Month: February 2023
ABC Politics News
Biden proposes rule to ‘slash excessive credit card late fees’
Oliver Contreras/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed a federal rule to “curb excessive credit card late fees” and plans to go after the Apple and Google app stores for [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Raskin dons headwear as he undergoes chemo, receives encouragement from GOP colleague
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Jamie Raskin, sporting a cap as he undergoes chemo, received applause from GOP colleagues. In a moment of bipartisanship, Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin received words of encouragement from a [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
House Republicans kick off fraud investigation into billions in COVID pandemic relief money
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Kicking off its investigations into the Biden administration, the Republican-led House Oversight Committee on Wednesday held a hearing on the billions of dollars that were apparently scammed from [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
No documents with classified markings found in FBI search of Biden’s beach home
President Joe Biden’s residence in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Feb. 1, 2023, during a search by FBI agents. – Pool via ABC News (REHOBOTH BEACH, Del.) — The FBI conducted a “planned search” Wednesday morning of President [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Gisele Bündchen reacts to Tom Brady’s retirement announcement
Theo Wargo/WireImage/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady are not be together anymore, but the model has nothing but love for her ex-husband. Bündchen, 42, shared well wishes for Brady and for [Read More…]
ABC Health News
How a different therapy is being used to treat 10-year-old Uvalde shooting survivor
Gladys Gonzales and her 10-year-old daughter Caitlyne Gonzales. – Courtesy of Gonzales family (UVALDE, Texas) — Gladys Gonzales says she felt the urgent need within hours to find mental health services for her 10-year-old daughter, [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Amazon slapped with more worker safety citations amid findings of back injuries, long hours
Darren Staples/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Department of Labor on Wednesday announced new citations at three more Amazon warehouses — in Aurora, Colorado; Nampa, Idaho; and Castleton, New York -. for [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Fed approves 0.25% hike, softening rate increases again
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it was raising its short-term borrowing rate another 0.25%, the central bank’s second consecutive decision to slow rate increases while extending an effort to cool the [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
NBC’s ‘The Blacklist’ to end with season 10
NBC/Will Hart James Spader‘s antihero Raymond Reddington is finally facing a challenge even he won’t escape: NBC has announced The Blacklist will end with the upcoming 10th season. The series has Spader playing the U.S. [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Studio backs embattled star Ezra Miller; James Gunn calls ‘The Flash’ one of the “greatest superhero movies” ever
Miller from an April 2022 arrest/Hawaii County Police Department While James Gunn and Peter Safran made headlines with their reveal on Tuesday of their big- and small-screen plans for the DC Universe, one comment wasn’t [Read More…]
ABC National News
Twelve-year-old shot in NYC building lobby while group played with gun, police say
kali9/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A young man playing with a gun pointed it at a 12-year-old boy and opened fire, shooting him in the lobby of a Brooklyn apartment building, police said. The boy [Read More…]
ABC National News
DC subway employee fatally shot as gunman opens fire in multiple locations
FILE, L. Toshio Kishiyama/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A gunman opened fire in several locations in a string of random shootings Wednesday, killing a Washington, D.C., Metro subway employee and injuring three others. The DC Metro [Read More…]
ABC National News
Texas ice storm live updates: Over 280,000 customers without power
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A massive ice storm is freezing Texas and the southern United States on Wednesday. Some 60 million people in 22 states — from New Mexico to Maine — are on [Read More…]
ABC National News
Could ChatGPT be your child’s next tutor? AI experts, politicians weigh in
Westend61/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The artificial intelligence-fueled, text-generating chatbot, ChatGPT, has made its way to the halls of Congress. Massachusetts Rep. Jake Auchincloss said the technology’s biggest impact could be on the education system. “This [Read More…]
ABC National News
New York City woman charged with financing terrorist groups in Syria through cryptocurrency
Carol Yepes/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A New York City woman has been charged with using cryptocurrency to provide financial support to terrorist groups in Syria, a rare prosecution involving virtual currency to fund terrorism. [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
FBI completes search of Biden’s Rehoboth Beach home amid classified docs probe
President Joe Biden’s residence in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Feb. 1, 2023, during a search by FBI agents. – Pool via ABC News (REHOBOTH BEACH, Del.) — The FBI conducted a “planned search” Wednesday of President [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Ten-year-old Uvalde shooting survivor healing from trauma with EMDR therapy
Gladys Gonzales and her 10-year-old daughter Caitlyne Gonzales. – Courtesy of Gonzales family (UVALDE, Texas) — Gladys Gonzales says she felt the urgent need within hours to find mental health services for her 10-year-old daughter, [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Excessive screen time during infancy may be linked to lower cognitive skills later in childhood
Pavlina Popovska/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The amount of time babies spend watching computer, TV and phone screens in their first year of life may be indirectly linked to lower cognitive skills later in life, [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Academy CEO says Andrea Riseborough’s best actress nomination will not be rescinded
Momentum Pictures The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences CEO says that To Leslie star Andrea Riseborough‘s best actress Oscar nomination will not be rescinded after many questioned the way she earned the recognition. [Read More…]
Ag News
Woodall: Food security is national security
The head of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says protecting funding for farm bill programs will be a priority in 2023. Colin Woodall says the ag industry is ready to put up a fight to [Read More…]