Month: June 2023
ABC Business News
Virgin Galactic live updates: Company has launched its first fully commercial spaceflight
Ahmet Okur/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Virgin Galactic is launching its first fully commercial flight of the SpaceShipTwo space plane, the company announced. The ship will carry four people and launch around [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Reservation Dogs’ to end with upcoming season 3
FX on Hulu FX’s acclaimed Indigenous comedy series Reservation Dogs will end when its forthcoming third season comes to a close, creator Sterlin Harjo has revealed on Instagram. In the lengthy post that dropped on Thursday, June 29, he said, “That’s a [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Naomi Campbell welcomes second child, a baby boy
Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images Superstar model Naomi Campbell has announced the arrival of her second child, a baby boy. The 53-year-old announced the news on Instagram Thursday with a photo showing her holding the baby and another hand, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Charges dropped against man accused of fatally stabbing homeless man on New York City subway
WABC (NEW YORK) — Charges have been dropped against Jordan Williams, a man accused of fatally stabbing a 34-year-old homeless man on the New York City subway earlier this month. Williams, 20, had been charged with [Read More…]
ABC National News
Wildfire smoke live updates: MLB game delayed amid Pittsburgh’s poor air quality
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Millions of Americans are on alert for unhealthy air quality as smoke from wildfires in neighboring Canada drifts to the United States. Wildfires have burned a record of more than [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden, Obamas, Trump and more react to Supreme Court restricting affirmative action
Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Lawmakers, legal experts, presidential candidates — past and present — and others are reacting on Thursday to a landmark ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court setting new [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Justices Thomas and Sotomayor, who say they benefitted from affirmative action, divide on its future
Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court’s most senior conservative, Justice Clarence Thomas, and its most senior liberal, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, both rose from humble beginnings to join the elite ranks of Yale [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Jada Pinkett Smith announces new memoir, gives update on ’Red Table Talk’
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images Jada Pinkett Smith announced Thursday she’ll be releasing a new tell-all memoir this October — and she’s determined to tell the true story of her life. “On October 17th, I invite you into a journey [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan had “to earn” producer titles on ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’
AMC/Peter Kramer An executive producer title can mean many things in Hollywood, and it ranges from a person who fronts the money and all the logistics to get an idea to the screen, to basically [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya are locked and loaded for war in epic new ‘Dune: Part Two’ trailer
Warner Bros. Pictures Warner Bros. dropped an epic new trailer to Denis Villeneuve‘s highly anticipated sci-fi sequel Dune: Part Two on Thursday, June 29. The new preview has Zendaya‘s Chani and Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides [Read More…]
Ag News
Concerns remain about Prop 12 compliance
The U.S. Meat Export Federation says the recently announced grace period to fully implement Proposition 12 in California provides certainty for producers. The California Department of Food and Agriculture announced last week that pork produced [Read More…]
Ag News
Strong storms move through Midwest
Strong storms moved through the Midwest on Thursday bringing widespread winds and rain. Based in St. Louis, National Weather Service Meteorologist Patrick Walsh says northeast Missouri had up to 3 inches of rain with widespread [Read More…]
Ag News
Nebraska farmer discusses farmland market
A southeast Nebraska farmer says farmland prices are showing no signs of slowing down. Logan Bredemeier helps raise corn, soybeans, alfalfa and Angus cattle near Stella. “There’s maybe not as much turnover as there last [Read More…]
Ag News
Hog futures mixed ahead of Thursday’s USDA report
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were higher watching corn and the direct markets. August live cattle closed $.62 higher at $174.50 and October lives closed $.65 higher at $177.67. August feeder [Read More…]
Ag News
USDA announces grants to support independent meat and poultry processing
USDA’s latest investment to increase independent meat and poultry processing capacity will impact 17 states including Brownfield states Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says 15 grants totaling [Read More…]
ABC Business News
US economy actually grew 2% over first quarter, up from prior 1.3% estimate
Javier Ghersi/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. economy grew significantly more at the outset of this year than an initial measurement indicated, according to a major upward revision released on Thursday by the Commerce Department. [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Netflix rounds out cast for ‘Squid Game’ season 2
Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk — Netflix/Noh Juhan Netflix has announced that its cast for the follow-up to its global phenomenon Squid Game is now fully assembled. While the names might not be familiar to audiences on [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Don’t miss your shot: Disney+ dropping sing-along version of ‘Hamilton’
Disney+ Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s everything-winning production Hamilton was a hit when it came to Disney+ three years ago this Friday, June 30, and to celebrate, the streaming service is about to unveil a new version. Just [Read More…]
Ag News
Taking a modern agronomy approach to farming
There are a lot of decisions that a farmers need to make every farming year. Justin Wolfe, president of Syngenta Seeds says the new Research and Development center in Malta, Illinois, enables the company to [Read More…]
Ag News
Farmer says crops damaged after Thursday morning storm
A Southeast Nebraska farmer says some of his crops may not recover from damage sustained during Thursday’s severe storms. Logan Bredemeier farms near the Missouri River near Falls City and tells Brownfield was some hail [Read More…]