Month: August 2023
ABC Politics News
Why Trump, other Georgia defendants might try to move case to federal court
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Now that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has filed a motion to move the Georgia election interference case to federal court, his former boss — Donald Trump [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Super PAC’s debate advice for DeSantis’ revealed, and more takeaways from the trail
Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The countdown to the first Republican primary debate has begun, with just six days until candidates take the stage in Milwaukee on Wednesday night. A slew of documents drawing back [Read More…]
Ag News
Late-season heat to persist across much of the Heartland; a drier weather pattern ahead
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of above-normal temperatures nationwide, except for cooler-than-normal conditions in the Northeast and parts of the Desert Southwest. Meanwhile, near- or below-normal rainfall across much [Read More…]
ABC World News
Western Canada firefighters bracing for massive spread of wildfires
Jesse Winter/Bloomberg via Getty Images (BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada) — Fire officials in British Columbia warned they would be facing “the most challenging 24 to 48 hours of the summer,” as wildfires that have been ravaging [Read More…]
ABC World News
Ukraine taking heavy casualties 10 weeks into its counteroffensive
Artem Hvozdkov/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — There is mounting evidence that Ukraine has been taking heavy casualties in its counteroffensive, which began roughly ten weeks ago. ABC News spoke with two former U.S. soldiers who [Read More…]
ABC World News
Iran arrests women’s rights activists ahead of ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ anniversary
Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (LONDON) — At least 11 women’s rights activists were arrested by security forces in Iran in the northern province of Gilan Wednesday, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Mortgage rates surge to 21-year high
Thomas Northcut/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Mortgage rates have climbed to their highest levels in 21 years, according to data released by Freddie Mac on Thursday. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 7.09% over the week [Read More…]
ABC National News
Ex-DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, charged in Georgia election probe, files motion opposing trial schedule
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images, FILE (ATLANTA) — A lawyer for former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark has filed a motion opposing the trial schedule proposed by the Fulton County district attorney following [Read More…]
ABC National News
Trump asks judge to schedule his federal election interference trial for 2026
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has requested that the judge overseeing his federal 2020 election interference case schedule his trial for April of 2026 — more than two and [Read More…]
ABC National News
Woman reunites with stranger who carried her on his back to evacuate Maui wildfires
ABC News (LAHAINA, Hawaii) — Lani Williams and her mother, Sincerity Mirkovich, have lived in the historic town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui for most of their lives. Last week, as wildfires [Read More…]
ABC National News
Los Angeles launching task force to address organized retail crime
Noelskeez/Twitter (LOS ANGELES) — Los Angeles is launching a new task force to address organized retail crime in the region, officials announced Thursday. The task force will include multiple Southern California law enforcement agencies, including [Read More…]
ABC National News
‘Helping others up to the very end’: Family believes missing Lahaina man likely died trying to help neighbors
Courtesy of Bill Schilling (LAHAINA, Hawaii) — The family of a kind-hearted Maui resident known as “Uncle Joe” believes the 67-year-old died trying to help his elderly neighbors, as the flames from Hawaii’s deadliest wildfire [Read More…]
Local, Regional and National Sport stories
DWU Volleyball with a pair of sweeps to open the season
Mitchell, S.D. — The No. 13 Dakota Wesleyan Tigers grabbed a pair of 3-0 victories to kick off their Florida trip and the 2023 season. The Tigers were led by returners Ady Dwight, Abigail Brunsing, and Tya Weideman during the [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
AMC releases new images and teaser for ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’
AMC AMC has released new images and a new teaser from its forthcoming spinoff The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. The new footage from the show, which starts in September, shows Norman Reedus‘ Daryl not getting [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘The Blind Side’ author Michael Lewis sounds off on “sad” controversy surrounding the film
David Levenson/Getty Images Michael Lewis, the author behind the book that became the movie The Blind Side, has sounded off to The Washington Post about the controversy that now surrounds it. As reported, Michael Oher [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Ousted ‘Big Brother’ contestant Luke Valentine says he should’ve gotten “slap on the wrist” for dropping N-word
CBS In an Instagram Live from Havana, Cuba, Big Brother contestant Luke Valentine addressed his dropping of the N-word during a broadcast that got him kicked off the CBS reality show. Wearing a tropical shirt [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Robert De Niro turns 80
Lionsgate Legendary actor and new dad Robert De Niro turns 80 years old on Thursday, August 17. Born in the Greenwich Village neighborhood in New York City in which he still lives, the man considered to be [Read More…]
Ag News
Farmers say farm bill needs to address the base acres problem
Farmers argue the next farm bill needs to address the inequities in farm programs caused by how base acres are calculated. Mark Hoffmann farms near Whitewater in southern Wisconsin and is the Wisconsin Corn Growers [Read More…]
Ag News
Ham breakfast highlights growth at state fair
At what northwest Missouri farmer Renee Fordyce calls “the great big ag family reunion,” otherwise known as the governor’s ham breakfast, lawmakers, agriculturalists and Governor Mike Parson focused on the growth happening at the Missouri [Read More…]
Ag News
Reports of several late season crop diseases in southwest Iowa and northwest Missouri
An agronomist in southwest Iowa is seeing several late season crop diseases in his state and beyond. John Long with Brevant Seeds says the main threat in corn is tar spot. “We’ve seen tar spot [Read More…]
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