Month: March 2023
Ag News
Iowa Ag Secretary credits Biden administration for pushing back on Mexico GM corn ban
Iowa’s top ag official is pleased the Biden administration is pushing back against Mexico’s GM corn ban. Ag Secretary Mike Naig says he’s been disappointed by the lack of strategy in pursuing new free trade [Read More…]
Ag News
Ag business leaders change workforce recruiting strategies
Labor problems are a nationwide concern, but a group of agriculture professionals shared how they are changing the way they recruit new and future employees. Jill Leitzen from Kuhn North America says employers now recruit [Read More…]
ABC National News
Denver school shooting suspect brought weapon to previous school, sources say
Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (DENVER) — A student who was required to be patted down at the start of each school day allegedly shot and wounded two school administrators at East High School in Denver, authorities [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Judge temporarily blocks Wyoming abortion ban, allowing abortions to resume
Jason Marz/Getty Images (CHEYENNE, Wyo.) — A Wyoming judge temporarily blocked a state abortion ban, prohibiting the state and its employees from enforcing the ban. The temporary restraining order will remain in effect unless it [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Go Go! Trailer drops for super-powered reunion: ‘Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always’
L-R: Cardenas, Yost, Sutherland — Netflix/Geoffrey H. Short Netflix has reunited most of the original cast for a 30th anniversary nostalgia blow-out, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always, and a brand-new trailer is more [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Mindy Kaling saluted at the White House with ‘The Office’ theme
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images While visiting the White House this week, Mindy Kaling was made to feel little bit more at home — or at work, technically — thanks to the Marine Corps Band. The actress, [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
After redemptive appearance in ‘The Mandalorian’, Ahmed Best thanks fans
Lucasfilm (SPOILERS) If anyone deserved a bit of redemption in the Star Wars universe, it’s actor Ahmed Best. The actor, who played Jar Jar Binks in the prequel trilogy — and who has admitted the [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Courteney Cox is such a Monica for cleaning her Hollywood Walk of Fame star
Leon Bennett/Getty Images Courteney Cox is proving that fastidious Monica Geller isn’t just a character she played on TV, it’s a fundamental part of her personality. The Friends alum, 58, shared a comedic video to [Read More…]
Ag News
Check on alfalfa coming out of dormancy
Scouting is important as alfalfa comes out of dormancy. University of Minnesota Extension educator Nathan Drewitz says snow melt, ice sheeting, and heavy rains can take a toll in the early spring. “If you’ve got [Read More…]
ABC National News
LA schools strike enters third day as bargaining resumes
Stella/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — More than 30,000 picketing Los Angeles school service employees are expected to return to work on Friday after a planned three-day strike prompted the city’s mayor to intervene and jumpstart [Read More…]
ABC National News
Thirty million people under severe weather alert after California tornadoes, mudslides
FILE, Rosmarie Wirz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 30 million people across a large swath of the nation were on alert Thursday for tornados, large hail and damaging winds after a severe weather outbreak [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
House panel to focus not on Mexico border — but rising immigration at sea
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The fraught politics of immigration have largely focused on the land border between the U.S. and Mexico, but on Thursday afternoon a panel of lawmakers will turn [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder is on the rise in children, but it’s not necessarily bad news
ART4STOCK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — A growing number of children in the United States are being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Intimate AI chatbot connections raise questions over tech’s therapeutic role
Scott shows off ‘Sarina’ the AI avatar he created in the app Replika. — ABC News (NEW YORK) — As artificial intelligence gains more capabilities the public has flocked to apps like ChatGPT to produce [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
“Fight for me!” A queen will rise in trailer to ‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story’
Netflix Netflix dropped the first full-length trailer to its Bridgerton prequel series, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. In it, viewers see India Amarteifio playing a younger version of Golda Rosheuvel‘s monarch, who is about to step into the thorny world of royalty. The [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Director Christopher McQuarrie adds another original ‘Mission: Impossible’ movie character to 7th film
Paramount Pictures If you’ve seen all of Tom Cruise‘s Mission: Impossible movies, your attention to detail will apparently be rewarded by director and co-writer Christopher McQuarrie for the seventh installment: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning [Read More…]
Ag News
Governor Parson: a state solution needed for foreign ag land ownership
Missouri’s governor says he would like to see foreign ag land ownership be addressed at the state level, not by the federal government. Mike Parson tells Brownfield it’s a delicate issue. “I think it’s important [Read More…]
Ag News
Another wild year for Illinois land values
The chairman of the Illinois Farmland Values and Lease Trends Report says 2022 was “another wild year”. Luke Worrell with Worrell Land Services in Jacksonville tells Brownfield land values spiked again in 2022, with “Class [Read More…]
ABC National News
Katelyn Markham’s fiance arrested for her murder more than a decade later
John Allen Carter was arrested on March 22, 2023, in connection with the 2011 death of his then-fiancee Katelyn Markham, in Ohio. — Butler County Sheriff’s Office (HAMILTON, Ohio) — More than a decade after [Read More…]
ABC National News
Trump live updates: Grand jury will revisit case next week
Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A grand jury is continuing to weigh charges against former President Donald Trump in connection with the Manhattan district attorney’s probe into the 2016 hush payment [Read More…]