Month: January 2023
ABC National News
California storms live updates: At least 17 dead as severe weather persists, gov says
Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images California storms live updates: 224,000 without power as severe weather pounds state Morgan Winsor and Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Dangerously stormy weather continues to [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
House Oversight Committee investigating classified documents found at Biden’s office
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The new chair of the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday notified the White House that his panel is investigating President Joe Biden’s handling of classified records from Biden’s time as [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
McCarthy expected to keep 3 Democrats off House committees
Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy and leading Republicans are expected to soon make good on a vow to keep three Democrats from seats on influential committees in the new House. McCarthy’s focus [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden ‘surprised’ about discovery of classified documents and what he’s said before
Hector Vivas/Getty Images (MEXICO CITY) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday said that he was “surprised” to learn that that any government records had been taken to a former personal office where classified documents were discovered [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Kathleen Turner looks back on now-controversial ‘Friends’ character: “I certainly don’t regret it”
George Pimentel/WireImage Legendary stage and screen actress Kathleen Turner famously played Chandler Bing’s father, a performer famous in drag circles as Helena Handbasket. Like many shows seen through today’s lens, the Friends character might appear [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez run on Dunkin in apparent commercial shoot
Amy Sussman/Getty Images As anyone from New England can tell you, Dunkin — née Dunkin Donuts — is a Massachusetts mainstay, and Bay State-raised Ben Affleck is apparently showing the coffee chain some love. According [Read More…]
Ag News
High expenses remain for livestock producers
A Missouri cattle producer says it may be an unprecedented time for farm revenue, but it’s also an unprecedented time for expenses. “Food, feed and fertilizer are the big three we always talk about and [Read More…]
Ag News
USDEC leader sees export opportunities as EU, NZ restrict dairies
The President and CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council says American dairy farmers have a different path to sustainability goals than many of their foreign counterparts. Krysta Harden tells Brownfield U.S. producers are able [Read More…]
Ag News
Snowy start to winter could help break Upper Midwest drought
There’s hope above average snowfall this winter will help ease drought conditions in the Upper Midwest. University of Minnesota Professor Jeff Strock says nearly 35 inches has accumulated since November, and a decent snow melt [Read More…]
ABC World News
Madagascar faces millions of years of extinctions due to human activity, scientists say
chronowizard gasikara/Getty Images (ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar) — The ramifications of human activity on the island of Madagascar will affect the island far longer than previously realized, scientists say. It could take millions of years for the [Read More…]
ABC World News
Ukraine sees surge of female fighters
ABC News (KYIV, Ukraine) — By now she’s gained a few nicknames; from “punisher of Russians,” to the “Ukrainian Joan of Arc.” Eugenia Emerald has become somewhat of an icon in Ukraine, fighting on the [Read More…]
ABC World News
Toronto homeless man ID’d as victim in alleged fatal ‘swarming’ attack by 8 girls
Toronto Police Service (TORONTO) — A homeless man was identified Tuesday as the victim of a fatal “swarming” attack police allege was committed by eight teenage girls in downtown Toronto last month. Toronto police said [Read More…]
ABC World News
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russians on verge of overtaking eastern Ukrainian city
SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 10 months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a struggle for control of areas [Read More…]
ABC National News
Police looking for missing mom after she failed to pick up son from bus stop: ‘Very concerned’
Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office (LIMERICK TOWNSHIP, Pa.) — Police have had no credible sightings a week after a Pennsylvania woman who failed to pick up her son from the bus stop went missing, authorities [Read More…]
ABC National News
Mom fatally shoots home invader to protect her 2 kids: Sheriff
Tangipahoa Paris Sheriff’s Office (A Louisiana mom shot and killed a home invader to protect her two young children, authorities said. The suspect, 51-year-old Robert Rheams, was armed with a shovel and a lug wrench [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
House passes ‘weaponization of the federal government’ panel among 1st week priorities
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House voted Tuesday afternoon to establish a new special panel to probe what Republicans call the “weaponization of the federal government.” The subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee would have extraordinary [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Articles of impeachment introduced against DHS Secretary Mayorkas by Texas Republican
Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans are wasting no time on their pledge to again try to bring articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over Mayorkas’ [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Judges reluctant to say Trump was acting as president when he allegedly defamed E. Jean Carroll
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Judges from the D.C. Court of Appeals expressed reluctance Tuesday to find that then-President Donald Trump acted within the scope of his employment in 2019 when he, in the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
How does the Biden classified documents matter compare to Trump’s?
Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The revelation that classified documents were kept at the Biden Penn Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a Washington, D.C., think tank, has raised questions about how the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
In Mexico, Biden dodges questions on discovery of classified documents
Hector Vivas/Getty Images (MEXICO CITY) — One day after President Joe Biden’s special counsel confirmed classified documents were discovered in Biden’s former personal office, the president had yet to directly address a key question: Did [Read More…]