Year: 2022
House set to vote on effort to avert rail strike
EThamPhoto/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House on Wednesday is set to vote on legislation aimed at averting a strike by the nation’s railway workers, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced, reluctantly intervening in a labor dispute [Read More…]
Vin Diesel remembers Paul Walker on the ninth anniversary of his death
Dave M. Benett/WireImage Vin Diesel is remembering his friend and costar Paul Walker on the nine-year anniversary of his death. Diesel, who starred alongside Walker in several Fast & Furious films, posted a photo on [Read More…]
Netflix drops ‘Emily in Paris’ season 3 trailer
Courtesy of Netflix Très magnifique! Netflix dropped the trailer for Emily in Paris season 3 Wednesday morning, and it looks like our favorite American-gone-abroad will once again have to make some tough relationship and career [Read More…]
No place like home for the holidays
Commentary. The holiday season brings a wave of memories of time spent with parents, siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles, grandparents and great-grandparents celebrating together in a farmhouse in west central Illinois. When I close my [Read More…]
Minnesota Farm Bureau looks to engage with new legislators
Farm groups in many states are preparing to engage with new legislators. Minnesota Farm Bureau vice president Carolyn Olson says there will be nearly 70 new faces when the state legislature convenes next month. “This [Read More…]
Why Mexico’s GMO corn ban matters
If Mexico’s GMO corn ban goes into effect in 2024, University of Missouri’s Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute’s Pat Westhoff says it would negatively affect U.S. corn demand. Mexico is the top market for [Read More…]
China’s ‘zero COVID’ policy: A look back as protests erupt across the country
yorkfoto/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Over the past several days, protests have erupted in cities across China, as citizens push back against the country’s so-called “zero COVID” policy. Since the virus began spreading across the [Read More…]
What goes into protecting Prince William and Princess Kate as they visit the US?
Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Months before Prince William and Catherine, princess of Wales, were set to visit Boston — their first trip to the U.S. since 2014 — one little-known American government agency [Read More…]
Idaho murders: Students to gather on campus at vigil for slain classmates
nazarethman/Getty Images (MOSCOW, Idaho) — University of Idaho students, back on campus following Thanksgiving break, will gather Wednesday night for a vigil for their four classmates who were mysteriously stabbed to death this month. Kaylee [Read More…]
Housekeeper hospitalized after contact with suspicious powdery substance at luxury five-star hotel
ABC News / WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — A housekeeper at a five-star luxury hotel has been hospitalized after encountering a powdery substance in a hotel room that was allegedly left by a man who trespassed [Read More…]
“American Beauty” actress Mena Suvari opens up about postpartum depression
LISA O’CONNOR/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Actress Mena Suvari is opening up about her struggles with mental health in the hopes that her honesty will make other mothers feel less alone. “I struggle [Read More…]
Kim Kardashian and Ye settle divorce; Kim to receive $200K per month in child support
David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Kim Kardashian and Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, have settled their divorce. According to the settlement, the former couple has agreed on the details of custody [Read More…]
In brief: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ returning to theaters, ‘Tell Me Lies’ gets a season 2, and more
ABC Audio has confirmed that the year’s biggest movie, Top Gun: Maverick, will return to theaters for a special engagement, starting December 2, and running through December 15. The movie, which has already grossed nearly $1.5 [Read More…]
A colder pattern on the move; active, too, for the Heartland, eastward
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of below-normal temperatures from the Pacific Coast to the northern and central Plains and the upper Midwest, while warmer-than-normal weather will prevail across much [Read More…]
Ohio State is 5 in second-to-last CFP rankings behind USC
Ohio State was No. 5 on Tuesday night in the second-to-last College Football Playoff rankings, positioned to possibly take advantage if one of the top four slips up on championship weekend. Georgia (12-0) was No. [Read More…]
Tiger Woods doesn’t ‘have much left in this leg’ to compete
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Tiger Woods painted an uncertain picture about how much golf he can play, saying Tuesday that “I don’t have much left in this leg.” He also doesn’t have much hope the [Read More…]
Names Released In Hutchinson County Fatal Crash
SCOTLAND, S.D. – Names have been released of the two people who died last Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2002, in a two-vehicle crash north of Scotland. Preliminary crash information indicates that a 2010 Kenworth T800 semi-truck [Read More…]
Black rhino populations are starting to thrive in Zimbabwe for the first time in decades, experts say
International Rhino Foundation (NEW YORK) — Rhinoceros populations are beginning to rebound in the species’ native home of Zimbabwe, a sign that efforts to preserve the species are working, according to animal conservationists. The rhino [Read More…]
New York nursing home sued for fraud, neglect by state attorney general
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The owners of a nursing home in Western New York allegedly “wove a complicated web of fraud” that resulted in patient neglect and caused the conditions that led to [Read More…]
Jury convicts Oath Keepers leader, one other of seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 trial
Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The leader of the far-right Oath Keepers group on Tuesday was found guilty of conspiring against the federal government as part of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol [Read More…]
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