Month: May 2023
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Report shows how South Dakota provides preschool services
(The Center Square) – South Dakota is one of six states that does not offer a state-funded preschool program as enrollment remains below pre-pandemic levels across the nation, according to a report. The National Institute [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘American Born Chinese’: A coming-of-age adventure with a twist hits Disney+
Disney/Carlos Lopez-Calleja In the new action, coming-of-age series American Born Chinese, premiering Wednesday on Disney+, Ben Wang stars as Jin Wang, a high school sophomore hoping to start the new school year by playing some [Read More…]
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Oprah calls the new adaptation of ‘The Color Purple’ “a revival for joy”
Ethan Miller/Getty Images Oprah Winfrey, who earned an Oscar nomination for 1985’s adaptation Alice Walker‘s 1982 novel The Color Purple, and who produces the forthcoming big screen musical version, can’t sing enough praises of its lead, singer Fantasia Barrino. [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In Brief: Original ‘Blue’s Clues’ star to return, and more
The MTV Video Music Awards have an air date. The ceremony will air live from New Jersey’s Prudential Center on Tuesday, September 12, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Additional details will be announced closer to the [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘The Voice’ crowns season 23 winner, says goodbye to coach Blake Shelton
L-R: Grace West, Gina Miles — NBC/Trae Patton The Voice revealed its season 23 winner — Gina Miles, from Niall Horan‘s team — and said goodbye to coach Blake Shelton after 23 seasons. A shocked [Read More…]
Ag News
UNL-based USDA precision ag research center on schedule despite budget snafus
A leader with the University of Nebraska says he’s still optimistic about USDA’s precision ag research facility despite disagreements over its funding. Mike Boehm, vice chancellor with the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, tells [Read More…]
Ag News
Guilty pleas for men arrested in multi-state frozen meat thefts
Three men have pleaded guilty to charges for stealing frozen meat across several Midwestern states that totaled $9 million in losses. Investigators say the men conducted a sophisticated, organized criminal enterprise in 2022 that consisted [Read More…]
Ag News
Be on the lookout for early season pests
Farmers are encouraged to scout for pests. Iowa State University Extension agronomist Meaghan Anderson says early planted soybeans are vulnerable to insects like bean leaf beetles. “And then we certainly have our fair share of [Read More…]
Ag News
House ag chair questions progress of new USDA conservation programs
The chair of the House Ag Committee is asking USDA officials about new conservation program problems. Glenn GT Thompson told a subcommittee hearing Tuesday the SUSTAINS Act, which created public-private partnerships for USDA to fund [Read More…]
ABC World News
Killer whales learn ‘coordinated’ attacks on sailboats, some observers say
George D. Lepp/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Orcas may be teaching each other to attack boats following a spate of strikes on sailboats off the coast of Europe, some observers say. Sailors have reported a [Read More…]
ABC National News
Raptor, the Uvalde school district’s emergency alert system, remains in place — for now
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — When Texas state legislators delved into the circumstances that preceded the deadly mass shooting in Uvalde that took the lives of 19 students and two teachers last year, lawmakers [Read More…]
ABC National News
Judge poised to rule if parents will have a voice in court in Nashville school shooting case
Metropolitan Nashville Police Dept. (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — A Tennessee judge is poised to rule on Wednesday whether to allow the parents of children killed and those traumatized in a mass shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School [Read More…]
ABC National News
Typhoon Mawar hits Guam with 140 mph winds as potentially ‘catastrophic’ storm
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A powerful typhoon taking aim at Guam could be the strongest tropical cyclone to impact the U.S. island territory in decades. As of Wednesday 7:50 p.m. local time (5:50 a.m. [Read More…]
ABC National News
Teacher who survived Uvalde shooting returns to teaching despite trauma endured
ABC News (UVALDE, Texas) — Former Robb Elementary School teacher Mercedes Salas can still recall the hours leading up to the mass shooting at the Uvalde, Texas school on May 24, 2022, that claimed 21 [Read More…]
ABC National News
We put dozens of trackers in plastic bags for recycling. Many were trashed.
ABC News (NEW YORK) — For more than a decade, Courtney Williams and her family have lived in the shadow of the Wheelabrator waste-to-energy incinerator, located along the Hudson River in Peekskill, New York. “We [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
White House says McCarthy ‘beholden’ to far-right Republicans on debt limit, source says
Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House is painting House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as talking out of both sides of his mouth amid the debt ceiling standoff, criticizing him for being “beholden” [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden to call for end of gun violence ‘epidemic’ a year after Uvalde shooting
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden plans on Wednesday to call on Republicans in Congress to act to end the “epidemic” of gun violence in the United States, the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Fearing indictment is imminent in classified docs probe, Trump team requests meeting with DOJ
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has formally requested a meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland, amid fears from his attorneys that the coming weeks could [Read More…]
Latest News
Where refugees in South Dakota are arriving from
(STACKER.COM) – Within five months after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in early February 2022, the U.S. admitted more than 100,000 Ukrainian refugees. Most of these refugees were admitted through a special program called humanitarian parole, [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Woman shares yearslong experience with PCOS to spotlight the impact on South Asian women
fstop123/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A woman is sharing her experience with polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, to put a spotlight on a community at greater risk of the condition: women of South Asian descent. [Read More…]
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