Month: August 2023
ABC Politics News
Donors still sticking with DeSantis despite campaign struggles
Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign has gone through several internal and external challenges, but many of his donors say they are standing beside the “only candidate who [Read More…]
ABC Health News
People step up to help pregnant, postpartum moms amid Maui wildfire devastation
Courtesy of Aubrey Vailoces (NEW YORK) — Aubrey Vailoces, a mom of three, was breastfeeding her 10-month-old daughter in her Maui home last week when she said alarms started going off and she saw her [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Starbucks ordered to pay extra $2.7M to employee who said she was fired for being white
RapidEye/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A New Jersey federal judge has ordered Starbucks to pay a former employee who was awarded $25.6 million in a wrongful termination suit an extra $2.7 million in damages. Shannon [Read More…]
Latest News
Watertown, South Dakota Native Charged with Murder of Wife in North Dakota
31-year-old Spencer Moen from Watertown, S.D., has been charged with murder and contributing to the deprivation of a minor in North Dakota following the death of his wife. Moen was arrested at his West Fargo [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Clayton Echard talks new show ‘Pickleball Paddle Battle’, shares advice for the ‘Golden Bachelor’
John Fleenor/ABC via Getty Images As one of the fastest growing sports, Pickleball is taking over the United States — and soon our televisions. The beloved sport is now the premise of the new reality [Read More…]
ABC National News
Family of two children allegedly assaulted at NC pool files a federal lawsuit
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (GREENSBORO, N.C.) — The family of two Black children who were allegedly assaulted at a pool by an apartment complex manager in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Aug. 2 filed a federal discrimination [Read More…]
Ag News
An early exposure to different dairy products
For some – yogurt is an acquired taste. But products can be high in protein, calcium, vitamins, and probiotics (which helps keep your gut healthy). Anne Warden at Dairy Management Inc. says from yogurts to [Read More…]
ABC World News
Ocean cleanup group removes record 25,000 pounds of trash from Great Pacific Garbage Patch in one extraction
The Ocean Cleanup (NEW YORK) — Ocean cleanup crews have fished out the most trash ever taken from one of the largest garbage patches in the world. The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit environmental engineering organization, saw [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Appeals court wants limits on abortion pill access, sending case to Supreme Court
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — The abortion drug mifepristone should be more tightly regulated than it is now, with limits on the drug at seven weeks of gestation and requirements that patients obtain the pill [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Rival GOP campaigns throw their hands up at Trump indictment
Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Normally, four-time indicted politicians would have their presidential ambitions dashed, not boosted. But former President Donald Trump is no traditional politician — and rival campaigns are making their [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Democrats celebrate 1-year anniversary of signature legislation, and more trail takeaways
Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democrats took a victory lap Wednesday to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act into law, the legislation they hope will help propel them [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into brain-dead patient 1 month ago is still functioning, doctors say
Joe Carrotta/NYU Langone Health (NEW YORK) — Doctors at NYU Langone in New York City announced Wednesday that they have successfully transplanted a genetically engineered pig kidney into a human who was declared brain dead, in [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
FX’s ‘American Horror Stories’ to return on Hulu October 26
FX Just in time for Halloween, FX has announced its anthology spinoff American Horror Stories will debut on Hulu Thursday, October 26. The spinoff of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s award-winning hit anthology series American [Read More…]
Latest News
Trainee Nurse and US Air Force Reservist Identified as White Nationalist Publisher Proprietor in South Dakota
The Guardian has uncovered Bailey Ross, a trainee nurse and US air force reservist, as the owner of Agartha Publishing, a white nationalist publisher in South Dakota. Ross has connections to white nationalist organizations and [Read More…]
ABC World News
Blinken speaks to Paul Whelan, American wrongfully detained by Moscow, sources confirm
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke over the phone with Paul Whelan, a wrongfully imprisoned American citizen who has been jailed by Moscow since 2018, according to sources familiar with the [Read More…]
ABC World News
Disappearing glaciers will give way to emerging, ‘novel’ ecosystems, new research finds
Jean-Baptiste Bosson (NEW YORK) — Scientists are beginning to better understand the consequences of melting glaciers on humans, species of all kinds and the ecosystem in which they live. Glaciers are disappearing all over the world [Read More…]
Latest News
8 North Dakota newspapers cease with family business’s closure
Eight weekly newspapers in northeastern North Dakota have ceased publication with the closure of a century-old family business. Fordville-based Ness Press closed in early August. Ken Ness, who volunteered at the business his Norwegian immigrant [Read More…]
Latest News
Minnesota woman sentenced to 7 years in prison in $7M pandemic aid fraud scheme
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota woman has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for fraudulently applying for roughly $7 million in pandemic aid, $4.7 million of which the government [Read More…]
Local, Regional and National Sport stories
Wallner grand slam overshadows Cabrera’s 509th homer; Twins beat Tigers 5-3
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Matt Wallner hit a grand slam to cap a five-run sixth inning and the Minnesota Twins overshadowed another milestone homer by Miguel Cabrera in a 5-3 win against the Detroit Tigers on [Read More…]
ABC National News
Maui wildfires live updates: Only 1,300 households registered with FEMA
FILE — chuchart duangdaw/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Officials say the wildfires that erupted on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Aug. 8 have become the deadliest natural disaster in state history. The blazes spread [Read More…]
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