notes the producer passed away in his sleep at his Beverly Hills home at 93. When Neufeld was [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Intel investing $20 billion to bring chip manufacturing to Ohio amid global shortage
iStock (NEW YORK) — Amid a global chip shortage that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Intel announced Friday that it will invest more than $20 billion in two new chip factories in Ohio. [Read More…]
ABC Health News
COVID hospitalizations and deaths surge in Los Angeles County
iStock/narvikk (NEW YORK) — As the recent COVID-19 wave begins to ebb on the East Coast and in the Midwest, Los Angeles County is still being battered by the virus. The county reported 102 new [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
US preparing to approve evacuation from embassy in Ukraine: Sources
Geraint Rowland Photography/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of State is preparing to approve the evacuation of some U.S. diplomats and diplomats’ families from the embassy in Ukraine, sources confirmed to ABC News. The final [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden’s 1st-year record on immigration: tough challenges, harsh criticism
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden has faced persistent challenges as his administration worked to reform U.S. immigration policy during his first year in office. Some efforts over the past 12 months have [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Anti-abortion rights proponents say they are prepping for ‘post-Roe America’
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The anti-abortion rights movement is at a critical moment, motivated in large part by conservative justices on the Supreme Court who seem poised to rule in favor of states’ stringent [Read More…]
ABC National News
‘Multiple’ dogs may have been sickened by rat-transmitted illness, NYC official says
WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — New York City dog owners are being warned after several pets may have been sickened by leptospirosis, a disease commonly associated with rats. A city council member said this week his [Read More…]
ABC National News
Hazardous weather conditions after winter storm hits southeastern US with snow, ice
GETTY/Andrew Bret Wallis (NEW YORK) — The southeastern United States is weathering snow and ice yet again a week after the region was slammed with hazardous winter conditions. Two to 4.5 inches of snow have been [Read More…]
ABC National News
NYPD officer killed, 2nd officer and suspect in critical condition after shooting
GETTY/Alan Schein Photography (NEW YORK) — A rookie New York City officer is dead and another officer was in critical condition after they were shot responding to a domestic violence call in Harlem Friday night, police [Read More…]
ABC National News
Worker shortages, flight delays contributing to slow delivery of rapid tests
bunhill/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Rebeca Andrade had been waiting days for a shipment of COVID-19 rapid tests to help keep her school open. The superintendent of a school in Salinas, California, Andrade said she [Read More…]
ABC National News
‘Critical missing’ 11-year-old boy found safe, police say
iStock/ijoe84 (DALLAS) — Dallas police said an 11-year-old boy who was missing for two nights and last seen wearing only shorts and socks during frigid temperatures has been found safe. Traveon Michael Allen Griffin left [Read More…]
Ag News
Trotter promoted to CEO of Dairy Business Association, Edge Dairy Farmers Cooperative
Tim Trotter moved from Executive Director to CEO of the two dairy organizations earlier this month. In this Brownfield interview, Trotter explains why the changes took place, and he discusses other issues important to the [Read More…]
Ag News
High land values pricing new farmers out of market
Farmland values are up 35% in the Grain Belt and an ag real estate expert says that’s pricing young and new farmers out of the market. Randy Dickhut with Farmers National Company says it’s historically [Read More…]
Ag News
A look back and ahead for biodiesel, renewable diesel, and sustainable aviation fuels
The trade organization representing biodiesel and now renewable diesel and sustainable aviation is celebrating 30 years. Clean Fuels Alliance America, formerly National Biodiesel Board, is celebrating milestones from the past three decades and looking ahead [Read More…]
Ag News
Farmer says farm bill, redistricting are top concerns
A central Illinois farmer says the midterm elections could impact the 2023 Farm Bill process. Rob Shaffer raises soybeans, corn, and Angus cattle. “Farm Bill hearings are starting already, but it’s hard to start talking [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Hollywood takes to social media to remember Louie Anderson
Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/WireImage Like millions of his fans, Louie Anderson‘s famous friends are remembering the Emmy-winning comic and Baskets actor on social media. Anderson passed away this morning at a Las Vegas hospital, from complications of cancer. [Read More…]
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Nick Jonas announces he and Priyanka Chopra have welcomed a child via surrogacy
Lia Toby/BFC/Getty Images for BFC Congratulations are in order for Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra, who made the surprise announcement Friday that they are the proud parents of their first child. The couple issued the joint statement on their [Read More…]