Month: February 2023
ABC World News
Russia-Ukraine live updates: US providing coordinates for Ukrainian strikes
SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Almost a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a struggle for control of areas throughout [Read More…]
ABC World News
Paul Whelan’s brother says ‘don’t give up’ on him as Russian detainment passes 1,500 days
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Paul Whelan’s detainment in Russia has passed 1,500 days, and his brother David Whelan is urging people not to give up on him. President Joe Biden focused on the domestic [Read More…]
ABC National News
District attorney to review all prior cases of former Memphis police officers charged in Tyre Nichols’ death
amphotora/Getty Images (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — The local district attorney’s office in Tennessee’s Shelby County announced Thursday that it will review all prior cases — closed and pending — of the five former Memphis police officers [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 2/9/23
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Orlando 115, Denver 104 Brooklyn 116, Chicago 105 Atlanta 116, Phoenix 107 Milwaukee 115, LA Lakers 106 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Texas AG launches probe of Home Title Lock ads tied to Rudy Giuliani, other right-wing personalities
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Authorities in Texas have launched an investigation into the marketing claims of the anti-fraud service Home Title Lock, looking to determine whether the California-based company that’s been promoted by Rudy [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Dave Franco and Alison Brie take a page from the past for their rom-com ‘Somebody I Used to Know’
Amazon Prime Just in time for the upcoming Valentine’s Day, it’s a romantic comedy from married couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie. He directs, she stars, and they both wrote Somebody I Used to Know, out Friday on Prime [Read More…]
Ag News
An active pattern continues across the Heartland; more seasonal temperatures to return
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of above-normal temperatures from the Mississippi River eastward, while colder-than-normal conditions will prevail from the Pacific Coast to the High Plains. Meanwhile, near- or [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Suspect arrested in assault of Rep. Angie Craig in her DC apartment building elevator
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., was attacked in her Washington, D.C., apartment building on Thursday morning, her office said later that day, and police have since arrested a [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Government ‘weaponization’ subcommittee holds 1st hearing: ‘I have never seen anything like this’
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — At the first public hearing by the House Judiciary subcommittee committee on the alleged “weaponization” of the federal government, Republicans on Thursday continued to make arguments criticizing federal agencies and [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
House votes to block 2 DC bills, drawing some local outrage and calls for statehood
J.Castro/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After months of contention which began shortly after the midterm elections, the House, led by the Republican majority, voted Thursday to prevent a pair of local Washington, D.C., bills from going [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Sen. John Fetterman remains hospitalized but no signs of ‘new stroke,’ staff says
ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. John Fetterman, D.-Pa., remained hospitalized in Washington on Thursday after he was admitted because he felt lightheaded during a Democratic retreat on Wednesday, his staff said. Fetterman’s spokesman, [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Yahoo to lay off 20% of its workforce by the end of the year
maybefalse/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Yahoo will lay off 20% of its workforce by the end of the year, including 1,000 employees this week, the company announced Thursday. The cuts are focused on the company’s [Read More…]
ABC National News
New Jersey leaders mourn councilman killed in workplace shooting
Russ Heller/Facebook (MILFORD, N.J.) — New Jersey leaders are mourning the loss of a councilman who was killed in what police said was a targeted workplace shooting on Wednesday. Russell Heller was fatally shot outside [Read More…]
ABC National News
‘Most oppressive legislation’: Mississippi House passes controversial bill
Philip Gould/Getty Images (JACKSON, Miss.) — The Mississippi House passed a controversial bill that would form a court system of unelected judges and prosecutors to preside over part of the majority-Black city of Jackson. Black [Read More…]
ABC National News
Minnesota factory employees praised for disarming colleague who shot at, chased co-worker
Google Maps Street View (NEW YORK MILLS, Minn.) — Authorities are praising a group of factory employees they say disarmed a 21-year-old colleague who allegedly shot at and chased a co-worker at a boat manufacturing [Read More…]
ABC National News
Mike Pence subpoenaed by special counsel overseeing Trump probes: Sources
Thos Robinson/Getty Images for The New York Times (WASHINGTON) — Former Vice President Mike Pence has been subpoenaed by the special counsel overseeing probes into former President Donald Trump, according to multiple sources familiar with [Read More…]
ABC National News
College Board responds to Florida rejection of AP African American studies
Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE) — The College Board has addressed the Florida Department of Education’s rejection of AP African American Studies courses and subsequent criticism of the program, as well as the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Mike Pence subpoenaed by special counsel overseeing Trump probes: Sources
Thos Robinson/Getty Images for The New York Times (WASHINGTON) — Former Vice President Mike Pence has been subpoenaed by the special counsel overseeing probes into former President Donald Trump, according to multiple sources familiar with [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Massachusetts legislator walks back bill to reduce sentences if inmates sign up for organ donation
Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images (BOSTON) — A Massachusetts legislator said he’s going to change a proposed bill that would have given state inmates reduced sentences if they signed up to donate [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Suicides rose in 2021 after 2 years of declines, CDC report finds
xijian/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The number of suicides increased in 2021 to the highest levels seen in four years, according to new federal data. The report, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thursday, [Read More…]