Month: May 2023
ABC Business News
Elon Musk says he has chosen new Twitter CEO, will step down within weeks
JasonDoiy/Getty Images (SAN FRANCISCO) — Elon Musk has chosen a new CEO of Twitter and plans to step down from the role within about six weeks, the billionaire entrepreneur said on Thursday. Musk, who runs Tesla [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Mandy Patinkin spoofs famous ‘Princess Bride’ line on WGA picket line
Kevork Djansezian/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images The ongoing Writers Guild of America strike has no shortage of famous faces and funny picket signs — hey, the strikers are writers, after all [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
All in the family: Paul Walker’s daughter, Meadow, says she’s in ‘Fast X’
Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for WSJ. Magazine Innovators Awards Meadow Walker, the daughter of the late Paul Walker, has revealed on Instagram that she’ll be seen in the upcoming 10th Fast and Furious movie. The actress [Read More…]
ABC National News
Major, record-breaking heat wave moves into West Coast
ABC News (OKLAHOMA CITY) — Severe weather, including possible tornadoes and flash flooding, is expected in a huge part of the Heartland on Thursday, from the Great Plains to Texas and North Dakota. Nine states are [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Santos co-sponsoring bill to fight crime he’s accused of
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. George Santos co-sponsored a bill to crack down on a crime he is accused of. The House voted on H.R. 1163, known as the “Protecting Taxpayers and Victims of Unemployment [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Mayim Bialik reportedly stepping back from ‘Jeopardy!’ over writers strike
Jeopardy! Productions/Sony Pictures Television Mayim Bialik is reportedly stepping away from her remaining installments of Jeopardy! in solidarity with the picketing WGA writers, according to Deadline. The trade says she had a final week of [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Rocky IV’ star Dolph Lundgren reveals private 8-year cancer battle
Michael Tullberg/Getty Images Rocky IV star Dolph Lundgren is revealing a private cancer battle he has gone through for the past eight years. The 65-year-old Swedish actor opened up about his health scare during an [Read More…]
Ag News
Eichberger: decarbonization and electrification are not the same
As the U.S. continues to set goals to decarbonize the transportation sector, the executive director of the Fuels Institute says it’s important to highlight that electrification and decarbonization are not the same. John Eichberger [Read More…]
Ag News
Tonsor: it’s unclear how implementation of Proposition 12 will impact the pork industry
Kansas State Ag Economist Glynn Tonsor says it’s unclear how the implementation of Proposition 12 will impact the pork industry. “Whether it responds to just changes in California, or if it proceeds to change a [Read More…]
Ag News
Watch cover cropped fields closely for cutworms
An agronomist says with the expected high numbers of black cutworm moths migrating north, keep a close watch on fields with cover crops. Bob Berkevich with Pioneer says many black cutworm moths were caught in [Read More…]
Ag News
Spring weather complicates calving season in Southern Minnesota
A cold, wet spring has complicated the calving season for a south-central Minnesota farm family. Rochelle Krusemark of Trimont says they’ve been trying to keep cows out of the field with the inclement conditions. “We [Read More…]
Ag News
Michigan potato growers to benefit from expanded trade
Michigan potato growers are excited about the opportunity additional potato exports could bring to Great Lakes farmers. Dr. Kelly Turner with the Michigan Potato Industry Commission says there’s now more room domestically for Michigan-grown potatoes [Read More…]
ABC World News
Suspect in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance faces extradition to US
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (LONDON) — The prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway could soon be extradited from Peru to face criminal charges in the United States, ABC News has [Read More…]
ABC National News
Michigan school district bans backpacks after confiscating fourth gun this year
Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images (GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.) — A Michigan school district has banned students from bringing backpacks to school after a third grade student brought a loaded handgun to campus — the second time that [Read More…]
ABC National News
Soldier who killed BLM protester called ‘evil’ as he is sentenced to 25 years
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — An Army sergeant convicted of murder in the fatal 2020 shooting of an armed Black Lives Matter protester during a demonstration in Austin, Texas, was sentenced to 25 years [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
What is Title 8 immigration law?
Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With the end of the last major Trump-era Title 42 border restrictions Thursday, the Biden administration will revert to processing all migrants as was done before the pandemic. Authorities will [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Supreme Court upholds California ban on ‘unethical’ pork, Proposition 12
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to California’s Proposition 12, a statewide ban on the sale of pork from pigs housed in cages or crowded group pens that [Read More…]
ABC Business News
PacWest shares plummet after bank says it lost 9% of deposits last week
Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Shares of PacWest Bancorp plummeted more than 20% in early trading on Thursday after the regional lender said it faced a sizable withdrawal of deposits last week, [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Heartstopper’ creator Alice Oseman talks debut novel and teases season 2
Netflix Before season 2 of Netflix’s hit teen romance Heartstopper debuts this summer, fans in the U.S. can see where the story of Charlie Spring and Nick Nelson first began. Solitaire, the 2014 debut novel [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Break out the Windex: New trailer to ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3’
Focus Features The Portokalos family is back in the new trailer to My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3. Nia Vardalos, who was nominated for an Oscar for her screenplay for the blockbuster film, writes, directs [Read More…]