Month: January 2023
ABC Politics News
Biden to challenge McCarthy to avoid default and release detailed budget in meeting, per White House memo
Official White House Photo by Hannah Foslien (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is expected to pose two questions to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during a Wednesday meeting and will challenge the speaker to commit to [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden administration will end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11
Tetra Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration will end both the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency on May 11, the White House informed Congress on Monday night. The current public health emergency [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Lawmakers denounce police in Tyre Nichols’ death but split on potential for new police laws
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Bipartisan outrage continued following the Friday release of graphic footage of police officers beating Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee, earlier this month — with lawmakers saying [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden touts $6 billion rail tunnel replacement, highlighting infrastructure law
Florian Roden / EyeEm/Getty Images (BALTIMORE) — President Joe Biden on Monday traveled to Baltimore, Maryland, to kick off a $6 billion rail tunnel reconstruction project primarily funded by his bipartisan infrastructure law — an [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Mom to watch her sons compete in Super Bowl LVII
Jeffrey Grigsby / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Now that the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs are officially set to face-off in Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, Arizona, on Feb. 12, one mom faces [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
US skier Kyle Smaine killed in avalanche in Japan
Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Kyle Smaine, a U.S. professional skier who was the halfpipe gold medalist in the 2015 world championships, died Sunday in an avalanche in Japan, according to his wife [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 1/30/23
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Orlando 119, Philadelphia 109 Brooklyn 121, LA Lakers 104 Sacramento 118, Minnesota 111 (OT) Washington 127, San Antonio 106 Golden [Read More…]
ABC Health News
US births increased in 2021 for first time in seven years: CDC
Isabel Pavia/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The number of births in the United States increased in 2021 for the first time in seven years, reversing trends that continued during the pandemic, according to new federal [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Sam Bankman-Fried’s bond guarantors should be public, judge says
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Sam Bankman-Fried’s bond guarantors should be named publicly, a federal judge ruled Monday after news organizations objected to the names being redacted. Bankman-Fried was released on a $250 million personal [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Johnson & Johnson can’t invoke bankruptcy to stop cancer lawsuits, court says
RapidEye/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Johnson & Johnson cannot use bankruptcy court to resolve civil lawsuits that claim its iconic baby powder caused cancer, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The opinion foiled Johnson & [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Over 50,000 pounds of charcuterie-style sausage recalled over listeria contamination
USDA (NEW YORK) — Before you start on that charcuterie board, check your meats to ensure they’re safe to consume. Over 50,000 pounds of ready-to-eat sausage products were recalled Sunday due to possible listeria contamination, [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘The Bachelor’ recap: A former contestant tries to move in on Zach
ABC/Craig Sjodin Monday’s The Bachelor saw one of Bachelor nation’s legendary bad girls try and force her way into the competition. Zach changed things up on Monday’s episode, deciding that all 20 remaining women would get to [Read More…]
Ag News
Temps to moderate across the Heartland; an active weather pattern continues, as well
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures and precipitation across much of the U.S. Colder-than-normal conditions will be confined to the Northeast, as well as California, [Read More…]
Weather
Wind Chill Advisory issued January 31 at 3:34AM MST until January 31 at 9:00AM MST by NWS
…WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING… * WHAT…Very cold wind chills. Wind chills as low as 30 below zero. * WHERE…Portions of southwest Minnesota and central, east central, south [Read More…]
Weather
Wind Chill Advisory issued January 30 at 9:01PM MST until January 31 at 9:00AM MST by NWS
…WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST TUESDAY… * WHAT…Very cold wind chills expected. Wind chills as low as 30 below zero. * WHERE…Portions of southwest Minnesota and central, east central, south [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Laverne & Shirley’ star Cindy Williams dead at 75
Brian Gove/Getty Images Cindy Williams, who played the perky but straitlaced Shirley Feeney on TV’s Happy Days and its spinoff, Laverne & Shirley, has died. She was 75. In a statement provided to ABC News, [Read More…]
Weather
ABC Entertainment News
AMC Theatres slashing prices to $5 for ‘Wakanda Forever’, ‘Devotion’ and more for Black History Month
Viola Davis in “The Woman King”/Sony Pictures AMC Theatres has announced it is dropping ticket prices to $5 to celebrate diversity on the big screen during Black History Month. From February 3 to March 2, [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Eddie Murphy says he’d reprise Donkey in ‘Shrek’ in “two seconds”
ABC/Randy Holmes Eddie Murphy currently stars in the well-reviewed comedy You People on Netflix, but if he had his druthers, he’d make another Shrek movie, too. Murphy voiced the green ogre’s buddy Donkey in four [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Priscilla Presley contesting daughter Lisa Marie Presley’s will
Lisa Marie and Priscilla in June, 2022 – Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images Priscilla Presley has contested her daughter’s will following Lisa Marie Presley‘s death earlier this month, according to newly filed court documents that cite, among [Read More…]