Month: April 2023
ABC Business News
US economic growth slowed significantly at start of 2023
Javier Ghersi/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. economy slowed at the start of 2023, suggesting that an aggressive series of interest rate hikes at the Federal Reserve has cooled business activity even as the stock [Read More…]
ABC Business News
The Container Store will accept Bed Bath & Beyond coupons through May
KenWiedemann/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — On the heels of Bed Bath and Beyond filing for bankruptcy and planning to close all of its stores, The Container Store has good news for customers with excess blue [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Jerry Springer, former mayor who transformed daytime TV, dead at 79
Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images Jerry Springer, the former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, whose eponymous daytime show transformed talk television, has died, ABC News has confirmed. He was 79. According to his rep, Springer “died peacefully Thursday [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Unleash the ‘Beasts’: Paramount drops new trailer to ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’
Paramount Pictures On Thursday, Paramount Pictures dropped an action-packed trailer for its June 9 release, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Set in 1994, the movie has In The Heights‘ Anthony Ramos as a human caught [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Chris Evans and Ana de Armas’ ‘Ghosted’ becomes Apple TV+’s most-watched movie
Apple TV+ Ghosted, starring Chris Evans and Ana de Armas, has become the most-watched movie debut to date for Apple TV+, according to Deadline. The movie, which debuted April 21, saw viewership climb through Tuesday, [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Tucker Carlson breaks his silence with viral video tweet
Jason Koerner/Getty Images After his surprise ousting at Fox News, Tucker Carlson addressed his fans in a video posted to Twitter Wednesday night that has gone viral. Sitting at his home studio, wearing a suit [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In Brief: ‘General Hospital’ leads Daytime Emmy nominations, and more
Deadline reports Cara Delevingne has joined the 12th season of FX’s American Horror Story, as a series regular, joining season 9 vet Emma Roberts and franchise newcomer Kim Kardashian. Details of Delevingne’s character haven’t been [Read More…]
Ag News
Natural gas prices “anchored” at low levels in near-term
Relatively soft demand has depressed the natural gas market. CoBank energy economist Teri Viswanath says prices around $2.30 per One million British Thermal Units (MMBtu) are a far cry from where they were a year [Read More…]
Ag News
Even with rain this week, crop outlook for southern Kansas remains bleak
Sporadic rainfall in the Great Plains did little to help the crop outlook and alleviate drought conditions. Southwestern Kansas farmer Gary Millershaski says he’s been waiting for some moisture to begin planting, and an inch [Read More…]
Ag News
Study: Soybean oil for biofuel production has a limited impact on food prices
A recent study by Purdue University, in partnership with the United Soybean Board, shows no statistically significant relationship between increased use of soybean oil in biofuel production and retail food prices for consumers. Over the [Read More…]
Ag News
The importance of food safety and why USDA inspections matter
Members of Congress recently introduced legislation that would allow beef processed in a non-USDA inspected facility to be distributed interstate. Todd Wilkinson, a cow/calf operator from South Dakota and the president of the National Cattlemen’s [Read More…]
Weather
Flood Warning issued April 27 at 8:51AM MDT until further notice by NWS
…The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in South Dakota… James River near Scotland affecting Bon Homme, Hutchinson and Yankton Counties. …The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in South Dakota…
ABC World News
Ukrainian officials open more than 100 cases of alleged Russian kidnappings
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — Ukrainian juvenile prosecutors have opened more than 100 criminal proceedings for what they describe as illegal transfers of Ukrainian kids to Russian-occupied territories, their further deportation to Russia and Belarus, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Prosecutors allege Pentagon leak suspect Jack Teixeira accessed ‘hundreds of classified documents’
Obtained by ABC News (WORCESTER, Mass.) — Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira began accessing “hundreds” of highly classified U.S. intelligence documents more than a year before he was arrested for allegedly leaking them, federal [Read More…]
ABC National News
DeSantis responds to Disney lawsuit: ‘I think it’s political’
Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that he doesn’t think Disney’s lawsuit against him “has merit.” “I think it’s political,” DeSantis said during a press conference in [Read More…]
ABC National News
One dead after Amtrak train hits car on tracks in Mobile, Alabama: Police
Florian Roden / EyeEm/Getty Images (MOBILE, Ala.) — One person has died after an Amtrak train hit a car that was on the tracks at a Mobile, Alabama, rail crossing Wednesday night, police said. A [Read More…]
ABC National News
Search underway for man overboard on cruise ship hundreds of miles away from Hawaii
CT757fan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The United States Coast Guard is searching for a cruise ship passenger from Australia who went overboard a few hundred miles off the coast of Hawaii. The incident occurred at [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
South Korea’s Yoon to address joint meeting of Congress amid state visit
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will address a joint meeting of Congress Thursday as he continues a weeklong state visit to Washington. Yoon’s trip comes [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
DeSantis plans to launch 2024 exploratory committee as early as May: Sources
Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is set to take a major step closer to announcing that he’s running for president in 2024, with plans in the works to launch [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Judges reject Trump appeal of order for Pence to testify in Jan. 6 probe
Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal appeals panel on Wednesday rejected an effort from former President Donald Trump to prevent former Vice President Mike Pence from testifying before the special counsel investigating Trump’s efforts to [Read More…]