Year: 2022
ABC Health News
Nursing homes struggle with low booster rates, staffing issues as omicron spreads
Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the omicron variant causes a surge in coronavirus cases, many long-term care facilities are facing challenges not seen in months, officials from around [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Novak Djokovic’s Australian travel entry form questioned by officials
KELLY DEFINA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Tennis star Novak Djokovic may have won Monday’s court battle to appeal his visa cancellation, but his tussle with the Australian government doesn’t appear to be over [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
WATCH: Georgia Bulldogs beat Alabama Crimson Tide in CFB playoffs, 33-18
Jeffrey Brown/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images (INDIANAPOLIS) — The University of Georgia claimed its first college football national championship in 41 years. The Bulldogs defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide 33-18 Monday night. Amy Robach of [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 1/10/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Detroit 126, Utah 116 Charlotte 103, Milwaukee 99 New York 111, San Antonio 96 Philadelphia 111, Houston 91 Boston 101, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden says he supports changing filibuster rule to pass voting rights bills
SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — With less than 10 months until the 2022 midterm elections, President Joe Biden on Tuesday backed a historic change to Senate rules to allow a pair of national [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Trump speechwriter, GOP operatives
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/FILE (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack issued three new subpoenas on Tuesday to former Trump White House aides and associates, including a speechwriter who helped craft [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
The toughest COVID-19 questions that Fauci and other health leaders faced at Senate hearing
Greg Nash/Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senators from both sides of the aisle grilled top health officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, on the latest COVID-19 guidance during a Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee hearing Tuesday. [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
A year after Jan. 6 Capitol attack, the battle continues against extremism in the military
Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When U.S. Army veteran Brian Snow drove 12 hours from his home in Indiana to Washington for then-President Donald Trump’s rally on the Ellipse Jan. 6 — amid chants of [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump, his sister and estate of his late brother ask judge to dismiss lawsuit by Mary Trump
ABC (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump, his sister Maryanne Trump Barry and the estate of his late brother Robert Trump tried on Tuesday to convince a New York judge to dismiss a lawsuit [Read More…]
ABC National News
COVID-19 live updates: Omicron to infect over 50% of Europe’s population, WHO warns
JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.4 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 839,000 Americans, according to real-time data [Read More…]
ABC National News
‘Absolute miracle’: No serious injuries after medical helicopter crashes on way to pediatric hospital
Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Image (UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP, Penn.) — A medical helicopter that crashed while transporting an infant to a Pennsylvania hospital Tuesday afternoon made a “miraculous landing,” with no serious injuries reported, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Chicago public school students returning to classrooms amid COVID surge
Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images (CHICAGO) — More than 350,000 public school students in Chicago are expected to resume in-person learning on Wednesday after a tentative agreement was reached between the school district and the [Read More…]
ABC National News
Cause of deadly Philadelphia fire likely Christmas tree lit with lighter: Fire chief
(PHILADELPHIA) — A fast-moving fire in a Philadelphia row house that killed 12 people last week, including nine children, likely started after a Christmas tree was lit ablaze with a lighter, fire officials said Tuesday. [Read More…]
ABC National News
Schools turn to parents for help as omicron surge causes staff shortages
Jena Ardell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — School staffing shortages caused by the recent COVID-19 omicron surge have gotten so bad in at least two school districts that officials are turning to parents to keep classes going. [Read More…]
ABC World News
Magawa, a rat recognized as a hero for detecting landmines, dead at 8
@herorats/Instagram (LONDON) — Magawa, a rat credited with finding over 100 landmines and explosives in Cambodia, is dead at age 8. The African giant pouched male rat was the most successful landmine detecting rat for [Read More…]
ABC World News
Kazakhstan’s president says Russian troops to start leaving this week
GETTY/Holger Leue (KAZAKHSTAN) — Russian-led troops sent to help quell protests will begin leaving Kazakhstan in two days now that the government is back in control, the country’s president has said. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in an [Read More…]
ABC World News
How climate change could hinder reforestation efforts, according to experts
Dan Kitwood/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Scientists are researching how to promote global diversity amid warming temperatures, but some of the methods that could prove effective may be further hindered by climate change, according to [Read More…]
ABC World News
Kazakhstan’s president says order restored after crackdown on protests
-/AFP via Getty Images (ALMATY, Kazakhstan) — Kazakhstan’s president said Monday “constitutional order” has been restored in the country and that his government is in control following assistance from Russian-led troops to quell the mass [Read More…]
ABC World News
US, Russia talks end with ‘no progress’: Here’s what you need to know
DENIS BALIBOUSE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (GENEVA) — U.S. and Russian officials held over seven hours of talks Monday, but the two sides did not negotiate or appear any closer to a resolution over heightened fears [Read More…]
Ag News
Economist concerned about energy sector’s impact on farm costs
An ag economist says one of the areas of the economy that concerns him is the current trend in the energy complex. Virginia Tech Professor Emeritus Dr. David Kohl says he’s seeing more divestment in [Read More…]