Year: 2022
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 1/13/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Milwaukee 118, Golden State 99 New Orleans 113 L.A. Clippers 89 Final Memphis 116 Minnesota 108 Final Oklahoma City 130 [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden administration to launch website for free at-home COVID tests on Wednesday
Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration will launch a new website on Wednesday that Americans can use to request free at-home rapid COVID tests mailed to their doorsteps, senior White [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
GOP candidates focus on school board controversies to bolster campaigns
Carlos Bernate/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With the midterm elections officially taking center stage in national politics, GOP candidates up and down the ballot are taking advantage of nationwide divides over education issues — [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Nurses hold vigil at White House, demanding safer COVID working conditions
joe daniel price/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Health care workers held a vigil across from the White House Thursday night, lighting 481 candles, saying each represented the life of a nurse lost to COVID. Activists recited [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
President Biden to announce new investment in nation’s bridges
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will announce a nearly $27 billion investment Friday to fund repairs and replace bridges in need. The Department of Transportation will launch the Bridge Replacement, Rehabilitation, Preservation, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Why Spanish-language voting ballots are critical for democracy, advocates say
EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the midterm elections approach later this year, some states and jurisdictions have required voting ballots to be made available in other languages besides English. The [Read More…]
ABC National News
Virginia, North Carolina issue states of emergency as snow takes aim on East Coast
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Southern states have declared states of emergency as snow targets the East Coast this weekend. The storm first hits the Midwest Friday night into Saturday. Roads will be dangerous in [Read More…]
ABC National News
Students walk out over COVID-19 in-person learning conditions in schools
Cheney Orr/Bloomberg via Getty Images (CHICAGO) — Students are walking out of their classes in Boston, Chicago and other cities across the country in protest of in-person learning conditions as COVID-19 rages on. Public school [Read More…]
ABC National News
Wordle takes the internet by storm
Michael Dobuski/ABC News (NEW YORK) – The first big viral trend of 2022 is here, and it’s a colorful word game called Wordle. Players who visit Wordle’s website have six chances to guess a five-letter [Read More…]
ABC National News
Maryland prosecutor Marilyn Mosby indicted for allegedly lying on loan application spent on vacation home
Larry French/Getty Images for BET Networks (BALTIMORE) — A federal grand jury in Maryland has indicted Marilyn Mosby, the state’s attorney for Baltimore City, on two counts of perjury and making false statements on mortgage [Read More…]
ABC National News
1 woman dead, 2 children injured in car crash with deputy chasing robbery suspect
KTRK-TV (HOUSTON) — A woman was killed and two children injured when a deputy collided with their vehicle while chasing a robbery suspect. Now, multiple authorities are investigating. The incident occurred Wednesday night in Houston, [Read More…]
ABC World News
US accuses Russia of ‘fabricating a pretext’ to invade Ukraine
Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After a week of high-stakes diplomacy, the U.S. on Friday accused Russia of “fabricating a pretext” to invade its neighbor Ukraine. It’s another sign that the “drumbeats of war” are [Read More…]
ABC World News
Ukraine says ‘massive cyberattack’ hits government websites
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (LONDON) — Ukraine said Friday a “massive cyber attack” has knocked offline the websites of most of its government ministries. The websites of the government’s cabinet office, the foreign ministry, emergency services minister, [Read More…]
ABC World News
North Korea test-fires missile for third time in 2022 alone
Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea Friday afternoon, three days after the regime claimed a successful launch of a newly developed hypersonic missile. [Read More…]
ABC World News
Teachers in France strike over COVID-19 health and safety protocols
Denis Thaust/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A nationwide strike took place in schools across France on Thursday as teachers and other school staff demonstrated against the government’s management of COVID-19 protocols in [Read More…]
ABC World News
Egypt to mark centenary of Tutankhamun tomb discovery by inaugurating new, lavish museum
KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images (GIZA, Egypt) — Sharm El-Sheikh — Egypt said the best way to mark the centenary of Tutankhamun tomb’s discovery would be inaugurating a new state-of-the-art museum later this year to [Read More…]
Ag News
Highly pathogenic H5 avian flu discovered in South Carolina waterfowl
The USDA has confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza in a migratory bird in southeast South Carolina. The discovery of the wild American wigeon during routine monitoring marks the first time the Eurasian H5 strain has [Read More…]
Ag News
Nostalgia and flavor in ‘22
Nostalgia and flavor are among the anticipated food trends for 2022. The International Food Information Council recently released its anticipated food and beverage trends for this year. It is expecting nostalgia, specifically the 1990s, to [Read More…]
Ag News
AFBF President Zippy Duvall concerned about interest rate hike
American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall is concerned about the Federal Reserve raising interest rates this year. “That’s the only really big difference between the bad times of the 80’s and what we’ve just experienced [Read More…]
Ag News
Former USDA World Ag Outlook Board head Bange dies
Former chairman of the USDA’s World Ag Outlook Board Gerald “Jerry” Bange died Thursday, January 13th. Bange, who worked for several USDA agencies from 1971 to 2014, spent 1994 to 2014 as the head of [Read More…]