Year: 2022
ABC Business News
Twitter faces serious legal threat from ex-employees, experts say
Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Elon Musk, who admitted to overpaying for Twitter, cut workers at the social media platform almost immediately. In response, some of the axed employees want their [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Balenciaga pulls controversial ads featuring children and inappropriate teddy bears
Jeremy Moeller/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Luxury brand Balenciaga has issued an apology for its recent advertisements featuring children with sexualized teddy bears. “We sincerely apologize for any offense our holiday campaign may have caused. [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Matthew McConaughey reveals what he’s most thankful for ahead of the holidays
Rich Polk/Getty Images for Lincoln Matthew McConaughey has much to be thankful for, but there are two things in his life he holds most dear. “Family and health,” he told ABC Audio ahead of the Thanksgiving [Read More…]
ABC World News
Ukraine investigating whether its soldiers committed war crime amid international concern over video
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Following the emergence of video suggesting Ukrainian fighters may have committed a war crime by firing on nearly a dozen surrendering Russian soldiers at close range, the country’s prosecutor [Read More…]
ABC National News
Colorado LGBTQ club shooting: Suspect moved from hospital to jail
Scott Olson/Getty Images (COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) — The 22-year-old who is suspected of gunning down multiple people at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado’s second-largest city has been moved from the hospital to the local jail, [Read More…]
ABC National News
4 Chinese nationals killed on marijuana farm in Oklahoma: Police
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (HENNESSEY, Okla.) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation identified a suspect in a quadruple homicide at a marijuana farm outside a small town in Oklahoma, but won’t release the person’s name [Read More…]
ABC National News
Ohio man charged with threatening to carry out mass shooting at California middle school
Nathan Griffith/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — An Ohio man was charged with threatening to carry out a school shooting at a California middle school, the Justice Department announced this week. Alex Jaques, 21, was charged with [Read More…]
ABC National News
Victim of alleged hate crime ‘satisfied’ with upgraded attempted murder charges
Jason Marz/Getty Images (LINCOLN COUNTY, Miss.) — D’Monterrio Gibson, the 24-year-old Mississippi man who authorities say escaped a racially motivated attempted murder, said he’s “satisfied” that charges were upgraded against the two men suspected of [Read More…]
ABC National News
‘Significant’ fine sought for operator of Orlando FreeFall after teen’s fatal fall
Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (ORLANDO) — Florida officials are seeking to fine an amusement park operator at least $250,000 over the death of a 14-year-old boy who fell from a [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
McCarthy, at border, calls on Mayorkas to resign, threatens impeachment inquiry
Mark Wilson/Getty Images (EL PASO, Texas) — House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday called on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to resign over the administration’s immigration policies and raised the possibility of an impeachment [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Early voting kicks off in Georgia’s Senate runoff as legal challenges on access mount
Hill Street Studios/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Early voting in Georgia’s Dec. 6 runoff kicked off Tuesday in at least one of the state’s 159 counties as Democrat-led efforts to expand the election’s early vote options [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Boosters would prevent ‘essentially every COVID death,’ White House official says
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As the winter holidays draw near, Dr. Anthony Fauci stood at the White House briefing podium one last time on Tuesday to give Americans health advice as he prepares to [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Supreme Court rules Donald Trump must turn over taxes to House committee
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied former President Donald Trump’s request to block an appeals court order that he surrender his tax returns and other financial records to the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Gov. Jared Polis says Colorado will focus on red flag law after LGBTQ club shooting
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis told “The View” Tuesday that the state should take a second look at how local sheriffs are using the red flag law to protect citizens in [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Fifth ‘Indiana Jones’ film will feature a digitally de-aged Harrison Ford, says director James Mangold
Robino Salvatore/GC Images Now all those dots on Harrison Ford‘s face as seen on the set of the fifth Indiana Jones film make sense. Fans connected the dots, speculating they were markers digital artists use [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
“So, I kill John Dutton?” Stallone jokes about ‘Yellowstone’/’Tulsa King’ crossover
Paramount+ Like the smash show Yellowstone, Sylvester Stallone‘s new drama, Tulsa King, comes from prolific writer-producer Taylor Sheridan — who is also the producer of Jeremy Renner‘s well-reviewed series Mayor of Kingstown. With Tulsa King [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Kumail Nanjiani, Annaleigh Ashford star in Hulu’s ‘Welcome to Chippendales’
Erin Simkin/Hulu The new Hulu series Welcome to Chippendales debuts today, chronicling the dramatic story of the Chippendales founders Steve Banerjee and his business partner Nick De Noia, and how their relationship went from success [Read More…]
Ag News
Low river levels on Mississippi causing problems for CHS
Low levels on the Mississippi River are causing problems for the nation’s largest ag cooperative. CHS CEO Jay Debertin tells Brownfield every shipper is lightening loads and progress is being slowed. “Because tugs and barges [Read More…]
Ag News
Cattle, hog futures mixed on Tuesday
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were mixed waiting for direct cash business to develop. December live cattle closed $0.25 higher at $153.80 and February lives closed $.30 lower at $156.42. January [Read More…]
Ag News
Comment extension for Packers and Stockyards Act Rulemaking welcomed news
The USDA has extended the comment period for the proposed Packers and Stockyards Act Rulemaking. National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s Tanner Beymer says the rule raises far more questions than it provides answers. He says the [Read More…]